Faelan Mourmourakis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐝

First day at new job! Excited to teach undergrads about animals and zoological research.

Male Amegilla asserta roosting, Sydney NSW.

#macrophotography #nativebees #bees #entomology #Australianbees

Happy start to the Sydney Mardi Gras season! Here's a couple of pride flags (rainbow + trans) I made up using my Australian native bee photography!

#QueerSTEM #macrophotography #nativebees #sydneyMardiGras #transgender #Australiannativebees

This is a great image to show the difference between how a wasp stinger is nice vs. smooth the barbed stinger of a honey bee!

Wrong @! But good luck with your strike!

Chris Minns flags further crackdown on protests in central Sydney ‘We’re going to have to confront this idea that the centre of Sydney can be dominated weekend after weekend,’ NSW premier says

Full on autocracy ⬇️

Minns will restrict protests even more.

The point of a protest is a show of force (voters) and to be seen.

Reducing the size of protests, or relegating them to areas where there aren't many people, defeats the purpose of protesting.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

I think everyone should trans their gender at least once, as a treat

New stingless bee tattoo for submitting and finishing (corrections are almost done) my PhD. My PhD focused on the cognition, learning and brains of the only Sydney stingless bee - Tetragonula carbonaria. I have a pretty full arm of bee tattoos now!

#bees #entomology #tattoo #scientistswithtattoos

It's been that many jobs over a year! There aren't many entomology jobs so I've applied for anything in ecology or biology. As well as a lot of non-academic jobs in industry, labs, teaching, ect.
I'd love to keep doing science but the jobs are very few and far between and competitive where I am 😭

I'm still struggling to find work post PhD. It feels like everyone else around me was able to get great jobs right away while I've applied for almost 200 with only a couple interviews to show for it. Unsure what I'm doing wrong 😔

#phdlife #phdadvice #science #jobhunt #academia

Local bush walk today and stumbled onto some male native bees, Lipotriches australica, aka. green and gold nomia.

#entomology #nativebees #bees #australianbees

My garden is being visited by the aptly named, Amegilla bombiformis, aka teddy bear bee. On the left is a female and on the right, a male.

#macrophotography #entomology #insects #australianbees #nativebees

I'm never going to be okay with the idea that I'm supposed to sit politely while people talk about using ChatGPT to do their research! I actually do this science stuff because I enjoy it, and I think if you hate writing your own papers or parsing your own data THAT much you should do something else!

Should Australia establish an independent body to investigate scientific misconduct? We asked 5 experts Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.

Should Australia establish an independent body to investigate scientific misconduct? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/should-austr...

Why does my desk turn into a mess every time I do some insect pinning! 😭

Maybe police and security services should have spent less time harassing peace protesters and more time looking into IS-affiliated guys with multiple weapons who went to the Philippines for terrorist training…?

Gaza’s Government Media Office reports Israel has broken terms of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire at least 738 times since it took effect on October 10, killing at least 386 Palestinians, while severely restricting shipments of food, shelter, medicine, fuel and other basic goods into Gaza.

This male Lipotriches australica was bubbling! A process in which the bee will bubble nectar in order to evaporate the water and condense the nectar!

#macrophotography #entomology #nativebees #australianbees #insects

NSW police are doing what they do best, using a tragedy as an excuse to over police and arrest minorities.

It's wonderful that antisemitism is finally universally condemned. But you didn't have to make virulent Islamophobia acceptable instead

Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral “I don’t hate trans people, but…” often precedes exclusion. This article explains how soft bigotry works and why words matter.

Why “I Don’t Hate Trans People, But…” Is Never Neutral

www.transvitae.com/w...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

The attack at Bondi is directly linked to the fact the government won't lift a finger to stop racists neo-nazis terrorising Sydney as they please.

Heartbroken at the events in Bondi overnight. But also furious at the Israeli PM’s comments, essentially blaming the Australian government for the attack. At a time of sadness, he demonstrates yet again that there’s no tragedy he won’t twist for political gain. Disgusting.

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia Hero suffers two gunshot wounds in Bondi beach shooting | 7NEWS

Devestating to wake up to the news of the death toll reaching 16 people at the #Bondi shootings yesterday. Just awful.

7News is reporting that the hero who tackled the gunman is Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43-year-old Lebanese immigrant, father and fruit grocer from the suburb of Sutherland.

Probably just a coincidence that the list of Australia's new fossil fuel projects will come out on the Friday before Xmas.

#takingoutthetrash #Auspol #climate #transparency

A review paper I did during COVID finally got accepted! A nice early Christmas surprise.

Another chapter from my PhD thesis submitted for review! This research was really exciting, fingers crossed for a smooth review process.

We just added a new article! - QNews - NSW man convicted of transgender hate speech
trans.au/news/qnews-n...

F'ing this! 👇