Libby Robin
@libbydeq.bsky.social
Writer, historian of ideas, Environment in museums
What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅
New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. 🌿
What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅
New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. 🌿
Australia's very different ecosystems need their own policies.
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Australia's very different ecosystems need their own policies.
Perhaps their clicking call isn't quite a magpie's carol? Or people only see brown, and fail to notice the red wattles and yellow highlights? Maybe wattlebirds should start foraging for nectar on the ground - no one looks up any more. Perhaps they just don't need humans.
January 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Perhaps their clicking call isn't quite a magpie's carol? Or people only see brown, and fail to notice the red wattles and yellow highlights? Maybe wattlebirds should start foraging for nectar on the ground - no one looks up any more. Perhaps they just don't need humans.
They have moved Greenland to the Atlantic to put it next to France for the story - but they haven't recalibrated it so it looks too large (Mercator problem) Mapmakers sometimes move Tasmania to the northern tropics to fit it on a square page with Aust - common practice for "design" - not navigation!
January 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
They have moved Greenland to the Atlantic to put it next to France for the story - but they haven't recalibrated it so it looks too large (Mercator problem) Mapmakers sometimes move Tasmania to the northern tropics to fit it on a square page with Aust - common practice for "design" - not navigation!
Greenland is about 3X area of France, but it looks twice that here because Mercator projection is misleading.
January 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Greenland is about 3X area of France, but it looks twice that here because Mercator projection is misleading.
Mercator projection very misleading at the poles. This map is about relative size not geography.
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Mercator projection very misleading at the poles. This map is about relative size not geography.
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On va me dire que je suis élitiste sans doute.
Mais le seul truc qui est véritablement égalitaire et juste, c'est précisément l'exercice critique de la raison informée.
Mais le seul truc qui est véritablement égalitaire et juste, c'est précisément l'exercice critique de la raison informée.
January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
On va me dire que je suis élitiste sans doute.
Mais le seul truc qui est véritablement égalitaire et juste, c'est précisément l'exercice critique de la raison informée.
Mais le seul truc qui est véritablement égalitaire et juste, c'est précisément l'exercice critique de la raison informée.
You shouldn't have to pay a lawyer to find out who made a decision about cancelling writers for a festival of ideas.
January 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
You shouldn't have to pay a lawyer to find out who made a decision about cancelling writers for a festival of ideas.
Sadly no one will come to hear any of that Board speak instead. Who are they punishing? And why is it so hard to name names? Members of Boards need to acknowledge how they voted, esp if all they are doing is smashing the institution they are there to nurture.
January 11, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Sadly no one will come to hear any of that Board speak instead. Who are they punishing? And why is it so hard to name names? Members of Boards need to acknowledge how they voted, esp if all they are doing is smashing the institution they are there to nurture.
The artists are named. Why is the Board hiding behind anonymity? Time to name names. Anonymous bullying is no way to run a democracy. Let's talk about it.
January 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
The artists are named. Why is the Board hiding behind anonymity? Time to name names. Anonymous bullying is no way to run a democracy. Let's talk about it.