Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social

OMG @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social won the big one! Published in OZ by UQP in April!

Slightly increase a band Nick Cave and the Bad Sprouts

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

“Menstrual cups are a game-changer in terms of reducing waste, but only a handful of contradictory studies, carried out under artificial conditions, have been done on their safety. Siouxsie Wiles wants to change that – but needs your help.” thespinoff.co.nz/science/06-0...

Class notes: Lecture on climate change denial, and disinformation in New Zealand www.linkedin.com/pulse/class-... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/c... (WordPress) #ClimateChange #NZPol #Disinformation #GlobalWarming

Important new insights on the conditions beneath the fastest changing part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This will govern the rate of retreat of the glacier. Now the community needs to upscale these and get them into updated sea projections www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Seeding the storm: Climate change denialism from Cyclone Gabrielle to Cyclone Vaianu www.linkedin.com/pulse/seedin... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/s... (WordPress) #nzpol #ClimateChange #Disinformation @caadcoalition.bsky.social @counterhate.com

OMG SWYD ASAP, 2day I found this GR8 guide to communicating circa the millennium. HAND all, I hope U been LTWT, LOL

New essay for the Transition(s) Lab on #narrative #strategy in the midst of a global commodities #crisis and a #backlash against #climateaction. the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-3-...

Thank unions for this long weekend actually, thank unions for weekends. Period. #nzpol The best time to join a union was yesterday, the next best time is today. union.org.nz/find-your-un...

Wouldnt it be better, cheaper more energy efficient,more climate friendly if we JUST BROUGHT BACK A FULL RAIL NETWORK AND DUMPED ALL THESE $%&$!@*% MOTORWAY PROJECTS!!! *AARGGGH!* (1) www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

8pm and on the #2 bus home from the city, brimming with people. I wonder how many more people we could get on the buses if our government did what other governments are doing and made it free? 💚 #Wellington #PublicTransport #PublicGood

Thanks @maramadavidson.bsky.social and @greens.org.nz for pushing this.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/do...

Sending this to the Beehive...

Who benefits from Nats/Act/NZF #FossilFuel energy policy? Oil companies. And who just gave Nats/Act/NZF a $100k each? Oil companies- Greymouth Petroleum. And who pays the price? Ordinary people w higher cost of living. And we have to pay extra tax for the LNG import terminal.

Whānau, remember how the far-right tried to take over Internet NZ last year and we kicked their butts? They haven't learned, and they're trying to do it again this year. Register by March 31st ($21 for a year) so you can vote in the AGM and send them packing again. members.internetnz.nz

Bring back rail... www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

Fuel shortages and rising prices. A proposal to import expensive and dirty LNG and impose a gas levy. And then there’s Methanex, sucking up 45% of our natural gas. My #cartoon today #NZpol #Fuel #FossilFuel

The professors in this article are much more coherent than I am when I talk about AI 😡 👹 👿 www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Perfect time to electrify the fleet, ditch the Roads of National Significance and move more freight by the most efficient land transport form we have - rail www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

I’m grumpy about this paper, which has been poorly communicated in a way that’s taken up a bunch of my time this week and is the result of framing decisions in the paper itself.

New sea level rise study reveals ocean levels are higher than previously believed and following a relative sea level rise of 1 metre, (increasingly likely this century) more coastal areas and millions more people than previously believed will be affected: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WTAF "The objective of this Bill is to disestablish the Ministry for the Environment so that the Government’s desired machinery of government change can be implemented" Penny Simmonds has got to go #Election26 #nzpol Submit now bills.parliament.nz/v/6/27caed65...

I don’t have the energy rn to express how horrific this is. Please submit a public comment.

Good study by William & Peter Bisley: solar on 10% of NZ's available commercial & industrial roofs would cost $3b, earn $600m a year, and add 1.5 TWh of winter storage to the lakes – the same amount of energy the cracked LNG scheme is supposed to deliver. bisley.substack.com/p/abundant-e...

Great opportunity for grad students and postdocs interested in sea level science — WHOI Summer School, May 17-30

Highlights from the second half of #CliC2026 ✨ 1. Plenary panel on Storying the Cryosphere chaired by @rkpriestley.bsky.social 2. Poster session 3. Kapa haka at the gala dinner 4. CliC SSG member Yao Tandong receives the Seligman Crystal award from IGS President Shin Sugiyama @igsoc.bsky.social

Today we’re hearing about Crises in The Cryosphere. But first - International Glaciological Society early career scientist award goes to Lauren Vargo for her work on the glaciers of the Southern Alps! 👏 #CLIC2026

Excellent first day at #Climate & #Cryosphere conference in Wellington: after plenary on Indigenous Knowledge, with speakers from Aotearoa and the Arctic, I went to more sessions on Indigenous Knowledge and one on Cryosphere & Sea Level Rise. So many great talks! @clicwcrp.bsky.social ❄️ clic2026.com

finding it hard to cope at the moment with all the chaos going on around you? i got a trauma & bereavement counselor to write some tips about how to stay sane. please RT if you think others may find it useful, too: www.webworm.co/coping/

From the official White House account, not realising that penguins are Antarctica not the Arctic. The White House also saying penguins and Trump have the same sized feet.

This week has shown (once again) that extreme weather events in a changing climate pose growing risks to Aotearoa's communities and ecosystems. We're developing tools to prepare for extreme weather events, and we're looking for a masters student to help → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/master...

was your visa revoked? or do you know someone impacted by this decision? @wired.com wants to know -- feel free to signal me at leahfeiger.86

Considering @scar-antarctic.bsky.social this summer in Oslo? We are soliciting submissions for Session S13: Past, present, and future of Antarctic marine grounded basins. See scar2026.org for meeting details. @polarrobs.bsky.social @deformedearth.bsky.social and more are co-chairs. 🧪❄️

If you're in Christchurch, NZ, come to a (free) talk by me at Tūranga Wed 28th Jan 6pm christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69...

One more piece of wonderful news that we're bursting to share before we close up shop: we're publishing Night, Ma by Elizabeth Knox in April 2026! @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Cover: Todd Atticus, @toddatticus.bsky.social

Finally!!! I pushed through lots of pain to finish her. Really need to sell her quickly, & for as much $ as I can possibly get… definitely wanting at least $1500 as she’s very big. 78.5cm x 70cm. Please share widely, I would greatly appreciate the help. #CrossStitch #Kikorangi #nzpol

Do any #Antarctic history folk know what has happened to the Antarctic Sun website? I know it stopped publishing new stories but last time I looked the website still existed with all the old stories. Not today - not sure if it's moved or been retired for ... reasons? antarcticsun.usap.gov

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Early bird registration for the 2026 #Climate & #Cryosphere conference in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, closes next week. I'm looking forward to chairing a session on Communicating cryospheric change for diverse audiences @clicwcrp.bsky.social Full details: clic2026.com/wp-content/u...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

Folks, people who appreciated Siouxsie's work during the pandemic and/or who like free speech and academic freedom should help out here if they can. And that's all of us, one way or another, right? www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Deal news! Delighted to share that NZ academic & science journalist @rkpriestley.bsky.social's forthcoming "Melting Ice, Rising Seas: How Antarctica’s Ice Sheets are Reshaping our World" has been acquired by @monashuniversity.bsky.social Press in OZ, & will appear from @thwupbooks.bsky.social in NZ!

Room service!

Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.

"Is suffer how I am seen? Is suffer what I am reduced to? Is suffer my default?" Lovely short piece of writing here about pain, suffering and stigma