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Important new paper giving insights into Australian southern right whales 🐋📈📉🧪

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Federal scientists will stop updating the NOAA list of billion-dollar weather disasters. The list, which had grown rapidly in recent years, reflected both worsening extreme weather and expanding development nationwide.

submitted 6 days ago • 246 comments

Proud to be an Aussie (by choice) today! As a migrant 🇩🇪🇦🇺 dual citizen, it feels extra special to be contributing to Australian culture, science and the democratic progress in 2025. I knew these kind and inclusive people wouldn’t let me down. I choose this place as my home for a reason! 🇦🇺🐨🦘✊ #auspol

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A devastating blow to #marinemammals, their ecosystems & anyone who enjoys/depends on the #ocean. My colleagues & I are distraught and will not stand idly by. Please join us in supporting marine #conservation in whatever way you can. 🐋🐬🦭🐻‍❄️🦦 #radicalhope

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

A re-elected Coalition government would have to slash net migration of students and skilled workers by 90% to reach its “impossibly heroic” goal of reducing net migration to 160,000, a Guardian analysis shows.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Trump Just Militarized the Police State — Here’s How We Fight Back - Resistance Kitty resistancekitty.com/trump-just-m...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

'Have you noticed that things are getting a little Trumpian in Australia?' Damon Gameau looks at Atlas and Advance #auspol > youtu.be/ecqDvx9HMhs?... Let's share this - a lot!!! 🙌 🙌

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 18 days ago • 399 comments

Please share this with every European person you know! The collection period to consider a ban on the torture of LGBTQ+ people (so called "conversion practices") ends next month! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

We officially abhor this title. First tariffs, then releasing our secrets during our molt when we are hungry and vulnerable? Tactless and boorish. Our DOJ may be amending access to NatGeo in the Ice house and the whole island moving forward.

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

I'm a pretty simple guy: 1) I don't support genocides. 2) I do support taking actions on existential threats to my children's future. 3) I do support using modern science & scientific knowledge to reduce diseases to the best of our abilities. This doesn't seem radical to me, why does it to you?

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Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 29 days ago • 234 comments

Attention Society for @marinemammalogy.bsky.social members - don’t forget to vote in the general elections by APRIL 18! (You may see a familiar face on the ballot for Secretary!) Link to ballot: marinemammalscience.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?... #SMM #MarineMammals #MarineMammalScience

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Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives. Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.

submitted 32 days ago • 384 comments

Stand with us, or fall against us. Flippers up.

submitted 40 days ago • 131 comments

PENGUINs react to Trump Tariffs! #heardisland #Antarctica #2025 🐧🇦🇶

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 42 days ago • 181 comments

Trump’s 'climate' purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool originally developed by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for local planners to identify the future risk of extreme weather events the US. The Guardian has recreated the future climate risk index as a free tool.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

WHAT. HE. SAID! 👏 US Senator Cory Booker 9.5hrs into his 25hr filibuster! Speak up now or forever hold your peace. "The power of the people is greater than the people in power" #corybooker #scientists #STEM #antiFA #science #futureisnow 🧪

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 43 days ago • 10889 comments

How to avoid raising a Nazi: encourage critical thinking skills and valuing their own beliefs and morals before blindly obeying authority. This photo is a family heirloom. Do not copy. My grandfather Walter Volzke (right) protests by not following the correct salute in Nazi Germany’s H-Jugend.

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Just like the United States benefitted when fascism rose in Europe, which led to many well educated and talented people emigrating to the US, the reverse is now happening in Trump's America. www.npr.org/2025/03/29/n...

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You can’t be pro-science. The scientific method is based on reason, logic and critical thinking, on knowing that we in fact, know nothing. Nothing is for certain. And nothing is final. So yes, you can be pro-reason or just go anti-everything. Neither has a point though? 🤯 2025 has me gaslit

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#2025😩 #phd

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How do you possibly concentrate on writing a PhD thesis while human society is dismantling itself from within? 😩

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“Trump cuts to have ‘chilling effect’ on climate science and ‘degrade’ Australia’s ability to forecast weather.” If ever there was a time to expand Australian climate science it’s now, with more $ & fast tracked immigration opportunities for NOAA & NASA scientists sponsored by AU universities 1/

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the feminine urge to

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"We moved a conference halfway around the globe to avoid visa discrimination" There's some useful information in this article about how to decide where to hold international conferences. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

submitted 70 days ago • 978 comments

Bluesky friends! If you join me from my very loud shitposting on IG stories: we can rebuild our community over here. ✌️ I will make some posts on how to use bluesky as well as pointing out hopeful ways forward for accessing unbiased news and decentralised media.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 72 days ago • 67 comments