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Animal Welfare Matters @awsel.bsky.social · Apr 6
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🏊‍♂️ The National Drowning Report 2025 recorded 357 drowning deaths over the past 12 months.

🦈 Over the past 10 years, there was an average of average 2.8 shark fatalities each year.

🚘 In 2024, there were 1300 motor vehicle deaths.

#Perspective #Australia #Swimming #Summer #Sharks #SharkSafety ⬇️🦈
sharksafetywa.bsky.social Shark Safety WA @sharksafetywa.bsky.social · 1d
Spring shark buffet season is happening off the WA coast.
Please share our tips to avoid being bitten.
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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animaljusticeparty.bsky.social
FISH SUFFER 22 MINUTES INTENSE PAIN 🐟

"Each year a trillion or so fish are pulled from the water... While it's hardly a pleasurable outcome for the animal, a new study has just put a sobering number on their suffering."

#AusPol #Ocean #MarineLife #Sea #Animals

www.sciencealert.com/fish-suffer-...
Fish Suffer Up to 22 Minutes of Intense Pain When Taken Out of Water
Each year, a trillion or so fish are pulled from the water, typically destined for our plates.
www.sciencealert.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
awsel.bsky.social
Rusted-on Bingo wins the internet today. #Auspol #ClimateChange
yungenchee.bsky.social Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 4d
As the @albomp.bsky.social gov (94 seats!) tries to ram thru industry-serving regressive EPBC laws that'll see further biodiversity, climate & environmental damage, here's the current play on the @kudelka.bsky.social bingo card

A1, A2, B5, C1, C2, C3, C5, D1, D2, D3, E1, E2, E3
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
awsel.bsky.social
The Grammar Police are hilarious when they flip the switch. #VetMed
fesshole.bsky.social fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 5d
Thinking about changing my pets' vet only because their appointment confirmations say "pleased to confirm tomorrows appointment" and the lack of apostrophe annoys me to no end
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
awsel.bsky.social
All I heard in this banger was #Turtle Love #Turtle Power & Fight to save #Wildlife 🐢💚🎶💥😁

Shell Shocked feat Kill The Noise & Madsonik - Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign

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Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign - Shell Shocked feat Kill The Noise & Madsonik (Official Video)
YouTube video by Atlantic Records
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November 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
awsel.bsky.social
#Pets + #Firefighters = #Christmas 🔥🎁😍

#AnimalWelfare #Australia #Auspol
hongkongfp.com Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 9d
1/ The stars of the Australian Firefighters Calendar have blazed into town, swapping their fire trucks for furry friends, as they raise funds for local pet charities.
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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animaljusticeparty.bsky.social
WE DID IT! 🐶🐱
Pet burials now legal in Victorian human cemeteries

"Victoria now allows pets to be buried at cemeteries alongside their owners, becoming just the second jurisdiction in Australia to do so."

www.parliament.vic.gov.au/news/society...

#Pets #Animals #AusPol #AusPol2025 #Dogs #Cats
Victoria legalises pet burials in human cemeteries - Parliament of Victoria
www.parliament.vic.gov.au
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
awsel.bsky.social
This is the best thing I have read all week. 🐏🌈❤️ #Sheep #GaySheep #RainbowWool #LGBTQ+ #AnimalWelfare
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
awsel.bsky.social
#Koala populations in #SouthAustralia are under pressure from drought, disease, habitat loss, and bushfires. The 2025 Great Koala Count census is on now ➡️ 15th - 23rd November.

