Jon Brock
@drbrocktagon
Sydney-based science writer. Former autism researcher. 700 millionth cousin to a mushroom. On Mastodon: @[email protected]
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http://drbrocktagon.com/ 29-07-2010 12:18:12
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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?"
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…
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-…
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…
We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology – aeon.co/essays/we-need… via Aeon Magazine - by Philip Ball