Michael Bode

@meredithgore @DrDavidLRoberts @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett In New Zealand, farmers illegally introduced rabbit haemorrhagic disease after they were denied official permission. No one was prosecuted. boutique.oie.int/extrait/09ohar…

@meredithgore @DrDavidLRoberts @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett It's really worthwhile thinking about the various actors who are purposefully and illegally introducing species. In Tasmania, anti-green activists introduced foxes, endangering a half-dozen threatened species that foxes drove extinct on the mainland. parliament.tas.gov.au/ctee/REPORTS/F…

@DrDavidLRoberts @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @meredithgore @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett Such an interesting and excellent application of extinction-dating methods.

@meredithgore @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett How so?

@Oldcowboy14 @annieljensen @MathiasCormann @ScottMorrisonMP @OECD Many pay no income tax. Not, as in your case, because no one will employ them. But because right wing governments like Cormann's have cut their taxes to zero.

@annieljensen @MathiasCormann @ScottMorrisonMP @OECD Who most probably pay the dole u collect.

Congratulations #OECD60  60 years of #betterpolicies for #betterlives is a great achievement. More to come. #OECD values and policy leadership have stood the test of time. They are a strong foundation from which to deal with the opportunities and challenges of our time.

@Oldcowboy14 @DiPw122 @MathiasCormann @ScottMorrisonMP Narrator: "Not satisfied with being wrong, the commenter decided also to be a dickhead."

@DiPw122 @MathiasCormann @ScottMorrisonMP We don't have any refugees just country jumpers looking for the best welfare.

The man on the left is Grant Howard. He is a real coal miner (photo SMH). The man on the right is pretending to be a coal miner. He is a Senator. Note that the real coal miner has no coal dust where he wears his mask while the pretend coal miner has soot all over his face.

@MathiasCormann I hope the OECD don’t reward your planetary vandalism.

Official #OECD interview done. Final meetings in Europe today, with heads of WHO, ILO & Deputy DG of WTO. Multilateralism & international cooperation more important than ever. Working together helps maximise opportunities and deal more effectively with the challenges of our time.

@SenatorSurfer Yes. Weren’t you there when the passed the CPRS?

Ironic. Boiling the ocean is exactly what we are doing. #GreatBarrierReef- half coral cover gone, Tassies giant kelp forests-all but gone, our national reefs & sea grasses under assault. But will Labor right take strong action on #climatechange ? #greens theage.com.au/politics/feder…

@FadAstra Ha!

@FadAstra Is it because she supports Polanski?

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris @CERN I mean, I'm exaggerating. You're right that funds could be reallocated from a hundred places where they're less useful or interesting than blue sky research.

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris @CERN Meanwhile, there's absolutely fk all money for research, and we're spending half of that on people looking for God particles, or wondering whether the galaxies are held together with invisible matter. Blue sky research is a crazy use of limited funds.

@BiostatPL @JamesUVanDyke @SusannaLHarris Yeah, that’s how I’d see the question too. I think @JamesUVanDyke’s point is that the context matters so much (along with other noise) that there’s effectively no answer to the question. Certainly no answer of any use to on-ground managers.

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris The pure, inquisitive people? They were looking at the stars, and coming up with untestable theories about how the stars were pinholes in the blanket of the gods.

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris Humans aren’t in caves because we focused on applied problems. Not because we were inquisitive. The applied scientists of antiquity were worried about roofs, and food, and sewage and arrows. They’re the ones who made the Earth liveable.

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris What I’m saying is that the best way to solve a problem is to try to solve that problem. Want a PET scanner? Fund applied research into medical imaging. Don’t fund antimatter research on the off-chance it solves imagining problems.