Studying microplastics in the NZ context? I'd love to hear from you. I'm putting together a feature for NZ Geographic magazine and am keen to be documenting work in the lab and in the field.

Completely stoked that this miracle of a snail found Giselle Clarkson, a person who a) would never squish it and b) knew all about left-spirals and c) deeply deserved a Ned in her life.

A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...

How are your bluebells tracking? The chooks have failed to massacre mine, a few buds popping up...

It's about to get real easy to whip up league tables. 🫠

Hey Phil I can do this one! My training is paying off :)

"thesapling.o" is a delightful slip 😘

Been there :) Highly recommend the podcast Greeking Out by Nat Geo Kids - the first 10 seasons are on spotify and the 11th just landed on youtube. So great.

This paragraph gives you the leapfrog to Kerikeri, at least:

In New Zealand, myrtle rust was first found in March 2017 in northernmost and isolated territory, the remote Raoul Island... Soon after, in May 2017, the pathogen was also found in Kerikeri, North Island...

There is a bit more detail here? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm so sorry, Chris. Love to you.

The Absolute Book, maaaaybe? I definitely recall the magical book, and vaguely, a library...

Cloud Cuckoo Land?

Whiti, you need to read Naomi Arnold's Te Araroa memoir - it's amazing, out in a few weeks, completely feral.

Relevant to my previous skeet… I get that people want COVID to be a thing of the past, but it’s not and everyday is impacting on the lives of our most vulnerable while disabling other. Why we can’t just accept that and make all this a priority to protect each other I will never understand.

How good is the supermarket scene.