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

Like Schrodinger’s cat, braided rivers are neither land nor water, but both at once 🧪 🧵

How can complexity science help us protect Antarctica? Te Pūnaha Matatini postdoc Kristin Wilson will share her experience modelling Antarctic governance as a social-ecological system at tomorrow's Café Complexité in Wellington ☕ 📆 Thu 2 October ⏰ 8-9am 📍The Atom — Te Kahu o Te Ao innovation space

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

We've booked a venue. We've signed on some keynote speakers. Now we just need you. Submit an abstract for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → https://forms.gle/g22s2dR85oFqhajX6

In Aotearoa New Zealand, research grants don’t just fund research. They also pay for buildings, admin, IT, and even profit margins. That’s because institutions rely heavily on indirect cost recovery – aka “overheads” – to stay afloat 🧪🧵

We've booked a venue. We've signed on some keynote speakers. Now we just need you. Submit an abstract for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → https://forms.gle/g22s2dR85oFqhajX6

Sir Bill English is a former New Zealand Prime Minister and co-founder of Impact Lab, which uses data to support better decision making by measuring social impact. He'll be joining us as a keynote speaker at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. #cccss26 #complexsystems

Simon Upton is the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. He'll be joining us as a keynote speaker at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. #cccss26 #complexsystems

A strong breeze blowing across a lake can result in more food for native freshwater mussels UP TO A YEAR LATER 🤯🧪🧵

Strategising our work, and working together in the time we have at @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social during chaotic times. Stay focused and enjoy the company of friends. #research #excellence #NZ

‘I revisit her work when I need the courage to speak’: Dr Sereana Naepi’s life in books

In an inaugural lecture, newly-minted professors often talk about their journey. But our co-director @cillaw.bsky.social used hers to challenge us to reimagine who we are as New Zealanders, and how that relates to the work we do as researchers and scientists → www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPcK... 🧪 🧵

✨ Nicholson Consulting’s 2025/26 Summer Internship is now open for applications! ✨ 🧵

Kylie Reiri is a deputy chief executive at the Social Investment Agency, where she works to improve systems to benefit our communities. Kylie will be a keynote presenter at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss26 #complexsystems

Rose Hipkins is a leader in teaching for complex systems thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand. She'll be joining us as a keynote speaker at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. #cccss26 #complexsystems

@hendysh.bsky.social is chief scientist and a co-founder of Toha, the founding director of Te Pūnaha Matatini & led the team that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize for their Covid-19 response He is a keynote speaker at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. #cccss26 #complexsystems

Our next confirmed keynote speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 is Tom Johnson. Tom is the design lead at Whakaue Research, where he develops kaupapa Māori innovations that turn research into systems change. #cccss26 #complexsystems

✨ Thank you, Christchurch! ✨ Our final BWB Talk on Shaun Hendy’s 'The Covid Response' – with Rebecca Macfie – wrapped a nationwide series. Grateful to all who joined & supported us, especially Te Pūnaha Matatini. 🎥 Auckland Talks video soon. Order the book: www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-covi...

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 🧪 🧵

🎵When small parts align and a pattern you find That’s emergence 🎵 🎵 When the whole it does more than the parts did before That’s emergence 🎵 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/07/26/e... #complexsystems #emergence 🧪

The book launch tour for The Covid Response by @hendysh.bsky.social continues at Scorpio Books in Ōtautahi this evening 📚

Looking forward to @hendysh.bsky.social book launch with @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social colleagues in Ōtautahi tonight

Brian Castellani mapped how disciplines, concepts and people have weaved together over time to create our understanding of complex systems. He'll be joining us as a keynote speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss26 #complexsystems

Our next confirmed speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 is Tanya Allport. Tanya draws on Indigenous models of systems change to advance whānau-centred solutions for Māori health and wellbeing → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss26 #complexsystems

In just a couple of hours our legendary co-director @cillaw.bsky.social will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture on why and how she became an interdisciplinary scientist and how wonder can underpin scientific discovery and purpose 😎 It will be livestreamed → www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. Nau mai haere mai ki tēnei hui! You are warmly invited to the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026, 24-25 February 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Submit your abstract → forms.gle/as6ArigFQW34... #cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪

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... 🧪

Come hear us have a chat!

Next week Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Alex Macmillan gives her inaugural professorial lecture in Ōtepoti Dunedin on her mahi towards healthy and just action on climate change → www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...

Our next confirmed keynote for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium is Diane Finegood, whose current passion is for the application of systems thinking and dialogue to address complex problems across a broad range of topics, with a particular focus on health systems and public health #cccss26

What if there was a way to go beyond gross domestic product to understand the hidden capabilities of economies? 🔎🧪🧵

In 2018, the New Zealand Government set the ambitious goal of achieving one million te reo Māori speakers by 2040. It’s a bold and audacious goal, but are we even on track to achieve this? What policies or interventions might help to get us there? 🧪🧵

My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities. Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it. quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...

In the latest public @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social newsletter, I give my answer to what this Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems does. Inspired by a conversation with my 14-year old daughter. Subscribe if you want to stay tuned to what we're up to. mailchi.mp/bc18cca14a39...

Laying tracks while the train moves: why we can't wait for perfect information to save the world Real change requires policy landscapes that are willing to make room for action under uncertainty. If there’s ever been a moment that requires a willingness to act despite gaps, it’s now.

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new paper in The Lancet Microbe lays the groundwork for a global science-policy body to tackle pandemic threats — modeled after the IPCC for climate change 🧪🧵

@bioprotection.bsky.social 👋

Biodiversity loss is a climate change multiplier. Every species we lose, every ecosystem we destroy weakens the planet’s resilience capacity.

I spent the last few days in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland at the Te Pūnaha Matatini Network Science Winter Wānanga, a retreat that gathered people from many different fields who study network science & statistics. It’s been an exciting time at this event & I’ve gained many insights into network science!

Every decision a person makes is based on a model 🧪🧵

Shaun Hendy reflects on the moments after New Zealand went into lockdown in an extract from his book 'The Covid Response: A Scientist's Account of New Zealand's Pandemic and What Comes Next.' Read the full extract here: www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2... @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social

Estimating excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand Our new study published this week doi.org/10.1093/ije/... TLDR: - We estimated excess mortality from 2020-23 was between -0.8% and +2.0% - Much lower than countries such as the UK (10%) or US (11%)

"Just after 1.48 p.m. on Monday 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that, following the recently introduced four-level alert system, New Zealand would move to Alert Level 3 (‘Restrict’) and then Alert Level 4 (‘Eliminate’) in the next forty-eight hours." 🧪🧵

Getting around quite a bit in Europe this & next week. From the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna to the Basque Centre for Climate in Bilbao, to the ISI Foundation in Turin (next week, see below). What are we doing? We're talking about the @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social approach to complex systems.

Despite decades of awareness, Aotearoa New Zealand still has an 8.2% national gender pay gap 📊🧪🧵

Really cool to listen to this seminar, and see the overlaps and alignments with my research (from Tangata Tiriti pov), even though it's in a completely different space.

If you're in Torino on Monday come along to @isi.it to hear @mluczak.bsky.social and @cillaw.bsky.social speak about how we're using complex systems research as a pathway toward more inclusive, just and resilient futures → www.isi.it/seminars/202...

Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Dan Hikuroa has gone from conventional training in geoscience to a career weaving Indigenous knowledge and science to spearhead alternative ways of undertaking development and assessing sustainability 🧪 🧵