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Naomi Arnold

@naomiarnold.bsky.social
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Award-winning science & nature journalist. Author of Northbound, a Te Araroa memoir, and Southern Nights, a history of NZ astronomy. 📍portfolio & contact: www.naomiarnold.net

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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
much obliged and glad you enjoyed it, thank you Martin!
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I'm hosting a small, lush reading & writing retreat at Maruia River Resort in Tasman in late Jan, and earlybird pricing closes on Dec 20! Sign up now if you'd like to join me for four days of books, forests, food, & yoga www.maruia.co.nz/events/readi...
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Creative Writing & Reading Retreat with Naomi Arnold — Maruia River Retreat - Luxury Wellness Resort New Zealand
This summer, step into a storybook setting with New Zealand best-selling author, Naomi Arnold, as she leads the first Reading Retreat at Maruia River Retreat. Think “Nature Writers Book Club”. Gentle ...
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Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The brilliant @naomijarnold has done the most amazing thing, written a book about walking a giant freaking extreme trail that is somehow relatable to me, a couch potato who exercises indoors. Her Northbound audio book is an antidote to Auckland. Recommend, whenever you find yourself in traffic
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Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Big thanks to @naomiarnold.bsky.social for this nice review of The Covid Response in @nzgeo.bsky.social
Photograph of Naomi Arnold’s review of The Covid Response in New Zealand Geographic
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
thanks Clint :) and I'm happy to inscribe a message for gifts too, if you let Volume know.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/02/2025
They found a way to litter from space
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A day late but this is a timely reminder any day
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
I am really looking forward to the release of FEIJOA! I happen to have read it and I think everyone will adore it.
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Are those Stockton Powelliphanta still in the fridges? The ones that didn't freeze?
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Amazing 2011 linocut by Torres Strait Islander Alick Tipoti in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Absolutely extraordinary technical accomplishment, probably the largest single-block linocut print in the world.
Intricate black and white images of rays, turtles, dugong, bats, birds and fishes, including background images picked out by traditional Torres Strait patternsThe previous image in context: one end of a single roll of paper relief printed with a corresponding roll of lino many metres long, mounted on canvas and hung in the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
preach @estelleserasmus.bsky.social
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
a beautiful story on kakī, the black stilt, by Rebekah White in New Zealand Geographic in 2015. When she wrote this there were 143 kakī left in the world. DOC thinks there are now about 156.
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A delicate balance | New Zealand Geographic
A delicate balance
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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 24/10/2023
Once upon a time, raucous, stinking colonies of seabirds blanketed huge areas of NZ's mainland, each burrow & poo & eggshell helping fuel the forests. Those birds are gone now—but a new modelling tool gives a fascinating glimpse of what once was. www.nzgeo.com/stories/wher...
Birds flying low across grey-blue sea with the words 'Where the Seabirds Were'
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Victoria 🏳️‍🌈 @tolorii.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
So what I'm hearing is that at some point it was raining glass in Antarctica which is so fucking metal I'm never going to get over this
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Finn Illsley-Kemp @seismologyfinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
VUW PhD student Stephen Piva just published this really cool paper where he finds shards from the 230 AD Taupō eruption all the way in Antarctica! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Obsessed, reeling over this: Victoria University and other scientists have used volcanic glass shards BURIED 279M DOWN IN ANTARCTIC ICE A MERE 5000KM AWAY FROM THE VOLCANO to date the Taupō eruption to, oh, about LATE SUMMER/AUTUMN IN THE YEAR 232 www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2023/10...
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Volcanic fallout from Taupō eruption found in Antarctic ice core | News | Victoria Universit...
Researchers discover seven volcanic glass shards hidden 279 metres deep in the ice.
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to do about it? www.newsroom.co.nz/the-invisibl...
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The Invisible Killer: New Zealand's Air Pollution Crisis | Newsroom
Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to do about it?
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
There it is! “Since users who were unable to build audiences before paying for verification are almost definitionally ones who have less interesting things to say, the conversation on X eroded quickly.“ wapo.st/46julPW (gift link)
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Analysis | Musk is nearly done destroying what made Twitter Twitter
Musk didn’t buy Twitter. He bought millions of accounts he could repurpose for another app entirely.
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Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
BREAKING: Six new marine reserves in Otago look set to go ahead at last! www.rnz.co.nz/news/electio... To understand why these negotiations took so long, and why marine protection can be so fraught, check out my June NZ Geographic cover feature: www.nzgeo.com/stories/taki...
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Taking on water | New Zealand Geographic
Taking on water
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
I remember this smell 🤢 but I had no idea it was so toxic. Great story @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social. Shocking that the community is exposed like this www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/i...
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People are dying while pollution continues to waft over schools, marae and family homes in a beachsi...
People are dying while pollution continues belching into the air in one of New Zealand’s most beautiful beachside suburbs. What will it take to stop it?
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
and the Maggie Barry Weed it shall henceforth be known
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Oh, it's so sad to see Jason Wynyard has died. I reported on woodchopping once for NZ Geographic and he was a God among axemen. www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-...
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Kiwi wood chopping icon Jason Wynyard dies aged 49
Tributes flow for Jason Wynyard, a nine-time wood chopping world champion, after his death overnight aged 49.
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
I remember our newspaper’s GM calling the journalists “content creators” in a meeting once. That went well. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/m...
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Emma Thompson Is Right: The Word ‘Content’ Is Rude
The term may be popular in an age of blurring lines between platforms, but the Hollywood strikes have shown how the phrase can devalue creative work.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
"NIWA marine physicist Dr Natalie Robinson says that in the 44 years of monitoring the ocean, they've never seen anything like this."
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Emergency summit called in Wellington amid 'alarming' decline in Antarctic sea ice, graph shows dram...
"At the moment we are missing an area of sea ice, this area of frozen ocean, that's more than seven times the area of New Zealand."
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Richie Poulton, director of the world-acclaimed #DunedinStudy, has died. I visited earlier this year to talk to him about the study's latest findings; his work was dedicated to research on how childhood experiences shape us in adulthood theconversation.com/vaccine-resi...
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Vaccine resistance has its roots in negative childhood experiences, a major study finds
The extraordinary Dunedin longitudinal study shows vaccine resistance can be laid down before high school age in response to childhood trauma or neglect. But better early education could help.
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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
This is a huge loss. Deep science with enormous impact. One of our best.
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Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
things feel crap so this good bookworld news is heartening: - 2022 saw local fiction sales improve - 2023 looks like "the annus mirabilis of NZ fiction” - It's been an exceptional year for debut novels! - NZ general fiction is up "a phenomenal 130 percent" in value www.newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/...
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Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Emergency summit | Antarctic Sea Ice and Climate Change Public panel discussion: events.humanitix.com/panel-discus... Tuesday 3 October, 6-9pm Wellington New Zealand time.
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Panel Discussion | Antarctic sea ice and climate change | Humanitix
Panel Discussion | Antarctic sea ice and climate change, Hosted at City Gallery Wellington, Te Ngākau Civic Square, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Tue 3rd Oct 2023, 6:00 pm - 8:00 ...
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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Just a few days left to apply for the UC Ursula Bethell residency in creative writing for 2024. Full time, $78K pro-rated for 2x 6 month residencies. Come hang out at UC and talk to me (or not) in the tea room. CV + resume + detailed proposal required; see below. Pls share!
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Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o...
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Pharmac widening use of Paxlovid from October 1st. Still restricted access, not "for all". #NZ #COVID19 pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-res...
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 20/09/2023
Some more recent works. Nikon Z7ii Routeburn Otago Peninsula St Bathans Ruataniwha / Mckenzie Country
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