Mark Connor
@markfrommq.bsky.social
Cricket, rugba league, music and efficacy … posting from Wallemettagal land
look very very closely …
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 AM
look very very closely …
Living her best life
December 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Living her best life
Our Xmas (first) Xmas visitor …
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Our Xmas (first) Xmas visitor …
Reposted by Mark Connor
“In psychology undergrads” is analogous to “in mice”.
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“In psychology undergrads” is analogous to “in mice”.
Reposted by Mark Connor
It’s really meaningful to have such insightful coverage from a leader in the field @zenbrainest.bsky.social and Xianglin Huang. We appreciate the time they took to write up this very nice commentary!
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It’s really meaningful to have such insightful coverage from a leader in the field @zenbrainest.bsky.social and Xianglin Huang. We appreciate the time they took to write up this very nice commentary!
my old room mate … not C Stuart or Spider …
In case anyone's interested, this is the work both Astronaut Stan Love and Spider Robinson helped me with.
Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon
Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon [Hardwick, C. Stuart, Robinson, Spider, Shoemaker, Martin L., Barretta, Mike, Monaghan, Sean, Rylander, K. B., Ferguson, Ronald D., Levine, David D., Fulda, Nancy, Rotundo, Matthew S.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon
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November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
my old room mate … not C Stuart or Spider …
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Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Characterising the Multiple‐Plastic Degrading Strain of Bacillus subtilis GM_03 From the Galleria mellonella Microbiome
A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis has been isolated from plastic-fed Galleria mellonella larvae, which shows evidence of degradation of both LDPE and PU plastics. Genes potentially associated with ....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
May 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
Anthony Albanese leads Labor to election win after Coalition vote collapses; Peter Dutton set to lose Dickson …. Fuck yeah !!! See ya toxic potato … and even Bennelong …
May 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Anthony Albanese leads Labor to election win after Coalition vote collapses; Peter Dutton set to lose Dickson …. Fuck yeah !!! See ya toxic potato … and even Bennelong …
i don't need a cure ...
RIP David Thomas aka (in the early days) Crocus Behemoth: those first four Pere Ubu singles were stunning in 1975-1977 (post punk before punk) leading up the The Modern Dance and Dub Housing. Born 1953, I salute you fellow Snake
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
i don't need a cure ...
David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls, dies aged 75 … and i’m still looking for a kiss …
March 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls, dies aged 75 … and i’m still looking for a kiss …
Strong feels for all my science colleagues in the US, suffering ignorant wicked actions by people who do not care for reason, light or common good. I trust enough Americans know what (medical) science has brought them, what they are about to lose, and what they can do about it …
February 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Strong feels for all my science colleagues in the US, suffering ignorant wicked actions by people who do not care for reason, light or common good. I trust enough Americans know what (medical) science has brought them, what they are about to lose, and what they can do about it …
Still coming to Sydney ? Lovely !
First paper of 2025 — the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually at least three different species:
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@flindersuniversity.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@flindersuniversity.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 18...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Still coming to Sydney ? Lovely !
our bin chickens are evolving @dieterhochuli.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
our bin chickens are evolving @dieterhochuli.bsky.social