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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Excellent!! That nice thick Italian hot chocolate you eat with a spoon?

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Heartfelt sympathies. Maybe you have shortbread biscuits instead?

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It would have to head down mighty fast now, for us not to completely blow that graph off the table when the southern hemisphere late summer-fall peaks hit in February.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Shifting Salts team tell me they super appreciate the discussions they have had with you Californians so far, and hope for much future cooperation!

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Great news! The Shifting Salts project offers restoration options that may restore, the damaged coastlines of Barker Inlet. We ask SA government to consider the Shifting Salts options & collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement a plan for the saltfields. Please sign! c.org/pf6ytjPKfh

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Sign the Petition

SUPPORT DRY CREEK SALTFIELDS RESTORATION

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 17/06/2026

Breaking News! y-axis alert! Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures are now more than 3 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean, forcing an extension of the y-axis up to 3.5σ. And that line way at the bottom? That's 1988.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Geez I was only 16 when I read this and thought “goodness, clearly there is a low bar to bring a published author”

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Waylon & Elephant Journal @elephantjournal.com · 01/05/2026

"[Atlas Shrugged] is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." ~ Dorothy Parker re #aynrand

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We need to address all the current impacts of the algal bloom, repair our marine habitats and work towards preventing Harmful Algal Blooms into the future (they are increasing in frequency and severity)

Restore marine ecosystems to increase resilience

Honesty and monitoring of the health effects of the algal bloom

Major carbon emitters such as the fossil fuel giants need to contribute to monitoring, mitigation and recovery

Vote 1, Independant P, for Tammy Franks and Faith Coleman. Authorised by Tammy Franks, Semaphore

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

South Australians need more science than spin

Harmful algal bloom still occurring, a year on

We want our fishers and aquaculturalists supported

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yes… my daughter Faith put her hand up to run with Tammy Franks for a seat in our upper house here in South Australia - the parliamentary house of (peer) review… Science not spin. Transparency. Integrity. A frank and fearless public service.

Asks voters in South Australia to vote for independents Tammy Franks and Faith Coleman (column P on the ballot for the Upper House). They say they will fight for our coasts and our futures

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A similar thing is why I closed my account on that platform

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

“We were obviously never going to do anything about this until it’s way too late”

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The fading away feeling - I can relate. 3 and a half years watching my world shrink. But then this week - a small solar lantern casts dragonflies on the verandah table and speaks to me of emergence. For some reason I’m feeling so much more alive this week. I hope that feeling continues.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Finally, the definitive paper on the composition of the South Australian HAB has hit the preprint servers. It’s already been formally peer-reviewed. Sit down with a cuppa and have a solid read of this sobering paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Wow. He is suggesting his entire armed forces become war criminals?

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Thanks Sandy. And friends in the Mediterranean have their own marine heatwave troubles…

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

That vaguely irritating… I can’t tell you where that sits in the scale of irritation relating to all the conspiracist “causes” of this bloom. But it’s in there, somewhere in that bucket of crap.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Latest counts of Karenia in sheltered areas of the northern Yorke Peninsula are depressing. The HAB continues to growl along. 4,778 cells/mL (4.8 million cells per litre) at the Wills Creek boat ramp at Price.

A really wide Karenia microalgae cell, stained yellow with Lugol’s media. Its nucleus is a round red patch, centrally located in the cell. The cell is 40 microns wide and 27 microns tall, with a waistline marking the top quadrant of the cell, and a distinct node on its apex

An orange, Lugol’s-stained Gyrodinium dinoflagellate. Long, pointy, and built for speed, this microalgae is nearly 70 microns wide long

Guinardia flaccida is a chain-forming centric diatom with unique star-shaped chloroplasts dotted across its cylindrical valves.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 22/08/2025

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

“Sea-sick” is a superb 20 minute documentary made by Surfers 4 Climate, about the HAB (harmful algal bloom) affecting 4.500 square kilometers of South Australia’s coastal waters. surfersforclimate.org.au/pages/sea-si...

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Sea Sick

South Australia’s coastline is experiencing a crisis in slow-motion. A massive algal bloom has choked the ocean, silenced surf breaks, and left fishing boats tied to the dock. Sea creatures - from sti...

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Just need to belt my health back into line enough to start driving again… baby steps to get back into my happy home

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Yes. Virtually impossible. After over five years not flying at all, I had 4 clients needing me to ‘hop on a plane’ in the past 18 months. ‘Hopping’ is beyond me, and the flights appalling. I hope I’ll soon be able to use my little bus to trundle off to places I’m called to in Australia, at least.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

And only check out the mortalities records if you can bear it - it is horrendously sad. But the citizen science data tells us lots about the timing of the spread of the bloom, and which species were first, later, most, least affected. inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/sa-...

