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Gin (she/her)
@puregin.bsky.social
Communication and engagement specialist in science publishing. Digital accessibility enthusiast, SciComm fan, drawing in my downtime.

Living on Boonwurrung Country 🌈
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huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The @wikipedia.org app has a delightful glitch for me which sees newly searched articles appear with the feature image from previous searches. Please don't fix it, it brings me joy and I've started collecting some of my favourites.

#WikiGlitch
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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In the lead up to #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, we're reflecting on the species that we have lost, and the future we need to protect.

These poignant artworks depict some of the unique Australian animals that are now extinct, as well as one species we can still save.

1) Kangaroo Island Emu (Extinct)
September 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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We will never know the true economic value of the environment; it's a fool's errand. Nature's most important values are priceless, they can never be measured in dollars and cents, but they must be conserved.
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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least surprising heel turn in history
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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NEW: Displaying a watermelon in solidarity with Palestinians has been flagged as an antisemitic visual symbol at a pro-Israel summit on the Gold Coast.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/watermelon...
Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit
A leaflet shared at Gold Coast summit includes a bizarre list of 'antisemitic' items
www.deepcutnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Exactly
September 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"I can’t keep having conversations about laying my life on the line for America’s children while working 50+ hours a week..earning less than $50,000 & fielding debates about whether I should carry a Glock while passing out the drawing supplies."

Cried reading Webworm:
www.webworm.co/survivalsimu...
Survival Simulations In The Art Room
We’re raising kids in potential war zones and calling it school.
www.webworm.co
September 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds | Bluesky | The Guardian | This quotes me
Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds
Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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there has been a bit of reporting in NZ about webworm leaving substack, and i wanted to clarify a *few* things that got missed (a text version of this is available here: www.webworm.co/moresubstack...)
August 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Get in loser.

#Naarm #FreePalestine
August 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Don't forget transcripts for video and audio. These will help blind users and low-vision users, deaf and hard-of-hearing users, people with ADHD, and people with audio-processing disorders. Transcripts also benefit search engines, people in quiet spaces, and people in a hurry.
August 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"As the well of readily available data runs dry, it's grimly inevitable that these companies turn to their users to keep the supply flowing... If intimacy is trust, pseudo-intimacy is commerce."

Ross Palethorpe for @davidfarrier.bsky.social's Webworm:

www.webworm.co/fallinginlove/

#ChatGPT5 #LLM
Falling In Love With A Bot
We tend to love things that can’t love us back.
www.webworm.co
August 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Digital equity exists when everyone can access and effectively use digital technologies so as to participate in our society, democracy, and economy.

tomorrow is #NoTechDay, an important cause to use people power to help bring awareness to the digital inequity in New Zealand: www.notechday.nz
August 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Beautiful superb parrot feeding on lerps - keeps taste pretty nice and birds love the sugar hit
August 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Cleaning out my bookshelf and found a time capsule: books on #Flash (RIP), early #AfterEffects, and 3D computer animation.

Cutting edge in 2002, basically archaeological curiosities in 2025.

#FeelingOld
August 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I, too, would like to be an omen.

Carving wood sent me 😂
Bird abilities I wish I had.
Buy my new book here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Brilliant keynote by @ginnybraun.bsky.social on #AI (in qualitative research, but relevant beyond).

As someone who feels a lot of pressure to use AI tools to be more "efficient" and "productive", this resonated.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)
YouTube video by Virginia Braun
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"It dehumanises tens of thousands of Australians who oppose their government’s silence on Gaza...And it sanitises real authoritarianism by suggesting that mass protest against injustice is somehow comparable to the movements that engineered genocide, not those trying to stop one."
NEW: The editor of the Weekend Australian Magazine has been accused of "sanitising authoritarianism" and "weaponising Jewish trauma" after seemingly evoking the Nazis in posts about the Sydney Palestine march

www.deepcutnews.com/p/news-corp-...
News Corp editor evokes Nazis in posts about Sydney Palestine march
Weekend Australian Magazine editor accused of "sanitising authoritarianism" and "weaponising Jewish trauma"
www.deepcutnews.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Finally finished the right page on my August 2021 moth survey from my IL Prairie Nature Journal. Just love the diversity of all these moths from the Midwest!
#SciArt #moths #naturejournal #prairie
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM