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she/her, Pākehā/white, Aotearoa NZ. PhD on health system development & EAOs in Myanmar. Currently working on climate resilience in Myanmar & the Blue Pacific Continent. 🍉✊🕊️
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💚 Today's blessing of the finished Fa’anānā Efeso Collins mural in Manukau. Photos by @nigelborell "E lē tū fa'amauga se tagata - no one stands alone, no one succeeds alone, and, for me, no one suffers alone." 💚

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The magic of photorealistic portraiture is the feeling of that person being brought to life in front of you and seeing the light shining in Efeso’s eyes today as his mural nears completion, was powerful, and emotional. One year today, and the loss is still immeasurable. Our #SouthAuckland legend.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I feel like more needs to be made of this. It's been an overt attack in the House from the Deputy PM and Cabinet on the equal rights of citizens to participate in our electoral system, and any migrant or child of migrants should find it as chilling as I do.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

The portrait of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins emerging in Manukau City courtesy of local artists, Charles and Janine Williams 💓 I love that it faces Hayman Park and the amazing playground, which on a weekend day is full of joyful energetic kiddos and tired caregivers sitting in the shade. Miss you mate.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Is there anything men love more than talking loudly about Important Business in airport lounges?

submitted 12 days ago • 116 comments

Miriam Margoyles on the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa (pt 1)

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The most obvious headline in the world. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I’m filled with so much admiration for A.Prof Sita - she always calls out injustice ✊🕊️🍉!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

If you are attempting to argue that it’s good to kill USAID and thus kill huge numbers of innocent people who relied on USAID from what you believe is a *leftist* perspective: You are a gold-star ball-gargler and will not see the cleansing light of heaven

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

The dismantling of #USAID & the paradoxes of #globaldev In my latest post I zoomed out to reflect what this current moment of crisis means for the complexities & paradoxes of foreign aid. I focuses on 7 paradoxes & challenges (1/4)

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

The weekend is here #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the upcoming events 🧵 Feb 1st will mark the 4th year since the Junta in Myanmar unleashed their coup attempt & with it have inflicted huge amounts of violence. Yet the peoples of Myanmar have organised, fought back in many ways & continue to resist✊ /1

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The UN has issued a devastating account of the #Myanmar junta's reign and the ensuing "polycrisis". Essential facts and figures. More serious engagement with the revolution and self-reflection on UN failures would have been welcome, but not expected. news.un.org/en/story/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

🗻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This is exactly what I feared would happen and is completely outrageous. The govt wants to set up a brand-new PRO focusing on areas many researchers at Callaghan are experts in but won't offer them jobs. Researchers are not replaceable widgets, we can't just order 200 new ones when we need them!

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Overnight reflection: Implementation and change management remain our public sector's greatest challenges. While we excel at emergency response and surge, we struggle with executing careful, impactful, long-term changes.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Woke up from (minor) surgery to find out friends in other CRIs are now my colleagues - that’s if we survive the “right-sizing” 🙄.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Crossing my fingers as hard as I can for everybody in the AoNZ science sector today. 🧪

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Spare a thought for your science friends today (again). Whatever it is will undoubtedly leave everyone feeling a bit of uncertainty Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

The intellectual always has a choice either to side with the weaker, the less well represented, the forgotten or ignored, or to side with the more powerful. —Edward Said

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Tough to contemplate upcoming Children's Day in context of Myanmar. Hundreds of children were killed or maimed by landmines & UXO in 2024; hundreds more by airstrikes & artillery fire. No humanitarian clearance programs are functional, so there is little response available aside from education.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments