“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

My colleague Dr Anthea Lees will be running during the Run 72 event at UC this week to raise funds for mental health awareness. I've just made a donation, can you? run72.raiselysite.com/anthea-lees

An excelent piece by Dr Paul Hume, a @macdiarmidinsti.bsky.social colleague #solar Solar power cuts electricity bills and carbon emissions – NZ needs to scale up faster theconversation.com/solar-power-...

The Cato Institute hardly is a lefty organization. The liberal think tank shows that despite the narrative of Trump and co, political murders are NOT a lefty phenomenon. Such rhetoric only inflames societal unrest in the US and would be welcome news to the adversaries of the US.

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

Very poweful words from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Hopefully the first domino to fall of many!!

In London, hate will never win.

Because blossom makes everybody's day better! #cherryblossom #Ōtautahi

Some very valuable insights here #chemsky "I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities" | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Beautiful work from the @prestongroup.bsky.social team as usual! This is going straight to the.... CHEM300 course on supramol. #OzChem #chemsky

Things I can't see our current government achieving in Ao/NZ #NZpol www.positive.news/society/good...

Copy/paste onto #Ao/NZ #MarsdenFundcuts #NZPol

Copy/paste onto #Ao/NZ! Our government is buying into this lunacy too, led by questionable science that leads to inequitable outcomes and a worsening climate for all. @hannahdaly.ie nails it yet again. #NZpol #climatechange #nomoremethane www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Thank you Electric Pinic 💚🤍🧡 Our biggest ever gig....50,000 sound Fenians in a field 🔥 🎥 Dillon Ward

Want to improve #Māori hearing healthcare in Aotearoa & become a Kaimātai Ororongo/audiologist? We're offering 4 Māori scholarships for the Master of Audiology at UC, covering fees for the entire degree! Applications for 2026 close 1st Dec. Please share widely through your networks across the motu!

Thank you EP. 💚🤍🧡 Tiocfaidh ár lá. Free Palestine!

Sorry, he does what now? Team-mates indeed!

Little penguin population on Penguin Island near Perth almost wiped out 32% penguins killed by watercraft Y'know, dead dead Here's an idea🤔 It's a marine reserve: exclude motor boat entry >1km Soz, I know Western Australia only has tiny coastline🙄 Oh, & police it www.perthnow.com.au/news/little-...

I was reminded yesterday on the 35th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely passing and then spent last evening relistening to some of his classics. I especially love his instrumental version of Hendrix's 'Little wing' #Texasblues #SRV youtu.be/Rj_NUS9hwxA?...

Unforgivable inhumanity - Israel is immune from any consequences to their genocidal campaign.

Kneecap’s Mo Chara arrives in court on a terrorism charge over ‘displaying a Hezbollah flag’, @fraserknight.bsky.social reports.

Sally Rooney ❤️👏👏👏

This is awesome! I too am a huge Austen fan and will reread P&P with a different perspective next time. Great work @stemxicaned.bsky.social #chemsky

Let's not mince words, the cost of food is going up - This is why I have a beef with this government. Tax cuts were a mis-steak and we need to grill the government on them.🍖🍖

This is a fantastic story about Al Mennie, big wave surfer!

I’m continually horrified that this genocide is happening in plain sight, that we’re still effectively allied with the perpetrator, and we have become so immune that this headline is currently below “status yellow thunder warning” on the Irish Times homepage. And not even visible on NYT!

“German military preparing to relocate residents to Auschwitz”. Role of media in normalising a savage genocide is a stain that will never wash off.

Oh, great, now Scifinder has succumbed!? Will this improve an already brilliant search engine or enshitify it like Google search has done? Though I can rest easy because, "created and modelled by scientific experts"... #chemsky

Damn, The Boss is so cool! Come back to Ao/NZ soon!

Elect Chlöe prime minister already! 100% hard agree, and how spineless is Gerry!!?? #nzpol

Journalism has to choose between political neutrality & truth. If it wants to pursue truth, it's not going to be neutral, it's going to end up on the other side from reactionaries, over & over again. That's been the basic problem for decades now & at the very least we should frame it clearly.

The answer imho is to purposefully restructure our economy to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, tackle offshore rent extraction (banks, mega tech firms etc), and invest in infra that makes it better/cheaper to live and do business in NZ. But, no, let's do ecocide and hopium instead (End)

I missed this article at the time, fantastic analysis and deconstruction of prior work #chemsky #mofs Artificial Intelligence Driving Materials Discovery? Perspective on the Article: Scaling Deep Learning for Materials Discovery | Chemistry of Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Falling solar price makes the cheapest form of electricity generation even cheaper Falling battery price means in 2025 battery storage combined with solar yields cheaper and more reliable generation than other sources like coal and gas and nuclear

I did my colouring in thing Amplification for clarification

Have the fascism, genocide, and manmade famine scholars finally started speaking out on Gaza or are they still quiet? I don’t expect much of people but their near two-year silence on the very sort of atrocity they study for a living is revolting. A betrayal to scholarship but really to morality.

Brilliant analysis in this thread. If only some of my UC colleagues, who advise the government, would read it and see the error in their ways! #netzero #climatechange #methane

THE RECAP highlights uncomfortable truths of Britains past, and whats STILL celebrated Many statues in London are of people responsible for horrific colonial crimes Even now, many of Britains elites support colonial crimes in Palestine When you see an empire, smash it! 📺 youtu.be/nXFM81b-gBk?si…

This is from a mutual. People are so talented Thanks so much Kubar, I love seeing it laid out like this

Bravo! Encore!

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes,you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action,seen by two people only There's no public apology. They don't send this to media or post it on police accounts We will continue to fight. We will continue to win.

Loved this poddie. Listened to their 1st episode last week not long after the Lattouf decision What struck me was both Antoinette Lattouf & Jan Fran have been pushed out of the ABC by the manipulative Israel lobby Two brilliant women, great minds - lost forever to Australia's national broadcaster

NZ cricket followers will not be happy with the Sam Konstas misfield to gift WI a single to land on 27 and then all out! #cricket Australia vs. West Indies highlights day 3 espn g.co/kgs/Yrm9ubw

Porous materials to the rescue #MOFs #Hydrogels #potableH2O Devices that pull water out of thin air poised to take off | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Highly recommend! There with friends for opening wknd having watched the build slowly evolve. Great atmosphere, and while I'm alcohol free, the beers and ciders were definitely being appreciated by the patrons. Long may it last, NB needs more start-ups like this! #Otautahi #beer #NZbeer

"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will prevail" Terence James MacSwiney (Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne) 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920, Irish patriot, cause of death: hunger strike while incarcerated.

A very interesting essay, a lot of this would map onto the Ao/NZ student's experience... have our universities adapted to meet our current student's needs? A lot of my colleagues are stuck wirh 20th century thinking about what our students 'need'!