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Pauline Dawson
@paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
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Midwife, Snr Lecturer, Doctor but not that kind
Toitū Te Tiriti, Perinatal health inequity, data monkey, social justice https://www.otago.ac.nz/obstetrics-gynaecology-womens-health/people/profile?id=1354 'The patriarchy won't smash itself'
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ricwrites.bsky.social
WONDERFUL news out of Australia!

"Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer by 2035, which, if achieved, will make it the first country to do so."

www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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jennifilm.nz
In some good news, today PATHA has finally been able to release the 2025 Guidelines for Gender Affirming Care in Aotearoa New Zealand. You can read them here: patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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rgjones.bsky.social
"To the medical community, we urge all our colleagues to resist the move toward authoritarianism over our work"

I'm reminded of this statement, from the AMA Code of Medical Ethics 2002-03: "In exceptional circumstances of unjust laws, ethical responsibilities should supersede legal obligations."
Civic Obligations in Medicine: Does "Professional" Civil Disobedience Tear, or Repair, the Basic Fabric of Society?
Professional civil disobedience can have benefits and risks to both medical professionals and patients.
journalofethics.ama-assn.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
I have been thinking about difficult aspects of academia a lot. We should be having some hard conversations - there are plenty of topics. This is one: Academic Bullying pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Academic bullying in science and medicine: the need for reform
An official website of the United States government
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social
Is your academic org doing something cool virtually to support ECRs? Would love to hear who's doing this - I want to make sure my dues and membership belong to spaces I'm morally aligned with. Please send recs or comment on initiatives youd want to see! #AcademicSky
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
Care closer to home is great. How this actually pans out will be interesting. Disclaimer: I have been involved in some of the maternity/perinatal aspects
radionz.nzcow.com RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 4d
📢 It wants to shift more services out of Dunedin and Invercargill hospitals and into Queenstown, Wānaka, and Cromwell.
Plan to overhaul Otago and Queenstown healthcare announced
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
Back in the datalab today after a long break. Really nice change of pace
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November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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alranz.bsky.social
If they can ban access to healthcare like puberty blockers for one group of people, they can do this with any healthcare for their next target. They will ban abortion again given the chance and they will come after contraception after that. The anti-choice movement is our govt right now. #nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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mikeythenurse.bsky.social
Very proud to have been able to contribute to this response from the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses to the puberty blocker ban. I'm glad our union and college have our back and are willing to stand up to this transphobic government.

www.nzno.org.nz/about_us/med...
Puberty blocker ban will hurt young people: Child and Youth nurses
The decision to ban new prescriptions for puberty blockers will hurt young people, the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses (CCYN) Tapuhitia Ngā Mokopuna Mō Apōpō says. Minister of Health Simeon Br...
www.nzno.org.nz
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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mikeythenurse.bsky.social
Here's another nursing led response to the puberty blocker ban by this transphobic government. Is there a thread showing all the professional bodies pushing back against this decision?

kaitiaki.org.nz/article/nzno...
NZNO rainbow, child health nurses slams ‘devastating’ ban on puberty-blockers – Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand
kaitiaki.org.nz
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
What about Indigenous (or anyone's) Data Sovereignty - this is stored off shore?
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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ktaiuru.bsky.social
Data, Dignity, and the Deceased: Futures for Forensic Technologies from a Te Ao Māori perspective free webinar. www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/data-digni... #maori #datasoverignty
Data, Dignity, and the Deceased: Futures for Forensic Technologies
A tikanga Māori perspective of forensic data by leading forensic researcher.
www.eventbrite.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
I've decided that pre-Christmas I am going to have a gathering for friends and colleagues (and family) who missed out on funding rounds in 2025. Like even if you got some I bet you missed others.....At my fav wine bar and I will put on food
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November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
Think I might stop reviewing for Elsevier
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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susanmicro.bsky.social
Fantastic.

Midwives immunising pregnant mums in battle against whooping cough www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Midwives immunising pregnant mums in battle against whooping cough
The programme, which launched in August, is a key part of the government's response to the whooping cough epidemic, which has hit 3200 cases in the last year and caused one death.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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marsdenfund.bsky.social
A list of all successful 2025 #MarsdenFund projects can be found below. Congratulations to all of the funded researchers!
www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...
Marsden Fund Awards 2025
Published on 6 Whiringa-ā-rangi November 2025 You can download an Excel spreadsheet of these results here: 2025-Marsden Fund Supplement The definitions of the 8 Marsden Fund panels can be found here...
www.royalsociety.org.nz
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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aotearoa-nz.bsky.social
Remember, remember the Fifth of November!

Violence, eviction and rape.
delwynm.bsky.social Delwyn @delwynm.bsky.social · 26d
Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty.

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#kikorangi
A black and white aerial photo showing modern-day Parihaka as small white buildings in the foreground, surrounded by garmland and some patches of bush and trees, with Taranaki Maunga in the background. Photo: Puke Ariki.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social
Fantastic webinar from Kiri West about Māori Data Sovereignty via @royalsocietynz.bsky.social today. I loved the storytelling linkage, it felt *right* from my experiences of data. Wonderful stuff. Thank you. Here is a link to some of Kiri's work teatawhai.maori.nz/wp-content/u...
teatawhai.maori.nz
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
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October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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hendysh.bsky.social
Hey team - @siouxsiew.bsky.social's university spent > $1.5m defending a case that their lawyers largely conceded in court. This was a huge waste of public $$$, but despite Siouxsie's win, she remains out of pocket. Please support Siouxsie after she supported us: www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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hendysh.bsky.social
Ka rawe koe @taramcallister.bsky.social, this is epic www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...
Tara McAllister
2025: Dr Tara McAllister of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa will investigate how mātauranga Māori can contribute to research, science, and innovation in Aotearoa New Zealand
www.royalsociety.org.nz
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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mikeythenurse.bsky.social
The negative impacts this government has had on our health system was almost immediate, and has worsened every month that goes by with them in power. Funding cuts, service closures, graduate nurses unable to find jobs, dismantling of Te Aka Whai Ora. Support the strike! #nzpol
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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rnzrss.bsky.social
Tenfold increase in East Coast mums giving birth in Tauranga after Whakatāne loses obstetrics
Tenfold increase in East Coast mums giving birth in Tauranga after Whakatāne loses obstetrics
The number has jumped, since Whakatāne Hospital lost its obstetric services in January.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM