KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR! (and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...) Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest. Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com

Day 1! Let’s go! #baah

🚨Deadline extended 🚨 Get your abstracts in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 by Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/vdMooRs2srtz... #cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

I'm attempting to raise money to make a limited series podcast looking at how the campaign to get New Zealand to pull out of the Paris climate accords, we've a little over a third of the way toward the goal, can you help make this happen? www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

We have a project that has been in motion for a LONG time and we are looking to launch for this summer. Between me and my cousins we are launching a cultural eco tours in Wairarapa. If you're interested, let us know via the form below if weekday or weekend tours work for you. wairarapatours.com

PARODY VS LUNACY youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U?...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Tonight in Wellington, a panel celebrating Maurice Gee's writing for children features Kate De Goldi, Claire Mabey, Harry Ricketts, Anna Jackson, Tatjana Schaefer and Dr Vivien van Rij, chaired by Emeritus Professor Kathryn Walls. Floor 12, Rutherford House, Bunny Street, 5.30-7pm - all welcome!

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A gift link to @maiasz.bsky.social's op-ed on the RFK-Trump autism debacle. The comments are well worth reading too. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Call for EOIs for editors, New Zealand Journal of History. Expressions of interest should be received by 31 October 2025. phanza.org.nz/call-for-eoi...

UN treaty to protect marine diversity in the #HighSeas was struck this week after Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the agreement, clinching the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law www.france24.com/en/live-news...

In a historic first, iwi leaders and unions have united to call for mass mobilisations against the Government on the 28th of October. Rā Whakamana will affirm tino rangatiratanga and workers' rights and mark He Whakaputanga and the first Labour Day in Aotearoa.

My cartoon in today's www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Erica Stanford & her ministry are axing Art History in Aotearoa for senior school students. This cartoonist wouldn't be the person I am without it. I thank all those who've come before me, who work now, and to future artists.

Māori Wards honour Te Tiriti. They ensure Māori voices are at the council table helping to make better decisions. That makes local democracy fairer, more representative and better for everyone. Vote to KEEP Māori Wards.

Lovely and thoughtful review of Kings of this World thespinoff.co.nz/books/13-09-...

If you're sick of this government and this absolute race baiting bullshit and attacks on Māori across the board - vote in your local election and vote to keep Māori wards. Your council is ONLY having a referendum because this government is forcing them to. How embarrassing if they all get kept.

My daughter needs a few more survey takers for her Year 13 assignment - it's looking at can musicians make a living off music streaming services in 2025 If you can spare 5 mins it'd be greatly appreciated! bit.ly/46usr1v

The War on climate series at @theconversation.com explores the relationship between climate issues and global conflicts. Have a look!

An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions. They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... 🌊🧪

August CO2 and methane data at NOAA just dropped. The 3-year running average for the rate of CO2 growth continues to increase (now at 7.78 ppm per 3 years), and is nearing an all-time high. Maybe if we all just hope a bit more, I'm sure that will change everything.

If you believe Anthropic may have downloaded your book(s) from LibGen or PiLiMi, please visit www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com to provide your contact information to Class Counsel.

AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:

"If there is one thing I would hope for in the next pandemic, it is that we can recapture some of the spirit that got us through those years, while striving to ensure that the costs and benefits are shared more equitably next time." - @hendysh.bsky.social 📸 by Dave Coles

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵

❄️ ☃️ ⛰️ Abstract deadline extended to 19 Sept for Feb2026 #Climate & #Cryosphere conf in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand! There is already an excellent lineup of physical & social scientists, Indigenous scholars, policy and communication scholars and more. More at clic2026.com @clicwcrp.bsky.social

Want to come to New Zealand this summer? The call for abstracts for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 is now open: forms.gle/g22s2dR85oFq... 🧪

First day of pre-production!

This is it – the final day! ⌛ teherengawakapress.co.nz

Hello! My sixth book, and the second in the Violet and the Velvets series, illustrated by the talented Phoebe Morris, is out today in New Zealand and Australia in all good bookshops! It’s got punk rock, kids and ghosts. Who needs more? @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #pukapuka #kidlit #middlegrade

🍃🌹🌿 Stop calling the #NZGreens radical: they have demonstrated themselves as the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...

Using Treasury's estimates of the daily cost of alert levels and the Oxford Stringency Index in other OECD countries I estimated how much it would have cost to implement other strategies over 2020-22. My conclusion: our response saved lives and was one of the most cost effective in the OECD.

I hope this helps someone: Regardless of your intention when using AI, it doesn't change the processes involved in using it, which include excessive consumption of water & other finite energy sources and data centers that are placed in vulnerable communities, polluting both people and land.

So close to the goal, I just need another 200 or so people to chip in NZ$3 each (which for my overseas followers is less than 2 American dollars or Euro)

High tide on #Wellingtons Lyall Bay beach during southerly storm. No room for the pups on the dog walking beach! The seagulls have claimed any scraps of beach remaining 🌊 🥶

“If this were a military threat, such risk-reduction would be second nature, as would table-top analysis of vulnerabilities and contingency plans for softening impacts. Larger outlays are not, as yet, necessary. But larger imaginations are.” (Gift article.)

Hey lovely folks of Aotearoa... Did you sign the petition to have clean air in schools yet?? This is such an important thing, and this petition hasn't gotten the love it truly deserves yet. Please sign and share! This is for more than just covid! 🫶🏼 our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl...

Practicing a bit of mindfulness this week as a response to All The Things causing stress and anxiety; here’s some of what I noticed in small town Aotearoa on a mid-winter day

Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

Our new piece is out in @nature.com big mihi to all my co-authors it was a pleasure to work with you on this @lanipai.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @sereananaepi.bsky.social @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Bradley Moggridge and Brittany Kamai tinyurl.com/yc4y9kfk

Policymakers at the 2024 UN Environment Assembly underestimated public support for climate action 69% of people are willing to give 1% of their income to fight climate change Officials guessed just 37% The mandate for bold action is stronger than you think... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

For this month only, my book Fifteen Million Years in #Antarctica is on sale for only $20! 🇦🇶 ❄️ 🐧 A bargain! Lots of other @thwupbooks.bsky.social books on sale too teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/fif...

All around the country, people are opening brown paper packages full of books, while the stacks in our storeroom shrink! It will be 50% off all August, but some titles are down to the last few copies already – get in quick so you don't miss out 📚📚📚 teherengawakapress.co.nz

It's terrifying and depressing (and obvious) how aligned (and in comms) NACTNZ are with the international right. We must push back against all this. It's so clearly disastrous abroad – Aotearoa could choose and demonstrate a different path.

Have you read Shaun Hendy's new book? Do you have some insight into the topic? Would you like to write a book review? The New Zealand Science Review is keen to include a review of this book in our next issue (also other science/research system books if you want to propose them...).

Between 28 & 31 July you can pre-order the paperback of my book THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW from Waterstones at 25% off. Use code SUMMER25 on this website... www.waterstones.com/book/the-one... PS It pays for Graham's cat food - keep Graham in cat food! @omarabooks.bsky.social

📣 Job opportunity 📣 Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling! You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶 👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)