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Chris Friesen

@cpictus.bsky.social

Lecturer in the SSCI at UOW. BEEP Lab (Behaviour, Evolutionary Ecology & Physiology). Student of Philosophy and Zoology. @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social ‬; opinions my own.

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🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

@kristoffer-wild.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher at the Biophysical Ecology lab at the University of Melbourne, interested in how animals function across variable environments. Outside of his work, he enjoys travelling, photography, and kayaking πŸš£πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

03.03.2026 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

@ondicrino.bsky.social is a senior lecturer in animal behaviour at Flinders, where her work centres around how developmental conditions shape endocrine responses that affect behaviour and physiology across life history 🐦🦎

02.03.2026 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠

@damienesquerre.bsky.social is a lecturer and researcher in Biological Sciences from the University of Wollongong, focusing on evolutionary processes, specifically in reptiles and amphibians. In his spare time, he is an avid wildlife photographer πŸ“·

02.03.2026 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep.

27.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like Russia, Hungary, Turkey: consolidate media via loyal oligarchs, change the rules, squeeze critics. If U.S. billionaires start lining up the same way, that’s not a coincidence β€” it’s a pattern.

27.02.2026 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author ofLaskowski et a…

Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!

Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

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Mr. Rogers' Resistance A politics of neighborliness

In my personal newsletter: A resistance Mister Rogers would be proud of.

amandalitman.substack.com/p/mister-rog...

30.01.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...

There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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THIS and then start reading Quinn Slobodion (www.quinnslobodian.com)

26.01.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Murder; political assassination.

25.01.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

11.01.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10840    πŸ” 3543    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 98

If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.

14.12.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2837    πŸ” 834    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 35
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Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

14.12.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

11.12.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4738    πŸ” 711    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 89
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We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians

β€œWhen they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of β€˜me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”

09.12.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europeβ€”while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

29.11.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1498    πŸ” 714    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 87

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

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Don’t Call This a β€˜Peace Plan’ If the U.S.-Russia plan for Ukraine goes forward, Donald Trump will be remembered as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.

This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.

25.11.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 433    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism

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Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was β€˜most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

Disturbing. Incidentally @rutgerbregman.com has written some interesting books that you might want to read.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

20.11.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2179    πŸ” 863    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 38

β€œDespite the Labor government noting last year that research and development has had "a decade of going backwards", successive governments have failed to fix the problem.

The future of Australia's science industry looks grim”

But submarines πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

19.11.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing says I’m objective like β€œAlways know a chart is legit if Mahomes is in the upper right”.

18.11.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Who can we really afford β€” the rich or everyone else?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Who can we really afford β€” the rich or everyone else?

youtu.be/SzTi95kUBKo?...

14.11.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

31.10.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9317    πŸ” 3359    πŸ’¬ 376    πŸ“Œ 166

Thank you for this opportunity and I'm excited to learn and actively contribute to science communication as a writing fellow at @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

Congrats to the other fellows @haorancai.bsky.social and Shady Kuster, looking forward to working together!

30.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump claims β€˜wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the… The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧡

23.10.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 379    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 11
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Trump’s terror memo (audio) It is about regime change

On Trump’s terror memo and regime change. Basic points on the rule of law, phantom conspiracies, big lies, and civic action.
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snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...

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Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and OrbΓ‘n proceeded β€” using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

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