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Good news www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Imagine giving an impassioned speech on how important it is to be able to pay people less Yes Nicola, the minimum wage is the floor, the absolute floor, the bottom rung, the complete and utter least. Then you wonder why folks aren't productive #NZPol

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QEII National Trust's work is critical for conservation in Aotearoa. It is a failure of successive governments that their funding hasn't been increased to meet demand. www.waikatotimes.co.nz/environment/...

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"In every living thing there ticks a clock...": @david-farrier.bsky.social superb & unsettling on how "wild clocks"––spruce saplings, oyster colonies, reindeer herds––are falling out of synchronization as the Earth transforms. It’s becoming harder to keep time. emergencemagazine.org/essay/wild-c...

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❤️ "The park and its contents will be vested as a legal person... the park will effectively own itself ✊ ... Mt Egmont will cease to be an official geographic name. The name of the national park, currently called Egmont National Park, will become Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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If you haven't made a submission yet, please consider doing so. Soon. It profoundly sucks that the submission period for all these runs over the summer break. OK fine, what submissions do I have to make FFS?! open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

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Call for citizen scientists - monarch butterflies are in decline in the southern hemisphere and the Moths and Butterflies of NZ trust is looking for people to help tag them in autumn to find their wintering sites theconversation.com/monarch-butt...

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A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨ Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

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The very best thing about wrapping presents with material & ribbon (apart from sustainability) is that when you've unwrapped, there's no rubbish to sort through. You just fold it all up & store in a bag for next year! Sorted! #ecoChristmas

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The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

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I just stepped in to my local indie bookshop and had a delightful chat with the owner about all the awesome sci fi and fantasy books he's got in for Christmas. Bookshop people who love the books they sell are magnificent beasts. I now have all the books. That is all.

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Joint Statement by 80 Rutherford Discovery Fellows Denouncing the Minister’s Decision to Cut Humanities, Social Science, and Fundamental Science Funding docs.google.com/document/d/1... #LetsGetAHundyRutherfords #MarsdenFund

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Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State. “Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

Your posts brighten my morning. Love them.

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I remember seeing the memorial when I lived in Bristol as a student. Really cool to read the story again many years and miles later.

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A scientist’s legacy isn’t just discoveries or awards—it also includes the students and colleagues who pass through their orbit over the years. Author Dava Sobel joins us to discuss Marie Curie and the women she mentored.

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

"This decision defunds Māori research and researchers by stealth" Tahu Kukutai in my latest for @science.org on cuts to the Marsden Fund, NZ's only fund for "blue-sky" research; features Paul Spoonley, @nicgaston.bsky.social et al www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 122 days ago • 4 comments

So THIS is really flying under the radar! They want to remove all public input into conservation estate and allow development! SHARE AND SUBMIT!! We have until 28 February #nzpol www.doc.govt.nz/modernising-...

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👏 Strong from NZ Greens on cut to Marsden Fund: "If we are to counter the rise of misinformation and disinformation, and concerning trends such as the lurch towards authoritarianism and ‘alternative facts’, then we need to have a well-resourced social science and humanities sector" - MP Scott Willis

submitted 125 days ago • 2 comments

The Government just halved pure science investment so it can help pay for tax cuts for landlords and try to lower mortgage rates in an economy which has become a housing market with bits tacked on. 1/2

submitted 124 days ago • 5 comments

This is so backward 1. Science is more than just commercialisable widgetry 2. Making progress on our biggest problems (climate change, infectious diseases, misinfo to name a few) will need more collaboration between STEM and hum/social sci not less.

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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

submitted 125 days ago • 467 comments

You can listen to my conversation with RNZ Morning Report about the disastrous government cuts to the Marsden Fund here www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... @smcnz.bsky.social @marsdenfund.bsky.social

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

So Agree!!! newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/05/a...

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It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

submitted 125 days ago • 54 comments

Sad to read about kakaruia's plight at Silver Stream. Such a loss. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Why read books? Because reading opens minds & hearts. It helps us imagine different lives and different worlds; it can help us build a better world. So please keep reading books with kids, and encouraging them to read. There is nothing more important. #literacy #books #reading

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Scion and Manaaki Whenua are conducting a survey to understand how perceptions of wilding conifers vary across NZ and across professions. Please take 10 mins to share your thoughts - it's open to anyone - and be in to win 5 x $100 Prezzy cards scionresearchgroup.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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In case you missed it : - A win for conservation and QEII covenants. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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