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Thanks Euan, looking forward to listening after work. I'm sure you did amazing! And am right there with you hoping I did her justice too, while never having written an obituary before 🙈

Absolutely. Forever grateful for all the ways she's inspired so many of us 💚

World-Renowned Primatologist Jane Goodall Passes Away at 91 Jane Goodall, one of the world's most beloved primatologists and conservationists, passed away from natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour.

Jane Goodall showed the world there is an important place for emotion, empathy & advocacy in science. Her unconventional approach revolutionized our understanding of the other beings we share Earth with.

Here's my tribute. Vale Jane Goodall 💔 Thank you for all you gave humanity!

🧪🌏 #NatureWriting

These 4 Factors Can Explain Why So Many People Are Rejecting Science Distrust of science is a massive problem.

Yep, that's spot on. It's not a lack of access to information, it's tribal loyalty, which has become even more of a factor the more polarized our societies have become.

Especially challenging when researchers are on the other side of the world so you're not even in the same time zone to ask them for it 😂😅

I loved it and was shattered they didn't continue it!

Graphite illustration of looking up an eroded sandstone rock face with some vegetation on it

Got the proper scan of the graphite drawing of the Gariwerd/Grampians sandstone outcrop :)

#landscape #graphite #grampians #gariwerd #geology

Gorgeous work! 😍 Really enjoy seeing a familiar landscape represented so beautifully 😊

When politicians at all levels of Govt refuse to address the needs of their constituents - housing, health, education, economic concerns - it leads to people being vulnerable to those who will exploit them for their own interests & agendas

That's we we're seeing today #auspol

Thick, pale pink trunks textured with short, darker pink wriggly lines, branching into fractals towards the middle of the image, leafed with spiky white polyps at their tips.

Woah!! What an utterly incredible perspective of coral 😍 🧪🦑🌿

Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips.

Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉

📷 Ross Gudgeon

The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal

Carbon bootprints: How war is fuelling climate catastrophe The military-industrial complex’s vast carbon footprint is deliberately hidden from public view, while we get gaslit into using paper straws.

Carbon bootprints: How war is fuelling climate catastrophe https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08/carbon-bootprints-how-war-is-fuelling-climate-catastrophe #Auspol

Ha! My honors paper is on here. I don't believe authors hold copyright to academic journal articles though, unfortunately. Anyone with other publications here definitely has a case against this predatory company though!

Lovely tribute 😊 I only just finally watched the last season. As soon as I realized their plan for the farm I bawled 🤣 So good!!

Three black cockatoos with bright yellow cheek patches drinking from a puddle in an almost empty concrete casting pool.

There's a massive flock here in Abbotsford atm, along the river, like 50 or more. Way larger than I've seen in previous years.

Anera provide medical care in Gaza, and food through local community kitchens, when they can get supplies. They are treating the people Isreal is starving to death.

support.anera.org/a/palestine-...

Interview below provides insight into the current situation from a local aid worker.

"With... nutrient supplements no longer available as the siege grinds into a third month, our health and nutrition staff... sought an alternative with ingredients still at hand – and hit upon utilizing date paste to make an alternative form of nutritional support"

www.anera.org/blog/gaza-an...

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This group has incredible staff on the ground who were very resourceful and innovative when supplies were cut off.

Has anyone tried opening the Overton window to let some fresh air in?

And I’ll die on this fucking hill.

If you believe people have to pay for what you consider a “human right” then you do not believe it is indeed a human right. You believe it’s a privilege for those who can afford it.

COVID-19 and Immune Dysregulation, a Summary and Resource - WHN COVID-19 causes turnover and aging of the immune cells responsible for responding to other pathogens, weakening your immune system.

That's a myth. COVID, however, is known to cause ongoing damage to our immune cells.

whn.global/covid-19-and...

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

You're most definitely a very effective science communicator who happens to use illustrations, so I think that for sure counts as a modern science illustrator. You've totes got this!!! 🙂

My heart is hurting for Uncle Paul, Uncle Pabai and the communities in the Torres Strait #AustralianClimateCase #auspol

Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review Synthesis Report - Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review

Find it helps a li'l knowing many are fake. 1000s of fake accounts can swarm at posts using key words like vaccines/climate. They're there to make it feel like we're in the minority, muddy the information and unfortunately it's effective, but many are not genuine pple

www.ipie.info/research/sr2...

If I can sum up what just happened as neatly as possible: a Federal Court judge found the Australian government had ignored climate science when setting emissions targets, appeared to want to find for the applicants, but said his hands were tied by the law of negligence in Australia.

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Ok, that makes more sense, its just my fact obsessed brain having trouble accepting that facts aren't enough as usual 🤣 Thanks heaps for explaining! 🙂

Ahh... ok, this is why so much of it sounded contradictory. So the ruling was essentially more about this level of our court system not having the power to set such precedents rather than if its the govs responsibility or not?

Not well versed in law, but so much of the ruling seemed extremely contradictory. Like gov ignored the best available science yet decision were science based. The acknowledgment that we do have an impact on climate collectively yet those making the collective decisions are not responsible. UGH.

So much same! Not sure what age my head thinks I am but it's definitely not the age I actually am 😅