So Planck recycled his own work in the 1940s for a different audience and was done posthumously for self plagiarism decades later when the rules had changed. This is mostly about the bureaucratisation of academia I think. Are we not allowed to use judgement any more?

Ōtepoti really bringing it today. How lucky are we to be living in this beautiful city 😍🌆 📸: paddleboarders just gliding along in the background

On the understand there are a number of people being hospitalised with RSV and similar at the moment, the respiratory dashboard was updated last week, with not much in the way of influenza or covid hospitalisations ATM in the sentinel hospitals (Auckland)

Back when I was in Parliament I exposed the fact that ACC staff were receiving bonuses for stopping compensation for people with long term disabilities. MSD seems to now be taking this model further: punishing staff for housing people in need

A legend has passed devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...

Found this wee chappie floating in the harbour. Cleaned him up, washed him, hair dried & brushed, posted on the local FB community boards. I need to get Tigger reunited with his wee human. Ōtepoti Dunedin

Kapiti being stunning what a gift

The year is 2026 AD. Gaul is entirely convected. Well, not entirely. One small village...

“An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.”

Nearly 20 years ago @adenaschachner.bsky.social published a paper in Current Biology showing the very real abilities of some species to synchronize to a beat, based on home videos of pets posted online. Probably can't do that sort of research anymore

The recent #UK extreme #heatwave in context. The daily mean Central England Temperature (CET) record extends back to the year 1771. In dataset of 92,949 dates, the last 4 days in the series have all fallen into the top 20 of all time. The CET area has never seen anything like this in >250 years. 🔥

Recent French national average temperatures: - impossible in a pre-industrial world, - about 1 year in 40 years in a 1.5C world - 1 in 10 years in a +2 °C world - 3 degree world - happens every other year interactive/method/maps here (également en français): benmsanderson.github.io/futureevent/

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

I can see some further news stories in the near future where undeclared creep glasses wearers meet consequences from detection via glasses proximity warning apps like Glasses Detector.

I just needed to check y'all know that You And Me with Suzy Cato is on YouTube and releasing new content, right? The 5yo's television rotation now includes "Suzy bubbles" and "Suzy making a cake" and let me tell you I have some lovely warm feelings about it

And this is why I don't buy digital

We're excited to announce a new release of SedonaDB, and this one is a big one! Between native DataFrame APIs in Python and R, a brand new Geography implementation, GPU accelerated joins, and a raster/ND-array foundation, it's hard to know where to start.

On behalf of a former colleague - interesting data journo job going at @oceanographicmag.bsky.social oceanographicmagazine.com/news/we-are-... #dataviz #jobs

Terrific BBC program about an outstanding public health success. So good to hear the story being told by David Hill, who has contributed so much across so many areas. Only ten minutes - v. highly recommended listening to anyone interested in the history of effective public health campaigns.

Excellent work demonstrating: ~50% of brown skuas and giant petrels have antibodies to H5, as well as tracking data demonstrating incredible dispersal explaining the long distance movement of HPAI in through the sub-Antarctic. 👉 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

Australia are doubling down on their social media ban, while a new study just dropped about its effectiveness - it's worse than the last one #nzpol (Cross post from instagram)

Auckland just had its biggest ever May for cycling and the bulk of the traffic was on separated bike lanes so it's a good thing we haven't banned new NZTA investment in cycleways or anything

Reading this again: he literally says he hates being told New Zealand did science

Now that I have made my own bookings, I should mention to other people ResBaz is happening end of June/ start of July (NZ time) resbaz.auckland.ac.nz/schedule/

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Obviously this was just for fun. If you live in Ōtautahi make sure you do the survey. 8/8 haveyoursay.ecan.govt.nz/metroreview

Well, at 5:58 in North-East Valley, at the pedestrian crossing (rain, dark, but the crossing is lit) I had: On car bowl through when I was at the edge of the road going to cross, one car bowl through when I was literally half way across, and one car toot at me as I crossed the last half.

Great article by @apsmunro.bsky.social on the dementia - shingles vaccine question. TLDR - The shingles vaccine is excellent at preventing shingles, but the evidence for a protective effect against dementia is pretty weak alasdairmunro.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

Oh. Good. That can't go wrong.

Irony is dead.

Sometimes the data screams a warning. Westpac's regular survey of employment confidence just hit a new low - worse than 2008 & COVID. library.westpaciq.com.au/content/dam/...

A ranking of most highly cited publications by a database of climate science research interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/data/...

Red-alert heat warning ≠ day at the beach, quite the opposite bsky.app/profile/ianh... @ianhall.bsky.social

This nonsense claim from this paper is making rounds on Twitter, claiming fertility & gender (in)equality correlated at .81. But the Gender Inequality Index includes adolescent fertility as part of the measure! When you rebuild the index without circular reproductive outcomes correlation cut in half

True story, in the olden days of like 8 years ago when we did this work, {ggannotate} was annoying enough to use that I made an executive decision to stick the ridgeline plot in Keynote and manually add the little asterisks. Sorry not sorry

It looks as if the Strait was never really closed, but that's just because it's a really bad graph. Zero is basically touching the bottom of the wiggles. The bottom of the shaded area is like minus 10 ships per day! That's not how area graphs are supposed to work.

“Heat kills more Australians than floods, bushfires, and cyclones combined, yet it remains one of the least discussed public health problems in the country.” Noa Wynn on Australia’s unequal summer.

In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...

subsequent post: > He made me look up happy birthday on Google translate in all three languages and incorporate it… “we don’t want just yapping about the gods” absolutely incredible

I spent a bit of time doing sanctions screening back in the day, and I can only imagine how blatant you have to be to get caught buying drones for Russia. The guy must have literally put "this is for drones" on the purchase order from Russian Military Drones Dot Com.

We have just launched a parliamentary petition calling for mandatory AI transparency in the public sector. If AI is going to be used in the delivery of public services, it must be AI that is worthy of our trust. Sign: petitions.parliament.nz/7bfe1c60-b99... Read more: www.trustworthyai.nz

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

Anyone know if Robotaxis are being tested or scoped in Auckland currently? Saw a vehicle with lots of cameras on, labelled "test vehicle", carrying what looked like US plates in the Britomart area today.

Oh look, the EU is not playing games. Like people warned. "The EU's 2023 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)" "For example, the UK was expected to introduce CBAM-type measures, and was also being considered in Australia and the United States. 2030 eh #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Love this -- when we lived in the States and made regular trips to New Zealand to see the grandparents in The Land That Lawyers Forgot the kids LOOOOOVED the playgrounds here. They would have been all over this. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/what-t...

Weird that RNZ didn't include updated budget forecasts in this target chart today. I've helped them out. I am guessing that this is because Govt have only just released the March 2026 quarterly update. Will we get a quarterly update for June 2026 before the election? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

What I would love to see in the Greens tax discussion: 1. Repeated comparisons to other countries. NZers are very insecure and we need to be told that everyone else already has tax-free thresholds, wealth taxes, inheritance taxes; the phrase “it’s a bit embarrassing” is NZ kryptonite.

But what if all the super-rich die of apoplexy before going back to pre-1992 inheritance taxes? Did they think of that?