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Megan Evans
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environmental policy, governance, finance • Senior Lecturer UNSW Canberra, Australia 🦘 • she/her • likes dogs • often grumpy, mostly about climate change, biodiversity loss and injustice 🇵🇸 https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/megan-evans
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Megan Evans @megcevans.bsky.social · Feb 18
💡Our new preprint is online: "Trends in biodiversity finance terminology, actors and networks over two decades" 🧵 #naturefinance osf.io/preprints/so...
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Alright yall 15 hours left, please share! 👋🏾 Aid is not entering Gaza, only commercial goods, and the prices are still very high. For these six families—mostly kids—who are still severely malnourished, they can ONLY eat with YOUR help.

Remember the famine last ceasefire? Help them survive—36/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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aljazeera.com
Gaza residents say they fear a return to Israel’s full-scale bombing as they struggle to find food, water and medicine.
Gaza ceasefire holds despite Israeli attacks and severe aid restrictions
Gaza residents say they fear a return to Israel’s full-scale bombing as they struggle to find food, water and medicine.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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treepete.bsky.social
The EDO have produced a very thorough first take on the legislation, more informed detail than I've seen anywhere else so far

www.edo.org.au/2025/10/31/e...
EPBC Act reforms make it to parliament – EDO’s first impressions   - Environmental Defenders Office
On October 30, Bills were introduced into the House of Representatives to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), create a National Environment Protection Agenc...
www.edo.org.au
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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biodivcouncil.bsky.social
Today Minister Murray Watt introduced a suite of bills to amend the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. We are concerned that the proposed reforms risk failing to protect nature unless key weaknesses are addressed and loopholes closed.

#EPBC #auspol #ausnews #biodiversity
A koala sits in the middle of a road. Text overlay says: Environmental law reforms unlikely to deliver for biodiversity without major strengthening.
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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divyampersaud.com
Please share. A displacement camp for fifteen families is trying to rebuild the site in this slow genocide. We have the option—duty—to help.

Give / find their link here.

12 hours left. 100/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...
A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent.

Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Israel just extended this pediatrician's arbitrary detention without trial, torture and abuse by 6 months. Release him immediately! Petition at @amnesty.org www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...
Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
www.amnesty.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This is an important petition on academic freedom, for a professor at Syracuse, NY, USA, who has been indefinitely suspended for a very mildly sarcastic four-word social media post relating to US politics.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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amandawise.bsky.social
Please sign. Help us get to 3000 signatures
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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jommytee.bsky.social
Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

Good article by @nickfeik.bsky.social

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/16/n...
Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
www.crikey.com.au
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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“The Albanese Government is committed to no new extinctions” Environment Minister Murray Watt, reaffirming Labor’s 2022 pledge on Threatened Species Day 2025

2 weeks later Australia’s only shrew is declared extinct.
#auspol #climate @australiainstitute.org.au
minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/media-r...
screenshot of Minister watt's media release. Text captured says: Recognising Threatened Species Day 7 September 2025 Today is Threatened Species Day, an opportunity to acknowledge the risks to Australia’s unique species and the work being done across the country to help them recover and thrive. From tree plantings and weed removal to species specific mapping and monitoring using the latest conservation technology, countless individuals and organisations help every day to support and provide hope for threatened species. It’s not just the work happening on the ground – research is finding innovative solutions to stay ahead of the game in the fight against key threats like feral cats, invasive weeds and climate change.
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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evilcleverdog.bsky.social
Using ChatGPT
edithcharles.bsky.social Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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climateadam.bsky.social
I feel this in my soul.

There's so much to say about climate change, climate action, misinformation, links to our other crises...

... But it's hard avoiding burnout when the world is burning.
keithfrankish.com Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 28d
I've never had more ideas and never had less energy.
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
The Israeli government denies mistreating Greta Thunberg. Then Police Min Itamar Ben Gvir goes on TV to gleefully announcing that she was indeed tortured. He says he's proud of the fact. It's a great demonstration of how the Israeli government under Netanyahu works, unable to coordinate its lies
October 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
BREAKING: Labor is actively hiding the truth of Australia’s genocidal supply of F35 fighter parts to Israel.

My office uncovered via FOI the Defence Department quietly deleted its webpage celebrating Australian companies pumping weapons parts to Israel to keep F35 jets flying.
October 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors. (photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document. At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment. The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI. SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report. Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth. The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”
October 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground
PARTNERS WITH FLYTREX, AN ISRAELI DRONE COPMANY, ALL WHILE ISRAEL USES DRONES TO KILL CHILDREN
October 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm
Melbourne Free Palestine march
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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monicamarks.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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October 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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larissawaters.bsky.social
DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla.

Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.

The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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nteunion.bsky.social
📰BREAKING📰

SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes.

Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
megcevans.bsky.social
Absolute worst journal experience of my life with @environmentalpol.bsky.social
Two years, four revisions, now rejection.
One reason cited by EIC is "small number of interviews... limits the rigor of the empirical work". There were 26 interviews, it's qual work. Never raised by reviewers.
September 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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minniesmum.bsky.social
$348/464… who can help make up the last $US116 to evacuate single mum Maha and family out of Gaza City? ANYTHING HELPS.
minniesmum.bsky.social Minnie’s mum @minniesmum.bsky.social · Sep 27
Just US$464 to go now folks. Please. Maha is terrified, surrounded by tanks and has no money to evacuate her and her family. We are her only hope. ANYTHING HELPS.
minniesmum.bsky.social Minnie’s mum @minniesmum.bsky.social · Sep 23
I’ve raised US$440/2000 for Maha to be able to evacuate herself & family from Gaza city to the South. So the goal is $US1560. She really needs to leave asap… the bombing is relentless and it’s do dangerous. Can anyone help with a donation, or at least a share?
September 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social
Reminder that Tony Burke went on Sky News and defended the officer’s actions
ANSW Police officer has been charged with assault over the arrest of Greens candidate Hannah Thomas
September 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM