What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter? This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... on the cover of the Dec issue of TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social led by @aisrayne.bsky.social 🙏 to Kevin Parker for the 📷

The Molecular Ecology Resources special issue I helped edit is (finally) out! 𝙨𝙠𝙪́𝙠𝙪𝙢 𝙩𝙞́𝙡𝙞𝙭𝙖𝙢: 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Read More: buff.ly/4j3lkkW

Need a little fun as we near Christmas? Here's something for you! We had a heap of fun writing about place names and kākā - cheeky #NZ parrots - and it's out. The work evolved over 2 summers, led by (then) undergraduate student Fin Johnson (on the right). 1/n (Kaka photo copyright Oscar Thomas).

Just so we're clear, aside from the social sciences and humanities, this description excludes: - agricultural, vetinary, and food sciences - earth sciences - environmental sciences - information and computing sciences - ALL non-biomedical biological sciences

Initial analysis of the impact on Marsden Fund changes on success rates for Māori researchers, with a link through to modelled data based on the 2024 funding round here: www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...

The suppression of Palestinian voices in Aotearoa's media began long before October 7. Before all this began, I wrote a series of stories and conversations for The Lovepost's human rights: www.thelovepost.global Including this: www.thelovepost.global/rooted-right...

💯 nails it, this article on managerialism in universities. So many 'ouch, very close to home' lines. And agree, "It tears the heart out of the work of academics" www.thepost.co.nz/a/nz-news/35... (vary browser if you hit the firewall)

Today’s the day Ms. Information gets its NZ cinema release! Lots of lovely reviews and interviews appearing. Love this one by Ensemble. www.ensemblemagazine.co.nz/articles/sio...