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The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. We build community across disciplines to solve complex problems.
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Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director @mluczak.bsky.social speaks to Morning Report about the new digital trust framework designed to be the answer to people's experiences with fraud, doubt and lack of trust online 📻
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Aotearoa shifted closer towards digital credentials for access to online services last week with the launch of the Trust Framework Authority.
Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director @mluczak.bsky.social explores what this means for our digital economy → bit.ly/3xYL0MN via @theconversation.bsky.social 🧪
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We've got an internship available for a University of Auckland student to use data science and computational modelling to explore the effect of initiatives that give young people the opportunity to experience science, technology, engineering and mathematics → bit.ly/3L4hjga
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As humans grow as an influential force on Earth and beyond, we need to better understand our relationships with each other and with the systems that we encounter. The developing field of complex systems is giving us the concepts, language, and tools to do this → bit.ly/3yNPRk4 🧪
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In our submission to the Science System Advisory Group, we encouraged them to take a systems approach to the evaluation and re-design of the research, science and innovation science system, and to put the people within the system at the centre of attention. Read the full submission → bit.ly/3R5QnjP
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If you’ve ever driven through or flown over the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, you might have noticed vivid green circles amongst the fields. The dry corners surrounding these circles created by centre pivot irrigators are an easy place to start with planting trees on farms → bit.ly/4bIoRko 🧪
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#ICA24 is coming up on the Gold Coast in June, and we're sponsoring a pre-conference on science communication as a human right www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-...
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The beautiful sound of kiwi here, recorded by @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social investigator Prof Stephen Marsland.
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My latest newsletter
We should think like the Stoics
A practice from Stoic philosophy might help us better manage the environment under rapid climate change
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How can complex systems research make a difference? What does a complex systems methodology look like?
We are delighted to invite proposals for chapters for an edited book that will provide a comprehensive and practical introduction to complex systems research → bit.ly/3Q1QaNP 🧪
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The Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ have released a report on state of our natural assets and natural infrastructure, the benefits they provide us, and how we’ve placed them under pressure, with three Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators as science advisors environment.govt.nz/publications...
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Studying wastewater has given Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Lisa Pilkington and her team some surprising insights into alcohol consumption in Aotearoa – including a noticeable spike around a certain all-male revue in Queenstown 🧪 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/04/08/e...
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Rebecca Priestley
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Congratulations to @jobailey.bsky.social (Dr Jo Bailey!) who just defended her PhD thesis which was accepted with NO CHANGES! Our first school of Science in Society PhD at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington 🥂 🎉
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Anjuli Muller is a baker. Running a research project using co-production has made her more comfortable sitting with the discomfort of having no recipe to follow → bit.ly/3TA03Vg
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"It gives us immense joy to see these interns coming through with all their skills and energy," says @cillaw.bsky.social. "It’s such a pleasure to interact and learn from them, and hopefully they will have learned something along the way as well."
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A summer internship can be a lonely experience. That wasn’t the case for the 12 interns supported by Te Pūnaha Matatini over the 2023-24 summer → bit.ly/3V9bTa3
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In the latest installment of our storytelling series, freshwater ecologist Kati Doehring and illustrator Jean Donaldson tell the story of changing land stewardship in Dovedale Valley through the eyes of a silent witness of hundreds of years bit.ly/48LL5Qi
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📸 by Mark Coote
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“Complex systems theory provides a groundbreaking framework that illuminates the hidden connections and feedback loops shaping our world,” says @mluczak.bsky.social. “It’s an incredible privilege that we are part of the global network of leading scholars in this cutting-edge field of research.”
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@nicgaston.bsky.social ended the symposium by making the case that complex systems researchers are uniquely well placed to understand matters of equity, inclusion, and diversity.
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The symposium was purposefully single streamed with generous breaks, to build connections and community in complex systems research and practice.
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Participants raced against the clock in lightning talks to explore the complexity of data in the public sector, data quality in large language models, the philosophy of complexity, and the relationships between research and policy.
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A stimulating poster session explored environmental policy reforms, the trajectory of te reo Māori language revitalisation, and creating simulation frameworks for entire hospitals.
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Over two days, contributed talks challenged existing paradigms with innovative new approaches to biosecurity and disease transmission through to artificial intelligence, economic complexity and data science for transport policy.
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Our international keynote speakers discussed issues of consent in socially networked environments, explored the complexity of human proximity networks, asked how we can unleash productivity through understanding creativity, and explored ethical dilemmas in disease interventions.
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“The issues we face are deeply interconnected,” says @cillaw.bsky.social. “They are not isolated problems with simple solutions but rather intricate puzzles demanding a holistic approach.”
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The Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2024 interwove the latest advances in complex systems research with the concerns of communities, business and policy around how to ensure prosperous, resilient, equitable and just democratic life in a time of grand challenges.
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Last week we brought together national and international experts in complex systems alongside practitioners in government, industry and community to explore how the study of complex systems holds the key to unlocking sustainable solutions for our most daunting challenges 🧵🧪
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International experts in disease spread, creativity, and AI ethics are visiting NZ for a symposium on complex systems @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social. The SMC asked the keynote speakers to preview their talks:
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Rebecca Priestley
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Delighted to see End Times on GNF long list! Congratulations to all other longlisted authors. And what a great year for my wonderful publisher @thwupbooks.bsky.social 💕 thespinoff.co.nz/books/01-02-...
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An upcoming week-long series of events will mark the anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle which devastated Tairāwhiti in February 2023.
Highlights include a two day research symposium, a series of community hui, and a creative collaboration and exhibition 🧪
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/01/31/h...
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You can’t get much more remote than the Chatham Islands, a bumpy plane ride 840km east of Ōtautahi. A group of Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators visited this special place to connect with the community and the taonga species that make their islands unique www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/01/26/w... 🧪
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Listen: Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigators Mike Plank and @troybaisden.bsky.social join Kathryn Ryan and @nicgaston.bsky.social to discuss the research system and science funding in Aotearoa www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... 🧪
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The full programme for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2024 is now up: www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/
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How is modelling integrated with transdisciplinary research? Join us on a funded masters project to map it out → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2024/01/17/f...
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For the past three years, Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @hollythorpe.bsky.social and her team have focused on what happened to everyday women during the Covid-19 pandemic – and what lessons might be learned.
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Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Hamza Ajmal and illustrator Jean Donaldson collaborated on this piece about how the world is not a collection of static things, but a dynamic flow of information across time ✍️ www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2023/12/20/t...
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Ngā mihi nui to our incoming Co-Director @mluczak.bsky.social, who has been promoted to Professor at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington 🎊 www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/abo...
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The University of Otago in Wellington is putting on a two-day summer school course in February focusing on geographic information system (GIS) techniques in health research and policy, featuring Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Jesse Whitehead www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/d...
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Congratulations to Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Simon Stewart, who has been awarded the early career researcher award by the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society 🏆
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Congratulations to Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @celinecattoen.bsky.social, who won the 2023 Excellence Award - Research at NIWA 🏆 [PDF, p.60] niwa.co.nz/about/annual...
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New research featuring Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Dianne Sika-Paotonu reveals that Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa experience higher cancer incidence and a lower survival rate for several cancers, when compared to the European population journal.nzma.org.nz/journal-arti...
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After his recent fieldwork, Henry Morse had almost 9,000 photos of plants on his phone 🌱
Henry has been collecting data on how ecological restoration sites in Aotearoa have been regenerating over time, to strategise restoration on a landscape-scale 🧪
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Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @celinecattoen.bsky.social has been working for years on a revolutionary idea: a national flood forecasting model 🧪 www.nzgeo.com/stories/we-c...
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"When a tree or a new plant falls on the forest floor, many kiwi in an area come to it and for the first few days of falling they have a heightened interest in it."
Isabel Castro and Jean Donaldson take us inside the night time world of the kiwi → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2023/12/04/t...
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This week I handed in my PhD thesis, thanks largely to amazing supervisors @rhiansalmon.bsky.social + @rkpriestley.bsky.social. Could not have done it without @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social's funding, many amazing staff, and the researchers who were my participants 💚 It has been a huge privilege 🎉
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You should all go have a look at this, it's a very cool way to get to know part of Aotearoa New Zealand lakes380.com/he-reo-no-te...
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Our final confirmed keynote speaker for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2024 is @nicgaston.bsky.social, who has been thinking about how concepts from complex systems research can help us to better understand issues of equity, diversity and inclusion → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/symposium/
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Congratulations to Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Nick Golledge, who has been awarded the Hutton Medal by @royalsocietynz.bsky.social for his cutting-edge contributions to modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet and research on climate change 🏅
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