A great wānanga is a generative thinking space. And no more wonderful place for it than Wairewa marae this week for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, sheltered by ancestor Mako and surrounded by the hills of Te Pātaka o Rakeihautū 1/n

Registrations are now live for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-ci... #cccss #complexsystems

Registrations are now live for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-ci... #cccss #complexsystems

The flow of information between research and policy is not a one-way street, it is a constant dialogue 🧪🧵

Super chuffed with this latest project www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz that just launched. The team at Te Pūnaha Matatini are superstars both in the mahi they do and also behind the scenes, just genuinely lovely people to work with. Also props to @statamic.com for the fantastic platform

If you want a new website, @brendyn.net at Avoca Web Design is your man, and Statamic is the CMS of your dreams → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz 🔥

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Thanks Ōtepoti Bluesky 🙏

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On the second day of our annual hui, we started the day with a keynote from University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson on the research system in Aotearoa 🧪🧵

Over the past year we have done extensive work on re-articulating what we at @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social do, how we do it, and why we do it. The first publicly visible artifact is our new online presence: www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz 1/n

This week we’re all (mostly) together in Ōtepoti for our annual hui 🧪🧵

Our inaugural guest artist Sione Faletau worked with Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Emma Sharp to transform 1,000 measurements of arsenic and lead into an immersive soundscape and visual projection → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/ongo-m... 🧪

After four days off the grid in the NZ backcountry, I’m excited to be heading to Dunedin to talk complexity at the annual hui (meeting) for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, the NZ centre of research excellence in complex systems.

In the wake of the recent shakeup of New Zealand's science and innovation ecosystem, @mluczak.bsky.social spoke to 95bFM about what the future of New Zealand's science ecosystem needs to look like → 95bfm.com/bcast/change... 🧪

"The trouble with the government’s idea for a simple, more efficient science fund is that it’s trying to be a Ferrari on tin can funding." - @cillaw.bsky.social via @smcnz.bsky.social → www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/10/14/b... 🧪

Thanks for all your abstract submissions for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026! Now to make a programme. #cccss26 #complexsystems

The 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗪𝗖𝗦𝟮𝟲) has extended its hashtag#deadline for applications to 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵! For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd

Last chance to get your abstract in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium! Submissions close Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/aTUCy1FrE1vm... #cccss #complexsystems 🧪

🚨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