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Janet Hoek

@janethoek.bsky.social
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Public health academic, formerly marketing prof and medievalist. Went from the dark ages to the dark side before seeing the light.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who can say no? We’ve been thinking a lot about governance of AI, learning lessons from how society has responded to analogous challenges in the past. And we welcome feedback as this is really difficult arxiv.org/abs/2610.13340
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Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI
In September 2026, the leaders of the largest frontier AI laboratories said in public that the pace of capability improvement is too fast and that none of them can slow down alone, and agents under ev...
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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
OMG! Not just ghosts jobs but now ghost Bish's.. Where's Wellington Paranormal when we really need them...? #nzpol
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Tobacco Control @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Latest News: Over half of youth using e- cigarettes were unaware of the nicotine concentration. High-concentration products have become increasingly prevalent, especially among young adults. bit.ly/4i1ipL4
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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There are many different nicotine-containing products, and definitions of these products vary from country to country, posing a challenge to #TobaccoControl progress.
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nicotine pouch use induces alterations in salivary metabolites and metabolic pathways, find Lauriina Soiniemi et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
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Nicotine pouch use induces alterations in salivary metabolites and metabolic pathways. Preliminary study based on NMR spectroscopy
Salivary metabolites and metabolic pathways in nicotine pouch users appear to show alterations, indicating changes in salivary composition. Using NMR spect
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yeah nah, we’re smarter than this AotearoaNZ, you know what to do, vote accordingly. #nzpol #TaxTheRich #TaxWealthMore #TaxWorkLess #ForAllOfUs #NZ #OneTermGovernment ✅✅🕊️
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Part of the reason for the organised vilification of the Ardern govt initial response to the COVID pandemic was that it was so effective in demonstrating how powerful decisive state intervention in the interests of the common good could be. The far-right and its big business backers were HORRIFIED.
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How NZ’s right turned culture war into political strategy
Nicky Hager’s latest book argues the tactics of New Zealand’s organised right have changed, but the interests behind them have not.
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#GaryPayinda is a top bloke. #Whangarei, he'll have your back. #nzpol
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
a revolving door update for the corporate lobbying-heads out there: the lead U.S. delegate engaged in UN plastic treaty negotiations has just moved to a senior role at ExxonMobil advising - surprisingly enough - on 'global plastic issues'
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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026
None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💫 Event 💫 Register for our webinar on #TobaccoIndustry disinformation, being held as part of London Global Cancer Week 2026. 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobacco-indus… #PublicHealth
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Tobacco industry disinformation: emerging tactics and lessons for public health
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026
the lady in red is every NZ scientist in this election #nzpol
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Luxon with same real Melania Trump vibes. The man has a natural talent for coming across as a total prick. You can’t teach that.
Frankly, I don't care’, Luxon says as undecided panel favour Hipkins after leaders debateHe said he wasn't bothered by the undecided voters panel siding with Hipkins. Luxon scored only 24% with that panel of 100 voters, while 27% remained undecided.

"I mean, there'll be a number of other people with a number of other views. Frankly, I don't care," he said.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Frankly, I don’t care” epitomises Luxon’s time as PM. #nzpol Some of the things Luxon doesn’t care about: Homelessness NZers dying in hospital while waiting to be seen. People dying on the streets in winter People starving People being made homeless by no cause evictions Pay equity Racism Lies
Part of a stuff headline that epitomises Luxon’s tenure as PM
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Tobacco Control @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Latest News: Documents suggest that BAT remained involved in illicit tobacco trade (ITT) post 1990's in parts of Africa and the Middle East, despite engaging with governments to tackle ITT. bit.ly/4hukj6T
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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How do you come third in a two person race?
Graphic showing the set up for a tv leaders debate, with the split for who won the debate. The numbers show 49% for Chris Hipkins, 27% undecided, and 24% for Luxon.
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-eoph.bsky.social @accpchest.bsky.social 🛟🫁 Australia bans nicotine analogue 6-methyl nicotine, putting the compound on the poisons schedule.
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"It is morally repugnant – to Hager, to his TU informants, to many others – that you would deliberately stir up hatred in a society, simply because it was an effective way to achieve your goals." Great read by Simon Wilson on Nicky Hager's book simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work...
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Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves
Nicky Hager’s new book ‘Dirty Work’ reminds us how much we’ve lost in the last three years
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Nearly half of the letters had the same language as campaigns run by tobacco giants Altria Group Inc. or Reynolds American, researchers found… The tactic of showering regulators with the same talking points is not new. The tobacco industry has done it since at least the 1980s”
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How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban
Virtually all of the 175,000 public comments on a 2022 FDA proposal to ban menthol cigarettes were form letters, most echoing tobacco industry talking points.
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MattoB @mattob007.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Terminating the Marsden Fund in NZ isn't an isolated misstep—it’s part of a compounding disaster across our science system. #nzpol
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Janet Hoek @janethoek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So NZ First's health policy will "shift healthcare funding toward healthier lifestyles" www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361... Waiting with bated breath for the announcement they will reintroduce the smokefree measures they repealed.
