Astro Ecologies
@astroecologies.bsky.social
The Astro Ecologies Research Network explores relations between earth and outer space in the second space age https://astroecologies.org
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Up on the Sunshine Coast tomorrow there's a great example of creative approaches to whale communication. A deep listening journey with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis, live streaming Humpback Whale song from underwater hydrophones for ANAT SPECTRA::Reciprocity at UniSC: www.anat.org.au/reciprocity-...
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Up on the Sunshine Coast tomorrow there's a great example of creative approaches to whale communication. A deep listening journey with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis, live streaming Humpback Whale song from underwater hydrophones for ANAT SPECTRA::Reciprocity at UniSC: www.anat.org.au/reciprocity-...
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Our members @drpriaero.bsky.social and @catherineq.bsky.social quoted in @thespinoff.bsky.social on NZ's MethaneSat involvement:
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
What went wrong with MethaneSat – and who should answer for it?
New Zealand’s first publicly funded space mission has ended with a lost satellite and a debate about how we spend our money in space.<br />
thespinoff.co.nz
July 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Our members @drpriaero.bsky.social and @catherineq.bsky.social quoted in @thespinoff.bsky.social on NZ's MethaneSat involvement:
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...
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To replace the self-fulfilling prophecy that space is “congested, contested and competitive”, we need a new mantra, one that offers solutions: “Communication, cooperation and collaboration”. Check out my Substack this week and say the mantra with me. open.substack.com/pub/spacecit...
Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration in Space
Why these words matter
open.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
To replace the self-fulfilling prophecy that space is “congested, contested and competitive”, we need a new mantra, one that offers solutions: “Communication, cooperation and collaboration”. Check out my Substack this week and say the mantra with me. open.substack.com/pub/spacecit...
For folk interested in international perspectives on SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence): a presentation from @gabriela-radulescu.bsky.social on Armenia & the former Czechoslovakia combining science, politics & ancient cultural–astronomical traditions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=059T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=059T...
Earthly & extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia | Gabriela Radulescu
YouTube video by Cosmoimaginaries
www.youtube.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For folk interested in international perspectives on SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence): a presentation from @gabriela-radulescu.bsky.social on Armenia & the former Czechoslovakia combining science, politics & ancient cultural–astronomical traditions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=059T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=059T...
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The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars.
go.nature.com/469V1nr
go.nature.com/469V1nr
Mystery Martian minerals hint at the planet’s complex geochemical past
The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars.
go.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars.
go.nature.com/469V1nr
go.nature.com/469V1nr
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Our May Editorial celebrates the many ways in which ecologists study the natural world 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Our May Editorial celebrates the many ways in which ecologists study the natural world 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Can I offer you some interesting results about the Uranian satellites in this trying time? My colleagues at JPL, APL, Purdue, and I have been leveraging knowledge about the dwarf planet Ceres to understand these distant moons - and their cryovolcanic potential: www.universetoday.com/articles/ura...
Uranus’ Moons Could Have Cryovolcanism from Potential Interior Oceans
What can cryovolcanism on the dwarf planet Ceres teach us about potential cryovolcanism on Uranus’ five largest moons, which include Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel, Titania, and Miranda? This is what two stud...
www.universetoday.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Can I offer you some interesting results about the Uranian satellites in this trying time? My colleagues at JPL, APL, Purdue, and I have been leveraging knowledge about the dwarf planet Ceres to understand these distant moons - and their cryovolcanic potential: www.universetoday.com/articles/ura...
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From Skylar Grayson: Today’s paper explores how JWST was able to observe 44 individual stars in a galaxy eight and a half billion light years away! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/19/d...
astrobites.org/2025/03/19/d...
Here There Be (Star-Filled) Dragons
Today's paper explores how JWST was able to observe 44 individual stars in a galaxy eight and a half billion light years away!
astrobites.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
From Skylar Grayson: Today’s paper explores how JWST was able to observe 44 individual stars in a galaxy eight and a half billion light years away! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/03/19/d...
astrobites.org/2025/03/19/d...
Excited to launch the next Cosmoimaginaries season with a talk from Gabriela Radulescu:
📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI / SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Fri 21st March 9am NZDT
All welcome.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI / SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Fri 21st March 9am NZDT
All welcome.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Excited to launch the next Cosmoimaginaries season with a talk from Gabriela Radulescu:
📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI / SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Fri 21st March 9am NZDT
All welcome.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI / SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Fri 21st March 9am NZDT
All welcome.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Te Kāhui Tupua: Taranaki Maunga granted legal personhood
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/30/t...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/30/t...
Te Kāhui Tupua: Taranaki Maunga granted legal personhood
Taranaki and its peaks – Panitahi, Patuhā, Kaitake and Pouākai – are now a legal person called Te Kāhui Tupua.
www.1news.co.nz
January 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Te Kāhui Tupua: Taranaki Maunga granted legal personhood
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/30/t...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/30/t...
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Sharing our recent pub here and relational science model of practice (see visual map 🌀). "A values-centered relational science model: supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research" ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sharing our recent pub here and relational science model of practice (see visual map 🌀). "A values-centered relational science model: supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research" ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss2/a...
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Aotearoa New Zealand's growing space sector presents a unique opportunity to rethink space sustainability. This goes far beyond mitigating space debris, calling for a transdisciplinary approach that integrates diverse values and knowledge systems. [2/9]
January 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Aotearoa New Zealand's growing space sector presents a unique opportunity to rethink space sustainability. This goes far beyond mitigating space debris, calling for a transdisciplinary approach that integrates diverse values and knowledge systems. [2/9]
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Here's the Greenpeace submission on the Treaty Principles Bill.
Feel free to use any of it that resonates with you!
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pub...
Feel free to use any of it that resonates with you!
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pub...
Greenpeace Submission on the Treaty Principles Bill - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace opposes the Treaty Principles Bill in its entirety because we believe that protecting Te Tiriti is the responsibility of everyone who calls Aotearoa New Zealand home and because it…
www.greenpeace.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Here's the Greenpeace submission on the Treaty Principles Bill.
Feel free to use any of it that resonates with you!
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pub...
Feel free to use any of it that resonates with you!
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pub...
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It's been a hectic week but we have finally got a formal press release up on our website regarding the Marsden Fund changes - needless to say, the NZAS finds nothing good here. Seems to us there's about as much of a plan for the science sector as there is for the Cook Strait ferries!
New Zealand Association of Scientists - Marsden Fund changes threaten foundations of research sector
scientists.org.nz
December 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
It's been a hectic week but we have finally got a formal press release up on our website regarding the Marsden Fund changes - needless to say, the NZAS finds nothing good here. Seems to us there's about as much of a plan for the science sector as there is for the Cook Strait ferries!
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This news is appaling, but the comments in this article from colleagues in the sciences about the crucial impact of the humanities and social sciences are heartning.
Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed
Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 4, 2024 at 9:45 AM
This news is appaling, but the comments in this article from colleagues in the sciences about the crucial impact of the humanities and social sciences are heartning.
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New Ambio Special issue just published
Trajectories of social-ecological systems in the Global South
link.springer.com/journal/1328...
Trajectories of social-ecological systems in the Global South
link.springer.com/journal/1328...
November 17, 2024 at 6:54 AM
New Ambio Special issue just published
Trajectories of social-ecological systems in the Global South
link.springer.com/journal/1328...
Trajectories of social-ecological systems in the Global South
link.springer.com/journal/1328...
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Such an important study, by over 100 scientists, confirming what so many local people have already been saying.
“Authorities often use frequent fuel-reduction burning to prepare for bushfires – however our findings suggest this primes ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits”
“Authorities often use frequent fuel-reduction burning to prepare for bushfires – however our findings suggest this primes ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits”
Mega fires mega study - Australian Geographic
A study involving over 100 scientists has uncovered some startling findings into how the black summer bushfires impacted animals and plants.
www.australiangeographic.com.au
November 19, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Such an important study, by over 100 scientists, confirming what so many local people have already been saying.
“Authorities often use frequent fuel-reduction burning to prepare for bushfires – however our findings suggest this primes ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits”
“Authorities often use frequent fuel-reduction burning to prepare for bushfires – however our findings suggest this primes ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits”
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Don't forget to register for the Abolish Planets day school this Sunday! This day school is perfect for anyone, inside or outside the world of space exploration, who is looking to build community and learn about direct action! Registration closes Friday: abolishplanets.com/events/day-s...
November 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Don't forget to register for the Abolish Planets day school this Sunday! This day school is perfect for anyone, inside or outside the world of space exploration, who is looking to build community and learn about direct action! Registration closes Friday: abolishplanets.com/events/day-s...
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So, after months of planning, it’s finally happening. The first ever (outer) space humanities conference in Latin America, in Spanish, in person! If you’ll be in Mexico City the last week of November, stop by! investigacion.diseno.ibero.mx?page_id=942
Horizontes Cósmicos – Otro Diseño es Posible
investigacion.diseno.ibero.mx
November 17, 2024 at 4:17 PM
So, after months of planning, it’s finally happening. The first ever (outer) space humanities conference in Latin America, in Spanish, in person! If you’ll be in Mexico City the last week of November, stop by! investigacion.diseno.ibero.mx?page_id=942
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Supercluster contributor and researcher Peter Timko spends a few months in Tokyo to get a handle on what the Japanese space industry looks like as it steps into the new space era.
🗾🚀🛰️
Awesome read:
www.supercluster.com/editorial/ha...
🗾🚀🛰️
Awesome read:
www.supercluster.com/editorial/ha...
December 12, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Supercluster contributor and researcher Peter Timko spends a few months in Tokyo to get a handle on what the Japanese space industry looks like as it steps into the new space era.
🗾🚀🛰️
Awesome read:
www.supercluster.com/editorial/ha...
🗾🚀🛰️
Awesome read:
www.supercluster.com/editorial/ha...
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“Professor Rangi Matamua is rightly chuffed when he points out that public recognition and celebration of Matariki and the maramataka (Māori lunar calendar) continues to rise, year on year.” #kikorangi
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
June 29, 2024 at 7:56 AM
“Professor Rangi Matamua is rightly chuffed when he points out that public recognition and celebration of Matariki and the maramataka (Māori lunar calendar) continues to rise, year on year.” #kikorangi
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...