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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 8h

The wildflowers at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park were stunning - especially the massive carpets of these. Now, I don't know much about plants, but I believe these are a native plant called pig face. There were lots!

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 6h

18,457 dead children.

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 6h

People who destroy trees in order to get a view really piss me off. Trees ARE the view in my view.
#trees

Nobody hates trees more than coastally adjacent narcissists. Here’s how we should deal with them | First Dog on the Moon

A deterrent is one thing but I want revenge!

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Tree Side @treeside.bsky.social · 9h

Eucalyptus goniocalyx - Long-leaved Box and Eucalyptus fasciculosa - Pink Gum forest near Humbug Scrub, South Australia.

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Wyatt Myskow @wyattmyskow.bsky.social · 1d

On the Colorado River, there is no more water.

That's the warning from a coalition of environmental groups urging for action and transparency regarding the river's future.

My latest:

insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn - Inside Climate News

A new report from a coalition of environmental organizations offers recommendations on how to address the declining water supply in the river as negotiations over its future stall.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 18h

After examining 10,494 herbarium specimens of the orchid genus Caladenia, new Australian research suggests there’s been a >60% decline in orchid pollination since 1977 with sexually deceptive orchid species more impacted

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #pollination

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One hundred years of Australian flower data reveals pollination drop

Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature increases could be behind a pollination decline in native orchids.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20h

If Labor wishes to reclaim its moral authority, it must break with the consultant paradigm: rebuild public governance, fund socially vital disciplines and restore universities as places of learning, not revenue streams. #auspol #universitiesAU

How the ALP outsourced the soul of higher education

For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of collective progress through strong institutions, universal access, and the elevation of ordinary citizens.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Lucy Hamilton: “Some of the most dangerous people in world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It can be found at ABC, including on Radio National lifestyle programming.”

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The ABC goes to Hungary: the culture war battle between "Christianity" and "woke" is a con - The AIM Network

Some of the most dangerous people in the world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It was not just in the banal [...]

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Bluesky Wagtail @angrywagtails.bsky.social · 19h

Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

One hundred years of Australian flower data reveals pollination drop

Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature increases could be behind a pollination decline in native orchids.

www.abc.net.au

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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 19h

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 1d

I am teaching a course on ancient trees and tree rings at the NY Botanical Garden on Sunday, October 26th and Sunday, November 2nd.

We will learn about past environments, the amazing lives of trees, and what old trees tend to look like.

Sign up at this link: www.enrole.com/nybg/jsp/ses...

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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 1d

Home!!!! I grew up very close by 🥰

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

English ceramics designer Clarice Cliff, her Art Deco Diamonds Conical Pattern Tea set, 1930 #womensart

Photo of an angular shaped tea set with two cups and saucers, a teapot, a plate, a sugar bowl and a milk jug, all decorated with painted angular shapes in orange, black, blue and yellow

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Lynette Russell @lynetterussell.bsky.social · 1d

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Awakening Histories exhibition opens at MUMA

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think a basic cost benefit analysis done by gov .. responding to scientific advice .. or not … would be a good idea

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australia's south coast 'very, very high risk' for bushfires, modelling shows

New research from Australian researchers shows, globally, major bushfire events are becoming more frequent, fatal and economically damaging.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 1d

BEHOLD the majesty of the Kiwi cheese scone. This scone isn't here for a fancy tea. This scone has come to rumble. This scone demands MORE butter. This scone has OPINIONS about jam. This scone is three square meals and elevenses. This scone has HEFT.
You do not eat this scone. You experience it.

You're looking at a large yellow gold beast, AKA a kiwi cheese scone, sitting on a white stoneware plate. It dominates the plate and the small bowl featuring two hefty triangles of butter next to it. If you were to lift this scone, you would feel its heft. This scone sees cheese and says give me more! You know that if you tapped the top of this scone it would make an ominous hollow sound that, if you know your cheese scones, promises a delicious crunchy top with a soft interior. Also on this table, admiring this scone is a yellow tea cup sitting on a blue saucer. A frankly inferior looking stainless steel teapot and milk jug containing just enough brew to wash down the scone. Elsewhere on the table is a comedic book from 1936 about Gardening and my notebook that I was using to jot spotted notes. It's brown covered and nondescript, unlike the scone of might. Which is easy to descript. It is majestic.

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 1d

"We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale" Stephen Lezak, Oxford "We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed"
@albomp.bsky.social + @australianlabor.bsky.social = #Fail
#auspol

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 1d

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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 1d

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh #FourCorners what a crooked bunch of bloodsuckers who have our govt by the cojones, those folks in the NRL, the gaming industry and even the body supposedly tasked with encouraging “responsible gambling”.
Time for one of those #royalcommissions to uncover the corruption all the way to the top.

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Governor Whitmer was almost kidnapped by armed thugs. Governor Shapiro‘s house was set on fire. Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was violently attacked by someone looking for her. Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home with her husband and dog…and now this. The left is the victim, not the perpetrator.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta love our prostrate Banksia species! Such odd species, at least when you consider all the trees and shrubs around of them! This ones #Banksia blechnifolia an endemic species between Jerramungup and Gibson area and one of my favs for its Ferny foliage!

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 2d

🌱 ♻️ #JobAlert! PhD in #EnvironmentalSciences and in-depth knowledge of #SoilScience and biogeochemical cycles? Strong skills in analysing large datasets? Our Research Unit Forest and #SoilEcology offers a #TenureTrack position in #NutrientCycling: apply.refline.ch/273855/1778/... #ScienceJobs

Job offer: The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is part of the ETH Domain. Approximately 600 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards.

The Research Unit Forest and Soil Ecology studies the impact of environmental changes on biogeochemical cycles. Within the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) we offer a tenure track position as a
Research Scientist in Nutrient Cycling 80% (f/m/d)
You will be responsible for monitoring atmospheric deposition and soil solution chemistry across Switzerland. Your scientific responsibilities include the adequate sampling in the field and the analysis of samples in the laboratory. You will coordinate the involved technical staff, maintain the local database and forward the data to the European ICP Forests database. You will actively participate in the ICP Forests Expert Panels "Deposition" and "Soil and Soil Solution". By applying complex modelling, you will evaluate the data regarding the long-term development of nutrient fluxes and cycles. You will successfully acquire third-party funding for add-on studies, e.g. on nutrient dynamics in the rhizosphere or on gas exchange between soil and atmosphere.
You hold a Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences with in-depth knowledge of soil science, biogeochemical cycles and analytical-chemical methods. You are efficient in dealing with large amounts of data and have good statistical knowledge as well as experience in modelling biogeochemical processes. Furthermore, you know how to publish your results in international journals and make them accessible to stakeholders in forestry practice, politics and the public. Your skills as a good team player are in demand both in the collaboration with the other scientific staff of the LWF and in the coordination of technical staff. In addition, you possess excellent English skills and a good command of German.

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 2d

This is how media becomes a political campaigner.

There is no earthly reason why Larissa Waters should know all the details of one renewable project in Tasmania

The ABC asked a gotcha question she responded to adequately, then activated this sort of crap? Unfreakingbelieveable.. #auspol

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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