Bec Falconer
@becfalconer.bsky.social
NZ-based word nerd, news junkie & journalist with @axios.com | chargedas.co.nz social media manager (paid with ❤️ - hubby’s 📱 charging firm) | 💗🐶🐱kiwihousesitters.co.nz/house-sitter-pet-sitter/628014/reliable-caring-and-clean?from=sitter
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Got a Premier League Team shirt you can donate?
Please share if you know anyone who can help.
#CharityAuction #Maggies #paulalanproject #theswallows #kieranskitquest
Please share if you know anyone who can help.
#CharityAuction #Maggies #paulalanproject #theswallows #kieranskitquest
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Got a Premier League Team shirt you can donate?
Please share if you know anyone who can help.
#CharityAuction #Maggies #paulalanproject #theswallows #kieranskitquest
Please share if you know anyone who can help.
#CharityAuction #Maggies #paulalanproject #theswallows #kieranskitquest
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Smug looking seal.
The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat
The great escape: seal flees killer whales by jumping on to photographer’s boat
Charvet Drucker captures dramatic video and photos of seal being hunted by orcas in Salish Sea, north-west of Seattle
A wildlife photographer on a whale-watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering on to the stern of her boat.
Charvet Drucker was on a rented 20ft (6 metre) boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles north-west of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Smug looking seal.
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Women have had it. 2 out of 5 said they'd like to permanently move to another country.
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.
No other wealthy country has numbers like these
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.
No other wealthy country has numbers like these
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
Record share of women want to leave U.S. for good — more than double that of men
That's four times as high as in 2014.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Women have had it. 2 out of 5 said they'd like to permanently move to another country.
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.
No other wealthy country has numbers like these
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.
No other wealthy country has numbers like these
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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🤩 Aurores boréales visibles la nuit dernière en France, comme ici dans le Jura !
📷 Michl Michl (Fb)
📷 Michl Michl (Fb)
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
🤩 Aurores boréales visibles la nuit dernière en France, comme ici dans le Jura !
📷 Michl Michl (Fb)
📷 Michl Michl (Fb)
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The Wiki Science photo competition is running until mid-December! Be in to win cash prizes by donating your science photos for use in Wikipedia. Categories include people in science, microscopy, wildlife and nature, and astronomy. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...
Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2025 in Australia and New Zealand - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The Wiki Science photo competition is running until mid-December! Be in to win cash prizes by donating your science photos for use in Wikipedia. Categories include people in science, microscopy, wildlife and nature, and astronomy. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...
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For at least the 3rd time in the last 4 months, the president is floating a $2,000 tariff dividend.
It's still not clear if the tariffs were even legal.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/t...
It's still not clear if the tariffs were even legal.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/t...
Trump again promises $2,000 tariff dividend as SCOTUS decision looms
He's brought the idea up before but never taken steps to execute it.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
For at least the 3rd time in the last 4 months, the president is floating a $2,000 tariff dividend.
It's still not clear if the tariffs were even legal.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/t...
It's still not clear if the tariffs were even legal.
www.axios.com/2025/11/09/t...
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A pretty one from sunrise October 31. Cascade foothills. Portland Oregon. Have a beautiful day. 🩷💜🧡
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A pretty one from sunrise October 31. Cascade foothills. Portland Oregon. Have a beautiful day. 🩷💜🧡
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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President Trump's views on climate change were denounced by several Latin American leaders in Belém, Brazil, at the COP30 UN summit today.
"Against humanity": World leaders slam Trump at COP30 climate summit
Brazil's president said "extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations" to global warming.
www.axios.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
President Trump's views on climate change were denounced by several Latin American leaders in Belém, Brazil, at the COP30 UN summit today.
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Another red admiral, this time on the gate!
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Another red admiral, this time on the gate!
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Anyone out there cut back on their slop bowl eating this year -- fewer trips to Chipotle/Cava/Sweetgreen etc? Maybe you're making more food at home, etc? Tired of $20 bowls? please reach out: emily.peck@axios.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Anyone out there cut back on their slop bowl eating this year -- fewer trips to Chipotle/Cava/Sweetgreen etc? Maybe you're making more food at home, etc? Tired of $20 bowls? please reach out: emily.peck@axios.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Surprise! The Art World’s Most Renowned Solid-Gold Toilet Has a Duplicate
The story behind Maurizio Cattelan’s “America,” super-sized marathon training costs and more
www.bloomberg.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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NEW by me -- The United States hasn't tested nuclear weapons in three decades — but that might be about to change.
Here's why the U.S. and world stopped testing nuclear weapons.
Here's why the U.S. and world stopped testing nuclear weapons.
Why the U.S. stopped testing nuclear bombs
The military played a large role in the testing of nuclear weapons for decades.
www.axios.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NEW by me -- The United States hasn't tested nuclear weapons in three decades — but that might be about to change.
Here's why the U.S. and world stopped testing nuclear weapons.
Here's why the U.S. and world stopped testing nuclear weapons.
Great time catching up with friends, Fiordland crested penguins and fur seals in beautiful Te Rua-o-te-Moko Fiordland. 🥰 #travel #NZtravel #TravelPhotography #wanderlust
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Great time catching up with friends, Fiordland crested penguins and fur seals in beautiful Te Rua-o-te-Moko Fiordland. 🥰 #travel #NZtravel #TravelPhotography #wanderlust
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A landmark Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study has found the endangered hoiho 🐧 is made up of 3 subspecies, a finding that may help protect the species against fatal disease.
“This is a turning point for hoiho conservation," says senior author Professor Jemma Geoghegan.
Read more here ⬇️
“This is a turning point for hoiho conservation," says senior author Professor Jemma Geoghegan.
Read more here ⬇️
Study reveals genetic secrets of one of world’s rarest penguins
Landmark genomic research has found the endangered hoiho is made up of three distinct subspecies, a discovery that may help guard against a fatal disease.
www.otago.ac.nz
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A landmark Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study has found the endangered hoiho 🐧 is made up of 3 subspecies, a finding that may help protect the species against fatal disease.
“This is a turning point for hoiho conservation," says senior author Professor Jemma Geoghegan.
Read more here ⬇️
“This is a turning point for hoiho conservation," says senior author Professor Jemma Geoghegan.
Read more here ⬇️
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#Conservation implications: treating hoiho as three subspecies changes the playbook. Mainland M. a. murihiku needs urgent, tailored action, and genetic rescue from subantarctic birds could risk outbreeding depression by introducing local adaptations younger than the species divergence.
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#Conservation implications: treating hoiho as three subspecies changes the playbook. Mainland M. a. murihiku needs urgent, tailored action, and genetic rescue from subantarctic birds could risk outbreeding depression by introducing local adaptations younger than the species divergence.
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🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
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