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Jamie Morton

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I write about science for the New Zealand Herald. Email: jamie.morton@nzherald.co.nz

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My last piece for the year looks back at four numbers that highlight just how extreme 2023 was www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cyclone-g...

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Thanks for reading Ginny

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Hey there Sam. No unfortunately, but you can find the piece in today’s print edition. Much as I’d like more people to be able read it, I guess paywall revenue helps keep me in a job

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Thanks for speaking out Finn

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Normally it would be exciting to be front page news but it's a pretty mixed feeling with today's story by Jamie Morton in the Herald. I was amongst a group of scientists who spoke to Jamie about the challenges facing the NZ science system. In short, we cannot go on like this

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I’d been working on this deep dive about what’s wrong with our science system for months before Massey moved to cut more than 60 roles last week. Whatever the new Govt decides to do, scientists have told me one thing: the sector can’t carry on like this. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-unive...

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Thanks. Have got a deeper piece on all this bedlam in science coming out Monday

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