It's been wonderful to see this research project come to fruition in the form of an exhibition exploring how reproductions and recreations of museum taonga can help make Aotearoa Queer history more accessible.

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social! If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 4mo ago

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

#TodayInQueerHistory 12 April 2024 Preserving our past is important. It proves our existence and shares our stories through the years. Today, the History Trust of South Australia launched Destination Fabulous:Save The Queen, a project to restore the ICONIC Priscilla: Queen of the Desert bus.

Simple solution to low birth rates is to learn from history. The baby boom was founded on delivering a welfare state in a unionised society with taxes effective on the wealthy, preceded by five years killing fascists and their leaders.

In David’s defense, the only reason he said that transphobes like JK Rowling are little whinging fuckers is because they are, in fact, little whinging fuckers.

OMG my nerdy interests overlapping in one video: @tomscott.com visits Taylor Bells. I'll have to wait and watch this properly, not just something cool while I finish my dinner. youtu.be/GpaNijzRaJI?...

I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay.

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

Some of them are going christofash openly! thecatholicherald.com/article/im-a...

All Tamatha Paul said, to be derided by Luxon as being "in La La Land" and being "stupid" by Hipkins – was that SOME PEOPLE feel less safe with more police around.

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is what can happen when #nzpol lowers the bar and rushes training for police officers. Bad ones get thru instead of being weeded out. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

@drdrehistorian.bsky.social I've just discovered the apparent chaos that is SA moron on the ballot Carston (Keong-) Woodhouse being dumped by the Liberals 9 days from the election after his [unsurprising] sexist, homophobic, & xenophobic podcast interviews came to light. So messy!

I think we all do this to all manner of 4-legged fluffs. But, it's just hit me, we're (generally) better at appropriately & respectfully greeting an animal than a person with a disability (my phone just tried to autocorrect "disability" to "steam roller" so make sense of that as you will)

George Penney@georgepenney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A woman (30s?) spots a friend approaching with a fluffy bubble of a dog. (Pomeranian?). Crouching down to greet Fluffy Bubble Dog, she exclaims: "Cut it OUT! You are GORGEOUS! You are the PRETTIEST LITTLE THING! AGH I COULD EAT YOU!" Pats and doggy smiles all around. (5)

I audibly & publicly snorted at this

Janelle Shane@janelleshane.com · 5mo ago

wow the west webcam at the Kilauea crater has been having a very bad day direct by falling rock at 11:12:57 turns everything red for a second www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN

The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

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As someone who'll probably need dialysis in the next 25-30 years, I guess I should start looking into private options since this government is Obv put to cause multi-generational destruction for short-term backing. Fucking hell.

Oh gee thanks @ologies.bsky.social . Listening to Culcitology (quiltmaking) while doing leg day & just low key balling my eyes out in the middle of the gym 💔 10/10 would listen again

So, at this point we can probably all agree that Timothee whatshisname was rejected by someone and is handling it well by doing the actors' version of a men's health podcast? Such stupid & hypocritical nonsense, & what a way to shit on colleagues.

Easiest way to wind me up is to "remind" me of something when this is actually the first you're telling me about it. Followed by an angry, bold, coloured & highlighted email, followed by "disregard if you've done this already!". I get follow ups, but maybe check before Brimstone.

If it’s not on Wikipedia, does the internet think it exists? 🧐 This professor and her students are ensuring LGBTQ+ history isn’t lost by improving coverage on Wikipedia. Over 900 million views later, they are making the internet a more inclusive place. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Check out the full story: bit.ly/4aA458D

University class making sure Wikipedia doesn't erase LGBTQ+ history

A professor and her students are editing Wikipedia pages to ensure they preserve and represent the lives and stories of LGBTQ+ people

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Throwback to when in hospital for 3 weeks w/ an unknown infection. Had to have a colonoscopy & the specialist held up a DSLR & joked it was the camera we'd be using. Me, on a "mild sedative", painkillers, & muscle relaxants: "With enough lube I'm sure you'll figure it out. You're the expert"

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

Consider this your annual reminder that fabric scissors/shears are different from any other cutting medium. Using them for anything other than fabric is to forfeit your life. You may die at the hand of those scissors you so crudely blunted.

As a guy who had an excerpt from HMS Pinafore at his wedding, I'm in no position to rain on any G&S parade. Actually, G&S with a G&T would be perfection

Daniel Schultz@dandadad.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I concur with this obviously 100% sober analysis.

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I generally don't like to even consider wishing people dead, but right now there are people where I would honestly be relieved if they were somehow incapacitated. If you can't be good, at least be neutral.

Half the people I know who whinge about "preferred name" are the same who don't go by their legal/birth name. Whether this was going by initials (JK Rowling), shortened names (Dave Chapelle), their middle name (Caitlyn Jenner), or even a moniker or stage name

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

Beacon of @drdrehistorian.bsky.social has been lit: MINISTRY OF WORKS CALLS FOR AID!

Te wookie o te tāngata@chewienz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sounds like a job for.... MINISTRY OF GODDAMN WORKS. and unadulterated orgy of building we havent seen for over half a century. Hospitals, wind and solar generation, rail and housing

BUT APPARENTLY CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T A THING Also, we're apparently also running things so finely managed that 2 locomotives and half a dozen carriages down, and we can no longer offer BAU? Most heritage lines could manage that! Fucking neoliberal fucking bullshit.

NZ Transit Buzz@nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#RailNews: Metlink has shared photos of their storm-damaged carriages that operate on the Wairarapa Line. The damaged carriages have been removed from service for repairs, meaning full timetables cannot be run at present.

Another lovely practice night this week. 21 ringers, including 6 visitors! We had an unsuccessful QP attempt, but a smashing practice with rounds, Plain Bob Doubles & Minor, Grandsire Doubles & Triples, Cambridge Minor & Major, and Stedman Triples 🤯 🥰 #campanology #bellringing #changeringing

Not 'struggling'. Not 'hard up'. Not 'skipping meals'. *Starving* In Aotearoa. In 2026. This is so immoral and disgusting that opposition parties should be 20 points ahead in the polls by now.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving

Let me get this straight, we don't even let the locals who volunteer to play, but will fly someone over? I mean, on that basis, why employ our own nazis when we can share with australia? Get rid of the idiot trio and we could save well over 1m a year! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

National war memorial bell-playing job axed, likely to be outsourced to Australia

An Australian may have to play the bells at Pukeahu on Anzac Day.

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