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Diana Fisher
@dianafisher1080.bsky.social
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Mammal ecology, evolution & conservation. UQ Fan of Australian & Melanesian nature. Subtropical edible gardens. Markets. My ebike. Corgis, border collies. IUCN Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group co-chair Chair Australasian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium
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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 6h
Queensland government called out for 'not taking environment seriously': https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/calls-for-stronger-action-queensland-great-barrier-reef-species/105867412
Queensland government called out for 'not taking environment seriously'
The Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) has called out the LNP government for "not taking the environment seriously" with the number of flora and fauna species under threat on the rise.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 9h
Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎
These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there's 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

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Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15h
“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d
Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 1d
It's increasingly difficult to distinguish the behaviour of UK conservative politicians (including KS) and Trump from seeing a headline
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 1d
and the complete lack of wit
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d
For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 1d
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · Dec 21
The stark contrast between Rwanda’s handling of a deadly Marburg virus outbreak this year & the rest of the world’s chaotic response to #Covid provides textbook lessons in how to properly respond to a threat and how to make a threat worse www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
The contrast between Rwanda’s handling of Marburg and the chaotic response to Covid-19 is stark
The country’s response prevented a crisis – and provided the world with a valuable blueprint for effective outbreak control
www.telegraph.co.uk
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 2d
what's up with NZ being in the great Australian Bight?
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d
In 2025, no mom anywhere needs to lose her baby to whooping cough or measles...

We know how to prevent these deadly scourges from our past: vaccination

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My Son Died in My Arms from Whooping Cough. He Was 2 Months Old (Exclusive)
Kathryn Alcaide watched whooping cough destroy her son's tiny body and now urges everyone to get vaccinated to protect their families.
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 2d
It's never been a war. One side cannot retaliate. At all. Also, the attacked population are not in another country
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 4d
"I, along with every other reporter I know who has worked in Gaza ... have reported a reality in Gaza that bears no resemblance to how it is portrayed by Israeli politicians, its military and many media outlets that serve as Israel’s echo chamber."

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Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.
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Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 4d
At what point does something give and people will start fighting back against these goons?

White people, we're next, so don't sit there and shrug your shoulders. We out number these bastards.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d
ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁
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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 5d
I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real
Screenshot of NYT YouTube channel introducing a recipe with “chickpea anxiety is real.”
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 6d
David Lambert gave a plenary at the first ever Australasian Evolution Society at UQ 1999 (brought from NZ in those days) and the current one #AES2025 in Brisbane again for the first time since then
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d
The Trump regime has ordered nine top universities to agree to its demands or lose access to federal funds.

Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
www.nytimes.com
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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 6d
Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 6d
Remembering …… Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
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