KnitMeAThneed
@thneed.bsky.social
I'm a Wikimedian and I run the NZThesisProject from Ōtepoti Dunedin in Aotearoa New Zealand. OpenRefine, Wikidata, Wikipedia... all the Wikis!
Inventor of WikiWashiTape. According to skuas, I am too big to carry away and too alive.
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KnitMeAThneed
@thneed.bsky.social
· Mar 20
The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a Nation’s Dissertations Using Wikidata
Introduction: Libraries hold large amounts of bibliographic data, with great potential for enrichment with linked open data. The New Zealand Thesis Project explored this potential by uploading thesis ...
www.iastatedigitalpress.com
Delighted to announce that my long-awaited paper on the NZ Thesis Project is published (& is open access)! Deborah and I worked hard to write this because we would love for all academic libraries to link their data to Wikidata - this tells you why and how
www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
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Australia's Heart Foundation just launched an info campaign on the harms of COVID to cardiovascular health - good to see!
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Australia's Heart Foundation just launched an info campaign on the harms of COVID to cardiovascular health - good to see!
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
But current vaccines only reduce risk of heart damage, they do not eliminate it. We need masking, clean indoor air, better prevention & next gen vaccines
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Reminder for those on and near to Waiheke Island — Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison will be visiting this weekend to run a couple of great events. Details here: www.wikimedia.nz/waiheke-work...
Anyway I’m in Auckland for the next five days: presenting on Wikipedia at the MacDiarmid Institute’s symposium at the Uni, and giving a public talk and Sunday workshop on Waiheke Island in the weekend.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Reminder for those on and near to Waiheke Island — Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison will be visiting this weekend to run a couple of great events. Details here: www.wikimedia.nz/waiheke-work...
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Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking on your wall'
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking...
Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'Are You Hanging Up Your Stocking On Your Wall?'Crooned by @MichaelMisDisappointing More: http://li...
youtu.be
December 1, 2023 at 8:28 AM
Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking on your wall'
#librarians #Wikidata #Wikipedia if a library uses Primo VE software then there's a linked data feature they can turn on based on Wikidata. I did an explainer video to show people what it looks like. Lemme know if you see it in the wild! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S4u...
Wikidata in library catalogues: Introduction to the Primo VE linked data feature
YouTube video by Dr Thneed
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
#librarians #Wikidata #Wikipedia if a library uses Primo VE software then there's a linked data feature they can turn on based on Wikidata. I did an explainer video to show people what it looks like. Lemme know if you see it in the wild! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S4u...
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Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675
h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
Dammit just had a knitpro cable break mid-row 😭
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Dammit just had a knitpro cable break mid-row 😭
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If they can ban access to healthcare like puberty blockers for one group of people, they can do this with any healthcare for their next target. They will ban abortion again given the chance and they will come after contraception after that. The anti-choice movement is our govt right now. #nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If they can ban access to healthcare like puberty blockers for one group of people, they can do this with any healthcare for their next target. They will ban abortion again given the chance and they will come after contraception after that. The anti-choice movement is our govt right now. #nzpol
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
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Hipkins jumped on bluesky after a 2month break to support Winston Peters here
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
The attack on Winston Peters home today was totally unacceptable. MPs homes are not the place to protest. No matter the cause, political violence is never ok and should be condemned. Free speech is healthy in a democracy, political violence is not.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hipkins jumped on bluesky after a 2month break to support Winston Peters here
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week
Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities
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Today, it's exactly one hundred years since the opening ceremony of the New Zealand & South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin.
To celebrate, I'm sharing some images from an original copy of the ceremony's official souvenir programme.
My Collection.
To celebrate, I'm sharing some images from an original copy of the ceremony's official souvenir programme.
My Collection.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Today, it's exactly one hundred years since the opening ceremony of the New Zealand & South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin.
To celebrate, I'm sharing some images from an original copy of the ceremony's official souvenir programme.
My Collection.
To celebrate, I'm sharing some images from an original copy of the ceremony's official souvenir programme.
My Collection.
#SecretSantaAoNZ Hey Santa! If you’re a maker, then that’s perfect, whatever you want to make I will appreciate! If you aren’t, or you need ideas, I have a very empty boring impersonal desk at work that needs adornment. (Was gonna take a pic but I wasn’t there today)
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#SecretSantaAoNZ Hey Santa! If you’re a maker, then that’s perfect, whatever you want to make I will appreciate! If you aren’t, or you need ideas, I have a very empty boring impersonal desk at work that needs adornment. (Was gonna take a pic but I wasn’t there today)
250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.”
That would be quite a high annual spoonbill
That would be quite a high annual spoonbill
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.”
That would be quite a high annual spoonbill
That would be quite a high annual spoonbill
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You’re Santa might be a maker so they might need to get into it quite soon. What are your favourite colours. And maybe sock, hat, t-shirt and glove sizes. And any relevant interests? #SecretSantaAoNZ
Today's question for #SecretSantaAoNZ
Especially great for all the crafting Santas we're blessed with when they're sleuthing.
Especially great for all the crafting Santas we're blessed with when they're sleuthing.
