I saw this on my feed and immediately thought it was a Betoota Advocate headline.

That worked a treat!

How do you permanently disabled the AI overview?

My kids taught me about -AI at the end of your search to bring up results without the AI overview.

reminded of this by Umberto Eco in the mid 1990s

By continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist
governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy

Just thinking about the leaky roof that gushes with water whenever we have a storm or the field trips they're planning to cut, while next door they build some swish expensive white elephant for some private company. I don't even need to point out which university this is because it's so familiar.

It's like universities using car hire companies to manage their own fleet. Staff and students charged the same as someone booking a car for a holidays trip and it makes fieldwork less and less viable.

@hollykirk.bsky.social I was reading this after our conversation about the "productivity crisis" in academia

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I mean, I am only guessing here because weasel words are like the politicians and managers that use them - weasley 😄

Having worked outside of research in government I see a lot of parallels. Such as box ticking meetings and expensive training run by external training providers that has no bearing on your job. I think a lot of it was purely to justify a bloated middle and upper management.

Government love their weasel words don't they. Maybe it means that academics are so overloaded with "busy work" that they're not able to do your actual work 🤷

I was once kept awake at camp during some fieldwork in Gariwerd NP by petrol heads revving their engines from midnight until 3am. I do not understand the attraction in the slightest but also the complete disregard for anyone else and the wildlife around them.

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I always enjoy listening to how you handle these questions and interviews. And remember, the strongest steel is forged in the hottest fires!

MEDIA RELEASE: Snow Gum Summit 2026. Scientists warn climate change threatens ecosystems and water security at Snow Gum Summit: The Next Ascent (2026).

'Scientists have issued a dire warning that the widespread death of key eucalypt species in Australian ecosystems could be imminent, due to global heating. Scientists gathered at the Snow Gum Summit last week to discuss combating the loss of an iconic tree'.

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What a waste of a perfectly good picture frame

Yes I think it would. A big complaint a lot of contacts has was the fediverse instances weren't easy to sign up to.

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Is it a gap/edge/grassland species? It's probably sensitive to low light conditions

I feel like we desperately need a progressive movement with a big vision for the future. Something like Zack Polanski's Green Party of England and Wales but I don't see Greens here cutting through.

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Because that has worked wonderfully for Keir Starmer.

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Culture war bullshit. Gotta fill the policy void with something.

Probably a reach here but I'm looking for someone (early career maybe) who would be willing to mentor me as I navigate the post-PhD life. I feel lost on a lot of things and would be grateful to bounce ideas and experiences with someone who's been through a couple of years post-PhD. 😭

Yea these are often sympatric and I've always wondered if they represent two distinct entities.

Two forms of Enchylaena tomentosa in grey box woodland near Melbourne. On the left the glaucous shrubby form and on the right the prostrate form.

We have an interesting prostrate and shrubby form around West Melbourne in the rain shadow country.

Do you think they would have just stopped at Mike Pence?

I agree I didn't mind this and I think it's the job of the interviewer to ask tough questions. Zack Polanski did a stellar job

This is huge! I'm from these old mill towns known as the Red Wall because they were rusted on Labour towns. Starmer thought he was purging the left when he came to power but he just might have set it free