Maria Armoudian, Ph.D., @UoA, #ScholarsCircle, #NgaAraWhetu
@armoudian.bsky.social
Author, scholar; #enviro/sustainability, #humanrights, #animals, #goodgovernment. 3 books: Lawyers Beyond Borders: Advancing International Human Rts; Reporting from the Danger Zone; Kill the Messenger: Media's role in the fate of the world
We have been working with #newsroom to focus on solving environmental and sustainability problems and launched this today:
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Planetary Solutions Archives
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October 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We have been working with #newsroom to focus on solving environmental and sustainability problems and launched this today:
newsroom.co.nz/category/pla...
Please join us in creating and sharing planetary solutions!
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Please join us in creating and sharing planetary solutions!
Has anyone moved a #piano overseas? I want to bring my baby grand here to NZ but am really struggling to find a good, affordable shipping company.
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Has anyone moved a #piano overseas? I want to bring my baby grand here to NZ but am really struggling to find a good, affordable shipping company.
For the past year, I have focused on the University of Auckland's sustainability & Ngā Ara Whetū Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society instead of publishing. BUT with coauthors, Tim Lawler and Bethan Payne, we published this in the Journal of Human Rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Barriers to justice for survivors of egregious human rights violations: A transdisciplinary approach
Redressing survivors of egregious human rights violations remains one of the intractable issues of our times. Based on interviews with advocates working to remedy these injustices, this article exa...
www.tandfonline.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
For the past year, I have focused on the University of Auckland's sustainability & Ngā Ara Whetū Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society instead of publishing. BUT with coauthors, Tim Lawler and Bethan Payne, we published this in the Journal of Human Rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Maria Armoudian, Ph.D., @UoA, #ScholarsCircle, #NgaAraWhetu
Industry emissions have risen faster than any other sector since 2000. To decarbonize we need:
🧱 Less cement & steel use
⚡ Efficiency & electrification
🌱 New solutions like green hydrogen
More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3TQMHDp
🧱 Less cement & steel use
⚡ Efficiency & electrification
🌱 New solutions like green hydrogen
More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3TQMHDp
August 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Industry emissions have risen faster than any other sector since 2000. To decarbonize we need:
🧱 Less cement & steel use
⚡ Efficiency & electrification
🌱 New solutions like green hydrogen
More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3TQMHDp
🧱 Less cement & steel use
⚡ Efficiency & electrification
🌱 New solutions like green hydrogen
More from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/3TQMHDp
Reposted by Maria Armoudian, Ph.D., @UoA, #ScholarsCircle, #NgaAraWhetu
Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
June 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.
This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
Reposted by Maria Armoudian, Ph.D., @UoA, #ScholarsCircle, #NgaAraWhetu
In this weeks show, Leo XIV is Augustinian. Who was Augustine and what does it mean to be Augustinian. We explore this with two fabulous Augustinian scholars and discuss charity, faith and love. Give it a listen!
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Scholars' Circle - Pope Leo & Augustinian thought - June 8, 2025
What will it mean for Catholicism and the world to have the first Augustinian Pope? What were the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, who inspires the Order of Augustine? And what are Pope Leo's theologi...
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June 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In this weeks show, Leo XIV is Augustinian. Who was Augustine and what does it mean to be Augustinian. We explore this with two fabulous Augustinian scholars and discuss charity, faith and love. Give it a listen!
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The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
May 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.
Reposted by Maria Armoudian, Ph.D., @UoA, #ScholarsCircle, #NgaAraWhetu
My statement on the charges filed against me:
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My statement on the charges filed against me:
If you're interested in mitigating this mass #extinction, #Biodiversity & #climatechange crises, we must change our politics. Published today to rethink, including by redefining wealth (nature = wealth) & success, cleaning campaign systems & #deliberativedemocracy. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
The politics driving the mass tragedy of native species decline
OPINION: Why does New Zealand have one of the highest proportions of threatened native species in the world?
www.thepost.co.nz
May 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you're interested in mitigating this mass #extinction, #Biodiversity & #climatechange crises, we must change our politics. Published today to rethink, including by redefining wealth (nature = wealth) & success, cleaning campaign systems & #deliberativedemocracy. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
Another terrifying prospect.
NEW: Autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime.
Technological advances and military investments are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems that would operate without meaningful human control.
Technological advances and military investments are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems that would operate without meaningful human control.
‘Killer Robots’ Threaten Human Rights During War, Peace
In "A Hazard to Human Rights," Human Rights Watch details how autonomous weapons systems pose a grave risk to human rights during both war and peacetime. Governments should tackle the concerns raised ...
www.hrw.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Another terrifying prospect.
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“We have the solutions –but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns & lobby power of the #FossilFuel industry. Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics & silencing scientists can only lead to harm, & ordinary people will pay the price”
#ClimateChange scientist, Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
#ClimateChange scientist, Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
#FactsMatter: The devastating impacts of the #ClimateCrisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods & storms across the globe, according to UN WMO.
"We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of #FossilFuels fast"‼️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of #FossilFuels fast"‼️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“We have the solutions –but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns & lobby power of the #FossilFuel industry. Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics & silencing scientists can only lead to harm, & ordinary people will pay the price”
#ClimateChange scientist, Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
#ClimateChange scientist, Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
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If you're in Auckland, come along to this at 5 PM: www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...
