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"New research by University of Auckland PhD candidate Diana Borse found that more gardens translated into more weeds." Excited to see Diana's research in the media. She submitted her thesis 2 weeks ago! More to come on this! @dianaborse.bsky.social 🧪🌏🌐

“We’ve seen the damage and distress these people inflict on our communities and we’re not having it,” Manawatū Area Commander Inspector Matenga Gray said. “It allowed us to successfully interrupt multiple gatherings and remind participants they’re not welcome here.” The "not having it":

Congrats! I think the next step for using this metric to understand the impacts of #bioinvasions would be to develop 'dose-response' curves that relate invader biomass to changes in (e.g.) native populations, species richness, & ecosystem function.

One of our volunteers just sent this through. Tirauriki/dwarf mistletoe (Korthalsella salicornioides) that we seeded about a month ago looking healthy and starting to root into the host kānuka. This is a brand new insurance site so fingers crossed it continues to establish. 🌏

Bank economist says extra $2800 cost per household this year, assuming impact of oil war is over by September.

Sooooooo, like USA then? "They have even handed guns to children," reads the chilling message from Iran that has just popped up on my phone. She's just confirmed what multiple human rights organisations have reported - Iran's regime is now recruiting child soldiers." www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Because I am cool dude and absolutely not a nerd I am spending my Saturday evening trying to differentiate Bolboschoenus nuts.

It feels as if we are at a focal point in time In this case, the end of the American Empire & the rise of ?? It seems to be happening too quickly for such a major change in the World, but perhaps no faster than demise of the British Empire & the Soviet Union

Four years ago today, and June Brown’s obituary gets very dark very quickly.

Caught a tui having a bath in Waikanae River

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... No one else could possibly be a working person. Not the carers, not the stay at home parents, not the job seekers, not the disabled people, not the recently unemployed, not the students, not the ones with no children... #NzPol #Cartoon

I’m not sure whether it’s the current moment or the general fact of an empty, uncaring universe, but the so much of the latest issue of @theonion.com is hitting me right. You deserve more subscribers than the Washington Post, @bencollins.bsky.social.

people may have noticed that @vsrikrish.bsky.social and I worked ourselves into a real tizzy last month over something called "RCP 8.5." Thank you to @progressivereform.bsky.social for giving us space and words to explain why! TLDR: RCP8.5 is totally useful and not deceptive or misleading actually

“Our Councils would today be facing an extra bill of about $50,000 a month or $600,000 a year if we had decided to stick with diesel buses”. The service has no risk from fuel shortages, is reducing the region’s emissions, PM10 + nitrous oxide + is also quieter. www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK26...

Schools being asked how many staff are walking distance from school + if nearby schools can car pool to a central spot and walk. Tell me you're never left your Ivory tower without telling me 🤦 #NZPol

Fleshy tree orchid (Drymoanthus adversus). 🌏 One of the few plant species doing better in Wellington Region than it is nationally.

My annual holy Easter video of a tūī filling his face with feijoas

NZ invested heavily in infra before selling it off and these companies gave $10bn+ in dividends whilst investing the bare minimum.. Sigh

The environment would like a word.

After 4yr of hard work to compare empirical species range positions' shifts from the #BioShifts DB against predictions from niche-based models trained on climate & tailored to methodological attributes of each species & study, we found species shift ahead of models' predictions! 🦋 shorturl.at/vOmCw

An entire industry written article that never mentions how most of the profits over the last 30 years went to shareholders, rather than being invested back into the network. Like water infrastructure, this is a self-made problem. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/01/y...

The sustained rate of change as the space between the recent individual weeks' dots is a testament to the size of the clusterfuck and our vulnerability to it.

Cities grow and evolve, as they should. It's crazy to expect that land use decisions get made decades or generations before and that current citizens can't decide on how they want to best utulise public spaces.

Fancy a permanent lectureship in ecology at a great little uni in Aotearoa New Zealand? We have TWO roles available as part of our Joint Institute programme with Huazhong Agriculture University in Wuhan, China; 16 weeks teaching there, the rest at LU. careers.lincoln.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

There's a lot of doom and gloom in the world, but positive environmental stories abound. You just have to look for them. Here’s a beautiful story of the chestnut mining bee being discovered in New York after a gap of 119 years. Amazing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s NZ Parliamentary Environment Commissioner & ex- National minister trying to warn the NZ govt their idea of merging environment with urban spatial planning is a disaster for rural communities & environment - I could not agree more - disestablishing Environment is terrible youtu.be/OMv6-kZTuGs

110,000 more bus trips than Wellingtonians took in March 2025. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

I love stories like this. Just pure career insanity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I maintain that "This chatbot can make mistakes; check outputs before using" = "please recycle this container and keep our environment clean"

Ballbag ACT MP upset the Government is passing laws with truncated select committees and not following due process. Remind you of anything?

📣New article by MIZ PAS scientists @martamaziarz.bsky.social, @trigos-peral.bsky.social & M. Witek shows a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community in bird nests on forest floor. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/bdhcsv9d 💰@ncn.gov.pl @respublications.bsky.social #ornithology #Bialowieza #Forest

Articles on HPAI are always welcome but unfortunately the headline question isn't quite answered. The answer is: not very prepared. We are doing what we can at a local level but MPI seems completely under-resourced, largely leaving us as non-biosecurity experts to figure it out for ourselves.

I really hope this can work www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Ecological research needs more "baseline" studies (if we can call them that now climate change is already well-underway). These will be seen as not having "enduring public value". Add this to the proposed cut to environmental research and it's game over for conservation and biodiversity. 😢

Excluded domains in the Environmental Sustainability and Resilience Pillar include "Ecological research with limited national relevance, eg investigations into environmental phenomena (such as natural sounds or processes) that do not deliver enduring public value for New Zealand." Absolute nonsense!

This report is terrible for the environment. NZ massively under-monitors environmental change and this is an issue in a changing climate because we will miss impacts of climate and other global change processes until it's too late to do anything about them. www.mbie.govt.nz/assets/repor...

Worth a read www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...

it's difficult to overstate how dramatically the scientific climate has changed in new zealand in the last 3-4 years I've previously referred publicly to our science policy as 'batshit' and to our prime minister as 'an idiot' for overseeing it this report is solid evidence for that word choice

Listen to experts

Nice article on the current challenges of peer review. Hope some brilliant minds figure out a way forward that preserves critical scientific judgement. 🧪

🚨 New on Salvo 🚨 Ecologist's harsh Chilean black metal is a tribute to the melting glaciers of Patagonia. "Many black metal bands talk about nature but very few about its disappearance..." Read our interview here: salvo.ghost.io/chile-ecolog...

One odd thing that's happened as a result of the dawn of the internet monoculture age is that the nostalgia we are served is specifically from an American POV, and does not gel with the memories non-Americans actually have. But if you're too young to remember, you may not realise this is the case.

A real difference you can make in your community is to check if your local Council is an accredited living wage employer. If not, lobby your Councillors. www.livingwage.org.nz/accredited_e...

the first report on Australia's teen social media ban is a red flashing light: - 7/10~ parents with kids on social media pre-ban say they're still on it - cyberbullying/image-based abuse reports are unchanged - using facial scans on youngest users deemed a "poor practice" www.crikey.com.au/20...

An overview of how governments around the world are responding to the largest supply disruption in history. New Zealand's entry is mostly blank, but at least it doesn't feel like the Covid response right? 🙄 #iran #nzpol www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand. #NZpol