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@NalakaG @LareefZubair @fectlk @fectmv @WorldBankSAsia So exciting!

#GoodNeighbours copies arrive in Colombo! Thx to all who helped with info & interviews for my chapter on #lka & #Maldives scientific collaboration on #ClimateChange impacts - esp. @LareefZubair @fectlk @fectmv. H/T to @smriti_daniel for connecting & inspiring! @WorldBankSAsia

Here it is: @NASAWebb’s one-year anniversary image. Called Rho Ophiuchi, this area shows about 50 young stars in a cocoon of gas and dust. At 390 light-years away, it's the closest star-forming region to Earth: go.nasa.gov/3rqX8Tl Webb continues to #UnfoldTheUniverse.

#TeamCSIRO's Oli Shepherd bought his first set of oil paints after watching Girl with a Pearl Earring. Cut to twenty years later, he's on the shortlist for the #ArchibaldPrize. Meet Oli. blog.csiro.au/oli-shepherd-2…

Researchers have found elephant seals falling asleep out at sea, tumbling hundreds of metres deep in uncontrolled spirals and sometimes 'laying motionless on the sea floor'. ab.co/3Liqo68 (via @ABCscience)

Totality from the Exmouth Gulf #SolarEclipse2023

Beautiful close-up of a Nurse Shark's eye and dermal denticles. 📷: Instagram user 'sujugasim' instagram.com/p/Cqxy75MJ5SE/…

We're bringing #AI back to reality. 🤖 Everyday AI is our new podcast that challenges everything you thought you knew about AI. Join our AI expert, Jon Whittle, as he speaks with experts from @NASAJPL, @Google, @UCBerkeley and more: csiro.au/podcast

Facial recognition software's unique use in sea dragon conservation abc.net.au/news/2023-01-0…

Did you know that seashells are birthed? 🤯 This here is an egg casing, which is a nursery for hundreds of precious seashells. 🐚 In this particular casing, large marine molluscs called northern baler shells (Melo amphora) are growing. 📷📃 | @ausgeo #BestOf2022

Cheese!

Putting something good into this hellscape. @smriti_daniel's profile interview of living legend Annette Shun Wah liminalmag.com/interviews/ann…

“If I’m nostalgic for cinema poster photographs not taken, it might be that because those photographs would’ve been tangible artefacts of my childhood in Malaysia, artefacts I almost could have made.” Loved the melancholy way Mike looks at images of images of images.

"As I get older, reality has hit. The older you are, the more you have to lose." Annette Shun Wah liminalmag.com/interviews/ann…

For interview #206, Annette Shun Wah speaks to @smriti_daniel about her family’s long & fascinating history in Australia, her bold career choices & the joy she finds in celebrating Asian Australian identities through the arts. Photographs by Teresa Tan liminalmag.com/interviews/ann…

@liminalcat @mxcreant @liminalmag @writerssainc It was such a pleasure, Mike. Thank you for such a wonderful piece.

All desis disgusted with Elon Musk’s bargaining abilities. You don’t go below half immediately man! #twitter #blueTick

A recurring thought I have every month on the heaviest day of my period is that if male shock jocks had periods we would never hear the end of it. They would lose their minds. Policies would change. There would be summits.

How do we mourn an islet? Where do we mark its grave? | Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner theguardian.com/world/2022/nov…