A worthy cause! Please share ♥️ givealittle.co.nz/cause/provid...

I actually FINISHED a craft project yesterday!! It's a gift for my friend's baby 🥰 #knitting #craft

My husband and I were just having a dance party with our 3 year old. H enthusiastically doing the running man, when toddler looks at him scathingly and says "If you do that the house will break" 😅 Ouch

Foxgloves. 🎨 Alyson Howard

🧵Do you plant seeds for their fruit today, or for the shade they'll offer to others after you're gone? A thing we can do, individually and collectively, is invest in people . Returns often unfold over years, sometimes decades 1/4

This is Mako. He has no regard for law and order, and more importantly, no regrets. 13/10

July floral palette, to shift your brain away from fight or flight. Pause for a moment if anxiety is lurking, research shows my photo will help 🌿

Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release. I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

Happy opening day everyone!! 🌈🥳🦋 It's time!!! 😁 #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

While I'm waiting for the watercolor to dry on another piece, I started this little one. Hope it brings some calm to your day. 🙏🏻🖤🤍

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

I wonder if @corook knew how many lives they'd touch with this song, this rendition made me cry 😭 ❤️❤️❤️ If you haven't seen the original head to their TikTok page, it's tagged at the top. vt.tiktok.com/ZShomHTfB/

We have a jumping spider in the lab that I feed random bugs (and occasionally moths from my colonies). I've named her Portia, and she's very cute 🥰

My gift is on its way!!!! Thank you Santa!! 😊🌈🌞🦋❤️ #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

honored to be included in the Chicago Sun-Times summer reads list. but now i have to go and write Certified Bangers: A Memoir

My 14 June botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's now enrolling I'll teach you: 🌿How to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading 🧠How time spent creatively alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Limited spaces,earlybird price: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

From Jay Hopler's book, Still Life. Published by @mcsweeneys.net. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978195... #poem #books #writing

Privileges Committee report suspending Te Pāti Māori MPs is here for those interested ... I'll post into this thread as I read through it ...

I didn't get something that I had applied for so I was a little bit bummed about it, but I just found out that THE most deserving, kind, humble and hard working person got it instead and I'm absolutely over the moon 🥰🥰 This is a much better outcome!

In today’s HeraldOnSunday #nzpol

These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay. (Also listed in alt text)

Just sharing our paper on inequities in pay for Māori and Pacific academics for no particular reason… d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/108733773/MA...

Hey if cancelling pay equity settlements is about saving money, why don’t we just pay men and white people less and equalise that way

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This petition to stop NZ First's stupid sex definitions bill has been open for nearly a week and has 1.2k signatures The hate group's petition that spawned this bill took four months to get 2.2k signatures Let's show just how little hate there is petitions.parliament.nz/cc70b2c2-cfd...

I'm not a fan of tat (plastic, single-use, that sort of thing). But that aside I'm easily delighted, and I'd hate to think that finding a gift for me may be any source of stress for my Santa. Bought, made, or found, what's gifted with love will be received with the same 😍 #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

For an extra burst dopamine from my photo below look for the 6-petalled forget me not. If you have f-m-n in your garden look closely at the centres of the flowers. If they’re yellow they contain nectar,but when they’ve been pollinated they fade to white-tiny bees know which flowers have a snack in 🐝

For the first time in history, we can proudly show you a DOUBLE German bollarding. This has NEVER been seen before so congratulations to us. #WorldBollardAssociation

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Still my favourite version. Compulsory Anzac Day listening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUR...

I want to also say for #MWSecretSantaAoNZ because I keep meaning to and forgetting. The aroha is what counts. Please do not spend outside your means. Second hand is amazing. Home made is the hugest blessing. Have fun, be thoughtful, did I say have fun 💜💜💜

The word 'orange' was the word for the fruit before it was the word for the color.

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real. When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains. Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

I’m loving Chinese manufacturers airing luxury brand’s dirty laundry on TikTok. [Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMTmyP/ ]

My toddler had an absolute meltdown the other day because she wanted to go home immediately and eat a round cheese. When we finally got home this is how much she ate (and spat out) 😅 #Toddler #Cheese

Super excited that Secret Santa is back for NZ! 🥰🥰 I haven't posted here as much as I did on Twitter, so I'll try to remedy that ❤️ #MWSecretSantaAoNZ

Meanwhile, a friend just sent me this and it gave me a smile, so I'm sharing. A free cafe set up for a local community in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. The video's in te Reo Māori and English and you get the idea.😊* Kai - food/meal Koha - gift/payment www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/02/01/t...

Trying to explain the stress of having small kids is futile. Someone will ask why I'm out of breath, sweating, disheveled, in tears, googling military montessoris and I'll have to be like "we got in the car"

Loving our Christchurch holiday this week 🥰 #beach #toddler

Can you mute specific words in BlueSky?

Is there an #NZ #Aotearoa #Science list on BlueSky?

What's the app called where I can list a one-off labouring job? I've heard ads for it but can't remember what it's called. TIA! #Kikorangi

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

This is really bad - nobody can predict the economic effects of fundamental research

Just called the IT help guy darling 😂🤪

Casey's happy place at the farm 🥰 Need to deal with a slight fencing issue before heading back to the city tomorrow though 😅

5 #Entomology #StarterPacks are full go.bsky.app/Fq2CQNw go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1 go.bsky.app/2nEuqKX go.bsky.app/VDorcVS Six? Nominate: grad students, early career, colleagues around the world, equity deserving #entomología #entomologie #Invertebrate #Arthropod 🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️