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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS

@euanritchie.bsky.social
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Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him. Research: euanritchie.org The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Shodan🥋, 🏀, Carlton FC 🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 8h
Defence Minister Richard Marles is oblivious to that which is obvious to everybody else: Britain cannot deliver our future #AUKUS subs on schedule (if at all). Luckily for Richard, it’s only our money and national security that’s at stake. #auspol
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Why Britain cannot deliver SSN-AUKUS on schedule
Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in...
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7h
Far too few are saying this out loud, grateful to those that do! Our governments & political 'leaders' are actively choosing to condemn us, to put obscene profits for big business before the safety of all Australians, people & all life we share Earth with. in-between-days.ghost.io/the-greens-c...
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The Greens change leaders amid catastrophic system failure
Shoebridge over troubled Waters? A huge earthquake in environmental politics happened in Australia today. And no, I don't mean the change in Greens leadership. Important as this event is - and I wi...
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well overdue! Sorely needed!
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Australian Greens @greens.org.au · 12/02/2025
Australia’s billionaires raked in $67,000 an hour last year. While millions struggled to afford rent or groceries. It’s time to turn the tables. The Greens have announced our plan to tax Australia's 150 billionaires to fund cost of living relief. Join the campaign: greens.org.au/billionaires
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a confirmed "Greenie" could not be a better choice. Congrats! @davidshoebridge.bsky.social I know you will be the voice of compassion, truth and fearlessness you have always been!
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wonderful news, all power to you, David Shoebridge! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Breaking: David Shoebridge named new Greens leader after three-way contest
After a rare leadership ballot for the Greens, the NSW senator becomes the sixth leader in the party's history.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
City of Melbourne. Weak as piss. Caving to colonialism and racists. #InvasionDay
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love the fact that my mortgage will get even harder to pay down later today in large part because of a convicted felon & warlord that my government has signed up to a > $360 billion defence pact (scam) with. Great work, @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social!
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A great example from our government for all Australian citizens on how to stay in a toxic and abusive relationship and not find a way to leave
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love the fact that my mortgage will get even harder to pay down later today in large part because of a convicted felon & warlord that my government has signed up to a > $360 billion defence pact (scam) with. Great work, @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social!
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The perfect description of Albo www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s entered the Aussie vernacular. Wharfie Time - “Becoming catastrophically confident approximately thirty seconds before everything collapses.” www.facebook.com/share/1HSKhe...
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cartoonists are some of the few bold voices left in mainstream media. Both @cathywilcox.bsky.social and @fionakatauskas.bsky.social have fought for space and held their own in a very male dominated field for decades. Thank you Fiona and Cathy making space for women, and all your wit and insight!
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@jessharwoodart.bsky.social Apologies for the wrong tag. Reading glasses were not activated.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Suburban still-life #Molly 🐶 🥰
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
By my clever and wonderful friend, @jessharwick.bsky.social
Cartoon by Jess Harwood making commentary about the *real* data centres we should support.
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com - in celebration and defence of Multicultural Australia! I wouldn’t be here without it, and I love it 😻 (but don’t hear that many people cheering it on recently).
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Paul Bamford @paulb237.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just don't expect him to return loyalty. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
The sit-in was broken up and Albanese was charged with "serious alarm or affront" (later dismissed), but within a week he was back in the common room for a second, longer occupation. And at day 10, the young Labor activist started to get sick of the anarchists and Trotskyists who were his new roommates.

"They'd sit in a circle and they'd keep talking until everyone agreed," Albanese told Middleton.

"So no-one ever made a decision … they had no strategy for it to end. And what was clear was that for some of them, the sit-in was the objective. It was literally a place to live!"

So what did Albanese do? He arranged for some Labor Club colleagues to arrive early one morning to the common room, and force an immediate vote to disband.