‘Democracy is not lost’: Experts discuss NZ’s place in changing world - The University of AucklandFacebookTwitterYouTubeLinkedInInstagramWomen's Refuge
The impacts of US politics on New Zealand will be examined by former UK High Commissioner Phil Goff and University of Auckland experts on 10 April.
www.auckland.ac.nz
April 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you're in Auckland, come along to this at 5 PM: www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...
More terrible news for us all.
The Trump administration has canceled a contract critical to the completion of the Sixth National Climate Assessment, a major U.S. climate report. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
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U.S. National Climate Assessment Likely Dead After Contract Canceled - Eos
The Trump administration has canceled funding used to coordinate the National Climate Assessment, a major, congressionally mandated U.S. climate change report produced through the U.S. Global Change R...
eos.org
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
More terrible news for us all.
Reposted by Maria Armoudian, Ph.D., @UoA, #ScholarsCircle, #NgaAraWhetu
The Trump administration has canceled a contract critical to the completion of the Sixth National Climate Assessment, a major U.S. climate report. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
U.S. National Climate Assessment Likely Dead After Contract Canceled - Eos
The Trump administration has canceled funding used to coordinate the National Climate Assessment, a major, congressionally mandated U.S. climate change report produced through the U.S. Global Change R...
eos.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Trump administration has canceled a contract critical to the completion of the Sixth National Climate Assessment, a major U.S. climate report. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
If you care about #HumanRights #Redress and want to know a bit of the policy history in the US, especially #universaljurisdiction, here's a piece I just published on it in the Journal of Policy History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations | Journal of Policy History | Cambridge Core
A Long History of Universal Jurisdiction in US Policy: The Quest to Redress Survivors of Egregious Human Rights Violations - Volume 37 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If you care about #HumanRights #Redress and want to know a bit of the policy history in the US, especially #universaljurisdiction, here's a piece I just published on it in the Journal of Policy History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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To be vetted for starter, pack three at eight p m last chance to repost!!
REPOST!! GO!!
REPOST!! GO!!
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
To be vetted for starter, pack three at eight p m last chance to repost!!
REPOST!! GO!!
REPOST!! GO!!
another argument for why we need good government and why it matters who is in charge.
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
another argument for why we need good government and why it matters who is in charge.
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#BlueEarth Our planet is facing a biodiversity crisis.
Species are vanishing at an alarming rate, ecosystems are collapsing, and the delicate balance of nature is under threat.
From habitat destruction to climate change, we’re disconnected from the natural world.
#BSV #PBV #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
Species are vanishing at an alarming rate, ecosystems are collapsing, and the delicate balance of nature is under threat.
From habitat destruction to climate change, we’re disconnected from the natural world.
#BSV #PBV #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
February 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#BlueEarth Our planet is facing a biodiversity crisis.
Species are vanishing at an alarming rate, ecosystems are collapsing, and the delicate balance of nature is under threat.
From habitat destruction to climate change, we’re disconnected from the natural world.
#BSV #PBV #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
Species are vanishing at an alarming rate, ecosystems are collapsing, and the delicate balance of nature is under threat.
From habitat destruction to climate change, we’re disconnected from the natural world.
#BSV #PBV #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
beyond hypocritical and yet their followers cannot see what's right before their eyeballs. They say "follow the money," but they only do so if it's not their cult leaders.
Elon Musk, whose businesses operate on taxpayer cash like a billionaire welfare scheme, wants you to believe federal workers are the REAL freeloaders.
Sure, Elon. 🙄
Bold words coming from a guy whose entire empire is basically a government-sponsored side hustle. 1/4
Sure, Elon. 🙄
Bold words coming from a guy whose entire empire is basically a government-sponsored side hustle. 1/4
Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government
Musk’s DOGE wants to cut tens of thousands of federal workers, and now it’s aiming at people he thinks are too rich.
fortune.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
beyond hypocritical and yet their followers cannot see what's right before their eyeballs. They say "follow the money," but they only do so if it's not their cult leaders.
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“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday.
“I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”
“I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”
President Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes He Might Not Know How to Govern
Elon Musk argued that he wasn’t actually cutting funding for cancer research.
newrepublic.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday.
“I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”
“I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”
This is what I think it's all about -- shiny objects to keep you distracted so you can't see the utter devastation that is occurring and about to occur.
February 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This is what I think it's all about -- shiny objects to keep you distracted so you can't see the utter devastation that is occurring and about to occur.
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On this weeks show we interview the author of a new book on how immigration policies defines who belongs to a nation. Then we discuss the Administration’s attack on immigrants. Give it a listen!
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Scholars' Circle - Immigrants to US and how they are treated by its Laws and Executive power of US Presidents - February 9, 2025
What exactly is the political, physical, and existential meanings of borders? Borders are human creations but often define state and national boundaries and even identities. They define belonging to a...
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February 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
On this weeks show we interview the author of a new book on how immigration policies defines who belongs to a nation. Then we discuss the Administration’s attack on immigrants. Give it a listen!
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Something I think the Dem leadership should do to pushback/inform: Starting next week, we need a daily, scheduled damage report televised and shared on social media to inform, not unlike they did during COVID. Give details and any action to defend or to fight back. Specifics, no rhetoric.
a light bulb with the words " i have an idea " above it
ALT: a light bulb with the words " i have an idea " above it
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Something I think the Dem leadership should do to pushback/inform: Starting next week, we need a daily, scheduled damage report televised and shared on social media to inform, not unlike they did during COVID. Give details and any action to defend or to fight back. Specifics, no rhetoric.