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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The #NDIS bill is before parliament this week. The bill in its proposed form is terrifying and invalidating to the lived experience of people around the country, but we can all do something about it right now. #ProtectOurNDIS #DisabilityRights

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Happy National Eucalypt Day! I summarised 100 years' of eucalypt data from the Atlas of Living Australia as a landscape #EucalyptoftheYear #rstats @eucalyptaus.bsky.social 📊🧪 See more here: shandiya.com/dataviz.html...

This is a stylised landscape with the sea in the foreground, which is in shades of dark blue with ripples on it, and seven hills in shades of brown, orange, and yellow in the middle ground. The background is of a night sky, with a thin crescent moon and stars in an ascending pattern from left to right.

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Australian Entomological Society @austentsoc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Host a Invertebrates Australia bug lantern and help scientists understand the Bogong moth’s vital migration: Invertebrates Australia provides training, equipment, and support, with expressions of interest due by February 22. buff.ly/WENmzuq

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here: daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w... All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

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A guide to writing good code for the busy scientist

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

@daxkellie.bsky.social on why writing good code as scientists can be difficult - many of us are not formally trained to do it. However, there are a few easy steps we can take to improve our code! The ALA also has resources to help: labs.ala.org.au/posts/ labs.ala.org.au/books/ 🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats

A slide with a comic on it by Alex Norris, which illustrates the disconnect between an artist's imagination and abiliy to execute their vision. The title of the slide is "Good code doesn't just magically happen"

A summary slide that describes some steps scientists can take to improve their coding practices

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The person reading your code is most likely to be future-you, so if you think about it, learning good coding practices is self care #ESA2025

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We’re at #ESA2025! Come to the Atlas of Living Australia booth, located conveniently by the coffee cart! Come grab a hex sticker and say hi to me & @shandiya.bsky.social while you’re there 😀☕️

Shandiya and me holding stickers in front of a poster. We are holding fun hex stickers and generally full of excitement

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

@shandiya.bsky.social shows how huge data infrastructures like the ALA also show what we *don’t* know about biodiversity, but how Data Mobilisation programs & our new {galaxias} package can help people provide data to fill the gaps 👇👀 www.ala.org.au/abdmp/ galaxias.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #ESA2025 #rstats

A slide from Shandiya’s talk with a green hex map of Australia on a beige background. The map shows areas with lots of data are near cities, but areas with less data are near deserts

A slide from Shandiya’s talk. Shows purple squares with stats of how much data a Data Mobilisation Program project of Click Beetles added to the ALA

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GBIF @gbif.org · 22/10/2025

(1) 🥁 Announcing the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winners! First place: 🥇 @rukayaj.bsky.social (@gbifnorway.bsky.social) for BDQEmail Sharing first place: 🥇 @daxkellie.bsky.social, Amanda Buyan, @shandiya.bsky.social and @rowdynerd.bsky.social (Atlas of Living Australia) for galaxias!

Collage photo of the ALA galaxias development team

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SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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WOMBAT 2026 @wombat.numbat.space · 28/08/2025

You know what they say: the early bird gets the WOMBAT. 🦚 Early Bird registration ends in just a few days! wombat2025.numbat.space

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BirdLife Australia @birdlifeoz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦 Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike 🔗 hanzab.birdlife.org.au #BirdLifeAustralia #Birds

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WOMBAT 2026 @wombat.numbat.space · 12/08/2025

🕰️ Take the time to come to this tutorial by Mitchell O’Hara-Wild. Use the tidyverse to manipulate time series data and fable to create models in a timely fashion. Don't be late! Early bird discount ends 31st of August! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #RStats

WOMBAT 2025 - Tutorial

Mitchell O’Hara-Wild - Tidy time series analysis and forecasting

29-30 September 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
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Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Free Online Forum on the Hottest Topics in Policy and Ecology only two days away! Speakers and full program have been announced 👇 Details: 🐛 Free (Registration necessary) ⏰️ Tuesday 12 August 2025 🐝 Online: tinyurl.com/mt8n3ubw Hosted by @hollykirk.bsky.social #ecology #conservation #forum

