Kōtukutuku/tree fuchsia (Fuchsia excorticata) are something else.

Report on Australian Higher Education finds: 🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities 🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms 🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency 🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

Like fuck we will be. There’s 7billion of us. Try it big bollocks, you’ll shit your y-fronts as we stand up to you.

IMO paying close attention to species and simply describing what they do is a worthwhile endeavor unto itself. Guessing I am not alone. #iamabotanist #iamanaturalist #PUI #biodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I just got back from fencing off some of the regionally critical turnip-rooted geraniums and checked the one I transplanted 3 months ago. It's flowering! First time I've seen this. 🌏

Spiky alien flower season #spring #bloomscrolling

I will always love you Edward P. Russell House, a 1928 Art Deco design by Holabird and Root. 💋

Agave attenuata. Bloody show-off. 🇳🇿🌱 #bloomscrolling

Spring has sprung

flowers are out 🌸🌺🌼🏵️

American politics and far right ideology are a cautionary tale and should not be replicated elsewhere

Dude. The mayor of Whanganui spoke in glowing terms at a vigil in Aotearoa for Charlie Kirk, American far right extremist and MAGA martyr.

Like call it whatever you want but strikes inside a sovereign nation is war.

If you have functioning organ systems, you are *detoxing* all day. Every day. Liver Kidneys Lungs GI tract You’re all good, boo. Stop buying into conspiracies and claims from wellness profiteers who don’t know basic science.

Nice essay on the perils of politicizing science

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

Voter suppression from the right. We putting up with this shit NZ?

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

🇵🇱 Poland opens border with Belarus, urges its citizens to leave immediately

It took baldy 6 weeks to form a coalition of the hateful, 6 fucking weeks after the election. Vote counting is a distraction & NOT the issue. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Heidi Meudt & I will give a FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching #Wikipedia, #Wikidata & #WikiCommons. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link: tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Trump’s DOJ may charge former FBI Director James Comey with lying to Congress, @marcelias.bsky.social fires back: “Honor your oath or resign.”

I WANT prisoners to vote, too. They're people, in this country.

I *think* the airline just sent a text to say my flight is delayed. I can’t be sure because my phone’s AI interpreted it as a meeting request that it wanted to put into my calendar without showing me the text. So over this.

Just arrived from the printers. The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies. This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets. OUT NOW.

A few snaps from today. 🌏

Maybe the hot takes of equivalent leaders across green industry, climate response and major charities dealing with the severely disadvantaged? Wouldn't that be a fine perspective to be given equal prominence?

One thing I'll say about Winston Peters, his ability to be both 'Popilist Peters' and 'Statesman Peters' is impressive Gets back into parliament thanks to voters who think the UN is part of a conspiracy to bring about global communism and make us eat bugs, then represents New Zealand at the UN

My own writing, & thoughts re: DEI Many people don’t understand that DEI is, at its heart, an anticorruption measure. The current administration is pro-corruption. Their business model depends on a quid-pro-quo that elevates incompetency in exchange for loyalty under all conditions. [continued]

And the absolute state of this. Funding autism research, but only if it doesn't look at the one thing that decades of research indicates is a factor in autism. These people should be in fucking prison.

and always remember this guy told us to drink bleach.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

"In the U.S., long hours are worn like badges of honor. But after my time in Denmark, that way of life no longer appeals to me." nice short piece on science-expathood from a grad student at Aarhus

RFK Jr. just said that mothers believe that their children’s autism was caused by vaccines, so it should be studied for that reason. He says that research has not focused on it. This is incorrect.

It's a #butterfly day! 🤩😍🎉🦋 One of two red admiral seen after work today, both nectaring on ivy flowers some distance apart. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN

A rule that never lets me down, is that if anyone uses the expression "red tape" I can in total confidence stop listening to whatever follows.

Forgive me for showing vulnerability on social media. I fully expect it will not go well. 😂 I don’t care though. This is why RFK Jr. and his snake oil wagon infuriate me both personally and professionally.

Bombshell from Sandy @SandyKnapp : Solanaceae are way older than we thought at ~98 million years! 🌍🍆🌶️🍅 #SolRub2025

Celebrities and venture capitalists throw millions at a company claiming it can breed fake dodos, which seems especially cruel given the dodo’s living relative., the Samoan tooth-billed pigeon or manumea, is on the brink of extinction for lack of money. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...

Completely clagged in here in Whakatū but it does seem a bit darker than it should be. #eclipse.

I want to emphasise the importance of anyone with a progressive or even a fair-minded bone in their body in the Wharangi Onslow-Western ward giving me their first preference. Please hit up friends in Karori, Ngaio, Wilton, Northland, Wadestown, Khandallah etc to check they voted

Willie Jackson said some things 👏 #nzpol #ResignNicola #OneTermGovernment #NoConfidence #Election2026

Asking a majority non-Māori population to vote on whether Māori wards should be kept is racist as fuck. Asking any majority demographic to vote on whether minorities should have certain basic rights that facilitate equity is straight up bullshit. And referendums make me furious.

When Tr*mp mistreats a journalist at a press conference, all the other journalists should just get up and leave. And they should not need to be told this.

I want you to fall in love with Ukraine so much, that after the war is over, all your vacation plans would be to Ukraine. We will need you to support local businesses, to help rebuild ruined cities, to absorb our rich Ukrainian culture.

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

Anyhow I saw the best garden hedge in London today A+++ no regrets

The reaction of people when russian Shahed drone got intercepted 🫠 Dnipro, Ukraine, this morning.

Kōwhai in Cornwall Park #bloomscrolling