Women, we need to work harder to get noticed for ruining science.

It’s ok, I found the bug

Says something about the intelligence of the humans they spend most of their time with?

My favorite comment on the FT story

phrenology schmenology

The anti-EV folk are mildly unhinged and I, honestly, can't figure out why

LOVE when the code that worked yesterday doesn’t work today and I wanted to put the new results in a conference talk for Tuesday

Fuck yes

oh my GOD

I ruined this workplace and I’d do it again

We did ruin it tho. For some asshats. Like the one who wrote the headline. And I’m fine with that actually.

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

He would've taxed you less than that, get rekt morons

Meanwhile in Aotearoa, our government keeps pouring money into fossil fuels

Gov having to pay poor Michelin to come down under while cutting food banks is totally on message . #nzpol

For #30DayMapChallenge day 5: Earth, I wasn't particularly motivated until I remembered that one guy in Auckland (AoNZ will understand what I mean) so learned to process geojson- Earthquakes (+) over 3.5 Magnitude, south of -38.8 and where and how strongly they were felt. #rstats code in alt text

That was so gentle here that at first I thought I was hallucinating and then I thought the dog was dreaming but then it showed up on GeoNet

Yikes, what a screen grab

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

It’s important to note that he was the person responsible for protective security during the time period many many people from the PM to me were receiving regular death and rape threats. The past is making more sense to me now.

I am SO unbelievably excited about my strawberries

Love to see it

If I had to have the misfortune of seeing this

Biosecurity lays over 100 yellow-legged hornets traps, genetically tests captured insects

so far I've heard nothing from the government or my own uni about the devastating cuts to science in New Zealand I have however had an RSNZ rep tell me the Marsden team's vibe is "cool somebody finally said it out loud", and the science spokesperson for Labour, a chch MP, is visiting my lab #nzpol

How many exasperated parents called you, Seymour? "The social media post was as ACT Party Leader. The ACT Party, as a political party funded by the Parliamentary Service, is not subject to the Official Information Act, therefore your request is declined." #nzpol #SeymourTrickery

A lot of chemists also offer the MMR vaccine and can check your records

dick cheney carefully dying when the news cycle is PACKED in hopes that maybe he can avoid hell by way of nobody noticing he’s dead

One of the answers at pub quiz tonight was Steven Joyce, and when the answers were being read out, someone preempted the quiz master and very grumpily yelled out “yeah it was Steve fucking joyce” And there I was contemplating just writing down Dildo Baggins instead

Geez this government is a death cult aye, they are taking 20% of Water Safety NZ’s funding from next year because they weren’t sure if it actually made a difference to drowning statistics. It’s $1.1 million of funding, there needs to be more funding not less.

Sometimes you gotta treat yourself

Because I’m in a shitty mood about my court hearing for my car not being this month but MAYBE MARCH NEXT YEAR, I’d like to haunt the people who sold me this unreliable shitheap and won’t give me a refund

Hey anyone at #mpi or #biosecuritynz. We do wasp genomics. I reckon I could tell you in about 24 hours if these invasive yellow legged #hornets you have found in Auckland are sisters, or a larger invasion. For free. Hit me up now!

Same, computer, same

Love to be woken up by the dog gagging rather than my usual alarm

My pervert glasses have people asking a lot of questions already answered by my pervert glasses

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

I’m going to be donating this week because (not that a consumer guarantees situation is comparable in almost any way to this) my experience with my car has also really given first hand experience in how inaccessible and unaffordable justice is

Why the fuck would we not just do this. There’s zero chance of him ever becoming King of New Zealand, but significant symbolic value in telling him to fuck off, we don’t want pedos anywhere near our governance. It’s such an easy win #nzpol

My girlfriend kept on asking me to go spelunking with her so eventually I caved.

INCONCEIVABLE

Honestly the Firefighters Union should just publish a list of all primary for appliance with registration date and current odometer reading. That would probably make the point pretty clearly.

Surprisingly, if you train algorithms on biased data, you get biased outputs I bet no one saw that coming

Omg it’s almost tiiiimmmmee

Imagine remembering Wilkinson’s contributions to solving the structure of DNA BUT NOT MENTIONING FRANKLIN (Also not to mention the cuts to science funding under this government)

Me: hmmm it’s been over 6 weeks since my surgeon asked ACC for funding I wonder what’s happening ACC: yeah it can take 6-8 weeks Me: thanks, no one gave me a timeline before ACC: yeah you should ask after 4-8 weeks Me: yes I just did ACC: yeah it can can 6-12 weeks

He entitled to it

Spaaaaacccee Very cool thread tho

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