Dionne is having NONE of it.

Update: package has arrived! #TrashPandaGang cc: @pepperraccoon.com 😍

That means your favorite hiking trails, campsites, and wild places could be sold off to the highest bidder. Tell your Senators to REMOVE this dangerous provision!

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would: - Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale - Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

"Here are three words I'd like you to say today because I think they illustrate a lot about what's been going on for a while. Just repeat after me even if you don't believe it you might by the time this is done: #1 defund #2 destabilize #3 privatize ... because that's what we're seeing." #nzpol

if you are protesting now or in the future be safe and remember: • do not announce you're attending online • do not sign any online RSVP • wear a mask • wear clothes that don't draw attention • leave your phone at home • bring bottled water • do not speak to cops • do not post photos after

“A small exhibition in Palmerston North remembers a big leader — Mina McKenzie, the first Māori woman to become a museum director.” “Keeping the taonga warm”

OMG what a fabulous gift! A hand crocheted Large Black pig 😍😍😍 Love it ❤️❤️. Thanks Santa and #MWSecretSantaAoNZ - still a highlight of the year 🎄🎅

* we didn't turn on her, the media gave voice to the most insane misogynist fringes of society *

1 more sleep to go 😍😍😍 Opening day 🎄🎄🎄🎄

OK UPDATE this fucker is screaming across the solar system it's arriving EARLY 2am tomorrow morning New Zealand time! That green dot is NZ, what normally hits is dark orange red, it's so BIG it's white & grey THIS IS GOING TO BE MASSIVE ALL New Zealand, most probably Northland too! #CME #Aurora

We're asking the tough questions this week!

Noooo Pukaha is in serious trouble. Anyone know any wealthy benefactors?

Pukaha is in dire need of help, they are a vital component of our nations conservation efforts and without them whole ecosystems are at risk! Spread the word! pukaha.org.nz

OH MY GOD, YOU ALL. I have to tell you what just happened. I AM DANCING ON A CLOUD RIGHT NOW. 1/

Petition to fund wastewater testing to get updates more frequently - wastewater definitely didn’t look like this when I checked a few days ago 🫠 Covid demonstrably impacts health - test, mask, boost, stay home if + … and write to your MP about clean air, free tests, and an actual health response.

Excellent, epic review of HPAI H5N1! 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can we predict which animals will be impacted by HPAI in Australia? Using case notifications from elsewhere, and host phylogeny, predictve model developed. Waterfowl, gulls, Gannets, Raptors have highest predicted notifications. 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Can ring/band recoveries be an indicator of HPAI impacts? Excessive ring recoveries detected in 14 species: one raptor, eight seabirds and five waterbirds. Striking increases in seabirds = aligning with HPAI monitoring 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Species distribution models for 40 wild birds camera-trapped at poultry farms, and linked to HPAI outbreak occurence: Herons/egrets, pheasant, moorhens most important. Ducks, gulls less so, but still there. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Questionaire for people in contact with birds, UK: ~50% poultry farmers. Handwashing, foot dips often used. More contact = more PPE used. Percieved risk pretty high. 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pigs productively infected w bovine HPAI, w either subclinical or mild disease, seroconversion. Replication in respiratory tissues = shedding from upper respiratory tract mucosae. Limited transmission to naïve contact cage mates in some cases. 👉 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

The HPAI H7 genome which caused NZ's FIRST EVER HPAI outbreak has been released. 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Yakutia: largest breeding ground for migratory birds in Northeastern Siberia. From 2018-23, 1970 cloacal swab samples collected from 56 bird species: 74 AIVs, H3N6, H3N8, H4N6, H5N3, H7N7, H10N3, H11N9 from ducks 👉 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...

Robust surveillance systems to detect emerging strains of HPAI critical. Global Virus Network calls for urgent, proactive measures to prevent widespread outbreaks, leveraging lessons learned from prior pandemics 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Webinar tomorrow night 🔹 Dr Tiggy Grillo (Wildlife Health Australia) 🔹 Dr Michelle Wille (WHOCCRI) 🔹 Wouter Langhout (BirdLife Europe and Central Asia) 📅 7 May 2025 | 🕘 09:00 GMT | 19:00 AEST 👉 Register here: lnkd.in/eVfWcbq3

Avian influenza could be a risk to human travellers, indeed Australia's only human case of HPAI H5N1 was a travel associated case. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great new tool available for Australia - AviFluMap. It brings together migratory bird migrations routes, where they are found in Australia, and overlays species risk and HPAI data. 👉 hpairisk.deakin.edu.au

With an updated link www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...

Health minister Simeon Brown thinks outsourcing public health services to the private sector will fix NZ’s ailing health sector, but it will break it even further This message from high-ranking doctors, economists & health policy experts in two separate editorials published in the NZMJ #NZPol

Today off my back deck #ArborDay

I love chocolate and coffee but totally love handmade art and/or crafts so please don’t feel like you need to spend any money! I spend most of my time (and money) on all my animals…which are numerous…🤣🤣🤣 so that is my main hobby I would say - gardening is my second 😊

Am looking for a highly motivated #PhD candidate to design innovative epidemiological surveillance strategies for avian #influenza in a #vaccination context, with field activities in Morocco. Interface between #virology and quantitative #epidemiology Apply by 30 April 2025 👉 lnkd.in/e8SXWA3U

Trump has ordered the US government to move forward with plans to mine the ocean floor an area nearly every other country considers off-limits to industrial exploitation. His executive order sidesteps a decades-old international treaty ratified by every major coastal nation except the United States.

The other biggest thing about me is my husband Jeremy and I used to run Longbush Free Range Pork and we have a lifelong love of all thing pig 🥰🥰🐷🐽🐖

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

The Week of Action continues! 🐺 Speak up for wolves ➡️ www.teamwolf.org/Congressiona...

Another thing about me is that myself and a friend run Feathers and Fur NZ which imports (into NZ) specialty diets for zoo animals and wildlife - happy to see the Wombaroo Kangaroo pellets get the seal of approval by these guys 🥰🥰🥰🥰

In China, across markets, birds, humans: 32.6% for avian influenza, where 7% H5. LBMs and slaughterhouses highest prev. No avian influenza in human surveillance. 👉 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

A prime-boost vaccination trial using 5 commercial vaccines, including H5 subunit, vector, RNA, whole inactivated in fattening geese. Some vaccines req 1 vs 2 doses, but all geese that seroconverted were protected from challenge (but still some shedding) 👉 www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/13...

Do current influenza rapid tests work for H5 (in humans)? All were able to detect bovine H5N1, with ranging sensitivities. 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

My current hobby is studying Manadarin Chinese and as my handwriting is TERRIBLE, writing characters is kind of penance I am sure 😫 - but I love it though - I just finished HSK3 and can pickup maybe 15% of words now when I watch my C-dramas 😍 #仙侠 #武侠

Hello everyone for the Secret Santa I need to post a little bit about myself - so currently just making the most of the holidays to relax a bit which is something I am not very good at TBH (I have some great inspiration around me though 🙄) #Wairarapa

(1/2) Horrible news - The govt reported that they mistakenly killed the collared + presumed pregnant breeding female of the Bear Canyon Mexican gray wolf pack in AZ. She was killed pursuant to a removal order issued by USFWS for an uncollared wolf from the pack. How could an error like this occur?

Trump signed multiple executive orders today targeting environmental protections. One order removes safeguards for a vast marine sanctuary in the south-central Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument had

The SENTINEL Wild Birds project, funded by us, aims to enhance understanding of #HPAI virus dynamics in wild birds across Europe and migration routes. This major initiative enhances data sharing and disease prevention through active surveillance. More → bit.ly/43Strf6 @efsa-animals.bsky.social

The Act prohibits actions that “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” endangered species. Right now, “harm” includes damage to a species’ habitat—but the Trump administration is attempting to strip habitat destruction from that definition.

Such a useful paper demonstrating how to do influenza diagnostics. Very relevant for all those setting up HPAI screening in Antarctica, or new to the field. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Someone please get me a sheet of these 🥺

Modelling of HPAI in henhouses at different transmission (Ro) with implementation of vaccination. Vaxx keeps mortality low, importance of maternal antibodies. But, if highly transmissible, mortality will increase despite vaccination. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...