Pauline Grierson

Where does all that rain end up? Here, and Lake Eyre watchers are excited In the centre of Australia, there are whispers that Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is experiencing conditions strangely similar to those that set a record depth of 6 metres in 1974.

"Many native grasses with roots metres deep only grow after significant floods, and wildlife such as birds and fish rely on floods to breed."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"'You may not like Iran, you may not like what it does, but that doesn’t justify an aggressive armed attack on Iran.'"

"[University of Sydney professor and United Nations special rapporteur Ben] Saul said countries like Australia and Canada should be pushing the US to respect international law."

He noticed a wild frog living in his fence post, so he built a 3D-printed home for the frogs to live and hide. [📹unknowndazza]

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#TBRuary: A Collaborative Reading List Building Challenge Hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Day 28: A book that's an old favorite due for a reread

#TBRuary Day 28: Old Favorite

We've made it to the end! Thank you so much to everyone who participated. Today, just tell us about one of your favorite books that you're looking forward to rereading this year and why you enjoy revisiting it.

Quote post your replies.

#booksky
#writesky

Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’ Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East

Prime Minister Albanese does not speak for the Australian people

Polling shows majority of Australians do not support US wars of aggression.

“Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran & stands with the Iranian people’s struggle against oppression.”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Journalist: So will there be any repatriation event? Foreign Minister: Well, at this stage, the airspace is closed. Journalist: But you're expecting information-- Foreign Minister: Well, you would have seen C we've been in this situation a number of times. We have always worked to do what we can to support Australians. We will always do that. At this situation, the airspace is closed.

an abc news article hardline which reads Albanese says Australian government will not help ISIS-linked families leave Syria or return home

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insists the federal government will not repatriate Australian families with links to Islamic State (IS) fighters, arguing that "if you make your bed, you lie in it". A group of 34 Australians, including 11 women and 23 children, left the Al-Roj camp in north-eastern Syria yesterday with the intention of travelling to Australia via Damascus.

so today @senatorwong.bsky.social said “we have always worked to do what we can to support australians” and yet just last week @albomp.bsky.social said about the 34 women and children in syria “if you make your bed, you lie in it”

so which is it penny? just lying straight to our faces??

WA fish under threat as seismic blasting slips through the net The Western Australian government’s move to protect vulnerable species from fishing is undermined by its failure to prevent seismic blasting to explore the region’s gas reserves.

On January 1, Western Australia introduced strict fishing bans to protect some of the state’s most endangered fish populations. The same consideration was not applied when, months earlier, the state approved seismic blasting to search for gas reserves. satpa.pe/dKX4Hpb

Australia backs strikes on Iran - but do Australians? By Peter Brown When the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran, the immediate international reaction ranged from firm endorsement to urgent calls for restraint. In Canberra, the...

No we fukking don’t.

theaimn.net/australia-ba...

Just despicable 🤬 Labor has completely lost the plot 🤦‍♀️

#FuckAlbo #auspol

Photograph showing current fire conditions.

#BlueBellFire in #Boulder, CO (near Chautauqua Park) currently burning amid extremely dry and near record-warm conditions (69F and 7% RH). Lack of strong winds right now thankfully a major mitigating factor. So far, mostly sfc fire plus occasional torching in confers. #COwx

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome - Nature Reviews Microbiology Soil contains a vast diversity of microorganisms that can directly or indirectly modulate soil processes and terrestrial ecosystems. In this Review, Fierer summarizes the challenges in characterizing ...

This is one of the most clear‑headed soil microbiome papers I’ve read. No hype, just solid science. You might be shocked by how much we still don’t know about soils.
By @noahfierer.bsky.social
Unfortunately, not open access. www.nature.com/articles/nrm...

Developing evidence briefs for landscape fire management 🔥

Researchers and practitioners need clear guidance on how briefs must be developed to address a broad spectrum of issues 📖 🌲

🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

is this freedom @albomp.bsky.social??

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Of course he has, he's got no spine and is incapable of seeing where this is all headed. I genuinely fear for our future.

my first thought would be something to do with light flecks but all out if ideas after that!

@loraxcate.bsky.social - any insights?

do they still have that lovely wooden smell? They were akways called rods in NW Victoria.

A flyer describing the next four talks in the Palaeoverse Lecture Series, which take place on the last Thursday of every month at 3pm UTC. February 26th: Dr Natalie Cooper, Natural History Museum, London Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them March 26th: Dr Brooke Long-Fox, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Building open, reproducible palaeontology: a practical introduction to FAIR data and MorphoBank April 30th: Dr Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, University of Birmingham Cleaning taxonomy, time, and their messy interactions with the fossilbrush R package May 28th: Dr Alexandra Howard, Texas A&M University Using palaeontological, neontological, and spatial data to understand evolution through time and space

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨

We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳

We are looking forward to hearing from @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social, Joseph Flannery-Sutherland and @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social!

Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Another very distinguished Australian. Vale

so tiny!

28th February 2026

The art of the hydrangea. End of summer.

Sensei Louie, a brown and tan kelpie

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

The government claimed it was monitoring dodgy job service providers using an app. It doesn't exist 'What this exposes is just how little the department is prepared to do, even after two bootings from the Ombudsman.'

I'm at it again: great ontological debate about welfare 'compliance' app govt told Ombudsman it built to monitor dodgy job service providers but which doesn't exist. No documents point to it. Instead they use 'existing processes'. And haven't they been so effective. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/r...

Never forget

So Anthropic, not known for its ethical boundaries, said no to automated killing and secret military mass surveillance, which was too much for Trump. Can we agree now that the US is not sharing our values and we should decouple from the mass surveillance automated killing team?

Indigenous Australians sue Western Australia for $1.5B over asbestos contamination, mesothelioma deaths – Intercontinental Cry Traditional owners from the Pilbara region of Western Australia filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit this week against the Western Australian government, aiming to forc

Indigenous people from the Pilbara region of Western Australia are suing for $1.5B over asbestos contamination and mesothelioma deaths.
icmagazine.org/indigenous-a...

Happy Mardi Gras from Australia’s Eucalypts! They come in every colour of the rainbow and are the original supporters of diversity with over 800 species.

Have fun tonight if you’re celebrating! 🌈 x

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...