Overheard a girl say "It's such a relief to meet someone who actually knows about fish behavior... when people ask about my thesis I have to dumb it down and just say it's on 'sturgeon psychology'" and her friend laughed knowingly

“The muscles of man and cat compare favorably, indicating common origins.” . Zoology. 1952. quinnception.tumblr.com/post/189235175…

Tweeting this in solidarity with striking academics tomorrow. There’s something fundamentally wrong with higher education in the UK. Read this and get mad as hell: medium.com/@drleejones/th…

lifehack: make yr friends & loved ones insanely mad by showing them this graph

It's clear that #COVID19Aus means wage incomes - particularly for casual workers - will take a big hit. But there's an implicit idea that rental incomes must continue regardless. 1/8

700 000 Australians lifted out of poverty, just like that, if you needed any more convincing about how easy this really is to fix

QUARANTINE RESOURCES THREAD 2 here's some other weird stuff to listen to that isn't ambient-type stuff, beginning with: STEVE DOUGLAS - THE MUSIC OF CHEOPS here's a guy recording flute solos in the King's Chamber of one of the Great Pyramids drive.google.com/open?id=0B83NU…

Yesterday my property manager called me. My landlord intends to sell my home and turf me and my family out in the middle of a pandemic. It appears that despite taking half of my income for three years, they're having cashflow issues. thread

Stuck at home? Why not spend today exploring the National Library of Scotland maps website and discover over 200,000 digitised #maps. maps.nls.uk

Ireland: casualised labour leads to covid spread US: casualised labour leads to covid spread UK: casualised labour leads to covid spread VIC: casualised labour leads to covid spread SA: casualised labour leads to covid spread 🤔

My article today in The Conversation highlights the recent devastating cuts to Earth Science in Australian universities and how both government policies and university choices are to blame. theconversation.com/australia-badl… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Volcanic eruptions following the large caldera-forming eruption of Toba 74,000 years ago tapped the cooler margins of warm remnant magma from that climactic event Shanaka de Silva CEOAS - Oregon State JohndeLaeter Centre Anthony Koppers Jack Gillespie nature.com/articles/s4324…

🚨New EarthArXiv preprint!! 🚨 an R package and web app for Pb isotope data. Any feedback would be very welcome! App available here: shereearmistead.shinyapps.io/PbIsoApp/

truck yeager over here

A shiny black meteor continues to reveal Mars’s secrets. New research from Jack Gillespie Université de Lausanne and Aaron Cavosie Curtin University, comments from Carl Agee Univ. of New Mexico, story by Katherine Kornei. eos.org/articles/marti…

scully: victim died of multiple stab wounds mulder: *throws her a file* ever heard of the knife alien

Coffee or alcohol? Why not both? Dr. Erin Martin (she/her) #conferencefuel #goldschmidt2017