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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

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If you reduce car ownership by 15,000 cars, an additional $185 million/yr will stay in your local economy (adjusting the graphic below for inflation). DC did it! #trbam #urbanplanning

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This infrastructure creates prosperity. The average car costs $12,544 annually—fuel, insurance, maintenance, depreciation, financing, and parking—most of which leaves the community. For every 15,000 vehicles a city reduces its rate of ownership, $127 million remains in the local economy each year.

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When One More Lane Isn’t Enough… So You Dig a Highway Underneath thetransitguy.substack.com/p/when-one-m...

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“When roads are seen as something that promotes the economy and makes us richer, but buses, bike lanes and walkability are perceived as policies that are good for the environment, then clearly roads are going to win most times”

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It’s time to depoliticise sustainable transportation How roads became 'Technical' and bike lanes became 'Political', and what to do about it. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Research: Protected bike lanes result in approximate doubling of number of users in a network link. Roughly twice as many women as men become new users of a link when protected infrastructure is installed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Native bees! Blue banded bees! In my garden!

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GPs warn not all practices will take up Labor’s promised Medicare bulk-billing changes if rebates still too low www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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The dawn of a new world order? Finally! No wait not like that! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A new global gender divide is emerging Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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The Sand Crisis No One is Talking About. Sand extraction is a silent environmental crisis, disrupting marine ecosystems and accelerating coastal erosion. Scientists warn that without stronger governance, this hidden threat will have devastating consequences. scitechdaily.com/the-sand-cri...

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The two decisions that show the Albanese government's priorities www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

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The economic commitment of climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cool, now the ABC is getting in on the act of whipping up hysteria & spreading misinformation. We can’t make it any clearer. Wilkerr (dingoes) were kept under permit & contained at all times on private land. There are no wild dingoes roaming the Little Desert. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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A future without gas: How German cities are managing the transition to climate-neutral energy theprogressplaybook.com/2025/02/19/a...

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"as changes to the ocean’s waves ripple outwards to alter coastlines & affect activities such as shipping they offer an eloquent reminder of the often unexpected ways in which planetary systems are interacting and changing as the planet heats up.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina heads to Denman Glacier on first Antarctic science voyage www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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“Safe, accessible and affordable transport breaks down barriers to jobs, education and opportunities for disadvantaged groups”

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Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Watchdog rules "clean gas" claims from Gina Rinehart company are false, misleading reneweconomy.com.au/watchdog-rul...

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Lethal second-generation rat poisons are killing endangered quolls and Tasmanian devils theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

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Part of the problems here is that safer, first-generation rodenticides are close to unobtainable now in Australia. Nearly the whole shelf at Bunnings is a dangerous owl, quoll and lizard killing second-gen: brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone, difenacoum and flocoumafen. READ THE DAMN LABEL.

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Remembering the Freedom Riders, 60 years after they exposed segregation in Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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I looked at 35 years of data to see how Australians vote. Here’s what it tells us about the next election theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...

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As Ningaloo reef bleaches and an election looms, we must hold to account those who stand in the way of our safety – the small cohort profiting from fossil fuels, and the politicians who protect them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Bits of dead farmed salmon are washing up on beaches kms away from pens but.. “The EPA would not say how much antibiotic was being used by Huon, citing "commercial in confidence". Water flows. This should be transparent. How far away does the impact spread in natural ecosystems?

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BRT can be built fast, but speed alone won’t make people ride it. To win over drivers and skeptics, we need buses that turn heads and feel premium. challengercities.substack.com/p/if-were-se...

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When I talk about connecting science + art, I get a lot of comments like “Leonardo DaVinci!” or “music is math!” But realizing the disciplines’ similarities as an individual is only half the battle. 🧵

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“We have political leaders who insist that mining and forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. I will state it plainly. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.”

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‘Wilful act of bastardry’: Henry condemns tax system for crushing young Australians www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I thought. But compared with Uganda, it was a nightmare. Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without my extended family to help. How have western women managed like this for so long? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Investment in China alone on clean energy is now nearly 85% of the global investment in fossil fuels www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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A word of advice if you have a phone or sat nav holder on your dash. Check where the airbag is in case of an accident.

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“A choice to take the car begins at only 1.5 kilometres for those who only own this vehicle, but for households that have both an e-bike and a car that distance expands to 5 kilometres on average”

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Electric bike ownership reduces car dependency & mileage, says another study www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/ele...

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BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum It’s time to prepare for the ‘Chaoscene.’ www.desmog.com/2025/01/23/t...

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“Tasmanian devils and quolls are potentially being exposed at rates that could have a substantial impact on the trajectory of their populations going forward, and not in a good way.”

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Bunnings, Mitre 10, Coles and Woolworths urged to ditch 'toxic' product after shock report A line of rat poisons that are heavily restricted in the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union are being openly sold to Aussie shoppers. au.news.yahoo.com/bunnings-mit...

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Widespread detection of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides in Australian native marsupial carnivores www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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High-Speed Rail and China's Electric Vehicle Adoption Miracle www.nber.org/papers/w33489

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Salt marshes are far more persistent carbon sinks than forests or other terrestrial sites,” said Brian Yellen, Massachusetts’s state geologist, research assistant professor at UMass Amherst and one of the paper’s co-authors. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Ancient Gondwana conifers lost in Tassie fires “Others, such as the ancient and very slow-growing endemic pencil pine, Huon pine & other conifers could take many hundreds, if not thousands, of years” to recover No. They are gone. Under climate change we can no longer count on recovery at sites 😭

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Australian students record worst ever civics result with 72 per cent not understanding the basics of democracy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Carspiracy - You’ll Never See The World The Same Way Again youtu.be/-_4GZnGl55c?... youtube.com/watch?v=-_4G...

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