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AI + citizen science is the future. Academics will be replaced if they are not willing to leave the cities to research new information. No amount of dogma & doctrine will save careers focused entirely on the number of papers produced or papers graded. Due to the explosion of available online data, anyone can access […]
This blog coming so soon after my last is due to a couple of reasons – firstly I have bruised rib(s) after a bit of a bingle in my SxS last week. I was crossing a narrow bore drain culvert & veered into the Xfence with my chest coming to a sudden stop against the […]
Ive just loaded about 180 new pics on the website – mostly in the ‘handholds, wirris, vines, goolahgools & fungi’ archive. An occasional TinT has turned up but they mostly fall in the ‘doubtful’ category where one scrub tree grows around the base of another. Im not actively looking for TinTs anymore because my attention […]
I’ve been wondering how to get CMTs & TinTs out into the ’academosphere’ lately so I emailed 2 very interesting science communicators – Prof Steven Pinker (Canadian-American) & Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (Australian) – having heard both recently on Radio National. Only one got back to me & he’s not an aussie … ”Dear Jane, […]
Not all aussie academics have low curiosity/ high PC type personalities. Some are genuinely helpful and break the bounds of their European style education. Most of my recent blogs have tended to be a bit gloomy re any chance of wider interest in the TinTs or CMTs in general so Ive decided to focus on […]
One of these trees below has been changed by humans – see if you can guess which. I don’t know why the ‘experts’ struggle to recognise the difference between cultural & natural epiphytes … but the pictures paint a thousand words. Pictures also take up more website data, unfortunately so Im writing more blogs now. […]
Full summer west of Walgett is not the best time to be out scartree hunting but my mustering work lets me check on some special CMTs around the paddocks. Our average summer temp. is 35 C & we have been hovering in the low 40s a few times already. The early Dec. blog was about […]
All good things come to an end and after 5 welcome wet years & a cracking 2025 grain crop, the seasons are turning. The predictions of a wet harvest proved unreliable and the Nth West NSW brought in a massive undamaged grain crop which helped offset the deficiencies in the south of the state. Swings […]
This map is from Lindsay Black’s “Burial trees” published in 1941. The area in red roughly marks where the TinTs are concentrated overlapping the “burial” & “ceremonial” zones. While the TinTs can be considered both, its clear early explorers, settlers, surveyors, missionaries, amateur anthropologists etc showed little interest in CMTs unless they were carved. Lindsay […]
Ive found some remarkable trees since I last wrote that I really need to show you. If you are interested in Australia’s CMTs & have been following this website you may have noticed my enthusiasm for different categories have changed over the last 10 years. The big flashy in-your-face scars held me spellbound originally. […]