Ja9 🏳️🌈
@ja9evans.bsky.social
Living on Djabugay Country, far north Queensland.
-> PhD candidate (Environmental History) @JCU, Yirriganydji Country, Cairns, Australia.
-> Researching the history of botanical illustration...and more.
-> PhD candidate (Environmental History) @JCU, Yirriganydji Country, Cairns, Australia.
-> Researching the history of botanical illustration...and more.
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Pretty funny that the party who fights culcha wars for Aussie flag thongs in supermarkets on Australia Day sold our gas to tax dodging foreign owned multinationals so you pay more. How very patriotic
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Pretty funny that the party who fights culcha wars for Aussie flag thongs in supermarkets on Australia Day sold our gas to tax dodging foreign owned multinationals so you pay more. How very patriotic
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If Pauline Hanson wasn’t racist and was genuinely concerned about the dangers of people covering their faces then why doesn’t she ever speak up about these scumbags?
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If Pauline Hanson wasn’t racist and was genuinely concerned about the dangers of people covering their faces then why doesn’t she ever speak up about these scumbags?
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#SundayPix
#SundayPixPictures
The phenomenal work of Marianne North as exhibited at Kew Gardens
800 paintings from 1871 to around 1883 she visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Brazil, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Sri Lanka and India, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Seychelles, Chile and others.
#SundayPixPictures
The phenomenal work of Marianne North as exhibited at Kew Gardens
800 paintings from 1871 to around 1883 she visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Brazil, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Sri Lanka and India, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Seychelles, Chile and others.
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#SundayPix
#SundayPixPictures
The phenomenal work of Marianne North as exhibited at Kew Gardens
800 paintings from 1871 to around 1883 she visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Brazil, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Sri Lanka and India, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Seychelles, Chile and others.
#SundayPixPictures
The phenomenal work of Marianne North as exhibited at Kew Gardens
800 paintings from 1871 to around 1883 she visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Brazil, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Sri Lanka and India, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Seychelles, Chile and others.
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Pocock is fast becoming the only decent, principled, active politician Australia has. @albomp.bsky.social is fast becoming the most sluggish, ineffective, disappointing Labor Leader Australia has ever had. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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David Pocock condemns delay in establishing job ready graduates body to end $50,000 arts degrees
Senator accuses the government of not treating reform with ‘urgency it deserves’ – with no modelling done on the cost of reversing or replacing the JRG scheme
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pocock is fast becoming the only decent, principled, active politician Australia has. @albomp.bsky.social is fast becoming the most sluggish, ineffective, disappointing Labor Leader Australia has ever had. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Anything Henry is worth a read.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Anything Henry is worth a read.
Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down - ABC listen
The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn paints a vastly different picture of ...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Anything Henry is worth a read.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Anything Henry is worth a read.
The LNP should just come out and say ‘we can’t back net zero because Gina, the IPA, Advance, and the Minerals Council won’t let us’. #LNP could not give a crap about what voters want or what’s best for the environment.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The LNP should just come out and say ‘we can’t back net zero because Gina, the IPA, Advance, and the Minerals Council won’t let us’. #LNP could not give a crap about what voters want or what’s best for the environment.
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"Living in poverty while at uni, that's not the way it should be for a society that's about mobility and opportunity."
Professor George Williams discussed his new Vantage Point essay 'Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's future' on RN Breakfast!
#auspol
Professor George Williams discussed his new Vantage Point essay 'Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's future' on RN Breakfast!
#auspol
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"Living in poverty while at uni, that's not the way it should be for a society that's about mobility and opportunity."
Professor George Williams discussed his new Vantage Point essay 'Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's future' on RN Breakfast!
#auspol
Professor George Williams discussed his new Vantage Point essay 'Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia's future' on RN Breakfast!
#auspol
My first peer-reviewed article. 🥳🍾🎉🥂🪅:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky #History @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky #History @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
Botanical women artists in northern Queensland: science, art, and entanglement, 1880–1999
This article explicates the contributions of two women botanical artists, Marian Ellis Rowan (1848–1922) and Vera Scarth-Johnson (1912–1999) to botanical science in northern Queensland. Despite the...
