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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 15h

PSA! have you dropped in your council voting papers? Do it today or tomorrow latest. And don't forget to vote YES to Māori wards.

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 2d

Please consider signing this open letter to Winston Peters on behalf of NZ university staff, students & alumni to demand recognition of a Palestinian state.
forms.gle/BPytbSHRwXE8...

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 1d

Froggy legend

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 2d

Please consider signing this open letter to Winston Peters on behalf of NZ university staff, students & alumni to demand recognition of a Palestinian state.
forms.gle/BPytbSHRwXE8...

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Ben Dickson @drbenomycin.bsky.social · 3d

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine from Staff, Students and Alumni of the University Community

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine

As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 3d

Some awesome local artists here in Kirikiriroa are putting on an event next Friday to raise funds & awareness for Palestine. Get your tickets here: events.humanitix.com/rhythms-of-r...
You can also buy raffle tickets without attending the gig.

Event poster for Rhythms of Resistance on 17th October at Last Place Bar, Hamilton from 8.30pm.

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like your family @barnesecodiv.bsky.social 😉

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 9d

NZ academics... please take a moment to read this.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to UniSaver Board members 2025

Tēnā koe, University Workers for Palestine has been trying for over a year to get UniSaver, the preferred superannuation provider for most universities, to divest from Israel and companies complicit ...

docs.google.com

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 9d

A new special issue on soil & litter invertebrates is calling for submissions at NZ J Zool under this fabulous editorial team. See below for details!

Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 16d

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?

Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!

More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪

A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 16d

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?

Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!

More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 16d

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 16d

Leilani is one of the best! Highly recommend applying if you're looking for a PhD project. @lanipai.bsky.social

ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 17d

🕷️PhD position: Homemakers; web building behaviour in New Zealand sheet-web spiders 🕷️

Please email Dr Leilani Walker - [email protected]

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 16d

Proud to be leading my fav society for the next couple years. At @animbehav.bsky.social we treasure our student members & always welcome new folks to join us.

ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 18d

Meet Chrissie Painting the new ASSAB president!

@cpaintingnz.bsky.social is a Senior Lecturer and behavioural ecologist at the University of Waikato. Her research seeks patterns in animal behaviour and morphology, with a particular focus on insect and arachnid mating systems.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 22d

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity

next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

Reti earmarks $70m of new agency's budget for AI commercialisation grants

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 24d

Nicola Willis trying to make a bunch of priests sound like motherfucking gangsters #NZPol

"I would point out that they are obstructing those who would want to go to that office to get help with electorate matters. Many people would find it intimidating that there are people on the street outside," Willis said.

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you, I love lots of colour

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing turn out for Palestine today in Tāmaki

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Shaun & Rebecca did an excellent job, was super interesting & a reminder of all Shauns team did during the Covid response

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Looking forward to @hendysh.bsky.social book launch with @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social colleagues in Ōtautahi tonight

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Olivia Tidswell recently wrote up this lovely article about our work on Rēkohu / Wharekauri / Chatham Islands- I'm always so grateful to get to visit these special islands & the amazing people who live there (and of course the critters! )

www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Cultivating Connections: Lessons on Community Engagement from the Chatham Islands

Marsden Fast-Start funded researchers Dr Elizabeth Parlato (Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University) and Dr Christina Painting (Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato the University of Waikato) work on very dif...

www.royalsociety.org.nz

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking forward to watching it. You're gonna be great

Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · Sep 1

All the best for it Prof!

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · Sep 1

See you there Shaun! Looking forward to it.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 31

Incredible scenes in Genoa, Italy as 50,000 people join a procession to bid farewell to the boats joining the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza.

Over 50 boats from 44 countries, loaded with 100s of tons of food aid, have set sail to Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli siege.

(📸 Hidden Palestine)

A view from above at night of an overpass close to the dock in Genoa packed with 10s of thousands of people

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