Hazel Daniels, PhD
@foresthazel.com
Forest pathologist working on #Phytophthora. Tangata tiriti, American transplant in Aotearoa. Intrests: unionism, #nzpol, corndogs, hammock naps. Opinions my own. #FreePalistine #ToitūTeTiriti
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This is excellent from @manucaddie.bsky.social & @newsroom.co.nz
Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...
Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...
What happened at Mauao should be central at the election
Comment: The tragic loss of life should cause us to reflect on our relationship with vulnerable landscapes in a changing climate.
newsroom.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This is excellent from @manucaddie.bsky.social & @newsroom.co.nz
Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...
Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...
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NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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This Saturday in Tāmaki Makaurau, join the call to unite and stand up for Māori, Transgender, Palestinian, Sikh communities and more who have faced attacks from govts and far right groups.
Rally begins at Te Kōmititanga Britomart at 11am then march to Te Waihorotiu Myers Park.
#nzpol
Rally begins at Te Kōmititanga Britomart at 11am then march to Te Waihorotiu Myers Park.
#nzpol
January 29, 2026 at 8:16 AM
This Saturday in Tāmaki Makaurau, join the call to unite and stand up for Māori, Transgender, Palestinian, Sikh communities and more who have faced attacks from govts and far right groups.
Rally begins at Te Kōmititanga Britomart at 11am then march to Te Waihorotiu Myers Park.
#nzpol
Rally begins at Te Kōmititanga Britomart at 11am then march to Te Waihorotiu Myers Park.
#nzpol
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C. Brandon Ogbunu argues that incentives for flashy results over reproducible research have left science vulnerable to exploitation by movements like MAHA.
How MAHA Exploits the Flaws of Modern Science
Opinion | The weaknesses in science’s processes have been weaponized against it. It’s time to confront those flaws and fix them.
f.mtr.cool
January 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
C. Brandon Ogbunu argues that incentives for flashy results over reproducible research have left science vulnerable to exploitation by movements like MAHA.
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That RNZ 'New Gaza' article pissed me off enough to submit a complaint via RNZ's online complaint form and document how you too can submit a complaint and use my notes, if you wanted.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Complaint: RNZ 'New Gaza' Article | The Uncommon Engineer
How to submit a formal complaint to RNZ about their 'US touts New Gaza filled with luxury real estate' article. Includes step-by-step instructions and complaint text you can use.
f.mtr.cool
January 23, 2026 at 9:05 AM
That RNZ 'New Gaza' article pissed me off enough to submit a complaint via RNZ's online complaint form and document how you too can submit a complaint and use my notes, if you wanted.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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PLEASE if you can help with funds for Te Araroa whānau to help Manaaki Matakāoa get shit done, helping whānau in need during the floods that have destroyed their whenua and have cut them off from everyone.
www.manaakimatakaoa.com
www.manaakimatakaoa.com
Home | Manaaki Matakaoa | Hauora Maori | Te Araroa
Manaaki Matakaoa is a unique hauora Māori organisation, serving the remote community of Matakaoa in the East Cape of Aotearoa-New Zealand
www.manaakimatakaoa.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 AM
PLEASE if you can help with funds for Te Araroa whānau to help Manaaki Matakāoa get shit done, helping whānau in need during the floods that have destroyed their whenua and have cut them off from everyone.
www.manaakimatakaoa.com
www.manaakimatakaoa.com
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#Plant pathogens secrete effectors to establish infections, but resistant crops select for resistance-breaking #pathogens. @mfseidl.bsky.social &co use #pangenome graph analyses of 19 resistance-breaking races of an #oomycete pathogen to identify several effectors @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qA6nKC
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM
#Plant pathogens secrete effectors to establish infections, but resistant crops select for resistance-breaking #pathogens. @mfseidl.bsky.social &co use #pangenome graph analyses of 19 resistance-breaking races of an #oomycete pathogen to identify several effectors @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4qA6nKC
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Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...
Enrol or update online
Enrol to vote or check and update your enrolment details. Get ready to have your say in New Zealand’s elections and referendums.
vote.nz
January 20, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...
This puts me in mind of pg. 28 (5§11) of a certain Simple Field Manual
Hey scientists: USDA staff have been told to Google-vet foreign coauthors for “subversive or criminal activity” and report flagged names to officials 🤠 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...
www.propublica.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This puts me in mind of pg. 28 (5§11) of a certain Simple Field Manual
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Gift link - we all need to read this. Shoot this Resistance into my veins!
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Gift link - we all need to read this. Shoot this Resistance into my veins!
