Richard Easther
@rjme.bsky.social
Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @aucklanduni.bsky.social - opinions mine. He/Him
Science: https://cosmology.auckland.ac.nz
Blog: https://excursionset.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/excursionset
Science: https://cosmology.auckland.ac.nz
Blog: https://excursionset.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/excursionset
Feel like I am hanging out on the set of "Thomas and Friends Go To The Very Big City"
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Feel like I am hanging out on the set of "Thomas and Friends Go To The Very Big City"
Extra points to old Tokyo hands who can recognise the brewery affiliated building on my side of the river and stadium on the other side.
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Extra points to old Tokyo hands who can recognise the brewery affiliated building on my side of the river and stadium on the other side.
Parking minimums. In this essay I will..
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Parking minimums. In this essay I will..
When you win at SimCity
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
When you win at SimCity
Absolute scenes at Kyoto eki. The Nozomi is running five minutes late to Tokyo.
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Absolute scenes at Kyoto eki. The Nozomi is running five minutes late to Tokyo.
Last night I had a fancy dinner in Pontocho in Kyoto. Tonight I had "stamina ramen" at a place where you order off a screen (and otherwise full of students doing homework) after a day walking round Nara, and it tasted just as good.
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Last night I had a fancy dinner in Pontocho in Kyoto. Tonight I had "stamina ramen" at a place where you order off a screen (and otherwise full of students doing homework) after a day walking round Nara, and it tasted just as good.
First flat white in Japan
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
First flat white in Japan
Four legged wallet inspectors, Nara.
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Four legged wallet inspectors, Nara.
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Government halts new puberty blocker prescriptions – Expert Reaction
Government halts new puberty blocker prescriptions - Expert Reaction - Science Media Centre
The government is halting new puberty blocker prescriptions for youth with gender dysphoria. From 19 December, new regulations under the Medicines Act will prevent new prescriptions for this purpose,...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Government halts new puberty blocker prescriptions – Expert Reaction
I wrote this a decade ago, but I'm back in Kyoto and Ginkakuji is still a magical place excursionset.com/blog/2014/02...
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I wrote this a decade ago, but I'm back in Kyoto and Ginkakuji is still a magical place excursionset.com/blog/2014/02...
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
Dropper - Anchor (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by Dropper
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Amazing - a giant bell rung by a log suspended in front of it, battering ram-style. It sounds across the mountain like a dragon's heartbeat.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Amazing - a giant bell rung by a log suspended in front of it, battering ram-style. It sounds across the mountain like a dragon's heartbeat.
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I provided a pull-quote but there are a lot of Kiwi voices in this roundup of perspectives on @methanesat.bsky.social from Canadian green business site Corporate Knights corporateknights.com/category-cli...
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I provided a pull-quote but there are a lot of Kiwi voices in this roundup of perspectives on @methanesat.bsky.social from Canadian green business site Corporate Knights corporateknights.com/category-cli...
Read this to the end. The story is a gift to journalism that just keeps on giving.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
The Auckland college coup, the struck-off doctor, and the failed bid to gag the Herald
'We sincerely hope no other school in NZ will have to experience it.'
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Read this to the end. The story is a gift to journalism that just keeps on giving.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
I provided a pull-quote but there are a lot of Kiwi voices in this roundup of perspectives on @methanesat.bsky.social from Canadian green business site Corporate Knights corporateknights.com/category-cli...
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I provided a pull-quote but there are a lot of Kiwi voices in this roundup of perspectives on @methanesat.bsky.social from Canadian green business site Corporate Knights corporateknights.com/category-cli...
Amazing - a giant bell rung by a log suspended in front of it, battering ram-style. It sounds across the mountain like a dragon's heartbeat.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Amazing - a giant bell rung by a log suspended in front of it, battering ram-style. It sounds across the mountain like a dragon's heartbeat.
Autumn colors, above Lake Biwa
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Autumn colors, above Lake Biwa
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A perfect text explaining why your city should develop its cycleway network.
All the best arguments that you probably already know, but really well written, and very difficult to oppose.
All the best arguments that you probably already know, but really well written, and very difficult to oppose.
Op-ed of mine in The Post today on behalf of @greaterauckland.bsky.social on why urban cycling infrastructure is really important (and why urban roading infrastructure is not)
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Pedal power surges, but Auckland infrastructure trails the biking boom
OPINION: Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. But this maxim does not apply to adding cycling options.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A perfect text explaining why your city should develop its cycleway network.
All the best arguments that you probably already know, but really well written, and very difficult to oppose.
All the best arguments that you probably already know, but really well written, and very difficult to oppose.
Read this as "Bitcoin" www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Butter prices plunge 26% but shoppers still paying more
A 500g pack of butter peaked at $8.60 in June and now sits near $8.50.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Read this as "Bitcoin" www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
In my happy place.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
In my happy place.
452 Views of Mt Fuji - number 1
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
452 Views of Mt Fuji - number 1
American soft power, in Tokyo
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
American soft power, in Tokyo
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very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math
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In a crowded field of evil corporates, Elsevier is unethical and antisocial enough to really stand out. Fully support unis across our part of the world refusing to bow to them.
Elsevier should be made to eat it at every opportunity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Elsevier should be made to eat it at every opportunity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
In a crowded field of evil corporates, Elsevier is unethical and antisocial enough to really stand out. Fully support unis across our part of the world refusing to bow to them.
Elsevier should be made to eat it at every opportunity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Elsevier should be made to eat it at every opportunity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...