Rebecca Priestley
@rkpriestley.bsky.social
Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet
She/her or they/them/ia
Do any #Antarctic history folk know what has happened to the Antarctic Sun website? I know it stopped publishing new stories but last time I looked the website still existed with all the old stories. Not today - not sure if it's moved or been retired for ... reasons? antarcticsun.usap.gov
antarcticsun.usap.gov
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Do any #Antarctic history folk know what has happened to the Antarctic Sun website? I know it stopped publishing new stories but last time I looked the website still existed with all the old stories. Not today - not sure if it's moved or been retired for ... reasons? antarcticsun.usap.gov
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Early bird registration for the 2026 #Climate & #Cryosphere conference in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, closes next week. I'm looking forward to chairing a session on Communicating cryospheric change for diverse audiences @clicwcrp.bsky.social Full details: clic2026.com/wp-content/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Early bird registration for the 2026 #Climate & #Cryosphere conference in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, closes next week. I'm looking forward to chairing a session on Communicating cryospheric change for diverse audiences @clicwcrp.bsky.social Full details: clic2026.com/wp-content/u...
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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Folks, people who appreciated Siouxsie's work during the pandemic and/or who like free speech and academic freedom should help out here if they can. And that's all of us, one way or another, right?
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
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November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Folks, people who appreciated Siouxsie's work during the pandemic and/or who like free speech and academic freedom should help out here if they can. And that's all of us, one way or another, right?
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
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Deal news! Delighted to share that NZ academic & science journalist @rkpriestley.bsky.social's forthcoming "Melting Ice, Rising Seas: How Antarctica’s Ice Sheets are Reshaping our World" has been acquired by @monashuniversity.bsky.social Press in OZ, & will appear from @thwupbooks.bsky.social in NZ!
October 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Deal news! Delighted to share that NZ academic & science journalist @rkpriestley.bsky.social's forthcoming "Melting Ice, Rising Seas: How Antarctica’s Ice Sheets are Reshaping our World" has been acquired by @monashuniversity.bsky.social Press in OZ, & will appear from @thwupbooks.bsky.social in NZ!
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Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:
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In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
AI is another version of colonial extraction.
"Is suffer how I am seen? Is suffer what I am reduced to? Is suffer my default?" Lovely short piece of writing here about pain, suffering and stigma
New, old, percolating writing about pain, suffering and stigma pinchesofpain.com/2025/10/17/y...
“You hurt too much”: pain, suffering, and stigma
Ngā mihi nui, thank you very much, to family, friends, and colleagues who have read and responded to this piece over the last three years. Ngā mihi nui to the students of SCIS 314 whose feedback an…
pinchesofpain.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Is suffer how I am seen? Is suffer what I am reduced to? Is suffer my default?" Lovely short piece of writing here about pain, suffering and stigma
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"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
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This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
“Sometimes I think the ice was the best
place I’ve ever been”
Sames xxx 🇦🇶 🦭 ☕️
place I’ve ever been”
Sames xxx 🇦🇶 🦭 ☕️
The Friday Poem: ‘Antarctica Again’ by Alice Miller
The Friday Poem: ‘Antarctica Again’ by Alice Miller
A new poem by Alice Miller....
thespinoff.co.nz
October 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“Sometimes I think the ice was the best
place I’ve ever been”
Sames xxx 🇦🇶 🦭 ☕️
place I’ve ever been”
Sames xxx 🇦🇶 🦭 ☕️
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My recent comments on NZ methane targets summarised here.
theconversation.com/a-lack-of-am...
theconversation.com/a-lack-of-am...
A ‘lack of ambition’ over livestock emissions targets now threatens NZ’s reputation and trade
The government’s weakened methane reduction target mirrors the approach promoted by industry lobby groups but rejected by the Climate Change Commission.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
My recent comments on NZ methane targets summarised here.
theconversation.com/a-lack-of-am...
theconversation.com/a-lack-of-am...
