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Dr Karly Burch (she/her)

@karlyburch.bsky.social
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lecturer in sociology, feminist & anticolonial STS, agrifood, nuclear, AI, robotics, co-design, social theory, sustainability, livable futures

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yeah the word “customer” has no business being used in the public service. They work for everyone all the time, not just those involved when in a direct financial transaction.
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Susanne Ferwerda @susanneferwerda.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"FACING nuclear imperialism, nuclear colonialism, and nuclear paternalism together" by @karlyburch.bsky.social and Emily Simmonds www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
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FACING nuclear imperialism, nuclear colonialism, and nuclear paternalism together
This research commentary shares practical insights into how collaboration can sustain critical nuclear scholarship and expand its reach beyond the academy. Drawing on over two decades of combined expe...
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Peace Action Wellington @peacewellington.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Peace Action Wellington completely opposes the opening of a US FBI office in Aotearoa New Zealand. The decision by the NZ government to allow a foreign country’s police force to operate here is terrifying.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/07/2025
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
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Dr. Vincent Intondi @vincentintondi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Something needs to change. We need to build an antinuclear movement like we had in the 1980s. We need to galvanize, inspire, and educate in a new way. Here it is: www.nucleartimes.com.
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Nuclear Times - The Time Has Come
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
ICAN condemns the United States’ illegal military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. By joining Israel’s strikes, the US is violating international law and putting global non-proliferation efforts at risk.
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Tina @tinangata.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
LAST STRETCH! If you haven't done your submission yet, let us do one for you.... comment RSB below or go to tinyurl.com/KillTheRSB and enter your deets, we will do your submission for you. If you've already done yours PLEASE SHARE this.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 22/06/2025
Yesterday the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. A review of what we know so far and how the world reacted: thebulletin.org/2025/06/unit...
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United States attacks Iranian nuclear facilities, raising the possibility of Iranian retaliation, sprint for nuclear weapons
The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, an intervention that came just days after President Donald Trump suggested he would wait two weeks before deciding whether to take mil...
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UNSAFE HISTORY @unsafehistory.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“The prospect of radiation release, the erosion of non-proliferation norms, and the emboldening of nuclear-armed states to act without accountability – the deadly logic of nuclear deterrence playing out in real time.” - Gem Romuld, the Australian director of ICAN www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia urged to press US to ‘act responsibly’ as threat of nuclear disaster rises amid Israel-Iran conflict
Nobel prize-winning anti-nuclear group calls for ‘urgent de-escalation and a return to diplomacy’
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A man who presided over a military parade on his birthday one week ago and still hasn’t called the governor of the state where 2 lawmakers were assassinated, also one week ago. A personalist dictator in all but name. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 22/06/2025
On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. Yesterday, Bulletin nuclear affairs editor François Diaz-Maurin assessed the risks associated with such attacks. thebulletin.org/2025/06/the-...
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The radiation risks of Iran’s nuclear program, with or without a strike on Fordow
Israel’s attacks create significant risks at Iran's nuclear sites. What could go wrong?
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
So, the President of the Signal Foundation (ie those who run Signal) @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is more badass than I knew.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/06/2025
The terror theater is changing venues because of inconvenience to patrons
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Tehmina Gladman @tbgladman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I’ve made my submission. Don’t forget to make yours. The consultation for the Regulatory Standards Bill closes on Monday, the 23rd at 1pm rather than the more common 11:59pm. #nzpol www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...
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Regulatory Standards Bill - New Zealand Parliament
Public submissions are now being invited on this Bill
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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Meanwhile, academics can't use an image they are analyzing in an article without fear of being taken to court.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
About 75% of immigrant farm workers did not show up for work this week in Bakersfield, California, as the threat of Trump’s immigration raids looms.
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Trump’s Immigration Threats Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The AfD/Musk-supporting terrorist who attacked the German Christmas market planned his atrocity in full view on TwitterX over the course of a year. He was reported multiple times, but TwitterX did nothing to take him down or report him to authorities.
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Dr Karly Burch (she/her) @karlyburch.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
“A healthy and thriving society is about more than simply GDP and long-term societal benefits stem from diverse research areas, including humanities and social sciences.” www.royalsociety.org.nz/early-career...
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Early Career Researcher Forum: Marsden Fund changes
The Early Career Researcher Forum Committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi has responded to recent changes to refocus the Marsden Fund.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Another example for #NZ’s science minister (Collins) how investigator-driven research that might seem trivial (a study of lizard saliva) can ultimately have high economic value, but is not directly commercialisable. Commercialisation usually comes long after the research, by quite different workers.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
To every guy who came into the comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” at me and demand I give due deference to the good guys… It’s time to be quiet. Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵
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Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered
Users from multiple countries have been sharing tips on how to sedate and sexually assault women, German investigation finds
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
You can add your name to the petition mentioned in the article here: www.aitrainingstatement.org
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Statement on AI training
An open letter on AI training signed by creators around the world.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Aaron Swartz died because rapacious capitalists insisted that sharing knowledge and ideas — not for profit but to enrich society — was theft. Now we have a whole Silicon Valley industry devoted to undoing artistic copyright, and for what? Fake emails and shitty advertising copy.
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 19/12/2024
And funding opportunities for the social sciences and humanities have been cut from the Horizon Europe programme. 🤬
Changes to MBIE’s Horizon Europe Top-Up fund scheme

Tēnā koutou

MBIE is providing an update on the Horizon Europe Top-Up funding scheme.  