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SA Marine Mortality events 2025

Data gathering for South Australia 2025 'fish' mortality events. This project is set to automatically add aquatic vertebrates and macroinvertebrates annotated 'dead' from Feb 2025 onwa...

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Are you following the toxic algal bloom disaster afflicting South Australia? Locals with microscopes are starting to pop up records of marine life mortalities and plankton records onto iNaturalist. check out the plankton records at inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/phy...

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Phytoplankton of South Australia

Collect data on phytoplankton in South Australia, especially with regard to the 2025 algal bloom. However, it will be beneficial to have a local resource for all our phytoplankton going into the futur...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/07/2025

Here is an updated graphic showing the 365-day running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly over the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline from 1941 to July 8, 2025. I've highlighted a few key moments in the planet's recent history.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Plankton samples settling. Recent counts have included the coast from Ardrossan to Price on the Yorke Peninsula, West Lakes and Garden Island in northern Adelaide, and the Onkaparinga estuary. That Karenia mikimotoi sure gets around.

A lab bench with three sample bottles and three measuring cylinders. The water samples in the cylinders is honey gold, stained with Lugol’s media to settle the microalgae for counting

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

That butcher bird’s vocals are pretty amazing

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Your HABs are going to like this. I wonder how far inland the respiratory effects of a massive marine Karenia brevis bloom can penetrate?

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Nut bar. The kind with just nuts held together with a whiff of toffee. Protein. Fats. Sugar.

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Are there people who know Derek, who may be able to help?

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There is a new, downloadable leaflet on what photographs will make your iNaturalist observations of Shrubby samphire even more valuable. You can download the leaflet from the 'Shrubby samphire and climate change' project on iNaturalist, at www.inaturalist.org/projects/shr...

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New, downloadable leaflet on photographing Shrubby samphires for iNaturalist!

The citizen science database iNaturalist (www.inaturalist.org) has an increasing number of observations of the Shrubby samphire. Where these records include both a habitat photograph and detailed phot...

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Ha! Found you here! Much nicer over here than at that other place!

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Sheaoak Flat has a fascinating soup of organisms in the near shore at the moment - in between the mass of organic debris partially dissolved in the water post-storm that blew some of the bloom away… Here is a cure copepod to brighten up your day

Tiny microcrustacean copepod, about 1mm long, carrying two egg sacks tucked between its legs and lower abdomen

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Yesterday Jo from the ABC rang to talk about my being added to the Conservation SA ‘Hall of Fame’ but we rapidly diverted into a chat about mangroves and saltmarshes - as you do! The chat starts early in the show, at 7:35 minutes in, and runs to 15:58 minutes. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Afternoons - ABC listen

An intriguing blend of local news, entertainment and fun, Afternoons delights.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

“We are all going to die.” True. But not an advantageous approach to life… and is almost always used instead of the true intended statement which is… “You are going to die, and I can’t be bothered to save you.”

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Indeed, the glassiest way to gallop

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

It’s the name. It makes me smile. This is a tintinnid. A type of protozoan that gallops around in a wine glass. Normally not yellow - fell in a puddle of iodine stain on my microscope slide.

A microscope slide with scale bar, with a tintinnid in focus. A yellow-stained protozoan that lives in a clear wineglass shaped ‘lorica’ or ‘test’

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

If you’ve wondered why I’ve been a bit quiet, it has been because plankton counts are the best way to warn folk when “the bloom” is about to hit their little stretch of the coast… so I’ve been counting. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2os3...

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An ecological disaster has been unfolding on Australia's coast I ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

@climatecasino.net you may be able to cast some illumination on this southern summer-autumn’s marine heatwaves in Australia. Do any interesting stats on magnitude or frequency or longevity pop out of the data? I’m drowning in plankton counts of blooming toxic microalgae here

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Messing about with live plankton samples from Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula. This part of Oyster Bay was currently free of the large Karenia mikimotoi bloom, but had some other cute microplankton to chase around under the microscope

A Tripos dinoflagellate with a long apical horn and three hypoconical horns

Small plankton that looks like a protozoan because it doesn’t have chloroplasts, but is actually a dinoflagellate plankton called Pronoctiluca

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

For those following the SA algal bloom, news from Faith today about a potential species flip: “It is good to see that a bloom species swap is occurring at Middleton Beach, with the Karenia mikimotoi cell count dropping and numbers of Asterionellopsis diatoms taking their place in my sample today.”

View down a microscope. The circular lit area is marked with the grid lines of a haemocytometer, and grouped stars and spiral chains of the diatom Asterionellopsis are visible

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Well you’ve heard me banging on that heat is energy and a warmer climate is a more energetic climate. This new paper on hot-cold weather ‘flips’ quantifies that. It’s not a pretty picture. rdcu.be/eiVL1

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Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world

Nature Communications - Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is...

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Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Thanks! You’ve done me a solid.

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