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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

A sad reflection of the state of visiting the USA -

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns

Marc Abraham:
“We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the US this year.”

The risk of myocarditis from COVID is higher but let’s all forget about that shall we

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

Or more to the current moment in time: what are they doing to reduce the spread during wave 9 that is happening around the motū. How about changing policies so that everyone can get free vaccines / boosters, cleaning the air in our child care centres, schools, and medical facilities, free tests...

Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do Hospitalisations and deaths from the virus are climbing as the ninth wave of Covid-19 surges across Aotearoa.

5 years late but cool to see this......
Except under the subheading
"WHAT CAN WE DO TO REDUCE THE RISK?"

THERES NOT ONE FEKN MENTION OF MASK USE OR MASKING WITH N95s or CLEANING THE AIR

It advises staying at home and boosters basically
#WearAMask #Covid19

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Spots are still available for people with Long Covid/MECFS in Ōtepoti Dunedin to participate in free facilitated creative writing workshops. I'm one of the facilitators. There's no commitment—if you think you might be interested, get in touch.

When public health is a nice to have, the impact of waves like this could be felt for years to come - and it all could have been mitigated in many ways, especially by politicians across the board listening to the communities who saw this situation coming.

We need to do better - why aren’t we?
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We need:
Widened booster eligibility for under 30’s - the PHCC recommended this years ago, why are we ignoring experts?
Free N95 masks and Covid tests - Covid is a H&S/worksafe issue as well as a public health one - sort it out.
Clean air in schools - an easy win but zero future thinking happening.

SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Reported COVID- 19 Case Numbers - National, last 6 months, on linear scale (NZ)

SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Reported COVID- 19 Case Numbers Auckland, last 6 months, on linear scale (NZ)

This was last updated 26 Feb because lack of government funding doesn’t allow for more frequent reporting, but you can see we’re in a new Covid wave.
Anecdotally, three separate people today mentioned they were WFH because they had it, or knew someone with it.
Politicians/NZ media, please push:
🧵

My three year old suddenly refused meatballs. Put them individually on a skewer and lo, we loved meatypops (for a few meals at least until the novelty wore off!)

Let us boost our kids!!

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I have just learned a woman on the Maori electoral roll checked her details overnight and found she was registered as living in a place a long way from where she actually lives. #NZPol #ElectoralRollThis news caused one of the people I live with to check their status. (1/2)

Screenshot of a Wikidata WikiProject page background is green with mostly black text and an image of a moth specimen illustrates the page.

I've been working on data models for #Wikidata type specimen items & structured data for #WikimediaCommons specimen images. This is part of my WiR & is a collaboration with Brodie Satherley from Auckland Museum.
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#Wikidata #NaturalHistory #TypeSpecimen #DataModel

Lol. We just finished watching Etoile and it was so good we are mad they aren’t making S2 (partly because of the dance, but also the insane French people)

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

A LIST OF WORDS FOR COOL.

A DUDE THINKING SOME SERIOUSLY DEEP THOUGHTS.

THE BEST HOODIE OF ALL TIME

MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MACHINE. A "CUTE CATBOY" AND BEANS.

SO THIS SHIT RULES. youraislopbores.me

Scientific paper published in PubMed. Heading: Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it. Authors: Rebekah C White et all. Autism, 2018 May. For those curious, here's the original paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053878/1/Personification%20in%20autism_final%20accepted.pdf

Nobel Prize For Titles. Right away.

Pleased you like it! I must admit it passed the preschoolers by, but quite a few adults had a chuckle…

Luxon as I prefer to picture him

Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?

A short thread.

#nzpol

Dawn Chorus: Luxon clings on as inflation shock looms Luxon won't resign after poll shock; Oil over US$90/bbl overnight; Petrol over NZ$3/l in some areas; Freight cost warning after diesel rises 44c/l; Pak n'Save buying US butter; Dialysis rationing

“Christchurch Hospital has started rationing dialysis to two sessions per week from three because of a Government-imposed sinking lid on spending to ensure Crown spending to GDP gets down below 30%, 1News reported last night” #nzpol

Illustration of Lilian Murray (later Lilian Lindsay) outside the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh waving her Diploma above her head. There are books at her feet. (Image courtesy of British Dental Association)

It's #DentistDay! This is Lilian Murray who became the first female dentist to qualify in the UK. She initially tried to enrol at the London Dental School but was refused entry to the building in case she distracted male students & was interviewed on the pavement instead! #InternationalWomensDay

Lawyer calls for Louise Upston to resign after being 'duped' by Gloriavale leaders Dennis Gates, who has represented Gloriavale leavers, said Upston had been misled by Gloriavale leaders on a visit to the West Coast Christian community.

Lawyer calls for Louise Upston to resign after being 'duped' by Gloriavale leaders

A month?! They should put some alcohol in it will last longer....wait...

(perfect time of year for apricots - I'm currently trying to get through apricot upside-down-cake in order to justify making it again with peaches.

Global dairy prices continue to rise in wake of Middle East conflict Supply pressure and buying interest saw dairy prices continue their climb at the latest Global Dairy Trade auction overnight.

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Ōtepoti op-shoppers: The BroadBay rummage sale is on this weekend, and the Macandrew Bay school fair is on next weekend. Also, the Duck in Mac Bay is open for all you coffee/cake/actual meal needs.

Oh gosh that’s scary! We had similar a few years ago, rush to the hospital, balloons up the nose, heavy doses of morphine. Not fun! Hope all goes well for you.

Government considering scrapping entire clean car standard An EV advocate says if the proposal goes ahead, Kiwis will be sold "the high-emitting leftovers" that manufacturers can no longer sell in Australia.

Government considering scrapping entire clean car standard because they don’t care if the air is as filthy as the rivers they are also reducing quality standards on #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I got the new covid vaccine on Monday. My teens only have to wait another 11 and 13 years respectively until they can get another one in NZ. 🤯
Afterwards I pushed the high school, yet again, for clear comms telling parents to keep symptomatic kids home from school and school activities, noting this

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Support long-term thinking not just next year's profit

Things like fundamental research at 2% of GDP

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