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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Our mini chopper attaches to our stick blender, which is much more manageable than hauling out the food processor. We also have a teeny USB powered one that will only do like 1/2 cup max but is perfect for pastes and marinades.

Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the scientists profiled in the Save Science Coalition “Underfunding Our Future” report talked about the likelihood exactly this scenario would occur, because this is the job he used to do.

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yep, I saw it when it was 10 a few weeks ago. Amazing paint matching job. Guess they had some left over!

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone is VERY determined, huh

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I am never surprised by the ways people can find to make gender an important variable regardless of the facts

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That surprises me less, but always good to have actual data on these things

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A word at the end of the day about people saying "I'm okay with drug testing if all MPs have to do it". No. That is *not* where we want to go. Part of the danger of National's stunt policy is that it sets us off down a slippery slope where the privacy and human rights of *everyone* are infringed.

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is this the rare example where there's no gender bias in self-assessment? incredible

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Knowledge yes, economy? Debatable

It *has* occurred to me that a really evil thing to do would be to have no stipend amount prescribed for the new grant system in order to encourage a race to the bottom.

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Of course employees also get sick leave, annual leave, KiwiSaver, etc so it’s even worse than the raw number

That's a very long way to say 'I don't think other people's points of view have any value' (leaving aside the misogyny)

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Oh yes I meant Southshore specifically.

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To be clear by “there” I meant Southshore specifically. Many other parts of the city are fine! But the sea is gonna eat that bit. When, who knows, but it *will* happen.

Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every time I look at a map of Christchurch (for about two decades now) I’m like: people are *paying money* for houses there? For real?

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My usual rule of thumb is to have 1-2 things you want to do on a given day and then figure out exact timing and order as you go. Definitely only one Thing a day that has a booked timeslot.

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh yes, the Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour is usually a goodie too. Yes it's the most touristy thing one can possibly do. No, I don't care, I'm there to see things!

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Boat Tour and The Bike Tour are always the two best things to do wherever you go

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nothing coming immediately to mind.

Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I still have a scar from lino cutting during a school holiday programme when I was eight

Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 30/09/2026

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Absolutely fantastic to see these large businesses being really clear that Marcroft’s bill is harmful and creates complexity rather than addressing it newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/m...

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Major export and construction firms warn against legal definition of women

Fletcher Building leads a group of big employers saying a members' bill seeking to define men and women creates operational risks and uncertainty. Andrew Bevin reports.

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh hey me too! Aside from the general benefits it was also immediately useful because when I got to postgrad science courses and was expected to read journal articles then come to seminars and discuss them, I was comfortable with the process. The science-only students were bewildered.

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A world where queerness exists is a bar all sorts of conservative to actively homophobic fiction manages to scramble over. In older works the language doesn't always make it obvious to the modern reader, but that doesn't mean it's absent!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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When I lived in Massachusetts, in mid-winter the sun was up approx 7am-4pm so on cloudy days it was pretty dark by 3. Didn't love it!

Sunrise would be what, 9.30am for Dunedin in midwinter with permanent DST? Inhumane.

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Yeah, talk to some software development adjacent people and you'll get a sense of where it is already transformative.

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You’re not alone but we’re probably not filling up any stadiums

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Yes, this is somewhat contingent on storage space! But I think they're worth prioritising over your general easily replacable boxes.

Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Monitors are one of the few things where it's worth keeping the original boxes, IMO

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, interesting. This was the co-moderator of the Wadestown candidate debate that got disrupted by cookers attacking the left-wing candidates.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 26/09/2026

I've finally seen the light. I urge everyone to visit taxpayersunion.org.nz and see the good work that they've been doing on behalf of the hard-working taxpayers of New Zealand

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now, now, I think this leaves us nowhere to go for the people who do it as videocalls with the volume up

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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laragreaves.bsky.social @laragreaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FINAL DAYS tinyurl.com/AllofMaiSurvey For our survey - please forward on to Māori, Pacific and Indigenous postgrad and former postgrads!

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Rain sensor malfunction per a website update which makes much more sense (I am told probably the website update person just couldn’t get to it until this arvo)

Either there's a highly localised raincloud in Kelburn or a sensor is on the blink, I guess!

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Metservice informing us there has been steady drizzle in central Pōneke today (there has not) despite the actual forecast (fine + northerlies) being accurate. Weird.

Screenshot from Metservice website showing 0.2mm hour of rain from 8am-1pm, Monday 21 September.

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It does! It was just such a perfect illustration of how contingent accents are on a given person's life history, rather than being a foolproof indicator of where they grew up.

Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My favourite accent crossover I've ever heard is someone who was Scandinavian but had lived in California for ages and came out sounding, to my ear, precisely Minnesotan.

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Amazing - once I asked someone to guess my accent and I don’t think they even got out of the British Isles