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Dr Dave

@ecosystemunraveller.com
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Professor of Ecology, educator, maker | birds, mistletoe, acoustics, conservation | updates on research, family & other beasts. Living on unceded Wiradjuri country More at ecosystemunraveller.com

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 4h
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 6h
Noice.
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So Many Bogong Moths Right Now. So Good.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 11h
Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.
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Pauline Grierson @pfgblue.bsky.social · 11h
@australianwildlife.bsky.social #AWC have just announced acquisition of the Boulder Widlife Sanctuary in King Island, Tasmania ( a first for the AWC in Tas). 🤩
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Boulder Wildlife Sanctuary
Boulder Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the north-east coast of King Island in Bass Strait, Tasmania. The sanctuary comprises approximately 200 hectares adjoining the ecologically significant Lavinia...
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 8h
These photos of cockatiels in flight at Gluepot are overexposed so technically not great (don't argue with me - I know what I'm talking about 🙂) but worth sharing to show their joie de vivre. I love the flared tail on that one parrot 😀
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Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · 8h
I've published a 32 minute excerpt from the album "A Morning at Sweetwater Lagoon" on my Youtube channel. This album was recorded in Lakefield National Park, Cape York, Australia and features the sounds of a remote tropical lagoon early in the morning. youtu.be/dop2QimqGIY #soundscape #wildoz
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Tropical Wetland Soundscape - A Morning at Sweetwater Lagoon, Australia
YouTube video by Wild Ambience
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 7h
That’s Buddy. Strong itching game.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 11h
Sixty seconds of tranquil goats for your timeline…
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LucyParkerPaul🦉🇦🇺 @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social · 14h
This Pacific Baza appeared totally oblivious to us as it hunted its breakfast. It's the first time I've seen one with a frog and definitely one of the highlights of today's 55 species early morning walk. #birds #wildoz #brisbane
A Pacific Baza eating a small green tree frog. It took it a while to get the frog down, but as soon as it did it was off hunting again, tracking movements with its bright yellow eyes.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13h
A cute little reticulated beetle, Tenomerga cinerea. This odd lineage last shared an ancestor with more typical beetles like ladybirds and scarabs nearly 300 million years ago.
Macro photo in dorsal view of an elongate tan beetle with large antennae and dark brown markings on its elytra, standing on a pure white substrate.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 16h
When in doubt, stony silence.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 18h
Good morning. Rain on the way…
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... @amandawells.bsky.social
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Former vineyard turned into sanctuary for nationally threatened birds
A regional property previously home to wine grapevines has been transformed into a sanctuary for the nationally threatened regent parrot in South Australia's Riverland.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 30/09/2026
Magnificent.
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wanna see a horrible video of something that most ppl never see? This is a rufous scrub bird singing his head off in the most open habitat I’ve ever seen them in. Normally they’re totally invisible in thick scrub - this one is still fairly invisible
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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the first time in 150 yrs, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington. More than 250 were successfully translocated back to the region, thanks to the efforts of the iwi (nations of Aotearoa), community members, and the Capital Kiwi Project. They join the podcast this week:
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Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century
For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu (“birds” in the Māori language) were successfully translocated back ...
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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Metallic starlings migrate down from New Guinea each year to breed in the tropical north of Australia, bringing their brilliant iridescent feathers to the local rainforest canopy. 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 📸 In my cousin's backyard. (I'll be back in another week or so) #birds #BirdOfTheDay #nature #wildlife
Photograph of three metallic starlings perched amongst lush green foliage and vines, their iridescent dark bodies gleaming with hints of green and purple and contrasting with their striking, piercing red eyes, with two of the birds having their beaks open mid-call as they chatter noisily with one another.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/09/2026
If anyone I know lives in Austin, please sneak into this "powering data centres with fossil fuels" forum and get some choice quotes for me please www.bicmagazine.com/resources/sp...
Promotional sponsor board for the NatGas To Power Forum, Nov 11–13, 2026 in Austin, TX, naming WhiteWater as premier sponsor and showing a grid of energy and finance company logos (e.g., BP, ConocoPhillips, J.P. Morgan, Kinder Morgan, NRG).Headline "Powering AI with gas: 450+ decision-makers meet in Austin" above an article about the NatGas to Power Forum exploring use of natural gas to generate electricity for AI data centers, accompanied by sponsor logos and event date/details.
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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/a-strategy-o...
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A Strategy of Cash-for-Photos Turns Animal Hunters into Animal Protectors in Indonesia
Octavius, a 50-year-old farmer of kratom and cacao, said the money helps him afford college educations for his children.
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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 29/09/2026
Good morning good people.
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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some fun birds
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to you both!
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GGBN @ggbnoutreach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 25th anniversary of GBIF's inception! www.gbif.org/news/6CMzMge...
