TFW you get two unrelated & unpaid keynote invites 20min apart for 2 conferences in Ag and Astro 🤣. The emails have exactly the same template including: "We believe that your experience and comments will add an important dimension to what is potentially a very important discussion for the field."

one of the strangest things about this particular moment is watching colonizers complain about other colonizers colonizing while in other contexts making the same arguments that the colonizers they are complaining about are making, and having absolutely no self-awareness of this rampant hypocrisy

Okay Ōtepoti, you know how to turn on a beautiful sunset beach walk! (from Monday night)

I feel like they may have skipped a few steps.

Hey MetService, why your radar interface to the public so so so bad. I kinda feel like we can't save lives and protect property with this jank.

In almost 9 years in NZ I don't think I've ever experienced a severe thunderstorm warning where I live. Today that changes 🤣. After living in Oklahoma through F5s and grapefruit size hail, I'm a bit like 🙄, but here we are.

A couple of cheeky kea, a whio with chicks at Iris Burn today while I volunteered doing comms for the Kepler Challenge.

Spear phishing is getting rather sophisticated! DocuSign email with "Closing Docs" that takes me to a MS Account login at a .ru domain and my email templated inside the footer. 🤔

Such a cool resource! Jupyter Everywhere is WebAssembly Jupyter environments with matplotlib, pandas, scikit learn and scipy. Born of a group trying to create environments for HS students to learn stats on Chromebooks, but incredibly widely useful! www.jupytereverywhere.org

Why hello there Kererū

I've started carrying around the full-text of Wikipedia on my phone. It is kind of magic to have THAT much information "offline" in your pocket. On a trans-pacific flight with dodgy wifi, it was a fantastic crossword puzzle solving resource 😆 If you want to try check out kiwix.org

Oh NIWA, you're so cute...computing climate "virtual station data" for single points across Aotearoa and charging $500 per station to get the data. Selling data via a Shopify store 😆. My Official information Act request is in to learn a wee bit more about this grift.

On a visit to the US and hearing a clock tower in the distance. I don't think I've ever heard one in NZ. Are there active clock towers in NZ, or does NZ just reject them full-stop? 😆

Beautiful view of my favorite part of Aotearoa! MODIS Terra, September 18th, 2025 Can't believe that satellite is still taking such gorgeous pics for 26 years now! 😱 Gonna be so sad when she's retired.

Gosh I hate it when I suffer from "mental health"

The Voices of Jupyter Hub Report - 🚀 Open source success story: JupyterHub's journey and lessons learned 📚 JupyterHub has empowered hundreds of thousands of learners and researchers. But like any project, it faces challenges. voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com #OpenScience #Jupyter

New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

🚨 We've just released a new resource from our work with CZI EOSS projects around developing a security mindset in your Open Source project. We hope this is broadly useful! Use it and adapt it to plan a 1-2 hour conversation with your contributor community.

TFW an AI hiring bot sends you a snapshot of your GitHub that says you’re in the top 1% of HTML engineers globally. My response “tell your algo to go home, it be drunk”. Should I have played along 🤔?

Now why would you ever consider including learners (students) in the change being proposed? 🫠 Omiting learners from the process tells me all I need to know. Luckily my kids are done with that system now.

Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Ensihtification USA Edition: Ring doorbell, rings the doorbell on your phone as a push notification. No more pesky doorbell sounds in the house. Family member leaves to go to the store & asks you to wait for their package. Doesn't help that it rings their phone. 😆 What problem are we solving again!?

When I can swing it, I try to work 4-day weeks in my consulting work. It is a MUCH better pace of life. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/i...

An interesting counterpoint to "Globalization wasn't good for the USA" - www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalizat...

Yesterday I went and became a kiwi citizen with my whānau. Here is a beautiful picture of Aotearoa from space (MODIS Terra from Mar-30) to celebrate. Can't wait to lean into this new phase of life here.

"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’" pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/m...

📖 Check out OrgMycology's latest shared resource! We've been doing a lot of work with academics who seek to deepen their collaborations with industry. Would love to hear feedback from both side here, did we hit the mark, what areas did we miss? orgmycology.com/10-simple-ru...

A few thinking prompts about the below 10-simple rules: What are some ways you lead groups you don't have formal authority over? How do you nudge, cajole, encourage, direct, and get people excited about the work? Do you find this kind of thing comes naturaly for you, or takes intention & focus?

🧵 10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority A resource to use when you're leading and growing teams you don't have formal authority over. Full resoruce at: eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... y también en Español eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1...

It never gets old looking at Aotearoa from space!

#Testing Code: Catch bugs before they catch you Nobody likes broken code. 🐛 But how do you know your code works? In this session, we’ll show you ways to test your code, manually and automatically, so you can avoid nasty surprises. 📅 Join the full workshop: coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-w...

I'm not the person to comment on this, but I would like to hear what people think of it. #Kiorangi

In convos with @richlitt.bsky.social we wondered about this idea of "Scientific Exile" for Americans in the NZ context. I conjecture (rather handwavingly) that it wouldn't work because contested funding is already too low here. What do y'all think? www.404media.co/nasa-yale-an...

Hey NZ - Get your Second Round of Science System Advisory Group comments in before April 4th. It may be shouting into the void, but shout into the void, PLEASE! ssag.org.nz/submit/#ques...

Enshitification is real. Trying to try a thing with a Google Family account. With various accounts in various countries, some started for minors (an official no no) and others part of old GSuite orgs, nobody can join. You can't have them as part of a "family" 🫠. WTF is a "family" Google!?

Morena Ōtepoti!

Mr 18 took a hockey ball to the face last night...we were worried about him getting back to his uni work after a few stitches... I'm not as worried anymore..."Been following along in class which is good...I take it back I have to use Matlab I’m not sure if I’m going to be okay" #opensourcekids

What do ✨glitter, 🍽️ dirty dishes and 💩bags of poop have in common? Have a look in Organizational Mycology's latest newsletter, The Spore orgmycology.com/spore-2025-0...

Have you always wanted a Mini MBA for Open Source and Open Science leadership skills? Check out our Foundations of Open Science Leadership program. We're in the Expression of Interest phase. Register your interest today! orgmycology.com/fosl-eoi/

🔬 Foundations of Open Science Leadership Express your interest now! That mini-MBA that never existed when your Open Source/Science project started. Find ways to support emerging leaders as they go to bring impact to the world. Please share with anyone who would benefit. orgmycology.com/fosl-eoi

How in the hell have I not heard of this before. "10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority: A resource for Open Source Leaders" eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... #eResearchNZ

🔬 Foundations of Open Science Leadership Express your interest now! That mini-MBA that never existed when your Open Source/Science project started. Find ways to support emerging leaders as they go to bring impact to the world. Please share with anyone who would benefit.

Not The Onion 😆 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

PSA, muting the orange man's name will make your feed a calm bastion of creativity and intersting non-political posts. Add it in - Settings -> Moderation -> Muted Words & Tags

Second commission – a zoomed-in version of Welly for the same school. 66 more hours of print time, almost 1.5kg of filament ~600x600mm We can't wait to see how they'll use it in teaching.

Hey kiwi friends. Do you call the document which describes a university course, its requirements and how grades will be determined a “syllabus” or something else?

70hours of print time later, our special-order / commission for a Wellington high school is complete. 9 individual tiles that will be mounted by the customer. About 0.6x0.5m #3DPrinting #LidarData #LINZ

More great news for NZ's broadband connectivity. itp.nz/techblog/pla...