Quote

"As the amount of available [sequence] data increases, it is important that the potential for model violation is carefully evaluated, as large data sets will likely be less prone to uncertainty but instead may give strongly-supported results that are wrong instead."

Marek Borowiec et al 2017 "Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/08/173393

Things

Pill testing

Rivers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/14/this-fish-kill-is-a-tragedy-but-it-is-no-surprise https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/15/lake-hume-fish-kill-thousands-of-new-deaths-on-murray-river https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/15/murray-darling-fish-kill-greens-accuse-coalition-of-hiding-information-from-senate

Water https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/21/murray-darling-basin-water-management-faces-unique-risks-audit-reveals

How do we get people (farmers) to care?

National Party

Weather https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/15/australia-extreme-heatwave-records-broken-amid-all-time-highest-minimum-temperatures

AusPol

• Cathy McGowan
• Peta Credlin
• Rob Oakeshott
• Andrew Broad
• George Christensen

Citizenship stripping - Neil Prakash

Australia Day

Kakadu and Jabiru Township https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/13/scott-morrison-and-bill-shorten-scramble-to-pledge-more-than-200m-for-kakadu

Peter Dutton's sex offenders register

St Kilda rally, Fraser Anning and the far-right

Pre-election bribes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/21/morrison-trumps-even-howard-with-size-of-pre-election-war-chest

Gillette ad https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/gillette-metoo-ad-on-toxic-masculinity-cuts-deep-with-mens-rights-activists

New laws https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/dec/31/australias-new-laws-taking-effect-on-1-january-from-axed-tampon-tax-to-credit-card-changes

Parliamentary productivity https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2018/dec/23/turnbull-scores-lower-than-abbott-gillard-and-rudd-on-productivity-in-parliament

James 'The Crook' Ashby https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/20/james-ashbys-company-convicted-for-failing-to-provide-details-of-one-nations-use-of-plane

The Insect Collapse https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems