much obliged and glad you enjoyed it, thank you Martin!

I'm hosting a small, lush reading & writing retreat at Maruia River Resort in Tasman in late Jan, and earlybird pricing closes on Dec 20! Sign up now if you'd like to join me for four days of books, forests, food, & yoga www.maruia.co.nz/events/readi...

The brilliant @naomijarnold has done the most amazing thing, written a book about walking a giant freaking extreme trail that is somehow relatable to me, a couch potato who exercises indoors. Her Northbound audio book is an antidote to Auckland. Recommend, whenever you find yourself in traffic

Big thanks to @naomiarnold.bsky.social for this nice review of The Covid Response in @nzgeo.bsky.social

thanks Clint :) and I'm happy to inscribe a message for gifts too, if you let Volume know.

They found a way to litter from space

A day late but this is a timely reminder any day

I am really looking forward to the release of FEIJOA! I happen to have read it and I think everyone will adore it.

Are those Stockton Powelliphanta still in the fridges? The ones that didn't freeze?

Amazing 2011 linocut by Torres Strait Islander Alick Tipoti in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Absolutely extraordinary technical accomplishment, probably the largest single-block linocut print in the world.

preach @estelleserasmus.bsky.social

a beautiful story on kakī, the black stilt, by Rebekah White in New Zealand Geographic in 2015. When she wrote this there were 143 kakī left in the world. DOC thinks there are now about 156.

Once upon a time, raucous, stinking colonies of seabirds blanketed huge areas of NZ's mainland, each burrow & poo & eggshell helping fuel the forests. Those birds are gone now—but a new modelling tool gives a fascinating glimpse of what once was. www.nzgeo.com/stories/wher...

So what I'm hearing is that at some point it was raining glass in Antarctica which is so fucking metal I'm never going to get over this

VUW PhD student Stephen Piva just published this really cool paper where he finds shards from the 230 AD Taupō eruption all the way in Antarctica! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Obsessed, reeling over this: Victoria University and other scientists have used volcanic glass shards BURIED 279M DOWN IN ANTARCTIC ICE A MERE 5000KM AWAY FROM THE VOLCANO to date the Taupō eruption to, oh, about LATE SUMMER/AUTUMN IN THE YEAR 232 www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2023/10...

Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to do about it? www.newsroom.co.nz/the-invisibl...

There it is! “Since users who were unable to build audiences before paying for verification are almost definitionally ones who have less interesting things to say, the conversation on X eroded quickly.“ wapo.st/46julPW (gift link)

BREAKING: Six new marine reserves in Otago look set to go ahead at last! www.rnz.co.nz/news/electio... To understand why these negotiations took so long, and why marine protection can be so fraught, check out my June NZ Geographic cover feature: www.nzgeo.com/stories/taki...

I remember this smell 🤢 but I had no idea it was so toxic. Great story @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social. Shocking that the community is exposed like this www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/i...

and the Maggie Barry Weed it shall henceforth be known

Oh, it's so sad to see Jason Wynyard has died. I reported on woodchopping once for NZ Geographic and he was a God among axemen. www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-...

I remember our newspaper’s GM calling the journalists “content creators” in a meeting once. That went well. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/m...

"NIWA marine physicist Dr Natalie Robinson says that in the 44 years of monitoring the ocean, they've never seen anything like this."

Richie Poulton, director of the world-acclaimed #DunedinStudy, has died. I visited earlier this year to talk to him about the study's latest findings; his work was dedicated to research on how childhood experiences shape us in adulthood theconversation.com/vaccine-resi...

This is a huge loss. Deep science with enormous impact. One of our best.

things feel crap so this good bookworld news is heartening: - 2022 saw local fiction sales improve - 2023 looks like "the annus mirabilis of NZ fiction” - It's been an exceptional year for debut novels! - NZ general fiction is up "a phenomenal 130 percent" in value www.newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/...

Emergency summit | Antarctic Sea Ice and Climate Change Public panel discussion: events.humanitix.com/panel-discus... Tuesday 3 October, 6-9pm Wellington New Zealand time.

Just a few days left to apply for the UC Ursula Bethell residency in creative writing for 2024. Full time, $78K pro-rated for 2x 6 month residencies. Come hang out at UC and talk to me (or not) in the tea room. CV + resume + detailed proposal required; see below. Pls share!

Pharmac widening use of Paxlovid from October 1st. Still restricted access, not "for all". #NZ #COVID19 pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-res...

Some more recent works. Nikon Z7ii Routeburn Otago Peninsula St Bathans Ruataniwha / Mckenzie Country