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Rob Harcourt

@robharcourt.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof- founded the Marine Predator Research Group @Macquarie_Uni & lead the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System Animal Tracking Facility- always repost research positions in marine & conservation science 🏄🏻‍♂️🤿📸🦭🐬🐠🐟🐢🐧🦈🐋🐳🦑🐙

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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22689/...
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WA fish under threat as seismic blasting slips through the net
The Western Australian government’s move to protect vulnerable species from fishing is undermined by its failure to prevent seismic blasting to explore the region’s gas reserves.
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David Green @davobgreen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Big thanks to my coauthors Sophie Bestley, Clive McMahon, Mary-Anne Lea, @robharcourt.bsky.social, Christophe Guinet and Mark Hindell, and of course @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social, @imos-aus.bsky.social, @imas-utas.bsky.social and @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social for making this work possible. (4/4)
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Can we handle the truth on climate? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Can we handle the truth on climate?
As the latest round of United Nations climate talks were under way at COP30 in Brazil, the Liberal Party finally caved in to the pressure of climate change deniers in the National Party, reminding us ...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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Environment Minister Murray Watt seeking a deal with the Coalition to rewrite our federal environment laws - meaning he'll need the approval of people like Matt Canavan, who recently called for new co...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Zero sense www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Zero sense
Sussan Ley says she’s not worried about upsetting “people in Paris”. It’s a neat way of explaining how little she understands the Paris Agreement, a failure of comprehension so great she seems to beli...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Dear Donald Trump, here’s how you can win that Nobel peace prize | Mehdi Hasan
Make Israel release Marwan Barghouti, the ‘Palestinian Mandela’. The future of peace in the region depends on it
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Albanese’s folly of pandering to Donald Trump www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Albanese’s folly of pandering to Donald Trump
ANALYSIS: The prime minister’s flattery of Donald Trump may be about preserving US relations, but he ought to focus on leaders who will really shape Australia’s future.
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
wow, which common vaccine was it?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is amazing!!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The one-man super scheme www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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The one-man super scheme
Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.
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Kate Sprogis @katesprogis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🐳 Collecting small skin samples from southern right whales to examine questions on genetics, diet, sex and age. With @robharcourt.bsky.social and @emma-carroll.bsky.social. 🔗 tohoravoyages.ac.nz/welcome-to-m... 🇦🇺 #southernrightwhale
Kate Sprogis, Emma Carroll and Rob Harcourt presenting at UWA Albany campusSouthern right whale off Western Australia
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emma-carroll.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Giving a talk on Mirnong Southern Right #Whales @UWA Albany with @robharcourt.bsky.social and Kate Sprogis www.tohoravoyages.ac.nz
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Our latest paper 🐋🐳🌏 x.com/finntasticle...
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Dr Leena Riekkola - @finntasticleena.bsky.social on X: "New paper alert!🚨 Satellite tracking reveals southern right whales🐳feed in key high seas area, outside of existing protections. https://t.co/OGuywyNjUA Funders: @AucklandUni @royalsocietynz LiveOcean @docgovtnz @AntarcticaSouth @iwc_int SORP @Macquarie_Uni RaeFamilyFoundation https://t.co/7naA6zyKj0" / X
New paper alert!🚨 Satellite tracking reveals southern right whales🐳feed in key high seas area, outside of existing protections. https://t.co/OGuywyNjUA Funders: @AucklandUni @royalsocietynz LiveOcean @docgovtnz @AntarcticaSouth @iwc_int SORP @Macquarie_Uni RaeFamilyFoundation https://t.co/7naA6zyKj0
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
theconversation.com/from-sea-ice... 🌊⛄️🌏
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From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them
The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The curse of AUKUS www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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The curse of AUKUS
Probably it is worth remembering a little about Scott Morrison, the man who conceived AUKUS. He is the single worst leader the country has ever had, unique in his venality and unseriousness. He is a m...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The moment for bold climate action is now www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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The moment for bold climate action is now
As I write, I’m listening to the sound of repairs to my home following the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, a rare category 2 system that tracked as far south as the Gold Coast in March, and left a...
