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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 2d

I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis

does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain

Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.

newsroom.co.nz

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone wanna come and hang out with us at NZILBB? We're advertising a fun postdoc position on a project looking at the representation of part of speech in te reo Māori. Do get in touch if you have questions.
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Post-Doctoral Fellow - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

jobs.canterbury.ac.nz

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 13d

There are three main ways you can help my work with Rights Aotearoa:

First, you can tip me coffee money directly at:

Paul Thistoll
03-0547-0039160-001

(I can't tell you how important these little coffee tips are to my emotional morale - they really keep me going!)

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Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️‍🌈 @markd.nz · Sep 26

Word got around that I'm willing to write reviews. No posts for two years, then bang! – two reviews in two days. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #Lyttelton #theatre #Shakespeare #QueenLear

An evocative queer Lear reimagining

This production propels us not into the distant Celtic past of Britain, but to an impending dystopian future. Thankfully, queerness is normal in 2125.

remarks.nz

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Aug 27

NZers expect to hear an American-influenced phonetic style when they encounter language in song & they adjust their perceptual vowel
space accordingly. They also find it easier to process a US voice in a music context, and harder to process a NZE accent. Fun! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Aug 27

In this paper (derived from his thesis) we show that NZ listeners know this, and use it in listening. A musical backing track triggers a perceptual style shift, leading to more US consistent responses in two tasks - a phoneme categorization task, and a lexical decision task.

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Aug 27

love my job. I get to work with great collaborators on fun projects like this one, published today. For his thesis, Andy looked at the production and perception of singing by NZers. He shows, consistent with previous work, that NZ singing is dominated by an American-influenced style.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Monsters, Lore & Infernal Screaming) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Jun 11

I love Recipe Keeper. It is paid once you have a certain number of recipes there (one off), but by then I was happy to do that.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is the move.

Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · Jun 5

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

www.queensu.ca

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Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social · May 29

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.

www.notus.org/health-scien...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

www.notus.org

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · May 24

Sounds exciting!

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · May 23

I approve of the original search!

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Joshua Wilson Black @joshwilsonblack.bsky.social · May 22

I'm very excited to see this new work led by Gia Hurring is now out. We did a lot to shore up our approach to PCA for investigating vocalic covariation and find striking commonality of patterns across multiple corpora of New Zealand English and panel data doi.org/10.1017/S095...

How stable are patterns of covariation across time? | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core

How stable are patterns of covariation across time?

doi.org

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · May 22

We all like this in our house. Please keep buying, so it doesn't go the way of sunfed, and others...!

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Scout @scoutriver.bsky.social · Mar 28

Hey one of the largest disability support providers in the country has COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF MONEY and no one is hearing me SCREAM IT FROM THE HILLTOPS. Please boost this and please send it to your MPs.

Scout @scoutriver.bsky.social · Mar 27

Yesterday I was told that even though my kōtiro now qualifies for NASC, we would not be able to access any supports because the funding body has completely run out of cash. I needed to do something productive instead of spiral so I wrote. kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-o...

At least one large disability support provider has completely run out of funding to provide support to autistic people.

"I'll tell you right now, you're not getting anything"

kahukurascout.substack.com

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Feb 8

We loved it from the opening scene. So cinematic and beautifully filmed, intriguing, strange... Not sure it's the kind of thing that grows on you though. Possibly you either instantly love it, or you're not going to?

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Jan 28

Google yourself up a recipe for chocolate chestnut cake! (we have ~500 chestnut trees and no robust plan for dealing with them, but cake is always a winner).

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Dec 23

We’re seeking nominations for up to five outstanding dissertations in cognitive science for the Glushko Dissertation Prize!

Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨

Self-nominations are welcome!

Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...

🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18

Nominations for the Glushko Dissertation Prize are open until January 18

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Jen Hay @jbhay.bsky.social · Jan 9

Having to fill out this ribbon would give me a full-on identity crisis!

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · Dec 22

Important thread for everyone in NZ. If you think the treaty bill is awful, this is the one they are distracting you from. Submissions close Jan 13th

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Tom Saunders @tomsaunders.me · Dec 19

Hot on the heels of humanities & social sciences being removed from the Marsden Fund, now MBIE will no longer provide top-up funding to successful Horizon Europe projects. Announced December 19 and ahead of the SSAG report. Govt determined to cripple these disciplines.

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · Dec 19

The attack on the humanities and social sciences by the New Zealand government continues.

Screenshot of an email with the text: “Changes to MBIE’s Horizon Europe Top-Up fund scheme

Tēnā koutou
MBIE is providing an update on the Horizon Europe Top-Up funding scheme.

Change to Top-Up fund eligibility for projects in Cluster 2 
From 1 February 2025, projects in Cluster 2, Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society, will no longer be eligible for funding through the MBIE Horizon Europe Top-Up funding scheme.
This change is being made to align the Top-Up fund settings with the Government’s priorities for Science, Innovation & Technology investments, and direction outlined in the Catalyst Fund investment Plan. Research organisations who have submitted a proposal for a Cluster 2 project which opened before 1 February 2025 and who registered for Top-Up funding with MBIE within 10 working days of the European Commission (EC) call for proposals closing will still be eligible for Horizon Europe Top-Up funding.”

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