I am very honoured & excited to join the ISEH Executive leadership in the role of Vice President. Sad to be leaving Chicago after a wonderful #ISEH2024, looking fwd to seeing everyone in Japan next year! Now my USA trip continues- off to visit Joy Wu, MD, PhD & Sean M Wu, MD PhD 😊

A farming group in the Toowoomba region has been fined $14,000 for illegally clearing koala habitat and has been criticised for starting to build a blueberry farm the size of 35 football fields without securing council approval. (9:57) abc.net.au/listen/program…

If you've got your fingers crossed for an early start to the wet season... you might be in luck. The BoM is predicting the first "significant rains" of the wet season, will fall earlier than usual in QLD and parts of the NT... but the forecast is not so great for northern WA

Pro-tip: Take your advice on cancer treatment from specialist doctors using evidence and science, not former supermodels and quacks with supplements to sell.

Touring the plant breeding facilities at Australian Grain Technologies in Adelaide with GrainGrowers National Policy Group

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The disarticulated exoskeleton of a Cerambycidae - Macrodotia cervicornis aka the sabertooth longhorn beetle Gorgeous way of display beetles - highlighting how they would be on flight (just slightly larger than life for emphasis) #MuseumNerdsAbroad Muséum de Toulouse Jack Ashby

The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl…

People need to talk gooder.

Martin Murray Hear me out - let’s export all our wheat to create a “shortage” so that it’s viable to grow wheat at Cobar for domestic consumption at 2.5 times the export price. Then we’ll import some of ours back to make up the shortfall. That’s the Santos’s Narrabri gas business case 🤦‍♂️

Elle Macpherson’s junk 'cures' for cancer are only likely to cause women more agony | Gaby Hinsliff theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why a picture of ‘sticks’? This is #deer damage in a NSW National Park. Locally, this has become increasingly common as the deer population grows and spreads.

True leaves 🍃

Amid "the worst wheat harvest for 40 years", France's wheat farmers call for an end to "blocked innovations" such as new genomic techniques to provide science-based solutions. lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/les-…