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CuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The work we did with kākāpō is now not possible because the govt has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Members of our current govt have said that if an endangered species is in the way of a mine or a new road then it’s goodbye #nzpol peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-kakapo

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If there’s one thing I miss about Aus (other than a Brisbane summer storm) it’s the smell of flowering wattle.

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I've sometimes wondered if there are additional reasons why bacteria thrive inside mammal guts, and this is a fascinating answer to that question. 👀

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Katie Abson @katieabson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Christopher Penn wrote:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

What contributes to the occurrence of disease-like blemishes in bull kelp in New Zealand? In this project led by superstar student Sabine de Klein, we surveyed and modelled blemish numbers in Durvillaea poha beds with respect various environmental factors. 🧪🦑🐙

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Environmental and anthropogenic stressors may influence the prevalence of disease-like phenotypes in an intertidal kelp

The effects of climate change and human pollution on ecosystems worldwide are becoming increasingly apparent and are expected to increase disease susc…

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

H5 strain of bird flu on Heard Island? Samples are yet to be tested. "The majority of mortalities were detected in elephant seal pups and in a small number of adults." — Dr Julie McInnes, wildlife ecologist with AAD and @imas-utas.bsky.social ▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 📸 Matt Curnock

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The last paper from our project looking at the link between skin bacteria and a tadpole’s ability to regenerate its tail. A good summary in @frogsquisher.bsky.social’s comments!

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Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Parasite extinctions in threatened species may be far more prevalent than previous estimates suggest. Our new study of kākāpō dung spanning from ~1,500 years ago to present, finds >80% of parasite species were lost as the host species declined.

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Long-term parasite decline associated with near extinction and conservation of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot

Boast et al. analyze a unique fecal record of the endangered kākāpō parrot to reveal >800 years of changing parasite communities. Parasite losses occur during the species’ decline to near extinction a...

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

You want to collect insects (and maybe other arthropods) for reference genome sequencing, but don't want to spend a fortune on dry ice shipping! All you gotta do is SQUISH. THAT. BUG! More details in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a silly #SciArt redraw of the squish that cat meme, but it is a grey stickfigure squishing a mosquito (that looks like a little cat) with the text SQUISH THAT BUG!

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Saw this somewhere on the socials today, seems… relevant.

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Better late than never for #worldpenguinday and #superseabirdsunday! Deadpan Gentoo had enough of my photography crap I reckon #marinelife 🦑 #birds 🪶

Portrait of a plump gentoo penguin from chest up, looking straight into camera. A white chest, black neck and head with white band/crown running behind eyes. Orange and black beak. In the background are large black pebbles.

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My nightmare in #eDNA is to detect a rare or threatened species that turns out to be a false positive, so we set out to evaluate some of the commonly used taxonomic classifiers. The results are finally out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1/3

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Taxonomic Classifiers in Marine Vertebrate eDNA Studies

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a widely used tool for surveying marine vertebrate biodiversity. To this end, many computational tools have been released and a plethora of bioinformatic app...

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Zoë Irene 😷❤️🦈 @getcaughtliving.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Plastic pollution along Australia’s coastline has dropped by more than a third over the last decade. Researchers recorded a 39% decrease in coastal debris density and a 16% increase in areas with “no plastic debris at all.” www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

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Australia making a dent in plastic packaging pollution on coastlines, CSIRO finds

Plastic pollution along Australia’s coastline has dropped by more than a third over the last decade. That’s according to new research from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, published in the M...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/04/2025

SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If you’re new here, welcome. Our Antarctica Nudist Colony Government was formed after Seal hunters left our land around 1920. We occasionally allow scientists to study our 29 mammals, multiple seabirds, and limited flora, but have no permanent human settlement. Australia partially protects us 1/2

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Even when it's just the two of them, in an otherwise empty Oval office, Trump and Musk still aren't the smartest guys in the room.

"Trade war with penguins":
Trump places 10% tariff on
uninhabited Antarctic
islands
Planned tariffs shared by the White House
included a 10% duty on imports from the barren
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Mac McGill @maddmac.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Thought I'd revisit Star Wars. Just in case anyone forgot what starts the whole saga: it's a #TradeWar about #tariffs

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Three Southern Royal albatross sharing a juicy piece of gossip on Enderby Island (NZ sub-Antarctic) #seabirds #superseabirdsunday #marinelife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birds

Three large albatross, predominantly white with black mottled wings and light pink bills. The centre bird faces away from the camera, and the birds on either side face inwards towards it; all three have their heads together as if discussing something. They stand on a hill covered in yellow, green and red herbs, mosses and grasses.

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Not much a skua won’t fight over. Enderby Island, sub-Antarctic New Zealand #birds #marinelife #seabirds #birdphotography

Two medium sized mottled dark brown birds having a tug of war over a long piece of brown kelp on a sandy beach.

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Back from two weeks aboard the HMNZS Canterbury as one of the scientists on the 2025 Blake Expedition to the NZ sub-Antarctic Islands. Will progressively drop photos and commentary here as I go through them #marinelife #naturephotography #sealion #pinniped

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

2025 Blake Expedition on Operation Endurance with the NZ Navy. Off to the sub-Antarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands to do some sciencing and inspire the next generation!

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For #superseabirdsunday - the honey coloured (and slightly judgey) eye of a Campbell albatross. Otago Canyons, NZ #birds #marinelife

An albatross sitting on the green-grey ocean surface, looking side on at the camera. The bird is mostly white, with dark grey wings and a peach/orange coloured hooked bill. It has black ‘eyeliner’ surrounding a pale yellow eye.

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Nathan Lombardi @lom.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I've just found the best hack. Swear in your search request. It's a great way to bypass the AI summary and make your search history look like you're chronically pissed off at everything!

Throw a "fuck" or "fucking" into your search to bypass the AI Overview

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Super! <useful tool> now has an AI✨ interface! Brilliant! That'll make me so much more productive. I'll use this everyday. Said no one ever.

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds. Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

F*ck me it is very easy to give into despair at the moment. Which is when I fall back on some more of my Oma's advice - when all seems lost, keep going just to spite those you fight against. If all else fails, exist to spite someone you can't stand 😉

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This excellent thread from Bart … speaking as a researcher in a research area that has been recently defunded, this focus on the value of science being about what monies it generates is not just a misinformed understanding of science, but also a really short-sighted and self-defeating one.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/01/2025

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

Ketan Joshi ketanjoshi.cp-3h Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot-1 take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions wara Upoons Options for working with Copilot in Word Enable Copilot Enable Copilat Proofing Copilot Language Accesubunity Advanced 4:35 Ado 29 103 raven9f9.bsky.social @raven9f9.bsky.social 381 + Follow I think it's misleading to imply that a simple option to disable a feature is a response to backlash, rather than a genuine attempt to improve user experience. January 21, 2025 M 3:55 PM ث

Language Accessibility Advanced Customize Ribbon Add alt text Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co-3h Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot - I take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions Options for working with Copilot in Word Enable Copilot Enable Copilot Tam off this optiunti diale Copilt features Display Proofing Copilot X Quick Access Toolbar Add 4:35 2 106 honosrer.bsky.social shonosrer.bsky.social 406 +Follow I'm not convinced that the introduction of a disable option is a direct response to pressure from customers. It's likely a standard feature they intended to include all along. January 21, 2025 3:56 PM 1 like

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‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬
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I disagree. Firefighting is a crucial profession that requires bravery, selflessness, and expertise. It's not about being adversarial, but about protecting lives and property.

‪David Dayen‬ ‪@ddayen.bsky.social‬
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Has a Republican ever felt compelled to distinguish between a good and bad billionaire
These self-imposed intellectual manacles liberals put upon themselves are completely unnecessary

‪Dave Weigel‬ ‪@daveweigel.bsky.social‬
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Seated *in front* of the cabinet!

The puzzle for Democrats is how to separate "good" from "bad" billionaires. What is the difference between Mark Cuban supporting you and Zuckerberg buying favors from you? It's not a slam dunk, needs explaining.

‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬
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I disagree. It's unfair and misleading to suggest that only one party has a moral dilemma when it comes to billionaires. Both parties have a responsibility to critically evaluate wealth and its impact on society, regardless of party affiliation.

‪John Scalzi‬ ‪@scalzi.com‬
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Also, it was a fuckin Nazi salute come the fuck on

‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬
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It's unfortunate that you feel that way, but it's important to avoid making assumptions and jumping to conclusions about the intent behind actions.

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Craig Bunt @profaginn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Some eDNA fun from last semester: a water sample taken from the Leith, right in the heart of the Otago Uni campus! #eDNA s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wilderlab.op...

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Wilderlab eDNA Sample Report

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Mike Bentley @mikebentley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

These are fantastic small grants for Early Career Researchers working on Antarctic Science projects. Supervisors - please point your students towards them. A huge range of projects and people have been funded over the years.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

UM, I had NO idea facebook was tracking everything I did on the internet. EVERYTHING. I have diligently blocked and followed all ways to try to stop this messed up social media from taking from me, but this is the final straw… THESE JERKS! AGH! [screenshots on how to do it in the comments]

$+ + _jkrow & 2h PLEASE PLEASE disconnect activity tracking on Facebook. It's how they track everything you do off Facebook, every purchase you make, every website you visit so they can make money off your data and serve you more ads. I found out they had my BANK ACCOUNT, credit card, and ovulation tracking information. ! Here's how to deactivate it: 701 123 { 239 V 289 _jkrow " 2h 1. Go to Facebook settings 2. Scroll down to click "Off-Facebook Activity" 3. Login to accounts center 4. Clear previous activity 5. After that, click Manage future activity > Disconnect future activity • • • / 140 Q9 C 21 V 47$

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Phoebe Chapman @phoebechapman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Apparently it’s #penguinawarenessday so here’s a Hoiho (Yellow-eyed penguin) we came across on the Otago Peninsula. #marinelife #birds #newzealand

A penguin standing behind some low herby vegetation with purple and white flowers. The penguin has pale yellow feathers flecking the top of its head, with a yellow band running from each eye around the back of the head. It is pale yellow eyes with pink edges and a red and pink bill.

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Mibs 🦇 @mibyle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I made a teeny tiny doodle idea generator! It's called Doodle Pal, and you can get it on itch for Windows, or directly use it for free in your browser ✨ 🖌️ mibyle.itch.io/doodle-pal

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