Perdita Phillips
@perdy.bsky.social
walking, listening, mapping, animals, minerals, plants, ecologies, installations, exchange, photography, drawing, collage, videos, eclogues www.linktr.ee/perditaphillips
Penny Coss will be performing as part of our shear zone residency at Walyalup Fremantle Art Centre. I did the sound (and the scratchy drawing) and Sarah Tomasetti made the fresco banners
January 14, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Penny Coss will be performing as part of our shear zone residency at Walyalup Fremantle Art Centre. I did the sound (and the scratchy drawing) and Sarah Tomasetti made the fresco banners
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Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
January 14, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.
Yeah but does it beat Scotty from Marketing for sheer indefatigability? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_M...
Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Yeah but does it beat Scotty from Marketing for sheer indefatigability? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_M...
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation buried for 5 months and then plunged into black-stained, stagnant water: more-than-human knowledge
January 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation buried for 5 months and then plunged into black-stained, stagnant water: more-than-human knowledge
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New technologies are revolutionising ecology, with more data than ever available at our fingertips. But what are the costs and perils of ecologists doing less field work?
Interviews with several BES members in this fascinating @nature.com article
Interviews with several BES members in this fascinating @nature.com article
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM
New technologies are revolutionising ecology, with more data than ever available at our fingertips. But what are the costs and perils of ecologists doing less field work?
Interviews with several BES members in this fascinating @nature.com article
Interviews with several BES members in this fascinating @nature.com article
Plumpfy Cooer, meet Fat Albert (Phaps chalcoptera)
December 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Plumpfy Cooer, meet Fat Albert (Phaps chalcoptera)
The chair on the ground before being elevated 19m
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The chair on the ground before being elevated 19m
High tide (folly) being installed at southern forest arts in Northcliffe
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
High tide (folly) being installed at southern forest arts in Northcliffe
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
I can understand developers, mining, the fossil fuel and gambling lobbies capturing the Labour Party, but the meth lobby?????
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I can understand developers, mining, the fossil fuel and gambling lobbies capturing the Labour Party, but the meth lobby?????
Red water flowing through Mammoth Cave on Wardandi Boodja
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Red water flowing through Mammoth Cave on Wardandi Boodja
He’s getting lost?
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
He’s getting lost?
A friend of mine called the Common Bronzewings ‘Fat Alberts’ and now I can’t unthink it
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A friend of mine called the Common Bronzewings ‘Fat Alberts’ and now I can’t unthink it
Who was the actual illustrator?
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Who was the actual illustrator?
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For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
Is it my imagination or do those meanders look suspiciously like S and L?
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Is it my imagination or do those meanders look suspiciously like S and L?
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Read more:
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October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Read more:
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/28/t...
theshovel.com.au/2025/10/28/t...
Terra fires
I have been developing techniques for the automated assessment of fire events across Australia using NAFI (firenorth.org.au) data. These are the top 10 largest across Australia so far this year. 3 of them are > 1 million hectares (Terra-Fires, 100x mega fire). The year is not over.
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Terra fires
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And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...
New edit of die back (a collaboration with Annette Nykiel) features phytophthora bodies)
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New edit of die back (a collaboration with Annette Nykiel) features phytophthora bodies)