🐨 Download the #Koala Spotter App: www.nkmp.org.au/populations....
#Koalas #Wildlife #Conservation #CitizenScience #Auspol
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
awsel.bsky.social
If you have pets that you regularly post on social media, you need to know that a) I love them, b) they are also my pets, and c) we are in a long distance relationship. 🐾💕
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
awsel.bsky.social
"Octopus and Plastic Bottle — Tyler Toews in Vancouver, Canada. A mural showing an octopus [with its tentacles] wrapped around a floating plastic bottle, painted across the side of a building."

via ➡️ @streetartutopia.com 🎨🖌️
"Octopus and Plastic Bottle — Tyler Toews in Vancouver, Canada. A mural showing an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around a floating plastic bottle, painted across the side of a building." via ➡️ @streetartutopia.com 🎨🖌️
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
awsel.bsky.social
Most of them die in transit. Fucking pieces of shit who belong in jail. #SorryNotSorry #Australia #Auspol #Wildlife #Poaching #WildlifeCrime #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
awsel.bsky.social
#SeniorPets have my heart above all others. ❤️🐾 Look at this amazing list of rescue organisations!!! 🐾⬇️ #AdoptDontShop #AdoptASeniorPet #AnimalWelfare #Australia #Auspol
animaljusticeparty.bsky.social Animal Justice Party @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social · 13d
SPACE IN YOUR HOME AND HEART?

Old dogs, new beginnings 🐶❤️

Did you know November is Adopt a Senior Dog Month?

Give a golden oldie the love they’ve been waiting for!

Check out our list of rescues centres here: nsw.animaljusticeparty.org/adopt_dont_s...

#Animals #DogsofBsky #Dogs #Animals #Pets
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
awsel.bsky.social
If a #GuideDog #AssistanceDog #ServiceDog approaches you without a person, follow the dog, because the person is down and needs help. 🦮🆘️
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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kelsie.bsky.social
Stop 👏 kidnapping 👏 healthy 👏 fledglings 👏
Thankfully this guy was abducted around the corner from the clinic so after a little feed (because a man had helpfully contained him in a bucket overnight so his parents couldn’t get to him) I managed to find his mum and reunite them
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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aunz.theconversation.com
Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
awsel.bsky.social
The sweetest thing 💕 When my elderly dog went deaf, my cat took over sentinel duty and became the guard cat, alerting me when someone was outside. We underestimate how intelligent they are. 🥰
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14d
This is Archie. He's deaf and doesn't hear when his humans get home. Luckily, his little brother Frankie lets him know with a gentle nudge to make sure he doesn't miss the moment. 14/10 for both (TT: melissamilne)
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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chaser.com.au
The party denied completely abandoning everything net zero related, saying they are still on track for net zero election wins by 2050. chaser.com.au/national/lib...
Liberal Party hoping to fuck the planet harder than they fucked their chances at the next election
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
awsel.bsky.social
If you live in #Australia #Auspol Lucy's Project has a list of resources to help you and your #Pets escape domestic and family violence. Gather your documents, personal items, money, and pets, and make a safe plan to get out now. #DomesticViolence #DV #AnimalWelfare

🐾 lucysproject.com/help/
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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drejosephine.bsky.social
You never know who you are influencing - actors going #vegan or #vegetarian
Amazing story #BeKind #futures
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘It’s changed me’: Jeff Goldblum says he has stopped eating meat after working on Wicked
Actor said discussions about animal cruelty with director Jon Chu had led him to join Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in renouncing meat
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Tasmanian regulators question major salmon farm operator Huon Aquaculture about the effectiveness of its "predator" nets after a spate of dolphin deaths.
Salmon farm's response to spike in dolphin deaths prompts questioning
Tasmanian regulators question major salmon farm operator Huon Aquaculture about the effectiveness of its "predator" nets after a spate of dolphin deaths.
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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whalesorg.bsky.social
Today, we pause to remember the courage, sacrifice, and service of all those who gave so much, including the beings who stood beside them.
Image of a black image with white silhouettes of the animals that fought in the war, along with one soldier. The Elephant is holding a red poppy in its trunk.
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
awsel.bsky.social
The Australian government #Auspol continues to ignore the science. "During the trial there were 676 shark sightings by drones, significantly higher than the 284 caught in adjacent nets." 🦈🦈🦈

#Sharks #BanSharkNets #NetsOutNow #ByCatch #Dolphins #Whales #Turtles #Dugongs #AnimalWelfare #Australia
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM