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

Living on Boonwurrung Country 🌈
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
puregin.bsky.social
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
A portrait photo of Patrick Schwarzenegger is amusingly but accidentally the feature image for a Wikipedia article about United States presidential pets.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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theguardian.com
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet. On the eve of a key biodiversity summit in the UAE, scientists have issued a fresh warning about the health of bird populations, with 61% of assessed species now recording declines in their numbers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
puregin.bsky.social
Surely it's finally tawny's year!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#BirdOfTheYear #TeamTawny
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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csiropublishing.bsky.social
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)
Painting of a Kangaroo Island Emu standing by a coastline, with the crashing sea behind it. The bird is standing half in profile, and appears to be making eye contact with the viewer. Art by Terry Matassoni.
September 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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euanritchie.bsky.social
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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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
least surprising heel turn in history
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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deepcutnews.bsky.social
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
puregin.bsky.social
Meanwhile, at the Australian Mayor's Summit against Antisemitism, watermelons and calling Gaza an "open-air prison" have been deemed antisemitic.
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Sep 4
Sky News Australia gives neo-Nazi centre stage with uninterrupted press conference | Weekly Beast
Sky News Australia gives neo-Nazi centre stage with uninterrupted press conference | Weekly Beast
News Corp channel puts to air statement from extremist just days after alleged attack on Indigenous protest site. Plus: 4BC’s typo to end all typos * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast We all saw footage of the disturbing behaviour of neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, who shouted at the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, as she was holding a press conference at Eades Park in West Melbourne earlier this week. If you were watching Sky News Australia a little later on Tuesday you would have heard a lot more from Sewell, including a “Heil Australia!” with what looked like a half salute. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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terngirl.bsky.social
Exactly
The fifth horseman of the apocalypse, Misinformation.
September 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
puregin.bsky.social
"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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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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
puregin.bsky.social
Not sure how there's even a question about this. It's #Terrorism and a #HateCrime.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

#CampSovereignty
Calls for attack on Aboriginal site to be declared hate crime
The attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty is just the latest attack on First Nations sites and people. Indigenous leaders want it declared an act of terror.
www.abc.net.au
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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davidfarrier.com
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
puregin.bsky.social
Get in loser.

#Naarm #FreePalestine
A homemade cardboard protest sign reading "get in closer, we're going to not be complicit in Genocide", after a quote spoken by the character Regina George in the movie Mean Girls. We see a photo of Regina in her convertible car and a Palestinian flag.
August 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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a11yawareness.bsky.social
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
puregin.bsky.social
"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
puregin.bsky.social
#NoTechDay
yeehawtheboys.bsky.social Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · Aug 21
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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teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
Beautiful superb parrot feeding on lerps - keeps taste pretty nice and birds love the sugar hit
August 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
puregin.bsky.social
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
Three books on a glass table: Flash Studio Secrets by Glenn Thomas, The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Imaging by Isaac Victor Kerlow, and Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects by Trish and Chris Meyer.
August 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
puregin.bsky.social
I, too, would like to be an omen.

Carving wood sent me 😂
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Aug 18
Bird abilities I wish I had.
Buy my new book here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A nine panel comic called "Bird abilities I wish I had." In panel 1, labeled flying, a woman in a red tshirt and blue jeans soars through the air with 2 mourning doves. In panel 2, labeled singing complex songs, the woman sings with a magnolia warbler. In panel 3, labeled carving wood with my face, the woman has carved a hole in a tree and is covered in wood chips, while a pileated woodpecker pecks on a tree behind her. In panel 4, labeled eating shrimp to become pink, the woman has turned pink and is standing next to two flamingos. In panel 5, labeled storing food in a gular pouch, the woman has a throat pouch with an apple and a fish in it, and two pelicans fly by. In panel 6, labeled not needing winter legwear, the woman is bundled up but has bare legs and is standing in a snowy landscape next to a mallard duck. In panel 7, labeled being a symbol of peace, the woman looks peaceful and is wearing a shirt with a peace sign, and there's a mourning dove on her hand. In panel 8, labeled being an omen, the woman is in a spooky tree next to a crow or raven and a crescent moon. In panel 8, labeled stealing chips with no criminal repercussions, the woman and a herring gull are flying through the air carrying chip bags in their mouth while someone on the ground says "hey!".
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
puregin.bsky.social
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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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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
puregin.bsky.social
"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."
deepcutnews.bsky.social Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · Aug 6
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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karensnatureart.bsky.social
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
Two page spread of realistic watercolor paintings of a diversity of moths plus handwritten inked information including the common name, wingspan, and larval foods. The moths have shadows beneath them which makes it look like they're on a white sheet ready to take off. The moth survey is from August 18, 2021 at the Schulenberg Prairie at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL.
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM