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André Bellvé

@andrebellve.bsky.social
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Ecologist, data scientist and board gamer. I study how communities and functions have changed through time. Fond of carnivorous plants. he/him/his

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
What I would love to see in the Greens tax discussion: 1. Repeated comparisons to other countries. NZers are very insecure and we need to be told that everyone else already has tax-free thresholds, wealth taxes, inheritance taxes; the phrase “it’s a bit embarrassing” is NZ kryptonite.
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Andrew Chen @andrewtychen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We have just launched a parliamentary petition calling for mandatory AI transparency in the public sector. If AI is going to be used in the delivery of public services, it must be AI that is worthy of our trust. Sign: petitions.parliament.nz/7bfe1c60-b99... Read more: www.trustworthyai.nz
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Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“The damage …will show up in a decade, when New Zealand’s deep-tech sector is thinner, its universities are less competitive for global talent, and the high-value industries … have less to build on. By then, nobody will connect the dots back to the year the seed bank was raided to fund the harvest.”
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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/05/2026
zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol
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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Academia should instead be trying to move towards a more equitable publishing system, evaluating individuals without resorting to simple numbers of papers and/or citations. Much work is to be done, but many have made good progress - see www.fabiocrameri.ch/proac/ for a start!
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ProAc multi-metric profile for academic evaluation
ProAc is a purpose-built, multi-metric profile of individual academics to make scientific evaluation fairer and more efficient, and the the research better.
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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This preprint came about through continuous discussions with my good friends (and inspirations) @andrebellve.bsky.social and @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social We read the coverage on the recently proposed Sh-index, and noticed how it was not being critiqued for contributing to systemic biases.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
when you have to block the strait of hormuz because they blocked the strait of hormuz
it's the Arthur clenched fist meme but the fist has been photoshopped to be comically smaller
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.
She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie...
MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2
billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries. This model imposes a growing bias in scientific publishing, with clear consequences for the inclusiveness, fairness & global representativeness of fields like #ecology” #RealTalk #OpenAccess
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
BREAKING It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports: www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Refusing to subsidize solar while underwriting a billion dollar gas terminal is like renting an expensive fossil fuel heater for a house you're already planning to electrify" #NZPol
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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Check out our new paper led by @andrebellve.bsky.social in this month's issue of @ecography.bsky.social. We show that preservation biases in the fossil record can distort species ecological niche and distribution models. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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Preservation biases in the fossil record distort species ecological niche and distribution models
Ecological niche models (ENMs) increasingly leverage the fossil record to understand species' environmental associations and predict their geographic distributions. However, fossils do not occur unif....
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
For journalists who want to dig into stories about scientific integrity: Here's an exciting new opportunity from two of my favorite science-journalism organizations, @retractionwatch.com and @theopennotebook.bsky.social. I'll be joining a webinar to help kick things off on March 26!
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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This month's Funk lecture from @biogeography.bsky.social will be given by Juan Pablo Quimbayo. Sign up soon!
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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
February's Funk Biogeography seminar is on the horizon! This month's speaker is Juan Pablo Quimbayo, who will talk about the role of traits in shaping marine biodiversity. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/fe...
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Good advice. You can add more sites than just RNZ, and this will improve Google News results
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Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New Research Paper Shows 90% of US Adults Don't Know How Many R's Are In The Word "Strawberry"
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668
The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a   Tenure Track Professors...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing
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Jean-Philippe Lessard @bugecology.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely! Possible topics include: Determinants of range limits Assembly of ecological networks (eg, plant-pollinator) The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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PhD position opening in community and biogeography
PhD Position in Community Ecology & Biogeography, Montreal, Canada Our research group at Concordia University investigates the forces enabling the maintenance, and governing the distribution, of biol...
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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"Internal documents show how the sector repeatedly lobbied Resources Minister Shane Jones to dilute New Zealand's cleanup rules for ageing oil fields. Rules brought in to protect taxpayers after the 2019 Tui Oil Field collapse left the state burdened with a $300m bill." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the industry's wishlist, including giving it access to draft laws.
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🎓 Looking for an exciting PhD project? Check out some amazing opportunities on our page! 🌍🔬 👉 palass.org/phd-opportun... Have a PhD opportunity to share? You can easily add it using the “Add a PhD Opportunity” button! 📝✨ #phd #phdlife #advertising #palass
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Took this thread and made it a post, with links - open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
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Why a strike is 100% justified and 100% necessary
An incomplete summary of the harm being done by this current government
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 19/10/2025
this is why I stopped using spotify. I buy albums on Bandcamp fairly often. I love finding new music. I tune in to my university's radio station for shows that showcase genres I like, so I can find them on Bandcamp. If i decide I want a streaming service, it'll be Qobuz, probably.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/10/2025
King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
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King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
Australian band’s decision to remove catalogue in protest of CEO’s military investments an easy one, frontman says, and making music with friends remains ‘top of the triangle’
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#seabirds #ornithology 🐧
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This rules lmao
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/09/2025
new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)
Reti earmarks $70m of new agency's budget for AI commercialisation grants
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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
*Private Health Insurance entered the chat*
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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New read from me this AM w exclusive polling: Luxon headed into a $1500 a head donor dinner with his leadership of the economy and country under serious pressure. Polling shows more think the county is on the wrong track than at any point since the election www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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PM jets off to donor dinner, leaving Willis to explain economic dive
Christopher Luxon walked into a $1500-a-head National Party fundraising event last night with the economy under serious pressure ‒ and a poll revealing more Kiwis think the country is on the “wrong tr...
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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
For my whānau in Aotearoa, if you haven't heard there is a fantastic new website for learning about your local election candidates: policy.nz - this was funded by the electoral commission and it gives you far more detail about the candidates, including their specific policies on a range of issues!
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Policy.nz - NZ Local Elections 2025
Don’t know who to vote for? Policy.nz is the complete guide to the 2025 local elections. Compare the candidates and policies to see where you stand.
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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Next week on Wednesday 17th September at 7pm NZ time I'll be talking to the NZ Geological Society on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction. You can register to see my talk using the link below.
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Jeff White @jeffwwhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New open access paper out! We evaluated the population structure and conservation needs for 3 crested penguin species in NZ. Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
same
Headline: These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping
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Skull Issue @gothpink.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Very glad I finally got stuck in to modeling these little critters. Still need texture work, but they look a lot more menacing now, and really gross too 😈 Now i gotta do something about the player models. #gamedev #indiedev #horrorgames
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/08/2025
No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret
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OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
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Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
**Join Our Team! 🚀** 🌟 **Exciting Postdoc Opportunity!** @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍 Dive into groundbreaking research that explores how rising ecological novelty transforms #biodiversity and #vegetation! 🌿 —apply now! 👉 shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology
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2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Critics of #ColosalBiosciences, including myself, are not angry, or getting meaner and meaner, we are being intellectual honest about what Colossal is up to 1/n
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Willis pushing partial privatisation of Kiwibank just so it can access $500m of new capital. $500m also happens to be the combined subsidy she is giving to Phillip Morris tobacco ($300m) and fossil fuel cos ($200m). Let’s redirect that cash to Kiwibank and keep it. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Not-so-Kiwibank? Finance minister opens door to partial sale
“Kiwibank. It’s Ours” or so the advertisements go. But possibly not “ours” entirely for much longer with Finance Minister Nicola Willis open to floating part of the state-owned company
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Today is the five year anniversary of Jordan Williams of the the New Zealand Taxpayers Union blocking me on Twitter after I referred to the debt monster mascot as his fursona
A green furry monster holding a sign that says "debt monster"
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Better version of the meme.
The joke is, Nature is the one killing null results, but blaming scientists.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Combining multiple data sources to show that colonies of at least 15 species of burrowing seabirds were once found throughout Aotearoa, including on mountain ranges far inland. Most were rapidly wiped out by humans and rats pre-1840, other introduced predators taking care of what survived.
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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Check out this cool work from @andrebellve.bsky.social
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André Bellvé @andrebellve.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Stoked to finally see this one out in the wide world: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)
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Burrowing Into the Past: Extending Niche Space Models of Procellariiform Breeding Grounds by Merging Fossil and Historic Data
Aim Predicting species' potential distributions and niches requires multi-scale data encompassing the past and present. Increasingly, researchers have advocated using historical context to inform ec...
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Nat Forsdick @natforsdick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Francine Elisaia shares the importance of #seabirds in Samoa, where they appear in traditional proverbs, stories, cultural practices, & voyaging. Monitoring is well aligned with Samoa’s long term national strategy for #biodiversity & knowledge sharing is key to community engagement. #OceaniaSeabirds
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The reality is foxes and cats contributed to extinctions of Australian mammals and continue to threaten rare species through predation. I'm not sure questioning their role is helpful for conservation. theconversation.com/extinctions-...
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Extinctions of Australian mammals have long been blamed on foxes and cats – but where’s the evidence?
Dozens of Australian mammal species have declined and gone extinct since European colonisation – and introduced predators are often blamed. But evidence is lacking.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Treaty Principles Bill
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a man walking down a sidewalk with a bag of garbage in front of a don villa 's van
ALT: a man walking down a sidewalk with a bag of garbage in front of a don villa 's van
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.
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