Joel MacManus telling the hard truths about Wellington, wake up sheeple! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

‘A ghost town’: Car lanes in the city are stuffing up Wellington

Wellington City Council needs to cut pet projects and non-essentials, like its $1.1 billion car lane budget.

Re the "Heated Tobacco" issues -- I am not a public health scientist, but it strikes me as noteworthy that several of the supposed "articles" that Costello used to support her position on heated tobacco products appeared in a journal run by a famously "predatory" publisher MDPI 1/N

And still...no comment from our Science minister

DLlcsnz.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 10:17pm

GNS have confirmed they are cutting over forty science roles including in areas like risk modelling and geohazards, in service of “improved” profits. This is what a commercial model for public good science does. The damage to our capability and reputation will be long-lasting.

‘Huge blow’: GNS Science confirms move to cut 10% of its workforce

Hazard-focused roles among dozens of jobs to be cut in confirmed GNS Science restructure.

If you're feeling stressed or frustrated, I find that looking at a cat snoozing in the sun is a good antidote

It's hardly just an 'operational' matter as the minister claims, when the cost cutting is driven by govt cuts to research funding, and a push for science to be commercial instead of recognising that core science like this is critical and valuable in and of itself. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gns-cuts-...

Cost cutting could ‘devastate’ research on NZ’s biggest tsunami threat - 85 experts

Dozens of the world's top geoscientists have urged GNS to rethink axing 46 research jobs.

We are going to seriously damage our international scientific reputation if these cuts are added to the sustained cuts across the Universities and Crown Research Institutes. How can Minister Collins continue to offer no comment? What does she think her job is? www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gns-cuts-...

Cost cutting could ‘devastate’ research on NZ’s biggest tsunami threat - 85 experts

Dozens of the world's top geoscientists have urged GNS to rethink axing 46 research jobs.

We invest in universities because it pays off for all of us when we do. Education is not a finite resource: we should be supporting everyone into training & tertiary education to the maximum extent we can get people to do the work.

Whakaari is still going for it as of this morning, it will be very interesting to see how this eruption evolves and whether it elevates in activity (photo from GeoNet)

Starter Pack for Seismology and Earthquake people. Add missing accounts in the comments and I'll add them to the pack! ⚒️🧪 #Geologygo.bsky.app/ND4oS9k

That southerly has got us feeling like...