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My first peer-reviewed article. 🥳🍾🎉🥂🪅:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky #History @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky #History @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
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Building better collaborations in arts and humanities PhD research – insights from Alastair Owens’ work with museums and doctoral students: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/bette... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky #ECRchat
Better together? The secret to successful collaborative arts and humanities PhD research
Insights into managing collaborative relationships in arts and humanities PhD research, based on Alastair Owens’ extensive experience with museums and doctoral students
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Building better collaborations in arts and humanities PhD research – insights from Alastair Owens’ work with museums and doctoral students: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/bette... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky #ECRchat
Awesome team:
www.cricket.com.au/news/4387603...?
www.cricket.com.au/news/4387603...?
Australia stay unbeaten with statement World Cup win over England | cricket.com.au
England had their moments in Indore but ultimately it was Australia who cruised to an emphatic win a...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Awesome team:
www.cricket.com.au/news/4387603...?
www.cricket.com.au/news/4387603...?
What a lucky county.
Shocked that Australia is once again relying on digging stuff out of the ground to make other people rich to supposedly secure our future
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What a lucky county.
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Beautiful photos showing the microscopic details of #seeds at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Actual seeds mounted in acrylic next to the photos is a particularly nice touch.
Exhibit is on in #Canberra until 16 Nov. Free.
visit.anbg.gov.au/things-do/wh...
#SeedEcology #SciComm #WildOz
Exhibit is on in #Canberra until 16 Nov. Free.
visit.anbg.gov.au/things-do/wh...
#SeedEcology #SciComm #WildOz
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Professor Langton:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tony Abbott’s argument about Australian democracy is Trumpian in intent and based on half-truths | Marcia Langton
Former PM’s new book reads like a style manual for March for Australia types, weaving together evidence and myth, history and ideology
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Professor Langton:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Do you know there’s a crocodile in the pool?
You hum it, I’ll play it….
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You hum it, I’ll play it….
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Crocodile discovered in luxury Queensland resort pool sparks new warnings
Reptile was removed after guests filmed it lying at the Sheraton Mirage in Port Douglas on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Do you know there’s a crocodile in the pool?
You hum it, I’ll play it….
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You hum it, I’ll play it….
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Australian Parrot Flower https://www.wikiart.org/en/marianne-north/the-australian-parrot-flower-1880
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Australian Parrot Flower https://www.wikiart.org/en/marianne-north/the-australian-parrot-flower-1880
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🌸 The orchid that blooms underground
Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#Botany #SciComm 🧪
Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#Botany #SciComm 🧪
Plantwatch: An extraordinary orchid that lives and flowers underground
Botanist trying to conserve highly vulnerable rhizanthella that survives by feeding on nutrients from a fungus
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🌸 The orchid that blooms underground
Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#Botany #SciComm 🧪
Australia’s rare Rhizanthella orchid lives, feeds, and flowers entirely underground, relying on a fungus and bush roots to survive, now near extinction.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#Botany #SciComm 🧪
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An Australian tragedy,
an unemployable man,
goin' thru the bins🥺😪
an unemployable man,
goin' thru the bins🥺😪
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
An Australian tragedy,
an unemployable man,
goin' thru the bins🥺😪
an unemployable man,
goin' thru the bins🥺😪
Climate vandals: Qld government
"Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions | Clear Air
Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Climate vandals: Qld government
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Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke
The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Past/Present is an Australian Historical Association initiative, in partnership with the Guardian, looking at current events in historical context. Here's an excellent piece by Roland Burke on early international efforts to deal with misinformation/disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I am 12 years in to life in Australia, and am hoping for another 40+ but even if I do hit the five decade mark I’m still not gonna be able to pronounce Cairns properly. I swear it’s a vowel sound I just don’t have.
October 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I am 12 years in to life in Australia, and am hoping for another 40+ but even if I do hit the five decade mark I’m still not gonna be able to pronounce Cairns properly. I swear it’s a vowel sound I just don’t have.
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"Science is actually an inspirational, incontrovertibly human enterprise requiring enormous amounts of creativity, lateral thinking and intuition."
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Academicsky #SciComm 🧪 #edusky #science
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-false-...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Academicsky #SciComm 🧪 #edusky #science
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The False Divide - Part 1
The successful artist as problem solver
ideasroadshow.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Science is actually an inspirational, incontrovertibly human enterprise requiring enormous amounts of creativity, lateral thinking and intuition."
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Academicsky #SciComm 🧪 #edusky #science
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-false-...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #Academicsky #SciComm 🧪 #edusky #science
ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-false-...