The “debate”. My @smh @theage cartoon.

This is beautiful.

When it's snowy on the mountain the Currawongs come to visit me and demand food. One of them is a repeat visitor I have named Snapper. Sound on to help you work out which one . #birds

Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through. www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

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Love this example of behavioural thermoregulation, posted on Kgalagadi Sightings page.

Oh my God, are we going to be subjected to Eric Abetz all night?

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@cqchoi.com - in 2013 you published an article titled "why the platypus will never have a stomach". This year I published an article that explains that platypuses do have a stomach, and how this misunderstanding occurred. You can find it here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Stew... comments welcome 🦊🧪

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This is a Cambridge Skin Temperature Meter that I rescued some years ago when the Physiology Department moved across town. These things were beautifully built works of art. I am guessing it dates from sometime in the 1950s. Does anyone have more information about the date these were manufactured?

Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪

reposting this with 🧪 , @hgl7.bsky.social and @smithsonianmag.bsky.social If you want a copy send me your email in a chat

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Does the platypus have a stomach? The perils of popular science. Would respected science sources sex up their stories? My new paper just out. @jackdashby.bsky.social this is for you. meridian.allenpress.com/australian-z...

Selling nuclear. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

🧪 🦊 A pademelon, Thylogale billardierii, cleans itself in the morning sun outside my study window.

Tell me everything doesn’t sound better in French.

🧪 🦊 HELP! I was sent some photos of skulls on graph paper so I could get the dimensions. The x & y axes have different scaling. The y axis looks like inches divided into tenths, but the x axis has 6 divisions in the small rectangles. Is anyone familiar with this graph paper?

Australia is not like America. We won't tolerate the oligarchy of billionaires running our government, paying no tax and laughing all the way to the bank. Dutton mimics all of Trumps policies including to sack public servants and give the work to consultants at 3 times the cost.

She reeks of death and doesn't really do anything except stand around, yet people are queuing up to fawn all over her. Australia's sweetheart! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The ugly truth. In this country we must stem the tide. Labour need to WAKE UP!

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Amazing drawing of a platypus done for me by Rachel Harris based on video from Pete Walsh. You will soon be able to by quality prints of this from www.facebook.com/rachelharris...

Soldier beetles ( Chauliognathus lugubris) on woolly tea-tree (Leptospermun lanigerum) in my garden.

Following a brief Bluesy interchange about tawny frogmouths with @jackdashby.bsky.social I managed to find this picture of a nightjar I had seen years ago. They were called "goatsuckers", a libel started by Aristotle. The name looks better when the s is written as here in the old style medial s.

For soldier beetles (Cantharidae) Leptospermum flowers are the ideal dating site. Video from garden. #insects #pollinators

POV: the ENTIRE senate crossbench voting for parliamentary scrutiny of 400 pages of electoral reform that doesn't commence until 2028 Major parties teaming up to oppose & hide from scrutiny their desperate attempt to maintain the duopoly.

Jürgen is all of us entomologists 😂 still love this moment! #gbbo

Snappy the currawong is back (sound on) #birds

🧪🦊 Did you know that platypuses are the only toothless mammals that masticate their food? We discuss the anatomy of platypus mastication in our new paper. You can read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Ecology of dung youtu.be/hsHD-XRJtS8?... via @YouTube The longhorns at #KneppWilding provided us with some amazing, & fresh faeces to help us explain Dung pat ecology So many copulating #coprophagous flies - it was a joy to film @entsocamerica.bsky.social #insects #recycling #flies

🧪🦊🌿If you are interested in echidnas (and who isn’t?) you can watch this talk via Zoom: Zoom:  us06web.zoom.us/j/4032735696...  In the US: Tuesday 16 April at 18:00 EDT Australia: Wednesday 17 April at 08:00 AEST UK: Tuesday 16 April at 23:00 BST

Conservation Physiology is now on Bluesky!🪲🦅🐟🌳🐘🐍

🧪🐡🦊🌿 Stunning drawing of a Tasmanian echidna done for me by my former student, the very talented Rachel Harris.

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Barnaby says something inexplicable - nation shocked. A cartoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Word wants me to change "a herbivore" to "an herbivore". What sort of weird people would say erbivores? 🤔

🧪 Last weekend I saw my first Head-stacking Caterpillar (Uraba lugens). When they moult the old head capsule stays attached. When they are small they skeletonise the leaves of eucalpypts, but eat whole leaves as they get bigger. The head stack deters predators, or at least acts as a decoy.

Meanwhile if you are Welsh it is the time of year when a skeleton horse might show up at your door and challenge you to a rap battle. If you lose the horse comes into your house and drinks your booze. Happy Christmas from Mari Lwyd!

so @danirabaiotti.bsky.social have you tried the Rogue River Blue Cheese? The one they produced before the pandemic was sheer paradiso (and voted best cheese in the world). The one I tasted this year was not quite as good

What policy #impact does @ipbes.bsky.social have? European Parliament this week adopted a 'New Deal for Pollinators' to reverse the alarming decline in wild pollinators by 2030. It draws specifically on the IPBES #PollinationAssessment. #SciencePolicyImpact 🧪🌏 europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Keith Richards ist ja schon sehr lange im Geschäft,.. Also wirklich sehr lange! 🎸

🧪 A white Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) with a normal coloured joey. Near Margate, Tasmania.