But did NZ consider the cost of transporting all those pixels all the way there?

Surely though there’s a worthwhile point to be made about the environmental cost of ‘foods’ relative to their nutritional value? Depressingly wasteful that precious land, fertilises, water, GHGs go into products that don’t actually help feed humanity, just designed to meet (& create) cravings

So true re the immeasurable role that department administrators play in our student experience (both directly and indirectly) - and so sadly apparently universal that our corporate unis don’t seem to think twice about axing the people in these roles as expendable / optimisable / digitalisable 😕

Noted 🤣

Yeah me too! And then a colleague was like ‘you should come to BIOGEOMON’ and I looked at the programme and it looks potentially great so now I don’t know what to do…

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Yeah my students use it for things like coding, clarifying new concepts, generating templates for a new writing types (eg recs). All sounds fine, but also nothing that I as an old person manage w existing tools in the same amt of time. Hard to see much ‘revolution’, just Web 2.0 (3.0)?

With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.

So the funding for this new PRO - is this for hiring ppl, infrastructure, carrying out research, or all three? Ie, is this skewing the funding system even more (making new teams to vie for even less research $), or ‘just’ cutting contestable research $ to redistribute ppl & resources & signage?

The mesh-swathed object we’re contemplating in the pic is a fire pit we excavated & repurposed as an anchor / POM-excluder for our pumps, which were pummelled by waves and tonnes of storm-mobilised wrack all night long.

Some of the most physically challenging field work I’ve ever done. Worth it?