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Twenty-five years of GBIF
New article offers historical overview of the organization, the infrastructure, its services and the global community underpinning it... Celebrating 25 years of GBIF, a new article published in…
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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Species as stories: Recognizing the biocultural legacy of natural history link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Species as stories: Recognizing the biocultural legacy of natural history - Journal of Ornithology
Current debates over bird names—particularly recent initiatives in North America to replace eponyms—highlight that naming is not merely a technical act of classification, but a practice embedded in hi...
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Stefaniya Kamenova @stefaniyak2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great new paper: The competence of the practitioner is inseparable from the credibility of #eDNA as a method, trustworthy exemplars and transparent communication of limitations are key for #eDNA uptake. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Embracing Environmental <fc>DNA</fc> (<fc>eDNA</fc>): Trust, Skepticism, and Competence in an Emerging Method
Trust in eDNA is fundamentally relational. Survey results show that experience increases perceived validity and usefulness while transforming skepticism into more nuanced evaluation, highlighting the....
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 28/09/2026
Good morning.
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer
Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer
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James W T Hogg @jwthogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fire-tufted Barbet A wasp for food, beaten to eject the sting, as per a bee-eater. Native to Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia. There is a population at Gunung Gede, Java originating from escaped cage birds. Gunung Gede, Java, Sept 26 #birds #birding #birdphotography #barbet #birdsseenin2026
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OTD in 1962, Silent Spring was published. “Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.” ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Rachel CarsonThe front cover of Silent Spring.
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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
sunrise light catching the ranges above the bunyeroo gorge, ikara - flinders ranges national park, south australia
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 27/09/2026
Morning all.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 27/09/2026
Now resting after a slow braise in spicy tomato juice.
Unctuous racks of ribs in a deep red sauce gleaming with rendered far. The previously dry puckered meat is now slipping from the bone.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 27/09/2026
Currently.
Stella! Low angle photo of a scruffy black and white pup on a painted concrete veranda
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/09/2026
Menindee fishway reopens for final year of trial ahead of 'hot, dry summer'
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Hopes fish passageway will prevent mass kill ahead of hot, dry summer
A fish passageway allowing fish to travel upstream into the Menindee Lakes has reopened for the final season of its three-year trial, as low water levels and poor water quality raise concerns about another potential fish kill in the Darling-Baaka this summer.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 27/09/2026
Phwoar!
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 26/09/2026
Morning all.
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Elaine Johnson @elainejohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Almost $US10 billion of damage was caused by weather events in Australia last year, including Cyclone Alfred and the Victorian bushfires, said Allianz.” How much did the coal and gas industry pay in royalties last year? www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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‘Flash droughts’ on the cards as super El Nino intensifies
Only two countries experienced greater extreme weather-related economic losses than Australia last year, an annual study of global economic climate risk has found.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 26/09/2026
Smoked goat ribs and pork snags over plum. Smells fantabulous.
Dodgy looking double decker offset smoker arrangement. Eight skinny sausages above, goat ribs below.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*. In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise. stand.earth/insights/wes...
Article header from Stand.earth showing a large headline that Microsoft is quietly backing away from a major West Virginia data‑center project, with the site logo and date above and a cropped photo of a Microsoft building and logo.
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 26/09/2026
Currently…
Stella!  Wall of tools, yea olde woode working and functional old garden tools. A scruffy pup is gazing into the middle distance
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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Read review paper by Kirsten Krause and colleagues on the role of hormones in parasitic plant infection 🆓Open Access article link: doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 Check out other related papers in the special issue on #ParasiticPlants: academic.oup.com/pcp/issue/67/4
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The role of hormones in parasitic plant infection
Abstract. Plant parasitism is a widespread lifestyle found throughout the plant kingdom that plays important roles in ecology and agriculture. Parasitic pl
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 26/09/2026
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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Millions of birds are still killed every year by flying into power lines (one very wide estimate puts it between 8 and 57 million). repository.si.edu/server/api/c...
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 25/09/2026
“Two new stick insect species uncovered in Far North Queensland” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Two new stick insect species emerge from Queensland forests
The two new species are in the same genus and are both winged and more than 10cm long.
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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are all SO EXCITED to announce that @margaretatwood.bsky.social has chosen to support the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social and @westernu.ca with this incredibly generous gift! news.westernu.ca/2026/09/grae...
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Graeme Gibson Chair in Avian Biology created at Western Western News -
A $1-million gift from Margaret Atwood in honour of her longtime partner will create the Graeme Gibson Chair in Avian Biology at Western.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a petition to save the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Please sign, the closure of this wonderful museum would be a disastrous loss to Philadelphia and the world. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public
The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...
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