Mitchell Whitelaw✓

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📣 New paper: Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
This open access paper presents our work developing ALA Lens for the Atlas of Living Australia.
It shows how conventional interfaces can hide the taxonomic and spatial diversity that matters in biodiversity data, and how Lens reveals the relationships between species, people, and place.
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28 views 📣 New paper: Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces This open access paper presents our work developing ALA Lens for the Atlas of Living Australia. It shows how conventional interfaces can hide the taxonomic and spatial diversity that matters in biodiversity data, and how Lens reveals the relationships between species, people, and place. Co-authored with my

... and some yellow navels (Lichenomphalia chromacea). These are fruiting bodies of the fungal partner in a lichen
#fungi #lichensubscribe #canberra #macro

22 views ... and some yellow navels (Lichenomphalia chromacea). These are fruiting bodies of the fungal partner in a lichen #fungi #lichensubscribe #canberra #macro

20 views Bit of #macro in the autumn light up on Mt Majura. This handsome hopper is a Common Macrotona #insects

14 views Fungal microworlds from up Mt Majura today (1/2). I think this is Ramaria lorithamnus #fungi #macro #canberra

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

Engagement vs followers

Oct 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: 📣 New paper: Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, · 28 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

0.94 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly images

Recent: 4 text · 8 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.8×

Follows 143 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post 📣 New paper: Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces This open access paper presents our work developing ALA Lens for the Atlas of Living Australia. It shows how conventional interfaces can hide the taxonomic and spatial diversity that matt… ★ 28

And this is Grevillea intricata. I was pretty stunned at the huge parallel dimension that is WA #flora. #macro #florrespondence #wa ★ 7

I was briefly in Perth this week for work, and managed to take the #macro lens for a walk around Kings Park. I think this is marno (Daviesia divaricata) #florrespondence #wa #flora ★ 6

... and some yellow navels (Lichenomphalia chromacea). These are fruiting bodies of the fungal partner in a lichen #fungi #lichensubscribe #canberra #macro ★ 22

Fungal microworlds from up Mt Majura today (1/2). I think this is Ramaria lorithamnus #fungi #macro #canberra ★ 14

Parts of Ukraine are strewn with fibre optic cable - drone warfare debris. Now birds are weaving it into nests 😳 https://youtu.be/xCa2d9amRlw?si=6VT5Cz9yEZWQYFoD ★ 2 Spiders! Do not mess with them https://theconversation.com/this-tiny-australian-spider-uses-a-high-powered-web-catapult-to-trap-and-eat-aggressive-ants-285700 #spiders #arachnids #insects ★ 9 “This is the first time any insect has been recognized as a rights-bearing entity anywhere in the world” https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/stingless-bees-in-peru-become-the-first-insects-with-legal-rights-will-it-happen-globa… @toxi relevant to your interests :( https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/witnessing-the-disappearance-of-indonesia-eternity-glaciers?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3 ★ 1 Interesting research showing that the toxicity of social media is structural, rather than algorithmic - and filter bubbles can help promote tolerance. Ping @snurb https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/rip-social-media-what-comes-next-is… ★ 4

This tiny spider - about 4mm long - is I think a “rockhopper”, a local species in tribe Euophryini #macro #insects ★ 10

Bit of #macro in the autumn light up on Mt Majura. This handsome hopper is a Common Macrotona #insects ★ 20

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On Mastodon since

Oct 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 11 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.9× per week.

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89/100

Excellent Credibility score

99%

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Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~2.0% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

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About

Hello 👋 I do stuff like data visualisation, digital cultures, complexity, collaboration, biodiversity, more than human worlds, designing our way out of this mess… Professor of Design, ANU. http://mtchl.net