Bronwen Scott

If you want to compare, here's Syzygium gustavioides (misspelled as gustavoides, because I should have checked before posting).

bsky.app/profile/snai...

Deep pink new leaves among otherwise ordinary-looking light green leaves on a small plant, that is yet to grow into a big rainforest tree. The young leaves are long and narrow, whereas the older leaves are more oval shaped. The new foliage is very shiny.

Look at the beautiful new growth of Boonjee Satinash (Syzygium boonjee) from the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland. Even better than that of Syzygium gustavioides, I think. (But I don't want to play favourites.)

S. boonjee has golden flowers. See: apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/t...

How many spiders and pseudoscorpions does it take to make one of the world’s greatest taxonomists? Former Perth curator Mark Harvey is one of the few people on Earth to have described 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids. Colleagues say his legacy is ‘unquantifiable’

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I haven't had one for years! What a treat.

Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach Arms from the rarely-seen species were discovered at an Aberdeenshire national nature reserve.

One of the least-appreciated giant cephalopods, Haliphron atlanticus, is in the news! (thx @scsmith4.bsky.social for the heads up)
Unfortunately the common name seven-arm octopus
- only describes males
- actually doesn't even describe males
Can we think of a better one??
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Start small, start now: Akaleha’—our forests’ living gems When you grow up in Micronesia, you can sometimes feel a bit small and overlooked compared to the rest of the world. After all, “Micro,” meaning “small,” is literally in

Lovely piece from @anngawel.bsky.social on akaleha' tree snails in Guam & the CNMI. Dr. Gawel visited Rota to hear from elders on how they collected & used akaleha'. And she helped me map living akaleha' & showed me an akaleha' site I didn't know! #JoyOfMolluscs
www.guampdn.com/lifestyle/st...

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina.

One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social

The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st

Please share among potential students!

I will never not laugh at Jock's gamut of expressions. (Or variation of the one expression.)

This brood of blue-winged parrots are all snuggled up at the bottom of a hollow fence post -simply adorable 😍😍😍

I had the joy of getting to meet some baby blue-winged parrots today 💚💙

Heart Mountain (Wyoming) - Wikipedia

Good heavens. This is something:

"The consensus favors catastrophic sliding and calculations suggest that the front of the sliding mass may have advanced at a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)..."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_M...

This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time.

The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.

Fantastic!

No, I hadn't. Thanks!

I hadn't heard of Blue Mockingbird, so looked it up. What a bird!

To go back to the first version...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Shoebill + bonus African Lungfish
Diademed Sandpiper-plover
Notozomus bronwenae
King Bird of Paradise
Green Tree Python

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in [the wild] your backyard:

Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo
Green Ringtail Possum
Tooth-billed Bowerbird
an onychophoran, sp 🤷‍♀️
Ulysses butterfly

(not my current backyard, which is mostly Buff-banded Rail, Dusky Honeyeater & Spectacled Flying Fox)

Martu rangers capture rare night parrot in WA's Pilbara region. Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

This is so good. Look at that parrot hop! I had no idea that’s how they got around! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

This is the correct response.

Also congrats!

It's always exciting to do the final #coverreveal of a new #book, but this one is a real corker. I think it really captures the essence of the book, and #echidnas. With many thanks to WA #wildlife artist #CatherineScartaccini for permission to use her beautiful #drawing.#wildlifeart #naturewriting

Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.

Evans Above, the plane retailer.

I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now

Canberras superb parrots are SO cute 💚💚💚

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

We were in Chile to look at birds, but I'd like to go back to focus on the ground--insects, arachnids, plants, lizards... All amazing!

It was absolutely magnificent!

Gloriously iridescent ground beetle scurrying across the dirt. The beetle is predominantly a shimmering emerald green (imagine the shimmer because this is a still photo) with beautiful burgundy along the edge of the wing cases. A+ beetle. Wish I'd had the proper camera instead of a phone.

There was also this smaller but very handsome critter, which was not interested in the phone or my fingers and just wanted to go about its day.

Very solid beetle crawling across a ring-bound notebook towards the camera. The main feature are the robust jaws. The eyes are enormous and behind them, the prothorax has two indentations and a dramatic flare on either side. Photo taken in southern Chile by me.

I think I must have bigged it up in my memory, but it was quite hefty! Not the best pic but it was quite intrigued by the phone and/or my fingers, so it was all a bit hurried.

Earrings cast from real insects, each backing board also serving as a det label

They’re EARRINGS and they’re for your EARS

Now joined by Carrona Jewelry, cast in silver from real (and mostly Chilean) insects