If john prine wasn’t dead, he’d have written a song about this.
Worrying and likely true, but my feed there actually feels safe-ish again finally and the cartoons about the Supreme Court are killer good.
Haven't talked about it much here but I'm really proud that the Save Science Coalition now has twenty-three member organisations who are standing up for a properly funded public science sector. Do you belong to an organisation that might want to join? Let me know! scientists.org.nz/save-science...
The PCE's latest report brought a lot together for me about what seems broken in Aotearoa and what we can do to fix it. open.substack.com/pub/troybais...
We might well have the solutions but can't plot a path to implementing them.
Kiwifruit definitely not fetching a premium here in Maryland versing Georgia peaches and other beauties. But it is on the shelf!
Zero interest. Pretty much describes where we're at? (Business Desk paywall link businessdesk.co.nz/article/mark...).
My latest for Science about NZ's budget, the cuts to science and the Save Science Coalition, with @nzscientists.bsky.social@lcsnz.bsky.socialwww.science.org/content/arti...
New Save Science Coalition aims to head off future spending cuts
The @nzscientists submission to the University Advisory Group is now available. scientists.org.nz/news/13363450
It also made a fab good news story today for the last lecture filling in at VUW!