Sometimes we might focus on a subset of a dataset, sometimes the whole thing.. there are many ways to explore meaning and gain understanding... I think the accusation of "salami slicing" can hang over qual but to me it never makes sense, as our analysis is usually about interpretative depth!
If the latter, then that sounds duplicatory, and not great... But datasets are often rich, and we can ask quite different questions, and get quite different knowledges, by asking different questions. To me that is not just legitimate, but also making the most of the research (participant time etc)
I think it truly depends on the scope (depth, scale) of the dataset intersected by what you're doing with it (and how)... I would always ask if what you're doing is generating new knowledge/understanding from it - rather than "saying the same thing another way from the same dataset".
"AI-generated references commonly combine fragments of genuine publications, say researchers who have studied the issue (see ‘How fakes can look real’)"
AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter.
And I think today was an important turning point
That's pretty clear.
Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.
Numbers here->
www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/10/d...
Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NZ’s rejection of new WHO pandemic rules makes no real sense - by Sharon McLennan
theconversation.com/nzs-rejectio...
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
OH. MY. GOD.
THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
Important piece - something depressing in reading it as I lost most of another day wiped to long covid.
Ahhh I haven’t been here for a while 😭
"Early indications suggest displacement of SI&T workforce, including postdoctoral positions, fellowships, and researcher roles across deprioritised domains."
That is one way to say there will be a bunch of redundancies. Fuck sake, this has been happening each of the 12+ years I have been here.
[expletive] [expletive] [banging on the desk] [jumping up and down] [expletive]
I am so not surprised. This is precisely the crap being pushed on other public research systems by the same people.
Like so many other things this govt. has done, this needs to be changed under urgency ASAP.
#NZPOL
The report says that "Small Advanced Economies" allocate 13% of research funding to society, education, politics etc. NZ allocates 3% and the PMSITAC recommend cutting it to 1%.
Oh hey, the PMSITAC report is out and the short version is 'let's take money from literally every other area of research in AoNZ to put into tech'. That's the plan. Underfund everything else *even more than it already is* over the next three years. 🧪
Sounds great - is there an easier url link?
Poster reads: UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO CENTRE FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES LAUNCH EVENTS Friday 27th March 2026 Terrace Lounge, Union Building 3:00-4:30pm Prestigious Roundtable Panel + New grant programme announcement 4:30-6:00pm Launch Party With nibbles, performances, cash bar Panel Topic: What is the Medical Humanities? Past, present, and future, at the University of Otago and beyond, with discussion from... • Professor Emerita Barbara Brookes (Medical Historian; co-founder of medical humanities selectives programme; co-founder of Corpus) • Professor Maebh Long (Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies; Co-Director Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies; Deputy-Director Centre for Medical Humanities) • Professor Helen Nicholson (Clinical Anatomist and Medical Educator; former Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago • Professor Karyn Paringatai (Ngăti Porou; Te Tumu; Prime Minister's Science Prize for Research, Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence) • Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland; chair of the Australasian Health & Medical Humanities Network) Webinar Opened by Professor Greg Cook (DVC Research & Innovation) access Chaired by Dr Susan Wardell (Director, Centre for Medical Humanities) ALL WELCOME Please RSVP for the launch party, for catering purposes by emailing centreformedicalhumanities@otago.ac.nz
So Friday is the launch for the Centre for Medical Humanities! It’s very exciting, and our first Prestigious Roundtable is being live-streamed, so check out “What is the Medical Humanities?”, so spread the word!
Teachers. We entrust you with the highest responsibility: to care for and educate our children. Strike, strike, strike; you deserve better.
NZ rejects WHO pandemic rule changes, aligning with 'fringe' RFK Jr - Newsroom
Super delighted that @vicclarke.bsky.social has been acknowledged for massive contributions to knowledge, with fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences. Congrats on this recognition of your impact!! 🥂
acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.
We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.
Everything is for sale.
#nzpol NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President @sandragreynzctu.bsky.social is calling on Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden to pause the proposed reform of the Holidays Act and listen to the concerns of workers:
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.”
Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7
Congrats to my colleague Pat the mammoth achievement that is a (first) book - not that common in psychology compared to some other disciplines! And a fascinating topic! Also very envious/admiring that Pat managed to get Bad Bunny at the Superbowl into a scholarly article so quickly. Nice work!!
