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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thanks Euan, looking forward to listening after work. I'm sure you did amazing! And am right there with you hoping I did her justice too, while never having written an obituary before 🙈

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Absolutely. Forever grateful for all the ways she's inspired so many of us 💚

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Jane Goodall showed the world there is an important place for emotion, empathy & advocacy in science. Her unconventional approach revolutionized our understanding of the other beings we share Earth with. Here's my tribute. Vale Jane Goodall 💔 Thank you for all you gave humanity! 🧪🌏 #NatureWriting

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World-Renowned Primatologist Jane Goodall Passes Away at 91

Jane Goodall, one of the world's most beloved primatologists and conservationists, passed away from natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Yep, that's spot on. It's not a lack of access to information, it's tribal loyalty, which has become even more of a factor the more polarized our societies have become.

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These 4 Factors Can Explain Why So Many People Are Rejecting Science

Distrust of science is a massive problem.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Especially challenging when researchers are on the other side of the world so you're not even in the same time zone to ask them for it 😂😅

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I loved it and was shattered they didn't continue it!

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Gen Conway @trigonotarbida.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Got the proper scan of the graphite drawing of the Gariwerd/Grampians sandstone outcrop :) #landscape #graphite #grampians #gariwerd #geology

Graphite illustration of looking up an eroded sandstone rock face with some vegetation on it

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Gorgeous work! 😍 Really enjoy seeing a familiar landscape represented so beautifully 😊

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

When politicians at all levels of Govt refuse to address the needs of their constituents - housing, health, education, economic concerns - it leads to people being vulnerable to those who will exploit them for their own interests & agendas That's we we're seeing today #auspol

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Woah!! What an utterly incredible perspective of coral 😍 🧪🦑🌿 Looks like alien art, but it's a very real and intimate view of Cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya) looking up from its base towards its fractal tips. Australian Geographic 2025 photo competition Winner 🎉 📷 Ross Gudgeon

$Thick, pale pink trunks textured with short, darker pink wriggly lines, branching into fractals towards the middle of the image, leafed with spiky white polyps at their tips.$

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ha! My honors paper is on here. I don't believe authors hold copyright to academic journal articles though, unfortunately. Anyone with other publications here definitely has a case against this predatory company though!

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Lovely tribute 😊 I only just finally watched the last season. As soon as I realized their plan for the farm I bawled 🤣 So good!!

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

There's a massive flock here in Abbotsford atm, along the river, like 50 or more. Way larger than I've seen in previous years.

Three black cockatoos with bright yellow cheek patches drinking from a puddle in an almost empty concrete casting pool.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Anera provide medical care in Gaza, and food through local community kitchens, when they can get supplies. They are treating the people Isreal is starving to death. support.anera.org/a/palestine-... Interview below provides insight into the current situation from a local aid worker.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"With... nutrient supplements no longer available as the siege grinds into a third month, our health and nutrition staff... sought an alternative with ingredients still at hand – and hit upon utilizing date paste to make an alternative form of nutritional support" www.anera.org/blog/gaza-an...

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

bsky.app/profile/aner... This group has incredible staff on the ground who were very resourceful and innovative when supplies were cut off.

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Tom Isaacson @parsley72.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Has anyone tried opening the Overton window to let some fresh air in?

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Dread @dreadful4x.blacksky.app · 16/07/2025

And I’ll die on this fucking hill. If you believe people have to pay for what you consider a “human right” then you do not believe it is indeed a human right. You believe it’s a privilege for those who can afford it.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

You're most definitely a very effective science communicator who happens to use illustrations, so I think that for sure counts as a modern science illustrator. You've totes got this!!! 🙂

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Find it helps a li'l knowing many are fake. 1000s of fake accounts can swarm at posts using key words like vaccines/climate. They're there to make it feel like we're in the minority, muddy the information and unfortunately it's effective, but many are not genuine pple www.ipie.info/research/sr2...

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Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review

Synthesis Report - Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If I can sum up what just happened as neatly as possible: a Federal Court judge found the Australian government had ignored climate science when setting emissions targets, appeared to want to find for the applicants, but said his hands were tied by the law of negligence in Australia. /1

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Ok, that makes more sense, its just my fact obsessed brain having trouble accepting that facts aren't enough as usual 🤣 Thanks heaps for explaining! 🙂

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Ahh... ok, this is why so much of it sounded contradictory. So the ruling was essentially more about this level of our court system not having the power to set such precedents rather than if its the govs responsibility or not?

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Not well versed in law, but so much of the ruling seemed extremely contradictory. Like gov ignored the best available science yet decision were science based. The acknowledgment that we do have an impact on climate collectively yet those making the collective decisions are not responsible. UGH.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

So much same! Not sure what age my head thinks I am but it's definitely not the age I actually am 😅

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

That's way safer for your technology than slamming a laptop shut in fury 😅

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I've been slacking on the sea slug skeets. Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts

A tiny nudibranch, textured white, silver and grey. Bright and sparkling against a dark backdrop of brown algal turf

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Some of us need to fight within the system, some of us need to create new systems, some us need to tend the wounded, some of us need to stand in the way of harm, and all of us need to support the ones doing the things that is not, right now, our thing to do. Good thing there are a lot of us.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Haha, that's what I suspected might be the case, but I've managed to stay on top of it so far. Good luck undoing the too long on yours! And thank you 😊

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Same! I'm obsessed. I now want to collect all the colors 😂

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Perhaps? Have a three month wait for a specialist to tell me which fun new flavor of broken I am 😂

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thank you! I was ok, the bowl I was holding took most the impact. And yeah that does sound like one of the contenders.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I did finally plant up my little garden bed with natives in between naps. Surprised to finding weeding quite meditative so far (I'm sure I'll get sick of it at some point though, lol). Loving the little bursts of #WildOz colors though 🥰

Small raised garden bed planted with young kangaroo paws, grevillea, happy wanderer, paper daisies.

Close up of bright pink and orange pea flower

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Y'all it's not just in my head!! I have measurable tachycardia when I stand. Smashed my glass coffee table top collapsing after one attempt 😅 Post exertion malaise, brain fog etc continue. Having a tough time accepting how debilitating this is. Sorry to everyone I haven't responded to in ages 🙈

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It's certainly necessary, but are there any schemes that legitimately work at scale though? (aside from rewilding). There weren't when I last looked into it, but I'm definitely out of date in this area.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

IT'S FINISHED! The Art of #InverteFest April 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 86 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1JvEx...

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a bristle worm, octopus, butterfly, and so on.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

wish election booth lines really did look like this 😂

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Absolutely this! Disengaged would most likely go path of least resistance: vote as they have before (high chance that = major parties). Disengaged means apathetically ticking boxes, not actively searching for alternatives/protesting a system they don't feel is working for them with dick picks etc.

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

They occasionally hitch a ride on the wind and end up in NZ too 😝

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

But then what would eat all the flies and other troublesome insects?

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So cool! Looks more like our northern tropical species, Nephila pilipes 🙂

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tessa @tesskou.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Here you can see a trail of detritus she stores on her web, some of it a larder for times of scarcity, but these caches also include plant materials. So researchers suspect the rotting vegetation may lure more prey.

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