Tonight, 6 pm, in Sydney. Launch of 'The Sceptical Botanist: Separating Fact from Fiction' at Royal Botanic Garden Sydney A free event, where I'll chat with John Siemen before signings of my new book published by @csiropublishing.bsky.social Register at www.botanicgardens.org.au/whats-on/sce...

Very excited to see this launched and proud to have helped shape the list. www.abc.net.au/news/science... What’s Australia’s most underrated animal? Get voting!

UK sculptor Barbara Hepworth's garden, St.Ives, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt

Look, mum! We're publishing a book! We are SO excited to announce Ecology Matters, featuring 30 essays and stunning imagery, Australian ecologists share their feelings and thoughts about why nature truly matters. #Ecology #ESA #WildOz #nature #wildlife #biodiversity

Incoming Robin #Birds #Birdsinflight #SuperBob

#CoralReefAwarenessWeek: Plates I-II-III from Ernst Haeckel's Arabische Korallen (1875). The entire publication (with additional illustrations) has been digitized and can be viewed on BHL here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40608

My talented colleague has been working on bringing this wonderful book to life: Planet Fungi Makes me want to pick up my paintbrush! @csiropublishing.bsky.social #fungi

As well as keeping Billy the cat company, I'm looking for new academic, professional and general science book proposals for our program: Animals, marine and freshwater, natural environment, food and agriculture, soils, plants & fungi, science and society... 📚🌱 (Ideas welcome! Links in profile)

No context but i relate :)

What a brilliant cover! Looks fascinating.

We recently read this book for bedtime, from our local library. A beautiful journey through an imaginary library and the life of a little book. It made me remember a little more that making and keeping books does matter : ) www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/201...

Personally, with a literature hat on, I also find 'Heliozelidae' a beautiful, evocative word! This article about how a weird group of boronias puzzled botanists for decades. A pollination mystery... theconversation.com/a-weird-grou...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.

Introducing our new Scientific Writing Workshop Manager, @arielmarcy.bsky.social 📝 Throughout a career in science, Ariel has had an interest in teaching, even publishing articles on science communication & instructional practices. Bio: www.publish.csiro.au/workshops/fa... #ScientificWriting

If you're at #ICCB2025 do swing by CSIRO Publishing! Colleagues representing our books and journals are around And if you're not but have an idea for a book anyway, do reach out :) Always interested in new ideas for our research, professional and general science books 📚🌱

Tim Entwisle talks a little bit about his gently sceptical approach to plants and gardens. Lovely to have worked on his upcoming book, coming out August: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @csiropublishing.bsky.social @timentwisle.bsky.social

CSIRO Publishing now on Bluesky! 🌱@csiropublishing.bsky.social

Happening now in Sydney… www.youtube.com/live/mrylcCA...

Cocka-two: sulphur-crested cockatoo is 2 species cosmosmagazine.com/nature/birds... #science via @CosmosMagazine

Penguiny? At times. An upcoming book on the vocabulary of the Arctic and Antarctic, 35 years in the making: cosmosmagazine.com/news/cold-wo...

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