Te Pūnaha Matatini
@tepunahamatatini.bsky.social
The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. From complexity to possibility.
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Yes, my complexity / computational folks @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social there is also a maths joke: “Calculus tells us that even as we approach infinity, we approach limits.” Standard economic models will hit their limits long before networks of people do.
My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious.
Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*
Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yes, my complexity / computational folks @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social there is also a maths joke: “Calculus tells us that even as we approach infinity, we approach limits.” Standard economic models will hit their limits long before networks of people do.
AI, quantum computing, biotechnology and space. It’s easy to lump these fields together as advanced technologies. But they all operate very differently, they all need unique skill bases, and they all interlink in distinct ways 🧪🧵
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
AI, quantum computing, biotechnology and space. It’s easy to lump these fields together as advanced technologies. But they all operate very differently, they all need unique skill bases, and they all interlink in distinct ways 🧪🧵
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So excited to be visiting Aotearoa New Zealand in February for the Capitol City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 (with side trips to Otago, Canterbury, and U. Auckland).
If you're in Wellington or fancy a visit, check out the program.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...
If you're in Wellington or fancy a visit, check out the program.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...
Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026
The Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 explores cutting-edge knowledge of complex systems & complexity & how this knowledge is used to drive system change.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
So excited to be visiting Aotearoa New Zealand in February for the Capitol City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 (with side trips to Otago, Canterbury, and U. Auckland).
If you're in Wellington or fancy a visit, check out the program.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...
If you're in Wellington or fancy a visit, check out the program.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...
Biology isn’t tidy. Data about genes, proteins, and metabolites is enormous, incomplete, and constantly changing — yet many models still assume everything is fixed and error-free. That’s not reality 🧪🧵
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Biology isn’t tidy. Data about genes, proteins, and metabolites is enormous, incomplete, and constantly changing — yet many models still assume everything is fixed and error-free. That’s not reality 🧪🧵
"The most interesting thing about these stories is that there were stories about EV fires that contained ... no EV fire."
Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @troybaisden.bsky.social spoke to Mediawatch about recent media coverage of electric vehicles → www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... 🧪
Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @troybaisden.bsky.social spoke to Mediawatch about recent media coverage of electric vehicles → www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... 🧪
Mediawatch: Angst over EVs blows up in headlines
EV uptake boomed with incentives in place, but this week, the government made traditional cars cheaper instead.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"The most interesting thing about these stories is that there were stories about EV fires that contained ... no EV fire."
Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @troybaisden.bsky.social spoke to Mediawatch about recent media coverage of electric vehicles → www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... 🧪
Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator @troybaisden.bsky.social spoke to Mediawatch about recent media coverage of electric vehicles → www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... 🧪
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A great wānanga is a generative thinking space. And no more wonderful place for it than Wairewa marae this week for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, sheltered by ancestor Mako and surrounded by the hills of Te Pātaka o Rakeihautū 1/n
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A great wānanga is a generative thinking space. And no more wonderful place for it than Wairewa marae this week for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, sheltered by ancestor Mako and surrounded by the hills of Te Pātaka o Rakeihautū 1/n
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Registrations are now live for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-ci...
#cccss #complexsystems
#cccss #complexsystems
Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026
Join us in Wellington, New Zealand this summer for a gathering of leading researchers and practitioners working on complex systems.
www.eventbrite.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Registrations are now live for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-ci...
#cccss #complexsystems
#cccss #complexsystems
Registrations are now live for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-ci...
#cccss #complexsystems
#cccss #complexsystems
Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026
Join us in Wellington, New Zealand this summer for a gathering of leading researchers and practitioners working on complex systems.
www.eventbrite.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Registrations are now live for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 → www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/capital-ci...
