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Tim Barlow

@timbarlow.bsky.social
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i do #botany, #ecology, #grasslands, #wetlands, #floodplains, #agro-ecology & email in SE Australia. 👍 For social justice. 🐘 @TimBarlow@ecoevo.social 🐤@TimBarlow3

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Peter Raven RIP. Almost all work in plant biodiversity and conservation has been influenced in some way by his contributions to the field. 🌏🧪🌐
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Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...
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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Mycena subcyanocephala, a tiny, bright blue mushroom species, was discovered in the tropical forests of Taiwan.
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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The tiniest font should be named "unsubscribe".
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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
hello peeps! If you happen to live in Kansas or nearby, and are interested in how novel grazing technology (remote-controlled cattle!) have advance conservation goals in economically viable ways, come to our workshop!
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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In good news the three people unaccounted for in the fires have been found safe per ABC
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This.....
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
But at least we might get a submarine in 30 yrs time
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks” Just contemplate that sentence. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999
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go follow @news.abc.net.au @abc-news.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/tasm…
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Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland
A sheep farmer has welcomed the restoration of an internationally significant wetland on his property outside of Hobart. The collaboration of a non-profit organisation with landowners, scientists, the Aboriginal community and governments has allowed the return of a vital ecosystem.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Second deadliest attack on journalists in history, and I haven’t seen it reported by any of Australia’s biggest media outlets
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This article is a part of the Special Issue “Biological invasions in plant communities”. Thanks to the wonderful guest editors who were super helpful. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If you have to lie to make your point, your point isn't worth making.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
When the duck has a sinus infection, the obvious thing to do (apparently) is give it a warm bath 🙃
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Machine learning being used productively! theconversation.com/botanical-ti...
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Botanical time machines: AI is unlocking a treasure trove of data held in herbarium collections
Advances in imaging, text recognition and machine learning are transforming what can be done with collections of plants and fungi in herbaria and museums globally.
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If everyone could repost this, it would help me out tremendously! I know everyone may not have the means to donate, but sharing helps too! #VetMedSky #MedSky #ResearchSky #VetMed #Academics 🦇🐦🧪🐶🐱🌎
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"We make students ready for the job market. But without the tools to think deeply, imagine ethically and reason clearly, we risk leaving them soul-starved." theconversation.com/top-australi...
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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Unreal! I have 3 recent science grads (1x Vet, 2x Ag) in the house atm. Not one of them has ever heard of a pivot table. WTF??
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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
As B.C. grapples with summer wildfires, the provincial government needs to understand that in a changing climate, continued industrial logging will make these fires worse. #climate #wildfire #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nearly a third of forests in northeast B.C. could burn by year's end: province | CBC News
Nearly 30 per cent of the forested land base in the Prince George Fire Centre, which covers B.C.'s northeast, is likely to burn by the end of this year, according to the province.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#auspol #Australia #mushrooms #media #racism
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NPR @npr.org · 09/07/2025
The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.
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U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports
The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
@davidjgibson.bsky.social Mushroom woman found guilty on all counts! www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...
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Live: Jury finds Erin Patterson guilty of three counts of murder
The jury in Erin Patterson's triple-murder trial has found her guilty of murdering three relatives by deliberately lacing a beef Wellington lunch with death cap mushrooms. Follow live.
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NOAA Climate.gov @climate.noaa.gov · 27/06/2025
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Addressing climate & ecological breakdown is ultimately a social problem not a technical one Which means that, for most of us, understanding the psychology of collective climate action is more important than understanding climate science Free download www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/06/2025
At @rewirenewsgroup.com, we published this piece about how professors across the country are fighting Trump’s fascist takeover of higher ed. It’s definitely worth reading!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/06/2025
1. People seem upset that I associated the language in Trump’s Gold Standard Science executive order with the science reform movement, in this Guardian piece. “Trump would have attacked science anyway” Of course. But it’s not Trump that is the biggest concern. It’s the courts.
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science
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Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We're delighted to announce the reappointment of @jwmorganecology.bsky.social and @markooiecol.bsky.social as Co-Editors-in-Chief of Australian Journal of Botany! Their continued leadership ensures the journal remains at the forefront of botanical research in Australia and beyond 🌱 📖
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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Spot on
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Nike has cancelled fmr AOTY Grace Tame as a brand ambassador because of pro-Palestinian posts?! So, Nike opposes human rights and supports genocide?! Good to know. #IStandWithGrace #BoycottNike #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine
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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In the Western Eurasian steppes, ancient nomadic burial mounds are refuges for native grassland biodiversity. Eerie similarities to the tallgrass prairie plants that hang on in Midwest graveyards www.currentconservation.org/how-do-ancie...
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How do ancient burial mounds promote steppe conservation in Eurasia? | Current Conservation
Current Conservation How do ancient burial mounds promote steppe conservation in Eurasia?
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Shoals now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event
Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise
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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Great read from Richard Flanagan on the AFL stadium. Original budget $375 million, now $1.86 billion, for just 7 games a year, in breach of all planning and heritage laws, opposed by 70% of Tasmanians. Truly unconscionable by the AFL. #auspol #afl www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20890/...
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Tasmania in crisis over billion-dollar AFL stadium
The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a stadium that will bankrupt the state.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I absolutely did not enjoy reading this - is it a harbinger of what’s to come, or confirming what has arrived already? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Stephen Venn @stiivi1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Palaearctic Grasslands 64 is published at: edgg.org/sites/defaul.... It includes the second call of the XX Eurasian Grassland Conference, which is also directly available as an article at: edgg.org/sites/defaul...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Here's how we know this EO is a SNEAKY sinister thing: 1. When Trump wants people to know about something, it is very public. 2. It was released on the Friday evening of a holiday weekend 3. Cloaked under piles of sciencey language 4. First thing this morning, loud and proud: RFK's vax rollback
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
How do different deer species affect woody vegetation? Understanding that not all deer are the same is essential to effective forest management and restoration. 🧪🌏 Summary thread below ->
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A scoping review of evidence for the effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation
This scoping review summarises the current evidence for ecological effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation, with a focus on the evenness of study across deer species, global distribu...
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
For Aus botanists / ecologists: a recording of the recent function to celebrate the life of one of Australia's most eminent ecologists, Dr Bob Parsons - mentor to many, avid stamp collector, and mad Tigers fan, is available here: aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Robert 'Bob' Parsons memorial, 14 May 2025
Robert 'Bob' Parsons memorial 2.00pm, 14 May 2025 Latrobe Golf course, Alphington 00:00:46:00 - Welcome, Paul Trunoff 00:02:48:00 - Sandra Parsons 00:11:39:00 - Jack Parsons 00:23:30:00 - Philip Keane, Botanist 00:43:06:00 - David Wood, Philatelist 00:51:44:00 - Liz Parsons 01:04:22:00 - Neil Hallam, long-time friend 01:11:58:13 - Photo montage 01:30:31:21 - Liz’s altar 01:31:46:20 - Program 01:32:07:13 - Philip Keane’s botany notes and articles list
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode. A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Brumby cull makes way for 'magical landscape change' in national park
Native vegetation returns in abundance to Victoria's Barmah National Park in an "amazing" rebound an ecologist says has never been witnessed before.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Buffel kerfuffle: should the invasive grass be listed as a weed of national significance in Australia?
Invasive buffel grass is destroying native rangelands and increasing bushfire risk, but farmers say eradicating it would ‘cripple the beef industry’
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Many things are bad (some are even historically awful), but sleep deprivation from doomscrolling makes everything worse. Try not to stay up too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Earless dragons were presumed extinct in Australia – now Daisy and Kip have sniffed out 13 of them
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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Future of Ecological Research with Prof. Mark Westoby | EcolClips youtu.be/93e5iDjzL2o?... #PlantScience #Ecology 🧪🪴🌿🏔️
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The Future of Ecological Research with Prof. Mark Westoby | EcolClips
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
And here we go.....
Smoke billowing from a new bushfire ( see next image) Bushire some 12 hrs after ignition, burning through forested ridges and valleys at night
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“It feels like if nothing is done to prevent this administration from dismantling our public lands and the support behind them, we could very well lose access to the trails, the mountains, the forests and the wildlife that we all love so dearly.” mountainjournal.org/cascading-ef...
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‘A Cascading Effect’: Forest Service, Park Service Workers who Lost Jobs Amid Mass Layoffs Explain Rippling Fallout
Five nationwide unions representing federal employees have gone to court in an attempt to stop workforce reductions.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A few lightening strikes last night caused some fires to deal with today. This huey is dropping 4000l (2.5 trucks' worth) every 3 mins
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Look Dad! I found a ball of needles"
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