Kia ora! I'm a #nature nut, addict of #iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao, and an #ecologist at #LincolnUniversity in #Aotearoa-#NewZealand.
I spend an inordinate […]
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Jon Sullivan
I was thinking this evening, while biking home trying to deal with yet another power-microphone splitting dongle that’s nearing the end of its life on my iPhone, that, while I have no interest in having a Google-powered Siri AI on my iPhone, one feature I’d still *really like* is a *headphone […]
I like this good news story from Morning Report on #RNZ National radio today. A kokorā, NZ little blue penguin, got itself seriously tangled in the netting of a soccer goal in a residential garden in New Plymouth. The boy who found it alerted his grandma who called the Department of Conservation […]
Twelve years ago, #Jakarta was crowned the most congested city in the world. Today, nearly 90% of the residents have access to mass transit.
I dive into this remarkable #urban turnaround and look at the political will, international investment & local execution that drove this progress […]
We've got a female korimako (NZ bellbird) back on the Lincoln University campus!
There was great excitement last year (in the right circles) when student William Harland saw the first female korimako ever on campus. Until then it had just been wandering males […]
[Original post on mastodon.nz]
Jon Sullivan
Jon Sullivan
Jon Sullivan
Review of landmark studies in human evolution over last 5 years, including key fossils Harbin, H luzonensis, Apidima 1 and Yunxian 2
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9655.70141?domain=p2p_domain&token=AVY4SAIU2C64DMQPAHCY
A plaque in Iceland
#climate change
A letter to the future
"Ok" is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier.
In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.
This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
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Oh hey…
https://magnificent.nz
Radical Anthropology
Shocked/not shocked that the NZ government has scrapped the Marsden Fund.
It leaves a legacy of 30 years of blue sky science.
Hopefully Australians are paying attention to what's going on across the ditch, and the hazards brought by the modern conservatives.
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01584-8
