WANTED: Have you seen this heron? Last seen here just before swooping on a coot hatchling 😞 #birds🪶

Our famous albino peacock is at it again #birds 🪶

Not 100 per cent sure what bird this is, but it came out beautifully - Kumarakom bird sanctuary, Kerala #birds 🪶

Baby Swamphen season in Maylands 🐣🪶 #birds

Asian barred owlet, spotted in an orchard in Manali #birds 🪶

They are all over backwaters, hanging out in coconut trees 😍 🪶

Brahminy Kite, Kerala, India 🪶

Ladakh: Leh/Kargil

So... it primarily complains about university administration and its lack of grant funding?

Come work with us at UWA politics and IR: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

Very good piece on China's massive hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo by my colleague Dechen Palmo www.isdp.eu/chinas-hydro...

😘 #birds

Red-tail black cockatoos having lunch in the Perth hills #birds 🪶

A western whistler in Porongurup, WA #birds.

A great Egret at breakfast #birds 🪶

A pair of Splendid Fair Wrens keep a look out #birds 🪶

Avalance near the India-China border traps road workers/: indianexpress.com/article/indi...

The real 'first great debate' in international relations is the 'did the first great debate happen' debate.

A clear day in Mussoorie

Tasmania carrying the Australian cricket team, as usual #AusvInd🏏

Statue of Unity

In India for the next two months. First up: train from Ahmedabad to Kevadiya

#AUSvIND 🏏

There doesn't seem to be much India focused stuff here, or am I just not looking hard enough?

🔥 Green oil? Seriously? 🔥 Suriname is drilling for oil with TotalEnergies and "offsetting" the emissions with the carbon stored in its rainforests. 🔥 Indigenous Peoples in Suriname are calling for the REDD deal to be stopped immediately. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/green-oil-...

PLEASE SHARE: New PhD scholarship opportunity to work with me on my ARC-funded project examining how states and societies in Asia and the Pacific are responding to the emerging Cold War between the US and China. Details on how to apply are in the link. study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

Can't wait to get out of Perth and back to my favourite city in the world! thewire.in/environment/...

Woodside and Australian natural gas for electricity generation: very slightly better than burning low grade coal for energy generation, so basically fine.

My colleague Ruth Gamble had a wonderful book on rivers of the Asian Highlands come out last week. Open Access here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Australians like to warn you about magpie swooping season, but they don't tell you about the dangers of wagtail swooping season. This little bandit has attacked me three times this week 🪶

Albino peacock display #birds

An Egret takes flight in Sri Lanka's Bundala National Park #notMaylands 🪶

This pelican wanted to murder me #birds

A honeyeater catches a mosquito #birds

Surrounded by mountains in Dzongu

Day one of #himalayaNCP, visiting the Australian Consulate in Kolkata!