Alex Barley

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This #NAIDOCWeek, why not learn about your local Indigenous community's weather knowledge? You can find traditional weather & climate expertise, that has been developed & passed down through countless generations by First Nations people, at: bom.gov.au/iwk/

The duality of isopods

#PollinatorWeek did you know that baltic isopods may be the first underwater pollinators known to science?

Exiting news from Australia: The newly described 47.000 yrs old Tiliqua frangens was a gigantic armoured skink which reached a length of about 60 cm und weighed more than 2 kg. In terms of weight it is the biggest skink on record. theconversation.com/meet-the-bigge…

The trans athlete “debate” would have dramatically affected me growing up. I was 5’2” at 8 years old. 6’0” at 12. Parents complained so often i was the wrong age, i carried a copy of my birth certificate. I would have 100% been the target of the trans-vestigators. I remember a

To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.

Aseroe rubra is a hilarious fungus in the stinkhorn family, Phallaceae, that smells like absolute hell and mimics a rotten meat/feces mixture to help attract the flies that disperse its spores. Here it is coming up in Podocarpus totara/Agathis australis forest in NZ

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Had a wonderful tour as part of work today at @ANSTO. Their science communication is fantastic, definitely demystified some assumptions I had about nuclear science!

Meet lug-nut. One of my strangest finds so far. I found a blueberry hermit crab adapting with a lug nut cover. experiment.com/projects/blueb…

Upon rounding a bend in the road I had to stop at an amazing spectacle of what seemed like a flock of flamingos on a distant salt lake. Only problem is this was Australia! Closer looks revealed a ultra-saline soup with salt crystals forming these shapes above the surface.

Todays highlight was seeing Hakea petiolaris flowering in it’s natural habitat.

The Hakea francisiana is at it again dazzling us with its pink flowers. It’s getting so tall that it’s hard to get a picture these days.

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🧶 1/9 The massive currents swirling around Antarctica are a crucial driver of the global network of ocean currents that transport heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. How will this lifeline change on a warming planet? [animation: @NASAViz]

The Badlands episode of Prehistoric Planet 2 reminded me that a really great paper came out this year on Cretaceous desert environments, which palaeoartists should appreciate as I know this is an FAQ for restorations, and it has great figures -- and is open access!