Delivery from Aotearoa 😊

WTF? You shut down Skype and stole all my credit

I've been sick all week and feeling horribly let down by the NHS, elected politicians and (especially) university managers, but today it's #Caturday and it is Lloumi's 12th birthday

¿Hay alguien en San Pedro de Alcántara que me pueda decir lo que pasó a las casas originarias en la Calle Fuente del Espanto? Yo viví aquí en los 80 y regresé en los 90 pero ahora las casas originarias han desaparecido por completo. ¿Sus habitantes fueron desplazados?

Last night we went out for dinner in rural Wisconsin only to be greeted by this horrific message

These privatised energy companies really are taking the piss

Oh go away Elsevier, I am so sick of AI everywhere I look. Let me just read the whole article.

Ka aroha ahau ki taku koru

Well of course

Hey National Geographic Traveller, a bit of awareness of geography would be good. While Nicaragua is ruled by a violent dictatorship, now is not the time to go sample its coffee culture

Not a good time, Air France, have you not seen the news?

Post your favourite Dr Who wrong answers only

I've been coming to Guatemala for nearly 35 years, but didn't ever see a quetzal until today. It really is the most beautiful thing

As Paul Gilroy recently said, in the UK we are living the end of the university
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Ten years ago today - eating rundown at Paulina's Kitchen in Bilwi. Kingfish, coconut milk, green bananas, breadfruit, cassava, quequisque.

I never post to Facebook any more, but when I look at it, I am saddened by all the memories of research in Nicaragua, from the time when it was still safe to travel there. It's now been several years in which it has no longer been possible for anyone to do non-government aligned research.

Christmas morning on Longsands Beach

In 1995, just after I gave birth to my youngest child, I planted a tarata seedling together with our whenua in Akaroa in the Banks Peninsula. Today it is a mighty tree