Max Lechte

Research Fellow @Sydney_Science using geology to better understand the ancient world and the origins of complex life.

[Max Lechte @maxlechte]

This helps us to speculate about the habitats, life modes, & metabolism of some of the earliest eukaryotes known, and hopefully better understand the emergence of complex life on Earth. To read more, check out our article in @ConversationEDU! ⚒️
https://t.co/g29iYL0FSt

[Max Lechte @maxlechte]

The innovation of the eukaryotic cell revolutionised the biosphere & transformed the planet, but the drivers behind this process remain debated. New paper out
@NaturePortfolio co-led by @NeoprotFossil w/ Susannah Porter, Galen Halverson & Maggie Whelan
@McGillScience 🌎

[Max Lechte @maxlechte]

@NeoprotFossil identified over 12k fossils from a wide range of environments, & we found that eukaryotes were restricted to samples from settings with oxygenated bottom waters. Anoxic samples had only prokaryotes, suggesting the earliest fossil eukaryotes were benthic & aerobic

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly. Yet it’s not. It is this world. And what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity that will endure for generations.”

[Max Lechte @maxlechte]

@stillreezy Recession indicator I fear

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

The new study shows what the polar regions might look like in the future as the planet warms. @unimelb https://t.co/HRXr9zqTxY

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

We are working full 24-hour shifts, often with less than two hours of sleep, and all we’re given in return is a single portion of low-quality rice. Day after day, this is our fuel if it can even be called that ,for a workload that is devouring what remains of our strength.

My health is beginning to unravel. I’m losing weight rapidly. For days now, I’ve been taking prenatal vitamins (the only supplements available) . But even that is not enough. Vitamins only work when paired with proper nutrition. In our condition, they’re a bandage on an open wound.

We’ve reached the edge of what our bodies can endure. Most of what we give now, we give at the cost of our own well-being. Even my mind is beginning to falter, I can no longer summon the focus to write a full literary text. The words, once vivid and sharp, now slip through my fingers like dust. Hunger doesn’t just gnaw at the body; it corrodes the spirit too.

We are collapsing quietly, invisibly, from the inside out.

#GazaGenocide

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Everything that makes you resilient doesn’t exist

[Max Lechte @maxlechte]

@TheSeanMitchell @catrachito_Mar @AssalRad Amnesty International (and the Human Rights Watch, International Federation for Human Rights, UN Special Committee, Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, the South African, Namibian and Malaysian governments…)

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

How do you mistakenly shoot medics on both sides of the head, bind them, and dump them in a mass grave with their crushed ambulances?

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Two bodies were found thrown into a grave, handcuffed. All these medical and aid workers were executed.

If you’re talking about free speech, colleges and deportations of students in this country right now and not about how all of that is in service of this - this genocide - you are contributing to the repression & genocide denialism. The two are inseparable.

[Max Lechte @maxlechte]

@CJ_Casselman @EricEngels Against poor teams? Beat the Canes, Panthers as well the Sens who were the hottest team in the league at the time. Took it to OT against some other solid opposition

[Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

The health ministry has released a 1,516–page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names. The first 27 pages the age is listed as 0 — children under 1 year old

[Cormac's Coast @cormac_mcginley]

A Septarian nodule (A fossilized mud bubble) over 300 million years in the making.
County Clare, Ireland.

[Konhauser Geobiology @KonhauserGeobio]

It’s not too late to register to attend #Geobiology2025 🦠

Early bird pricing ends Feb 14th🏔️

Registration is now open at: https://t.co/p3Pf3kbLG0…

Students & PDFs: $300 CAD
Professors & Professionals: $450 CAD

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

After 9 months of displacement, Mohamed Gharib returns to his home. The view outside, at around 52 seconds, shows an unfathomable devastation - it is right there for us to see, we have seen it for 15 months and still it’s devastation your mind cannot begin to comprehend.

[Declassified Australia @DeclassifiedAus]

DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA EXCLUSIVE:
A 14-month investigation by @EveCogan + @sstephanietrann has found a massive scandal that barely any other media has touched; 100s of millions of $ flowing into #Australian universities from the Pentagon and arms companies since 2007:
https://t.co/tCyVPICekR

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

In just 6 hours, IDF fired at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, Doctors Without Borders denounced killing of their colleague in Gaza, CPJ condemned Israel killing journalists in Lebanon and the WHO called again for protection of hospitals.

Israel is the definition of a rogue state.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

The IDF bombed a clearly marked vehicle and killed four engineers going to repair water infrastructure in southern Gaza after they had coordinated the trip with Israeli authorities, Oxfam says https://t.co/pb007Yz4YI