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‘Make NZ Healthy’: NZ First proposes major overhaul of health system
NZ First has launched the first part of its campaign plan to overhaul the country’s health system, proposing a pivot toward preventative care and metabolic health.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026
Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exhibit A…
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Personally I think ACT & NZ First leaving themselves off is the “performative hypocritical nonsense” www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto... #NZpol
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‘Hypocritical nonsense’: NZ First, Act, reject Labour's appeal for civility
Ayesha Verrall makes campaign appeal after being shouted out of a recent public meeting.
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People need to understand that the NZ health system isn’t just being crashed, it’s being Americanised. That’s the endgame here. Insurance and capital-led, public services in squalor and subservient to private provision. Profit extraction at every possible point of exchange across the whole system.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ooohh yes please now we're talking!! We had SUCH a good scheme with Ka Ora, Ka Ako. Local jobs for local people, stimulating the local economy. Our kids got solid, nutritious, tasty lunches that they enjoyed. Leftovers were gobbled up by local food rescue and charities.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Last year, I warned Kiwis are dying in hospital corridors. Sean Plunket said it wasn't true. Today, news that 2 patients in 2 months died in ED toilets and doctors & nurses continue to tell of alarming deterioration of public health. National diverting millions to private care #nzpol #kiwi
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Janet Hoek @janethoek.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
National's election manifesto page says it all. Under "health" comes the message "No policies found".
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Mike Daube @mikedaube.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interesting article. Tobacco companies will resist any significant advertising constraints, but are still smiling if they can keep selling their products and find new approaches to marketing. As recent events in Australia have shown, gambling industry approach is much the same.
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🫜🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jenny Marcroft, who is in charge of the bill, has been utterly incoherent on the issue, giving no clarity other than that birth certificates would "not be proof of biological sex" and that she doesn't know the science AT ALL. This whole thing is a gigantic mess. no matter how you look at it.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#nzpol Very frightening from NZF.
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is there anything more on the nose than a homeless man dieing on the doorstep of the government minister that introduce move on orders for homeless people?
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Doc: Where we are going we won’t need full stops Marty #NZPol
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Andrew Frame @napierinframe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The guy who needs the air force to take him to KMart really shouldn't throw stones....
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Last year Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson criticised Stobo for making a personal submission to Parliament in support of Act’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill." He'll fit right in. #nzpol
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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Simeon Brown, Minister for Health. "Greaves said when he told his support staff and clinical staff at the office they were crying and heartbroken, with many fearing how they would cope with cost-of-living pressures and being told this news only a few months ahead of Christmas." #nzpol
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Over 1200 home-support worker jobs at risk after Health NZ cuts contracts
Workers cried as they were told their care for older and disabled people was being cut.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The irony of this is one of the wealthiest ACT voting suburbs in the country… Influenza doesn’t care that you voted ACT you rich entitled pricks!! #nzpol
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Let’s be clear – we are already paying for child poverty. Fiscal restraint doesn’t save money; it just shifts the costs on to hospitals, emergency housing, mental health services and the justice system – this amounts to billions of dollars a year" #nzpol
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A Manifesto to Reduce Child Poverty (2026) — Child Poverty Action Group
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has launched a manifesto calling on all political parties to take real action to reduce child poverty in New Zealand. “We love all kiwi kids. We know what we nee...
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Mike Daube @mikedaube.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A lot here that applies to gambling, alcohol and other areas - not least ".....if the goal is to protect children from harm, some aspects of the settlement defy logic".
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Janet Hoek @janethoek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Costello continues her evidence-averse approach "We are trying to get people to stop smoking and reduced-harm pathways are the best way to do it." Not sure which clause is less believable. Time to stop taking soundings from tobacco companies and follow robust independent evidence.
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Janet Hoek @janethoek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nicola Willis reported as saying "the government stood by its smokefree policies. 'On our watch the number of people smoking in New Zealand has declined, so we stand by our record.'" Declines in smoking prevalence ended and we failed to achieve the Smokefree 2025 goal under her watch. Some record.
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This guy called New Zealanders "wet and whiny" but then complains about crossing a single bike lane to get to work. His apartment building is about 15 metres from the beehive entrance 🤦🏾
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m extremely sorry for the people who will be ‘moved on’ or arrested under this shitty law, but I want it to go sideways and fail so badly and publicly before the election that it’ll be impossible to ignore what these authoritarian bastards have done.
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rake's Progress. H/t to Simpsons and Sideshow Bob. #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Epic. #nzpol
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Tobacco Control @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Latest News: Test purchases of tobacco with minors in the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland) in 2023 and 2024. bit.ly/4yXs4IU
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Grant McDougall @grantkmcdougall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So National can't afford to build new Dunedin Hospital to its original planned scale, but three months before an election suddenly find $100m for (checks notes), a gondola in Queenstown ? Utterly incompetent. #nzpol #NationalNotFitToGovern #onetermgovernment #CoC #LuxonOut
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So much of human dignity stems from having secure, decent housing, alone its function as a foundation for thriving. Something that this government has viciously undermined. #nzpol
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
National straight up saying "Fuck you. Please vote for us." #nzpol
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