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Dr Lucy Stewart@lcsnz.bsky.social |
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Fan of weird microbes, Pākehā nō Pōneke, dilettante crafter, co-President @nzscientists.bsky.social. All opinions my own etcetera.
Business stuff at www.quickthinking.co.nz
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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One would hope so! It's a nasty little trick actually - re-purpose existing funding, give it a new name, declare the newly-named project is a time-limited exercise, and then let it expire without ever 'cutting' funding. Wonder if it's happened in other sectors...
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Jennifer
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Ōtautahi, if anyone sees one of these, a Magnum Metro S, with one brown tyre and one black one, missing a battery, either on the street or for sale, will you please let me know? Someone broke into our back gate to take it.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Cannot emphasise enough how much I would like to spend my days doing, y'know, science instead of Cassandra-ing the decline and fall of our science system, but such is 2024 I guess
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Anyway the fact of the matter is that austerity has consequences, and the consequences for the science system are bad already, but can still avoid being disastrous if action is taken.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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The one point I will clarify from this otherwise very good article is that while the National Science Challenges were always time-limited, their funding was pulled from *existing* science funding. That's practically a whole Marsden Fund gone, relative to 2014.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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IMO many fewer objectively bad books in the world than books that don’t work for everybody.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I cannot think of the last time WCL has disappointed me. Other parts of council could take note
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Apropos of libraries, I finally visited the Te Awe CBD site this week due to needing to hang around town between meetings and it's great and was PACKED. Can't wait for the main library to re-open but the council really have done a fantastic job with the temporary ones.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Wellington did this during COVID and it has meant I now mostly read library books, because I can reserve them & have them sent to my local library for free. Magic.
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Ms Hooper
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The Siouxsie Wiles judgment should be a wake-up call for New Zealand’s universities
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles
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Really grateful to the @smcnz.bsky.social for pulling together links to the Employment Court judgement on my case and commentary from various experts. Check it out! www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/07/08/w...
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I know they don't ALWAYS hit the mark but every time I've had to interact with them they've been helpful and it's been easy. When I compare it to my experiences with the IRS in the US...night and day
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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There's a really interesting story for someone to write about how NZ cuisine has adopted a number of otherwise somewhat globally obscure South American food plants. The recent book on feijoas obviously does a deep-dive on them but there's a wider story there
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I can imagine! If nothing else deeply rude he thinks you didn’t hear him the first time or three
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Agree to disagree is the polite “I do not want to talk about this with you”. If ignored I’d switch to the latter.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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“Trust me, I remember your opinion on this, we’ll just have to agree to disagree!”
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I simply cannot imagine a level of 'preparation' for kids seeing semi-naked people at the pools (a place where it is entirely socially acceptable to be semi-naked) that takes more than like. three sentences.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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you are extremely not wrong
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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"I think these women in bikinis are sexual objects and that everybody else also thinks of them only as sexual objects and that's why they're happy for them to wear bikinis but imagine if someone I *didn't* think of as a sexual object did it. huh. what then"
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I also hate the level of DARVO going on in this story - *she* is actively advocating for harassment of other women but it's framed around *her* fears that people will call out her harassment!
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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The answer to her question is yes, she's a prude and she's teaching her sons that the bodies of women who just happen to be existing in the world near them are their business. It's only uncomfortable because she's teaching them it's uncomfortable!
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Foxy esquire
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Fighting her employer in court Dr Siouxsie Wiles incurred a large legal bill that won't be covered by the 20K so @ninjakitty.bsky.social & I will be fundraising. If you've been helped by Dr SW in Covid please help out!
#FoxyGodmother
Acc Name: Fairy Godmothers
Acc No: 38-9010-0779610-05
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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A real indictment on the inaccessibility of the justice system there.
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Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara
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Judgement in the employment court case of Dr Wiles www.employmentcourt.govt.nz/assets/Docum...
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Having sudden gloomy thoughts about how much the current NZ economic situation mirrors the 1987 sharemarket crash and aftermath (notable to me, although I am too young to remember it, because I am also at a very similar life stage to my parents at the time)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Yeah, some people are being made genuinely poor (no longer have enough to meet expenses) and some people are just having to think systematically about what they spend for the first time (which still sucks but isn't a crisis per se).
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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(Also, this is why a lot of middle-class people think that budgeting is a solution to poverty, because it IS a path to financial stability for THEM.)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I think the issue is that people who are or have been actually poor know this because they have to. People who DO make enough to live on, and always have, can get by never having to learn this because everything just sort of works out. Credit cards probably a contributing factor.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I don't begrudge anybody dumb first thoughts, it happens to us all. But this is an idea that should never have got further than a dumb first thought
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Yikes, not just a case of not bothering to think twice, but a case of a company ignoring very specific guidance put out by their industry association on why you shouldn't do the thing they did. And from a company using a Māori name too!
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E-Tangata
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The scheme is “one that many in Aotearoa are either unaware of, or have come to accept as a fact of life — an ongoing injustice that’s baked into the law books and become too hard to undo.” — Eugene Bingham on perpetual leases.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
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"The scientist who evaluates manuscripts regularly, re-analyzes data, and provides thoughtful and extensive feedback is as much a protector and promoter of original science as the one who exclusively publishes manuscripts on their own." -@cbo.bsky.social 🧪
undark.org/2024/07/04/o...
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I have this question about almost every scenario, fictional or not, where a scientist is allegedly ‘in it for the money’.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I have a vague memory of @dreddieclark.bsky.social reminding us all how scenic Bolton St Cemetery is but it’s something else to stumble across yourself while out for a walk
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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yeah, I've heard that too, ugh
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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it sucks for multitudinous reasons and I just wish people would stop jumping to 'my fave could never it's a conspiracy'
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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not a scenario that historically turns out to be all a terrible misunderstanding of a benign situation
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Brekekekiwi
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I messed up an bought a ticket to Caligula's Horse in Wellington tonight at Meow, instead of Auckland like I meant. If you know someone who wants to buy it for $40, please get in touch.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Idly wondering if there's any potential for a Pharmac-style way for research institutions to band together and get scale negotiating power
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Haven't talked about it much here but I'm really proud that the Save Science Coalition now has twenty-three member organisations who are standing up for a properly funded public science sector. Do you belong to an organisation that might want to join? Let me know! scientists.org.nz/save-science...
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I guess all the unemployed people will have lots of free time on their hands for that 🙃
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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It is however critical to have good communication at a lay level around any decisions made, given the level of public interest, which I am a bit more concerned about since science communication is often treated as a nice-to-have
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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We tried to buy one once and didn't get it even though we were the highest offer...and the real estate agent STRONGLY implied this was because we'd asked for a week to get a builder's report (not provided) 😬
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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A very legitimate strategy these days 😞
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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There's some informed & sensible people involved in the actual work; I have hope the recommendations will be good. But we'll see!
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I would argue the review of gene tech regulation (which hasn't changed for over two decades) is the only really positive thing the govt is currently offering the science sector
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Big vibes of my toddler throwing things when he thinks he's not getting enough attention.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I tend to have the opposite problem - there are multiple (fiction) authors whose social media I enjoy but whose books I really don't
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Laksa and tom yum both winter faves, plus this great one I got from the paper last year (use paprika AND pork for best results)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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So hard to distinguish between “this book is hard work/annoys me” and “my brain is not in a book space right now”
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