I want to highlight this: the PMSITAC report uses AoNZ's relatively high funding of ag/environmental research vs other economies as a reason to recommend very significantly cutting them, and our relative extreme underfunding of social research as...a reason to even MORE significantly cut it. 🧪
Climate vandalism at every opportunity. A good, albeit depressing, summary:
Super excited to attend the EMAPI conference this week in New Zealand! Can’t wait to hear about the latest science on invasive plants from around the world.
I went with "the bill is fundamentally flawed and there are no possible improvements that would make it reasonable..."
I'm really proud of this project, the culmination of 12 yrs of research on our plant BBQ.
Our plant flammability data are being used in this new Fire and Emergency NZ website to guide decisions about which species to plant around your property.
www.checkitsalright.nz/reduce-your-...
For New Zealanders - this from Peter Dunne is critical and I can not stress it enough- #ToituTeTiriti #nzpol
Some great resources for submitting on the Treaty principles bill in this thread #ToitūTeTiriti
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
A power pylon went up in flames, unfortunately the sparks spread the fire across Hoon Hay valley.
If you want to petition the new government to keep the Smokefree Act of 1990 and amendments, please voice your support here: petitions.parliament.nz/a2eaafbd-ded... Repost for visibility 🫶🏼
A photo I took of a friend's dog squinting meaningfully at the remains of a burger bun my kid didn't finish. The dog has a brown and white face. She is labelled 'You, about to subscribe to greensky' and the bun is labelled GREENSKY
A hugggee update to GreenSky; more than 60 new accts added, up to 392 ppl
It's a list of climate folks (science, energy, justice, activism, data, academia etc) + a feed
Pls subscribe, hit like on the feed and ask to join if you want in! ❤️
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Dog snuggles on a blanket
One of those kind of nights 🐶🇳🇿
It would be neat if a user could create a custom feed by merging multiple lists. E.g. my science feed might combine ecology, spatial modeling and climate change, while someone else might combine climate change and social policy.
Could you add me please? I'm a plant community ecologist based in Aotearoa New Zealand
