BREAKING It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports: www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...

"Refusing to subsidize solar while underwriting a billion dollar gas terminal is like renting an expensive fossil fuel heater for a house you're already planning to electrify" #NZPol

Check out our new paper led by @andrebellve.bsky.social in this month's issue of @ecography.bsky.social. We show that preservation biases in the fossil record can distort species ecological niche and distribution models. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

For journalists who want to dig into stories about scientific integrity: Here's an exciting new opportunity from two of my favorite science-journalism organizations, @retractionwatch.com and @theopennotebook.bsky.social. I'll be joining a webinar to help kick things off on March 26!

This month's Funk lecture from @biogeography.bsky.social will be given by Juan Pablo Quimbayo. Sign up soon!

February's Funk Biogeography seminar is on the horizon! This month's speaker is Juan Pablo Quimbayo, who will talk about the role of traits in shaping marine biodiversity. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/fe...

Good advice. You can add more sites than just RNZ, and this will improve Google News results

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

New Research Paper Shows 90% of US Adults Don't Know How Many R's Are In The Word "Strawberry"

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing

Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely! Possible topics include: Determinants of range limits Assembly of ecological networks (eg, plant-pollinator) The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Internal documents show how the sector repeatedly lobbied Resources Minister Shane Jones to dilute New Zealand's cleanup rules for ageing oil fields. Rules brought in to protect taxpayers after the 2019 Tui Oil Field collapse left the state burdened with a $300m bill." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Took this thread and made it a post, with links - open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

this is why I stopped using spotify. I buy albums on Bandcamp fairly often. I love finding new music. I tune in to my university's radio station for shows that showcase genres I like, so I can find them on Bandcamp. If i decide I want a streaming service, it'll be Qobuz, probably.

King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’

#seabirds #ornithology 🐧

This rules lmao

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

*Private Health Insurance entered the chat*

New read from me this AM w exclusive polling: Luxon headed into a $1500 a head donor dinner with his leadership of the economy and country under serious pressure. Polling shows more think the county is on the wrong track than at any point since the election www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

For my whānau in Aotearoa, if you haven't heard there is a fantastic new website for learning about your local election candidates: policy.nz - this was funded by the electoral commission and it gives you far more detail about the candidates, including their specific policies on a range of issues!

Next week on Wednesday 17th September at 7pm NZ time I'll be talking to the NZ Geological Society on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction. You can register to see my talk using the link below.

New open access paper out! We evaluated the population structure and conservation needs for 3 crested penguin species in NZ. Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

same

Very glad I finally got stuck in to modeling these little critters. Still need texture work, but they look a lot more menacing now, and really gross too 😈 Now i gotta do something about the player models. #gamedev #indiedev #horrorgames

No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret

**Join Our Team! 🚀** 🌟 **Exciting Postdoc Opportunity!** @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍 Dive into groundbreaking research that explores how rising ecological novelty transforms #biodiversity and #vegetation! 🌿 —apply now! 👉 shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n

Willis pushing partial privatisation of Kiwibank just so it can access $500m of new capital. $500m also happens to be the combined subsidy she is giving to Phillip Morris tobacco ($300m) and fossil fuel cos ($200m). Let’s redirect that cash to Kiwibank and keep it. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Today is the five year anniversary of Jordan Williams of the the New Zealand Taxpayers Union blocking me on Twitter after I referred to the debt monster mascot as his fursona

Better version of the meme.

Combining multiple data sources to show that colonies of at least 15 species of burrowing seabirds were once found throughout Aotearoa, including on mountain ranges far inland. Most were rapidly wiped out by humans and rats pre-1840, other introduced predators taking care of what survived.

Check out this cool work from @andrebellve.bsky.social

Stoked to finally see this one out in the wide world: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)

Francine Elisaia shares the importance of #seabirds in Samoa, where they appear in traditional proverbs, stories, cultural practices, & voyaging. Monitoring is well aligned with Samoa’s long term national strategy for #biodiversity & knowledge sharing is key to community engagement. #OceaniaSeabirds

The reality is foxes and cats contributed to extinctions of Australian mammals and continue to threaten rare species through predation. I'm not sure questioning their role is helpful for conservation. theconversation.com/extinctions-...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Treaty Principles Bill

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

Great podcast that analyses the Joe Rogan podcast and breaksdown the misinformation in each episode. This one is on Peter Theil and shows what a charlatan the guy is. A little embarrassing clip on his NZ citizenship is also mentioned. open.spotify.com/episode/2W36...

Our March Funk lecture is now up on our youtube channel! Feel to check it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLMq...

Working on an article going into this in some detail, because it builds on, and is features the same individuals flagged last year creating radicalisation pathways in NZ. | Martin Sellner’s far-right playbook: A threat to New Zealand’s liberal democracy sanjanah.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/m...

Is the bombardment of AI animation slop bringing you down? Can I offer you a Reset in this trying time? 20+ artists and animators contributed to this indie music video, and I'll be shouting each of them out below [THREAD]

Lecture at 12 PM EST today - sign up if you are interested in a long-term perspective of seabird declines and what it means for nutrient transport! bsky.app/profile/biog...

Luxon’s Trumpian Govt shouldn’t be anywhere near legislation as important as the RMA. New law “based on property rights” … 🙄 On current form it’ll just be a long-winded version of ‘forget the biodiversity crisis, if you own it, do what you want’. #nzpol

The #biosphere is changing: Check our global mapping of ecological novelty in wild #ecosystems (due to #climatechange, #defaunation & floristic disruption) - just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social ♨️🐘🌿🌐 Big thx to @mattkerr.bsky.social for the huge effort! #novelecosystems #invasivespecies #megafauna

A global analysis of altered species compositions and climate change reveals the extent to which ecosystems, including in protected areas and biodiversity hotspots, are exposed to novel conditions due to anthropogenic forces rdcu.be/edTpA

Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07362 #Biogeography #PlantEvolution #Ecophysiology