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
You’re Santa might be a maker so they might need to get into it quite soon. What are your favourite colours. And maybe sock, hat, t-shirt and glove sizes. And any relevant interests? #SecretSantaAoNZ
Just discovered the My Giftee hashtag created by #SecretSantaAoNZ and what is this witchcraft? So helpful! (My Santee posts plenty but rarely about themselves….hmmm)
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Just discovered the My Giftee hashtag created by #SecretSantaAoNZ and what is this witchcraft? So helpful! (My Santee posts plenty but rarely about themselves….hmmm)
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Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
#SecretSantaAoNZ I don’t do strongly scented things because it sets off other people in the family, and I’m allergic to soap and wool. I’m vegetarian.
Today's #SecretSantaAoNZ question is a pretty important one.
Make sure you add the hashtag to your replies so it's easily searchable for your Santa. We wouldn't want them to miss it.
Make sure you add the hashtag to your replies so it's easily searchable for your Santa. We wouldn't want them to miss it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
#SecretSantaAoNZ I don’t do strongly scented things because it sets off other people in the family, and I’m allergic to soap and wool. I’m vegetarian.
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Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️⚧️
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Want to take part in the 2025 Wiki Science Photography Competition, but not sure where to start? Last week, we ran an explainer session with a couple of Wikimedia Commons experts to guide you through the process — check out the recording below ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6W...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6W...
Focus on Science: Your guide to the Wiki Science photography competition (FAQ session)
YouTube video by Wikimedia Australia
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Want to take part in the 2025 Wiki Science Photography Competition, but not sure where to start? Last week, we ran an explainer session with a couple of Wikimedia Commons experts to guide you through the process — check out the recording below ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6W...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6W...
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From lauded global leaders to the Dirty Ashtray Award.
Our National-led coalition government in one sentence.
#nzpol
Our National-led coalition government in one sentence.
#nzpol
Government's appalling track record in health just got international recognition. NZ delegation at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control meeting in Geneva received the Dirty Ashtray award. www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
Global meeting awards Aotearoa New Zealand ‘Dirty Ashtray’ award
Last night’s award of a ‘Dirty Ashtray’, a civil society award, to the New Zealand Government shows Aotearoa is now attracting international attention for all the wrong reasons, tobacco control resear...
www.otago.ac.nz
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
From lauded global leaders to the Dirty Ashtray Award.
Our National-led coalition government in one sentence.
#nzpol
Our National-led coalition government in one sentence.
#nzpol
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Wikimedia Commons provides the internet with 117 million freely usable images — and your photos could be there too.
If you're near Ashburton, join our Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) for a free workshop.
10am–4pm, Sun 23 Nov @ Ashburton Art Gallery
Please register ⬇️
If you're near Ashburton, join our Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) for a free workshop.
10am–4pm, Sun 23 Nov @ Ashburton Art Gallery
Please register ⬇️
Wikipedia Photo Day with Dr. Mike Dickison
Join us for a day with Dr. Mike Dickison to learn all about Wikipedia photography, including how to take and upload your own photographs.
events.humanitix.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Wikimedia Commons provides the internet with 117 million freely usable images — and your photos could be there too.
If you're near Ashburton, join our Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) for a free workshop.
10am–4pm, Sun 23 Nov @ Ashburton Art Gallery
Please register ⬇️
If you're near Ashburton, join our Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) for a free workshop.
10am–4pm, Sun 23 Nov @ Ashburton Art Gallery
Please register ⬇️
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My 19yo daughter has been diagnosed with kidney failure, causing severe neuropathy in her legs and feet. She is no longer able to walk and has to spend about eight hours a day in ice water to raise the pain (not treat or manage, only reduces pain).
She is in severe pain. We can't get help. 1/3
She is in severe pain. We can't get help. 1/3
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My 19yo daughter has been diagnosed with kidney failure, causing severe neuropathy in her legs and feet. She is no longer able to walk and has to spend about eight hours a day in ice water to raise the pain (not treat or manage, only reduces pain).
She is in severe pain. We can't get help. 1/3
She is in severe pain. We can't get help. 1/3
I don’t especially. An unusual laptop sticker can be fun (but has to be small or I won’t find space!). You will find Lego on my timeline but mostly it’s my son’s.
Question time #SecretSantaAoNZ
What do you collect? If you were a dragon what would you hoard?
What do you collect? If you were a dragon what would you hoard?
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I don’t especially. An unusual laptop sticker can be fun (but has to be small or I won’t find space!). You will find Lego on my timeline but mostly it’s my son’s.
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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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This is my average-height wife next to one of the Dodge RAM trucks (called “utes” here in NZ) that are becoming more common on our roads.
I contend nobody needs a vehicle this large in an urban setting. It’s purely for self-esteem.
I contend nobody needs a vehicle this large in an urban setting. It’s purely for self-esteem.
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is my average-height wife next to one of the Dodge RAM trucks (called “utes” here in NZ) that are becoming more common on our roads.
I contend nobody needs a vehicle this large in an urban setting. It’s purely for self-esteem.
I contend nobody needs a vehicle this large in an urban setting. It’s purely for self-esteem.