NEW H-Environment Roundtable Review on Hanne Nielsen's *Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent.* Comments: @hesterblum.bsky.social, @rkpriestley.bsky.social, Rohan Howitt, and Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton #envhist networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...

Please, Aotearoa must do this while there’s still time #NZPol

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last mo.

Victoria has begun vaccinating about 5,000 little penguins at Phillip Island and St Kilda to protect them against the deadly H5 bird flu, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds.

Let’s gooooooo! (Our breeding programme finally paying dividends!)

Um … does someone need to tell them about sea level rise? 🌊 www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/so...

Society Insider: Former Black Cap linked to year's most expensive house sale

Plus, who was spotted dining at Auckland's new Real Life Restaurant?

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Tomorrow is the last day to register for the Internet NZ AGM. 'Free Speech' 'Union' folks are going to be there in force - we need to be there to vote.

Chris Fleming, Ian Fleming's great-nephew, is the obvious choice.

Sign the petition: Press Pause On New AI Data Centres action.greens.org.nz/pause_ai_dat...

Press Pause On New AI Data Centres

The Green Party is calling for a one-year pause on the construction of new AI data centres, so we have time to develop clear rules to make sure that the needs of people and planet are put first.

action.greens.org.nz

Lest we forget, Cook attempted to enter Wellington harbour on two occasions (once on the Endeavour and once on the Resolution) and failed both times. Not a good omen really. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Kupe and Cook: Names of new Cook Strait ferries announced

The two new Cook Strait ferries will be named Kupe and Cook.

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I’m humbled to have been awarded the Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize (pmscienceprizes.org.nz/2025-winner-...). I couldn't have done sci comm w/out a village of support incl. my family & wonderful lab group. This award is as much for you as it is for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyOT...

Nic Rawlence – Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize

YouTube video by RoyalSocietyNZ

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The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy

BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Looking forward to seeing who the winners are … #NZPMSciPrizes

It’s a wild Wellington day out there (cold, windy, horizontal rain) but I’ll be venturing out to Schrödinger’s Books this evening with Una Cruikshank 📕

Come join us! Te Herenga Waka is looking for a senior academic to join our climate change teaching and research programme - apply by Monday 22 June.

With just me and one other person — in a city car park … that’s a wrap on Black Sheeps.

While other parts of the motu have heavy rain and floods, we’re having a freakishly warm start to winter in Wellington. This is more like our usual shitty summer weather #globalwarming #climatechange

Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social

OMG @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social won the big one! Published in OZ by UQP in April!

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards@ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Let's hear it for the Ockhams 2026 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction winner Ingrid Horrocks! #theockhams @thwupbooks.bsky.social @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social

Slightly increase a band Nick Cave and the Bad Sprouts

Kurt Busiek@kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Slightly increase a band Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young and Parsons

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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“Menstrual cups are a game-changer in terms of reducing waste, but only a handful of contradictory studies, carried out under artificial conditions, have been done on their safety. Siouxsie Wiles wants to change that – but needs your help.” thespinoff.co.nz/science/06-0...

Siouxsie Wiles: Menstrual cups are a great invention. But how safe are they?

They're a game-changer in terms of reducing waste, but only a handful of contradictory studies have been done on their safety.

thespinoff.co.nz

Class notes: Lecture on climate change denial, and disinformation in New Zealand www.linkedin.com/pulse/class-... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/c... (WordPress) #ClimateChange #NZPol #Disinformation #GlobalWarming

Important new insights on the conditions beneath the fastest changing part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This will govern the rate of retreat of the glacier. Now the community needs to upscale these and get them into updated sea projections www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Hard rocks and deep wetlands beneath Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica - Communications Earth & Environment

Beneath Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica lies a highly heterogeneous bed of elevated ridges and sediment filled basins as well as an active lake, which presents a level of complexity that current models...

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Seeding the storm: Climate change denialism from Cyclone Gabrielle to Cyclone Vaianu www.linkedin.com/pulse/seedin... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/s... (WordPress) #nzpol #ClimateChange #Disinformation @caadcoalition.bsky.social @counterhate.com

OMG SWYD ASAP, 2day I found this GR8 guide to communicating circa the millennium. HAND all, I hope U been LTWT, LOL

New essay for the Transition(s) Lab on #narrative #strategy in the midst of a global commodities #crisis and a #backlash against #climateaction. the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-3-...

The Shift #3: A matter of strategy

This is an essay I had planned to start the year with: a few words of encouragement for anyone feeling demoralized by the backlash against climate action. However, climate action got in the way of cli...

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Thank unions for this long weekend actually, thank unions for weekends. Period. #nzpol The best time to join a union was yesterday, the next best time is today. union.org.nz/find-your-un...

Wouldnt it be better, cheaper more energy efficient,more climate friendly if we JUST BROUGHT BACK A FULL RAIL NETWORK AND DUMPED ALL THESE $%&$!@*% MOTORWAY PROJECTS!!! *AARGGGH!* (1) www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Road tolls: Driving from Auckland to Northland and back could cost drivers $14.20

Commuters travelling daily between Northland and Auckland could pay about $3400 a year in tolls, if a proposal for the planned Northland Expressway goes ahead.

rnz.co.nz

8pm and on the #2 bus home from the city, brimming with people. I wonder how many more people we could get on the buses if our government did what other governments are doing and made it free? 💚 #Wellington #PublicTransport #PublicGood

Thanks @maramadavidson.bsky.social and @greens.org.nz for pushing this.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/do...

Don't fast track Te Waikoropupū!

Siren Gold Mining has been invited to fast track an application to mine in the Golden Bay - if it goes ahead the crystal-clear waters of Te Waikoropupū could be lost forever. Join me in signing to sav...

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