Bioreactor Ben

Fantastic news that Dengue fever outbreaks have been halted by release of special mosquitoes in Townsville. #I nspiredscience theguardian.com/society/2018/a…

On July 28, there will be the longest lunar eclipse this century. Point your eyes to the sky at 5:30AM (AEST). 🌕 🌔 🌓 🌒 🌚 🌘 🌗 🌖 🌕 #moon #eclipse

The shaky case for prosecuting Witness K and his lawyer in the Timor-Leste spying scandal theconversation.com/the-shaky-case… via @ConversationEDU

The prosecution of Witness K and his lawyer is disgraceful. The lawyer's role was to help K prepare a case showing Australia broke the law. Now he's charged with conspiracy! Christian Porter should not have approved the charges: he is a disgrace to the office of Attorney-General twitter.com/GetUp/status/1…

On truth decay... theguardian.com/books/2018/jul…

@mca178 @GCOration Lol - it’s a good song, if a little repetitive.

Check out this #tardigrade we imaged at #embryo2018. Labeled with fluorescein-dextran & imaged by #lightsheet on the #MizarTilt with a 40x 1.2NA water objective at 30fps. Would you all be cool with us filling up your Twitter feeds with cute tardigrade movies all the time?

**crickets** twitter.com/nigelstobbs/st…

Dehumanizing others makes atrocities possible. When a leader uses terms like "animals" and "infest," it's a tool to weaponize people who think themselves decent, and it's extremely effective. Don't write it off as just words.

Natural Transformation: 📌Two bacteria are sitting near free-floating DNA 📌Suddenly, one bacterium shoots out a long appendage, latches onto a DNA fragment and reels in its catch 📌A way to introduce variation into their genetic code #Harpooning 👉nature.com/articles/s4156…

Absolutely fantastic new animation from @drewberryIV ! #science > #fiction #plants twitter.com/drewberryiv/st…

Leeds researchers working with manchester? twitter.com/annadumitriu/s…

@crazycatzzz They say “we highlight that the mass of humans is an order of magnitude higher than that of all wild mammals combined”. We can’t continue with the fantasy that our impacts on the environment are trivial. #BiodiversityDay

@danieldennett Perhaps it was just a dumb machine at work. Do we need a reason? It certainly engaged your followers

and i have no idea where that ‘aq’ came from. Perhaps i was trying to edit my tweet after ot had been launched. Any typo theories?

@RoyalSocietyVic has some amazing plans to transform the society and fulfill its important mission advocating #sicence #stem. It’s a great time for members to #engage to have a say in their #future

Tomorrow at @ucdavis: Raquel Peixoto @peixotors on “Marine probiotics: increasing coral resilience to bleaching through m icrobiome manipulation” phylogenomics.me/2018/05/17/tom…

@dr_kazzah Is it an infectious diseases conference?

Actually got an invitation to speak at a conference I've heard of! And it's on a cruise ship!

@mca178 @Swinburne @Engineeringkate @RMIT Getting at seat will be a challenge!

People love to present science as a series of eureka moments but when you’re in it most of the time you’re digging around through a whole lot of nagging maybes

With the mining boom behind us, what's going to drive an economy studies show ranks alongside Oman & Kyrgyzstan in sophistication & complexity? Remember when the PM told us innovation was going to be the key to jobs & growth? Tune in tonight for my @abcnews special report #auspol