Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability
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We are a community of people working together for a better collective future using research, advocacy, and capability building. We are based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Missing words are due to Long COVID.
Come join us. https://te-ara-paerangi.community
Missing words are due to Long COVID.
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IntroductionBluesky user The Broke Bonsai Bloke asked where Kiwis might go if Bluesky takes a nosedive. I offered up this site as one possibility. I had in mind people for whom our kaupapa resonates. ...
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Here's the promised write up. I welcome any thoughts or comments from #NZPOL and other bluesky users. Thanks to @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social for the specific prompt. And thanks to the many people here that I've interacted with since the great migration.
Let's get organised!
Let's get organised!
It is almost like the west minster system and parliament are structurally settler colonial. 🤷
February 18, 2026 at 9:11 PM
It is almost like the west minster system and parliament are structurally settler colonial. 🤷
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DOI's are a great example of the critical infrastructure that librarians quietly enable.
That DOI attached to your scholarly output is much more than a stable URL. Helena Cousijn of @crossref.bsky.social explains how a DOI works, the metadata behind it, and why all this is important for our #FeedingTheElephant readers. Take a look!
🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Crossref: Metadata, DOIs, and Connected Research | H-Net
A guest post from
networks.h-net.org
February 18, 2026 at 4:44 PM
DOI's are a great example of the critical infrastructure that librarians quietly enable.
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Tautoko! The first I or any other Tahu I know heard of this project was when it was in the news. The NTRC does not represent Kāi Tahu Whānui and as far as I know there has been no vote gone out to kā papatipu rūnaka or whānau for this to see if they have a mandate
February 18, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Tautoko! The first I or any other Tahu I know heard of this project was when it was in the news. The NTRC does not represent Kāi Tahu Whānui and as far as I know there has been no vote gone out to kā papatipu rūnaka or whānau for this to see if they have a mandate
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Science is not truth.
Science is finding the truth.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
Science is finding the truth.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
February 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Science is not truth.
Science is finding the truth.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
Science is finding the truth.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
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As a former librarian with the boring degree to prove it, when AI boosters talk about learning how to do "prompts" all I'm hearing is search strategies and keywords. As an adult human doing research you should already know how to bend a database to your will and get appropriate results, dipshits
February 18, 2026 at 6:34 AM
As a former librarian with the boring degree to prove it, when AI boosters talk about learning how to do "prompts" all I'm hearing is search strategies and keywords. As an adult human doing research you should already know how to bend a database to your will and get appropriate results, dipshits
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LLMs are auto correct on steroids. They are predictive models, they are not and never will be “intelligence” no matter how much they scale them up. The term AI is pure marketing. As someone recently said you can get horses to breed faster and faster but they’ll never give birth to a locomotive.
February 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
LLMs are auto correct on steroids. They are predictive models, they are not and never will be “intelligence” no matter how much they scale them up. The term AI is pure marketing. As someone recently said you can get horses to breed faster and faster but they’ll never give birth to a locomotive.
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
Hmmm, it turns out our government has the whole prioritisation thing back to front. Even for their stated goals of commercialisation. Who would have thunk it!
#NZPOL
#NZPOL
“they should be careful not to deprioritize the kind of curiosity-driven, investigator-led research that has a strong track record in advancing humanity’s knowledge, producing the types of innovation that prosperity and well-being depend on.”
🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research
Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.
www.nature.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Hmmm, it turns out our government has the whole prioritisation thing back to front. Even for their stated goals of commercialisation. Who would have thunk it!
#NZPOL
#NZPOL
This is the kind of thing some people would regard as an unnecessary 'nice to have'. Those people seem to miss core parts of what it is to be human.
February 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
This is the kind of thing some people would regard as an unnecessary 'nice to have'. Those people seem to miss core parts of what it is to be human.
It has its ups and downs, but has generally been really good.
February 18, 2026 at 6:12 AM
It has its ups and downs, but has generally been really good.
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NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 AM
NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
I had a dream last night that I was still at the last place I was employed. Pretty much the same situation - all the damn time.
Working for myself for 10+ years. No longer have those kinds of issues, but they were so bad at that job that I get the occasional dream...
Working for myself for 10+ years. No longer have those kinds of issues, but they were so bad at that job that I get the occasional dream...
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 AM
I had a dream last night that I was still at the last place I was employed. Pretty much the same situation - all the damn time.
Working for myself for 10+ years. No longer have those kinds of issues, but they were so bad at that job that I get the occasional dream...
Working for myself for 10+ years. No longer have those kinds of issues, but they were so bad at that job that I get the occasional dream...
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Whistleblower laws reward insiders for exposing fraud, but independent research teams rarely qualify. Moshe Alamaro says university labs should be incentivized to investigate big cases and share in fines.
Scientists Could Help Reveal Fraud — and Get Paid For It
Opinion | Whistleblower statutes should be changed to incentivize university research groups to investigate potential fraud.
f.mtr.cool
February 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Whistleblower laws reward insiders for exposing fraud, but independent research teams rarely qualify. Moshe Alamaro says university labs should be incentivized to investigate big cases and share in fines.
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Once you start thinking about the opportunity cost of wealth being entrenched in the worst people of society, it's very hard to stop.
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Once you start thinking about the opportunity cost of wealth being entrenched in the worst people of society, it's very hard to stop.
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Digital sovereignty. It’s as important as food security.
February 17, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Digital sovereignty. It’s as important as food security.
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"With user-pleasing AI agents getting faster at tasks – and potentially subject to less user scrutiny – there’s more need for statistical thinking than ever"
New post on the era of the statisticAIn... kucharski.substack.com/p/the-era-of...
February 17, 2026 at 6:05 AM
"With user-pleasing AI agents getting faster at tasks – and potentially subject to less user scrutiny – there’s more need for statistical thinking than ever"
Enshitification of the public research system brought to you by the coalition government.
February 17, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Enshitification of the public research system brought to you by the coalition government.
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I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
It totally is. Last year, I built a small data centre from used rack mounted servers. I noticed a few weeks ago an equivalent to one of them *increased* in price on trademe. The used market is getting more expensive.
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It totally is. Last year, I built a small data centre from used rack mounted servers. I noticed a few weeks ago an equivalent to one of them *increased* in price on trademe. The used market is getting more expensive.
'But not the questions' tells you all you need to know. That presentation was not about have a discussion full stop.
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 AM
'But not the questions' tells you all you need to know. That presentation was not about have a discussion full stop.
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I said "Paul, I bet you $1000 there will be no 'functionally-equivalent' moa running around in ten years." We shook on it, witnessed by the Friends of the Museum audience. The talk will be on YouTube but not the questions, so you'll have to take my word that this happened.
February 17, 2026 at 2:02 AM
I said "Paul, I bet you $1000 there will be no 'functionally-equivalent' moa running around in ten years." We shook on it, witnessed by the Friends of the Museum audience. The talk will be on YouTube but not the questions, so you'll have to take my word that this happened.
We have an occasion today that requires a cake. This chocolate cake with chocolate ganache is the recipient's favorite.
With all the great baking photos that @mehr.nz posts, I thought I'd add this one. 😋
With all the great baking photos that @mehr.nz posts, I thought I'd add this one. 😋
February 17, 2026 at 3:23 AM
We have an occasion today that requires a cake. This chocolate cake with chocolate ganache is the recipient's favorite.
With all the great baking photos that @mehr.nz posts, I thought I'd add this one. 😋
With all the great baking photos that @mehr.nz posts, I thought I'd add this one. 😋
Director of Otago University’s Palaeogenetics Laboratory Associate Professor @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Debunks the whole thing in this recorded talk.
Myth Busting De-Extinction - Recorded Webinar - Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand
Myth Busting De-Extinction - Recorded Webinar. What's the truth about de-extinction? - A New Zealand perspective.
genomics.nz
February 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Director of Otago University’s Palaeogenetics Laboratory Associate Professor @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Debunks the whole thing in this recorded talk.
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This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
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If any of you have direct contact information for reporters at the Manawatū Standard, would you please DM me?
Ngā mihi nui.
#Kikorangi
Ngā mihi nui.
#Kikorangi
February 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
If any of you have direct contact information for reporters at the Manawatū Standard, would you please DM me?
Ngā mihi nui.
#Kikorangi
Ngā mihi nui.
#Kikorangi