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
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📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇
🔗 www.hellodata.science
#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
🔗 www.hellodata.science
#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
January 14, 2026 at 5:34 AM
📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇
🔗 www.hellodata.science
#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
🔗 www.hellodata.science
#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
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Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Thread. [the shorthand about her that is often uplifted on social media always does her a disservice and also does Rosa Parks one too. Glad for this thread]
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It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
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A GIFT FOR YOU. A free download of the Cast Your Pod to the Wind lp awaits at www.TMBGshop.com. 23 TMBG rarities includes I’m Your Boyfriend Now, We Live in a Dump, Brain Problem Situation, and I Hear A New World w/ Robin Goldwasser. An Idlewild Recordings exclusive not to be on streaming sites.
They Might Be Giants Store
The official merch store of They Might Be Giants
www.TMBGshop.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
A GIFT FOR YOU. A free download of the Cast Your Pod to the Wind lp awaits at www.TMBGshop.com. 23 TMBG rarities includes I’m Your Boyfriend Now, We Live in a Dump, Brain Problem Situation, and I Hear A New World w/ Robin Goldwasser. An Idlewild Recordings exclusive not to be on streaming sites.
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Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
January 8, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
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Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
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January 4, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Weekly reminder to please be careful when resharing images and videos online because you might be sharing deepfakes. Here's some useful guidance I prepared earlier. When in doubt, it's better not to share! #nzpol
www.1of200.nz/articles/how...
www.1of200.nz/articles/how...
How To Spot a Deepfake — 1/200
In the immediate aftermath of violent attacks, social media often fills the information vacuum before verified facts are available. That space is increasingly occupied by AI-generated deepfakes and ma...
www.1of200.nz
January 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Weekly reminder to please be careful when resharing images and videos online because you might be sharing deepfakes. Here's some useful guidance I prepared earlier. When in doubt, it's better not to share! #nzpol
www.1of200.nz/articles/how...
www.1of200.nz/articles/how...
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I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.
I love you all and am holding your hand as I say this:
Dems wield zero hard power levers
Dems wield zero hard power levers
it's kind of crazy that there's even any question that democrats are going to do anything about this
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.
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Remember the instructor, Mel Curth, who was fired from the University of Oklahoma due to giving a 0 for an essay that didn't have citations & wasn't on topic? She is going to the president of the University to fight for her job back on Friday, Jan. 2. Sign this petition to support her: unfiremel.com
Defend OU Instructors and Academic Freedom
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members,
The University of Oklahoma made national headlines this month after a routine grading dispute erupted into public controversy, leading OU to ...
unfiremel.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Remember the instructor, Mel Curth, who was fired from the University of Oklahoma due to giving a 0 for an essay that didn't have citations & wasn't on topic? She is going to the president of the University to fight for her job back on Friday, Jan. 2. Sign this petition to support her: unfiremel.com
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OMFG, this is amazing. A foot-treadled Singer sewing machine hooked to a Hurdy Gurdy with a self-made mute (so he can play notes instead of the steady drone of the typical hurdy gurdy) using a theremin as a flange. I was instantly transported back to the 4th Doctor Who.
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
OMFG, this is amazing. A foot-treadled Singer sewing machine hooked to a Hurdy Gurdy with a self-made mute (so he can play notes instead of the steady drone of the typical hurdy gurdy) using a theremin as a flange. I was instantly transported back to the 4th Doctor Who.
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Friends and foes in the obligate plant pathobiome
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Friends and foes in the obligate plant pathobiome
journals.plos.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Friends and foes in the obligate plant pathobiome
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Sounds an interesting exploration of #Phytophthora threats to Seagrass. Hope a good student applies and makes headway.
Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sounds an interesting exploration of #Phytophthora threats to Seagrass. Hope a good student applies and makes headway.
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Aotearoa: solidarity with trans people/trans kids
BLOCK THE BAN
National day of action
Friday 19 December
6pm
Western Park, Freemans Bay
Tāmaki Makaurau
(info from Block The Ban on instagram)
poster features colours of trans pride flag (blue, pink and white)
BLOCK THE BAN
National day of action
Friday 19 December
6pm
Western Park, Freemans Bay
Tāmaki Makaurau
(info from Block The Ban on instagram)
poster features colours of trans pride flag (blue, pink and white)
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Aotearoa: solidarity with trans people/trans kids
BLOCK THE BAN
National day of action
Friday 19 December
6pm
Western Park, Freemans Bay
Tāmaki Makaurau
(info from Block The Ban on instagram)
poster features colours of trans pride flag (blue, pink and white)
BLOCK THE BAN
National day of action
Friday 19 December
6pm
Western Park, Freemans Bay
Tāmaki Makaurau
(info from Block The Ban on instagram)
poster features colours of trans pride flag (blue, pink and white)