Hosted by Holly Kirk, Speakers include Dr Eric Nordberg & Dr Kit Pendergast

Speakers include Darcy Watchorn, Dr Michelle Wille, Paul Williams

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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 06/08/2025

On July 31st Israeli settlers demolished the Palestinian National Seed bank in Hebron. It housed precious heirloom seeds, protecting local crops from loss & extinction, offered tech support to farmers & supported food security for the Palestinian people.

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It’s National Tree Day!* 🌴🌳🌲📊 I visualised patterns of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years as tree rings for 4 iconic Australian species: Mountain Ash, Snow Gum, Moreton Bay Fig, and River Red Gum #rstats *well, two days ago but who’s counting

A two-by-two grid with concentric circles of different colours and thicknesses in each, representing numbers of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years. The rings resemble cross sections of trees, and each is set against a different brightly coloured background.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

After decades of advocacy, Murujuga has finally been recognised under UNESCO World Heritage status - A powerful win for Raelene Cooper and the Ngarda Ngarli Peoples who fought relentlessly to protect their Country.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 11/07/2025

Imagine the public outcry and Murdoch media beat-up if Australia allowed the China lobby to define sinophobia then enacted censorship on the PRC's behalf. Yet that's exactly what's happening with Israel and antisemitism.

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It's #WorldRainforestDay! 🌴 Australia's Gondwana Rainforests hold examples of major evolutionary & geological stages dating ~359 mya, including the largest surviving population of Araucarians (the most phylogenetically primitive species of conifer) 👴 Code & high-res 📷 👇 #rstats #dataviz 📊🧪🌏🌳

A visual snapshot of Gondwana Rainforests’ biodiversity. The visual has a green background. On the left is a map of east Australia, showing the location of Gondwana Rainforests in upper NSW, lower QLD (highlighted in red/orange). On the right is a bubble chart showing images of the most observed species in that area of bird, mammal/marsupial, plant, invertebrate and fungus. The images are ordered by the number of observations they have

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Emily McLeod 🍉 @emilymmcl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Wonderful to share our research at #ICCB2025 showing how promoting captive animal experiences that prioritise animal agency can increase participation intent and positive attitudes towards the venue.

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Society for Conservation Biology Oceania @scboceania.org · 19/06/2025

If you can’t wait for the next ICCB - We are thrilled to announce that the next SCB Oceania conference will be held in Nov 2026 together with @newzealandecology.bsky.social in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ! #NZES_SCBO2026 #ICCB2025 confer.eventsair.com/2026-nzes-sc...

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Anthony Richardson talks through Shinyplanr, a shiny app for accelerating development of conservation plans by lowering barriers for stakeholders to engage in realtime #iccb2025 #rstats

Slide describing Shinyplanr, a shiny app for facilitating real time engagement by stakeholders

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Konstantina Spiliopoulou describes the nuances involved in identifying key biodiversity areas using Greece as a case study and introduces KBAscope, an R package for identifying KBAs #iccb2025 #rstats

Slide showing information about KBAscope, an R package for identifying KBAs

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Robyn James from The Nature Conservancy discusses how our interactions with natural resources are not gender-neutral: capitalist-based conservation systems primarily benefit men, which can lead to inequity in programs and policy #ICCB2025

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Louisa Warren from CSIRO gives practical guidance around working with Indigenous communities and acknowledging the rights of Indigenous peoples #iccb2025

Slide describing what is Indigenous research

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Salanieta Kitolelei giving a fascinating talk on traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness in Fijian communities in the context of evaluating climate-resilience attributes #ICCB2025

A slide with examples of ecological knowledge and disaster preparedness among communities in Fiji. The speaker is in the foreground

