“Science & research are the sail that Aotearoa needs to take us into the future, & we need to build that sail from canvas, not by stitching together tissue paper” #Budget2023 https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2023/05/18/budget-2023-expert-reaction/

A wee bit of comment from me on the university redundancies going around… which I’m afraid turned into a bit of an epitaph for our research strategy Te Ara Paerangi. But it doesn’t have to be this way https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/31-05-2023/when-downsizing-means-destroying-our-universities