Jo Fountain
@jofountain.bsky.social
Rural social scientist - food resilience, agritourism, climate change, regional resilience. Also mum and grandma, love cats, books, and growing my own food..
No food restrictions or things I can't eat. If I were to think about ideal food gifts they would probably be:
1. Interesting cheese (but logistics in shipping/storing perhaps?)
2. Coffee beans/ground coffee from quirky small producers - the stronger the better.
3. Interesting spice mixes.
1. Interesting cheese (but logistics in shipping/storing perhaps?)
2. Coffee beans/ground coffee from quirky small producers - the stronger the better.
3. Interesting spice mixes.
Time for another question #SecretSantaAoNZ
What are your favourite foods? Least favourite? What can't you eat? What are your go to foods FOR MORALE?
Quote or reply with your answers.
What are your favourite foods? Least favourite? What can't you eat? What are your go to foods FOR MORALE?
Quote or reply with your answers.
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No food restrictions or things I can't eat. If I were to think about ideal food gifts they would probably be:
1. Interesting cheese (but logistics in shipping/storing perhaps?)
2. Coffee beans/ground coffee from quirky small producers - the stronger the better.
3. Interesting spice mixes.
1. Interesting cheese (but logistics in shipping/storing perhaps?)
2. Coffee beans/ground coffee from quirky small producers - the stronger the better.
3. Interesting spice mixes.
Signed up again! After the year that's been spreading a little joy seems more needed than ever
Have you signed up for #SecretSantaAoNZ? Have you spread the word that sign-ups are open?
Here's a few things to remember when you sign up!
Here's a few things to remember when you sign up!
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Signed up again! After the year that's been spreading a little joy seems more needed than ever
My feed this morning is so depressing this morning - all our useless government doing dumb stuff, racism, climate change and Trump.
So here is my happy fat cat Maisie, helping me weed the garden.
So here is my happy fat cat Maisie, helping me weed the garden.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My feed this morning is so depressing this morning - all our useless government doing dumb stuff, racism, climate change and Trump.
So here is my happy fat cat Maisie, helping me weed the garden.
So here is my happy fat cat Maisie, helping me weed the garden.
At the annual Tourism Summit Aotearoa ... very different from the Adaptation Futures conference.
Struggling with the dissonance... but nice to catch up with some really good people.
Struggling with the dissonance... but nice to catch up with some really good people.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
At the annual Tourism Summit Aotearoa ... very different from the Adaptation Futures conference.
Struggling with the dissonance... but nice to catch up with some really good people.
Struggling with the dissonance... but nice to catch up with some really good people.
FFS... as if this weekend needed to get worse politically
Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown, via @Greenpeace.org.nz www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The NZ Government will rewrite NZ's once bipartisan climate change law to weaken methane targets and exclude agriculture from the ETS.
www.greenpeace.org
October 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
FFS... as if this weekend needed to get worse politically
"Selwyn should carry a travel advisory warning from now on" 😳
There are many intelligent, sensible and kind people in Waikirikiri but due to voter apathy we have a new council dominated by VFF climate change deniers, racists, conspiracy theorists, Trump-lovers and Jacinda-haters. #nzpol
There are many intelligent, sensible and kind people in Waikirikiri but due to voter apathy we have a new council dominated by VFF climate change deniers, racists, conspiracy theorists, Trump-lovers and Jacinda-haters. #nzpol
3) the huge swell in Saturday voters makes me more concerned about incoming disenfranchisement changes to same day enrolments for next year.
4) Selwyn should carry a travel advisory warning from now on, same with Cambridge and Hamilton.
5) the lack of civics education here is really showing.
4) Selwyn should carry a travel advisory warning from now on, same with Cambridge and Hamilton.
5) the lack of civics education here is really showing.
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Selwyn should carry a travel advisory warning from now on" 😳
There are many intelligent, sensible and kind people in Waikirikiri but due to voter apathy we have a new council dominated by VFF climate change deniers, racists, conspiracy theorists, Trump-lovers and Jacinda-haters. #nzpol
There are many intelligent, sensible and kind people in Waikirikiri but due to voter apathy we have a new council dominated by VFF climate change deniers, racists, conspiracy theorists, Trump-lovers and Jacinda-haters. #nzpol
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So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.
Really excited to be one of the social scientists funded to be part of this. Looking forward to hearing my friend and colleague Nick talking about the project on Checkpoint 😊
New Zealand's resilience to climate change the focus of new $12m research programme
New Zealand's resilience to climate change the focus of new $12m research programme
Acting early on adaptation to climate risks will avoid costly losses in the future, says the programme head.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Really excited to be one of the social scientists funded to be part of this. Looking forward to hearing my friend and colleague Nick talking about the project on Checkpoint 😊
Turn the sound on and just take a moment to breathe...
On my recent visit to #TiritiriMatangi island I took this video in the forest. The birdsong here is extraordinary. I’ve never heard anything like it.
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Turn the sound on and just take a moment to breathe...
The good news is that this pronouncement has been enough to motivate my 18 year old to enrol to vote next year.
god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.
October 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The good news is that this pronouncement has been enough to motivate my 18 year old to enrol to vote next year.
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You know, this is such a common perspective in our contemporary neoliberal late-capitalist context.
But you know what? Anyone paying attention to history, or economics, or the social world, knows this hasn’t always been the case at all. And that its persistence is something we should address.
But you know what? Anyone paying attention to history, or economics, or the social world, knows this hasn’t always been the case at all. And that its persistence is something we should address.
god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.
October 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
You know, this is such a common perspective in our contemporary neoliberal late-capitalist context.
But you know what? Anyone paying attention to history, or economics, or the social world, knows this hasn’t always been the case at all. And that its persistence is something we should address.
But you know what? Anyone paying attention to history, or economics, or the social world, knows this hasn’t always been the case at all. And that its persistence is something we should address.
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Mate, I don't know if you have ever been to New Zealand, but "pride" isn't a national value even on occasions when the government isn't Pontiusly auto-piloting a denial of genocide.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Kiwis 'can be proud' NZ isn't recognising Palestine yet - PM Christopher Luxon
New Zealand was among only a handful of countries - including the US, Japan and South Korea - which had not formally recognised Palestinian statehood.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mate, I don't know if you have ever been to New Zealand, but "pride" isn't a national value even on occasions when the government isn't Pontiusly auto-piloting a denial of genocide.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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“To refuse to provide a symbol of hope and promise during these dark days is akin to arguing that we need to wait for the genocide to be completed before we recognise the place Palestinians can bury their dead,” he said.
“Shame on us.”
“Shame on us.”
He grew up under apartheid, and became our authority on race. Here's his view of NZ's Palestine stance
Foreign affairs minister Winston Peters told the United Nations that New Zealand government would not officially recognise Palestinian statehood at this time.
www.stuff.co.nz
September 28, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“To refuse to provide a symbol of hope and promise during these dark days is akin to arguing that we need to wait for the genocide to be completed before we recognise the place Palestinians can bury their dead,” he said.
“Shame on us.”
“Shame on us.”
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
Four words I never thought I'd use in England: "It is too hot". Still, Oxford is ancient and beautiful.
July 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Four words I never thought I'd use in England: "It is too hot". Still, Oxford is ancient and beautiful.
This seems a sensible move, given a quarter of the new Institute's staff are already based in Lincoln. I love living in a town that revolves around science and knowledge. www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
Canterbury's Lincoln to be new Bioeconomy Science Institute HQ, Scion to leave Christchurch
The board behind the new Bioeconomy Science Institute - which merges public research organisations has picked its new headquarters.
www.odt.co.nz
July 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This seems a sensible move, given a quarter of the new Institute's staff are already based in Lincoln. I love living in a town that revolves around science and knowledge. www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
I crossed a dateline and postponed it as long as possible, but my birthday has caught up with me. My daughter is turning 18 so she wants to celebrate her birthday asap, on NZ time.
First, and likely only, time she and I can legitimately say it is our birthday on the same day.
Thanks Rarotonga 🎉
First, and likely only, time she and I can legitimately say it is our birthday on the same day.
Thanks Rarotonga 🎉
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I crossed a dateline and postponed it as long as possible, but my birthday has caught up with me. My daughter is turning 18 so she wants to celebrate her birthday asap, on NZ time.
First, and likely only, time she and I can legitimately say it is our birthday on the same day.
Thanks Rarotonga 🎉
First, and likely only, time she and I can legitimately say it is our birthday on the same day.
Thanks Rarotonga 🎉
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Academics!! Does your organisation have a workload model, i.e. some way of quantifying how much time you spend on research, teaching, admin, and external roles (all of these, not just one of them)?
Please respond below (and repost)!
(unfortunately Bluesky still doesn't have a poll option)
Please respond below (and repost)!
(unfortunately Bluesky still doesn't have a poll option)
June 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Academics!! Does your organisation have a workload model, i.e. some way of quantifying how much time you spend on research, teaching, admin, and external roles (all of these, not just one of them)?
Please respond below (and repost)!
(unfortunately Bluesky still doesn't have a poll option)
Please respond below (and repost)!
(unfortunately Bluesky still doesn't have a poll option)
FFS...
BREAKING
New Zealand becomes first country to back out of international Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... , via @greenpeace.org.nz
#ClimateExtremists #nzpol
New Zealand becomes first country to back out of international Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... , via @greenpeace.org.nz
#ClimateExtremists #nzpol
NZ first country to back out of Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The New Zealand Government has lost its last shred of climate credibility as it becomes first country to withdraw from the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
www.greenpeace.org
June 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
FFS...
I've escaped the world for a week. No TV/radio and limited wifi. Just lots of novels to read.
June 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I've escaped the world for a week. No TV/radio and limited wifi. Just lots of novels to read.