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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

“We’ve solved the hyperspace jump gate congestion problem by linking ships into convoys and installing antimatter energy transfer grids in the gate lanes!”

“Trains. You invented trains. Again.”

#tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4h

The MPIC Sustainability group organised a pilzenwandern in the Ober-Olm Wald yesterday afternoon with a mycologist! It was all auf Deutsch (good practice for me), so my understanding was a little rubbery, but highlights include "this is Germany's most […]

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Cute little mushrooms poke out of a bed of moss

A large mushroom with white gills and a long stem. It has a skirt around the stem which isn't attached and can be moved

Whitish pink Coral-like fungi on a mossy log

An inkcap mushroom doing its thing. It has a black cap which is oozing slime as it slowly disintegrates

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Voting is open for the Australian #birdoftheyear. I'm taking it on a day-by-day basis, as we have too many great birds to pick only one.

Today I went with the whip-bird - these elusive yet ever-present little things can be commonly heard on forest fringes. Did you know the call is actually a […]

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#arteveryday came to a grinding halt while I was having too much fun in Australia. Back on the horse, and Christmas card season is upon us, soI'm hoping for a strong finish.

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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable.

Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 2d

Like the flu shot, the Covid vaccine doesn't necessarily stop a person from getting infected with the virus. But it does reduce the chances of severe illness, hospitalization or death.

Get your COVID-19 and flu shots. I got mine. Protect yourself, and others. It's the right thing to do.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Good thing about the jet-lagged 3.30 am wake-up this morning is that I was actually AWAKE for 7 am meeting with Perth and Sydney folk. Makes a nice change from the normal 'bleary but here' vibe I bring to these meetings.

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Christian Meesters @rupdecat.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Does anyone know a good set of slides / a video lection about the dangers of #ai in the classroom and for our societies?

I am contemplating offering to give a talk for high school kids and have some material, already.

Material might be non-English, too.

#askfedi

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Here at the Post Office physical research laboratory we do real science. Our package accelerators have allowed us to make genuine advances in the field of logistical mechanics. We have proven the Heisenberg-Comstock conjecture¹ , and also shown that the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Aramex limit applies to […]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Australia is still a deeply racist country when it comes to Aboriginal people.

This is some of the oldest written communications on Earth.

This rock art was already ~40,000 years old when the Giza pyramids were an ongoing capital works project by the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.

But because […]

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

You go awake for a few weeks and suddenly autumn is here and sunrise is after 7? Mistakes were made yesterday, with Too Much Napping and as a result I've been up since 1 - it's going to be a loooong day!

Hoping for lots of friends at work to distract me 😂

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Thanks Australia, this trip home has been like a deep breath. Stoked to have been able to visit many of my favourite places and see many of my favourite people 💚

Not quite emotionally prepared to be going back to Germany, but looking forward to seeing […]

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Sunset glow at Sydney harbour on a warm spring afternoon. The vibe is happiness with a side of "we live in the lucky country"

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Holiday snake count up to a nice round 5 💚

Red belly at boat harbour in Cronulla. Old mate was deeply unconcerned and needed a little encouragement to move along :)

#snek #wildaus #redbelly

Sandy path through coastal heathland with a red belly black snake visible on the right hand side of the path.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d

WARATAHS ARE OUT! In the nasho, if you know where to go...

This has basically been the perfect trip home.

#royalnp #nsw #bloomscrolling #florespondence #flowerfriday

Two waratahs flowering. The flowers are huge red spiky balls, and the plant has long elongated green leaves. The background of typical Australian bushland.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Lovely day at Wombeyan for another work adjacent holiday day! Thanks @Andbaker for saving some fieldwork so I could come along while I'm in the country 😊

It was a treat to be underground with Nane, a first-time caver. I love seeing our beautiful underground […]

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White stalactites lit up with a headlight. There are.also some helicopter, sideways growing calcite formations

Dream team! Nane, Andy, and myself smiling outside a cave.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Work adjacent holiday day today! By luck i perfectly timed my Sydney trip to be able to see Ali Kimbrough and her partner Daniel Becker present the amazing science communication work they've been doing in Sulawesi, producing comic books to be used as educational resources by the Maros Pangkep […]

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d

#FatBearWeek is here! Voting for round one is open right now - 901 is looking chonky

https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

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Joshua Byrd 💽 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Velociraptor has just announced our "for the last time / farewell tour" so get along to see us as it might be your last chance (unless we pull a Crowded House / John Farnham in a few years time!). End of an era. 🥲

Hey legends, it's us-Velociraptor.

