Easter good news!
Australia's Greater Bilby population has quadrupled in just 5 years – up to 5,330 individuals!
Thanks to wet years + predator-free fenced areas, this threatened species is bouncing back strong. Resilience in action.

Retired nurse and member of the Vintage Reds (lifelong union member). Whisky, architecture, landcare. Food nazi and general left wing ratbag. Always learning. #FreeGaza🇵🇸
Put your country in your profile, please.
And keep to the left you bastards.
Canberra (Australia), unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri country.
Easter good news!
Australia's Greater Bilby population has quadrupled in just 5 years – up to 5,330 individuals!
Thanks to wet years + predator-free fenced areas, this threatened species is bouncing back strong. Resilience in action.

for anyone who wants to understand the full story, this is a fascinating read https://andrewtink.com/index.php/honeysuckle-creek-new
Last night in the middle of the night my wife sat bolt upright in bed and asked Siri to put “rat traps” on the shopping list …
Some dream.
She doesn’t remember it.
Just an interesting machiya (traditional Japanese townhouse) that I encountered this morning.

Today, a very brief post about a "machiya" I encountered this morning. Machiya are traditional Japanese townhouses. They used to be found all over Japan and were nothing exceptional. However, they have been slowly disappearing for a few decades now, and the regular ones (not historical buildings or such) may
In case anyone is interested, NASA have 24/7 stream running from Artemis.

I'm looking for an #Immunologist who might have an interest in unusual presentations. Someone with a curious mind, shall we say.
If such a person exists in #mastodon it would be great to connect with them.
All boosts gratefully received!
If not for China, this wouldn’t even be happening, just more boondoggles to keep the money flowing.
I think another reason I feel so blasé is that so much of this could’ve been done in the 1980 or 90s. But after Apollo 12, the mood went to “been there; done that” (Apollo 13 notwithstanding). We had 3 more Apollo missions, with full hardware, that we left literally lying on the ground (two of them are at the KSC and JSC, not sure where the third is, off the top of my head) 3/n