Introducing the world's only known cave-adapted spider wasp... Troglopompilus miracaecatus (Pompilidae) from the caves of the Nullarbor, Australia.
A world first: Eyeless, long limbs and antennae, highly reduced wings.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#cave #wasp #biodiversity
Random stuff I wish someone told me, a working class student with no family in higher education, early in my academic journey
A THREAD 🧵
Academic CV/Resume is different from typical industry CV. With different format and priorities. Update it on rolling basis.
Meet kungaka – ‘the hidden one’. This ancient lizard could be the rarest reptile in Australia
theconversation.com/meet-kungaka...
Het kan mensen, echt het kan:
Ecologists say thousands of hours of audio recordings have detected night parrot calls in south-west Queensland.
Ecologists say thousands of hours of audio recordings have detected night parrot calls in south-west Queensland.
www.abc.net.au
Alt: a woman in a suit sits at a table with the words " I'd like to think my resume speaks for itself "
The kungaka represents an ancient lineage from when Australia was wetter. Today, it survives in a sheltered desert gorge.
theconversation.com
Jess Marsh
ABC News Bot (unofficial)
Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉)
Siem Eikelenboom
Robb Edwards 🌱
DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.
The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.
Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.
This is digital sovereignty being taken back
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
Faolan
Andrew D Wilson
The City of Stirling is proposing local law amendments to recreational fishing in local lake reserves after a string of water bird deaths and entanglements due to recreational fishing of invasive carp. These reserves are important sanctuaries for urban water birds including black swans.
Every Australian should be able to identify a native Antechinus from a pest mouse.
I've made this so it's really easy for any age to learn to tell them apart.
Snap & percussion mouse traps kill them both. If you find an A. has been killed change to live catch mouse traps.
@ausmammals.bsky.social
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The Australian Mammal Society is pleased to announce a new Award - in honour of mammal and wildlife champion Barbara Triggs.
The Bruno (Barbara Triggs) Award is named after one of Barbara's much loved Wombats - read more here: australianmammals.org.au/awards/thebr...
100 Greatest Bird Names, Day 4: #70 to #61 🧵
#70: Chaco Chachalaca
Say this bird's name out loud. You're already happier than you were 8 seconds ago. Chachalaca comes from the Nahuatl word for “to chatter”. eBird transcribes their song as “bink, ka chee chaw raw taw.”
Linette Umbrello
Biodiversity Innovation Au
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
www.404media.co
Robert Francis
There are more than 11,000 kinds of birds. I evaluated them all and made a definitive list of the 100 greatest names. I consider myself a bird name connoisseur but these blew me away. Over the next 10 days I'll add them to this thread.
This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