Change to Top-Up fund eligibility for projects in Cluster 2  

From 1 February 2025, projects in Cluster 2, Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society, will no longer be eligible for funding through the MBIE Horizon Europe Top-Up funding scheme.  

This change is being made to align the Top-Up fund settings with the Government’s priorities for Science, Innovation & Technology investments, and direction outlined in the Catalyst Fund investment Plan. Research organisations who have submitted a proposal for a Cluster 2 project which opened before 1 February 2025 and who registered for Top-Up funding with MBIE within 10 working days of the European Commission (EC) call for proposals closing will still be eligible for Horizon Europe Top-Up funding.
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
To be clear - Horizon Europe is a programme which gives our researchers opportunities to be funded *by the EU* to collaborate with European researchers, but because of the differences in funding between NZ and Europe our people need top-ups to meet all their costs (1/2)
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
By removing these top-ups for social sciences & humanities projects it will become difficult or impossible for them to access this funding *even though our international partners view these research areas as worthy of funding*. This is vicious, mean decision-making. (2/2)
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This govt really is the grinch who stole Christmas. What an awful month for social sciences and humanities scholars in Aotearoa - here culture is also named! Feeling deeply for colleagues and very worried for our universities and society. This stuff matters!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 16/12/2024
Serbian officials installed homegrown spyware on the phones of dozens of journalists and activists, Amnesty International said in a report, citing digital forensic evidence and testimony from activists who said they were hacked in recent months reut.rs/4iB5ZIa
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Serbia used Israeli firm’s tech to enable spy campaign, Amnesty says
Serbian officials installed homegrown spyware on the phones of dozens of journalists and activists, Amnesty International said in a report released on Monday, citing digital forensic evidence and testimony from activists who said they were hacked in recent months.
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Dr Karly Burch (she/her) @karlyburch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Please sign if you agree it’s a bad idea to cut all public funding for social science and humanities research. www.together.org.nz/love_humanit...
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Save Humanities and Social Sciences
Join us in building a better world
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Karyn @kloppenmum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
These questions are horrific in their own right. Please participate people who care because the TERFs wiil #nzpol #aonz
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Daniel Schildt @autiomaa.org · 07/12/2024
"They claim these [ChatGPT] abilities enable PIBOT to fly [aeroplane] without error..." 😓 newatlas.com/robotics/pib... Not exactly convinced about that.
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Introducing PIBOT, the world's first humanoid robot pilot
A team of researchers has developed the world’s first humanoid robot pilot. As well as being able to slide easily into the pilot’s seat and use its hands to flip switches in the cockpit, the robot – c...
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"This decision defunds Māori research and researchers by stealth" Tahu Kukutai in my latest for @science.org on cuts to the Marsden Fund, NZ's only fund for "blue-sky" research; features Paul Spoonley, @nicgaston.bsky.social et al www.science.org/content/arti...
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Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I think the (few) people celebrating this change have been pretty clear this is one of, if not the foremost, outcomes they want to see. The repercussions for rest of the research community are arguably collateral damage.
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Dr Karly Burch (she/her) @karlyburch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It was fun supporting the Tāmaki Makaurau leg of @jathansadowski.com ‘s Ruthless Critique of AI and Capitalism tour. I’m really looking forward to the book! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...
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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A good quick summary of the key issues from my co-president, and I want to emphasise again along with him: *most* science funding is *already* directly linked to economic impact and it is outrageous to pretend the relatively tiny Marsden Fund was holding business back.
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Communication professor Jeff Hancock, an expert on technology and misinformation, has been accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to craft a court statement." The fix is not 'AI literacy' - LLMs are built on unethical foundations - the fix is how to teach and practice ethical scholarship.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Curious about what platform capitalism means for agriculture? Check out our new article "Agrarian Platform Capitalism" by Emily Reisman, Madeleine Fairbairn and me. We talk rentiership, concentration, labour, governance, populism & more in the food system. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Agrarian Platform Capitalism: Digital Rentiership Comes to Farming
With the rise of digital technologies, a political-economic configuration recognised as “platform capitalism” has raised concerns over monopolistic tendencies, lack of accountability, expanded rentie....
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So THIS is really flying under the radar! They want to remove all public input into conservation estate and allow development! SHARE AND SUBMIT!! We have until 28 February #nzpol www.doc.govt.nz/modernising-...
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Proposals to modernise the conservation system
Have your say on the two discussion documents by 28 February 2025.
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“This decision is disastrous and a major step backward . . . . New Zealand needs people who will hold a mirror up to our society and challenge our assumptions, if we are to prosper as people and as a country.” — Grant Robertson Vice-Chancellor University of Otago www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
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Marsden Fund changes ‘significant step backwards’ | University of OtagoRed X iconGreen tick iconYellow tick iconClear searchOpen searchClose searchOpen menuClose menuHome
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka is deeply concerned to learn that humanities and social sciences research will no longer be funded through the Marsden Fund.
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Dr Karaitiana Taiuru MITP, MInstD @ktaiuru.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.change.org/p/implement-... Updated link.
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Sign the Petition
Implement a Māori Flag Emoji
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Arnaud Bertrand @rnaudbertrand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The story around China issuing USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia is generating an enormous amount of buzz in China, and could potentially be immensely important. I strongly suspect it's a message to the upcoming Trump administration. A small 🧵
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 13/11/2024
1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
I’ve been trying to make this point for two years but every surge like this cumulatively erodes the healthcare system. Every time, more healthcare workers hit the limit where they’ve just had *enough*
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Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… Racial capitalism, ecology and settler worlds
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