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@diverscience.bsky.social
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Nerd, autistic, metal music, poetry, photography, nature, guitars, protecting Earth's environments, drinking red wine, science academic who gets chemistry, wrangles 🌏 data and codes. Relationships are a literal mystery.
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Pilbara raptors
1. Osprey standing on a floodlight
2. Black Kite bird of prey flying in blue sky
3. White-bellied Sea Eagle flying in blue sky
4. Eleven Black Kites standing on a mound of reddish brown earth
#raptors #australianbirds #westernAustralia
#pilbara
Osprey bird of prey standing on a floodlight, body facing right, head turned to left. Black Kite bird of prey flying left against a blue sky background. White-bellied Sea Eagle bird of prey flying right against a blue sky background. Entire underside of bird is visible, warm lighting before sunset. Several (eleven) Black Kite birds of prey standing on a mound of reddish brown earth.
July 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
Couple of the beautiful #birds from the tropical Pilbara coastal area, Western Australia.
💚🦜
#australia #WesternAustralia
#naturephotography
A pair of White-Browed Honeyeater birds on a branch, facing away from each other A Rainbow Bee-eater bird on a branch facing to the right.
July 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
So proud of this comment today from a student evaluation: “Finally someone taking the time to actually explain how to use R. This is the 4th unit I have done that required it and the first time I feel I can actually use it after doing the course.”
🙏😍 #Rstats
composite image of some R code blended with a photograph of two white spoonbill birds with yellow bills on water. The colour palette is predominantly blue, and the code is 'dark mode' with light text on a dark background.
June 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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autastic.com
What seems to not be understood is that #Autistic people are under +15x more cognitive load per second (my math) than allistic folk. We are built to process every 👏🏽 bit 👏🏽 of 👏🏽 input & need scaffolding to operate in AllisticLand. We burn out anyway because support is woefully insufficient.
June 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
I want to keep on being the contradictory guy who's into poetry, the environment, and nature AND loves metal music, fishing and shooting, and sometimes just wants to smash things.
June 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
Feeling anger and frustration because a large part of my masking is to say 'yes' to stuff I really don't want to do.
How to undo 60 years of being Mr Easygoing.
😠
#masking #autistic #neurodivergence
June 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
A White-faced Heron fluffs up its feathers in the morning coolness, Njookenboro (Herdsman Lake), Perth, Western Australia
White-faced Heron, a long-legged wading bird with mostly grey feathers, backlit by early morning sun while standing in shallow water with many small aquatic plants.
June 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
I want to always be here.
Sunrise with the bright horizon and orange-pink clouds reflected in the still water of a lake.
June 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
"Getting all your ducks lined up" = Australian phrase for "getting everything organised how you like it"
dozens of ducks on a pond, all standing in shallow water in a geometric curve (probably on a submerged pipe)
February 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Te Wakoropupū springs are a national treasure and culturally significant. Our govt would destroy them for some gold.
community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/do...
Don't fast track Te Waikoropupū!
Siren Gold Mining has been invited to fast track an application to mine in the Golden Bay - if it goes ahead the crystal-clear waters of Te Waikoropupū could be lost forever. Join me in signing to sav...
community.greenpeace.org.nz
February 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
First #birdphotography in a long time: Fairy Terns, Red-capped Plovers, and a Little Egret at Pelican Point, #Perth, #westernAustralia
Fairy Tern adult bird trying to ignore fully grown offspring being for food Red-capped Plover bird running at the waters edge Little Egret bird which has just caught a tiny fish. It's stabbing in shallow water in which it's reflected, with salt marsh plants in the background. Adult Fairy Tern bird with a small fish in its bill, standing on a beach with small waves in the background.
February 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Of course it could just as well be
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Gulf of Orangeness
Check out my custom Gulf of Orangeness map created with MapQuest!
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February 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Gulf of Hubris
Check out my custom Gulf of Hubris map created with MapQuest!
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February 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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xkcd.com
Archive Request xkcd.com/3052
February 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
Tropical low pressure storm 18U is forecast to be a category 3 cyclone by the time it makes landfall. My daughter teaches 3rd grade at the edge of the orange zone... 🙀
#westernaustralia
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
In Australia there is a thing called a "mental health plan" where you can get your GP to sign off on subsidised mental health care. So that's what I'm waiting to do right now. The next step now that I've found a neuroaffirming therapist is to get some sessions with her - first avail. end of March 😣
February 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
could also be derived from "agnostic", as in "I don't know and I don't care"
katiephang.bsky.social Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 8
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
February 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
Door note (mine) from academia.
#neurodivergent #academicsky #shitacademicssay
A door whiteboard with had written text "Thought for today: Some days, you just need to suck it up". There is a sticker of the autism infinity symbol at upper right.
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
“…just consider the fact that in Norway, they tax the fossil fuel industry and give kids free university education, in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge kids a fortune to go to university.”
🤔😣 #wtf #academicsky
australiainstitute.org.au/post/while-u...
While Uni Vice-Chancellors rake in millions, young researchers struggle to survive
Australia's university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, while Australia's PhD students are some of the lowest paid. That is not a sign of a healthy education system.
australiainstitute.org.au
February 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
thinking about why I so often feel at the edge of my sanity... my current theory is that auties can be over-introspective , and anyone spending so much time examining the inner workings of their own mind is bound to see a bit of craziness after a while...
#autistic #autism
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Seal - Crazy (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Warner Records Vault
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January 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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susiedent.com
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
"still as static
filled air beneath a nimbus cloud,
as the coolest
depths behind a failing dam..."

read on at dantrewear.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/v...

*Dan Trewear is my pen name, an anagram of my actual name*

@poetrywithlinda.bsky.social #poet #poetry #poem #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic
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still as static filled air beneath a nimbus cloud,as the coolest depths behind a failing dam  small, atom thin on a knife edge,wavelength of laser light,poised to change it all fire in low branches…
dantrewear.wordpress.com
January 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
diverscience.bsky.social
A beautiful golden orb weaver #spider from our local bushland. The large spider is the female; her much smaller male partner is above her on the other side of the web. She will probably eat him after they mate 🫨🕷
#westernAustralia
Female Golden Orb Weaver Spider on her web. Her much smaller male partner is above her on the other side of the web. Close-up of female Golden Orb Weaver Spider on her web. Her much smaller male partner is above her on the other side of the web.
January 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
diverscience.bsky.social
I rearranged my "studio" space. Of course now I need some more gear to make it work better... and summon some creativity 🤓
#guitar #music #dadmetal
photograph of musical insubstantial in the corner of a room. From left to right: acoustic guitar, keyboard, electric guitar, guitar amp-sim/multi-effects pedal.
January 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM