I asked the brilliant Fahad Ali, Special Envoy for Palestine | فهد علي if he could write about the bad-faith pinkwashing of Israel's genocide against Palestine, and it's a must-read if only for how ANNOYED he is about this discourse: "how can anyone take this seriously? Why do I even have to write about this?"

“the world health organisation released last week that Gaza now has more child amputees than anywhere else in the world.. I would have amputated at least two children’s limbs every single day..” The football community in Australia is many millions strong. Together, and

For Nautilus Magazine, I wrote about a question that has obsessed me lately: What are the oldest surviving ecosystems on Earth? Turns out some extant meadows, reefs, and rainforests have persisted for hundreds of thousands to *tens of millions* of years nautil.us/the-oldest-eco…

Last weekend my brother, father and I - all ocean swimmers - got caught in a treacherous rip on the NSW Central Coast. My dad was rescued by a surfer. Several people have died there - so why weren’t there warnings? abc.net.au/news/2024-06-1…

"Today’s appetite for hot takes unmoored from expertise has become fashionable for some of the largest media outlets...This does not serve us well." Self-appointed "experts" further undermine trust. Essential reading from Gregg Gonsalves & John Moore 👇 thenation.com/article/societ…

Make time to watch this.

A conversation about the attrition of trust in experts broadly is an indispensable one to have, but it baffles me that we would try to have such conversations with no critical interrogation of the premises underpinning it.

If you write online, back up and make copies of your work. There is no guarantee a company won't delete your already published work on a whim. Create your own personal archive. Stop doing "detailed threads" and put it on a website you own FFS.

Deep Water is out today in the US! I'm so thrilled and delighted, and incredibly grateful to everybody at HarperOne , and to all the people who helped make the project a reality in the first place. Penguin Books Aus Scribe UK RCW Literary Agency harpercollins.com/products/deep-…

Super-important thread. Prominent UQ News University of Queensland scientist and The Royal Society fellow MV Sriniviasan is facing credible accusations of committing career-spanning fraud. (If I was a science journalist I would be all over this)

Suppose more human H5N1 cases crop up (alongside the many that are probably being undetected currently). What’s the plan? Suppose household transmission clusters start appearing, or cases that haven’t had any animal contact. What’s the plan? Suppose we start seeing human

I am so profoundly disgusted by the raw, unchecked racism on display from Australia's various media and political institutions, but mostly by the Labor party and its gross, xenophobic voters. Alex McKinnon's post on this is just head-spinning. everythingisfine.beehiiv.com/p/why-labor-an…

Looks like there were three big transfers of seats on the night 🔵🔴 179 Con -> Lab 🟡🔴 35 SNP -> Lab 🔵🟠 57 Con -> Lib (kudos to Narottam Medhora for this brilliant sankey chart) The Times and The Sunday Times #ge24 thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Absolutely grim. The state of these beats in Australia is dire. Sending my best to those affected.

We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology – aeon.co/essays/we-need… via Aeon Magazine - by Philip Ball

These days, I’m begging anyone to ask me where I’m from, just so I can tell them about what’s happening in Sudan.

YOU ARE SIMPLY A FUCKING WEAK BRAINWASHED MILLENNIAL. Longtime followers might remember I got this email in November 2019. I responded with "ok boomer" and then I got a second email. "If you were my son I would slap the shit out of you"

I did NOT know the aftermath of the story re Eric the Eel, and I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

ATTENTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISTS! Are you interested in writing for the Observer? I am looking for new writers and ideas for the Science & Technology pages of the Observer New Review. For an idea of the types of pieces we publish, please take a look at this thread…

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions y = x