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Stewart Nicol
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The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This is beautiful.
Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
When it's snowy on the mountain the Currawongs come to visit me and demand food. One of them is a repeat visitor I have named Snapper. Sound on to help you work out which one . #birds
September 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate

It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through.

www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’
Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”
www.desmog.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
good morning
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Love this example of behavioural thermoregulation, posted on Kgalagadi Sightings page.
July 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Oh my God, are we going to be subjected to Eric Abetz all night?
July 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
and again
July 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Good morning
July 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
@cqchoi.com - in 2013 you published an article titled "why the platypus will never have a stomach". This year I published an article that explains that platypuses do have a stomach, and how this misunderstanding occurred. You can find it here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Stew... comments welcome
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www.researchgate.net
July 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Good morning 🫡
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This is a Cambridge Skin Temperature Meter that I rescued some years ago when the Physiology Department moved across town. These things were beautifully built works of art. I am guessing it dates from sometime in the 1950s. Does anyone have more information about the date these were manufactured?
May 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
we get 60m dollars worth of tea from China every year. baby, they are literally doing a 104% tax on tea in the United States
sure this sounds bad but remember this nation was founded on the principle of cheerfully tolerating large surtaxes on imported goods
April 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that:

1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤

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April 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
reposting this with 🧪 ,
@hgl7.bsky.social and
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social If you want a copy send me your email in a chat
Does the platypus have a stomach? The perils of popular science. Would respected science sources sex up their stories? My new paper just out. @jackdashby.bsky.social this is for you. meridian.allenpress.com/australian-z...
April 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Does the platypus have a stomach? The perils of popular science. Would respected science sources sex up their stories? My new paper just out. @jackdashby.bsky.social this is for you. meridian.allenpress.com/australian-z...
April 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
March 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Selling nuclear.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
March 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🧪 🦊 A pademelon, Thylogale billardierii, cleans itself in the morning sun outside my study window.
March 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Tell me everything doesn’t sound better in French.
French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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HELP! I was sent some photos of skulls on graph paper so I could get the dimensions. The x & y axes have different scaling. The y axis looks like inches divided into tenths, but the x axis has 6 divisions in the small rectangles. Is anyone familiar with this graph paper?
February 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Australia is not like America. We won't tolerate the oligarchy of billionaires running our government, paying no tax and laughing all the way to the bank. Dutton mimics all of Trumps policies including to sack public servants and give the work to consultants at 3 times the cost.
February 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM