🚨 New article out in @theconversation.com:
As age restrictions on social media spread globally, we may be witnessing the rise of a Victorian internet — one shaped by moral panic, not just child protection.
🔗 theconversation.com/as-social-me...

🌀 Feeling nostalgic for the landline era? I had the pleasure of sharing my thoughts in this Capsule NZ piece on why Gen Z (and some of us millennials!) are craving media with boundaries. 📞

Read the full article here: capsulenz.com/be/parenting...

🚫📱 Banning social media for under-16s in NZ isn't the solution! In this article I suggest 10 reasons why it shouldn't happen theconversation.com/10-reasons-w...

Done! Co-governance fear-mongering from the organized right is misguided. As a recipient of @internetnz.bsky.social funding, I can say firsthand: there's nothing to fear. In fact, #TeTiriti strengthened my research and made it better.

Pleased to share that my first article about ADHD and screen time has been published: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CFP! I'm co-editing this special issue in QRIP. Our aim is to generate critical discussion regarding the impact of AI on the ontology, epistemology, and methodology underpinning qualitative research in the social sciences think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Back at work this week. Feeling annoyed I only just discovered this gem of an out of office service after the summer hols! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbfD...

Seems like the current New Zealand government doesn’t even want overseas funders to fund the country’s humanities and social sciences researchers instead of them.

Vision Wellington's 'back to basics' approach isn't neutral—it's a pro-business, anti-climate action, right-wing agenda. Most concerning its exploiting its privileged access to the public sphere

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

First time puarangi / hibiscus richardsonii is flowering in our garden 😊

www.together.org.nz/love_humanit...

At a time when the NZ government making concerted attempts to defund social sciences and humanities in favour of a few physical sciences alone, I particularly appreciate this ‘airline safety video’ pitch from Bryony James of VUW

thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-1...

Downstream effect of the Marsden cuts: a lot of the fixed term teaching contracts I've been able to pick up have been buy-outs funded via humanities or socsci Marsdens - as well as being devastating for ECR and mid-career academics, this also means a path for the most junior evaporates too

As a scientist who has a Marsden through the social sciences panel this is so so so fucked up. It will have massive implications for Māori research being funded.

Appalling news & a sad day for research funding in NZ. There were some amazing humanities and social sciences projects that were funded this year that will each change the world in their own unique way www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

This is so small minded

Such a good #AANZCA conference at RMIT!! Thank you to @dbossio.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dhutchman.bsky.social for organising and @katemannell.bsky.social your #digitalchild research. Stoked to share my early research on ADHD and screen time

Pondering when Australia’s social media ban for under-16s will be coming to NZ. The ban will disproportionately affect marginalized groups and undermine essential digital literacies. I’m all about disconnecting but not forcing it on people, especially young people!

In my short time working at The Spinoff, I met people who I’d argue are more important to NZ society than you can imagine.

It’s a flipping hard job, especially in this environment, and there’s no similar media org in New Zealand. They need our support. thespinoff.co.nz/media/28-11-...