#cccss #complexsystems
#cccss #complexsystems
The flow of information between research and policy is not a one-way street, it is a constant dialogue 🧪🧵
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The flow of information between research and policy is not a one-way street, it is a constant dialogue 🧪🧵
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Super chuffed with this latest project www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz that just launched. The team at Te Pūnaha Matatini are superstars both in the mahi they do and also behind the scenes, just genuinely lovely people to work with. Also props to @statamic.com for the fantastic platform
Te Pūnaha Matatini
Te Pūnaha Matatini leads in complex systems research to grow the ethical & collaborative experts needed to address Aotearoa’s most pressing challenges.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Super chuffed with this latest project www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz that just launched. The team at Te Pūnaha Matatini are superstars both in the mahi they do and also behind the scenes, just genuinely lovely people to work with. Also props to @statamic.com for the fantastic platform
If you want a new website, @brendyn.net at Avoca Web Design is your man, and Statamic is the CMS of your dreams → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz 🔥
Te Pūnaha Matatini
Te Pūnaha Matatini leads in complex systems research to grow the ethical & collaborative experts needed to address Aotearoa’s most pressing challenges.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If you want a new website, @brendyn.net at Avoca Web Design is your man, and Statamic is the CMS of your dreams → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz 🔥
best place for a small gift for a six-year-old dunedin
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
best place for a small gift for a six-year-old dunedin
Thanks Ōtepoti Bluesky 🙏
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thanks Ōtepoti Bluesky 🙏
what’s good to do in dunedin
October 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
what’s good to do in dunedin
On the second day of our annual hui, we started the day with a keynote from University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson on the research system in Aotearoa 🧪🧵
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On the second day of our annual hui, we started the day with a keynote from University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson on the research system in Aotearoa 🧪🧵
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Over the past year we have done extensive work on re-articulating what we at @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social do, how we do it, and why we do it. The first publicly visible artifact is our new online presence: www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz 1/n
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Over the past year we have done extensive work on re-articulating what we at @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social do, how we do it, and why we do it. The first publicly visible artifact is our new online presence: www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz 1/n
This week we’re all (mostly) together in Ōtepoti for our annual hui 🧪🧵
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This week we’re all (mostly) together in Ōtepoti for our annual hui 🧪🧵
Our inaugural guest artist Sione Faletau worked with Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Emma Sharp to transform 1,000 measurements of arsenic and lead into an immersive soundscape and visual projection → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/ongo-m... 🧪
Ongo mei he fonua – Sounds of soil (contamination)
Inaugural Te Pūnaha Matatini guest artist Sione Faletau has created a work that explores the interconnections between land, people and environmental histories.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Our inaugural guest artist Sione Faletau worked with Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Emma Sharp to transform 1,000 measurements of arsenic and lead into an immersive soundscape and visual projection → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/ongo-m... 🧪
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After four days off the grid in the NZ backcountry, I’m excited to be heading to Dunedin to talk complexity at the annual hui (meeting) for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, the NZ centre of research excellence in complex systems.
October 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
After four days off the grid in the NZ backcountry, I’m excited to be heading to Dunedin to talk complexity at the annual hui (meeting) for @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social, the NZ centre of research excellence in complex systems.
In the wake of the recent shakeup of New Zealand's science and innovation ecosystem, @mluczak.bsky.social spoke to 95bFM about what the future of New Zealand's science ecosystem needs to look like → 95bfm.com/bcast/change... 🧪
Changes to Science Funding Regime w/ Markus Luckas-Roeshe: 16th October 2025
The Science System Advisory Group headed by Sir Peter Gluckman, released its second report yesterday detailing new proposals for New Zealand’s science and innovation eco system. As a part of this repo...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
In the wake of the recent shakeup of New Zealand's science and innovation ecosystem, @mluczak.bsky.social spoke to 95bFM about what the future of New Zealand's science ecosystem needs to look like → 95bfm.com/bcast/change... 🧪
"The trouble with the government’s idea for a simple, more efficient science fund is that it’s trying to be a Ferrari on tin can funding." - @cillaw.bsky.social via @smcnz.bsky.social → www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/10/14/b... 🧪
Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction
The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy.
Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"The trouble with the government’s idea for a simple, more efficient science fund is that it’s trying to be a Ferrari on tin can funding." - @cillaw.bsky.social via @smcnz.bsky.social → www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/10/14/b... 🧪
Thanks for all your abstract submissions for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026! Now to make a programme.
#cccss26 #complexsystems
#cccss26 #complexsystems
a cartoon character is holding a stack of paper
Alt: A cartoon duck walks down the stairs with a teetering pile of paper.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Thanks for all your abstract submissions for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026! Now to make a programme.
#cccss26 #complexsystems
#cccss26 #complexsystems
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The 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗪𝗖𝗦𝟮𝟲) has extended its hashtag#deadline for applications to 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵!
For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd
For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗪𝗖𝗦𝟮𝟲) has extended its hashtag#deadline for applications to 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵!
For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd
For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd
Last chance to get your abstract in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium! Submissions close Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/aTUCy1FrE1vm...
#cccss #complexsystems 🧪
#cccss #complexsystems 🧪
a man in a suit and bow tie says new zealand might be a destination i want to go to
Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie says new zealand might be a destination i want to go to
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October 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Last chance to get your abstract in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium! Submissions close Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/aTUCy1FrE1vm...
#cccss #complexsystems 🧪
#cccss #complexsystems 🧪
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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 🧪