🚨Deadline extended 🚨 Get your abstracts in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 by Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/vdMooRs2srtz... #cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪

Kylie Reiri is a deputy chief executive at the Social Investment Agency, where she works to improve systems to benefit our communities. Kylie will be a keynote presenter at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss26 #complexsystems

Our next confirmed keynote for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium is Diane Finegood, whose current passion is for the application of systems thinking and dialogue to address complex problems across a broad range of topics, with a particular focus on health systems and public health #cccss26

@hendysh.bsky.social is chief scientist and a co-founder of Toha, the founding director of Te Pūnaha Matatini & led the team that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize for their Covid-19 response He is a keynote speaker at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. #cccss26 #complexsystems

Our next confirmed keynote speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 is Tom Johnson. Tom is the design lead at Whakaue Research, where he develops kaupapa Māori innovations that turn research into systems change. #cccss26 #complexsystems

Our next confirmed speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 is Tanya Allport. Tanya draws on Indigenous models of systems change to advance whānau-centred solutions for Māori health and wellbeing → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss26 #complexsystems

Brian Castellani mapped how disciplines, concepts and people have weaved together over time to create our understanding of complex systems. He'll be joining us as a keynote speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/ #cccss26 #complexsystems

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026. Nau mai haere mai ki tēnei hui! You are warmly invited to the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026, 24-25 February 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Submit your abstract → forms.gle/as6ArigFQW34... #cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪

Want to come to New Zealand this summer? The call for abstracts for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 is now open: forms.gle/g22s2dR85oFq... 🧪

I've long thought that the dominant - progressive - policy narrative, and social statistical analysis, of 'health inequalities' is wrong. This lovely little story by @drannamatheson.bsky.social helps articulate why.

Hey NZ science bluesky you made it happen 🧪

Jonathan Burgess and Anna Brown from Te Pūnaha Matatini were at #PCST2025 in Scotland recently, sharing our low-tech tools for facilitating engagement with unexpected outcomes and our new project on emergent engagement and how it contributes to better research 🧪

Imagine you’re watching a river flow through a beautiful valley. At first glance, the river seems peaceful, carrying water gently downstream. But if you look closely, you’ll notice the current carving paths, altering landscapes, and influencing every living community it flows through 🧪🧵

Governments urged to invest in keeping people out of prison, instead of criminalising poverty, homelessness and disadvantage www.croakey.org/governments-... #publichealth

ED wait times are not a “whole of hospital” measure. They are now a “whole of system” measure ie impacted by primary care and community access. The system “going solid” is not about flow of patients from ED to ward. That was the early 2000s, it’s not the issue now. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/29/w...

It’s a difficult time right now in NZ and globally. Our work, and how we do it, matters.

The line between applying de-ex tech to save endangered species is not straight; it's not even a line. Rather, it's a multifaceted network that must incl diverse perspectives and knowledges to address the myriad of issues it raises, esp here in Aotearoa New Zealand. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Data offers a tool for communities, not a substitute for their leadership and voice. Real system change happens when we fundamentally rethink how change happens, and who leads that change in the first place → theconversation.com/yes-data-can...

Governments like to boast that “data-driven” policies are the best way to make fair, efficient decisions. They collect statistics, set targets and adjust strategies to suit 🧪🧵

Data-driven policy is often held up as the gold standard. But by reducing people to measurable statistics, it can also what’s needed to drive real-world change.

Is the future in our genes? To find out, join Jack Heinemann and me for the Speaker Series at Tūranga library in Ōtautahi | Christchurch on Thu 10 Apr at 6pm 🧬@christchurchlib.bsky.social bit.ly/3EcJuK9 1/2

Sharing some thoughts here about the relationship between community power and abstracted data and policy decision-making. How can we make approaches to 'data' more useful and impactful within lived community contexts? theconversation.com/yes-data-can...

Professor Bev Lawton, founder of our national centre for women's health research, Te Tātai Hauora o Hine, gets up every morning to save lives—and she’s up for the 2025 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year award for her groundbreaking research.

"...you spend a huge amount of time and effort and consultancy fees trying to do something that produces a giant, meaningless number against which to measure progress” The 'never mind the quality, feel the width' approach to running public services. Surely we can do better.

We are performing in Saskatoon! Bonus: you can also Zoom. @pfafard.bsky.social

The most enduring pattern that human societies produce and reproduce is social inequality 🧵🧪

Innovation should not be only about creating something new within the confines of existing social systems, we need innovation to transform the systems themselves → www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17...

Beyond humbled for #KindnessInScience & @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social to feature in @nature.com Careers with @climateadam.bsky.social. For more see @aisrayne.bsky.social et al. in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social here: bit.ly/3XpnD8V 🎨 @jobailey.bsky.social

Less than a month to go until our “Sport in a Changing Climate” Symposium hosted right here in Te Tairāwhiti. It’s free… so register your interest now for either joining us in-person or via the livestream. Join the dialogue and be part of the solution for your community!

Our (@cillaw.bsky.social and myself for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social) perspective on the recently announced changes to the Marsden Fund and the Catalyst Fund. www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/12/05/c...

In light of the Government's push to get a 'return on investment' (ROI) from research funding, perhaps it is as good a time as any to talk about just how hard it is to measure this supposed ROI for research in general. Let's take a trip into the weeds! ⬇️

The New Zealand Government’s decision to restructure the Marsden Fund and Catalyst Fund is more than a simple budgetary adjustment – it is a pivotal moment 🧪🧵

Last post in the @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social Complexity 101 blog series: making change in Complex Systems. www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/10/25/m... 🧪

Change happens all the time. Humans grow and age, days shift from light to dark, and people move between cities and jobs 🧪🧵

On a Thursday afternoon in June, a power pylon toppled over in a small rural area in Aotearoa New Zealand, cutting power to most of the Northland region 🧪🧵

Soil is complex. Beautiful. Wondrous. It gives us food, foundations and filters the air we breathe and water we drink. Emma Sharp writes about accepting that soil is part of us → bit.ly/3WgJyP7

As humans grow as an influential force on Earth and beyond, we need to better understand our relationships with each other and with the systems that we encounter. The developing field of complex systems is giving us the concepts, language, and tools to do this → bit.ly/3yNPRk4 🧪

Delighted to share our horizon scan of climate change opportunities and threats for Aotearoa in the special issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand on climate change in NZ and Antarctica. Thanks to a fabulous team of co-authors from @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social