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Snorkelling around South Cottesloe, been seeing heaps of octopi lately

All these new concrete jungle suburbs are especially bad for this, genuinely unsafe to go outside on some summer days. Would be nice to see some laws or planning guidelines about shade.

I think they can stop it from becoming endemic, it seems to have been controlled successfully a few times in the past. Unfortunately more Qfly seems to appear every few years, but that's partially why WA is so strict about throwing produce in the bin at the airport!

When the last outbreak happened a few years ago, they had people in high vis just come onto everyone's property and strip the fruit for them (whether they liked it or not I think)

It wouldn't be science without some jargon :P

Basically, a new mechanism has been found - low nitrogen influences the signalling of a plant hormone to reduce the number of branches. Particularly pertinent to cereal crops and could help lower the need for nitrogen fertilisers!

Hearing this for the first time was insane. Definitely curious to see where they go from here.

If you've got a baby in the family, please ensure that you've had a booster in the last 5-10 years. It's also really important to get the pregnancy vaccine for pertussis to protect newborns. We desperately need to get this epidemic under control.

Hope it stays open source going forward, especially given how it's built on the back of decades of hard work in x-ray crystallography.

Referendums generally fail, people don't like changing the constitution full stop. I know quite a few left-leaning people that voted no because they wanted the voice to he legislated but not constitutionally enshrined.

I thought a labor supermajority would be able to actually be slightly progressive without the fear of being voted out. Just goes to show how far they've drifted from their roots.

I've visited Carnac, it's true that these snakes are surprisingly placid! Such an interesting population - iirc David Attenborough filmed a segment about them about 20 years ago.

Amazing effort from Brisbane, well deserved!! First quarter was great as a neutral too.