I too am available. #ILoveGulls

This tea towel is folded up next to my coffee machine and it brings a surprising amount of calm and solace to my mornings which is pretty good considering it’s a tea towel

Ha! It’s me!

I’m chatting with David Astle tonight about tool use in birds including the goth corella itself—Palm Cockatoo. Prof Robert Heinsohn & Christina N. Zdenek, PhD found that some populations drum, some don’t and there’s a suggestion they might have learned this behaviour from listening to people!

Twas brillig & the slithy toves did vape & glamp in the omnishambles

The #Lehrmann verdict is a win for survivors everywhere.

All credit to The Shovel for this:

#Lehrmann finding in stark black+white

Justice Lee mused that:
'Having escaped the lion's den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat.'

Hey y'all, I gave a talk for the Royal Tyrrell Museum about the fossil record of parasites.

You can watch the recording of the talk here:
youtube.com/watch?v=RqaJQR…
#paleontology #parasitology

Some days I would give anything to remember my grandfather’s voice…

“It’s a morbid kind of job security where the topic you’re covering isn’t going to get better any time soon.”

Tony Barboza at the Society of Environmental Journalists (@sejorg) conference.

“impossible to be a line manager, administrator, mentor, researcher, writer, outreach officer, IT expert, online instructor, pedagogical innovator, teacher, marker, external examiner, press pundit, grant bidder, editor AND look after your own wellbeing” voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

He is risen.

Alternative wording…
Autumn poison baiting programs targeting #dingoes are underway in parts of the country where predation on livestock is deemed unacceptable. Many public land managers participate in these programs to support their neighbours whilst also suppressing foxes.

CSIRO-led study found about 80 per cent of little penguin deaths recorded in Tasmania between the 1980s and 2022 were a direct result of dog attacks. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

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