Perdita Phillips

@perdy.bsky.social

walking, listening, mapping, animals, minerals, plants, ecologies, installations, exchange, photography, drawing, collage, videos, eclogues www.linktr.ee/perditaphillips

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

Made this little zine record of a walk I made in 2013 “walking the wasteland to the Point” that was part of preparations for the fast | slow | complex exhibition. Will be part of a new walking art exhibition in a few weeks time (and/or $10 AU + postage)

New listening event Saturday 11-12:00 13 June at North Lake, Perth/Borloo “under a spreading Marri tree” as part of AININ’s worldwide Forests’ Secrets for Les Nuits Des Forets. DM for details

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pictures of High Tide (folly) (1995) taken by Kirsten Sivyer. High Tide (folly), was a temporary installation in the Understory Art & Nature Trail at southern forest arts as part of

A bentwood chair with a cloud of corks flying behind it is high up in a forest canopy

The amazing Marri has been voted #EucalyptusoftheYear2026 🥳 This fabulous Western Australian #eucalyptus flowers en masse in the hotter months of summer providing essential resources for our native #bees and #inverts 🐞🪲🐝🦋 #ozflora #wildoz

Eucalypt Australia@eucalyptaus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! We are thrilled to reveal that the Marri, Corymbia calophylla, has won #EucalyptoftheYear2026! Not only popular with people, Marri is attended by more than 80 species of native bee and is a favourite bed & breakfast for threatened black-cockatoos and possums.

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless

Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

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Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

Ok so this is a question for everyone: I’ve been working on a project about finding the lithic (geological) in an archive. Needless to say I didn’t find more than traces of the more-than-human and at times I found extreme (if poetic) examples of colonialism instead.

Interesting study, but coverage is undermined by using fake AI-generated fossils ("Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com") rather than authentic specimens. I am not aware of any actual Ediacaran fossils that look like this. To be clear, this is a criticism of Science Daily, not the authors of the study.

Howard Lee@hlee.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Silica-rich and iron-rich seawater in Ediacaran oceans enabled clay minerals to grow around the buried organisms, cementing sand into the shapes of the soft creatures, preserving impressions for all time ⚒️🧪🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)