Historian Mary Beard giving a great talk in Sydney, Bringing Trump down a peg and some great insight into everyday Roman life

Birthday baking for my favourite @theconversation.com author. @tomjeffries.bsky.social I'll be finding lemon seeds all over my kitchen for days, you're welcome 🤣

It was such a delight to see @willdalrymple.bsky.social this week in Sydney, illuminating talk, and grateful for him sticking around to sign books.

All ready to roll for @willdalrymple.bsky.social in Sydney 🙌

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What's that? You want to hear about climate change and zoonotic diseases? Come along to this weareibec.org/events/zooni...

NO! NO! NO! And I say that as a past competitive shooter. We DO NOT need to turn into the USA. Gun control MUST be maintained. #auspol Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge

Australians can only access one COVID-19 vaccine right now. Experts say that's a problem www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Congrats on 1 year at WSU @amandaafrick.bsky.social your dry humour and baked goods are a very welcome addition to the corridor 👍👍👍 good egg 🍳

“All cruelty springs from weakness.” ― Seneca

Bee nesting behavior + network-microbiome = potential integration of socio-eco-evo-immunology 🐝🌺 👉 check out this review @ doi.org/10.1111/eva.70137 w/ @tomjeffries.bsky.social 📸: Simon Tierney

Someone please take this man's keyboard away.

Aside from the obvious, Trump also seems to be stuck in some kind of pre-reformation "salvation through works" theology .... time.com/7311354/dona...

My new article out today in @theconversation.com (Aus edition) covers the breakthrough use of AI to search for new antibiotics theconversation.com/ai-has-produ...

I'm going to see @willdalrymple.bsky.social in Sydney a few days before seeing Mary Beard. This is as a good a birthday week as a middle aged history obsessed man can hope for. And I'm not going to Oasis 😂 im genuinely excited 📚📚📚📚

New paper out, surgery meets the microbiome: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My latest Conversation article is about #plaque !!! theconversation.com/a-person-in-...

I was wondering when I'd see this post! I'd hate to think I'd finally shamed you into silence 😂

new paper on bee brain development in social contexts: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

first phylogeny for nocturnal foraging nomiine bees: doi.org/10.1007/s118...

My new article for the @theconversation.com is co-authored with @olliemorton.bsky.social and covers the recent recall from #aflatoxin theconversation.com/what-is-afla... Enjoy @amandaafrick.bsky.social

My latest @theconversation.com article is an update on the recent #melioidosis outbreak theconversation.com/the-queensla...

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social From the Opium Wars to the War on Drugs

#wordle #auspol

Happy #DemocracySausage day to all those celebrating.

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social Victorian Narcos 5: Jardine and Matheson- Flooding China With Indian Opium

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3

Today's #wordle needs to be bought back into common parlance @amandaafrick.bsky.social , I think it would fit the sector well Wordle 1,399 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.

@olliemorton.bsky.social likes crispy M&Ms

Man after my own heart

One of my favorite weird signs at the rally

RFK Jr.’s clearest proposal so far is his campaign promise to create wellness farms where Americans would reconnect with the soil, an old idea that’s failed many times, @shaylalove.bsky.social reports:

New Book day! 🍂 @willdalrymple.bsky.social

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Mycorrhizal fungi promote native & suppress invasive plants & help prevent soil erosion Why don't (fed or state) governments monitor fungi? Soil biology, generally, is not included in biodiversity assessments. Yet soil contains 59% of biodiversity? Madness. theconversation.com/from-trading...

Tom, the first step to overcoming your problem is admitting you have one. I'm staging an intervention for your Conversation addiction.

My latest @conversationaunz.bsky.social is out today and covers the new #COVID strain theconversation.com/a-new-covid-...

Our @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on The Troubles begins! @anitaanand.bsky.social & I talk to the great Patrick @praddenkeefe.bsky.social about his masterpiece, Say Nothing. Not to be missed: Patrick is one of the great non-fiction masters of our time. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

I earned a statement of accomplishment on DataCamp for completing Introduction to R! www.datacamp.com/completed/st...

As he says! WTF?

Australia’s reefs are on fire 🔥

Wordle 1,370 2/6 🟨⬛🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Spéirghorm #IrishBluesky #Ireland Up the rebels ✊🏼 and death to empire !

ICYMI: IMO the best essay about current threats to American universities: the how, the why, and possible paths forward. "What is really happening here is an attack on the American faith in knowledge as a value and a public good that has served us well." Gift 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

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