Went to more sessions on coastal adaptation today then had a chat to protesters outside the @adaptationfutures.bsky.social conference. Totally agree: we are in a climate emergency and mitigation (reducing emissions) should still be top priority, unfortunately we now also need to adapt to 🥵 🌊 ⛈️
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Went to more sessions on coastal adaptation today then had a chat to protesters outside the @adaptationfutures.bsky.social conference. Totally agree: we are in a climate emergency and mitigation (reducing emissions) should still be top priority, unfortunately we now also need to adapt to 🥵 🌊 ⛈️
In 2026 we are offering a new course on Climate Change Communication. You can study this important topic as part of a wider programme or as a standalone course, at undergraduate (SCIS 317) or postgraduate (SCIS 417) level. More info here, or ask me questions #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/scis...
SCIS 317 Climate Change Communication | Course | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Examine how scientists, writers, Indigenous advocates, artists, and activists engage public audiences with the realities of climate change and the need for mitigation and adaptation. You will explore ...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
In 2026 we are offering a new course on Climate Change Communication. You can study this important topic as part of a wider programme or as a standalone course, at undergraduate (SCIS 317) or postgraduate (SCIS 417) level. More info here, or ask me questions #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/scis...
At the @adaptationfutures.bsky.social in Ōtautahi Christchurch and there is so much going on here! I'm mostly here to attend anything about sea level rise, sea walls, coastal adaptation – especially in the Pacific – but having massive FOMO about everything I'm not managing to get to! 🏝️🌊
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
At the @adaptationfutures.bsky.social in Ōtautahi Christchurch and there is so much going on here! I'm mostly here to attend anything about sea level rise, sea walls, coastal adaptation – especially in the Pacific – but having massive FOMO about everything I'm not managing to get to! 🏝️🌊
Our 1-year Master of Science in Society, at Victoria University of Wellington, is open for enrolments. We draw on science communication, STS, traditional knowledge, and the wider humanities, to look at science in its broader societal context. More info here: #Kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/explore/post...
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our 1-year Master of Science in Society, at Victoria University of Wellington, is open for enrolments. We draw on science communication, STS, traditional knowledge, and the wider humanities, to look at science in its broader societal context. More info here: #Kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/explore/post...
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Craig Robertson’s biography of CHRIS KNOX, NOT GIVEN LIGHTLY, is out now and I had the honour of making a trailer for it (from Chris’s own music and films).
'Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly', a biography by Craig Robertson | Book Trailer
YouTube video by Auckland University Press
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Craig Robertson’s biography of CHRIS KNOX, NOT GIVEN LIGHTLY, is out now and I had the honour of making a trailer for it (from Chris’s own music and films).
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Wellington. please vote, the city needs you.
According to "Inner-City Wellington" it looks like only around 1 in 5 people have voted! I know you voted, but have you checked on your friends? Link to voting drop box locations.
Maybe a cheeky re-post too.
wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
According to "Inner-City Wellington" it looks like only around 1 in 5 people have voted! I know you voted, but have you checked on your friends? Link to voting drop box locations.
Maybe a cheeky re-post too.
wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
Places to drop off your vote
Locations for orange voting bins and post boxes in Wellington.
wellington.govt.nz
October 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wellington. please vote, the city needs you.
According to "Inner-City Wellington" it looks like only around 1 in 5 people have voted! I know you voted, but have you checked on your friends? Link to voting drop box locations.
Maybe a cheeky re-post too.
wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
According to "Inner-City Wellington" it looks like only around 1 in 5 people have voted! I know you voted, but have you checked on your friends? Link to voting drop box locations.
Maybe a cheeky re-post too.
wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
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KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR!
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)
Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.
Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)
Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.
Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR!
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)
Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.
Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)
Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.
Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com
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🚨Deadline extended 🚨 Get your abstracts in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 by Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/vdMooRs2srtz...
#cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪
#cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
🚨Deadline extended 🚨 Get your abstracts in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 by Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/vdMooRs2srtz...
#cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪
#cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪
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Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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I'm attempting to raise money to make a limited series podcast looking at how the campaign to get New Zealand to pull out of the Paris climate accords, we've a little over a third of the way toward the goal, can you help make this happen?
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...
Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe
Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians
www.pledgeme.co.nz
September 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'm attempting to raise money to make a limited series podcast looking at how the campaign to get New Zealand to pull out of the Paris climate accords, we've a little over a third of the way toward the goal, can you help make this happen?
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...