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Megan Evans

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environmental policy, governance, finance β€’ Senior Lecturer UNSW Canberra, Australia 🦘 β€’ she/her β€’ likes dogs β€’ often grumpy, mostly about climate change, biodiversity loss and injustice πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/megan-evans

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Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi.

Add your name:

jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

22.12.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 532    πŸ” 309    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 20

Giving Jillian Segal even more influence over Australian policy when she still hasn't denounced far-right group "Advance" (which she bankrolls) is extremely poor governing.

Australia deserves far better.

19.12.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 375    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 8
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NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack Chris Minns says state β€˜can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide

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

19.12.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1117    πŸ” 426    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 47
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Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot Breathe, slowly. It helps.Β  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

19.12.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 913    πŸ” 373    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 62
If you earned more than $156,000 you earned more than 90% of Australians, and if you earned $176,930 you earned more than 90% of Australians working full-time:

[Graph showing the 25th earning percentile is $46,800, median is $74,100, 75th is $110,604 and 90th is $156,000]

It’s worth noting that the current full-time minimum wage of $49,296 puts you in the bottom 10% of full-time earners, and the jobseeker rate, which is equivalent to annual earnings of $20,634, has you well in the bottom 10% of all earnings.

So, let’s dispense with the bullshit that such amounts in any way discourage people from wanting to work or are too high to run a business.

If you earned more than $156,000 you earned more than 90% of Australians, and if you earned $176,930 you earned more than 90% of Australians working full-time: [Graph showing the 25th earning percentile is $46,800, median is $74,100, 75th is $110,604 and 90th is $156,000] It’s worth noting that the current full-time minimum wage of $49,296 puts you in the bottom 10% of full-time earners, and the jobseeker rate, which is equivalent to annual earnings of $20,634, has you well in the bottom 10% of all earnings. So, let’s dispense with the bullshit that such amounts in any way discourage people from wanting to work or are too high to run a business.

New figures out show where you are on the income-earning scale
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

17.12.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎡✨

03.12.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 16833    πŸ” 8530    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 239

It’s why we ask you to click β€œweekly.” This is the only help coming in but it is not enough. It’s 55% of the minimum. So either we make up the other half in new donations, or we get weekly pledges up to 100%.

03.12.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

02.12.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 291    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 20
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Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza.

13 HOURS LEFT to keep a single mother & her two kids housedβ€”where being unhoused in this deadly cold, rain, flash-floods is a health disaster and deadly.

So I’m asking you to match the cost of (1) thing you’ve paid to celebrate this genocidal Thursday to help them survive this genocide.

589/700

27.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where's Jillian Segal? Over $1,000-a-day but MIA - The Klaxon Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal β€” whose family bankrolls far-right group β€œAdvance” β€” is refusing to denounce the neo-Nazi rally held outside NSW Parliament House.

🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is steadfastly refusing to condemn the NSW Parliament neo-Nazi rally. Paid over $1,000 a day by taxpayers but MIA since far-right Advance scandal over four months ago... theklaxon.com.au/wheres-jilli...

27.11.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 7
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Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes

Quick explainer on some of the main features of the new nature laws, noting some details remain to be seen

27.11.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Single frame. Title: β€˜β€œBoth sides” of the β€œdebate”’. Left: bald man in grey strip suit and tie at lectern labelled β€œPRO-UNFETTERED FREEDOM TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM EARTH’S RESOURCES”. Right: woman in green blazer at lectern labelled β€œPRO-LONG TERM SURVIVAL OF LIFE ON EARTH”.

Single frame. Title: β€˜β€œBoth sides” of the β€œdebate”’. Left: bald man in grey strip suit and tie at lectern labelled β€œPRO-UNFETTERED FREEDOM TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM EARTH’S RESOURCES”. Right: woman in green blazer at lectern labelled β€œPRO-LONG TERM SURVIVAL OF LIFE ON EARTH”.

The β€œdebate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

26.11.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 507    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 8
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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...

26.11.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

"The Australian government has at all times known that the current Nauruan president and key members of his government are seriously corrupt, and they still signed a $2.5 billion deal with him."

26.11.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Annual salary for a Professor at the ANU in 2025 is $227,921 services.anu.edu.au/human-resour...
, yet Genevieve Bell will be getting over *double* that, plus a $400k golden handshake for VC, PLUS $200k in research funds.

Yet apparently ANU is in a budget crisis?

Absolute rot in uni governance

26.11.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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More details about ANU former vice-chancellor payments released 'In accordance with her entitlements under her contract.'

"It is difficult to think of other circumstances where individuals can cause so much damage, to both people and institutions, and be so richly rewarded." - @nteunion.bsky.social's @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social

Where is #ANU Council accountability for this golden handshake?

26.11.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ARC will soon be overhauling its entire grants system. They've never undertaken such a huge set of changes. Doing it while sacking existing staff and restructuring … I just … 🀯😑

26.11.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass legislation to give police the power to recommend cancellation of Centrelink payments of people who have not been found guilty of a crime by a court of law. It’s discriminatory financial punishment of people in poverty who are already over-policed

26.11.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 317    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 13

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

25.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 23065    πŸ” 6614    πŸ’¬ 249    πŸ“Œ 285

Disgraceful

26.11.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

Yep 🫠 it's meant to be a predator proof fence

26.11.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Albanese Government is about to rush through a bill which, Australia Institute research shows, would fast-track 94 new fossil fuel projects.

This will undermine environmental protections and lock in emissions for decades.
#auspol

26.11.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
AI generated image of a parrot, cat, rooster, and rats plus a few headless AI animals (circled in red)

AI generated image of a parrot, cat, rooster, and rats plus a few headless AI animals (circled in red)

#AIslop being presented in an #ecology conference about #conservation
Come on people, there's plenty of talented photographers you can showcase (& credit) in your slides instead of wasting water and CO2 making this crap, practice what you preach #esa2025

26.11.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...

Every day this government is more of a disappointment thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

25.11.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

26.11.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 405    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7
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Fab talk from @megcevans.bsky.social about government trying to use capitalism (for profit model) to attempt to solve problems created by capitalism (environmental damage and biodiversity loss).
But $2bn to solve biodiversity crisis isn't much compared to many other publicly funded things.
#esa2025

26.11.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Government is trying to push through changes that will weaken our environment laws.

This is the same Government that changed environment laws to protect the toxic salmon industry, and continues to approve fossil fuels for decades to come.
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

25.11.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

yeesh

25.11.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Three speakers on the stage at ESA

Three speakers on the stage at ESA

What a treat @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2024 to hear from @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social and @megcevans.bsky.social about pathways to impact for your research, especially how to inform policy.
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- get to know how the government works, the mess and mechanisms!

25.11.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

- you will need to engage beyond just providing knowledge

YOU DON'T NEED TO WAIT TO BE A BIG NAME, OR BE A SHOUTY PERSON TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE!!

Get out there early career ecologists!

Thanks @megcevans.bsky.social @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social for this great session

🌏 #ESA2025

25.11.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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