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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

If you want to escape for a while, I recommend joining Joseph’s Ricketts in this freshwater spring in the Ocklawaha river, Florida, looking for giant tadpoles. Joseph makes wonderful underwater natural history videos with his own camera work and he plays the music too. It’s the real thing […]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I was just talking to a visiting colleague about canterbury's norwester wind. It turns out crazy ex girfriend has a theme sont for another Föhn wind: the Santa Ana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5XdQ5q2PIA

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

This is a fantastic explanation about why the hype around university commercialization is flawed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR1bsNaSygk

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Isaac Freeman @isaacfreeman.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The Green Party has released AI policy today as part of our general election campaign: www.greens.org.nz/ai_policy I’m pretty happy with it. There are some things I’d word differently for a more technical audience, but as something going out to all voters I think it strikes the right […]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I'm delighted that Anne Carson won the nobel for Litterature. Makes me smile to think about Canada an the ways it tries to make culture. I read her poems at night university. I must have heard about her on the CBC . I'm listening to her now talking about her […] [Original post on ecoevo.social]

Cover page for Anne Carson's collection of poems "The beauty of the Husband a fictional essay in 29 tangoes"

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Our university got an announcement that in some university rankings, we had "moved from the 501-600 band to the 701-800 band". This is natural of course, rankings go up about as often as they go down.... I can't help but wonder if administrators would be as keen on rankings if others at the […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

"College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators" Such a good piece! If you feel overwhelmed by admin at your university, you are not alone. I might have a new mission: "We want our young people not just to follow rules but to question them, and to abandon them when they do not […]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Countries by how New Zealand they are

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I have a higher tolerance for econmists than lots of other academics... and this is why, instead of hand wringing about the harms of #AI, take a guess at what the price of these harms may be and judge our policy based on whether that price is payed […]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I’m starting to get the feeling that if universities were in charge of nuclear energy, reporting requirements would be added to police student’s uses of electric kettles, while senior leadership lectured the faculty on their failure to deploy ICBMs.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

“Now that we’ve gotten everyone vaguely scared, we think this is the time to propose solutions, namely massive third party oversight which we will pay for and control, gatekeeping of smaller competitors, toothless government legislation which we’ve already paid President Trump to let us write […]

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I've spent part of my weekend making this graph. It shows the trends in three native NZ forest birds that I've heard and seen over the years while locking up my bike at Lincoln University. The lines on the graph show the trends in whether or not I saw or heard […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

A three panel graph showing the trends in three bird species since 2007, from the bike stands at Lincoln University where I work. The top panel is korimako, the NZ bellbird, which shows up on campus in the winter months and in the last three years has increased substantially. The middle panel is piwakawaka, the fantail which has wobbled up and down a lot (its quite sensitive to bad weather in late Winter/early Spring). It was in decline but has picked up again in the recent couple of years. The third panel is riroriro, the grey warbler, which shows a more accentuated version of the piwakawaka pattern, almost disappearing before increasing in recent years.

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Jeff Seidman (he/him) @jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Such a good @volts.wtf pod. Partly because @janeaflegal.bsky.social is crazy smart; but also because the context in which we've thought about climate and energy has shifted so profoundly, in so many ways, that attempts like this to rethink our theory of change are badly, badly needed.

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Building a big, abundant, clean grid

A conversation with Jane Flegal.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Looks like my lecture on per-capita growth rates has a new example […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of my favorite colleagues came to my university to meet another colleague. After the meeting, he said to me, “Well, he’s probably as smart as he thinks he is. But the rest of us are not as dumb as he thinks we are.” 🫠

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

[when you’re an 11th century anglo saxon ealdorman accepting the rule of the victorious danish king] serving cnut

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data. And yet, even in this […]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I just had the most @joncounts meeting of all time. The bicycle tire was successfully repaired.

Serious office meeting... but a bike tire is being repaired.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: glitterkitten.co.uk/@theplaguedoc/1… Let this be the first igNobel prize awarded to a fediverse thread please! 🙏

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

✅ Chiding scientists for not being business leaders. ✅ Chiding business leaders for not being AI bros. ✅ In so doing becoming an AI bro... then realizing he has to chide himself. ✅ leaving Winston Peters to get on with things.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Microsoft be like: You can turn off this AI feature until you restart powerpoint... ... ... Critical update needed powerpoint needs a restart

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026

Honestly I think the climate & clean energy world is too dominated by nerds preoccupied with Facts and Science. What they need to do is just hire a bunch of hot people to say nice things about clean energy online. Don't overthink it. Just hire hot people who know how to use selfie sticks.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

"Then, too, the real limiting factor for accessing all three contributions of natural history is that perpetual source of human but especially academic anxiety: time." Another lovely essay from @jby ... i might extrapolate if we are to fight for more natural history, we need to fight for more […]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

I think biologists should read this. It is great fun to find Economists in the wild and ask them annoying questions about "nobel" prize winners like Ostrom, Kahneman Acemoglu et al. There are several nods to ideas in #ecology #evolution, I think we need to make these links clearer […]

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James Hawley, PhD @jrhawley.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Finally, an editorial in Science that isn't just hedging its bets and trying to play nice. This is a long overdue piece. www.science.org/content/blog-post/a… The US government is out to destroy US (and possibly global) science and they do not know nor […]

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/07/2026

Research by @steveclimate.bsky.social and others shows that when "high status" individuals like athletes lead by example on climate, they "improve public willingness to adopt low-carbon behaviors AND greatly increase perceptions of leader credibility, trustworthiness, competence, and favorability."

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Leading by example from high-status individuals: exploring a crucial missing link in climate change mitigation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Leading by example from high-status individuals: exploring a crucial missing link in climate change mitigation

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Weird Socks @ohmu.social.seattle.wa.us.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

RE: mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116869492568… This is lovely. I had never heard of Buster Keaton making a last short film in 1964.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/07/2026

I kinda think this is one big reason everyone is so unsettled & unhappy these days, even living in the most materially prosperous society in human history. As Chris Hayes put it in his recent book, we all desperately want/need validation, but the only thing available is attention.

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julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

In this paper we improve the bound on the value of Dylan's constant 𝐷. This value, first defined by Dylan [1963], is the number of roads that a man must walk down. We briefly recap the history of Dylan's constant. Although it is not a priori obvious that a man must walk down a finite number of […]

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

I'm glad there are people who have found the head space to explain... very slowly why fundamental research matters to New Zealand. peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-the…

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on the destruction of New Zealand Science

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.