James Van Dyke
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James Van Dyke
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Biologist studying reproduction and its consequences in vertebrates. Views my own. Duduroa and Wiradjuri country www.jamesuvandyke.com www.1millionturtles.com www.turtlesat.org.au
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What? Perpetual economic growth is a scam?
Unfortunately that 2nd one has been hijacked to support a whole bunch of ideas that are not necessarily correct.
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My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠

A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home!

TO BE CONTINUED…
This ignores the very successful Pacific campaign waged by the US Navy once they fixed their torpedoes
Algebra is less formulaic than Dan Brown novels
But against whom? The left? The right? Nick Fuentes? What's she going to do if the alleged shooter's current profile as an even-harder-right than Kirk is true?
Also, a range of native predators (birds, water rats/rakali, etc) could still access nests protected by islands and fences, but their total predation impacts was nowhere close to what foxes achieve.
If we invested in it properly we wouldn't have to make such choices.

But... submarines and nukes and fast cars, etc
^this is my biggest concern. We will lose countless species, for sure, but as long as life exists, evolution will persist in diversifying new taxa as niches come available.

The bigger worry to me is our own ability to survive, and our ability to protect the things that we care about.
Give it 50 million years and it will be fine.

I'm sure that timeline is just perfect for most people, right?
Not to mention the media's role in devaluing, even mocking, expertise
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Good luck to everyone tonight, you're all amazing! #EurekaPrizes
The 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prize recipients will be announced during a live, broadcast event — and you're invited to attend!

📆 Wednesday 3 September

🕖 6.30 pm AEST

Registration now open 👇

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I wonder how eggboy is doing
Holy shit it's like Trophim Lysenko and George Orwell cooked up the hybrid demon baby from hell
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Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:

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Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!
Also imagine that universities weren't all advised by a cabal of consultants getting rich off taxpayers and students.
Coachwhip snakes do something similar, and it is always fun (they also play dead, and are neurotic spazzes). I miss them