Simon Heyes

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I'm a PhD student from La Trobe University, Australia. I'm currently working on narrow limestone endemic plants and how they respond to drought and temperature extremes. Also interested in seed, animal-plant interactions, and open ecosystems.
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Image at the top is an x-ray image of a wasp seed predator in the threatened Acacia caerulescens (Limestone Blue Wattle).

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@bencourtice glaucophylla. I remember plants from a nursery listed as Callitris glaucophylla but since they've grown they appear to have fruit like C. endlicheri
@bencourtice one of the old ones too. I have seed for Paul and Zoe I got from some of the Bacchus Marsh pops

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Worrying sight out at some of my old study sites. It's been an incredibly dry summer/autumn and I'm seeing quite a lot of mortality of Banksia marginata (Silver Banksia). This species is already suffering recruitment pressures from seed predation and small population sizes but could extreme drought events like this be another nail in the coffin for these populations? #botany #ClimateChange #drought #ecology
Is it a seed or a shadow? No, it's a mystery phytophagous wasp. Someone suggested it's Bruchophagus but we've not tried the keys yet so we'll see.
#SeedEcology #SeedPredation #entemology #ecology
@jimbob @mike @liamvhogan yea, it looks like it's pushed out into farmland as far as Glenthompson now.
@bencourtice I'd get one for the cat but I think she'd claw my eyes out.
@Mikal of course, ban a post for sharing Mastodon deets but reels of car crash victims is cool and normal. I remember reporting some pretty horrific videos shared by neo-nazis back in 2013 and I never heard anything.
Harris – and other leaders – provide many words of future hope for them/us without detailing how they will prioritise & take the priority pain points seriously.
Maybe many simply care more about job security, a home, rising costs, food & a beer at the end of the day than the rights & safety of others. At least until they have the security that allows them the space to think & discuss those things, and FFS, stop calling everyone stupid.
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Most are just busy dealing with a lot and feeling overwhelmed.
Because we‘re *all* needed to fix the basics by voting in leaders capable of doing better, we better start thinking this through instead of ignoring the massive signals these elections have been sending us for many years now
If it's not too late.
Yes we can, retreat into our catchphrase-laden echo chambers, but that isn't going to turn the page on anything and seems more likely to ensure that We *are* going back.
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