ianmcmillan
@ianmcmillan.bsky.social
Lepidopterist flaneur
Queensland, Australia
Queensland, Australia
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Oldest known fossil evidence of lepidopterans (butterflies & moths), from the Triassic (~236 mya) of Argentina! Scales from the wings of these insects were preserved in dicynodont coprolites, & were likely on plants eaten by the dicynodonts. www.science.org/content/arti... #PoopScience 🧪💩🪨🦋
Ancient poop yields world’s oldest butterfly fossils
Tiny wing scales suggest the proboscis evolved 100 million years before flowers
www.science.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Oldest known fossil evidence of lepidopterans (butterflies & moths), from the Triassic (~236 mya) of Argentina! Scales from the wings of these insects were preserved in dicynodont coprolites, & were likely on plants eaten by the dicynodonts. www.science.org/content/arti... #PoopScience 🧪💩🪨🦋
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Womersleymeria bicornis (Womersley, H, 1940:137) Stach, J, 1949, an springtail endemic to Australia. #NAMEITTOSAVEIT
May 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Womersleymeria bicornis (Womersley, H, 1940:137) Stach, J, 1949, an springtail endemic to Australia. #NAMEITTOSAVEIT
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Hi, had a bit of a rough end to my week of chemo so have been offline for a while. Thank you to all our supporters.
Here is a quoll I found in a sketchbook. Please feel free to donate to this worthy cause or you never know what that quoll might do. citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...
Here is a quoll I found in a sketchbook. Please feel free to donate to this worthy cause or you never know what that quoll might do. citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...
April 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Hi, had a bit of a rough end to my week of chemo so have been offline for a while. Thank you to all our supporters.
Here is a quoll I found in a sketchbook. Please feel free to donate to this worthy cause or you never know what that quoll might do. citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...
Here is a quoll I found in a sketchbook. Please feel free to donate to this worthy cause or you never know what that quoll might do. citytocasino25.grassrootz.com/canteen/jon-...
epigram engraved on a dog collar, Alexander Pope, 1736
March 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
epigram engraved on a dog collar, Alexander Pope, 1736
I'm finding bluesky rather dull. And what's with the enormous number of busty babes trying to be my friend? I'm a 74-year-old gay man and their tits are the very last thing I want to be besieged by.
February 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'm finding bluesky rather dull. And what's with the enormous number of busty babes trying to be my friend? I'm a 74-year-old gay man and their tits are the very last thing I want to be besieged by.
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This can’t be right, surely. Tony Abbott says Pell was a truly great Australian…
George Pell raped, groped two boys in Ballarat, compensation scheme decides
Two men were compensated after the National Redress Scheme accepted they were abused as boys by the late Cardinal George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s.
www.abc.net.au
January 31, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This can’t be right, surely. Tony Abbott says Pell was a truly great Australian…
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Headline on a news release which came to my in-tray today and attracted my entire attention for far too long: "New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders on the island of Ireland" 🧪 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders on the island of Ireland
Dr Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists – including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew – in a study to investigate the ...
www.eurekalert.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Headline on a news release which came to my in-tray today and attracted my entire attention for far too long: "New fungal species named in honour of Sir David Attenborough making zombies of cave spiders on the island of Ireland" 🧪 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten.
The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning.
#NeverForget
#NeverAgain
The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning.
#NeverForget
#NeverAgain
January 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, everything that led to the Holocaust is in danger of being forgotten.
The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning.
#NeverForget
#NeverAgain
The Nazis channeled the demands of oligarchs, scapegoated minorities and replaced democracy with a new imperium. Those politics are returning.
#NeverForget
#NeverAgain
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Morning everyone, I took a couple of months off over Christmas as I have not been particularly well and have been waiting on seeing the results of my next scan, which if not good would be not good at all. Having given it a lot of thought, I’ve decided that even if the result is good, eventually, one
January 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Morning everyone, I took a couple of months off over Christmas as I have not been particularly well and have been waiting on seeing the results of my next scan, which if not good would be not good at all. Having given it a lot of thought, I’ve decided that even if the result is good, eventually, one
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Thieves have stolen several key artifacts from an exhibition of gold from the ancient kingdom of Dacia at the Drents Museum in Assen, after setting of explosives outside the building.
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/inte...
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/inte...
January 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thieves have stolen several key artifacts from an exhibition of gold from the ancient kingdom of Dacia at the Drents Museum in Assen, after setting of explosives outside the building.
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/inte...
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/inte...
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there is no taming Grace
Deadset legend
Deadset legend
January 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
there is no taming Grace
Deadset legend
Deadset legend
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What an incredible, brave woman.
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
What an incredible, brave woman.
Kirsti Miller for President
It is very important to note that their president's executive order on trans identities specifically said that everyone must be identified as their gender at conception, not birth. At conception, our chromosomes are not differentiated and we are all, therefore, female.
January 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Kirsti Miller for President
An entertaining thought, from the podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’: in two years Trump will be of no futther use to the Republican Party. They’ll be busy looking for his replacement.
What will become of him then?
What will become of him then?
January 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
An entertaining thought, from the podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’: in two years Trump will be of no futther use to the Republican Party. They’ll be busy looking for his replacement.
What will become of him then?
What will become of him then?
A beautiful day out here in the bush
January 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A beautiful day out here in the bush
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Huh. There are flowers in Ethiopia that native nectar-foraging wolves pollinate! 🦊😋🌻🍊
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"Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa"
by Lai et al. (2024, Ecology)
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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"Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa"
by Lai et al. (2024, Ecology)
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa
Click on the article title to read more.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Huh. There are flowers in Ethiopia that native nectar-foraging wolves pollinate! 🦊😋🌻🍊
🧪
"Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa"
by Lai et al. (2024, Ecology)
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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"Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa"
by Lai et al. (2024, Ecology)
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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December 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Very very very quick and dirty sketch. Diamantinasaurus + cf. Wollemia sp.
December 16, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Very very very quick and dirty sketch. Diamantinasaurus + cf. Wollemia sp.
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November 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields
November 14, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields