Michael Bode

Theoretical ecologist; Matlab aficionado.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@meredithgore @DrDavidLRoberts @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett In New Zealand, farmers illegally introduced rabbit haemorrhagic disease after they were denied official permission. No one was prosecuted. https://t.co/IsLHGdHlKJ

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@meredithgore @DrDavidLRoberts @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett It's really worthwhile thinking about the various actors who are purposefully and illegally introducing species. In Tasmania, anti-green activists introduced foxes, endangering a half-dozen threatened species that foxes drove extinct on the mainland. https://t.co/fyQe5vzAaD

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@DrDavidLRoberts @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @meredithgore @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett Such an interesting and excellent application of extinction-dating methods.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@meredithgore @InvasionEcology @TheScrogster @judithfish @GeoFrancisMasse @DrTWyatt @biosec_erc @pstoett How so?

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Oldcowboy14 @annieljensen @MathiasCormann @ScottMorrisonMP @OECD Many pay no income tax.

Not, as in your case, because no one will employ them. But because right wing governments like Cormann's have cut their taxes to zero.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Oldcowboy14 @DiPw122 @MathiasCormann @ScottMorrisonMP Narrator: "Not satisfied with being wrong, the commenter decided also to be a dickhead."

[Phillip Moore @phillipwmoore49]

The man on the left is Grant Howard. He is a real coal miner (photo SMH). The man on the right is pretending to be a coal miner. He is a Senator. Note that the real coal miner has no coal dust where he wears his mask while the pretend coal miner has soot all over his face.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@MathiasCormann I hope the OECD don’t reward your planetary vandalism.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@SenatorSurfer Yes. Weren’t you there when the passed the CPRS?

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@FadAstra Ha!

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@FadAstra Is it because she supports Polanski?

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris @CERN I mean, I'm exaggerating. You're right that funds could be reallocated from a hundred places where they're less useful or interesting than blue sky research.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris @CERN Meanwhile, there's absolutely fk all money for research, and we're spending half of that on people looking for God particles, or wondering whether the galaxies are held together with invisible matter. Blue sky research is a crazy use of limited funds.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@BiostatPL @JamesUVanDyke @SusannaLHarris Yeah, that’s how I’d see the question too. I think @JamesUVanDyke’s point is that the context matters so much (along with other noise) that there’s effectively no answer to the question. Certainly no answer of any use to on-ground managers.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris The pure, inquisitive people? They were looking at the stars, and coming up with untestable theories about how the stars were pinholes in the blanket of the gods.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris Humans aren’t in caves because we focused on applied problems. Not because we were inquisitive. The applied scientists of antiquity were worried about roofs, and food, and sewage and arrows. They’re the ones who made the Earth liveable.

[Michael Bode @bode_e]

@Ozz_EU @_TheGeoff @JeppeSun @astronomeara @SusannaLHarris What I’m saying is that the best way to solve a problem is to try to solve that problem. Want a PET scanner? Fund applied research into medical imaging. Don’t fund antimatter research on the off-chance it solves imagining problems.