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Fan of weird microbes, Pākehā nō Pōneke, dilettante crafter, co-President @nzscientists.bsky.social. All opinions my own etcetera. ORCID: 0000-0001-7352-3329
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submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Modern xkcd.com/3089

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Let's be super clear: this is an explicit threat to do what the US govt is doing to the NIH/NSF - de-fund *currently funded projects* which this government thinks aren't worthy of the money.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Channelled these posts into something longer, linking to the work of black feminist women and highlighting how Brooke and Nicola are performing white womanhood while simultaneously suppressing legitimate resistance to their oppressive acts: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Lest AoNZ think this kind of thing hasn't reached us, consider the impact of taking humanities and social sciences out of the Marsden Fund - we're yet to see final numbers but that was forecast to more than halve grants to Māori investigators.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

More seriously, the fact this is a pre-Budget announcement does not fill me with optimism about the likelihood of the science system actually getting any major new funding, no matter how many times they say the word 'bold'. Would love to be wrong there!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Small potatoes in the scheme of things but pour one out for the researchers who are going from working at Manaaki Whenua and Scion (genuinely cool names) to an organisation whose initials spell 'NZ IBS'

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me, a microbiologist: The unculturable microbial majority

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It might be a good time to remind ourselves of Dr Izi Sin’s work on the gender pay gap, which concluded that gender discrimination best explains this. Sin controlled for productivity, so the pay gap means the economy gets less bang for its buck. www.motu.nz/our-research...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments