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Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

This is it! Hopefully some lessons will be learned from these events. In NZ, we still see massive new pine plantations -- even in places that have burned multiple times in recent years (e.g. Christchurch).

📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

Great to see that National support 30 weeks Paid Parental Leave. Especially after they voted against the introduction of PPL. Blocked the extension to 26 weeks for several years. Canceled 33 pay equity claims. And just this year, cut Best Start payments for the majority of new parents.

Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe - Analysis shows heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation @wwattribution.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congrats to that guy when you figure out who he is Martin!

Women want pay equity, quality school lunches, decent childcare, affordable housing. All of which National, NZ First & ACT have nixed or made harder during the past 3 years. This is a desperate attempt by National to appeal to the very voters they've spent the past 3 years alienating.

“As a little Yamatji running around that bush, I never ever thought that this would be available,” she says. “We’ve got the biggest satellites sitting out on Country. That’s something to be proud of, because you always want to be the biggest and the best.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Story paywalled, but key point: People are quibbling re the Greens’ proposed super-rich tax: will it capture 56% of currently untaxed wealth—or as much as 72%? Honestly, either would be great? A policy that achieves roughly 2/3 of what it aims for sounds amazing! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

A Summary of the Climate Change Commission‘s report. My #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #ClimateTargets

A friend sent me this from near Bordeaux. The world will soon be united under a smoky sky.

if you’re in NZ and you’d like to work in a voting place or electorate HQ for this year’s election then applications are open now: work.elections.nz/home

I feel this too. Wishing my amazing doctor did not retire. She's been irreplaceable. Trying to console myself that she deserves the time with family but not very successful. Menopause stuff really requires that trust and enduring understanding.

Offsetting is widely promoted but poorly founded in ecology Our modelling study shows: effective offsetting requires restored areas larger than those impacted & protection over long timescales high habitat conversion rates reduce offsetting success conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"She said they were asking if their cats needed to be kept indoors, and what they need to do to lower the risks to their cats." Cat owners - please keep your cats indoors to save wildlife, whether bird flu is a threat or not.

So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Creative NZ fund all kinds of projects and activities that are so important for our collective well-being. Absolutely horrible to see them downsized like this. #NZPol

Climate justice means those most responsible for the climate crisis must do more to address it. Climate finance, when sufficient and invested in the right ways, can be a powerful path to climate justice. UN explains how that can happen: https://ow.ly/sQWc50ZoYvO

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NZ’s overhaul of nature protection laws is a chance to move away from ‘fortress conservation’ theconversation.com/nzs-overhaul...