New echidna paper There are 5 subspecies of short-beaked echidnas. They look different but some of the differences between them, like reproductive behaviour, are so dramatic that I thought they may be different species. But previous genetic studies suggested that the subspecies were not real.
When it's snowy on the mountain the Currawongs come to visit me and demand food. One of them is a repeat visitor I have named Snapper. Sound on to help you work out which one . #birds
Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through. www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’
Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”
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Love this example of behavioural thermoregulation, posted on Kgalagadi Sightings page.
@cqchoi.com - in 2013 you published an article titled "why the platypus will never have a stomach". This year I published an article that explains that platypuses do have a stomach, and how this misunderstanding occurred. You can find it here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Stew... comments welcome 🦊🧪
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This is a Cambridge Skin Temperature Meter that I rescued some years ago when the Physiology Department moved across town. These things were beautifully built works of art. I am guessing it dates from sometime in the 1950s. Does anyone have more information about the date these were manufactured?
Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
Joseph Fink 🦃🍁👽🦾@planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2y agowe get 60m dollars worth of tea from China every year. baby, they are literally doing a 104% tax on tea in the United States
Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪
reposting this with 🧪 , @hgl7.bsky.social and @smithsonianmag.bsky.social If you want a copy send me your email in a chat
Stewart Nicol@topechidna.bsky.social · 2y agoDoes the platypus have a stomach? The perils of popular science. Would respected science sources sex up their stories? My new paper just out. @jackdashby.bsky.social this is for you. meridian.allenpress.com/australian-z...
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
Does the platypus have a stomach? The perils of popular science. Would respected science sources sex up their stories? My new paper just out. @jackdashby.bsky.social this is for you. meridian.allenpress.com/australian-z...
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
🧪 🦊 A pademelon, Thylogale billardierii, cleans itself in the morning sun outside my study window.
Tell me everything doesn’t sound better in French.
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2y agoFrench Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
🧪 🦊 HELP! I was sent some photos of skulls on graph paper so I could get the dimensions. The x & y axes have different scaling. The y axis looks like inches divided into tenths, but the x axis has 6 divisions in the small rectangles. Is anyone familiar with this graph paper?
Australia is not like America. We won't tolerate the oligarchy of billionaires running our government, paying no tax and laughing all the way to the bank. Dutton mimics all of Trumps policies including to sack public servants and give the work to consultants at 3 times the cost.
She reeks of death and doesn't really do anything except stand around, yet people are queuing up to fawn all over her. Australia's sweetheart! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Everyone loves the horrible smelly plant Putricia! Is it the only good thing left in this world? | First Dog on the Moon
Corpse flower mania is sweeping the nation (inner-city Sydney)
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Amazing drawing of a platypus done for me by Rachel Harris based on video from Pete Walsh. You will soon be able to by quality prints of this from www.facebook.com/rachelharris...
