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Dr Tara McAllister

@taramcallister.bsky.social

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Māmā, scholar-activist, kairangahau, scientist, writer | Indigenous, Māori, Te Aitanga a Māhaki | Nōku anake ēnei whakaaro

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · Aug 8

Our new piece is out in @nature.com big mihi to all my co-authors it was a pleasure to work with you on this @lanipai.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @sereananaepi.bsky.social @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Bradley Moggridge and Brittany Kamai
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Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them | Nature

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science. Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

www.nature.com

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 13h

TFW you like pretty nails but also gardening 😅😅

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 20h

Is there any thought in how this new research funding nz will fund Māori research? WHICH HAS BEEN SEVERELY UNDERFUNDED FOR DECADES.

I would personally like to see a sister organisation tasked with funding Māori research 🙄🙄🙄

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 1d

I wish some conversations could be kept AMONGST Māori and not need to be analysed by Pākehā and viewed through Pākehā systems and power 🙄🙄🙄

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy to be back out there running trying to be gentle on myself after a pretty bad year in my calf but today was my first pain free run so that's good progress

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Tom Saunders @tomsaunders.me · Sep 10

Nice! The second edition of 'R for Data Science' (free online book) is great for a refresher and all round amazing resource, in case you hadn't heard of it. It's helped me a lot.

R for Data Science (2e)

r4ds.hadley.nz

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Tom Saunders @tomsaunders.me · Sep 11

The Art of Data Visualization with ggplot2: A free online book by @nrennie.bsky.social that guides us through the entire process of creating plots, including why certain decisions were made, using real datasets that have been part of #TidyTuesday. Very excited to get stuck into this one. #rstats

The Art of Data Visualization with ggplot2

The TidyTuesday Cookbook

nrennie.rbind.io

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 3d

"You can call the teachers you don't know Whaea" 😅😅😅😅😅 wisdom tonight from the 5y.o

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 3d

My youngest was just like "māmā what are these lines on your forehead? I don't got those lines" 😅😅😅😅😅😅

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 3d

Slowly building the māra of my dreams 💐🌱🥦

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 4d

You are much more restrained than I

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 4d

I got out there and got very muddy 😅😅😅😅

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 4d

Thoroughly unimpressed that it's meant to be raining all weekend when I had planned on gardening all weekend. I guess I will stay in bed and read instead

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

Why would you put someone who has no integrity in charge of an "integrity" project lol

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, um, "mysterious". The director of your integrity projects was an early and regular guest to The Platform, which was funded by the owners of a chain of early childhood centres to advance their political agenda.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The mysterious unravelling of a high-profile transparency project

Key donor silent as the Integrity Institute deregisters and its lobbying register disappears.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

I just don't want to fall into old habits of them watching it all the time

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

It will definitely make a massive difference for us. I budget every dollar 😅😅

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

I have only 1 year and 11 months left of paying of my student loan!!!!!! I am going to be so rich when it's paid off my god! My loan was over $75,000 after 8 years of studying 😳

The End Is Near Homer Simpson GIF

ALT: The End Is Near Homer Simpson GIF

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

I have cracked and bought a new remote for the tv. I want to limit how much the kids watch it. Because they have been playing so nicely without it. I was thinking one hour every second day but was wondering what limits other parents use?

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

Too little too late! I too have pulled my back from lifting something way too heavy for one person 😅😅😅

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

Yes hue- a type of gourd

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

My god

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Phil! I will plant out my plants after labour weekend and share their growth :) I plan on spending a lot of time reading in the tunnel over summer 😅😅

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like me putting up my hue tunnel alone is the perfect analogy for single parenting.. like really a two person job but you have no other choice. It takes much longer to do the thing because it's much harder with one person but you get it done anyway 😅🫠

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently according to FB I got engaged on this day 6 years ago. Glad I never got married 😅💀

Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 7d

I was planning on going for a lunch time run today but one of my kids is sick 😩😩😩

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