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Salene Schloffel-Armstrong

@salenes-a.bsky.social
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Geographer at Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa // interested in collective resources, speculative futures, public good // currently researching dark sky places

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bioprotection.bsky.social @bioprotection.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In earlier times, who decided what counted as a pest? Dr Schloffel-Armstrong (Lincoln University) is digging into archival narratives from 1825 to 1925 on Horomaka Banks Peninsula to find out, and explore what those early decisions mean for bioprotection today: bioprotection.org.nz/tracing-narr...
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Tracing narratives of pestiness and weediness into the past | Bioprotection Aotearoa
Throughout my life, I have always been interested in history. In my previous work researching public services in Aotearoa, I focused on interrogating the processes and practices that occurred in...
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Salene Schloffel-Armstrong @salenes-a.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Excited to have a precis of my doctoral thesis published by Gender, Place and Culture. Worth a read if you want a sense of my research about public libraries and contested social infrastructure in Aotearoa, in a succinct form! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A future for the library: contested public space and social infrastructure in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Staunch resistance to the closure of three specialist academic libraries in Auckland in 2019 acted as the catalyst for my research into the diverging landscapes of contemporary public library provi...
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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
“While we underestimated the coalition’s willingness to sacrifice life for profit, we also believe that the government has underestimated how potent a coalition of shared interests to defend Te Tiriti can be.” — Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman.
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We underestimated the scale of the attack | E-Tangata
“While we underestimated the coalition’s willingness to sacrifice life for profit, we also believe that the government has underestimated how potent a coalition of shared interests to defend Te Tiriti...
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"A housing market with bits tacked on doesn’t need many (if any) pure scientists" Government shocks scientists and universities by halving funding for blue-sky research, raising fears it will worsen the brain drain to rest of OECD, which spends double on R&D that spent by NZ
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A housing market with bits tacked on doesn’t need many (if any) pure scientists
Government shocks scientists and universities by halving funding for blue-sky research, raising fears it will worsen the brain drain to rest of OECD, which spends double on R&D that spent by NZ
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wow - this is a very grim day for scholarship & society in Aotearoa... Social sciences/humanities funding gone from our primary "blue skies" funder - "not-core" (whatever that is) science also not valued; funds reoriented to economic benefit. No coherent thoughts www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...
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Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...
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Salene Schloffel-Armstrong @salenes-a.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
After five and a half years, my thesis about the future of the public library in Aotearoa (and social infrastructure, public services and urban politics more broadly) is online and available to read! It's up here in full: hdl.handle.net/2292/70357
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A future for the library: contested public space and social infrastructure in Aotearoa
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Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.com
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Palestine: Spaces and Politics
Introductory Curriculum
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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Forensic Architecture show new maps demonstrating how ethnic cleansing is unfolding in northern Gaza via an intensification and acceleration of military tactics inc a new corridor aimed at enforcing large-scale displacement from the north. gaza.forensic-architecture.org
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