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The Instagram account Saint featured me. The first slide says: "Derek Guy - Dieworkwear. Derek Guy is a menswear writer who has written for The New York Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. He also runs a menswear blog called Die, Workwear"

One of the slides showing my favorite products. It's it's a big bag of Hagen pigeon food. The food is fortified with the vitamins and nutrients pigeons need.

Instagram user writes: "Why tf do i need pigeon food for my outfit." I replied: "this is what i can afford to eat after spending all my money on clothes ::sad face::"

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

Hard agree with Doctor Dave--this is one of Australia's best birds. It's worth your time to try find them, especially the blingy males.

There are a few places (in the drier areas) where bee-keepers take their hives and the birds line up along the fence. Probably can't believe their luck!

What a gorgeous photo of a gorgeous bird! I see them now and then in the garden, perched on the fence, watching for insects.

Rainbow Bee-eater at Cullyamurra Waterhole near Innamincka (from the archives) #birds #WildOz

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6343096

The Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa) is an anostostomatid from New Zealand. It's one of the largest insects in the world! Major threats to this cutie include land clearing and predation by rats. It's listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: d_kluza (iNaturalist)

Geelong!

Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

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Nobody hates trees more than coastally adjacent narcissists. Here’s how we should deal with them | First Dog on the Moon A deterrent is one thing but I want revenge! * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

Nobody hates trees more than coastally adjacent narcissists. Here’s how we should deal with them | First Dog on the Moon

A list of the birds that didn't make the cut in the previous two rounds of voting for the Guardian's Australian Bird of the Year 2025. There are 10 species, all illustrated with a small and now forlorn image. The species names and pics are surrounded by a chestnut brown box, which is almost but not quite like a funeral notice. In order, the birds are: Australasian Bittern Australian Fairy Tern Budgerigar (honestly, who doesn't vote for the budgie?) Channel-billed Cuckoo Cockatiel (who are these people who don't vote for Cockatiels?) Emu (still smarting from losing the Emu War, eh?) Olive-backed (should be Sahul) Sunbird Weebill (Australia's smallest bird and full of attitude) Welcome Swallow (somehow now unwelcome) White-winged Chough (mad lads)

Look at the birds that have been pushed out contention for the Australian Bird of the Year! Every one is magnificent. Every one was worth voting for. (Also I think the sunbird has already been split and ours is Sahul Sunbird.)

Anyway, vote for the others here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One hundred years of Australian flower data reveals pollination drop Researchers behind a new study examining thousands of flower specimens collected over the past century say temperature increases could be behind a pollination decline in native orchids.

Australian orchids suffer rapid pollination decline since the 1970s, study suggests

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

This paper is now in press at Oikos, and I can submit an image for the journal cover. I have various crappy photos of mistletoe munching tyrannoids; if you have a great shot you can donate to the cause, I’ll shout you a quality beverage at the very next opportunity
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

I'm not telling you how to vote in the Australian Bird of the Year poll.

But Red Goshawk are absolutely magnificent and they're under threat.

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

It's time to vote for Australia's Bird of the Year. This is the first round. There are some great birds in this list but sadly not the Pheasant Coucal.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Not a wasp expert at all, but it's one of the ichneumon wasps. (Narrows it down to a ridiculously large number of almost identical species!) They're parasitoids of other insects.

I'll now stand out of the way to let through people with more specific knowledge.

A picture of a small sundew with carnivorous leaves at the base and an orange flower at the top of a short stem. This plant is growing on a lush bed of moss and is covered in early morning dew drops

Endemic to southern parts of Australia, the carnivorous Pimpernel Sundew (Drosera glanduligera) with its lovely orange flower. This one was growing on a lush bed of moss and was covered in early morning dew drops

#ozflora #wildoz #fierceflora #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

Supernovas, satellites and solar sprites: 2025 David Malin astrophotography awards – in pictures Amateur astronomers and photographers from around Australia were invited to submit their out of this world photos for Central West Astronomical Society’s annual astrophotography competition, the David...

These are a treat.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Birds and cities don’t always mix well. But small changes in our behaviour can make a difference Spring is a great time of year for noticing neighbourhood birds. Here are some simple ideas for helping the birds in Australian back yards, cities and towns

Are you looking to attract native birds to your garden this spring? 🦜 🏡 Here's some top tips from @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social and yours truly!

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

#BirdsInBackyards #UrbanNature #WildlifeGardening #CitizenScience

At least the lemon tree insights would be pithy.

So easy to overlook!

They have such a beautiful call.

You must have the sound up for this!

Chance sighting reveals new species of fluffy beetle A researcher from The University of Queensland has discovered a remarkable new genus of fluffy longhorn beetle while camping within rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland.

More about the discovery of the beetle here: stories.uq.edu.au/news/2024/ch...

My vote also goes to the Bird-dropping Beetle (Excastra albopilosa), a species I hadn't hear of until a minute ago and which I am now obsessed with. Although it looks less like bird poo to me than an insect that has fallen prey to one of those weird zombifying fungi.

🌸 Spring has arrived in Australia, meaning native bees are buzzing around searching for food, mates and suitable nesting sites.

Now is the perfect time to provide habitat for our pollinating friends by building a bee hotel 🐝🧪

biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/bu...

Oh, Andrew, I'm so sorry.

New from me 👇

The pheasant coucal and me: two uncoordinated peas in an uncool pod.