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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 20h

New rule (possibly an old one - well it shoudl be)
Any feedback you give should be kind and constructive. In my area, especially so when responding to ECRs.
Rule #1 also applies "Don't be a dick"

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 20h

The next workshop is on 23/24 October and fully booked but we need pregnant people gestation 7-12 weeks for the practical sessions. It would take around an hour of your time in Central Dunedin. A grocery voucher will be given as a thank you. 2/

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 20h

People in Ōtepoti/Duendin! @universityofotago.bsky.social is again offering a workshop for midwives to learn early pregnancy ultrasound. This is targeted at remote rural midwives who are in areas with limited USS access. 1/

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d

Luxon, pro birth but not pro the necessary healthcare and support that makes it tenable.

“With no obstetricians left in Eastern Bay of Plenty, hundreds of pregnant women have been forced to travel to Tauranga Hospital to give birth this year - 1/3 of them due to emergency” #nzpol

Hundreds of pregnant Eastern Bay of Plenty women forced to go to Tauranga to give birth

More than 200 women made the journey in the past year - a third of them emergency transfers - amid a shortage of obstetricians.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social · 4d

The Invisible Evidence of Birth: Evaluating the Relationship Between Pelvic Shape and Parity with a Pelvic Pattern Index www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

The Invisible Evidence of Birth: Evaluating the Relationship Between Pelvic Shape and Parity with a Pelvic Pattern Index

It is well known that parity indirectly and directly affects the human skeleton through biomechanical strain during pregnancy, birth, lactation, and sexual steroid hormone expression. Pelvic features ...

www.researchsquare.com

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DrJacs @tiwaiwaka.bsky.social · 1d

I want to keep highlighting & reposting! My final quote: "Settlers cannot be “allies” to Indigenous ppls while remaining settlers. Their existence as beneficiaries of colonisation depends on the continuation of the colonial order."

Be honest about it. Don't claim allyship then go home to the farm.

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DrJacs @tiwaiwaka.bsky.social · 1d

Nuanced & clear: "... in naming themselves “allies,” their positionality as white subjects remains foregrounded, and the framework of allyship inherently re-centers whiteness by turning the focus back onto white moral identity."
White saviour-ness is never far away in the world of self-named allies

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

Finished my most recent article on why allyship is contradictory let me know what you think! open.substack.com/pub/kaimataa...

#nzpol #Maori #ally #communism #indigenous #socialism

White Allies Don't Exist

Why white allyship is a contradiction and what true solidarity requires.

open.substack.com

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 1d

Any of us working in this area know you it important it is to implement this plan. I was involved in the 16th PMMRC report and tried to get the voice of families heard within it. Heartbreaking for everyone

Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 2d

Every year hundreds of New Zealand families experience perinatal loss. There’s a plan to build a nationwide system to give grieving whānau the support they need.
But the plan’s authors are so exasperated by how slowly things are moving, they have taken the unusual step of going public.

'We were sitting in hell': The parents gave birth knowing their baby had died - the help they were promised never arrived

A detailed national plan to support parents after baby loss was delivered to Health NZ in June. Four months on, nothing has changed

www.stuff.co.nz

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 4d

Census in crisis—further erasure of Indigenous Peoples? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Census in crisis—further erasure of Indigenous Peoples?

In 2013, demographer David Coleman wrote that the population census in its traditional form was heading toward its twilight. Its impending demise was being driven by digitization, rapid data transfer,...

www.science.org

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11d

I get a lot of joy out of being a compassionate professor. Helping students improve their writing and knowledge is a blessing. My classrooms are happy, fun, at times serious, intense, respectful places of learning. The right will never understand, because for us, teaching is a form of love, not hate

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 18d

Every 3 years, midwives present their practice in line with the Aotearoa Miwifery standards of practice for Midwifery Standards Review (MSR). Mine was this morning and it felt so supportive and affirming.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 21d

Doctors strike today after a year of frontline hiring freezes, budget cuts and the multi-million dollar grift to private healthcare investors. Simeon has also cut 1/3 of ICU beds in some areas & closed suicide centres. The doctors' messages are bang on
#nzpol #kiwi

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 21d

Fully in support of the ASMS strikers. Even talked about it in a tutorial yesterday. Important for students to know that it's not just about $$ but conditions and patient care. Also to understand about workers rights

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · 25d

TTW you show a birth video in a big lecture and forget to do the content warning first. Sorry ELM3

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is talking to a nurse .

Alt: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is talking to a nurse .

media.tenor.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · Sep 10

Back to the very deep South again on Friday. I love my days there.

Drop in midwifery clinic. Tokanui 12th September 2025

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Sep 3

🧪 Science on Bluesky

A new study of 2.6m posts finds research gets far more likes, reposts, and thoughtful replies on @bsky.app than on X.

Scholars call it a 'purer' space for discussion.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#SciComm #BlueSky #AcademicSky

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds

Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · Aug 1

Senior doctors say Health NZ offer amounts to 'pay cut' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Senior doctors say Health NZ offer amounts to 'pay cut'

The union for senior doctors was doubtful the 5500 members would find the new offer acceptable.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · Aug 1

After a traumatic birth, one Māori māmā found healing and strength through the quiet, life-changing support of tikanga-based care - now she’s advocating for systemic change.

Māori māmā finds strength in tikanga care

After a traumatic birth, one Māori māmā found healing and strength through the quiet, life-changing support of tikanga-based care - now she’s advocating for systemic change.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Pauline Dawson @paulinedawsonnz.bsky.social · Jul 27

Joined the annual dance for mental health (WEKA) I think this is year 6 for me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2opO...

Wuthering Heights 2025

YouTube video by Brett Hayward

www.youtube.com

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Sue Crengle @tieke.bsky.social · Jul 24

Screening for lung cancer reduces mortality by 20-26%. Open access article
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Te Oranga Pūkahukahu research programme: intentional steps towards a national equity-focused lung cancer screening programme in Aotearoa New Zealand

Screening of at-risk, asymptomatic people can significantly reduce mortality from lung cancer. However, evidence about how to optimise lung cancer screening for specific populations, including Aote...

www.tandfonline.com

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 23

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

go.nature.com/450KElr

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

go.nature.com

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · Jul 14

Absent for the reading of the Treaty Principles Bill, absent for the hikoi, absent for slightest thing that might reflect – in ANY way – on him.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · Jul 14

I can't believe the PM was in Hawaii and they intentionally scheduled the RSB Select Committee over this period. He also didn't even bother coming back for the floods.

#nzpol

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Sarah Pallett @sarah4ilam.bsky.social · Jul 8

Next time, may I politely suggest careful consideration occurs BEFORE plans are made which fly in the face of both expert advice and good sense.

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · Jul 8

Wellington Hospital will not proceed with cutting maternity and gynaecology beds

The proposed trial at Wellington Regional Hospital will no longer go ahead.

www.rnz.co.nz

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DrJacs @tiwaiwaka.bsky.social · Jul 3

Indigenous autoethnography - the most gorgeous, challenging & authentic read from this UoA Masters student! @sereananaepi.bsky.social is this one of your tauira?

Breaking up with The University: An Indigenous Journal on Surviving The University. Master's thesis by Grace Tauranga Soo Choon

Abstract/Invitation
I invite you to hold space for this journal. I invite you to hold space for my stories. I invite you to hold space for The University as a character in my story. This journal invites you to consider the relationship between Indigenous peoples and The University. Specifically, this journal invites you to consider my relationship with The University as a Māori and Samoan woman. Together, we will explore the power of Indigenous research methodologies, the beauty of Indigenous auto-ethnography, and the joy of Indigenous knowledge systems. I invite you to help me confront The University and witness an unravelling of our relationship. I invite you to observe how my experiences with The University speak to the structural exclusion of my Indigenous whānau, their insistence on building relationships where emotions are unwelcome, and their inability to grasp Māori and Pacific connections to our whānau, and thus repeatedly misrepresent who we are.
I invite you to hold space for my truth. I invite you to hold space for my pain and disappointment.
I invite you to hold space for me as I sever my relationship with The University.

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