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Amazing news! This is why you don’t cut cancer research funding… On the verge of a major cancer treatment breakthrough, with a new vaccine shown to completely obliterate pancreatic cancer cells in preclinical trials. Paves the way for move onto the human trial stage. newatlas.com/cancer/pancr...
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Pancreatic cancer vaccine eradicates trace of disease in early trials
We could be on the verge of a major cancer treatment breakthrough, with a new vaccine shown to completely obliterate pancreatic cancer cells in preclinical trials. This paves the way for it to move on...
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes
Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
How migrating marine megafauna tracks with conservation | Science very proud to be a core @MegaMove_Org author of this very important paper lead by @AnaMMSequeira - we need a dynamic approach to marine conservation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦑🌎🌍🌏
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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
No Aurora tonight but the moon is beautiful 🌔🌙🌏
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This is huge Australian wildlife news. Critically endangered Leadbeaters possums had never been found beyond Victoria, but one has turned up in a New South Wales national park. It may have been there all along. Thank goodness that habitat had been protected biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/first-l...
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First Leadbeater’s possum detection in NSW shows importance of protecting big conservation areas | Biodiversity Council Australia
The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park near the Yarrangobilly Caves. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outs...
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🦑🦈🌏
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‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program
Exclusive: Colin Simpfendorfer’s resignation comes as other members of working group members say state government went against their advice against expanding lethal controls
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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The super tax debate is divorced from reality – and more proof that Australia’s tax system is built for the rich | Greg Jericho
The proposal will affect only 0.5% of people with superannuation and yet you would think the government is about to seize the means of production
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Australia has backed a rapid shift to renewable energy – and given Labor a chance on climate. How will it act?
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hello freedom fans! Ian the climate denialist potato is back – the REAL enemy is renewables!
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia - The Atlantic
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Jayne Sharp @jaynesharp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Can’t believe I blagged an exclusive interview with Katy Perry!
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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Interesting article by @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social in @theglobeandmail.com on the latest calving season for North Atlantic #rightwhales 10 calves, so answering question, not how things are now Great to see Josh Reed's paper on calving issues mentioned @robharcourt.bsky.social 🐳🌍🦑
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Can motherhood help North Atlantic right whales to rise again? Latest calving season offers reasons for hope
Females of reproductive age make all the difference between a species that can bounce back and one that can’t
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Coalition scores just 1/100 points for environment and climate policies from conservation organisation
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We have the answers: “The technology to deliver a rapid transition exists. Wind propulsion technology – yes, sails – can be fitted to existing ships, and much of the sector could soon switch to zero-emission fuels if they were seen as a good investment.” theconversation.com/at-a-pivotal...
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At a pivotal meeting, the world is set to decide how to cut shipping emissions
But some countries are more on board than others.
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Lessons from Chernobyl
Memories of radiation in Europe after the 1986 accident provide a stark lesson for those supporting nuclear power in Australia
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Aussies! Nailed it David Pope!
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wild seas off Sydney today - Mother Nature showing her raw power 📸
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
election2025.climatecouncil.org.au 🌏
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Show our kids we fought for their future - Climate Council - Donate now
Your donation will help Australians understand what’s at stake, see through the lies, and know how to put climate - and our kids - first on polling day.
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/03/2025
Goldman on Waltz's absurd explanation of SignalGate: "It is absolutely preposterous, but what it goes to show is when you are lying you can't keep a story straight."
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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Russian hackers compromised Signal, and the Pentagon and Hegseth were aware. Steve Witkoff was in Russia when he participated in the Signal group chat about Yemen, making things even more convenient for the Kremlin. Tulsi Gabbard was also in the chat, so she could have relayed information as well.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As @amoneyresists.bsky.social pointed out, Elon Musk is a mass murderer.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
❤️ 🇨🇦
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The honeymoon is over for Trump, whose every misstep brings chaos and strife
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/03/2025
"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One of these things is not like the other.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
There are Christians who won’t lie to enable an adulterous rapist. Mike Johnson is not one of them.
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Rob Harcourt @robharcourt.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Musk calls social security a ‘Ponzi scheme’. The real con is what Trump’s peddling
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