Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux

Minister Murray Watttf is going to artificially aerate Macquarie Harbour (surface area a mere 32,000 ha), by burning bulk diesel on a few noisy barges ... in order to subsidise a foreign owned non-taxpaying open water salmon feedlot operation. Your Labor political party, working for you.

A hypnotic flatworm flowing through the night

Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery: biodiversitycouncil....

Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband. Is there no end to our shameful behavior? www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

A new report from the NSW Government shows that the control of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park is working and ecosystems are already showing positive signs of recovery 🌏 Read more: biodiversitycouncil.... @euanritchie.bsky.social

Male Australasian Bitterns are highly territorial in the breeding season. Many are now on their way from the Riverina’s rice fields to coastal wetlands in NSW, VIC and SA for winter. Latest Australian population estimate is only 1300 (+~700 in NZ) but conservation action is building. Glorious birds.

I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

Strong *these* vibes right now.

Classy work ABC radio news, introducing Marianne Faithfull as "Mick Jagger's former girlfriend", referring to her as the inspiration for As Tears Go By & a drug addiction before noting almost in passing her long recording career & outstanding work of her own. Artist as appendage.

Walking Shark.

Sydney - city & nature This grand spectacle & everyday experience all free & all yours #publicsydney

Thank you, Jimmy Carter. This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm. ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...

Really we’re just going to extreme lengths to ensure we can keep teaching C as our students’ first language: www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/... @cyberhammond.com @litoria.bsky.social

Forget shark diving - I'd go a long way to have this experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwms...

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A first for BlueSky and maybe the internet: a live photo of the parasitic isopod Renocila loriae. Attached to an unfortunate Blackstripe Cardinalfish. Kindly identified on iNaturalist by Ernest Williams who co-described the species. Photographed by my partner Lyn on a dive near Padang Bai in Bali.

Oh, yes, at this time of the year we're all waiting for Wisdom to return to her breeding grounds, the Midway atoll. Fingers crossed. Two things. Last year, she returned early December. And, apparently, 73 year old Wisdom got a new boyfriend in 2023. friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-a-lay...

The Plonking Frog (Neobatrachus wilsmorei) is the largest of the five confirmed frog species at Mt Gibson. They can be readily identified by the stripes on their back, which kind of look like a 'W' for Wilsmorei. #WildOz

Did you know... there are freshwater jellyfish? I find them in many lakes I study. Too small to sting us, they live as polyps on the bottom, producing medusae ("jellyfish") when conditions are right. My photos aren't great, so enjoy this one by Jan Hamrsky, www.lifeinfreshwater.net.

🧪 🦈 🦑 🐟 DYK: Fishes make sounds! While we don't know all the reasons, scientists suspect some are for communication. One study found that wild stingrays used their spiracles for sound production! scientists @motherofrays.bsky.social @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2022/07/stin...

Phylliroe. Like a piece of the night sky come alive, this is a nudibranch adapted to the open sea, the domain of the bizarre and beautiful.

I've just learnt (thanks to Elias Daniel) about this June 2024 case from Norway of a White-tailed eagle trying to kill (unsuccessfully) a Harbour porpoise vg.no/stories/297834 Eagles vs cetaceans, wow!! #animals #eagles #whales #marinemammals

Important piece: Does reducing social media use help kids' mental health? Despite the claims by certain pop science book authors, with the current evidence-base it's impossible to really know. theconversation.com/governments-...

Scientists appear to have documented the highest-flying predation event of all time, showing that even at 10,000 feet, you've gotta watch your back. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/s...

Dynamic waving of Austruca citrus found in Fiji. ハクセンシオマネキの仲間、Austruca citrusのウェービングです。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #fiji

In 1693, a Manila Galleon full of goods and bound for Acapulco, wrecked on the coast of what is now Oregon, never reaching its destination. A craftsman from the Nehalem-Tillamook and Clatsop peoples made this arrowhead (in the Tillamook Pioneer Museum) out of Qing dynasty porcelain from the wreck.

The Holodomor was ethnic cleansing against Ukrainians academic.oup.com/restud/advan...

Such is loaf

Now that's a tiny wobbegong #shark pup! It's a tasselled #wobbegong found and dmired, but left alone, by divers at Raja Ampat. Pic and short article from: divernet.com/content-mark...

Really feeling history has not ended atm

The stunning eyes of Percnon guinotae (I think) briefly sitting in the open in the shallows of Ambon bay.

Does this Coconut Octopus understand transparency and that the glass jar offers security, despite light reaching the photoreceptors on its arm?

Excuse me, I think you have a shrimp on your nose.

Once again, small-bodied freshwater native fish *always* get screwed, because you can’t see them and you can’t fish for them. Hell, we can’t even agree about saving koalas; the fish had no chance. But don’t you dare take away the feral horses, that’s true blue dinky di Aussie heritage that is.

Etymological map of Africa. Where do African country and city names comes from? A really cool and comprehensive map.

Underneath Linckia laevigata starfish you sometimes find a tiny & beautiful parasitic mollusc - Thyca crystallina. This one is 1-2 mm long. If it's female it'll grow to 10-12 mm. If it's male it will stay tiny and attach under the shell of a large female Thyca.

Come any closer and I'll sting you - Lybia tessellata holds anemones in specialized claws, using them to stun prey, mop up food & defensively. They can't survive without the anemones. If they lose one they'll clone the other by splitting it, or steal an anemone from another crab.

Making it official diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2024/01/03/m...

A darky funny account from a climate scientist at COP28

The social supports are kinda fake.

We planted a Banksia serrata in our tiny inner Sydney front yard when we moved in 10 years ago. A decision now applauded by local Rainbow Lorikeets.

It's probably been done, but...

Mood: stabby.

This is a great response by ECRs to a paper that came out recently that didn’t include a single Ethiopian author, even though the research was done in Ethiopia. The last paragraph is 🔥. 🏺

WFH hasn't gone anywhere! That's what I concluded after looking at millions of job ads www.seek.com.au/about/news/e...

Hey, Litigation Disaster Tourists! Musk went and did it. He filed the SLAPP suit against Media Matters. This thing will likely rival the Trump election suits for frivolity so let's read it together, why don't we?