Elisa 🌞
@echolgate.bsky.social
Ecologist, engineer, artist, ME/CFS + AuDHD
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Elisa 🌞
@echolgate.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Australian Eastern water dragon (Intellegama lesueurii) going for a dip in the pool at dusk yesterday 🐉
She's shedding so the swim will help loosen the dry skin! #wildoz
She's shedding so the swim will help loosen the dry skin! #wildoz
January 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Australian Eastern water dragon (Intellegama lesueurii) going for a dip in the pool at dusk yesterday 🐉
She's shedding so the swim will help loosen the dry skin! #wildoz
She's shedding so the swim will help loosen the dry skin! #wildoz
A minute of gentle waves
📍Hole in the Wall, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia #beach #soundscape
📍Hole in the Wall, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia #beach #soundscape
December 16, 2024 at 1:16 AM
A minute of gentle waves
📍Hole in the Wall, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia #beach #soundscape
📍Hole in the Wall, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia #beach #soundscape
Garlic plaitin' time 🧄 #straya #gardening
November 28, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Garlic plaitin' time 🧄 #straya #gardening
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Libraries feel like something about which we could very easily be saying, “Remember that place where you could borrow books, for FREE, and return them when you were finished?” And kids would say “What?? No way!” And yet there they still are, despite everything we’ve become, existing. Remarkable.
November 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Libraries feel like something about which we could very easily be saying, “Remember that place where you could borrow books, for FREE, and return them when you were finished?” And kids would say “What?? No way!” And yet there they still are, despite everything we’ve become, existing. Remarkable.
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Common Yabby, Cherax destructor (one of my favourite scientific names). Now on display at Oxford Uni Museum of Natural History
November 22, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Common Yabby, Cherax destructor (one of my favourite scientific names). Now on display at Oxford Uni Museum of Natural History
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I grew up in a patch of subtropical rainforest/wet sclerophyll forest north of Sydney.🌳 We've been running a camera trap for 10+ years, and occasionally something amazing turns up!
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - pretty incredible that native marsupial predators still stalk the forest! #WildOz
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - pretty incredible that native marsupial predators still stalk the forest! #WildOz
November 16, 2024 at 10:19 PM
I grew up in a patch of subtropical rainforest/wet sclerophyll forest north of Sydney.🌳 We've been running a camera trap for 10+ years, and occasionally something amazing turns up!
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - pretty incredible that native marsupial predators still stalk the forest! #WildOz
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - pretty incredible that native marsupial predators still stalk the forest! #WildOz
Fun fact! Australia once deployed our army in a war against wild emus... And lost!
All I can say is good luck! 🫡
#wildoz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
All I can say is good luck! 🫡
#wildoz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
November 16, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Fun fact! Australia once deployed our army in a war against wild emus... And lost!
All I can say is good luck! 🫡
#wildoz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
All I can say is good luck! 🫡
#wildoz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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A few years ago on 🐦 we had a wonderful culture of sharing Australian ecological science and nature photography with the #WildOz hashtag.
I'd love to bring it back to Bluesky, so here's a starterpack of Australian ecologists, botanists, naturalists & nature photographers! 📸🦘🌳🐨🦜
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
I'd love to bring it back to Bluesky, so here's a starterpack of Australian ecologists, botanists, naturalists & nature photographers! 📸🦘🌳🐨🦜
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
A few years ago on 🐦 we had a wonderful culture of sharing Australian ecological science and nature photography with the #WildOz hashtag.
I'd love to bring it back to Bluesky, so here's a starterpack of Australian ecologists, botanists, naturalists & nature photographers! 📸🦘🌳🐨🦜
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
I'd love to bring it back to Bluesky, so here's a starterpack of Australian ecologists, botanists, naturalists & nature photographers! 📸🦘🌳🐨🦜
go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW
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🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
November 15, 2024 at 6:43 AM
🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
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Highlight of a week of pitfall trapping at AWC's Paruna Sanctuary: my first Noolbenger (AKA Honey Possum; Tarsipes rostratus).
They feed on pollen and nectar, so after some taking measurements, we give them some sugar water before sending them on their way.
#WildOz
They feed on pollen and nectar, so after some taking measurements, we give them some sugar water before sending them on their way.
#WildOz
November 15, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Highlight of a week of pitfall trapping at AWC's Paruna Sanctuary: my first Noolbenger (AKA Honey Possum; Tarsipes rostratus).
They feed on pollen and nectar, so after some taking measurements, we give them some sugar water before sending them on their way.
#WildOz
They feed on pollen and nectar, so after some taking measurements, we give them some sugar water before sending them on their way.
#WildOz
Yet another example of why the Solomons are stunning 💙 I can't believe its been a decade since we went! (I'd tag Robbi but he is handle.invalid today)
November 16, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Yet another example of why the Solomons are stunning 💙 I can't believe its been a decade since we went! (I'd tag Robbi but he is handle.invalid today)
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"You will also have the option to rate your flatulence on other characteristics (like loudness, duration etc)"
"Taking part is not likely to directly benefit you."
