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@TashTaylor
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PhD in quantum physics, specifically looking at charge transfer and photosynthesis (#QuantumBiology). Numerous interests, no idea if hashtags here are useful but here goes!

#SocialJustice #MacroPhotography #STEM #History #Language #DnD #Evolution #Queer #Politics (including #AusPol) #Phylogeny #PaleoArt #Palæontology (not just dinosaurs) #Biology #Space #Physics #Chemistry #Animals (sorry plants)

Btw, she/her pronouns, but if you prefer using gender-neutral pronouns in general that's fine too.

[email protected]Jun 1, 2024

Grasshopper!

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Grasshopper #Acrididae

[email protected]Mar 30, 2024

🎶Then the bunnies bowed and prayed
To the chocolate egg they laid🎶

Happy Easter, to those who partake!

#Easter #Chocolate #Lindt #EasterEgg

[email protected]Feb 28, 2024

It's been really hard to sleep at night because of the record heat in #Meanjin / #Brisbane.

"🌡️Brisbane has now recorded 59 consecutive nights at or above 20 °C, having not dropped below 20 °C so far in 2024. This equals the previous record run of nights above 20 °C that occurred in 1978. Minimums are expected to stay above 20 °C this week."

[email protected]Dec 31, 2023
#iNaturalist year in review!
[email protected]Sep 28, 2023

Camouflage*! This little thing is the larva of a green lacewing! It has a bunch of detritus stuck to its back so it can safely hide from predators, while using the stabby bits on its face to kill common garden pests like aphids; these things are voracious predators!

*Omg I spelt it right first time!

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Lacewing #Chrysopidae

[email protected]Sep 27, 2023

Cute little native cockroach! Tentatively ID'd this as Ellipsidion bicolor, not a pest species.

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Cockroach #Ectobiidae #Ellipsidion #EllipsidionBicolor

[email protected]Sep 26, 2023
This is a member of Psocodea, which includes bark lice and book lice! I don't know anything about this order, so that's as narrow as the ID is getting.

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Psocodea
[email protected]Sep 25, 2023

Don't have as much time to go finding bugs at present, but here's a bee by way of apology!

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Bee #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Apis #ApisMellifera

[email protected]Aug 26, 2023

This intimidating creature is the stick-nest brown paper wasp! While they look scary, they're actually pretty chill (unless you touch their nest), and pretty small—only about a centimetre long!

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Wasp #Hymenoptera #Ropalidia #RopalidiaRevolutionaris

[email protected]Aug 17, 2023

Hibiscus harlequin bug (a.k.a. cotton harlequin bug), this is an absolutely gorgeous native species! Unfortunately I only had my long lens attached when I stumbled across this one, so I had to make do.

#WildOz #OzInverts #MacroPhotography #Meanjin #Brisbane #Australia #Nature #Arthropod #Insect #Bug #HibiscusHarlequinBug #Scutelleridae #Tectocoris #TectocorisDiophthalmus