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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fantastic news, the Bogongs are back! These moths navigate by the stars in their billions—they know the constellations! & arrive in the Snowys just in time to be a protein-packed spring breakfast for endangered mountain pygmy possums when they wake from hibernation: www.smh.com.au/environment/...?

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After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating

Bogong moths numbers have surged after years of decline, flying evidence of an ancient transfer of vital nutrients from lowlands to the fragile high country.

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My kids and I love these so much!

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So chilling - but thanks @elisecutts.bsky.social for the roundup and thoughtful commentary. "If AI scams — and even just lazy AI pitches that flood inboxes — force us to rely on relationship networks to establish trust, science journalism is going to close up." www.reviewertoo.com/2026-09-21-s...

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A scammer impersonated a science journalist. It worked.

AI fraud is going to make it harder for new voices to break into science journalism

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Norwegians nailing it again!

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellent as always from my pal @michelleduff.bsky.social “a stark example of how family violence is minimised, and how damaging and misogynistic narratives – that cast men as heroes and women as complainers and overreactors – act to obscure the truth.” thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-0...

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It’s just a camping trip! With their dad! Marokopa inquiry reveals state of NZ child protection

Oranga Tamariki closed a report of concern while the children were still missing.

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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The youngest surviving chick from the berry-fuelled bacchanalia has reached 150 days old…this fuck season has officially brought 90 kākāpō into the world.” Brilliant from @haydendonnell.bsky.social as always 💚🦜 thespinoff.co.nz/science/08-0...?

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Update: This was the best kākāpō fuck season ever

The world may be burning but at least the world’s fattest parrot has been boning.

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Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Kate's article is well worth a read. I have collected a few scallops in my time and have seen the decline first hand. It became harder so I just stopped collecting them before the closures were proposed (as did others in my group of friends).

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Where have all the scallops gone? We spent a long time trying to answer this question for @nzgeo.bsky.social. The answer is complex, and the stakes are high: the commercial fisheries are currently all closed, and most of the rec ones too. How did it come to this? www.nzgeo.com/stories/smas... 🐚🎣🇳🇿

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Smash and grab

Scallops, like almost everything else in the ocean, are struggling with existential change. On top of that, we’ve fished our native scallops hard, setting catch limits with maths that ignored the crea...

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So it begins. The deadly bird flu has arrived in Aotearoa. Read Bill Morris's great piece on the latest here www.nzgeo.com/stories/dead... and to stay up to date, keep an eye on @nzgeo.bsky.social's new landing page here: www.nzgeo.com/bird-flu Crossing everything for our beloved birds and seals 🦭🦜🧪

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Everything we know about bird flu

Avian flu has arrived in New Zealand, riding along with a sick skua. Scientists have been worried about this moment for decades. Here is everything we know...

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

More trauma in the science writing world 😔 There have been big moves impacting science writing (editing, etc) before, so this is "yet another" event knocking it back, going back quite a number of years now. #SciComm

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

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Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In NZ and got opinions about the environment, trans rights, disability support, homelessness etc? You can easily submit to Parliament on upcoming legislation here: yeahnahbills.org

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yeah, nah - nine bills, six minutes, quicker than a coffee

The government is rushing nine stink bills through Parliament. Yeah Nah builds you a personalised submission on every one - quicker than a coffee.

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

orionmagazine.org/article/why-... "They can shift colors, shape-shift, shoot electricity; they thrive in community, in solitude, in pressure that would crush us instantly; they can become invisible and create light out of darkness. They are liquid creatures. And this is who we came from." 🐟

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Why Are Fish So Gay? - Orion Magazine

A conversation about finding community in the aquatic

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The % of scientists who think public engagement makes science better has gone up from 21% in 2006 to 64% now. That's huge.

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Have done this - help out your favourite local authors.

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hi friends, for 2 years your votes have gotten Feijoa into the Whitcoulls Top 100 Books list, & I’m convinced it makes a huge difference to getting in front of people who haven’t seen it before. Voting takes 1 minute and you could win $100 book voucher. www.whitcoulls.co.nz/top-100-book...

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Whitcoulls

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Gil Greening @gilgreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Great story! "The landscapes of New Zealand are palimpsests …, McIvor says, recording layer upon layer of lives in their soils and surfaces. We have paved over them, flattened farms into their contours, drained their swamps and forgotten their gardens. But beneath all that are rich histories …"

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Getting so many of these right now as well, they make me so mad

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

500 years ago, people starting building pā all over northern NZ—fortifying their settlements with rows of palisades, cut from nearby bush. Why? What were pā defending—or trying to say? The trees themselves, combined with mātauranga Māori, tell a story. www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-... 🇳🇿🧪 #archaeology

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The pā builders

Five hundred years ago, people starting building pā all over northern New Zealand—fortifying their settlements with rows of pointed palisades, cut from the surrounding forests. Why? What were pā defen...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says @billmckibben.bsky.social. “That makes it a very appealing alternative, especially now that it’s cheaper than burning coal and gas and oil.”

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Writers! Is anyone else is getting an absolute deluge of AI drivel marketing about your “books”? None of these titles ARE my books, in fact, though possible they are by some of the may to other Kate Evans’s out there. What was a trickle is now a flood… These three are just from this morning! 📚

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Feijoaknödel turned out SPECTACULARLY (A twist on traditional Austrian Marillenknödel or apricot dumplings)

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I would have hoped that a government in a period of national emergency would have realised that food supply for the population is a high priority. But if it needs that explained to it, I am glad someone explained that starving people is a problem. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Business leaders urge government to prioritise food supply in fuel plan

BusinessNZ has made its case to ministers as to why the food and grocery sector should be put in the highest priority level of any fuel rationing framework.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges - @mcsuk.bsky.social warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline Story by @isaaqtomkins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges

Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Jono Ridler recently made it to Wellington...by SWIMMING there from NORTH CAPE, a 1400km journey. I loved getting to chat to him for this piece for @patagonia.com. Please sign his petition against bottom trawling! 🏊🐟 www.patagonia.co.nz/blogs/storie...

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A Swim For The Ocean - Patagonia New Zealand

After rounding Cape Palliser into the Cook Strait— one of the most testing stretches of water in the world—Jono Ridler is swimming stroke after stroke towards the finish line of the biggest challenge ...

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

listen folks if you're going to get mad that I, a reporter, convey information without always making my views about it explicit, that's an instant block -- you do not understand the function of journalism-as-fact-surfacing & you are part of the decay of our overall media ecosystem

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I absolutely adored meeting the lace artist Rowan Panther for an @nzgeo.bsky.social profile. We talked non-stop for 3 hours and it felt like such an exciting meeting of minds and spirits. Her work is absolutely stunning and her ideas about it fascinating. Read more here www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-...

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The lacemaker

In the studio with textile artist Rowan Panther

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22/02/2026

I don't have the long history of it, but research on this phenomenon of "search engine data voids", funded in part by some of the large search engine vendors, is between 7-10 years old now; and the problem only seems to have gotten worse by the intentional product design decisions of those companies

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Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Imagine, Aotearoa! 🙏

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I will watch with interest 👀

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Chrissie Painting @cpaintingnz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Entomologists of Aotearoa! Please save the date to join @barnesecodiv.bsky.social & our local committee for the annual conference at @waikatouniversity.bsky.social September 2-4th 2026. We have fantastic plenary speakers inc Ang Mcgaughran, Neil Birelle & Giselle Clarkson. More soon at ento.org.nz

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Entomological Society of New Zealand

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

my iconoclastic style is dividing The Spinoff's readership

Comment 1: Appalled at the title and won't be reading the article. Very disappointed in the Spinoff this morning.
Comment 2: Happy at the title and will be re-reading the article. Very proud of the Spinoff this morning

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

When talking about animals and birds, we spend too much time saying "only in Australia" – they do have some incredibly weird wildlife – but let’s face it: only in #NZ could you have a headline, “It’s kākāpō fuck season” 😄 Go kākāpō, go!

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

happy kakapo fuck season to all who celebrate (aka the kakapo)

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