Andrew Taylor
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CS@UNSW - spare time spent identifying every species seen while diving, bushwalking & running
On a Komodo night dive buzzing with interesting life, l thought this cute little moray was a common species & ignored it. My partner luckily took a few shots: seems it's the little-known Gymnothorax robinsi. Too rare to be in fish books, perhaps the 3rd photo of a live specimen on the internet.
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On a Komodo night dive buzzing with interesting life, l thought this cute little moray was a common species & ignored it. My partner luckily took a few shots: seems it's the little-known Gymnothorax robinsi. Too rare to be in fish books, perhaps the 3rd photo of a live specimen on the internet.
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
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We are absolutely thrilled to introduce Clive and Inhancer, a pair caught yesterday in the Macquarie Marshes and fitted with GPS 4G transmitters from Global Messenger. We are immensely grateful to the local landholders, Leanne, Garry and Jet Hall, who were central in making it happen.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
We are absolutely thrilled to introduce Clive and Inhancer, a pair caught yesterday in the Macquarie Marshes and fitted with GPS 4G transmitters from Global Messenger. We are immensely grateful to the local landholders, Leanne, Garry and Jet Hall, who were central in making it happen.
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Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
August 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
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Minister Murray Watttf is going to artificially aerate Macquarie Harbour (surface area a mere 32,000 ha), by burning bulk diesel on a few noisy barges ... in order to subsidise a foreign owned non-taxpaying open water salmon feedlot operation.
Your Labor political party, working for you.
Your Labor political party, working for you.
August 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Minister Murray Watttf is going to artificially aerate Macquarie Harbour (surface area a mere 32,000 ha), by burning bulk diesel on a few noisy barges ... in order to subsidise a foreign owned non-taxpaying open water salmon feedlot operation.
Your Labor political party, working for you.
Your Labor political party, working for you.
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A hypnotic flatworm flowing through the night
June 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A hypnotic flatworm flowing through the night
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Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean - Marine Biology
Satellite tagging of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) has typically focused on juvenile males which dominate coastal aggregation sites, with limited data on the movements of females. We…
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June 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery:
biodiversitycouncil....
biodiversitycouncil....
May 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery:
biodiversitycouncil....
biodiversitycouncil....
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Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
Is there no end to our shameful behavior?
www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
Is there no end to our shameful behavior?
www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
www.news.com.au
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
Is there no end to our shameful behavior?
www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
Is there no end to our shameful behavior?
www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
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A new report from the NSW Government shows that the control of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park is working and ecosystems are already showing positive signs of recovery 🌏
Read more: biodiversitycouncil....
@euanritchie.bsky.social
Read more: biodiversitycouncil....
@euanritchie.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A new report from the NSW Government shows that the control of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park is working and ecosystems are already showing positive signs of recovery 🌏
Read more: biodiversitycouncil....
@euanritchie.bsky.social
Read more: biodiversitycouncil....
@euanritchie.bsky.social
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Male Australasian Bitterns are highly territorial in the breeding season. Many are now on their way from the Riverina’s rice fields to coastal wetlands in NSW, VIC and SA for winter. Latest Australian population estimate is only 1300 (+~700 in NZ) but conservation action is building. Glorious birds.
May 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Male Australasian Bitterns are highly territorial in the breeding season. Many are now on their way from the Riverina’s rice fields to coastal wetlands in NSW, VIC and SA for winter. Latest Australian population estimate is only 1300 (+~700 in NZ) but conservation action is building. Glorious birds.
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I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
m.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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Strong *these* vibes right now.
February 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Strong *these* vibes right now.
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Classy work ABC radio news, introducing Marianne Faithfull as "Mick Jagger's former girlfriend", referring to her as the inspiration for As Tears Go By & a drug addiction before noting almost in passing her long recording career & outstanding work of her own. Artist as appendage.
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Classy work ABC radio news, introducing Marianne Faithfull as "Mick Jagger's former girlfriend", referring to her as the inspiration for As Tears Go By & a drug addiction before noting almost in passing her long recording career & outstanding work of her own. Artist as appendage.
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Walking Shark.
January 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Walking Shark.
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January 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Thank you, Jimmy Carter.
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
December 30, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Thank you, Jimmy Carter.
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
This chart is on a log scale. This year there have been just 7 cases of guinea worm.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/numb...
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Really we’re just going to extreme lengths to ensure we can keep teaching C as our students’ first language: www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/...
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A new approach to an old language | Engineering - UNSW Sydney
UNSW's Debugging C Compiler (DCC) uses AI to help students learn C programming by explaining errors without fostering reliance on AI, aiming to prevent future software issues.
www.unsw.edu.au
December 13, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Really we’re just going to extreme lengths to ensure we can keep teaching C as our students’ first language: www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/...
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@cyberhammond.com @litoria.bsky.social
Forget shark diving - I'd go a long way to have this experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwms...
Remora attach to a diver
YouTube video by Terumbu Divers
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Forget shark diving - I'd go a long way to have this experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwms...
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A first for BlueSky and maybe the internet: a live photo of the parasitic isopod Renocila loriae. Attached to an unfortunate Blackstripe Cardinalfish. Kindly identified on iNaturalist by Ernest Williams who co-described the species. Photographed by my partner Lyn on a dive near Padang Bai in Bali.
December 2, 2024 at 10:28 AM
A first for BlueSky and maybe the internet: a live photo of the parasitic isopod Renocila loriae. Attached to an unfortunate Blackstripe Cardinalfish. Kindly identified on iNaturalist by Ernest Williams who co-described the species. Photographed by my partner Lyn on a dive near Padang Bai in Bali.
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Oh, yes, at this time of the year we're all waiting for Wisdom to return to her breeding grounds, the Midway atoll. Fingers crossed.
Two things. Last year, she returned early December. And, apparently, 73 year old Wisdom got a new boyfriend in 2023.
friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-a-lay...
Two things. Last year, she returned early December. And, apparently, 73 year old Wisdom got a new boyfriend in 2023.
friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-a-lay...
Oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, is back!
earthsky.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Oh, yes, at this time of the year we're all waiting for Wisdom to return to her breeding grounds, the Midway atoll. Fingers crossed.
Two things. Last year, she returned early December. And, apparently, 73 year old Wisdom got a new boyfriend in 2023.
friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-a-lay...
Two things. Last year, she returned early December. And, apparently, 73 year old Wisdom got a new boyfriend in 2023.
friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-a-lay...
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The Plonking Frog (Neobatrachus wilsmorei) is the largest of the five confirmed frog species at Mt Gibson. They can be readily identified by the stripes on their back, which kind of look like a 'W' for Wilsmorei.
#WildOz
#WildOz
November 23, 2024 at 11:09 PM
The Plonking Frog (Neobatrachus wilsmorei) is the largest of the five confirmed frog species at Mt Gibson. They can be readily identified by the stripes on their back, which kind of look like a 'W' for Wilsmorei.
#WildOz
#WildOz