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What a joy to review Auckland’s Forest Restaurant’s deep friend Feijoa dessert for @thespinoff.bsky.social - it’s pure Kiwi nostalgia in a dish thespinoff.co.nz/kai/19-04-20... 🇳🇿🌱

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Well, this is an example of bad science: a one-off survey of people's self-reported eating habits going back an unspecified amount of time. No info on how closely people followed each diet. This doesn't show causation in the slightest. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Hi friends! Want to listen to my Kiwi accent telling you all about feijoas (and so much more)? The audiobook of Feijoa: A story of obsession and belonging is out now on Spotify (free if you have premium) and Audible (where it’s on sale rn) Links to follow 👇 🇳🇿📚🌱 open.spotify.com/show/2Nb2Vhu...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

In Auckland and have too many feijoas? Learn how to make the most of them at this free event on April 12: ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/events/2025/...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Tis the season!! #feijoa @kategevans.bsky.social 😋

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

And another for the annals of “whyyy did I not pitch this to the NY times when I heard about it weeks ago”

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, I had no idea pheasants weren't native to the UK. I guess that fact wasn't in Danny the Champion of the World, the sole source of my pheasant-based knowledge. I do know how to perform sleeping-pill and sultana-based poaching of them, however. This whole practice seems nuts!

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

For months I've been thinking about the ways in which the norms of journalism aren't up to the task of reporting on people who won't accept the norms of reality. So I've written about my thoughts there, and how the lessons of reporting about disinformation apply to everything now.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits & Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. All are products that contain palm oil. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

PSA for other writers -- I've just switched from Otter to Scroll.ai for transcription, it's free and it's doing a better job of my interviews than Otter was.

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

I accepted a Side Quest from Solomon Hendrix (a Hemipteran scientist) over the weekend to find and collect a rare piglet bug, a creature which is known but probably does not belong to its current genus. So this afternoon I found 6. Here's 3 of them. For science!

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

A pleasure to talk on @abcaustralia.bsky.social with the Science show’s Robyn Williams about my Kavli-winning piece on the red billed gull www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

My latest for @nzgeo.bsky.social, thanks to @catherinewoulfe.bsky.social for the fun commission! I learned so many amazing facts about tree ferns, including their TOTALLY WILD sex lives, and got to see one poked into an MRI. I know. Full story here: www.nzgeo.com/stories/in-a... 🌱🌴🇳🇿 #scicomm

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

A strange thing happened… after years ambling in the bush contemplating tree ferns, @nzgeo.bsky.social decided that my meanderings were worth an article! And brought on the epic @kategevans.bsky.social to write it: www.nzgeo.com/stories/in-a... Enjoy this ferny delight…

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I went to AAAS this weekend and talked to lots of scientists about how they're feeling In These Times www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

Extremely honoured to receive a Gold Kavli award for Science Journalism this week in snowy but beautiful Boston at the #AAASmtg Thanks @kavlifoundation.bsky.social and @nzgeo.bsky.social for commissioning my winning story about red billed gulls.

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

I heard that some of you people prefer to receive your snarky science fact-checking of viral news stories in meme format, and I am here to help.

submitted 94 days ago • 18 comments

A plant scientist I know wants to find a couple of very old feijoa trees in Auckland for tests on their root microbiome — anyone have any leads? #feijoa #science

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

“Moa also has Kate Evans’ irresistible natural history book Feijoa in the nonfiction longlist.” Stoked! #theockhams 📚🇳🇿https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/30/ngahuia-on-track-to-win-ockhams/

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

On here with some other legends @lilobrien.bsky.social

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Calls/emails from reporters asking for a comment on last's years temperature are coming earlier than normal this year. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

submitted 503 days ago • 6 comments

🧪 Perfect weekend to learn about the house of slime, bogong moths and indigenous emojis!!!! The Best Australian Science Writing anthology is available here: unsw.press/books/the-be... Also if you love it leave a Goodreads review because it's SO HELPFUL (www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...)

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments

"If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy." The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866. archive.org/details/illu...

submitted 131 days ago • 110 comments

Today’s blue sky for @bsky.app 🇳🇿🐟💙

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

I've been a grateful recipient of 5 Voyager awards over the years, I'll be ok if I never get another. But I fear what it says about priorities that individual awards remain for Sport, Business, Lifestyle, Politics While reporters in science, environment, crime, education fight for a single award.

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments

20 years ago I knew a guy who worked part time, minimum wage, as a dishwasher. He was able to afford rent and a car (both shitty but functional), concerts, weed, etc. It's interesting to think of how that kind of dirtbag lifestyle is mostly just gone.

submitted 154 days ago • 155 comments

Thrilled to make this list: newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/09/x... 🇳🇿📚

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Conventional wisdom in 2024 seems to dictate that the Covid-19 response was an overreaction, but that conventional wisdom is wrong. My analysis on the Royal Commission report and the response to it: newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/03/h...

submitted 168 days ago • 23 comments