The story of how two South Auckland solo mums, artists & entrepreneurs turned the grief & shock of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins death into a labour of love, that held our talanoa, tears and laughter for the past five days.
This is a Tongan monomono pani - a puffer patchwork quilt - made of 968 squares.
I know the feeling, but they're deliberately playing on that moral pressure thing when they call you, so I'm backing you.
And here is yet another study adding to the long list of studies showing bias against female scientists...
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Empowerment: Shari Gallop shows examples of marae relocation due to natural hazards.
Shari Gallop shows how we can learn from te ao Māori and make things better for everyone. This slide: where marae have relocated in the past due to natural hazards. Research from Akuhata Winiata-Bailey. #NZCS2023
Laura Robichaux talks about DAPP for the Devonport naval base.
Laura Robichaux and colleagues and their work on dynamic adaptive pathways planning for Devonport naval base (don't try to talk to the navy about retreat!) #NZCS2023
Dan Hikuroa's keynote: Heeding the Taniwha, weaving Mātauranga Māori and science.
Great keynote from Dan Hikuroa on heeding the Taniwha. Take home message: we need to stop trying to manage our environment and instead focus on managing our relationship with the environment. #NZCS2023
View of Te Whanganui-a-Tara from Te Ahumairangi lookout with low cloud
Awesome morning run up Te Ahumarangi lookout this morning. The low cloud that caused all the trouble for people trying to get to the coastal society conference had lifted, but not much #NZCS2023
Ōtautahi Christchurch peeps, your support is needed. This consultation closes 25th Oct (in a couple of days). ‼️✍️
Active transport (walking, cycling, e-scootering, using wheelchairs, mobility scooters, etc.) grow if the environment they are used in is safer. 👨🦽🚶🏽🚴♀️
letstalk.ccc.govt.nz/saferspeedpl...
Can we get to $3200 before the end of today? That would mean we have helped 160 kiwi kids get a $20 Secret Santa gift this Christmas. To kids who may not have seen any present from Santa. Soo close givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/b... @foxylustygrover.bsky.social
Successful day in the garden replacing flower trees with fruit trees. I do suspect, however, that I may have buried the secateurs under the new apricot tree...
For at least five decades, scientists have worked to understand and document how human demands exceed Earth’s regenerative capacity, causing “ecological overshoot".
theconversation.com/slow-solutio...
Harvester fluorescing under UV light.
Cool photos, we discovered that at least some of the cave dwelling harvesters fluoresce. (Apologies to the harvester for giving it sunburn)
Fun night talking tsunamis in Picton. Thanks to Marlborough Emergency Management for inviting me up for it.
In some personal and non-AB sport news from the weekend. I did my annual job of keeping the masters female bouldering champ honest.
It's sort of quite fun finding folks I've followed before.
The dates are slightly out, but I feel this needs another airing as that triennial reminder... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eva5...
I just got thanked today for believing in someone when they'd stopped believing in themselves - best feeling ever.
