And people wonder why NZ’s R&D spend is way lower than the rest of the OECD & our productivity is in the toilet. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This looks exciting!

We have been speaking of these things for years, but now the scale is vast and the speed is grave. Thank you @drtomharris.bsky.social

Hey peeps! I need to redo my lab & personal website and am looking for inspiration. Got any examples you really like? Cheers!

At the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in Wellington #NZ and its sizzling. Matua Tom Roa and Rodrigo Hill decolonising the stage 🧪@tepunahamatatini.bsky.social

At the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in Wellington #NZ and its sizzling. Matua Tom Roa and Rodrigo Hill decolonising the stage 🧪@tepunahamatatini.bsky.social

Not that I can read the article, but it looks promising. It’s pretty damn hard to find time to think and write. So many emails, so many reporting requests. Universities need adequate funding to support excellent research by staff and students alike.

@christophersmith.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social We have a draft agenda! Please share. Thank you 😃

Analysis: A serious approach to climate adaptation requires reckoning with the grim reality the future holds: more storms, more floods, more heat.

theconversation.com/more-women-a... Large pay gap disparities persist for academic women in #NZ. No surprise really. Does your uni have a 10 year strategic plan to address this? Also clear gaps for Pacific staff at universities where I have seen the data.

🚨 we're looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial board! 🐜 join some of the world's best animal ecologists and get the chance to handle exceptional submissions to our journal 📝 deadline is 8 March - more information can be found below: buff.ly/MzIXj6U

“New Zealand hopeful it’s not surrounded by ocean.” Good luck Port Waikato. We’re in this together. Or at least we would be, if the current government demonstrated any leadership. #nzpol

Here for it.

This looks fabulous. Wish I was in London for this one.

We welcome the new @ipbes.net Business & Biodiversity Assessment. Science-based evidence is essential to inform policy under the #KMGBF. The message is clear: biodiversity is central to business viability. 🔗 ipbes.canto.de/v/IPBES12Med... #BizBiodiversity #ForNature #UNBiodiversity

Nominations are now open for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual environmental prize. 👉

“Preventing runaway global warming is the single most important task in human history and it’s fallen to us”. Share this video with your family and friends. Resist the bullshit of governments and corporations who invest in short term economic gain.

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

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

A beautiful poem. Thanks Shelley.

Well, there goes my psychic pine tree business. Thanks a lot, science.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dr Katherine Davey, conducts new research @manmetuni.bsky.social offering the first national picture of how inequalities emerge for academically successful working-class women. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/kdavey

The Epstein files should have major consequences about how and who academia decides to promote and celebrate as Great Thinkers. But like everyone else, we'll forget that bit of the historical pattern and go on as before.

Our universities could be doing so much more to support education and research among students and scholars in Gaza, in the context of scholastics and genocide asiapacificreport.nz/2026/01/27/i...

This is relevant to some recent conversations! @mluczak.bsky.social @jdtonkin.bsky.social

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris) academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606

Gender blindness. What’s that? Something on Australia’s Honours system that highlights women’s overlooked leadership. Very applicable to academia - citations, awards, recognition. www.communitydirectors.com.au/articles/aus...

The forestry sector needs major changes. It's not fit for a changing climate. #NZPol

Very happy to have had the opportunity to contribute to this work. Thanks to Robin Thompson for leading, the amazing team of co-authors and the INI for hosting us.

🙏 Thank you, British Ecological Society, for this recognition. It means a lot coming from the oldest ecological society in the world! 🌍 Looking forward to what this cohort of fellows, the one before, and many more to come, will do to make the world a better place than it feels at this moment!

Fantastic to see this book longlisted for the Ockhams. We need more science and society - human, intelligible, evidence based - writing. Although I could do without the next pandemic.

Another tough day in the office. And it’s only day 3 back from the holidays.

'Okea ururoatia’: the role of Indigenous activism in the restoration and protection of nature Walker+ doi.org/10.1098/rstb... "ways that Māori self-determination movements have acted as a catalyst for increased environmental restoration across Aotearoa New Zealand"

i was cut off without power/internet/cell for a week during Gabrielle and it forced me to reckon with this. i put solar in (enormous privilege). but even yesterday i had to text neighbours to see if a key road was open. we need leaders who are ready to meet this challenge because it’s here now.

New work! Experimenting in transdisciplinary space 🧪

I want to talk about one of my previous PhD students and now collaborator, Erana Walker. Mostly to celebrate the release of a new paper out today 🧵🧪. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Wonderful 🧵 from my beloved home country. And a link to a super paper 🤩

I want to talk about one of my previous PhD students and now collaborator, Erana Walker. Mostly to celebrate the release of a new paper out today 🧵🧪. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

I’m rapt that @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social is bringing Carl’s science and voice on important issues to NZ 🧪. Join us at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in late February in Wellington, for a friendly and exciting discussion - when hopefully the weather will be settled.

Madhav Gadgil (1942-2026): People’s scientist frontline.thehindu.com/other/obitua... "Ecologist and public intellectual, he founded ecological studies in India and spent six decades insisting conservation must begin with communities"

#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

Honoured to have been elected as a Fellow of the @britishecologicalsociety.org alongside people I have admired for most of my career. Hoping to up the representation of wonderful female ecologists as well - so if you are one, or know any, definitely apply in the next round!

I joined the BES to find other open, curious folks working in ecology and conservation that I could learn from. I stayed for the decolonising approaches, support for ecology globally, and inclusivity. Rapt to be named as a new Fellow alongside some very inspiring people working for the planet.

Well that's a nice piece of news to brighten up a drab Monday in January. Thanks to @britishecologicalsociety.org, the oldest and best ecological society in the world.

Highly recommended call timorrow for climate people who need to breathe. Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A hidden but massive weakening of NZ climate policy is the shift from fuel excise to flat distance-based road-user charges. As Robert McLachlan points out here, it changes the effective carbon cost on petrol vehicles from $450/t to $50/t. That will have a huge impact on purchase decisions. 1/-

The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February

Check out Jonathan Galka's review of Stacy Alaimo's "The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life," published in 2025 by @uminnpress.bsky.social, review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #oceanhist #histsci www.h-net.org/reviews/show...