Greg O’Beirne
@gobeirne.bsky.social
Professor of Audiology at UC NZ, auditory physiologist, musician, and general geek. 💚🚴♀️ Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. He/him
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#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
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$237 million per kilometre
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
$237 million per kilometre
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
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our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
Game-changer: New $18b expressway endorsed to boost jobs and road safety
The Northland Expressway from Te Hana to Whangārei is expected to boost Northland.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
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Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.
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Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine
As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine.
Aotearo...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.
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I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Māori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...
www.journal.mai.ac.nz
September 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Māori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...
Realised it's coming up to 20 years since @signifyingwolf.bsky.social Bonnie Prince Billy last played in New Zealand. Christchurch was an amazing show - the band was having a blast (e.g. an oompah-band version of Wolf Amongst Wolves). Hope he makes it back here someday soon!
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Realised it's coming up to 20 years since @signifyingwolf.bsky.social Bonnie Prince Billy last played in New Zealand. Christchurch was an amazing show - the band was having a blast (e.g. an oompah-band version of Wolf Amongst Wolves). Hope he makes it back here someday soon!
Just a couple of tickets left for my free talk tonight at 8 pm at Two Thumb Manchester St. It's a whirlwind tour of the ear and hearing (and our research). Should be fun! www.rtbevent.com/dr-greg-obei...
September 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just a couple of tickets left for my free talk tonight at 8 pm at Two Thumb Manchester St. It's a whirlwind tour of the ear and hearing (and our research). Should be fun! www.rtbevent.com/dr-greg-obei...
Want to improve #Māori hearing healthcare in Aotearoa & become a Kaimātai Ororongo/audiologist? We're offering 4 Māori scholarships for the Master of Audiology at UC, covering fees for the entire degree! Applications for 2026 close 1st Dec. Please share widely through your networks across the motu!
September 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Want to improve #Māori hearing healthcare in Aotearoa & become a Kaimātai Ororongo/audiologist? We're offering 4 Māori scholarships for the Master of Audiology at UC, covering fees for the entire degree! Applications for 2026 close 1st Dec. Please share widely through your networks across the motu!
Three weeks until I give this whirlwind tour of the ear and hearing (and our research) in a pub to an audience of beer-drinkers. Should be fun, so if you’re in Ōtautahi ChCh, get your (free) tickets now! #RTBCHCH www.rtbevent.com/dr-greg-obei...
Dr Greg O'Beirne — Raising the bar
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August 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Three weeks until I give this whirlwind tour of the ear and hearing (and our research) in a pub to an audience of beer-drinkers. Should be fun, so if you’re in Ōtautahi ChCh, get your (free) tickets now! #RTBCHCH www.rtbevent.com/dr-greg-obei...
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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unions: they get the job done
May 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
unions: they get the job done
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"Savings from pay equality"
Literally stealing money earned by women
Literally stealing money earned by women
So here we have it, the Sherriff of Nottingham Budget, literally robbing Paula to pay Paul
They've used the Pay Equity Fund to balance this budget and no one should accept that, no one should forget that!
The extra funding that is happening is at the expense of women
#NZPol
They've used the Pay Equity Fund to balance this budget and no one should accept that, no one should forget that!
The extra funding that is happening is at the expense of women
#NZPol
May 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
"Savings from pay equality"
Literally stealing money earned by women
Literally stealing money earned by women
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Bernard Hickey: The Govt’s retrospective law wrecks 33 pay equity deals. $17 billion in wages & back-pay will not now go to over 150,000 workers. That means the $14 billion of tax cuts going mostly to landlords & highest earners are being paid for by wage cuts for the poorest NZers, mostly women.
May 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Bernard Hickey: The Govt’s retrospective law wrecks 33 pay equity deals. $17 billion in wages & back-pay will not now go to over 150,000 workers. That means the $14 billion of tax cuts going mostly to landlords & highest earners are being paid for by wage cuts for the poorest NZers, mostly women.
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Happy 12th bone marrow transplant anniversary to me. If you'd like to give someone like me a second shot at life, consider registering with your national bone marrow registry. They can link up with the international databases to save lives. Australia: www.redcross.org.au/act/action-c...
Join the Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Effort: Low | Time: < 1 hour
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April 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Happy 12th bone marrow transplant anniversary to me. If you'd like to give someone like me a second shot at life, consider registering with your national bone marrow registry. They can link up with the international databases to save lives. Australia: www.redcross.org.au/act/action-c...
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Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Words to live by.
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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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April 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Here a wee thread for Ōtautahi people or people who grew up here before the quakes. It’s from an exhibition of miniature buildings by an artist called Ghostcat and it was held in the quakestruck Christ Church Cathedral and I was literally moved to tears. This is the old police kiosk in the Square.
March 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here a wee thread for Ōtautahi people or people who grew up here before the quakes. It’s from an exhibition of miniature buildings by an artist called Ghostcat and it was held in the quakestruck Christ Church Cathedral and I was literally moved to tears. This is the old police kiosk in the Square.
Just signed this. Have a read here: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
Stop the proposed public transport fare hikes
We believe Aotearoa New Zealand should be a place where everyone can afford public transport. We are concerned that the Government is trying to increase the ‘private share funding targets’ for public ...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Just signed this. Have a read here: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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This is how our current government likes to do it also. It gives money to landlords and the already wealthy, and takes it away from disabled children and their families, minimum wage earners, and beneficiaries.
#nzpol
#nzpol
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is how our current government likes to do it also. It gives money to landlords and the already wealthy, and takes it away from disabled children and their families, minimum wage earners, and beneficiaries.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Just finished edit and uploading our first “proper” video clip. It includes actual footage of Andy being hit by a motorcycle, which inspired the song. I wrote a script for the fast cuts, which are timed to Mark’s snare hits. Really happy with how it turned out! youtu.be/XpU15BkAKOM
Distortion Products - Motorpsycho
YouTube video by Distortion Products
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March 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Just finished edit and uploading our first “proper” video clip. It includes actual footage of Andy being hit by a motorcycle, which inspired the song. I wrote a script for the fast cuts, which are timed to Mark’s snare hits. Really happy with how it turned out! youtu.be/XpU15BkAKOM