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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been a rough day. Have a bog.

A photo of a small larch tree (a conifer) with its needles turning orange and yellow. It’s surrounded by moss and small woody shrubs in green, red, and brown, beneath a dynamic grey-blue sky.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know this was what I needed, thank you.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 6d

I grew up not far from the Parkes Radio Telescope, and I've been back there multiple times throughout my life. I took this photo when my sister and I brought our kids to see it for the first time. Last year we had a family trip to Siding Spring Observatory for the Anglo-Australian 50th birthday.

A photo of Australia's iconic Parkes Radio Telescope, with two young girls standing in front of it, their faces covered using smiley face emojis.

A photo of the Anglo-Australian telescope at Siding Spring Observatory inside its dome, with a banner across the bottom saying "Happy 50th Birthday".

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 6d

In Western Australia, you can see stromatolites that are billions of years old at Lake Thetis, on your way out to the Pinnacles - a desert full of limestone structures that formed around plant roots when the whole area was under the ocean. Try to be there at the golden hour when the sun is setting.

A photo of pointy limestone rock formations in the Pinnacles desert (coloured yellow/orange) close to sunset, with long shadows cast from other formations and people behind the camera, and an overcast sky.

A photo from the Pinnacles desert with one prominent limestone formation close to the camera, and other formations in the background. Long shadows are cast across the image, and the sky is overcast.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 7d

This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years

www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

Australia is seen as a young country — but do you really know its ancient story?

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' story goes way, way back… take an awe-inspiring journey into Deep Time.

www.abc.net.au

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10d

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 18d

"And if we get separated in the crowd, let's all meet over by that purple flag. I'll wait there until 3pm and if no one comes I'll be down the pub".

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 21d

I just think it's good to understand what people are saying before disagreeing with them. I agree a lot more with Coates than with Klein.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 21d

I don't think Klein wants to make Trump and MAGAism acceptable, he just doesn't want people written off as "irredeemable". He thinks many people can be persuaded to change their minds and adopt more progressive beliefs if the left engages with them in the right way.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 27d

I'm not saying that he can do this himself, and I don't think he thinks that either. I hear in his podcasts a constant theme of how we can do this as a movement. It's being widely described by people on the left as an obsession with strategy for its own sake. I just hear something different.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 27d

I think the problem he is primarily concerned with is *how* we can move the population collectively in a progressive direction. If we don't know how to do that, then any individual's beliefs are a lot less interesting, because they are just one person's beliefs.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · 27d

I see a lot of people saying this, and I simply don't agree. I think he sees himself as just one person, and his beliefs as just one person's beliefs, which don't matter in a democratic society unless you can move the whole population collectively in a similar direction.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · Sep 1

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

It is also being researched as an autoimmune disorder. I developed an underactive thyroid in the last decade or so, which is consistent with this paper. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27274883/

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome May Be an Autoimmune Disorder - PubMed

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most prevalent endocrine disorder affecting females. It is a common cause of menstrual irregularities and infertility during reproductive age. Genetic and hor...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

No, it's hereditary. If there has been a rise, it would be because more people with those genes are able to have children with fertility treatments, thus passing the genes down. www.nhs.uk/conditions/p...

Polycystic ovary syndrome - Causes

The exact cause of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is unknown, but it's thought to be related to abnormal hormone levels.

www.nhs.uk

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

My interest in these questions is based on the fact that humans are diverse and all have the same right to participate in human activities they care about, without being treated like they have less of a right to belong or to reach their own potential. Our systems should accommodate everyone.

Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

Because this would literally be a level playing field, based on a direct measure of people's actual ability, not the indirect measures of sex or gender.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

*life

Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm a massive fan of the Paralympics. It's such an immense celebration of difference and the full spectrum of who humans can be. I wish all of like was like that.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

For years and years, women's sports has been treated as inferior to men's sports, and they still don't earn the same prize money and sponsorships. I don't see why it's a step down to watch evenly matched men and women compete against one another.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

Do you watch the Paralympics? It doesn't matter what point level you're watching, they are all pushing themselves hard and giving the most they can, and it's always exciting.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

That's the nature of qualifying in sports. Many people just miss out on things.

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Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

I think the focus on people's bodies is the wrong approach. The reason they don't do that in parasports is because two people with similar disabilities can still perform very differently. They test people's actual ability and give them a point score.

Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is similar to the Stawell Gift race in Australia, only they use your past performance to calculate a handicap rather than have separate divisions.

Lisa Evans @lisapatrevans.bsky.social · Aug 17

As an example, you could be classed by your previous personal best time in a series of qualifying races falling into a particular range, or having cleared a certain height or distance in jumping, etc.

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