'The Royal Society has confirmed that it has secured support from enough libraries for it to make its eight subscription journals open access throughout 2026.' (What happens in 2027 or thereafter if there are insufficient subscribers is not addressed in the article). 1/2

But the thing that will make power bills cheaper is a $1b LNG terminal that will add an additional levy onto power bills

Another day with a piece of Aotearoa on the front page of Wikipedia! 💻 The article on William Bloomfield was created as part of Auckland War Memorial Museum's 2025/26 summer student programme. Ka pai tō mahi to the new editors! 👏 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

If you're interested in MfE's reports or use their data, better load it up to the wayback machine pronto. #nzpol

Max ‘the market will deliver cheaper electricity prices’ fucking Bradford.

ACC rn

These mining fast-track applicants don't appear to genuinely benefit New Zealand. Removing limited resources, returning 2-5% royalties, and paying no tax. Then we get lugged with clean up costs (like Tui oilfields that cost $500m for taxpayers to clean up) #nzpol #Kiwi #NZ

Look it’s us! 🤗

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @universityofotago.bsky.social, also called Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka in Māori If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Been a busy week prepping for O Week next week. I made a “Can I trust Wikipedia?” Game, a poll about Wikipedia and AI, and two displays of Wiki-based games for students queuing for their ID cards. And a stack of “what can a Wikimedian in Residence do for you?” flyers. Phew, roll on Monday!

Hearing a foreign-owned gold mining company CEO is calling Otago "the new West Africa of mining" To help stop mine start by adding your voice to the thousands of people who have already at eepurl.com/jsaheU and you can also find out other ways to help here: sustainabletarras.com/nomine/ #nzpol

Government relaxed about having no emergency capacity in Cook Strait. How much is a boatload of people worth anyway?

Luxon's govt have introduced voting restrictions for 2026. They removed day enrolment for voters. This means that you, your friends and your whānau have to actively enrol by the end of October. Please check your enrolment status at vote.nz and encourage everyone you know to do the same. #NZPol

Don’t tell her friends, but I still read with my 15 yo every night.

There is a very large and hairy brown spider roaming the inside of my car right now. Which is GREAT because immediately prior to that it was roaming the inside of my tshirt. We were both scared but I think I shrieked louder.

can we bypass the election and get a new government that actually believes in due process, please?

“We have children that are starving, and we have whānau that can't meet their basic necessities. Everybody deserves kai on the table." www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...

That’s my photo on the front page of Wikipedia right now! I couldn’t find a decent (c) free colour pic of the pudding after I wrote a page for it, so I bought canned chestnuts ($15!) and made the damn thing. It does taste glorious though…

Very fond of this Mr Hyde by Grickle, look at that lovely Mr Hyde face

Join Wikimedians from across the country for Wellington WikiCon, 2–3 May 2026, the annual gathering for editors of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms organised by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Tickets are available now along with limited travel grants: events.humanitix.com/wellington-w...

WTF this has been SO badly managed and communicated.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Let’s try to find an independent source for that”

Only days ago, Luxon claimed NZ was not in talks with the US on a minerals agreement, that would accelerate mining. But the US has been much more forthcoming, admitting we are in talks and moving towards agreement. My article today. The minerals part is free substack.com/home/post/p-... #nzpol

Hey, you! Yes you! You look like the kind you knows just the right thing to write in a card... so would you like to winsome? Check out all the designs at www.thesewphist.com/product-cate..., grab a link to your fav, then quote post or reply with the Valentine's epigram you'd write inside.

Today I am announcing my campaign for the Dunedin City Council byelection. I’m standing to offer leadership that's ready to go on day one; that's willing & able to challenge the government’s reforms; & that's prepared to make decisions in the best long-term interests of the city. aaronhawkins.nz

“In New Zealand, X holds just over 6% of the social media market, so it’s now a platform with barely a sliver of reach.” Not even wide use by the NZ public, so definitely no good reason for government agencies or politicians to be on a CSAM and racism-spewing site. PSC should get agencies off it.

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026. THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW. Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Here’s a poem called ‘An Attempt to Write an Abecedarian Poem in Praise of the Dictionary’.

MSD have been delaying their December benefits data release due to data processing issues but they shared headline numbers yesterday. If the data is correct, this is a huuuge increase. We now have nearly 1 in 7 adults on a working age benefit. Link in ALT. (🧵 1/n)

Reggie Perrin: Twentytwo minutes late, somebody stole the lines at Surbiton

Now the #OpenJournalsCollective catalogue is live time to revisit @theblochian.bsky.social's @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article abt why it matters, why #TheFutureIsDiamond & how you can join our movement Read the blog & follow links to the #OJC website for more info blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

This is what Santana s proposed Bendigo mine will do in Otago if it goes ahead … #nzpol

Research shows 97% of NZ central gov't spends on natural disasters is spent on recovery, only 3% on risk reduction. Gisborne businesses says need prevention not reaction. Each $1 invested in risk reduction would save $4+ in response and recovery. Why No? #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

The data is in . . . unemployment rate highest since 2015! www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

A niche PSA but anyone in Dunedin who might ever want to apply to the DCC for funding for anything: there's a councillor workshop about the (never-ending) grants review at 1pm on Thursday 5th. Pass it on?

so they're covering the nz couple who ran facilities... still no Pinker or Thiel in ANY stories though... Pinker is speaking TONIGHT on invitation of the FSU (wonder how many ACT folks et al will be in attendance) but it seems like more prominent associates of Epstein are a protected species in NZ

Pleased to say that Carl Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com) will be speaking at the University of Canterbury on 13th Feb! He is hosted by @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social come see him at noon in Jack Erskine 441!

When charitable trusts are doing more for public health than the government that is responsible for public health 🫠 Would also be great if articles like these could mention the Greens are the only party in Aotearoa to have a policy of free dental care for everyone.

“The report shows Forestry in Tairāwhiti only works because the public is paying the real costs.” Now do mining!

“It is the failure of Health NZ executives and Government. If [they] didn’t completely gut the IT support teams and administration staff,” “the Government decided to cripple an already crumbling health sector without a care in the world because they wanted to save money.” #nzpol

Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Flicked through the paper and now find myself tracking a uni professor as he tries to swim the Cook Strait livetracking.nz/route/cook-s...

Here I am, sitting in my house in New Zealand, wondering how I could get and where I could ride this glorious crayfish tandem bike and with whom. I’m ridiculous. Surely, SURELY, the good people of say, Kaikōura have a need to see or use this bike for something. 🦞

NZ editors do well getting content in the DYK section on Wikipedia’s front page. Retired judge Coral Shaw on the 24th, Patricia Allan tomorrow, and Dorothy Spotswood on the 29th. Plus an NZ editor wrote an article on the UK “Fine to flush” scheme that will be there tomorrow!

Thinking about those who have raised the alarm to try to prevent the erosion of our democracy in Aotearoa over the last couple of years: “As a former Prime Minister of this country, I am concerned that our democracy is being weakened by the methods this Government is using to achieve its goals.”