How a first-ever beard — sprouted as a good luck charm for the #Florida Panthers — turned our reporter from a spotlight-shunning, stage-shy wallflower into an improbable Santa Claus. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/24/a... via @sun-sentinel.com

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

It’s the 21st of December. Long way from home this year.

Off to the UK, leaving behind the first of the summer heat and blue skies above Perth.

Toads are on track to reach the Pilbara in the next 20 years. If they do, they'll threaten 25 native mammals and reptiles- 8 of which occur nowhere else in the world. The Toad Containment Zone can stop them, here's how! #wildoz #tcz theconversation.com/cane-toads-a...

For today’s #WildlifeWednesday is the endangered Baudin's Black-Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii), found in south-western WA. These cockatoos can live for over 50 years and have a narrower and longer bill than the Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo, which they are sometimes mistaken for! 📷 Keith Lightbody #WildOz

First day in my new position. Just a tad nervous.

View from my mat during exercise this morning - is it a sign?

Happy Friday. Enjoying small people from around the neighbourhood running around and having fun. Is there anything more therapeutic than children laughing?

🧪 not exactly encouraging #predatorypublishing

Phew... report looks like it hit the target. So wild to know other people reading it now! www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

🧪 🫆 Well, looks like that batch of reagent is working. Latent fingermarks developed with 1,2-indanedione/zinc chloride photographed in luminescence mode. Getting the practical side of my study leave underway.

Having a green sort of day.

It was standing room only for Thais Lópes fantastic Milestone 3 presentation on the research she has been carrying out into sustainable latent fingermark development for the Brazilian context for her PhD. 🧪 #CurtinForensic #forensicscience #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #frugalforensics

Homemade French onion soup in front of The Day of the Jackal. Nice way to end a relaxing Sunday.

Good night all round.

Some faith in my fellow humans restored tonight. 1. Unequivocal repudiation of culture war bullshit in our election 2. Leader of losing party conceded the election with grace 3. Leader of winning party shut down boos for losing leader "What we do in Australia is we treat people with respect"

Very annoyed that there’s no scraps left under the barby. Sound up for furious sniffs. Quenda. #wildoz

Civic duty done. #democracysausage with a side of curry puffs at Oberthur Primary School, Bull Creek, WA. @democracysausage.org #ausvotes25

Hare Orchid - Leporella fimbriata One of the first orchids of the season to flower in our Perth Hills area. Happy to see a handful of freshly opened flowers today with more buds yet to open 🌿 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #bloomscrolling #inaturalist

#Desert sky. A Southern Cross windmill under the southern cross.

ANZAC Day 2025 Dawn service at Monument Hill in Fremantle #lestweforget

My PhD research involved using chemiluminescence for chemical analysis. Always love a good light show.🧪

Stephanie Beaupark is working to analyze the chemistry of natural dyes made from eucalyptus plants. This Ngugi researcher gathers knowledge in Aboriginal communities to track changes in plant pigments. #ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay cen.acs.org/environment/...

We want everyone in the chemical sciences community to feel welcome, supported and valued, so we're sad to see some people seize on yesterday's supreme court ruling with anti-trans messages. Today, we're highlighting our resources on allyship for trans colleagues and friends ➡ rsc.li/4j6lojs

Proud to be part of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Long weekend Saturday breakfast at Manning Rd markets

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

Looks like any visits to the US are off the cards for foreseeable future. Just not worth it.

Be a good dog owner, obey the leash laws, and pick up your dog's shit - please theconversation.com/good-boy-or-...

Urgently needed supplies have arrived courtesy of a visiting colleague from the UK.

Best student paper of 2024 winner Kate Rick, along with Brenton Von Takach and Kym Ottewell, discuss the use of genomics in Australian conservation efforts, and their study on the golden bandicoot Find the episode wherever you usually get your podcasts.

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Carnaby’s B Cockatoos foraging: doing a number on this tree on Curtin Campus, raining leaves and seed coats #urbanecology

Oh science folk might like this! Our sample mounting robot on the brand new crystallography beamline at the Australian Synchrotron 🧪

🧪 Something spicy from the Curtin Uni Forensic Research Group. Congratulations to first author Thais Lópes for this first publication from her PhD. Available open access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Making fingerprint development tests on polymer banknotes 🕵️ #money #paper #forensics #Science

It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally. If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo

Rupo Mapanga on her experience interning at @chemistryworld.com: sounds like a great opportunity and they're looking for another intern now! #chemjobs #ukchemjobs www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-s...

It was amazing to have Professor Raychelle Burks give a lecture on my campus yesterday!

Spoiled myself with a hearty breakfast at the Manning Road Farmers’ Market this morning.

Sunset after an afternoon storm. Viewed from the 7th floor of the TL Robertson Library at Curtin University.

Fingerprint development on adhesive surfaces using powder suspension developer 🕵️ #forensics #science #ciencia #laboratory

Hurrah! Paper accepted! Well done to Curtin PhD scholar and first-time first author Thais Lópes! Details to follow - but it’s all about fingermark detection and I promise it’s spicy! 🧪

Hooray! Reviewer 3 agrees with Reviewer 1. 🧪

A shout-out to the folks on the bbq at Cable Beach Primary School in Broome - they currently hold the ‘sausage sizzle furthest away from any other sizzle’ title! If you’re in the area, drop in for a democracy sausage or a bacon & egg roll. #democracysausage #wavotes

Polls are open, Western Australia! Remember: you can only vote once, but you can legally visit as many election sausage sizzles and cake stalls as you like. Best of luck to all of the volunteers raising funds for their local communities today. ❤️#democracysausage #WAvotes

Civic duty done. All hail the Democracy Sausage. 🌭 #auspol

We’ve got info on what’s on offer at over a third of WA’s polling places, but that still leaves a lot of mysteries to solve! If you’re at a booth with a grey question mark on democracysausage.org tomorrow, click on it to send a tip-off about what you find: bbq, cake stall, or even nothing at all!

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