Darcy

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS.

WE EAT THEM.

The USA just never really got over puritanism huh?!

If I had a penny for every time someone from the US mistook their personal experiences for representing that of the entire globe ..... I'd be the richest person in all of history

Honestly most of the social internet's problems would be fixed if we just deleted/banned all the yanks

Man charged with publicly inciting hatred at March for Australia rally A 31-year-old has been arrested and charged by police for allegedly using hate speech "aligned with Neo-Nazi ideology" at an open mic session at the anti-immigration rally.

Unbelievable that organisers of these xenophobic meetups are actively welcoming in and defending the views of neo-nazis. #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Index Australians travelling to the USA and Canada - showing while travel to the US is falling it is rising to Canada

Australians are deciding USA is not a place to visit… oddly they still are going to Canada. Almost like there is something specific about the US..
#ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

More people from BlueSky have now watched this episode than YouTube has shown to people through their algorithm.

Thank you everyone.

YouTube video by Rare Earth How Lebanon Died: History of Lebanon (Final Episode)

youtu.be/6WDdFneJ8M4?...

I've never had a video throttled even a hundredth this badly before.

Talk about Israel on YouTube, lose your channel for the privilege. Unfortunate.

Mel C is good but honestly not great for the final singer. And maybe I'm just watching with a delay but did she go 2 mins overtime? Either way Happy New Year! #ABCNYE

I can't stress enough how legal it should be to throw people listening to music without headphones off the train while it is in motion.

"I will have it, but you can't" is the standard response of every nuclear power since the US first got the bomb in WW2

NSW police restricts public assemblies in Sydney for 14 days under laws passed after Bondi terror attack Premier Chris Minns defends laws, which have been condemned as draconian and infringing on the right to assembly by civil liberties groups

Chris Minns' draconian new laws already being put into action 🙃🤐 #auspol #nswpol

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

2025 Nerdfighteria Census! Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

2025 NERDFIGHTERIA CENSUS!!

www.surveymonkey.com/r/868BGP2

3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.

There will be a lot more records like this to come.

Sydney Water sewage crisis now out of control. #auspol

Urban tree canopy cover over 30 % and native trees enhance bird insectivory and tree biosecurity Urban trees support biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services but are increasingly threatened by native and non-native insect pests. Biosec…

Basile et al. Urban tree canopy cover over 30 % and native trees enhance bird insectivory and tree biosecurity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Friends: Want to do something profoundly good for your health & the planet? Eat less (or no) meat.

Journalists: How about you? Report on the profound harms of commercial meat production on planetary health.

@coveringclimatenow.org
@mason4c.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social

Not All Birds of the Same Feather: A Systematic Review of Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Horticulture We performed a systematic review on the provision of ecosystem services and disservices by avian species in horticultural systems. We account for epistemological biases, as well as gaps in knowledge ...

Ferrari et al. Not All Birds of the Same Feather: A Systematic Review of Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Horticulture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology

Omg we were on the same train as him after the game, he was fully painted yellow with blue lipstick!

Finally got to go see a #collingwood #aflw game! My new favourite player is Sabrina Frederick ❤️ #gopies

🦜✨ The Aussie Bird Count is back 20–26 Oct!

Spend just 20 mins counting birds in your backyard, balcony, schoolyard, workplace or local park.

Last year 57k people counted 4.1M birds – let’s make 2025 bigger! 🐦

Register now! 👉 aussiebirdcount.org.au

#AussieBirdCount #BirdLifeOz

Stellar win by Collingwood, looking like a different team compared to a few weeks ago! Bring on the prelim! #gopies

556

*cracks knuckles*

okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?

now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

YouTube video by Veritasium Exposing the Monsanto Conspiracy

Exposing the Monsanto Conspiracy

Our latest video, out now on YouTube
youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ

Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.

"Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than are reviewers who are not cited, according to an analysis of 18,400 articles from four open-access publications." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenScience #PeerReview

Clip from Map Men with an Australian flag and a corkscrew hat

Good afternoon Australia! 🇦🇺

Did you know there an Australian-specific link to buy an Australian version of the MAP MEN BOOK? 🗺️ 📖

www.qbd.com.au/map-men-the-...

.. FYI actuals still a long way off projections/expectations

Thank god the Pies won that game. Brilliant games to Pendlebury, Schultz and Quaynor! #gopies