Te Pūnaha Matatini Postdoctoral Fellow Sidney Wong explores opportunities to fully understand Aotearoa's linguistic needs over at The Conversation → theconversation.com/english-does...
Currently, Aotearoa has no overarching national strategy for languages or language learning. Instead, policy exists in separate areas – including strategies for Pacific languages and te reo Māori – without a single framework covering the country’s full linguistic landscape.
Language is an intrinsic part of identity and culture, and the maintenance of languages leads to better wellbeing outcomes as well as cognitive and professional benefits.
Aotearoa is home to more than 160 heritage language communities.
One reason for designating languages “official” is to protect and support minority or marginalised languages, often those under threat.
English is spoken by more than 4.75 million New Zealanders – 96% of the population – and dominates the nation’s television, radio, classrooms and workplaces.
Anyone tuning into political debates about the recently introduced English Language Bill might be led to think New Zealand’s most widely spoken tongue is endangered 🧵
The poster, wearing a black Te Pūnaha Matatini shirt against the white dunes of White Sands National Park
Repping @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social in the desert of New Mexico.
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Who is with us? #savetheposter
Sidney Wong brandishes pens in front of the audience at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
Our enterprising Postdoctoral Fellows hosted an unposter, and invited symposium participants to help them create it during the event.
A room of people engage with posters at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
At the recent Capital City Complex Systems Symposium, the poster room was buzzing. If you want to engage with other people about your work and get relevant feedback and engagement, the poster is the way to do it.
Heli Aomets presents her poster at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
At our events, the poster presentations are often one of the highlights. And having poster presenters stand up in front of the audience is a fun and quick way for people to find out which posters are relevant to them, and see the people behind them, so they know who to approach.
Olivia Janes presents her poster at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
2. Giving poster presenters at our events one minute and one slide to introduce their topic to the audience.
Christina McCabe teaches design to Lisa Pilkington.
1. Running workshops on design skills with our researchers.
Some people out there can look down on the poster, so we're on a mission to rehabilitate its image. Here's how we're doing it:
The poster is an excellent conference format 🧪🧵
In bringing together global evidence, this research sets out a roadmap for how science and management can respond to these mounting ecological pressures → theconversation.com/extreme-weat...
A newly published global review featuring @jdtonkin.bsky.social & Julia Talbot-Jones finds these events are pushing ecosystems beyond their limits and eroding biodiversity and core functions.
Rather, they are being increasingly transformed by extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts and heatwaves.
The Yangtze is not an exception. Around the world, rivers are no longer changing gradually.
The impacts for hydropower, shipping and industry in China were severe, immediate and well-documented. Less visible were the ecological consequences for the many species that depend on the river.
In the summer of 2022, extreme heat and unprecedented drought drove parts of the world’s third largest river, the Yangtze, to dry up 🧪🧵
What do floods, droughts, heatwaves and compound events actually do to river ecosystems?
My latest post walks through nine real-world impact pathways — from reaching physiological limits to cascading network‑wide effects.
A guided tour of a rapidly changing reality.
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Thank you to our generous sponsors, who made it all possible. We appreciate your commitment to supporting transdisciplinary research in Aotearoa that makes an impact → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/making...
Sir Bill English presents at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
For Te Tira Maurikura member and political scientist Natalia Albert, "it will come as no surprise that Sir Bill English's reflections on working in the public service at the highest levels were a must for me. I love being handed a new way of thinking about something I care so much about."
Simon Upton presents at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium.
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton cautioned against society’s growing tendency to reject nuance and favour overly simple narratives, warning that this undermines good environmental governance.
