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Dr Laura Blamey

@laurablamey.bsky.social

Heart•Soul•Mind•Strength Marine Scientist working in ecology, fisheries and climate change. Invertebrates are cool. Occasionally post about cricket.

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Good news, beach lovers: our research found 39% less plastic waste around Australian coastal cities than a decade ago A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more places with no rubbish at all.

A write up of a paper just out from my colleagues at CSIRO led by Steph Brodie and Denise Hardesty showing declines in plastic on Australian beaches compared to a decade before. 👏👏👏

theconversation.com/good-news-be...

04.04.2025 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stay safe Brisbane - rare event for my home town! 🙏🏽

05.03.2025 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org:

We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*.

Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past.

[New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

03.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 424    🔁 176    💬 9    📌 9
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Oh yessss!!!
#FridayFeeling #tgif

14.02.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Summer Saturdays in Brisbane are back 💗
#cricketmum #bestgame

07.02.2025 22:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heatwaves across the country set to ease as elusive monsoon rolls in The long-awaited monsoon looks to officially kick in this weekend over northern Australia, helping to break up severe heatwave conditions plaguing much of the country. But the forecast rain is bad new...

Looks like the #monsoon will finally arrive for northern #Australia this weekend - the longest delay on record. It usually arrives at Darwin end of December. As #climatechange ramps up we’re like to see increased variability (or #crazyweather) and more “records” set…
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

07.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😢 and no doubt we’re in for another warm one!

04.02.2025 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New to #BlueSky & haven’t spent much time here yet, but why am I seeing so many #catsofbluesky photos & #space photos? Literally the most #cat posts I’ve ever seen. Did I click smthing by accident? Space I don’t mind…but how to change to #dogs 😂 Pic of my boy Darwin for some #dogsofbluesky balance 😜

23.01.2025 07:24 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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