So, NZ? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

Nice work Simon Stewart @troybaisden.bsky.social @icdugg.bsky.social et al. #Lakes are Earth’s eye indeed. 🧪

You know about NZ's cuts to research funding? How bleak is it for climate change research? Bleak. Explainer and perspectives now outside Carbon News NZ's paywall. www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/35492/s...

Read more about this research at @aunz.theconversation.com → theconversation.com/lakeshore-sh... #complexsystems @troybaisden.bsky.social

This trains announcement is absolutely fabulous news. But I cannot be the only person looking at the pics thinking these things are not going to fare well when they hit a cow or ute? email.jslmedia.com.au/ch/91108/dx9...

Did you catch news that the Universities Advisory Group (UAG) reports were released, but the government binned or balked on many of the key recommendations? The whole process went from shelved to buried yesterday morning. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/09/03/u...

UAG report and cabinet paper are out. Gluckman: Read the Interim Report’s strategic approach first (before getting lost in the operational details.) Alas, if only more of the strategic recommendations had a clear path to implementation… www.education.govt.nz/our-work/inf...

Kākā getting very frisky with the feeling of spring in the air

Listening to an HRC webinar about the changes to research funding. It's striking how little input by academics is valued now - final decisions will be made by HRC, with science committees' input downgraded to 'advice'. Commercialisation is valued. Innovation is not. Depressing.

In Today’s Weekend Herald #Fonterra #nzpol

Our parliament might give us confidence in the government's approach to the science if answers were delivered with care and clarity. youtu.be/2Glk1fHNMaU?...

rnz’s strategy under thompson has essentially been to make the people who actually listen to the station hate it in order to attract an audience that will never listen to it. genius lol

Robust debate in Parliament yesterday, with questions from Scott Willis to Shane Reti MP about cuts, job losses and whether reprioritisation will yield clarity or any benefits. The answers aren't reassuring but it is good to see this getting attention. youtu.be/Vam6UmnvtyY

Unsurprisingly shocking news: the Advanced Technology Institute is being funded by mortgaging the future of other science funding. Had you wondered whether we're rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, or playing musical chairs? It's both. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/08/06/f...

Today's update to this big story for NZ science. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Reminder - applications close 1 August. Note the new medal debut this year...

MethaneSat appears lost. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... We'll be pondering NZ's $29m for some time. Good tracking by @eloisegibson.bsky.social. My big question: did the same MBIE people who botched the science system we're still trying to fix move across and mess this up too? #commercialisation

Articles out today on directions of the mergers in the research system open up some of the concerns, and also suggest benefits may not come quickly. Farmers weekly perspective suggests my worst case scenario could apply. www.farmersweekly.co.nz/technology/s...

Still trying to make sense of Day One for the "PROs" which are still CRIs. How 'public' will these Public Research Organisations be? We have a news page and much wider resources up at NZAS. scientists.org.nz/news/13515621

Do we actually understand NZ's carbon cycle well enough to be the leader we should be? This story hit news over the last week, and this is the biggest compendium - now outside the paywall at CarbonNews. www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/34741/c...

Will the trust and engagement of Māori communities with the research system recover from this last minute cut, after almost two years of development of a few major programme proposals and implementation plans? 1/n Fox Meyer in Newsroom (outside the Paywall tomorrow) newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/13/g...

“I have no doubt that if we were unlucky to experience a tsunami in our lifetime, a future Royal Commission of Inquiry will definitely find whoever defunded this monitoring centre as culpable.” -Ilan Noy newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/12/n...

Detailed energy data for Norway in 2024 were released this morning. No surprise that the total use of energy in road transport continues to decline, as electric vehicles are more efficient than their ICE equivalents. robbieandrew.github.io/EV/

Will the trust and engagement of Māori communities with the research system recover from this last minute cut, after almost two years of development of a few major programme proposals and implementation plans? 1/n Fox Meyer in Newsroom (outside the Paywall tomorrow) newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/13/g...