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#ICCB2025 Dhananjaya Katju talks about how climate change is affecting the behaviour of Asiatic Black Bears: warmer weather + access to new food sources means they're spending time squatting in apple orchards in the Kashmir Valley, increasing human-bear conflict

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Martin Westgate @martin-westgate.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Our tools to support open science workflows: - galah for getting data programmatically with a DOI galah.ala.org.au - ALA labs for analytics & visualisation tips labs.ala.org.au - galaxias for publishing data to GBIF via your local node galaxias.ala.org.au

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Check out the slides here: shandiya.quarto.pub/iccb2025 or get in contact if you want to talk all things reproducible science! 🧪

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

#ICCB2025 Plenary speaker Ricky Archer is speaking about an Indigenous-led approach to looking after Country. Departments come and go, but Traditional Owners have always been looking after Country and always will

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It's day 1 of #ICCB2025! Excited to be speaking in the Biodiversity Inventories session this morning at 10.30am - come along if you want to know about tools and resources to support open science research practices 🧪🌏

An image os a slide with the title, author names, and affiliated logos in the foreground. The background is a set of radiating rings from the middle, in different colours

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Emily McLeod 🍉 @emilymmcl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Excited for all the chats at #ICCB2025! Find me: ➡️Sharing my research on wildlife tourism behaviours on Wed 18 @ 11:35am in the Social Sciences & Conservation session ➡️ Presenting Zoos Victoria’s Image Guidelines at the Designing Social Media Imagery Guidelines for Conservation forum on Sat 14

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

These penguins are seriously unimpressed by your recent approval of the North West Shelf Gas Project (climate bomb), @albomp.bsky.social & Senator Watt. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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Emperor penguin populations shrink by almost a quarter

Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming melts their icy habitat, researchers say.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Justice for Kumanjayi White: Snap Rally - Friday 6 June - 5:30pm - Victorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, Melbourne Last week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A little late to the party, but this is my #dataviz for World Parrot Day using data from the Atlas of Living Australia. This was inspired by @andrea-data.bsky.social's longlisted entry to the Information Is Beautiful Awards. #rstats 🪶🧪📊

A loose flock of birds in the sky, each representing parrot records from the Atlas of Living Australia. Three small hills in the foreground are in shades of green, and the sky looks like a sunset in soft shades of pink and blue

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in 2 weeks! * Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social * Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data #conservation #rstats 🧪🌏

A screenshot of a hex sticker with a stylised galah on it in shades of grey and pink. The background is in shades of blue-green in a sunburst pattern radiating from behind the galah. There is text spelling out the name of the package, "galah", and the url for the Atlas of Living Australia, ala.org.au.

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 16/05/2024

hi scientists 🧪 i'd love to hear your thoughts on bluesky! • what groups/people in science aren't here yet, that you want to see? • what can bluesky do to make it a better place for science comms? • what external tools do you use that should integrate bluesky support? • anything else!

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Thousands show up in Naarm / Melbourne for the Easter Sunday Land Day march in solidarity with Palestinians #CeasefireNow

People Marching down a main street in the CBD of Naarm / Melbourne in solidarity with Palestinians. People are holding signs and flags in support of Palestine and calling for a ceasefire

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Thousands gather and march together in Naarm/Melbourne at the Free Palestine Palm Sunday Rally. We march for an end to the genocide, for a lifting of the siege, for the opening of borders, for the right of return, and for refugee justice.

People gathered in the CBD of Naarm/ Melbourne, holding banners and signs calling for a ceasefire, an end to the genocide, and refugee justice.

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Week after week after week, thousands and thousands and thousands continue to protest the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Protesters in Naarm / Melbourne calling for a #CeasefireNow

People marching down a street in the CBD of Naarm/Melbourne, many holding signs of protest at the genocide in Palestine

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Thousands gather in Naarm/Melbourne again in support of a free Palestine #CeasefireNow

People marching down a main street in the CBD of Naarm/Melbourne in support of a ceasefire in Palestine. There are many flags being waved

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