Science has the answers to life's biggest questions: theconversation.com/who-would-wi...

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

For 7 years we have been studying how rat poisons affect native wildlife. Our initial work focussed on owls, then we found it in reptiles and today we have released our world first study showing it is killing Australia’s threatened quolls and the Tasmanian Devil. theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

@deeninis.bsky.social and Konstantinos Michailos with an excellent explainer about the current earthquake emergency in Santorini:

A Traffic Collision Avoidance System – or TCAS – isn’t designed to work at low altitudes.

Just as Zverev is about to speak at the trophy ceremony, a woman repeatedly shouts: “Australia Believes Olya and Brenda! Australia Believes Olya and Brenda!” Broke through the silence. #AusOpen

A speech for the ages:

Here's one for the tennis fans out there – the science behind the spectacle of the Aus Open

A great rundown of the tools some other social media platforms have been using to limit access to news.

All of my favourites!

@tobycmurray.bsky.social explains how the Australian government's social media ban might actually work:

It's official:

The experiment involved custom-building a small chamber that simulated hot spring environments on early Earth.

This is an excellent analysis of a horrific problem. Will Australia listen?

The 1989 trial of Desmond Applebee shows the challenge of interrogating novel scientific evidence – a challenge that persists in Australia today.

@profsarahj.bsky.social explains why the federal government's social media ban for under 16s might be unconstitutional: theconversation.com/banning-unde...

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A recent summit in Canada tackled the challenge of how science can be more inclusive and better engage Indigenous communities.

theconversation.com/the-governme... @antmandan.bsky.social from @qutdmrc.bsky.social explains what is – and isn't – in the new social media ban bill.

#DYK that The Conversation gives away all our journalism for free syndication under a @creativecommons.bsky.social license (as well as being available for free on our website)? 100s of news sites and newspapers use our stories each month. 🧵 So you may have read our stories on national websites…

Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...

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