“I have no doubt that if we were unlucky to experience a tsunami in our lifetime, a future Royal Commission of Inquiry will definitely find whoever defunded this monitoring centre as culpable.” -Ilan Noy newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/12/n...

Canadians get their ferries… Are we still playing #DireStraights? www.shippax.com/en/news/bc-f...

Arguably the responsibility to articulate the nation's science policy needs shouldn't fall to emerging researchers. Yet, here we are ... A group of early career Antarctic researchers describe how research in their patch is being systematically undermined. thespinoff.co.nz/science/10-0...

The (very small) case of recently announced targeted Māori research funding has exposed how poorly science policy processes are working. Yet another case where funding levels are mismatched to what we should be sensibly aiming to achieve. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-new-...

📢 Applications open for the 2025 Science Medals from the New Zealand Association of Scientists. scientists.org.nz/how-to-apply Check out this thread for the medals available - including one NEW this year.

My latest for @science.org on NZ's "shuffling of deck chairs" science and innovation budget, with @nzscientists.bsky.social et al and excellent editing by @mattbwarren.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

Our deeper analysis of Budget 2025's implication for science is out. It's worse than a nothing burger. It's a black hole budget pushing many areas towards the bring where they'll never recover, with funds going to pay for regulation and restructuring. scientists.org.nz/news/13502878

This is the worst punishment handed down EVER in our history. The worst on record was 3 days! When Tangata whenua resist, colonial powers reach for maximum penalty. This is a warning shot to all of us to fall in line. E kore rawa matau e tuohu! #toitūtetiriti #toitūtemanamāori #NZPol

More BS in the science system? Sadly it was so avoidable? Doesn't the NZ Institute of Science for the Bioeconomy just sound better than an acronym with BS in it?

My hot take on Greens Alternative Budget: I want to love it but it feels like it is trying to lose the election. Even if successful in attracting voters, it would set up an unstable polarised MMP environment where governments of the right and left cancel or undermine each other's tax policies. 1/n

Interesting official advice obtained by the Don't Subsidise Pollution campaign. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Audio here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

I'm running! With our city (and world) the way it is, there's a need for constructive, pragmatic people at the table. If I'm lucky enough to receive the Greens nomination, I'll be asking for your help - for housing, infrastructure, for a Wellington where everyone can thrive.

Just noticed Charlie needs more followers, what are you waiting for? His usual mode is thoughtful environmental features, but scoops also a strong suit.

The 3 yearly summary - Environment Aotearoa 2025 - is out. Expert reactions via @smcnz.bsky.social www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/04/08/s...

I was roaming NZ last month... love classic regional towns.

President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.

Does anyone know what Madagascar did to get to 47%? 😮

I’m irked by this because the lack of checking and recording digital records in clinic almost certainly hindered my recovery from a bike crash last year. It doesn’t bode well with the minister now charged with reforming the research system. (Now out of 24hr paywall) newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/01/n...

I am quoted in this piece - in my view it time to have cards on the table about the status of MethaneSat. We have nearly $30 million in public money and riding on this, along with a decent piece of our "space strategy". There is a lot of huffing and blowing from MethaneSat about how complex it is...

I wasn’t following the degree to which the status of $30m of public investment in MethaneSat looks increasingly awkward. Well chased by @eloisegibson.bsky.social … www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Just saw this… 🤣🤪

Sadly TEC’s plan for 2026 doubles down on misunderstanding the role of universities and research institutions in “economic growth”.

Great article bringing many of the points related to the lifeline for Callaghan Innovation #advancedtechnology science groups together. newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/13/r... We need better foundations for the science and tech to support our future.

Callaghan has a lifeline for key teams but … www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/callaghan...

These are good, easy-to-answer questions and there's only four of them, so if you're part of the AoNZ science system - get your reckons in. 🧪