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

Nothing if not consistent! I’m so happy for you 💙

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

One of my favourite stories I’ve ever done was about the relationship between these two species and how climate change is unsettling their long-distance connection — I loved getting up close with both of them (seriously check out the videos here they are adorable) biographic.com/of-moths-and...

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Of Moths and Marsupials | bioGraphic

The ancient relationship between the mountain pygmy possum and the bogong moth reveals the complexity of global climate change—and the lengths people may have to go to save some species from extinctio...

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

Indeed! A stone cold classic

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

Aww they are really so adorable aren’t they

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

I get soooo many of these but it’s really obvious because it’s never my actual book. And I tend to reply similarly rudely 😅

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

Also hilarious this is your main takeaway but I’m here for it 😛

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

Sooo many eyes!! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👁️

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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

I know, I’m extremely worried about the seal and seabird colonies I’ve covered in the past.

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

Some vitamins here from raglan a few nights ago

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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

You’re a legend Clint, thank you!

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

(Hilarious) evidence here! If you get a sec, chuck in a vote for Feijoa and a couple of your other kiwi faves? You don’t have to be in or from NZ to vote or win and you’ll be doing me and Feijoa a big favour! 📚#nzbooks #feijoa

A goodreads review that says “I don’t like feijoas and I only read this book because it’s on the latest whitcoulls top 100 list… but… I actually enjoyed it

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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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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Yes these ones are more lake forts! But lots of pā are on hills or small volcanoes. Funny, I was just having a discussion with some Irish music friends recently about whether hill forts were basically like pā!

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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Aw, thanks Bevan! Try my Feijoa book, it’s actually surprisingly similar 😛 lots of science-meets-indigenous-knowledge there too!

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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

Ooh I really want to read this

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

Yeah so interesting ! And so glad to finally get it into the world five years on haha

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

Yeah so interesting hey! Like of course multiple lines of evidence together can reveal more than they can on their own

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

This story took 5 years to report! In 2021, photographer Adrian Malloch I visited some local Waikato wetland pā sites with this team of archeologists as they dug palisade posts out of the mud. In 2026, we were welcomed onto Taupiri marae alongside them as they shared their results with local hapū.

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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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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

And? Did they give you a ticket or just a hey cuz ?

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