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Kimberley Peters
@kimberleypeters.bsky.social
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Honours/Casual Academic @ Deakin 🐍Studying community attitudes on snakes in Greater Melbourne.
Icelandic horse enthusiast. Opinions my own.
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Didn't want to be missed
An Orange Bellied Parrot sits on a sign for Orange Bellied Parrots
October 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Tiny, Kermit and their new chicks are thrilled to hear others love them too!
A family of Tawny Frogmouths sit on a perch 2 adults and 2 chicks. They are at Healesville Sanctuary
October 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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fishfetisher.bsky.social
Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate
A fake snail with a skull for a shell and bony body
October 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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davehb.bsky.social
One of my favourite things about science is that somewhere out there, someone is studying some of the most obscure things you can imagine:

"We studied the fungal diversity of very old cable car pylons"

Of course you did, and I'm very happy that you did

www.nature.com/articles/s40...
Characterisation of wood decay and fungal diversity in cultural heritage cable car pylons in Svalbard - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Characterisation of wood decay and fungal diversity in cultural heritage cable car pylons in Svalbard
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Christmas Island can't lose another bat species
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Happy Friday! Here's an echidna in a ball pit 🥰
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Yes Giant Cuttlefish sex is not the most important thing happening right now (unless you are a Giant Cuttlefish) but we are all in this together... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Giant cuttlefish! They are in danger and scientists are going to save them with … bubbles! | First Dog on the Moon
The only other option was to go back in time and do something about climate change but time travel hasn’t been invented yet
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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ausmammals.bsky.social
#BogongMoths are a crucial spring food source for #MountainPygmypossums - declines in Moth numbers are an urgent threat to the possums’ survival.

Help scientists track the Bogong Moths via #ZoosVictoria Moth Tracker: www.zoo.org.au/moth-tracker/
Image - Zoos Victoria. #citizenscience #wildoz
August 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Happy Friday from Oscar
August 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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This is Nooji, who had a facial reconstruction after being hit by a car. He is so cute 🥰
August 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Can confirm that he hasn't shut up about it
(Yes, I'm proud of him!)
timinclimate.bsky.social Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Aug 20
I told five different strangers (in person) about my ducted vacuum cleaner repair today.

Worth it.
timinclimate.bsky.social Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Aug 19
I've never touched a ducted vacuum unit before in my life, but I just fixed the blocked one in our new house by pulling it to pieces entirely and figuring out its issues myself.

It works so fucking well now, but it's midnight and I can neither receive due praise nor vacuum the whole house for fun.
August 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I love Rakali but I did vote for the Short finned eel
Eels are cool and more people should think so!
euanritchie.bsky.social Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Aug 15
What a great way to raise awareness of Australia's wonderful wildlife, congrats, rakali! Wonderful to see a native rodent getting the gong! #NationalScienceWeek www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Kelly Gardiner
sarah firth
Rachel Ang
Bernard Cleo
Ita Mehrotra
Jonathan Butler
Jaclyn crupi
Tara Calaby
Grace Yee
Fiona Hardy

All pulled out of Bendigo Writers Fest. Support them however you can.
August 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Clare Wright
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Evelyn Araluen
Jeanine Leane
Paul Daley
Claire G Coleman
Kate Mildenhall
Jess Hill
Sonia Orchard
Thomas Mayo
Daniel James
Fiona Stanley
Kirstin Ferguson
Michelle Scott Tucker
Kylie Mirmohamadi
Jock Serong
Melanie Cheng
Kate Larsen
Cher Tan
Madison Griffith

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jessielilley.bsky.social Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · Aug 14
If you want to support all the writers boycotting Bendigo Writers Festival, borrow their books from your library. They get paid and libraries buy more of their books.
August 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Today's cutest workmate award..
August 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Here's another one of my favourite workmates, Iris. She's a Guthega Skink 🥰
August 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
- @petrastock.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Any of my contacts have ideas for us?
timinclimate.bsky.social Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7
OK brains trust: I need to install a new internal fence at our new house that is about 10m long on an L-shape of about 5m east-west, then 5m north-south including a gate to keep this old husky from escaping.

What type of fence would you pick for a combination of cost, effectiveness and looks?
Photo of the most beautiful and elegant lady in the whole wide world.
August 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🧪🌎
Fears for South Australia’s annual cuttlefish gathering amid deadly algal bloom
Breeding event known as Cuttlefest takes place in waters off Point Lowly but this year scientists warn the effect of toxic algae could be ‘catastrophic’
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Such a grim fate for Cosmos, which used to be the premier science mag in Australia (wrote a few pieces for them, back in the day).

We (former contributors) found out last year Cosmos has been training its slop engine on our work:

bsky.app/profile/keta...
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 29
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?

cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor: I was quoted in your publication: https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/ Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies. "They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said. The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution. However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks. d.
July 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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If I see any more AI slop of animals on trampolines or similar I'm going to lose it.
If you cared about the environment you 1. Wouldn't use it
2. Wouldn't share it
July 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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johnwhitewildlife.bsky.social
When you reach for the rat poisons, stop for one second and think about where it goes. Often not rats and mice. Here we demonstrate it ends up in possums, many are then eaten by predators like powerful owls.
Please avoid second generation anticoagulants
🙏♥️🦉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Thrilled to see these excellent doggos at work (and occasionally the plats they find!)
Dog, they also sniff out DRAGONS (Vic Grassland Earless ones) and Broad toothed Rats.. to add a couple more cool threatened species to the list
July 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Stop calling it ‘AI art’; start calling it Roboslop.
July 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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timinclimate.bsky.social
If you are in Vic or NSW and you aren't following your local Gazette regional news channel, you should be.

The local channels, and the Australia-wide news channel The National Account, are really solid.

Local news, often with a climate and energy bent. They deserve a bigger audience.
July 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM