Fiona McMillan-Webster

The future's green for turtles.

Once on the brink of extinction, green sea turtles are making a comeback in the Pacific: nest counts on Australia’s Heron Island have risen tenfold since the 1970s, and populations across the Pacific now meet IUCN recovery thresholds.

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A photo I took of a freshly washed bee, who is feeling particularly proud of his fur

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

Storm strewn jacaranda petals everywhere on our street… looks quite pretty

Noooooo!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book. Hoping to pick up a copy this weekend. Any chance your book tour will eventually come to Australia? (though I do appreciate you both have a lot on your plate right now)

“science is bad for tyrants, and always has been”

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

For people obsessed with declaring English the national language, they don’t seem too fond of it

Apparently, they have also banned the word ‘green’

Footpath emoji

Image credits: Alena Gerlek, Kirrily Blaylock and Carly Steen

Image credits: Alena Gerlek, Kirrily Blaylock and Carly Steen

Image credits: Alena Gerlek, Kirrily Blaylock and Carly Steen

🏆 A huge milestone!
The TERN team surveyed our 1000th field plot—a huge achievement in our mission to support ecosystem science across Australia.This occured in WA during a GEO-TREES field campaign, which provides high-accuracy ground data for satellite-derived biomass mapping.

🤣 the Nogrady Tantal Index !

Work in progress… pretty sure moss grows faster than I paint but I’m ok with that

When and where can I see Monday's total lunar eclipse from Australia? A total lunar eclipse, also known as a "blood moon", will be visible across all of Australia next week. Here's what you need to know to get the best view and snap the best photo.

Lunar eclipse fans, there's a total lunar eclipse this weekend! All of Australia (and a bunch of other countries) will be able to see all the best bits. The eclipse will be in the evening of Sunday the 7th or the morning of Monday the 8th of September 🧪🔭🌝
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Old door in wall portal

Lime kiln portal

Glassless barn window portal

Fallen tree portal

There are interdimensional portals all over the British countryside. You just have to look.

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

180 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel in Gaza. @withmeaa.bsky.social members remember them. Stop killing journalists.

Love this line: ‘…. a reminder that advances in science don’t banish credulity, but create new stages for it.’

Need a button for ‘well this is horrifying but also important to know’

Definitely intriguing! A google search (because I’m supposed to be doing other things but this was way more interesting) didn’t provide many answers but I did find out that Houdini himself enjoyed debunking ghostly photos. Check out this old poster which is kind of wonderful

Would love to see the photo as well. I am leaning more towards the suggestion that there was someone in the car, now forgotten. And the accident in developing the film wasn’t a double exposure but rather insufficient development in that spot. Or perhaps she simply moved mid-shot?

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1,300-year-old skeletons found in England had grandparents from sub-Saharan Africa, DNA studies reveal A DNA analysis of two people who lived in Britain in the seventh century reveals they had recent African ancestry.

Two new studies in @antiquity.ac.uk show that people with mixed ancestry lived in early medieval south England. 🏺🧪

Good morning lovely people
#nature #wetlands #keepgoing

Those paintings are stunning!

Does a local celebrity count? If so it’s a wombat named Pancake
I think she would be excellent

Persistent mysteries of the universe:
1) what did the Big Bang expand into?
2) where the he’ll did I just put my coffee?

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.


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Geology folks, what’s going on here? I took these photos recently in Port Hacking (coastline south of Sydney, Australia). Mostly sandstone and is that shale wedged between layers? What story does this tell? #geologysky