What did DPMC try to hide as "free and frank", the release of which would inhibit similar future expressions? Anodyne bullshit, basic explanations of the role, statements of the obvious, and advice to ask agencies if they get along with DPMC and Treasury...

good on MP Reuben Davidson for asking Shane Reti to designate ring-fenced funding for young scientists in NZ

Reti's answer is complete bullshit: NZ is one of the hardest countries in the WORLD to fund a postdoc. why does he think we have so few of them here????

#nzpol

I saw somebody on Tumblr say that when TERFs say that or equivalent about gender stuff, they're really saying 'state-enforced'. Your state-enforced name, or there being two state enforced genders, etc.

The thing is, this is good for social stability and cohesion! Political and economic elites can either have normal consequences or they will ultimately get extraordinary consequences. That they are too stupid and shortsighted to understand this shouldn't keep the rest of us from understanding it

There's a member's bill to fix that, which should get a first reading debate in a couple of member's days.

No idea if it will pass though.

www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/member/...