In some bittersweet news, we're stoked to announce that we're heading back to Melbourne and Sydney for the first time in a very long while, plus a couple of big hometown blowouts in Brisbane.

But-yeah, there's a "but"-these shows will also be our last for the foreseeable future. We know. It sucks. Life, hey? Sometimes it just gets in the way. The Don't Hiat-Us, Hate The Game 2025 Tour, is gonna be one last victory lap up the east coast, bringing all the guitars, all the chaos, and all the good times we possibly can. If you've ever lost your mind at one of our gigs before (and odds are high you did), this is your chance to do it one last time.

Since crawling back out of hibernation in 2023, we've dropped a bunch of earworms and somehow managed to pull off a full-blown second album-Computer Future (2024)-where we lobbed some psych into our garage mess and went full Raptor again. Live? We've been having the time of our lives, and honestly, it's been bloody beautiful seeing your faces out there.

But even the wildest party has to wrap up eventually. So, this October to December, we're getting the band back together (literally-we're guaranteeing at least eight Raptors on stage, and probably more if we can squeeze 'em in) for one last run of ridiculous shows in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.

Come party like it's the end of days. Because for us -it kinda is. Don't miss it.

Be there, or be elsewhere.

-Velociraptor

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Holiday snake count is up to 4! Two in the space of 10 mins on Castle Hill in Townsville.

One python (too quick to snap) and one unknown (whip snake?). Also spotted a bunch of dragons and a tree pretending to be a frog mouth.

Glad I made it to the north.

A tawny frog mouth pretending to be a tree. The bush is dry and brown, and the bird blends in very well.

A small thin brown snake on a sunny deck. In the distance is the ocean and a large island.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28d

No pythons today, but lots of whales flapping and breaching, a pod of dolphins fishing, and a nice swim with the best girl.

Fly loves swimming, but hates being carried, so it was a mixed day for her.

A white woman wearing shorts, and a blue shirt and sandals, carrying a white and ginger dog who doesn't look happy about it. They are at the beach, which a backdrop of bright blue sky and equally blue water.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Home has been turning it on for me. Today featured a wedge tailed eagle, a sea eagle, lots of the normal sea birds, cockatoos and lorrikeets, lots of humpbacks, and this beautiful carpet python.

A carpet python lying in the undergrowth. She is facing away, stretched out heading from the verge into the bush.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

"If the executive version of the university continues to dominate, we may be left with an institution rich in consultants but poor in teachers, researchers and students."

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/uts-the-university-that-forgot-about-its-students-20250905-p5msm0

UTS, the university that forgot about its students

If the university executive continues to dominate, we may be left with an institution rich in consultants but poor in teachers, researchers and students.

www.afr.com

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Helen @miffyhelen.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

This feels like a rookie question but if I don't ask, I won't know.

Where does one get DRM-free ebooks that are easily readable on an Android device?

I can find PDFs and know Project Gutenberg pretty well, but I wondered if there was something that was more of a Kindle app replacement.
#ebooks […]

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

Here's a question for NZ based bike commuters. I'm trying to replace the worn chainrings on my Surly and have run into a roadblock. It's got a Shimano Deore Trekking crankset with the Alivio touring chainrings 48-36-26T (FC-T6010). I ordered the 48T from a local […]

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A webpage from Amazon.com showing a bike chainring for sale, but also says "This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Please choose a different delivery location."

https://www.amazon.com/Shimano-Spares-FC-T521-chainring-36T-AL/dp/B00LDRYW8A?crid=16BVQQXBI997N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.q8THq_4Jql_d4cENqnZ7sw.cYlLAPvYSX4JJD9S84t9mUY54Fl6UBPBgQ7SlCKCTOw&dib_tag=se&keywords=FC-T521+36t&qid=1757236574&sprefix=fc-t521+36t%2Caps%2C432&sr=8-1

A webpage from bikes24.com showing a bike chainring. It says "Product not shippable to New Zealand".

https://www.bike24.com/p2250391.html

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