The current state of the science system – ranging from purgatory to vandalism – has made the front page of today Herald with good articles by @jamiemorton.bsky.social. (1/n)

🧵 Life update (yes, sorry, one of those). Amid the latest restructure at the Herald, I’ve opted to take voluntary redundancy (as first reported today by our own Media Insider!). I finish up on April 1 and have a lot of work to get through before then. 1/

My last piece for the year looks back at four numbers that highlight just how extreme 2023 was www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cyclone-g...

Normally it would be exciting to be front page news but it's a pretty mixed feeling with today's story by Jamie Morton in the Herald. I was amongst a group of scientists who spoke to Jamie about the challenges facing the NZ science system. In short, we cannot go on like this

I’d been working on this deep dive about what’s wrong with our science system for months before Massey moved to cut more than 60 roles last week. Whatever the new Govt decides to do, scientists have told me one thing: the sector can’t carry on like this. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-unive...

Not really the first story I wanted to post in here, but this happened today www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/more-than...