📣 There’s just one day left to register for #AF2025 using the early-bird discount! You can register to attend Adaptation Futures 2025 online or in person at a reduced price until 15 July.

The Royal Society Te Apārangi has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister about the importance of social sciences and humanities, following changes to the Marsden Fund terms that explicitly exclude research areas in the social sciences and humanities: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/open-le...

The Society learned of new directives for the Marsden Fund, which will delay the 2025 funding round. Read the response from our President here www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/respons... Read further information on the Marsden Fund webpage here www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Applications are now open for the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes 2024. Find out more about the criteria and apply at the link here 👉 www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/new-new...

The latest Prime Minister's Science Prize winners were announced at a ceremony at Parliament on Wednesday 🏆Find out about the winners here bit.ly/PMSciPrize 📸Rebecca McMillan

Twenty-two new Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows and Ngā Ahurei Honore a Te Apārangi Honorary Fellows have been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Find out more about our new Fellows on our website 👉 www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/latest-...

Our new Data Sovereignty report gives an overview of the concepts of data sovereignty, Indigenous data sovereignty, and Māori data sovereignty. These concepts are helping guide answers to complex questions about who owns, controls, and protects our data. bit.ly/3RKUpyC 💻💽

Ngā Puanga Pūtaiao Fellowships have been awarded to 18 early-career and 3 mid-career scientific (Pūtaiao) researchers. The fellowship will help to strengthen a diverse STEM workforce by investing in talented Māori and Pacific researchers. bit.ly/3NsfVFW

This week NIWA Auckland is hosting an Early Career Science night. This is for anyone working in public sector science as early career researchers in or around Auckland. Come and listen to three short talks and mingle after. www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/early-care...

Dr Owen Catchpole FRSNZ, was awarded the Scott Medal for being a world leader in the development of processes to extract high-value bioactive chemicals from biological materials using ‘supercritical’ solvents.

Professor @nick-golledge.bsky.social was awarded the Hutton Medal for his cutting-edge contributions to modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet, and research on climate change, including his role as a Lead Author for the most recent Assessment Report from the IPCC.

Dr Mike Joy was awarded the Callaghan Medal for his research on the decline of freshwater ecosystems, the quality of drinking water, and sustainable management of our freshwater ecosystems and food production, and communicating science to inform public opinion.

Professor Geoffrey Waterhouse was awarded the MacDiarmid Medal for discovering low-cost nanocatalysts critical to global decarbonisation efforts and the establishment of robust energy infrastructures based around renewables.

Distinguished Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) CNZM FRSNZ was awarded the Rutherford Medal last Thursday for her role in advancing education and research for her pioneering contribution to transforming research for Indigenous Peoples globally.

This World AMR Awareness Week, Royal Society Te Apārangi spoke with experts Professor Jack Heinemann and Dr Sophie van Hamelsveld about antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and what work is being done in Aotearoa New Zealand to understand it better. Find out more at bit.ly/3SLAqRp 🦠💊

Royal Society Te Apārangi selected Dr Vineet Shah, of Callaghan Innovation, for the Cooper Award— the Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Applied Sciences and Engineering— for transforming concrete waste into a sustainable low-carbon additive for cement.

Professor Niels Kjærgaard, was awarded the Hector Medal for his contribution to the advancement of scientific understanding of fundamental particles, through experimental studies of atomic collisions and light-scattering using ultracold gases. His award was accepted on his behalf by his students.

Dr Vincent O'Malley was awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal for his contribution to the research, knowledge, and public understanding of New Zealand history, particularly of the New Zealand Wars and Māori-Pākehā relations throughout the nineteenth century.

An AgResearch team was awarded the Pickering Medal for breeding sheep which emit less methane, and for determining the potential reduction of methane emissions if these sheep can be farmed throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.

Four medals and awards were presented in Ōtautahi Christchurch last Wednesday evening by Royal Society Te Apārangi to recognise researchers in New Zealand who have achieved excellence in scholarship, innovation or who have made significant contributions to Aotearoa through their research and career.

  Prof. Ewan Fordyce FRSNZ, our visionary Senior Editor (2016-2021), transformed JRSNZ. Under his leadership, the journal evolved into a multidisciplinary title uniting diverse research realms across NZ. Ewan's legacy echoes on every page. Grateful for his impact on JRSNZ and the research community.

Congratulations to Debashree and Tejesvi who proudly presented their pitches on the global stage at the Falling Walls Lab Science Summit in Berlin. Watch them pitch their breakthroughs at falling-walls.com/.../livestre... Debashree gives her pitch at 1:08:22 and Tejesvi gives his at 3:20:02.

Dr Hinekura Smith (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Ati Awa), Unitec | Te Pūkenga, has been awarded the Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for her PhD research titled ‘Whatuora: Whatu kākahu and living as Māori women’. Her whānau accepted the award on her behalf.

Dr Maria Armoudian, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences for research, leadership, and mentoring to advance the interconnected goals of sustainability, human rights, and good governance.

Professor Stephen May FRSNZ, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Mason Durie Medal for his work on language rights and revitalisation, spanning the disciplines of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology, political theory, law, and education.

Professor Regan Potangaroa (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, has been awarded the Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award after devoting his career as an engineer and architect to humanitarian deployments, emergency response efforts, and marae restorations.

Professor Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for transformative leadership for the research, science and innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ towards equity for women in science.

Five medals and awards were presented in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland yesterday evening by Royal Society Te Apārangi to recognise researchers in New Zealand who have achieved excellence in scholarship, innovation or who have made a significant contribution to Aotearoa through their research and career.

Dr Peter Gibson and Dr Luke Harrington at the University of Waikato have both been awarded #MarsdenFund grants to better understand and predict extreme weather events in #Aotearoa - read about this amazing mahi here: #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Mahi tika ana! Dr Jules Devaux @aucklanduni.bsky.social will solve the paradox of how #bumblebees power the rapid wing movement required for flight, in new #MarsdenFund research 🐝💪✈️ #MuscleResearch #Mitochondria #PowerhouseOfTheCell www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Check out some highlights from 2023 - some of the cool projects funded this year www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Funded proposals in the 2023 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data... www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Congratulations to all 2023 Marsden grant recipients - ka rawe! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Congratulations to Emma Nolan, Emma Sharp and Kelly Burrowes, who have been awarded prestigious fellowships by the @royalsocietynz.bsky.social, recognising their excellence and the importance of their areas of research. Read more at: bit.ly/3Mmu2MB