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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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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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Dr Lucy Stewart
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The 'the military can save us' vibes have not aged well, however (we watched for the first time last year, though still got to get back to S5)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I think this every time I see a kererū (singular)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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People will always have mental health challenges but maybe we can stop them being exposed to conspiratorial ideas like "politicians worldwide are stealing children", which *quite rationally* will drive some people to action if they truly believe them.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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You get the strong and terrifying sense that a lot of the indications he targeted the ex-mayor for conspiratorial reasons are being framed by authorities as a mental health issue rather than radicalisation *he was vulnerable to* because of his mental health.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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He did. Only thing guaranteed to keep him still and quiet for longer than five minutes lol
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Mānawatia a Matariki! The toddler wasn’t sure why we were looking out the window before breakfast but he thought it was a good time. Beautiful clear skies here.
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Making Molecules
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For the last 3 years MakingMolecules (the chemistry me) has published a chemistry poster/celebration of Matariki (although, being based in the Manawatū, Puanga would be more appropriate) to celebrate the Māori New Year. Here is this year's. Mānawatia a Matariki
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Nic Rawlence
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Check out Jo Monks & my @nzlistner opinion piece on the Minister for Conservation Tama Potaka's comments that some of our biological taonga are too expensive to save, & that letting them go extinct would be cheaper & save the government money 😡 www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask
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New: There is “limited evidence” that the Government’s chosen approach to preventing agriculture from entering the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be effective, officials at the Ministry for the Environment and the Treasury told ministers.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/26/l...
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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We had built in wooden ones in our last place and a fabric one in this house, but only in one room
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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There's an Ethiopian local councillor in Wellington, and might be others in other places, who you could ask to put you in touch with their communities?
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I hope they asked the Herald for free advertising too
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Yeah, there's a lot of possible scenarios here which range from 'extreme dumbassery on the part of one specific person' to 'everybody was doing their best but external factors caused them to do the wrong thing' - that's why it'll be an interesting case study.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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look on the bright side, it's going to be a very interesting case study
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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yes, I'm aware that 'hair' is offered as a reason it just baffles me on a personal level because I can't imagine ever letting my hair stop me doing anything I otherwise wanted to do
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I'm so so sorry.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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There's also lots of other differences between those countries, including the availability of cycling infrastructure! Look, I'm not here to die on the hill of helmet laws, I just think it's weird how people fixate on them. (Also not totally sure WHY helmets are a barrier on a personal level).
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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(I don't think the two things are necessarily unrelated but there's a lot of other factors at play there, particularly the increasing availability of cheap cars)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Don't correlation fallacy us this early on Monday morning, Bart
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Our toddler has already been taught caution by the cat so I’m hoping it transfers to other animals…
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I always get the vibe that they're not gonna start anything if I'm not, you know? probably would not let my toddler run around in there unrestrained however.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Our local zoo has an Australian animal display where you can take your kids into the enclosure with the wallabies & emu. it's chill. you could NOT do that with ostriches.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle
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ChatGPT now to respond to all questions with “while compelling, that query is beyond the scope of this paper”
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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(Also, when it comes to queer issues, there is constant pressure for queers to prove we have moral or other value to society, a model evolutionary value fits into very nicely particularly when 'unnatural' is a common attack on the community)
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I think it goes back to the idea of evolution having 'purpose', which people often have trouble escaping from even when they technically know it's untrue. 'Shit just happens sometimes' is less satisfying as an explanation.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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This is at least as much about parking, but yeah - which makes it particularly incredible it tries to allege cycleways slow down emergency services, when parked cars are unquestionably the greatest barrier to speedy movement and more parking management...will help that!
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Anyway, I think the fact that there is absolutely nothing on the pamphlets to indicate who is responsible for them is *very* telling.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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1) this is active disinformation 2) it implies people like me who ARE supportive of these changes aren't real locals, which for obvious reasons I find extremely rude. I know this is always the way NIMBYs like to frame things but ugh.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Super unimpressed by whichever of my neighbours is distributing unattributed pamphlets telling people the council is spending tens of thousands of dollars per household on cycleways in our suburb (hah, I wish) because of [straight-up conspiracy theory reasons] instead of 'local' wishes.
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bellofthebird
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no other comments are available at this time
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Hurrah!
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Have you done a library yet?
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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It’s almost like we evolved to walk a lot or something.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Which is IMO an illustration of the problem, because the corresponding author should ideally be the person closest to the work. Just another way the incredible level of churn in modern academia is bad for the actual purpose of academia.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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Haha, that'll teach me to social media in the evening - that of course happens to every paper at SOME point too, and it's not like there's a guarantee old papers will go open access either!
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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It's very dumb, but I think illustrative of how the whole academic system assumes things about people & employment that aren't true and haven't been for decades.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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The government was subsidising them up to minimum wage, with employers only paying a portion, so a net cost.
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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I put my social media links on mine so people can reach me that way if needed, but of course not everybody will
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Dr Lucy Stewart
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For sure, but it’s far from universal even now (and you’d still have to hunt down a current email for the person…who might or might not have a public one!)
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