Kathryn
@shermarama.bsky.social
Design engineer, drummer, general maker of stuff. Keen on finding good solutions to complex problems. She/her. Hamiltron 🇳🇿innit.
Found this article recently, and the report it's based on, and it really hits the spot: women are present in a lot of science these days, but it isn't getting them power. Hugely under-represented at higher levels of science, even when a majority at lower ones. theconversation.com/women-in-sci...
Women in science – global study finds presence without power
Women make up one in three researchers worldwide, but they remain sidelined in scientific organisations.
theconversation.com
Yup, I felt that one. Now quite awake at 5am. www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred 10 km south-west of Taumarunui, New Zealand on Sat Jul 25 2026 4:51 AM. The quake was 5 kilometres deep and the shaking was severe close to the quake.
The quake may have been felt in Cambridge, Dannevirke, Eketahuna, Feilding, Hamilton, Hastings, Hawera, Hunterville, Kawhia, Levin, Mokau, Murupara, Napier, New Plymouth, Ohakune, Opunake, Palmerston ...
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With Humphrey Smith dead, it would be interesting if the Guardian now published a version of this that hasn't been lawyered to within an inch of its life for their own safety. And the planning committee for Tadcaster will hopefully find they're a lot less busy wth stupid, and expensive, arguments.
Alan@alanofthenorth.bsky.social · last mo.This remains an incredible insight www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
Doing my homework so I can do all the SARCASTIC comments about the DUMB STUFF inside my head today, and then in tomorrow's meeting I can be all positive and 'hey here's a suggestion to improve... ' because I is a professional, innit?
I'm told that 'tête' is a reasonable translation for 'face' here, in the sense of face as anatomy, while 'visage' is a bit more to do with expression or presentation, maybe? Anyway, hup Graaf Vuilnisbakgezicht!
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 4w agoRounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
I have already been enjoying trying to explain Count Binface to Kiwis. Just the mere thought of him being Farage's most substantial opposition is delightful.
Roop@roop2d.bsky.social · 4w agoNever interrupt your enemy when they’re launching themselves into a 6 week long argument with a bin.
And e^π% tariff on surrealist art.
tef@tef.bsky.social · last mo.20% tariff on saxophones, waffles, and new beat
M C Escher* - Four candles Artist: HappyToast https://b3ta.com/board/11429202 From the 'Comedy Art' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/comedyart/popular/ #ComedyArt
I think this pins it down for me. Why has so little changed, and most of what has, for the worse? Perhaps the government has very little power to change anything useful under modern capitalism, but it would be nice to see them try.
Jack Bernhardt@jackbern.bsky.social · last mo.I have never known a politician who had as much political capital given to him on a platter, who had such an opportunity to remake the country (and obligation to do so in the face of the country he inherited), and yet who squandered it so badly. That is the root of his unpopularity.
See, I work in engineering and it's mostly been around food production & processing, but this end of things really ties into my outside-work interests... But I can't see how to connect the dots. www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
Country Life: Wool to yarn without leaving the farm
Her flock of sheep bred for their soft fleece may be small, but her plans for them are big.
rnz.co.nz
Colleagues, walking to get lunch on nearly the shortest day of the year: 'ooh, you can feel there's just no heat in that sun now!' Me, having grown up in 53°N and now living in 37°S, so feeling the equivalent of October or March: '...' (Still gets my washing dry.)
Wait, what, I was supposed to be paid to turn up to that rally yesterday, as a woman standing up for the rights of women? Gosh, I suppose I just don't have the business instincts of an old man talking insulting bullshit online.
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeters regularly posts diatribe & abuse like this directly to the public and its almost never covered by media as being at LEAST inappropriate Instead media platform NZF dogwhistles, pretend their “populist” policy is real and publish outright puff pieces about NZF most extreme & corrupt candidates
Oh hey! Since NZ First and their coalition buddies are somehow trying to defend this nonsense, I'm going to be supporting its opposition. Sign the open letter: Reject the gender-defining Bill action.greens.org.nz/humanrights_...
