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Scientist, mother, dilettante. Immunoparasitologist interested in general nerdery. I develop vaccines and medicines for animals.
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

No idea why media still depicts Nats as a farmers party. They are a mining party beholden to coal and gas interests and funded by Gina Rinehart. When there is a conflict between farmers and fossil fuels, they always back fossil fuels. Their opposition to wind is to protect fossil fuels for longer.

The split. My @smh cartoon.

It's time to make mining companies rewild their sites. They shouldn't be remediating ( hot tip they don't anyway). They should be curating and nurturing a complete restoration of the habitat flora AND fauna they destroy. Forever. Watering. Tending. Expanding. Curating. Forever.

Black Smoke Rises From Coal-Fired Power Station in Traditional Sign That Liberal Party Has Chosen New Leader

I’m wondering about the impact of young voters on this election. Labor had a platform of policies that appealed directly to them, while the LNP largely ignored them. Does this finally herald the decline of the Boomer voting bloc?

We need a cure for this disease which is completely preventable 🤔

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Dutton keeps saying electricity prices have gone up $1,300. That's a complete lie - even when using his own metric of the default market offer

Albanese’s claim that the Gillard Govt’s capacity to sell its message was undermined by fact it was minority govt is wrong. It was undermined, not by being minority but by the Rudd loyalists and by pro fossil fuel ministers like Martin Ferguson in her Govt. Leaks were constant. #auspol

The visual metaphors keep coming.

so they're mycoblogging

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A reminder that neither the LNP's nor the ALP's policies will touch the main problem

We DO NOT have an over-reliance on income tax. That is one of the biggest lies that just keep getting repeated #Qanda

A play in two acts.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

An extract from the President of Mexico on social media today: “You wanted a wall, you are going to get a wall.” She’s referring to a global boycott of US products.

Who did THIS?!

Mother Tawny Frogmouth with chicks. Iconic Australian bird

The Australian government rushed through legislation to ban under 16s from using social media - a measure widely criticised by experts. But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts. 🤷‍♀️

What Banksy says…

Best thing about redundancy this time of year is having a valid reason to not attend the fancy dress Xmas party. #silverlinings

Twitter account deactivated. Feels like walking away from a relationship gone sour.

Hey ex Twitter people, just a heads up that under Elon's terms and conditions, as of this Friday he can use all of your tweets to feed his LLM. You can only stop it by deleting your tweets.

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe