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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 2h

#science #climate 🧪

IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 3h

📣 Last days to apply as a Chapter Scientist to support author teams for IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report.

The deadline for applications is 18 October 2025.

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

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BenB 🇺🇦 @benborges.xyz · 2h

Evacuation zone expanded in Kharkiv Oblast as Russian forces advance near Kupiansk
In total, 601 children from 409 families are to be relocated to safer areas.

Evacuation zone expanded in Kharkiv Oblast as Russian forces advance near Kupiansk

kyivindependent.com

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 2h

Fortunately… #science. cosmosmagazine.com/health/medic...

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 3h

“There’s a metal cylinder lodged in Arthur’s rectum.” Welcome back @RFDS

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 3h

I’m going to buy this book, but shake my head at the prospect of bookshops competing against global players who, among other things, don’t pay tax.

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #abc730 why a profile of the sad dorks of the young Liberal Party of NSW? Why not a profile of the young greens or young socialists. Also why talk up Freya Leach as one half of a ‘power couple’ (sqwawk), and not mention her hosting a Zionist wearing bacon on SkyNews and getting cancelled?

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 17h

The toxic misogyny has been a reliable throughline of the Trump Era since 2015.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 1d

Russian aerial attack hits a Ukrainian hospital, days before Zelenskyy meets Trump

Russian forces launched powerful glide bombs and drones against Ukraine’s second-largest city in overnight attacks, hitting a hospital and wounding seven people, an official said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to travel to Washington and ask U.S. President Donald Trump for more American military help.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to @abcnews radio news on the release of "Israeli hostages" and "Palestinian prisoners" and the "end of the war" and I'm really sick to death of this whitewashed pro-Israel biased shit that is genocide denial and dehumanizes Palestinians. #auspol #GazaHolocaust

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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 1d

ICE are the #TrumpNaziGestapo, wake up, this is not normal run of the mill arrest and deport people who are dangerous. They are here to intimidate and instill fear on Americans. All the signs of fascism are here in America. Stop them. #DV1 #ProudBlue
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Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 1d

cosmosmagazine.com/health/medic... #science #health #cancer

Nanoparticle vaccine preventa cancer spread in mice

A nanoparticle system for delivering vaccines has been shown to reduce the spread of melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer in mice.

cosmosmagazine.com

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 1d

Community independents will thrive

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

As of now there is nothing Albanese's govt has done that has changed the country in any structural way.

No change at all to how the fundamental debates of the nation are addressed.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

"It is a sadistic game. A merry-go-round of death. This ceasefire, like those of the past, is a commercial break. A moment when the condemned man is allowed to smoke a cigarette before being gunned down in a fusillade of bullets."
— Chris Hedges
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Trump’s sham peace plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

johnmenadue.com

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Spokesperson for Sussan Ley and Ted O'Brien (PhD). @peterduttonsays.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to think of something funny about protesting the NWS but I got nothing. I can't watch TV or listen to radio today. This is the single largest load of bullshit I think I have ever witnessed western media and politics legitimise. Humanity doesn't get much worse.

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 2d

How in JSMill's name is this Japan's fault. They bought a commodity at a price agreed with seller. What they do with it is up to them. The problem is Govt taxation regime. #Auspol

fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 2d

#australia is being badly screwed by foreign multinationals " Japanese companies were reselling about half as much as they import from the Australian market, driving more than $1bn in profit" #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia must ‘have the guts’ to stand up to Japanese companies reselling gas for profit, Husic says

Labor backbencher is calling for drastic intervention to secure supplies for the east coast

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 2d

Community independents will thrive

LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 2d

They already have haven't they!
And of course as we now know, PM Albanese is the head of the gambling lobbyist peak body the Parliamentary Sports Club, so not a stretch for him!

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 2d

I said to my mate: "He'll get it next year for Gaza War, because thats how the rich and influential skways work." Mate's reply: "Not if he causes a civil war in the US." There's quite a bit in that.

gwenoc.bsky.social @gwenoc.bsky.social · 2d

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Kenbehren @lyns84.bsky.social · 2d

and there will be many more in quick succession. Climate change is real, and the results will be increasingly catastrophic.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ — Guardian Australia

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 3d

Dear PM @albomp.bsky.social,
Thousands of Australians marched in solidarity with Palestine again today. In the last 2yrs they've learned the truth of Zionist Israel: the Nakba, occupation, West Bank settlements, Gaza blockade and genocide. AND your Govt's complicity. #auspol #SanctionIsrael

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Michael Hutchesson @dapperraptor.bsky.social · 3d

I was worried that support for Palestine might wane a bit with the "ceasefire" announcement... but my wife just sent me these from the March for Gaza in Adelaide (where we live)... And other pics from at least the other AU cities are similarly large crowds... which is wonderful... Keep it up all!

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 3d

❗️Explosions were heard at night in 🇷🇺Smolensk near an aircraft factory that produces Kh-59 guided missiles. There were also reports of a threat of a drone attack.

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 3d

The problem isn’t who borders Israel; it is Israel itself - a state built on theft, sustained by deception, and driven by an obsession with domination disguised as “defence.”

open.substack.com/pub/georgeha...

Zionism’s Endless War for Control

Israel’s aggression isn’t born of circumstance or security, but from an ideology that thrives on fear, domination, and the perpetual need to conquer.

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 3d

we’re about to get a data centre in Launceston

NO discussion about the resources it’ll consume or how that will flow thru to the community in terms of cost

talk is all ‘jobs‘ but I understand that once built (contractors from the mainland?) it’ll need fewer than 50 to operate

#politas #auspol

Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 3d

‘…data centres are massive operations requiring huge amounts of land, water and power. But not for the purpose of supporting anything that’s alive. By 2035, it’s estimated that these centres could be using a quarter of Sydney’s water supply for cooling purposes.’

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...

theshot.net.au

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 3d

Schemozzle.

An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 3d

Chaos is so exhausting

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.

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