Stephen Hill
@srhastraea.bsky.social
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Cognitive psych interested in distributed cognition, memory, weird and non-weird beliefs, cognitive biases, conspiracy belief, misinformation, scientific vs lay cognition, climate change, open science, metascience, 4eCognition. From Aotearoa/New Zealand
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saycheeselouise.bsky.social
Here's what I know:
Lower Hutt, Whanganui, Nelson, Masterton, Rotorua, Whakatāne all keeping their Māori wards
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fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Lower Hutt:

I VOTE TO KEEP THE MĀORI WARD / 14,816

I VOTE TO REMOVE THE MĀORI WARD / 9,279

Yessss

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...
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alicesoapbox.bsky.social
And my city voted overwhelmingly to retain Māori wards. That’s right up my Hutt Valley!
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olivia.science
as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think
srhastraea.bsky.social
I wasn’t prepared for the satire to be so non-satire-y.
thejuicemedia.com
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
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thejuicemedia.com
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
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christinahood.bsky.social
Heads up - New Zealand government's annoucements on 2050 climate target will be made midday Sunday NZ time. Will we be the first country to weaken a legislated 2050 target?
Email from the Ministry for the Environment: 

Tēnā koe,
On Sunday at 12.00pm (12th October) the Government will make an announcement about New Zealand’s 2050 climate change targets.  

The Ministry for the Environment will also release the 2025 emissions projections at 5.00pm on Sunday.

Ngā mihi
Ministry for the Environment
srhastraea.bsky.social
Genius
newsroom.co.nz
Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.
Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt
newsroom.co.nz
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
"“We’re sort of counterfeiting the human experience at scale across several dimensions simultaneously and then putting that in the hands of children and hoping that works out. That’s a high-stakes gamble.” www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
Students raise alarms about AI use
Study connects schools’ adoption with concerns.
www.sfexaminer.com
srhastraea.bsky.social
Dunno - I can’t picture @simine.com in that hat.
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publicaddress.bsky.social
Treasury: "Because of this, it is hard to reconcile (from a purely logical perspective) how building a new medical school is going to be better than any non-build option, if we aren’t facing a capacity constraint."

The University of Waikato paid Steven Joyce $1m to get $82.85m of taxpayers' money.
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phcc.bsky.social
The health effects of climate change are unevenly distributed. Communities with fewer resources face higher risks and fewer protections. Policy responses in Aotearoa must prioritise equity. #climateaction #publichealth www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/cli...
Climate change is harming health: The need for urgent action
With mounting evidence of climate change’s health consequences, the case for urgent action is stronger than ever.
www.phcc.org.nz
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psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Does Googling make you more creative? 🧐 A new blog post by Heather Manitzas Hill highlights research in #psynomMC by Oppenheimer & Patterson showing that while the internet can spark ideas for individuals, it may limit creativity in groups. buff.ly/fzmVpuo
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noellecook.com
The Conspiracists draws us into the lives of women who’ve “done their research” straight out of shared reality. It explores how and why so many found belonging through conspiracy.
Preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging
Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging
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musicalchairs.bsky.social
Worth noting that we only see decent job growth for young kiwis when the economy is running hot - that's when employers give less experienced people a chance.
RBNZ respond to hotness by hiking interest rates to slow the economy down. Youth unemployment is a feature of our economic model, not a bug.
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katharinehayhoe.com
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.