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Shaun Cameron Hendy is a New Zealand physicist. He is the chief scientist at climate innovation company Toha. He was… more

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hendysh.bsky.social
I did find that a class of first year’s could predict funded/not-funded from a Marsden 1-pager
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One of the things that was special about the Marsden Fund is that the decision-making process was tweaked over the years rather than reinvented over and over again like other funds. That allowed for decades of learning that I hope will not be lost in this latest restructure.
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Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social · 23h
"The trouble with the government’s idea for a simple, more efficient science fund is that it’s trying to be a Ferrari on tin can funding." - @cillaw.bsky.social via @smcnz.bsky.social → www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/10/14/b... 🧪
Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction
The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy. Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
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"The trouble with the government’s idea for a simple, more efficient science fund is that it’s trying to be a Ferrari on tin can funding." - @cillaw.bsky.social via @smcnz.bsky.social → www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/10/14/b... 🧪
Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction
The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy. Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
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#LongCovid “No one is immune to this”

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of formerly healthy young Kiwis suffering with long Covid

The pandemic never ended, and we're all living proof of that.

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Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid
A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?
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What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter?

This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social

📷 Kevin Parker
Whimsical photo of a karure | kakaruia | Chatham Island black robin courtesy of Kevin Parker. Features as a wee black bird with four leg bands: white over orange on the left leg and red over white on the right leg. Sneaky tufts of feathers peak out from otherwise borb-like body, encouraged by the unseen wind.
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Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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Of course the Listener Letter made it into Krauss’ “The War on Science” (boo), but this means it gets the @shaunvids.bsky.social treatment (yay). TL;DR we need the humanities to teach scientists how to read
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🚨Deadline extended 🚨 Get your abstracts in for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026 by Tuesday 7 October → forms.gle/vdMooRs2srtz...

#cccss26 #complexsystems 🧪
Renata Muylaert presents at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
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Glorious!
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What America's changes on #paracetamol and #vaccines might mean for New Zealand

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What America's changes on paracetamol and vaccines might mean for New Zealand
Explainer - Donald Trump claims paracetamol causes autism, while the US has also made cuts to vaccine access and research. What could it all mean for NZ?
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THE GREAT SLEEP IN
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The Herald may have cut its science reporter, but thank god the speed bump beat is still fully staffed
NZ Herald article ‘Residents in new suburb complain of 22 speed bumps’
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A time series for London, but a similar pattern everywhere.

Measles vaccine in UK: 1968.
MMR in UK: 1988.

You can see the impact of each, because MMR boosts uptake enormously. Most of the lives saved by MMR are from measles.

Reversing this will - predictably - kill a large number of children.
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by Shaun C. Hendy

hendysh.bsky.social
The bio also refers to her as “Merry” on line 2 if you want an indication of how carefully they’ve been put together. AFAIK SPG is still drawing a salary at UoA too.
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Merryn Tawhai is an academic - the ABI is a UoA research centre.
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Yeah, I went to an ipad circa 2020 for lecture recording purposes
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Registrations are now also open for the #netscix2026 conference. Early bird registration available until Nov 20th. netscix2026.github.io#register
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hendysh.bsky.social
Are there any chalkboards still in use at UoA?
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 28d
Causing tomorrow's problems with numbers today?
Huge poster "Solving tomorrow's problems with numbers today" and a chalkboard with a woman writing Detail from the right-hand edge of the chalkboard: sin+10=(-3
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Causing tomorrow's problems with numbers today?
Huge poster "Solving tomorrow's problems with numbers today" and a chalkboard with a woman writing Detail from the right-hand edge of the chalkboard: sin+10=(-3
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I've written more about #vaccines - here's an article which looks at the traditional approaches to making live and inactivate vaccines, then protein subunit vaccines, then what makes #mRNA such an important development. #sciart, although my rabbits need practice...
Title: vaccines late 1800s. Diagrame showing a sad rabbit about to be used to make Pasteur's rabies vaccine and explanation of how this was done by injecting rabbits with rabies, then removing their spinal cords (from dead rabbits) and drying the spinal cords to weaken the rabies virus present.
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✨ Nicholson Consulting’s 2025/26 Summer Internship is now open for applications! ✨ 🧵
A man relaxes on a beach with a laptop in Lombok.
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MPs at the Climate Change and Business Conference sat on a panel titled "Beyond Adaptation: Can we secure a cross-party approach?"

The answer, after a watch-through-your-fingers car wreck of a discussion, was a resounding no.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/e...
Ex-climate tsar likens squabbling politicians to toddlers
MPs on a climate panel managed to agree on just one point, that govt won't be able to pay for adaptation. The rest was politics.
newsroom.co.nz
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by Shaun C. Hendy

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It’s considered polite to take it home first
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Part of the challenge is that mRNA vaccines can sound scary - it's understandable if people are concerned. So I'm writing a series about them, starting with an explanation of what viruses do inside our cells, and how our immune system fights back. theturnstone.substack.com/p/hostile-ta...
Hostile takeover
How viruses hijack the machinery of life, and how our body fights back (12 minute read)
theturnstone.substack.com
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hendysh.bsky.social
Yeah, it’s a great ride, but you are pretty exposed for long stretches. This time of year I’d definitely think about some leggings and waterproof overtrousers!
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In my work I often use women MPs as a lens to discuss the impact of online violence on democracy and human rights. I also note that's it's not only women, but keenly felt by gender minorities and rainbow folk. From April:
theconversation.com/a-damning-st...
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by Shaun C. Hendy

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Thanks to @bwbnz.bsky.social @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social and @royalsocietynz.bsky.social for making #TheCovidResponse book tour possible. And thanks to the Canterbury crowd at Scorpio for a lively and engaging Q&A!
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Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social · Sep 4
Over the last few months, we've been supporting @bwbnz.bsky.social to get Shaun around Aotearoa to talk about this book. Last night he spoke to Rebecca Macfie at Scorpio Books in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Shaun Hendy speaks to Rebecca Macfie in front of an audience in a bookshop.
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by Shaun C. Hendy

hendysh.bsky.social
Was the privilege of a lifetime to work with these folks. They each did amazing things under huge pressure day-in-day-out for more than two years.
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Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social · Sep 4
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵
A group photo of the researchers and scientists involved in New Zealand's covid response.
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tepunahamatatini.bsky.social
Over the last few months, we've been supporting @bwbnz.bsky.social to get Shaun around Aotearoa to talk about this book. Last night he spoke to Rebecca Macfie at Scorpio Books in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Shaun Hendy speaks to Rebecca Macfie in front of an audience in a bookshop.
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