Imogen Bassett
@imogenbassett.bsky.social
Pākehā ecologist, Aotearoa. Biosecurity, biodiversity, invasive species, preoccupied with translating evidence into conservation outcomes, opinions my own, she/her/ia 🏳️🌈
I spoke with @rnzrss.bsky.social about why we need to regulate the exotic pet trade in Aotearoa www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
Turtles - the pet turned pest
Turtles have a relaxed reputation, but in reality they're quick-moving and aggressive, and are wreaking havoc on our native wildlife
www.rnz.co.nz
September 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I spoke with @rnzrss.bsky.social about why we need to regulate the exotic pet trade in Aotearoa www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
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New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
January 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
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With the current influx of new users, it feels important to reshare this critical information
Engaging with toxic posts, even if it’s to rebut or mock them, is still a form of amplification
We need to go back to the basics of the early Internet: Don’t feed the trolls (and the grifters)
#SocialWeb
Engaging with toxic posts, even if it’s to rebut or mock them, is still a form of amplification
We need to go back to the basics of the early Internet: Don’t feed the trolls (and the grifters)
#SocialWeb
I'd second this, fwiw. Every expert analysis I've seen of how toxicity spreads on X notes that any engagement with the toxin, even as rebuttal, ridicule, pillory, is just a variant of amplification. Block the bad, share the good is what works.
Remember: Bluesky is not Xitter!
The goal is to build something better
One key thing to do is "block and don’t interact"
Don’t quote post dumb posts
Don’t reply to bad actors, trolls, reply guys, and extremists
Just block them
Life is too short to be wasted on idiocy and toxicity
The goal is to build something better
One key thing to do is "block and don’t interact"
Don’t quote post dumb posts
Don’t reply to bad actors, trolls, reply guys, and extremists
Just block them
Life is too short to be wasted on idiocy and toxicity
November 11, 2024 at 10:42 AM
With the current influx of new users, it feels important to reshare this critical information
Engaging with toxic posts, even if it’s to rebut or mock them, is still a form of amplification
We need to go back to the basics of the early Internet: Don’t feed the trolls (and the grifters)
#SocialWeb
Engaging with toxic posts, even if it’s to rebut or mock them, is still a form of amplification
We need to go back to the basics of the early Internet: Don’t feed the trolls (and the grifters)
#SocialWeb
Job alert: we're hiring a new Principal Advisor Biosecurity - does translating evidence and strategy into impactful conservation action, supporting (and supported by) a team of lovely peeps sound like your dream job? careers.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/job/Auckland...
Biosecurity Principal Advisor
Biosecurity Principal Advisor
careers.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
October 4, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Job alert: we're hiring a new Principal Advisor Biosecurity - does translating evidence and strategy into impactful conservation action, supporting (and supported by) a team of lovely peeps sound like your dream job? careers.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/job/Auckland...
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Incredible quote from the PM in relation to legislation to dishonor an agreement
September 9, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Incredible quote from the PM in relation to legislation to dishonor an agreement
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Marine heatwave promotes population expansion of the invasive ascidian Symplegma brakenhielmi: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Pretty amazing what ascidians can grow on.
#ecology #invasivespecies
Pretty amazing what ascidians can grow on.
#ecology #invasivespecies
July 18, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Marine heatwave promotes population expansion of the invasive ascidian Symplegma brakenhielmi: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Pretty amazing what ascidians can grow on.
#ecology #invasivespecies
Pretty amazing what ascidians can grow on.
#ecology #invasivespecies
Good turnout at March for Nature
June 8, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Good turnout at March for Nature
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Reminder not to approach or touch sick or dead birds and if you see 3 or more call it in - public awareness is an important part of our early detection system for avian influenza!
www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/...
www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/...
May 22, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Reminder not to approach or touch sick or dead birds and if you see 3 or more call it in - public awareness is an important part of our early detection system for avian influenza!
www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/...
www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity/...
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May 10, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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Great Q&A with Katelyn Jetelina on the latest in the H5N1 outbreak
www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
U.S. Needs to Better Track Bird Flu Spread in Farm Animals, Farm Workers, Epidemiologist Says
Four years after a mysterious respiratory virus jumped from animals into humans and launched the COVID pandemic, wary epidemiologists are keeping a close eye on a strain of avian influenza that is spr...
www.scientificamerican.com
May 1, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Great Q&A with Katelyn Jetelina on the latest in the H5N1 outbreak
www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...
Folks in Ao/NZ... this is on our horizon. If you see unusual clusters of bird mortality, don't touch (!), but do report to MPI 0800 80 99 66
bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com/future/artic...
'Unprecedented': How bird flu became an animal pandemic
Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly.
bbc.com
April 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Folks in Ao/NZ... this is on our horizon. If you see unusual clusters of bird mortality, don't touch (!), but do report to MPI 0800 80 99 66
bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com/future/artic...
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Re-upping this because submissions close next week and it really is an extraordinary bill giving ministers an extraordinary amount of power. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The unprecedented power the government is handing three of its ministers under its new Fast Track Approval Bill
What is the Fast Track Approval Bill and why do experts say it's a step beyond even the Muldoon era?
www.rnz.co.nz
April 12, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Re-upping this because submissions close next week and it really is an extraordinary bill giving ministers an extraordinary amount of power. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Consultation now open on Auckland Council's 10-year budget. Do you have an opinion about how we should fund biodiversity protection, climate action, transport, libraries or any of the other important mahi council does? Then submit!
akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/hub-page/lon...
akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/hub-page/lon...
February 28, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Consultation now open on Auckland Council's 10-year budget. Do you have an opinion about how we should fund biodiversity protection, climate action, transport, libraries or any of the other important mahi council does? Then submit!
akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/hub-page/lon...
akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/hub-page/lon...
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Bird flu arrives in mainland Antarctica – Expert Reaction via @smcnz.bsky.social
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/02/27/b...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/02/27/b...
February 28, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Bird flu arrives in mainland Antarctica – Expert Reaction via @smcnz.bsky.social
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/02/27/b...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/02/27/b...
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Los Angeles Times: "I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation."
Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation
As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.
www.latimes.com
February 17, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Los Angeles Times: "I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation."
Excited to see our new paper out. Turns out cats choosing to return to/seek out their owners is an important reinforcer of the relationship. Enabling choice/space within the property may be important for successfully encouraging containment 1/n
Really nice paper on cat owners' perspectives on cat containment - some interesting insights here with important implications for cat management and conservation. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪🌏
February 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Excited to see our new paper out. Turns out cats choosing to return to/seek out their owners is an important reinforcer of the relationship. Enabling choice/space within the property may be important for successfully encouraging containment 1/n
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Submissions close on Feb 8.
This is not about branding. This is about righting a century old wrong.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/508...
This is not about branding. This is about righting a century old wrong.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/508...
Iwi bid to rename National Park village splits community
A close-knit community in the central North Island is divided over an iwi bid to change its name.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 2, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Submissions close on Feb 8.
This is not about branding. This is about righting a century old wrong.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/508...
This is not about branding. This is about righting a century old wrong.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/508...
Ten writers (of books for adults, though I really rate some authors of "children's" literature!) of whom I've read more than five books:
Kate Atkinson
Catherine Chidgey
Barbara Kingsolver
Patricia Grace
Charles Dickens
Jane Austin
Graham Greene
Gerald Durrell
Evelyn Waugh
Agatha Cristie
Kate Atkinson
Catherine Chidgey
Barbara Kingsolver
Patricia Grace
Charles Dickens
Jane Austin
Graham Greene
Gerald Durrell
Evelyn Waugh
Agatha Cristie
This is a thing now, apparently! Ten writers of whom I've read more than five books:
Stephen King
Margaret Atwood
Terry Pratchett
Ben Aaronovitch
Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
Elizabeth George
P.D. James
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Stephen King
Margaret Atwood
Terry Pratchett
Ben Aaronovitch
Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
Elizabeth George
P.D. James
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
January 4, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Ten writers (of books for adults, though I really rate some authors of "children's" literature!) of whom I've read more than five books:
Kate Atkinson
Catherine Chidgey
Barbara Kingsolver
Patricia Grace
Charles Dickens
Jane Austin
Graham Greene
Gerald Durrell
Evelyn Waugh
Agatha Cristie
Kate Atkinson
Catherine Chidgey
Barbara Kingsolver
Patricia Grace
Charles Dickens
Jane Austin
Graham Greene
Gerald Durrell
Evelyn Waugh
Agatha Cristie
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People are welcome, of course, to disagree with what we write. But to respond with violence, threats of sexual abuse, threats of death — no, that’s not a healthy or reasonable response.
Journalism should not be a dangerous occupation.
Journalism should not be a dangerous occupation.
New Zealand newsrooms saw the rise of 'mob censorship' in 2023, as journalists faced a barrage of ab...
New research shows being a woman or part of a minority as a journalist can increase the likelihood of being targeted with online abuse. The waves of abuse can influence who and what gets covered.
theconversation.com
December 28, 2023 at 9:09 PM
People are welcome, of course, to disagree with what we write. But to respond with violence, threats of sexual abuse, threats of death — no, that’s not a healthy or reasonable response.
Journalism should not be a dangerous occupation.
Journalism should not be a dangerous occupation.
The impact your escaped pet has on NZ's natural environment www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
December 15, 2023 at 5:21 AM
The impact your escaped pet has on NZ's natural environment www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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I think this is crucial for all the people who want to do away with the treaty.
Tāngata tiriti would broadly have no legal rights to be here (and no land rights) if the treaty were somehow revoked by referendum...
Tāngata tiriti would broadly have no legal rights to be here (and no land rights) if the treaty were somehow revoked by referendum...
December 2, 2023 at 11:03 PM
I think this is crucial for all the people who want to do away with the treaty.
Tāngata tiriti would broadly have no legal rights to be here (and no land rights) if the treaty were somehow revoked by referendum...
Tāngata tiriti would broadly have no legal rights to be here (and no land rights) if the treaty were somehow revoked by referendum...
Keeping possums as pets is a key potential barrier to realising #PredatorFreeNZ aspirations. #ResponsiblePetOwnership
Friend or foe? The New Zealanders keeping pests as pets
The brushtail possum is loathed as a pest by most Kiwis, but loved as a pet by others.
A small number of dedicated possum lovers have invited the marsupials into their homes and their hearts.
Katie Fi...
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2023 at 4:20 AM
Keeping possums as pets is a key potential barrier to realising #PredatorFreeNZ aspirations. #ResponsiblePetOwnership