Say one word about turtle eggs being eaten by foxes and there is tons of support for fixing the problem.

But you can lose even a whole year's worth (maybe a decade) of eggs, and not come close to the impact that losing a few females has on a population's stability, let alone a whole wetland.

Should this plant be declared one of the worst weeds in Australia? Without a national policy, the spread of smothering buffel grass will continue unchecked.

The answer is clearly YES. It should have happened years ago. This invasive plant is an environmental and cultural disaster, and we should throw as many resources as possible towards its suppression or, where possible, eradication.

theconversation.com/should-this-...

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,"

- Prof Deb Bower

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Story by @lisacox.bsky.social

Pretty extraordinary.

I really hope that wasn't a typo

He clearly means to divert government funds into the pockets of the wealthy

I can see my house from there!

So I only just learned today that Artemis II is a moonshot. I'm shocked that a flight to go all the way to the moon, for the first time in ~50 years is so much of a nothing. It says a lot about the world that this first-in-half-a-century event is barely reported and hardly talked about.

Reports of Jonathan's death were greatly exaggerated

Did you see Albo's last night? That would be in the running too (albeit far less rambly)

It was basically 'keep calm and carry on' OR 'nothing to see here, move along'

Not sure that helps me stay calm, TBH

Same in Australia- over $8 USD per gallon (in equivalent AUD/liter)

He has, but it is shocking how often reality exceeds the parody/satire

As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

The scale of Australian universities managerial & governance surrender/capture is ASTOUNDING

"Twelve of the 14 universities had council members, who had substantive roles as consultants from firms such as Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Boston Consulting Group"

I agree, but I also think it made me a better writer by forcing conciseness

The American Naturalist classic cover

Do subordinate ant workers really forgo reproduction? Shit et al. showed that in a clonal ant species, isolated subordinates can match dominants in fecundity with no apparent cost to longevity.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

More than a year on, the lack of transparent research on this is really shocking. It has a real 'Mayor from Jaws says the beaches are safe' vibe

'Let's not scare South Australians': What the public wasn't told about toxic algae The government knew a harmful toxin had been found in its algal bloom, but took months to update its health advice.

Glad 4Corners is onto this. Can't help thinking if a devestating toxic 20,000 armageddon fatal to animals and dangerous to humans was happening on the coast of Melbourne or Sydney AND the govt health advice was way too languid, it would be news all day every day. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Yep. Some species like the Mary River Turtle basically have gills in the cloaca. Others don't, but can still get some O2 from the water when it is really cold.

Just turtles doing turtle things

Both are classics, for sure!

It was trying to answer the carwash AI question that was on Bluesky yesterday, clearly

The longer I'm in this biz, the bigger fan I become of the lottery concept.

They really have gone to the Trump school of "reality is what we tell you, not what your own eyes see"

It's more likely it's someone in the Epstein files rather than someone of the general public...

Not surprised based on that time he married his very young student

TFW things are so bad/weird that you find yourself agreeing with Rand Paul

"These colors don't run"

Totally agree with you. It is "uhhhmmm the people we typically like did something and are saying things that our people tend not to like, so we don't really know what we should say here that will piss off the fewest people we rely on for gobs of money"

Pete Hegseth Should Sit This One Out By inserting himself into the situation in Minnesota, the secretary of defense is only making things worse.

"Pete Hegseth might consider adding another task to his many duties, one that would be of immense help to the nation and to the armed forces: He should shut up."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...