Jo Bailey
@jobailey.bsky.social
Designer, (was) @jo_bailey on Twitter. She/they. Scicomm PhD. Curious about architecture, typography, urban space, cats, visual culture, graphic design, renovation + making…
Weather’s good for a tv binge and I *highly* recommend The Newsreader—I absolutely hoovered it up and did all three seasons in a week or so. Some magical 80s set dressing and cracker acting www.imdb.com/title/tt1392... its showing on Netflix here
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January 23, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Weather’s good for a tv binge and I *highly* recommend The Newsreader—I absolutely hoovered it up and did all three seasons in a week or so. Some magical 80s set dressing and cracker acting www.imdb.com/title/tt1392... its showing on Netflix here
Laundry, Cuba Street, Wellington. Consistently great bar food including the best fries, cooked in the caravan out back. And many pints of Supercharger (pre-sale of Panhead to Lion). It hasn’t been five years yet but it left a big hole 😟 screw greedy landlords everywhere!
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Laundry, Cuba Street, Wellington. Consistently great bar food including the best fries, cooked in the caravan out back. And many pints of Supercharger (pre-sale of Panhead to Lion). It hasn’t been five years yet but it left a big hole 😟 screw greedy landlords everywhere!
Someone told me the other day that Gen-Z don’t use apostrophes. Not sure if that’s true, but if so it’s to cosmically balance this kind of excess…
January 17, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Someone told me the other day that Gen-Z don’t use apostrophes. Not sure if that’s true, but if so it’s to cosmically balance this kind of excess…
Love me a brooch! interaction designer @tristam.bsky.social gets the button press one, non-huggy me gets the don’t touch one (though irl I’ll be wearing both all the time! 😂) fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/f...
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Love me a brooch! interaction designer @tristam.bsky.social gets the button press one, non-huggy me gets the don’t touch one (though irl I’ll be wearing both all the time! 😂) fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/f...
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The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...
Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster
Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?
www.democracyproject.org.nz
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...
Reposted by Jo Bailey
Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts is offering scholarships to help you start (or continue) your explorations in art, design, music or screen arts… Apply today!
… Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola...
#redesignnz
… Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola...
#redesignnz
Creative Kickstarter Scholarship
Make your Move - This is your chance to kickstart your creative journey at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts — with a $1,000 fees scholarship to help you get here.
www.massey.ac.nz
January 5, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts is offering scholarships to help you start (or continue) your explorations in art, design, music or screen arts… Apply today!
… Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola...
#redesignnz
… Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola...
#redesignnz
Damnit the power cut is over which means the water is back on which means the dishes need doing 😃
December 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Damnit the power cut is over which means the water is back on which means the dishes need doing 😃
West Coast’s gonna West Coast
December 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
West Coast’s gonna West Coast
#duvetknowitschristmas is an annual joy! Sadly, not really qualifying here what with an *actual bed and actual room* to sleep in (though peachy-beige walls are on-message)
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#duvetknowitschristmas is an annual joy! Sadly, not really qualifying here what with an *actual bed and actual room* to sleep in (though peachy-beige walls are on-message)
“GenAI as simulated intelligence is incapable of meaning-making” (so trying to use it for thematic analysis is 💩👎 ) 💯 — recommend reading!
Now published…
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“GenAI as simulated intelligence is incapable of meaning-making” (so trying to use it for thematic analysis is 💩👎 ) 💯 — recommend reading!
Junk shop font find
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Junk shop font find
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A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!
When I moved to Aotearoa about two decades ago, reckons were IKEA was coming ‘next year’ (and every year since!) I even went to Sydney and shipped a kitchen as the quality here for the same money was really poor. It’s going to shake things up, I reckon
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
When I moved to Aotearoa about two decades ago, reckons were IKEA was coming ‘next year’ (and every year since!) I even went to Sydney and shipped a kitchen as the quality here for the same money was really poor. It’s going to shake things up, I reckon
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If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh
Sign the Petition
Urgent Action Required on Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet Incursion.
c.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you're Aotearoa New Zealand-based, please sign and share. 27 queens found at last count by a biosecurity department that's been battered by public service cuts. We have to eradicate this threat. c.org/bkt2N7cxFh
@thecidershedpod.bsky.social I might be the mystery invisible reviewer… Apple show me only reviews posted here in NZ (all five 🔥) so maybe it's the same your end? 😂 NZ and kiwis got a mention this week, so perhaps there'll be a bump in listeners to the Archers + TCS? Anyway, love your work! 🦡🧀🥚
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@thecidershedpod.bsky.social I might be the mystery invisible reviewer… Apple show me only reviews posted here in NZ (all five 🔥) so maybe it's the same your end? 😂 NZ and kiwis got a mention this week, so perhaps there'll be a bump in listeners to the Archers + TCS? Anyway, love your work! 🦡🧀🥚
Why does Tākina (Pōneke’s convention centre) have no bike racks? Also, first time in it today—they are always such soulless barns 🤨
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Why does Tākina (Pōneke’s convention centre) have no bike racks? Also, first time in it today—they are always such soulless barns 🤨
Why does Tākina (Pōneke’s convention centre) have no bike racks? Also, first time in it today—they are always such soulless barns 🤨
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Why does Tākina (Pōneke’s convention centre) have no bike racks? Also, first time in it today—they are always such soulless barns 🤨
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
🚨📕 Need a gift for the Pōneke peeps/map geeks/history buffs /archive nerds/book fans in your life? Have I got the tome for you! Mr Ward's Map (by Elizabeth Cox, published by MUP, designed by me) 🚨📕 My design notes: makinggood.design/thoughts/map... + buy here! www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/all/mr...
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
🚨📕 Need a gift for the Pōneke peeps/map geeks/history buffs /archive nerds/book fans in your life? Have I got the tome for you! Mr Ward's Map (by Elizabeth Cox, published by MUP, designed by me) 🚨📕 My design notes: makinggood.design/thoughts/map... + buy here! www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/all/mr...
used ChatGPT this week to proof comments and to convert to html (moodle screws uo spacing/italics when pasting text). I am spending more time proofing its changes than I was my own text, tbh. Despite expressly saying ‘do not add additional italics’ it keeps making te reo Māori term italic 😖
October 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
used ChatGPT this week to proof comments and to convert to html (moodle screws uo spacing/italics when pasting text). I am spending more time proofing its changes than I was my own text, tbh. Despite expressly saying ‘do not add additional italics’ it keeps making te reo Māori term italic 😖
Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨
At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨
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At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Capital gains tax as a ‘tax on the corner dairy’ is a massive stretch, surely that’s clear to all? I guess ‘this is a tax on the corner dairy assuming the dairy owner owns the building and decides to sell it, paying tax on a % of profit made on that sale’ doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue does it
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Capital gains tax as a ‘tax on the corner dairy’ is a massive stretch, surely that’s clear to all? I guess ‘this is a tax on the corner dairy assuming the dairy owner owns the building and decides to sell it, paying tax on a % of profit made on that sale’ doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue does it
@rebeccamatthews.bsky.social good to see your name on the list of councillors likely elected for Wharangi/Onslow-Western. So sorry you’ll have such cooked colleagues 🤨 keep on fighting the good fight! 💚
October 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
@rebeccamatthews.bsky.social good to see your name on the list of councillors likely elected for Wharangi/Onslow-Western. So sorry you’ll have such cooked colleagues 🤨 keep on fighting the good fight! 💚