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Science Journalist 📰 & Fact Checker 🔎 @ScienceAlert 🚀 ❤🦇 #Nature, #Climate, #Health, #SciComm, #WildOz & 📷 Wildlife Photog 🐌🕷️ 🎓MSciComm, BSc. Zoology & Genetics 🐋 🌿 Views my own 🦎 Narrm ♾🧠 🌈ally My work: https://www.sciencealert.com/tessa-koumoundouros
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Horseshoe crab #Januarty Day 23: Opposites #watercolor

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Pink Breasted Robin - The Redwoods Otways Shot on Nikon Z FC + Tamron 150-600mm June '24 Spent an hour sitting on a muddy riverbank watching this guy flutter around until he was comfortable enough to be landing a few meters away.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Ever seen a pregnant shingleback lizard? /Tiliqua rugosa/ I think... https://www.facebook.com/csuvcc/ Ping @JamesUVanDyke @CSUMedia

submitted 2179 days ago • 1 comment

‘We owe it to the thousands of children who have been killed to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away.’ Goodbye to the slain children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

A juvenile galah who was incredibly tolerant of my attention 🥰 Here you can see the youngster's nictitating membrane over its eye - a third, transparent eyelid that birds can close for protection against dust, wind, foliage etc, while still allowing some visibility. #WildOz #NatureWriting 🪶🧪🌿

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a great thread. Let me add that there is nothing that you, an individual, can do, that will scale because you are one person. The people arguing that you should only do things that “scale” are justifying not doing anything.

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 🌿 #nativeplants #wildoz

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Can I offer you an Emotional Support Slug in these trying times? This beautiful black-margined nudibranch from Gordons Bay today has entered its unicorn-era with one rhinophore missing! 🧪🐙🦑

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

Life is pretty grim right now. Here's my #starterpack of writers, historians and institutes sharing quirky medical and science content that might serve as a welcome distraction. Make your corner of the world weird and wonderful. Never stop learning. go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z

submitted 28 days ago • 118 comments

At dawn, near the Shrine, at a place called Camp Sovereignty, First Nations people, and allies, began a day of mourning by reading out hundreds of massacres that took place in Victoria since colonisation. This is the truth of our history, and on January 26, the very least we can do is acknowledge it

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

We need good journalists more than ever. Here are some great ones working in the climate space. Follow them. Amplify them. Support them if you can.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks to all your amazing enthusiasm I got to write about this most spikeliciously cute li'l guy 😄 Learnt that some of this crablet's brethren take rides on sea piglets! 🧪🌿 #inverts #NatureWriting

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

submitted 32 days ago • 186 comments

This will get almost no attention. It fucking should though. The combustion of coal, oil and gas is killing one of the most remarkable and important places on the planet before our eyes, and most people are looking away instead.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

We all need these gang-gang smiles 🤩🪶🌏🧪🌿

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

A series of savage lurches from intensely dry to fiercely wet conditions helped fuel the horrific winter fires we're witnessing in LA. This 'hydroclimate whiplash' has increased considerably due to our warming atmosphere's ability to store more water. #NatureWriting 🧪 🌏 #Climate

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

This is so true though 🤣

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast. But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info. Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.

submitted 35 days ago • 36 comments

Hey folks! Do you have #LongCovid, #MECFS, or something related? Do you write? Here's a paid opportunity for articles and essays for a great publication. thesicktimes.org/write-for-us...

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

If you see this, post something orange. This smol friend, the transverse ladybird, is common all the way from India to Australia. 🧪🌿 #inverts #WildOz

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

SKYCHILD'S FALL (2006) Acrylic on Gessobord - 22" x 22" Commissioned by a Japanese firm for a calendar. 1/2

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments