Jen Hay
@jbhay.bsky.social
Linguist person, NZILBB, UC, NZ. Pākehā. She/her.
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I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪
Information on the 2025 Marsden Fund round
Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2025 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data
www.royalsociety.org.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪
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I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.
newsroom.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Anyone wanna come and hang out with us at NZILBB? We're advertising a fun postdoc position on a project looking at the representation of part of speech in te reo Māori. Do get in touch if you have questions.
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Post-Doctoral Fellow -
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz
October 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Anyone wanna come and hang out with us at NZILBB? We're advertising a fun postdoc position on a project looking at the representation of part of speech in te reo Māori. Do get in touch if you have questions.
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
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There are three main ways you can help my work with Rights Aotearoa:
First, you can tip me coffee money directly at:
Paul Thistoll
03-0547-0039160-001
(I can't tell you how important these little coffee tips are to my emotional morale - they really keep me going!)
First, you can tip me coffee money directly at:
Paul Thistoll
03-0547-0039160-001
(I can't tell you how important these little coffee tips are to my emotional morale - they really keep me going!)
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There are three main ways you can help my work with Rights Aotearoa:
First, you can tip me coffee money directly at:
Paul Thistoll
03-0547-0039160-001
(I can't tell you how important these little coffee tips are to my emotional morale - they really keep me going!)
First, you can tip me coffee money directly at:
Paul Thistoll
03-0547-0039160-001
(I can't tell you how important these little coffee tips are to my emotional morale - they really keep me going!)
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Word got around that I'm willing to write reviews. No posts for two years, then bang! – two reviews in two days. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #Lyttelton #theatre #Shakespeare #QueenLear
An evocative queer Lear reimagining
This production propels us not into the distant Celtic past of Britain, but to an impending dystopian future. Thankfully, queerness is normal in 2125.
remarks.nz
September 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Word got around that I'm willing to write reviews. No posts for two years, then bang! – two reviews in two days. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #Lyttelton #theatre #Shakespeare #QueenLear
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
love my job. I get to work with great collaborators on fun projects like this one, published today. For his thesis, Andy looked at the production and perception of singing by NZers. He shows, consistent with previous work, that NZ singing is dominated by an American-influenced style.
August 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
love my job. I get to work with great collaborators on fun projects like this one, published today. For his thesis, Andy looked at the production and perception of singing by NZers. He shows, consistent with previous work, that NZ singing is dominated by an American-influenced style.
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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This is the move.
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is the move.
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Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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I'm very excited to see this new work led by Gia Hurring is now out. We did a lot to shore up our approach to PCA for investigating vocalic covariation and find striking commonality of patterns across multiple corpora of New Zealand English and panel data doi.org/10.1017/S095...
How stable are patterns of covariation across time? | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
How stable are patterns of covariation across time?
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm very excited to see this new work led by Gia Hurring is now out. We did a lot to shore up our approach to PCA for investigating vocalic covariation and find striking commonality of patterns across multiple corpora of New Zealand English and panel data doi.org/10.1017/S095...
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Hey one of the largest disability support providers in the country has COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF MONEY and no one is hearing me SCREAM IT FROM THE HILLTOPS. Please boost this and please send it to your MPs.
Yesterday I was told that even though my kōtiro now qualifies for NASC, we would not be able to access any supports because the funding body has completely run out of cash. I needed to do something productive instead of spiral so I wrote. kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-o...
At least one large disability support provider has completely run out of funding to provide support to autistic people.
"I'll tell you right now, you're not getting anything"
kahukurascout.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Hey one of the largest disability support providers in the country has COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF MONEY and no one is hearing me SCREAM IT FROM THE HILLTOPS. Please boost this and please send it to your MPs.
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We’re seeking nominations for up to five outstanding dissertations in cognitive science for the Glushko Dissertation Prize!
Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨
Self-nominations are welcome!
Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...
🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18
Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨
Self-nominations are welcome!
Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...
🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18
December 23, 2024 at 7:47 PM
We’re seeking nominations for up to five outstanding dissertations in cognitive science for the Glushko Dissertation Prize!
Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨
Self-nominations are welcome!
Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...
🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18
Each prize will be accompanied by a ✨$10,000 award✨
Self-nominations are welcome!
Learn more and nominate at cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-diss...
🗓️ Deadline: Jan. 18
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Important thread for everyone in NZ. If you think the treaty bill is awful, this is the one they are distracting you from. Submissions close Jan 13th
December 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Important thread for everyone in NZ. If you think the treaty bill is awful, this is the one they are distracting you from. Submissions close Jan 13th
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Hot on the heels of humanities & social sciences being removed from the Marsden Fund, now MBIE will no longer provide top-up funding to successful Horizon Europe projects. Announced December 19 and ahead of the SSAG report. Govt determined to cripple these disciplines.
December 19, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Hot on the heels of humanities & social sciences being removed from the Marsden Fund, now MBIE will no longer provide top-up funding to successful Horizon Europe projects. Announced December 19 and ahead of the SSAG report. Govt determined to cripple these disciplines.
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The attack on the humanities and social sciences by the New Zealand government continues.
December 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
The attack on the humanities and social sciences by the New Zealand government continues.
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It’s not clear to me this is about funding “impactful science” as opposed to that just being a useful excuse for their gutting of some of the important mechanisms for showing their policies do harm.
December 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
It’s not clear to me this is about funding “impactful science” as opposed to that just being a useful excuse for their gutting of some of the important mechanisms for showing their policies do harm.
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Here's my original email. The list of "sensitive" subjects is scarily broad and also vague, and covers most marginalized people and communities.
December 14, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Here's my original email. The list of "sensitive" subjects is scarily broad and also vague, and covers most marginalized people and communities.
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Kicking of DoReCo's Bluesky presence with a bang: DoReCo 2.0 was published today, featuring open-access, time-aligned spoken corpora on, by now, 53 language, ca. 7,000 words each, with morpheme glosses for 38 of them. Check it out at doreco.huma-num.fr
DoReCo -
Homepage
doreco.huma-num.fr
December 12, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Kicking of DoReCo's Bluesky presence with a bang: DoReCo 2.0 was published today, featuring open-access, time-aligned spoken corpora on, by now, 53 language, ca. 7,000 words each, with morpheme glosses for 38 of them. Check it out at doreco.huma-num.fr
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Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
Dozens of Rutherford Discovery Fellows condemned "damaging changes" to the Marsden Fund's terms of reference.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 11, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
"I find it immensely ironic that the Minister is basing this decision on its benefit to the economy, when the study of the economy is itself classed as a social science."
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So I've had this ruler for a while that I grabbed from Dad's house.
Last week Mum commented on how old it looked.
Me: "Well it belongs to Marc Cole, whoever that is"
Mum: "I taught him at primary"
Me: "Well you stole his ruler"
Does Kiwi Bluesky have the power to reunite Marc Cole with his ruler?
Last week Mum commented on how old it looked.
Me: "Well it belongs to Marc Cole, whoever that is"
Mum: "I taught him at primary"
Me: "Well you stole his ruler"
Does Kiwi Bluesky have the power to reunite Marc Cole with his ruler?
December 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM
So I've had this ruler for a while that I grabbed from Dad's house.
Last week Mum commented on how old it looked.
Me: "Well it belongs to Marc Cole, whoever that is"
Mum: "I taught him at primary"
Me: "Well you stole his ruler"
Does Kiwi Bluesky have the power to reunite Marc Cole with his ruler?
Last week Mum commented on how old it looked.
Me: "Well it belongs to Marc Cole, whoever that is"
Mum: "I taught him at primary"
Me: "Well you stole his ruler"
Does Kiwi Bluesky have the power to reunite Marc Cole with his ruler?
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Initial analysis of the impact on Marsden Fund changes on success rates for Māori researchers, with a link through to modelled data based on the 2024 funding round here:
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
PRESS RELEASE Cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences Research Will Impact Māori Most | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
www.maramatanga.ac.nz
December 6, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Initial analysis of the impact on Marsden Fund changes on success rates for Māori researchers, with a link through to modelled data based on the 2024 funding round here:
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
www.maramatanga.ac.nz/publication/...
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I've been playing this deadpan German linguistics bop on repeat for the past 12 hours and I'm delighted to report that it's on youtube now!!
🎶 More, more, more morphology 🎶
🎶 More, more, more morphology 🎶
He's also putting the glamour back into grammar on YouTube now! 🎶 #linguistics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOl...
December 5, 2024 at 7:11 AM
I've been playing this deadpan German linguistics bop on repeat for the past 12 hours and I'm delighted to report that it's on youtube now!!
🎶 More, more, more morphology 🎶
🎶 More, more, more morphology 🎶
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Yeah, you can tell the government didn't want any leaks or advance resistance to its cuts for Marsden research for humanities and social sciences - universities completely out of the loop according to this:
![Screenshot of an email to VUW staff from the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research on 4 Dec 2024. It reads:
"This email is sent to all staff on behalf of Margaret Hyland, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research
By now, some of you will have seen Minister Judith Collins' announcement today about changes to the Marsden Fund to disband the humanities and social sciences panels [https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/marsden-fund-refocused-science-purpose].
This announcement has taken us and the whole sector by surprise. We have fundamental concerns about the changes, which we believe are short-sighted and will have significant negative effects on all universities' ability to carry out valuable and critical research in humanities and social sciences.
A coordinated response is being prepared by Universities New Zealand. We are united in our condemnation of the changes.
We know that humanities and social sciences research is hugely valuable to us as a university, and necessary for the wellbeing of society in general.
We'll be doing everything in our power to ensure such valuable research is supported.
Ngā mihi,
Margaret"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qgcg6du2en3pmeu6sxbi2wnz/bafkreifa6vk6nfszdrkkqyov62nka37fwozaluc5z34hluelfegtaxwdrm@jpeg)
December 4, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Yeah, you can tell the government didn't want any leaks or advance resistance to its cuts for Marsden research for humanities and social sciences - universities completely out of the loop according to this: