Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability
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We are a community of people working together for a better collective future using research, advocacy, and capability building. We are based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Missing words are due to Long COVID.
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Missing words are due to Long COVID.
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History / Background of TAP Community for Aotearoa Bluesky
IntroductionBluesky user The Broke Bonsai Bloke asked where Kiwis might go if Bluesky takes a nosedive. I offered up this site as one possibility. I had in mind people for whom our kaupapa resonates. ...
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Here's the promised write up. I welcome any thoughts or comments from #NZPOL and other bluesky users. Thanks to @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social for the specific prompt. And thanks to the many people here that I've interacted with since the great migration.
Let's get organised!
Let's get organised!
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow - Honeybee Bacteriophages and Advanced Biotechnology -
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
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✏️ Webtop 4.0: Wayland is here, engage the reality engine
https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-4-0-wayland-is-here-engage-the-reality-engine
https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-4-0-wayland-is-here-engage-the-reality-engine
Webtop 4.0: Wayland is here, engage the reality engine
Let me just start with the TLDR as I have a tendency to write too much, all of our Selkies based images can now be launc...
www.linuxserver.io
January 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
✏️ Webtop 4.0: Wayland is here, engage the reality engine
https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-4-0-wayland-is-here-engage-the-reality-engine
https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-4-0-wayland-is-here-engage-the-reality-engine
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I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.
January 8, 2026 at 7:49 AM
I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.
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This needs boosting.
How we share data now, determines how prepared we are for tomorrow. That includes having access to *all* who need it (inccitizen scientists like @ryanhisner.bsky.social) & being able to use it in dashboards & apps.
Having one place control it all - is dangerous.
#OpenScience
How we share data now, determines how prepared we are for tomorrow. That includes having access to *all* who need it (inccitizen scientists like @ryanhisner.bsky.social) & being able to use it in dashboards & apps.
Having one place control it all - is dangerous.
#OpenScience
“[P]utting data into GISAID is like dropping it in a mail slot in an unmarked building,” says @colincarlson.bsky.social. “It’s wonderful that there’s so much cool stuff in that building. It would be great if we knew who owned it, or who paid for it, or what they plan to do with it.”
#IDsky 🧪
#IDsky 🧪
Fresh conflicts erupt around giant database for flu and COVID-19 sequences
Critics say “autocratic” behavior by GISAID could hamper response to a future pandemic
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
This needs boosting.
How we share data now, determines how prepared we are for tomorrow. That includes having access to *all* who need it (inccitizen scientists like @ryanhisner.bsky.social) & being able to use it in dashboards & apps.
Having one place control it all - is dangerous.
#OpenScience
How we share data now, determines how prepared we are for tomorrow. That includes having access to *all* who need it (inccitizen scientists like @ryanhisner.bsky.social) & being able to use it in dashboards & apps.
Having one place control it all - is dangerous.
#OpenScience
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The Ministry of Transport have released 2 new Easy Read about the review of Total Mobility.
You can tell them what you think about the changes they are thinking of making until 22 March 2026.
Find the Easy Read documents and more about how to have your say on their website at bit.ly/49vXzxX
You can tell them what you think about the changes they are thinking of making until 22 March 2026.
Find the Easy Read documents and more about how to have your say on their website at bit.ly/49vXzxX
January 7, 2026 at 9:48 PM
The Ministry of Transport have released 2 new Easy Read about the review of Total Mobility.
You can tell them what you think about the changes they are thinking of making until 22 March 2026.
Find the Easy Read documents and more about how to have your say on their website at bit.ly/49vXzxX
You can tell them what you think about the changes they are thinking of making until 22 March 2026.
Find the Easy Read documents and more about how to have your say on their website at bit.ly/49vXzxX
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Academic paywalls are really getting me down. I'm a working anthropologist, but my employers (college and tribe) are not universities, and so the research I'm able to do is severely limited. #academicchatter
January 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Academic paywalls are really getting me down. I'm a working anthropologist, but my employers (college and tribe) are not universities, and so the research I'm able to do is severely limited. #academicchatter
This idea was part of a kōrero yesterday. Let's help spread it amongst our whanau, our neighbors, co-workers, etc. Feeling better by helping others. Virtuous cycle. 🥰
It doesn't have to be the ideal thing, it doesn't have to be huge and splashy, it doesn't have to help millions of people, just pick ONE THING that will use your skills to help people and do it regularly. You will feel SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER.
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This idea was part of a kōrero yesterday. Let's help spread it amongst our whanau, our neighbors, co-workers, etc. Feeling better by helping others. Virtuous cycle. 🥰
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oh fuckery, are people claiming there's a moral need to expose yourself to traumatising media again?
No. NO. Noooooooo. Nope.
Fuck no. Sideways. On Toast.
No. NO. Noooooooo. Nope.
Fuck no. Sideways. On Toast.
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
oh fuckery, are people claiming there's a moral need to expose yourself to traumatising media again?
No. NO. Noooooooo. Nope.
Fuck no. Sideways. On Toast.
No. NO. Noooooooo. Nope.
Fuck no. Sideways. On Toast.
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January 7, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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So, Texas A&M is telling its professors they can't teach Plato...in a philosophy course? And we're still supposed to take Texas A&M seriously as a university?
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
So, Texas A&M is telling its professors they can't teach Plato...in a philosophy course? And we're still supposed to take Texas A&M seriously as a university?
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Don't forget to submit your photos to @sednasociety.bsky.social 's #photo #contest with the hashtag #eDNAinFocus before the end of the month!! @peerj.bsky.social has kindly agreed to help sponsor a prize for the winner. ;)
#eDNA #genetics #laboratory #field #research
#eDNA #genetics #laboratory #field #research
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Don't forget to submit your photos to @sednasociety.bsky.social 's #photo #contest with the hashtag #eDNAinFocus before the end of the month!! @peerj.bsky.social has kindly agreed to help sponsor a prize for the winner. ;)
#eDNA #genetics #laboratory #field #research
#eDNA #genetics #laboratory #field #research
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This is brilliant and something I've been internally working on for quite sometime without realising it.
Sometimes things have a time and place.
Sometimes things have a time and place.
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This is brilliant and something I've been internally working on for quite sometime without realising it.
Sometimes things have a time and place.
Sometimes things have a time and place.
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Folks getting in the weeds about licensing agreements but this research study engaged me in research, by creating a bespoke dataset about me, before I agreed to participate. They already made the dataset before I was invited to participated. That's not how informed consent works
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Folks getting in the weeds about licensing agreements but this research study engaged me in research, by creating a bespoke dataset about me, before I agreed to participate. They already made the dataset before I was invited to participated. That's not how informed consent works
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Good thread about thinking about audiences when giving a talk.
Since I'm putting together a talk this week and I've put together a lot of talks in the last year for a variety of groups, I'm going to opine a bit about giving scientific talks. The tl;dr is you have to think about who your audience is and what they want/need from you at every single step. 🧪
January 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Good thread about thinking about audiences when giving a talk.
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“If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”
“If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”
January 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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“If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”
“If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”
Through a short chain of mates and acquaintances it looks like we'll get the help we need with the fence rebuild and big trees clean up. The mess happened last week because of the huge winds.
The short chain consists of people who can't be bothered with jerks etc. Kind people throughout. Community.
The short chain consists of people who can't be bothered with jerks etc. Kind people throughout. Community.
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Through a short chain of mates and acquaintances it looks like we'll get the help we need with the fence rebuild and big trees clean up. The mess happened last week because of the huge winds.
The short chain consists of people who can't be bothered with jerks etc. Kind people throughout. Community.
The short chain consists of people who can't be bothered with jerks etc. Kind people throughout. Community.
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“We stopped being a country that builds and became a country that extracts”
January 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
“We stopped being a country that builds and became a country that extracts”
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It’s almost like New Zealand’s mania for ‘light touch regulation’ isn’t actually effective in protecting ordinary people’s rights, whether it be privacy, health & safety, to take industrial action, to participate in a democracy that has integrity…
Why, oh why, do there seem to be so many data breaches in NZ ?
“The Privacy Act doesn’t provide sufficient incentives for many organisations to understand or meet even the most basic privacy requirements.” (Michael Webster, Privacy Commissioner, 1 Dec 2025 www.privacy.org.nz/tuhono-conne... )
Why, oh why, do there seem to be so many data breaches in NZ ?
“The Privacy Act doesn’t provide sufficient incentives for many organisations to understand or meet even the most basic privacy requirements.” (Michael Webster, Privacy Commissioner, 1 Dec 2025 www.privacy.org.nz/tuhono-conne... )
www.privacy.org.nz
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 AM
It’s almost like New Zealand’s mania for ‘light touch regulation’ isn’t actually effective in protecting ordinary people’s rights, whether it be privacy, health & safety, to take industrial action, to participate in a democracy that has integrity…
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Breaking into my 'rainy day' money to join the union.. hell yea
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Breaking into my 'rainy day' money to join the union.. hell yea
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Again, I don't trust a single thing I see shared online these days unless it can be verified.
Humanity as a trust model is broken
Humanity as a trust model is broken
This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro.
But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.
But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.
January 4, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Again, I don't trust a single thing I see shared online these days unless it can be verified.
Humanity as a trust model is broken
Humanity as a trust model is broken
The last piece of proprietary software that Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand was using has been replaced with an open source equivalent.
A little holiday project push made it happen. 😁
A little holiday project push made it happen. 😁
Slack to Mattermost
GFANZ has been using the messaging tool Slack for some years. It has been an effective way to get organisational communications out of email boxes. One downside is that Slack is proprietary software r...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:02 AM
The last piece of proprietary software that Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand was using has been replaced with an open source equivalent.
A little holiday project push made it happen. 😁
A little holiday project push made it happen. 😁
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
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Kenyan farmers secure right to share local seeds in court ruling.
How did we allow ourselves to get to the point where it's illegal to keep some of your crop to plant as seeds for next season? Vulture capitalists who patent seeds are the problem.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
How did we allow ourselves to get to the point where it's illegal to keep some of your crop to plant as seeds for next season? Vulture capitalists who patent seeds are the problem.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Kenyan farmers secure right to share local seeds in court ruling
Small-scale farmers in Kenya sang and celebrated on Thursday after a court ruling secured their right to carry on the traditional practice of sharing local seeds.
www.reuters.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Mamdani gets it: the task of ecosocialists is to show that we can build a fairer, greener world faster than centrists.
January 2, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Mamdani gets it: the task of ecosocialists is to show that we can build a fairer, greener world faster than centrists.