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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Labor’s candidate was a lobbyist for Woodside (a fact the ABC didn’t feel was worth mentioning when listing three mistakes). Do you think they’ll learn the lesson that people don’t want to vote for people who shill for polluting, tax dodging corporations? One can hope I guess…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I wonder why there’s no snow @news.abc.net.au? Do scientists have anything to say about how the climate might be changing? A shame you didn’t have room to mention that anywhere in your article (on which you don’t allow comments).

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Story about drought and El Niño with no mention of climate change and comments turned off. Remember when we used to go to rallies to save the ABC? Who’d bother now? Also, fuck animal agriculture- if you can grow feed for cows, grow human food instead and none of this matters.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

What needs to be made clear about this is that Joyce happily declared on national TV that he wanted to repossess millions of people’s homes, until a minder told him it was a bad look.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Will the same media pundits who’ve spent the last week hounding Albo about his broken promise on CGT have anything to say about this much more harmful broken promise?

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’m often on crowded trains where 75% of the passengers are PoC and think “Libs/ON would want to deport these people, forgetting they pay the taxes that fund these trains so they can run at all”. Then I remember I’m a child of a migrant, fewer generations in aus than most of those passengers (1/2)

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band They’re likely to be giants

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If you go to pub trivia in Australia regularly for more than 10 years all the interesting questions will have been used up.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

So Angus Taylor says lack of access to oil means we need to dig up coal and gas? Does he not know they do different things? At least it seems to make more sense than ScoMo saying we needed to mine gas to fix Covid, but when all you want is fossil fuel lobbyist money I guess that’s all you think of.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So apparently the government doesn’t have to wait a week to acknowledge that bombs are bad? This must come as a surprise to those who were protesting in Perth on Jan 26th.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

So innovative of Angus Taylor, as a new conservative leader, to immediately make “we hate foreigners” front and centre of his agenda. I wonder how he came up with it? The depths of ideas in the mind of the modern right winger really does know no bounds.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Queue “we were always at war with East Asia” from the leaders of the ‘free world’.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Wow, this is about the best ad ever.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Something I love about science is using mundane objects for another purpose and ordering numbers of them that would seem silly for their intended purpose. Why yes, I would like $200 worth of frat-boy-solo-cups please!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

@alexschmidty.bsky.social oh no - Preston wouldn’t want his beloved USPIS doing this!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

So apparently the biggest panic in #auspol today is a warmongering dictator might want to base military assets in a neighbouring country, while the fact that we’re paying hundreds of billions to have a different warmongering dictator base military assets here is totally fine. Cool cool.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Don’t forget, they can agree on using taxpayers money to prop up the fossil fuel industry too.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

So this thing that was big on Facebook in 2011 is now a thing here - hooray!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Weird thing that I’m into as a scientist - scientific papers that start with esoteric history of the subject. Like a paper on pesticides that mentions how Pliny the Elder had things to say on the subject. Adds very little value but for some reason it tickles me.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just checking, has the war in Ukraine ended yet?

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Does Facebook have its equivalent of Bluesky, i.e. a fairly similar platform that isn’t owned by a billionaire funding and promoting a racist climate denying demagogue? As much as FB isn’t what it once was, a lot of groups there are very useful, would love if I could find that elsewhere…

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I’m also old enough to remember BoJo saying before the ‘advisory’ vote that we’d still be able to live and work in the EU whatever happened. But apparently now, having that freedom would be ‘anti-democratic’.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is beautiful- and a reminder of what we could have if the UK government weren’t such cowards about undoing a harmful and entirely politically motivated Brexit.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It’s publication time! In this paper, we tried to test whether new generation, high resolution land cover maps could track wildlife distribution well enough to be used to monitor efficacy in agri-environnement schemes. But did we find that? 🧵

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Project MUSE - Use of Remotely Mapped Land Cover Features as a Proxy for Irish Bird and Butterfly Abundance and Distribution

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Not an original statement I’m sure, but by the gods, graphical abstracts are such a useless waste of time. Damn all the journals that make them compulsory.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

After not publishing anything* in 2023 today I woke up to an email telling me I had one paper accepted, followed by another telling me another needed only minor revisions for publication. If I can keep this rate up throughout 2024 it’ll certainly make up for last year.

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