Reject the Defining Gender Bill
action.greens.org.nz
Actions this Saturday to support trans people in Aotearoa & protest NZ First's harmful Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill: Tāmaki Makarau: 12pm @Myers Park Kirikiriroa: 12pm @Civic Square Pōneke: 12pm @Civic Square Ōtautahi: 1pm @Bridge of Remembrance Whakatū: 2pm @1903 Square #nzpol
Funksta Uzz@funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin Queer Endurance in Defiance, Rainbow Action Tāmaki, QTopia & more for a National Day of Action on 13 June against NZ First’s bill Tāmaki Makaurau: 12pm @ Myers Park then hīkoi to Te Kōmititanga Te Whanganui-a-Tara: 12pm @ Civic Square then hīkoi to Courtenay Pl Ōtautahi (see quoted post) 🏳️🌈✊
#NZ science funding / opinion As I’ve said before: Politicians should recognise that science is not something to 'conveniently' repackage to suit your government’s short-term goals, but a long-term driver of good for your country. When you cut it, you cut *everyone’s* longer-term future. 1/3
Nicola Gaston@nicgaston.bsky.social · 2mo ago#marsdenshmarsden I guess 🪦
Also didn't we already go through this before, with UK exam results in 2020? Government clearly thought people would buy "sorry, that's just what the computer said", but they very much did not... And now NZ wants to do this with welfare?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Un...
2020 United Kingdom school exam grading controversy - Wikipedia
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Phil Wheeler@phil-wh.bsky.social · 2mo ago"A computer should never make a management decision because a computer can never be held accountable".
Because since when is New Zealand dictated to by those so terrified of the glorious diversity of *people*, that they want to try and stuff every one of us into one of two arbitrary categories, the better to try to boss us around with? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...
E Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman Bill
The Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a...
our.actionstation.org.nz
Discomfort isn't danger. Discomfort isn't danger. Discomfort isn't danger, lalalala just do the thing, then, right?
Supply chains of oil by-products suddenly being yanked on. Some of these were going to have to change longer-term, I suppose? www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
China quietly turns off supply of world's most used industrial chemical
Amid disruption from the Iran war, China has banned exports of sulphuric acid, a crucial component used to treat drinking water, refine petroleum and make batteries, clothing and phosphate fertilisers...
abc.net.au
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · 3mo agoYour last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Totally cycled to work this morning! Totally forgot my helmet until the end of the street! (Have been cycling in London, where they're not legally mandated, and am now cycling in NZ, where they are.)
Reposting because someone might know someone who knows someone, but genuinely, personally, I don't know *any* female engineers in this age bracket. There were zero female lecturers in my uni engineering dept., and I had one female manager once who was maybe 5 years older than me.
Sharon Burton@sharonburton.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe’re seeking stories that capture the career of a woman engineer across the decades—what were your wins? Tell us at Women in Engineering: forms.gle/dnYc1zPex8Gf...
The youngest #kakapo alive: Awarua-A3, 17 days old today. Despite appearances, she’s doing well. She won’t be leaving the nest until mid-June. It’s a long breeding season! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds.
Exactly one year ago today:
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Ouch.
Craig Wright-St Clair@craigwrightstclair.bsky.social · 4mo agoBecause it's an island that is totally reliant on imported diesel for all its power Whereas NZ is a group of islands that is totally reliant on imported diesel only for the distribution of all its food, goods, trades, and most services Totally not the same #nzpol
And in the end, it might have been someone in a private jet? Here's heights of planes in the area at the right time: 1 Gulfstream G550, N/A, 45k ft 2 Cessna, SNA - CSW, 41k ft 3 BAe 125-800B, N/A, 39k ft 4 Airbus A320, PVR - TIJ, 37975 ft 5 Airbus A321-271NX, SJD - TIJ, 36050 ft
