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  @bloor Not a Brit, but I agree with them that this is illogical. The logical solution would, of course, be to abolish all private schools.

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  The Australian Biological Resources Study in the Science Branch at Parks Australia is currently recruiting for a number of positions. Scientific officers with expertise in taxonomy and systematics for: Terrestrial arthropods Marine invertebrates Non-flowering plants or fungi https://dcceewjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.listJobs&jobid=4279F553-698A-969C-D4B8-DB32537F729C&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=84B8823A%2D6968...

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  @arthurperret The first two are key, and their subsequent points get increasingly weird. As you wrote, 3 is already kind of repeating 1. They get to twelve by padding a lot, it seems. Everybody needs to understand that PlagiarismBot doesn't understand; it guesses sentences, and it gets up to 40% of its answers wrong. However, what mystifies me most here is how proud people are of automating tasks away that are core to my identity. I WANT to write papers myself, express myself in my own...

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  @ScienceScholar Just wondering about the etymology: What do self-regulating planets have to do with the plant family Asteraceae? The article doesn't really seem to explain that.

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  @RickiTarr @farah Some people will just think the website must be biased and some kind of trick.

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  @DebErupts Statistical anomalies are certainly worth of investigation. But it occurs to me that he currently has 2.6M more vote count than she does, and the lopsided electoral college means that at any rate Ds can usually only win if they got a few million votes more overall than Rs. Wouldn't the claim that Harris should have won then require a much more massive hack than discussed in that post? I mean, Rs winning popular vote but Ds winning the EC would also be a statistical anomaly.

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  Vacancy for three year term position in the Australian National Insect Collection as a molecular lab developer: https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-Molecular-Laboratory-Developer/1057845066/

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  @resuna @davidgerard Some people go to university not to learn but to get a sheet of paper that unlocks higher-paid jobs. And to be fair, there are lots of well-paying jobs where knowing anything at a technical level is unnecessary, e.g., management and consultancy. Only people who can make costly technical mistakes need to have technical understanding, e.g., accounts, legal, engineering, logistics, health & safety. Problem will be when it becomes hard to find qualified staff for those...

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  My team member Stephanie Chen and I tried to find the threatened Australian #daisy Erigeron conyzoides to support #biocontrol research, after it had eluded colleagues for years. When we found it, we thought, wait a second... https://www.publish.csiro.au/bt/BT24047

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  Thanks to Mauricio Bonifacino and Matt Taylor (Identic), the Lucid Key to the tribes of Compositae is now back online after having disappeared from the web for a few years: https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/tribes-compositae-family/ #compositae #daisies #asteraceae #TICA

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  Vacancy for a Research Scientist - #Cryptogam #taxonomy and systematics at our #herbarium and botanic gardens in Canberra. Please circulate to potentially interested candidates! https://dcceewjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.listJobs&jobid=F92A5947-B8D1-C534-DC32-E37E3281921B

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  Interested in working with us at the Australian National Herbarium as a Curatorial Technician with a focus on eucalypts? https://jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/99298/ #herbarium #csiro

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  Flower of Exocarpos cupressiformis, 'native cherry' (not a cherry), in all its magnificence and glory. Two ticks of the scale equate to one millimeter.

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  PhyloControl, a phylogeny visualisation platform for risk analysis in weed biological control, is now available. Designed in consultation with biocontrol researchers, and result of a collaboration led by Stephanie Chen, a CSIRO postdoc in my team. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2025.105859

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  We are making progress towards a natural classification of the Australian shrubby paper daisies, genera Cassinia and Ozothamnus. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.70022