Sally Greaves
@cardiokiwi.bsky.social
Migrated from the old twitter. Cardiologist living in Aotearoa New Zealand with lots of sheep & 238 kākāpō. Science/nature nerd. Bird politics good, human politics suck, but interested. Serious about medicine, other things not so much.
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Please stop and enjoy a few moments of our happy sheep munching a mountain of pumpkins. 🐑 🐏
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Please stop and enjoy a few moments of our happy sheep munching a mountain of pumpkins. 🐑 🐏
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This is supercool, a real-world validation of the Belyayev Russian Fox experiments. But also the raccoons at my house seem to be getting more and more thuggish, so I dunno.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is supercool, a real-world validation of the Belyayev Russian Fox experiments. But also the raccoons at my house seem to be getting more and more thuggish, so I dunno.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
“Somewhere in the cosmos, a planet is entirely given over to spoon life-forms. Unattended spoons make their way to this planet, where they enjoy a uniquely spoonoid lifestyle, generally leading the spoon equivalent of the good life." 😂
Excellent research. it showed that an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons. The authors point out that the scientific literature is strangely bereft of teaspoon research. 🤔
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“Somewhere in the cosmos, a planet is entirely given over to spoon life-forms. Unattended spoons make their way to this planet, where they enjoy a uniquely spoonoid lifestyle, generally leading the spoon equivalent of the good life." 😂
Excellent research. it showed that an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons. The authors point out that the scientific literature is strangely bereft of teaspoon research. 🤔
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Excellent research. it showed that an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons. The authors point out that the scientific literature is strangely bereft of teaspoon research. 🤔
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
Adams, who has been visiting the Bream Bay area for >40 yrs, said it was the first time she had seen a humpback.
“He was enormous, at least twice the size of the boat. He was jumping out of the water and flapping his fins all over the place."
📷Michele Adams
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
“He was enormous, at least twice the size of the boat. He was jumping out of the water and flapping his fins all over the place."
📷Michele Adams
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Adams, who has been visiting the Bream Bay area for >40 yrs, said it was the first time she had seen a humpback.
“He was enormous, at least twice the size of the boat. He was jumping out of the water and flapping his fins all over the place."
📷Michele Adams
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
“He was enormous, at least twice the size of the boat. He was jumping out of the water and flapping his fins all over the place."
📷Michele Adams
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
🤣😂
Constipation? That's a hard pass.
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🤣😂
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Lettuce take a break and enjoy some crunchies from porcupine Thistle! 🥬 North American porcupines love nibbling leafy snacks, those sharp teeth never stop growing, so all that crunching helps keep them healthy!
📹: Keeper Tess
📹: Keeper Tess
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lettuce take a break and enjoy some crunchies from porcupine Thistle! 🥬 North American porcupines love nibbling leafy snacks, those sharp teeth never stop growing, so all that crunching helps keep them healthy!
📹: Keeper Tess
📹: Keeper Tess
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
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Very disappointed to see the Loch Ness Monster trailing Bigfoot. #JustSaying .
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very disappointed to see the Loch Ness Monster trailing Bigfoot. #JustSaying .
"Our govt has gutted our public sector, welfare system, indigenous rights & more, the cost of living is so high, and there just aren’t a lot of opportunities in general. Leaving feels like my own personal 'fuck you'." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Our govt has gutted our public sector, welfare system, indigenous rights & more, the cost of living is so high, and there just aren’t a lot of opportunities in general. Leaving feels like my own personal 'fuck you'." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The 'spoonies' as I fondly call them, (Royal Spoonbill - Kōtuku ngutupapa) visit "my" bay intermittently - usually no more than 5 birds but they are back again and there are 7!
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The 'spoonies' as I fondly call them, (Royal Spoonbill - Kōtuku ngutupapa) visit "my" bay intermittently - usually no more than 5 birds but they are back again and there are 7!
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NO WAYYYY! 🤯🤯🤯
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
NO WAYYYY! 🤯🤯🤯
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
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who has *not* always wanted their very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammer head shark
i ask u
i ask u
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
who has *not* always wanted their very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammer head shark
i ask u
i ask u
I have just completed the worst gardening job ever - weeding on a bank filled with rosemary and rambling bottlebrush. I am now dripping wet. But it is done!
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I have just completed the worst gardening job ever - weeding on a bank filled with rosemary and rambling bottlebrush. I am now dripping wet. But it is done!
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
This dynamic experience reveals how Henson & his team brought to life the worlds of The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal & Labyrinth. It also includes material from Henson’s experimental projects & early work. movingimage.org/event/the-ji...
The Jim Henson Exhibition – Museum of the Moving Image
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
movingimage.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This dynamic experience reveals how Henson & his team brought to life the worlds of The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal & Labyrinth. It also includes material from Henson’s experimental projects & early work. movingimage.org/event/the-ji...
I knew these two variable oystercatchers had a nest somewhere in the spinifex grass. I had just about given up, as I didn't want to stress the birds any more, when I suddenly spotted three lovely eggs. The nest has been fenced off now to stop anyone accidentally stumbling into it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I knew these two variable oystercatchers had a nest somewhere in the spinifex grass. I had just about given up, as I didn't want to stress the birds any more, when I suddenly spotted three lovely eggs. The nest has been fenced off now to stop anyone accidentally stumbling into it.
Driving to Duvauchelle. I'm always struck by how photographs of the Banks Peninsula seem to come out looking like watercolour paintings, making the scenery instantly recognisable.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Driving to Duvauchelle. I'm always struck by how photographs of the Banks Peninsula seem to come out looking like watercolour paintings, making the scenery instantly recognisable.
The news we need to see more of on the internet.
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The news we need to see more of on the internet.
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NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
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Stuff Squirrels do😄
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Stuff Squirrels do😄
Jeez - why are some people such assholes? 🤬🥺
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
Watch: Camera catches beachgoers crushing eggs of endangered birds
Trail camera footage shows four people stepping through a marked nesting zone.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Jeez - why are some people such assholes? 🤬🥺
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...