Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Ok, TPB submission finally done. ✅ What's next on the list of evil fuckery that needs opposing...?

In case there was any doubt - the Act party's submit.treaty.nz url does indeed create confusion for some trying to submit against the Treaty Principles bill. Just received texts from my Thai aunty (late 60s) trying to submit and very confused about why it won't allow her to submit in opposition

Kia ora 👋 checking in from summer holiday bliss to kindly ask you to submit against further restrictions on puberty blockers, which are up for review for transgender kids but weirdly* not for cis kids with precocious puberty. Fantastic advice here: insideout.org.nz/submission-g... *sarcasm

Family emergency means I am, as of this moment, in charge of hosting family xmas. Low effort-high impact tips appreciated

Do you still lose #Whamageddon if it's the Taylor Swift cover?

Advertising for an MSc student to work on a feral cat management project - stipend + domestic fees for research year. @aucklanduni.bsky.social Working with different iwi & community partners. More details here: stanleylab.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/opportunities/

What're y'all listening to at the moment? Need album reqs. I have zero music taste and no genre restrictions so honestly just whatever you're listening to and think is neat

“We know that Māori researchers, communities, and knowledge systems stand to suffer the most from this decision,” says Pou Matarua Professor Tahu Kukutai. “This decision defunds Māori research and Māori researchers by stealth."

20%, under $15m, of Marsden funding went to social sciences while just under $60m went to hard sciences. Total govt research funding in year to March 2023 was ~$1.1b (0.29% of GDP). Cutting the humanities out of Marsden is just spite.

It is fucking relentless #nzpol

Something I think isn’t really obvious to non-researchers is that the vast, vast majority of NZ government science spending already goes to funds which are targeted at direct economic outcomes. The Marsden Fund was the last, inadequate bastion of fundamental research funding. 🧪

Given that most Māori and Pacific scholars are based in the humanities and social sciences fields, this will disproportionately impact those groups. Fun times.

In New Zealand, street work is comparatively easy. The place we need real courage is from the leaders, both management and governance, of the institutions that we have created to support us. From unions to the Royal Society to small NGOs. Now is the time is risk it all to save it all.

Small-minded Philistine instrumentalism is no way to do scientific research By definition, if you know all the outcomes of your work ahead of time, you are not thinking big enough and someone is going to come along and eat your lunch That's what will happen now, even more

As a scientist who has a Marsden through the social sciences panel this is so so so fucked up. It will have massive implications for Māori research being funded.

The notion that fundamentally better understanding people and how and why they act doesn't matter in achieving social or economic outcomes is, well, interesting. "Humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported."

The long wait is over- #Bug of the Year 2025 nominee list is now live! Voting opens January 1st, so you have until February to decide on your top three nominees & place your votes! Winner announced on Valentine’s Day! 💚 Who will steal the crown from Kahukura? bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2025-bug-of-...

Closing in fast on 200,000 signatures. The current count (194,339 right now) is the same number of people as 6.7% of voters in the 2023 general election, more than the entire NZ First vote. 250,000 would beat the entire Act Party vote. #ToitūTeTiriti

A project I worked on earlier this year in collaboration with NZ Post and Giselle Clarkson has been released! A series of stamps on native pollinator species!! The end result looks awesome, and it was such a fun project to be involved with! 😁 Collectables.nzpost.co.nz/pollinators

Received an email from an Act MP to my uni email seemingly fishing for negative opinions of equity policies. Totally normal stuff for the ones actually in government?

Motherfucker. Excuse my language, but fucking hell. That they would come to OUR home, OUR place, and what to eradicate any recognition of our existence as a community?!

Folks, we put out a statement last week about the cancellation of rainbow events, safety, and the chilling effect: www.thedisinfoproject.org/media-releas... This is a very real eg of the social impacts of disinformation & of the tactics used to silence diverse voices.

Just down the road from here, & you'd be lucky if one in 10 non-Maori Hamiltonians have even heard of it. Why OUR history must be taught in schools. newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/21/t...

Our University has published their first Gender Pay Gap report: there's a lot of work to do! Was expecting an analysis of Māori & Pacific GPGs too... 🧪👩‍🔬https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/about-the-university/equity-at-the-university/equity-information-for-staff/gender-equity/gender-pay-gap.html

The Entomology Society of New Zealand has just launched their second annual Bug of the Year! Here are your 20 nominees for 2024! Voting opens on 1st January 💚 🧪🪲🕷️Take a look here: bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2024-bug-of-...

#NZpol The evacuation of our common good that is being put in place by this incoming government will need to be countered by those with imagination and capability more than ever. We cannot simply wring our hands, hold talks or hashtag about it. It's going to require far more active participation.

Job alert: Auckland Museum is hiring a new Curator, Marine Invertebrates. Applications close 28th November. aucklandmuseum.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/oppo...

Congratulations to our wonderful, brilliant colleague, the luminescent Dr Sereana Naepi, on being awarded a Research Impact Award. Go Sereana! @sereananaepi.bsky.social www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/13...

Finally done with Twitter/X. In other news, Miss2 is currently refusing baths because she's scared of getting wrinkly fingers.

Pet peeve in uncanny or alien contexts in movies, books: Some person changes podlike and *molts*, and then they don't eat their molt. Show of hands: Shouldn't they eat their damn molt. EAT YER MOLT, LADDIE, IT'S GOOD FOR YE, ya ungrateful moltin' bastard, yew. Jesus.