Every year, the Ig Nobel Prizes honor the weirdest and most wonderful science out there—like studying how drunk bats fly or the physics of perfect pasta. It’s all real research, and it’s all hilariously brilliant. Because sometimes science makes you laugh… then think.

🎤🎥🎞️@tomlumperson.bsky.social

High nitrate levels found in rural NZ drinking water – Expert Reaction

We need the NZ Climate Change Commission independence, wisdom, courage, and intellect. www.climatecommission.govt.nz/who-we-are/o...

It seems like it’s dangerous for scientists to speak out against Colossal’s “de extinction research”.

www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

It feels slow not because of facts, but because the doom-narrative drowns out reality. 📉 The truth: solar doubled from 1,000 → 2,000 TWh in just 3 yrs, wind’s surging too. Fossils took decades. The fastest energy leap in history is here—don’t let fear blind you. ⚡🌞 #EnergyTransition #BESS #EVs #LFP

More cuts to the Marsden Fund. This time $20 million from the annual budget cut starting next year. This is on top of previous cuts by this government. They are trying to skip the 'priming the pump' step of public research as a driver of the economy. How well that is going to work?
#NZPOL

On behalf of the Netherlands, I’m sorry for all the whales that are killed by our windmills throughout the centuries. 🌬️

Folks, there is a snail out there looking for love and you may be able to help them find it.... www.nzgeo.com/newsletter/t...

Important read "For Indigenous Peoples in the 21st century, statistical erasure remains an ongoing issue."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...?

This is so bad! How out of touch with human decency. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

For teachers everywhere:
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson

If we have a Climate Change Commission, seems to me you should listen to them.

cool idea

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Well, if you ever end up in Aotearoa-New Zealand, that would be fun.

An excellent explainer from @eloisegibson.bsky.social on the sorry state of our ETS. Meanwhile the extreme events keep coming, here and around the world.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-yo...

We are looking for a technician to support our work on greenhouse gas emissions #ghg from drained #peat. We use eddy covariance and chambers. You will support a team of researchers and students in the waiber.com team

www.seek.co.nz/University-o...

a shame

New research from my colleagues out today looking at the environmental and social impacts of food crop-based biofuels in the US, where we now use >30% of the corn supply and >40% of the soybean oil supply (on tens of millions of acres of prime cropland) to produce only ~6% of US transport fuel. 🧪

Interesting reaction from the NZ prime minister to our letter:

‘He said it was lovely there were "worthies" who wanted to send him letters, but academics "might want to direct their focus and their letters to other countries"’

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"In the open letter, the scientists say aiming for "no additional warming" implied that current methane emissions levels were acceptable, when they were not."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The signatories here are top shelf and worth listening too.

biogenicmethane.org#letter

Here’s Stan Walker’s “load of crap” at the Aotearoa Music Awards - and the now very public reaction from embattled Leader of the House & Senior Cabinet Minister Chris Bishop, including his deeply embarrassing schooling from New Zealand music royalty, Don McGlashan #shutupyoudickhead