"This study has been approved by CSIRO’s Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee."
The science project we all need right now.
"Taking part is not likely to directly benefit you."
"This study has been approved by CSIRO’s Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee."
The science project we all need right now.
If you are in Australia, oh boy, do I have a citizen science project for you. Ready? Researchers are looking for people to chart their farts! That’s right. Chart your farts for science. There’s even an app! research.csiro.au/cshw/project... 💨🧪
CHART YOUR FART - Citizen Science in Health and Wellbeing
We all fart! Some more than others! Some louder than others? Some smellier than others! And some funnier than others!
research.csiro.au
November 15, 2024 at 5:38 AM
"You will also have the option to rate your flatulence on other characteristics (like loudness, duration etc)"
"Taking part is not likely to directly benefit you."
"This study has been approved by CSIRO’s Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee."
The science project we all need right now.
"Taking part is not likely to directly benefit you."
"This study has been approved by CSIRO’s Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee."
The science project we all need right now.
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Pretty incredible to see one of Australia's most unique and charasmatic creatures happily foraging just metres from the conference venue at FOSS4G in Hobart last week! 🤩
More conferences should have resident platypuses! #WildOz
More conferences should have resident platypuses! #WildOz
November 15, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Pretty incredible to see one of Australia's most unique and charasmatic creatures happily foraging just metres from the conference venue at FOSS4G in Hobart last week! 🤩
More conferences should have resident platypuses! #WildOz
More conferences should have resident platypuses! #WildOz
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I haven't had a chance to be part of #30DayMapChallenge this year, and am a few days behind... but Day 11 "Time and space" is too good to resist:
Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!
Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!
November 14, 2024 at 6:09 AM
I haven't had a chance to be part of #30DayMapChallenge this year, and am a few days behind... but Day 11 "Time and space" is too good to resist:
Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!
Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!
A long, long time ago (pre-pandemic anyway) I did some arts! If you like biologically accurate art of Australian #birds, #marsupials or #botany, have a look! You can even get a bin chicken shirt 💕
#sciart #wildoz
modernwildlife.etsy.com
#sciart #wildoz
modernwildlife.etsy.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
A long, long time ago (pre-pandemic anyway) I did some arts! If you like biologically accurate art of Australian #birds, #marsupials or #botany, have a look! You can even get a bin chicken shirt 💕
#sciart #wildoz
modernwildlife.etsy.com
#sciart #wildoz
modernwildlife.etsy.com
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
🥪 Bakery sandwich assembler (fired same day for asking too many questions)
⚖️ Solicitor's secretary
🧪 Science ambassador
🌻 Local council enviro
☢️ Science advisory team for PFAS contamination
📊 Data scientist and manager
🥪 Bakery sandwich assembler (fired same day for asking too many questions)
⚖️ Solicitor's secretary
🧪 Science ambassador
🌻 Local council enviro
☢️ Science advisory team for PFAS contamination
📊 Data scientist and manager
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
Radio Shack clerk
Papa John’s pizza topping guy
Aquarium Shop guy
Several different pet shops
Used Book Store guy
Aquarium shop manager
Radio Shack clerk
Papa John’s pizza topping guy
Aquarium Shop guy
Several different pet shops
Used Book Store guy
Aquarium shop manager
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
Burger King Cashier
Newspaper Telemarketer
Commercial HVAC Repair Receptionist
Edutainment CD-ROM Production Assistant (Magic School Bus games, etc)
Web Consultant
Burger King Cashier
Newspaper Telemarketer
Commercial HVAC Repair Receptionist
Edutainment CD-ROM Production Assistant (Magic School Bus games, etc)
Web Consultant
November 11, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
🥪 Bakery sandwich assembler (fired same day for asking too many questions)
⚖️ Solicitor's secretary
🧪 Science ambassador
🌻 Local council enviro
☢️ Science advisory team for PFAS contamination
📊 Data scientist and manager
🥪 Bakery sandwich assembler (fired same day for asking too many questions)
⚖️ Solicitor's secretary
🧪 Science ambassador
🌻 Local council enviro
☢️ Science advisory team for PFAS contamination
📊 Data scientist and manager
#Hello, I'm Elisa, an ecologist and environmental engineer in sunny Australia! I love science, conservation, sciart, scicomm, and all weird and wonderful creatures!
Lately I've been dealing with ME/CFS fatigue regression, and an adult #AuDHD discovery - which explains the love of animals! 😆
Lately I've been dealing with ME/CFS fatigue regression, and an adult #AuDHD discovery - which explains the love of animals! 😆
November 11, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Just joined and I can't believe there isn't a Zoo starter pack! This needs to be remedied!
go.bsky.app/LyGFsAW
go.bsky.app/LyGFsAW
November 11, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Just joined and I can't believe there isn't a Zoo starter pack! This needs to be remedied!
go.bsky.app/LyGFsAW
go.bsky.app/LyGFsAW