Peter Gray

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

25.01.2025 11:55 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Corporate lobbyists can cheaply access politicians in private, while peaceful public protestors face harsh penalties.

Really shows whose voices our governments think should be heard 🤔

@jack-thrower.bsky.social #auspol

24.01.2025 05:52 — 👍 190    🔁 74    💬 7    📌 3

The destruction of the health system in northern Gaza will be total if Israel forces the closure of the Indonesian Hospital and al-Awda Hospital, say Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI).

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04.01.2025 14:08 — 👍 382    🔁 212    💬 21    📌 12

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Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, says the fact Australia gives away its natural resources is "mind-boggling".

"If you made them pay for the value of the resources and their fair share of taxes, you wouldn't have the problems that you have today." #auspol

02.01.2025 07:52 — 👍 244    🔁 110    💬 12    📌 2

OL Peter Dutton has vilified refugees & asylum-seekers, rape victims in offshore detention, Lebanese people, Muslims, Africans, and joked about the impacts of climate change on Pacific island nations. Now he wants to speak out against #racism?! #auspol

09.12.2024 02:30 — 👍 383    🔁 131    💬 27    📌 11

Libraries matter more than ever now! They embody a beautiful & brilliant idea that we must never stop defending. The idea that knowledge is free & belongs to EVERYONE. We all need to support our libraries & librarians - especially when people seek to ban books & free thinking. #libraries #books

04.12.2024 22:10 — 👍 2859    🔁 547    💬 53    📌 23

Charts showing Australian, USA and Canadian inflation before and after the peaks by months. Australia's inflation is lower 22 months after the peak than it was in the US and Canada

Latest monthly CPI of 2.1% shows that Australia's inflation has come down faster than in the US and Canada - thanks to the govt bringing in measures like the electricity rebate.

It is a very good reminder that leaving inflation to central banks only to fix is idiotic

27.11.2024 01:06 — 👍 654    🔁 213    💬 27    📌 11

It’s kinda rare to find drawings on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. This one shows a drawing of coils — maybe intestines — on one side and cuneiform signs on the other.

Assyrian and Babylonian diviners had to “read” sheep intestines for signs of events to come www.penn.museum/collections/...

21.11.2024 10:46 — 👍 88    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Climate Change:

It's real.

It's us.

It's serious - and already dangerous.

But there are solutions.

The science is clear: the faster we cut emissions, the less suffering we will cause, and the better off we'll all be.

19.11.2024 02:36 — 👍 1883    🔁 477    💬 63    📌 29

apparently my name was used in vain on Q+A last night.

for the umpteenth time, i’m not a clive palmer level political donor.

here’s a representation of political funding over the last political cycle.

i’m the little purple square. significant, yes. major? no.

18.11.2024 19:30 — 👍 1979    🔁 599    💬 142    📌 32

There was a time I couldn’t have imagined putting Twitter/X in the same part of my memory where I discarded AltaVista, floppy disks and smoking inside a hospital. Yet here we are.

18.11.2024 22:57 — 👍 483    🔁 46    💬 22    📌 3

I’m happy to find so many of my friends here. Glad I made the switch. Thanks for the follows and follow backs!

15.11.2024 06:07 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0