"We stacked it, basically," Albanese recalled. "To end it."
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Candice N Henry @candicenhenry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It goes deeper than that. I think it was Four Corners’ True Colours, where Albanese says “I value loyalty” in reference to colleagues. I thought it would be competence but that’s me.
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James Van Dyke @jamesuvandyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I find it extraordinary that the concept of National Parks was basically established in the last Guilded Age, when corporate profiteering ran as rampant as today, yet even then prominent people decided that doing things 'for the public good' was good enough... yet we somehow can't do the same
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Absolute nonsense statement 🙄 96% of Australians want more action for protecting & restoring nature Govts should do their job Nature is a public good & should be funded through tax & spend A position of needing to 'incentivise' govts to do their job is neoliberal, free market brainrot
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Centre-right pro-fossil governments in Australia will only take one lesson from this: you can hold any piece of policy hostage for the purpose fattening the already bloated wallets of sleazy carbon traders and worsening the scammy fake regulation of the worst polluters. Absolutely grim shit.
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QuetzalcoatlusWellnessInstitute @8t3v3n.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We subsidize logging, but koalas need carbon credits.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great article about carbon offsets, the INFM, & Great Koala NP fiasco. I don't agree with this statement by Prof. Frank Jotzo: "There is nothing that incentivises or compels state governments to create national parks; there is really no push factor in that regard," www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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How a controversial scheme will fund Australia's largest koala park
Experts, conservationists and politicians are divided on using carbon credits to help fund the Great Koala National Park.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Albo really is a *massive* disappointment and national embarrassment. Cozying up to a convicted felon and warlord trashing the law, human rights, environment, climate, and global economy, for a vanity pic!
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Josh will still happily take a seat across the table from the Woodside CEO at the next $10,000 a head dinner the ALP hosts
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like Josh attempts to cover up @australianlabor.bsky.social being sponsored by big polluters and the sham that is their safeguard mechanism that pretends to protect us while @albomp.bsky.social’s government approves more coal and gas. Ah Josh, you’re too funny. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Labor MP covers up Woodside logo on Fremantle jumper ahead of AFL grand final
Josh Wilson, federal assistant minister for climate change and energy, joins peaceful campaign against fossil fuel company
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Make the hypocrisy make sense. #auspol #climatechangedoesntcareifyoudontacceptscience
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HildaBewildered @hildabewildered.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social your legacy will be squadering the breathtaking majority with which you were entrusted and welcoming the end of our climate. Despicable.
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Vern Veitch 1952 AU @vernv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Only 3 countries export more fossil fuels than Australia and this government tries to greenwash it with renewable energy actions, much of it done be individuals, that fall well short of compensating for those exports.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Messed up. Don’t eat Tassie salmon. Toxic industry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 150,000 underwater explosives used to deter seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016
Salmon companies operating in Tasmanian marine areas deployed almost 1,800 explosives in first half of 2026, government figures reveal
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@albomp.bsky.social’s government… “Let’s approve more coal and gas projects and use our oxymoronic safeguard mechanism to pretend it’s all sweet!” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The South Australian government is seeking federal approval for a vaccine trial targeting mammals." What on Earth is your government *meaningfully* doing, @albomp.bsky.social? This does not look like a well-planned response; one you’ve had years to get ready for. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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H5 bird flu found in four sea lions, including a pup, on SA islands
There has also been a mass mortality event involving crested terns on the same South Australia islands, with about 900 of the birds found dead.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's me. 'Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?'
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Penny! Are 191.5 tons of nitrocellulose we sent to Israel “nonlethal in nature”?  - The Shot
Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”....
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Quollity animals, much underappreciated www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Outfoxed: How well do you know your native animals? Australians’ questionable quoll knowledge exposed
About one in six NSW, QLD and Vic residents think foxes are native animals and a third believe quolls are introduced, survey shows
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
PM @albomp.bsky.social is the Ed Sheeran of anti-genocide foreign policy "Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem this week released a report that concluded Israeli policies in the West Bank were "eliminating Palestinian collective existence"." #SanctionIsrael
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, this does make one wonder about the INFM (Improved Native Forest Management method) and Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), aka the accounting sleight of hand known as carbon offsets... www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/envi...
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How to fix the safeguard measure
Offsets have failed. Almost 30 years of experience has shown they rarely work and that the failings are systemic, arising not from technical issues but the governance dynamics that develop around them...
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sturt desert peas near Roxby Downs. Indigenous actor Mark Coles Smith was born in Kalgoorlie and has Sturt desert peas as his totem. He explains that they are called Malu Kuru Kuru. Kangaroo Eyes. A Western Desert name for them. The eyes of the flower see in all directions.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not much media coverage of Australian students walking out of class AGAIN to protest Pauline Hanson & One Nation on 17 Sep But it's so cheering & good for the soul, here's a little 🧵 of coverage BRAVO & THANK YOU STUDENTS‼️ ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He's done it again, exquisite, perfect Sunday morning vibes. Beck - Ride Lonesome
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A slow clap for PetBarn, profiting off educating dogs to eat death adder (snake) looking treats. What could possibly go wrong?
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cool, so we’re still going to murder sharks for being sharks. Just pathetic we still do this. Let’s destroy all cars too, ffs. 7news.com.au/news/sorrent...
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Rare order issued after swimmer mauled by great white shark
A man in his 60s was swimming with a friend when he was fatally attacked.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Found out today about the ‘swimming test’ for lab rats in clinical trials. 😥 I can’t unsee it.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wanna support Macklemore's stance and protecting human rights? 👉 www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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Petition: Don’t let Israel define antisemitism
Israel’s defenders are pressuring Australian institutions and governments to adopt and enforce the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, […]
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amazing www.science.org/content/arti... “In all, the males’ winding journey across Zambia had taken them a total of 4126 kilometers—the longest dispersal path recorded for any African mammal. Wildebeest…move up to 1800 kilometers during their epic annual migration between Kenya and Tanzania.”
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Three wild dogs have traveled farther than any African mammal
Record-breaking “odyssey” suggests populations of these highly endangered carnivores are more connected than thought
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just after 10 am today I’ll be chatting with Mary Gearin, ABC Melbourne, about bird flu. We’ll be taking questions from listeners too.
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