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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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“I couldn’t, in all honestly, remain in my roles. The government didn’t seem interested in listening to genuine public health advice.” — Collin Tukuitonga.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

This is a brutal read and quite the legacy for the former Provost of Victoria & President of NZs Royal Society.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

In addition to the gutting of federal research funds for higher education, these are the sorts of rules being imposed on existing research. My new piece at Tusk: smotus.substack.com/p/the-attack...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

"Filling the basket with knowledge: The evolution of open access in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" by Janet Catterall, @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, and @kimtairi.bsky.social. doi.org/10.31274/jls...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Don't tell James Cameron but I just biked around the Thorndon area doing errands this morning and it was more convenient and pleasant on my bike...even though there was car parking directly outside everywhere I was going.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If it’s not clear, offering to swap QE2 covenanted land for native forest is cynical bollocks because QE2 land is already protected in perpetuity. They want to swap land they can never use for currently protected land they can’t.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

At this point we have to be asking if a social scientist ever kicked Judith Collins' dog or something similar

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Congrats to the fantastic Dr @plubbe.bsky.social on the publication of one of her big PhD chapters in Molecular Ecology. You can read the paper here (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) or our @aunz.theconversation.com article theconversation.com/loss-of-fore...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The "need to listen" this is the 1 that gets my goat the most. No, democracies don't vanish between elections, but elections are the starting point & the left *won by a landslide* in Wellington. A predominantly left wing council is doing, within budgetary constraints, what most of the city voted for

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments