James Brock
@jmrbrock.bsky.social
TOITŪ TE TIRITI!
Tangata Tiriti, sailor, rugger, Lecturer at the University of Auckland (he/him)… ferns rule
Tangata Tiriti, sailor, rugger, Lecturer at the University of Auckland (he/him)… ferns rule
Training sail yesterday and there were two additional mates on the crew so I stepped back to watch them train… and had a very relaxing day… (also I know the t-shirt is tight, but wow… post-long-COVID CFS no regular physical exercise for three years has taken its toll)
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Training sail yesterday and there were two additional mates on the crew so I stepped back to watch them train… and had a very relaxing day… (also I know the t-shirt is tight, but wow… post-long-COVID CFS no regular physical exercise for three years has taken its toll)
Wednesday’s office… demographic measurements of taurepo Rhabdothamnus solandri (not in shot of course… canopy downed and thickets overwhelmed the old tagged plants). Veg plots for the win…
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Wednesday’s office… demographic measurements of taurepo Rhabdothamnus solandri (not in shot of course… canopy downed and thickets overwhelmed the old tagged plants). Veg plots for the win…
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Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
Hilarious. Sad thing is, entirely true…
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hilarious. Sad thing is, entirely true…
A little bust of sunshine on your feeds this morning… kōwhai going off on Maungakiekie
October 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A little bust of sunshine on your feeds this morning… kōwhai going off on Maungakiekie
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🎉 Honoring the 2025 Edgar T. Wherry Award Recipient, James Brock (University of Auckland)!
Presented by the BSA Pteridological Section, this award recognizes exceptional student research in pteridology.
Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSASectionAwards
Presented by the BSA Pteridological Section, this award recognizes exceptional student research in pteridology.
Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSASectionAwards
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🎉 Honoring the 2025 Edgar T. Wherry Award Recipient, James Brock (University of Auckland)!
Presented by the BSA Pteridological Section, this award recognizes exceptional student research in pteridology.
Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSASectionAwards
Presented by the BSA Pteridological Section, this award recognizes exceptional student research in pteridology.
Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...
#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSASectionAwards
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It drives me fully up a wall when every year they add another year to the tally. “Long COVID lasts at least a year. Some cases are stretching two years. Three years on, some say they’re still sick.”
Of fucking course we are. Does any of this seem like it spontaneously clears up?
Of fucking course we are. Does any of this seem like it spontaneously clears up?
September 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It drives me fully up a wall when every year they add another year to the tally. “Long COVID lasts at least a year. Some cases are stretching two years. Three years on, some say they’re still sick.”
Of fucking course we are. Does any of this seem like it spontaneously clears up?
Of fucking course we are. Does any of this seem like it spontaneously clears up?
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Round and round.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
August 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Round and round.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Anyone else have days when an otherwise common word suddenly looks like it’s spelled entirely incorrectly? Today my entirely normal brain is struggling with the word leaf…
(Yes I am a plant scientist)
(Yes I am a plant scientist)
August 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Anyone else have days when an otherwise common word suddenly looks like it’s spelled entirely incorrectly? Today my entirely normal brain is struggling with the word leaf…
(Yes I am a plant scientist)
(Yes I am a plant scientist)
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Make it Write?
We’ve been here before. The Make it Count maths action plan took $30 million from a Māori education initiative and handed it to commercial publishers Erica had undisclosed relationships with.
Is she using dodgy data as a pretext for funnelling cash to private providers, again?
We’ve been here before. The Make it Count maths action plan took $30 million from a Māori education initiative and handed it to commercial publishers Erica had undisclosed relationships with.
Is she using dodgy data as a pretext for funnelling cash to private providers, again?
August 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Make it Write?
We’ve been here before. The Make it Count maths action plan took $30 million from a Māori education initiative and handed it to commercial publishers Erica had undisclosed relationships with.
Is she using dodgy data as a pretext for funnelling cash to private providers, again?
We’ve been here before. The Make it Count maths action plan took $30 million from a Māori education initiative and handed it to commercial publishers Erica had undisclosed relationships with.
Is she using dodgy data as a pretext for funnelling cash to private providers, again?
Anti-fash sandwich songs… time to take down the wealthy with anything we have I guess?
August 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Anti-fash sandwich songs… time to take down the wealthy with anything we have I guess?
Please, someone, explain to me how the trope of National being good with the economy persists? They’re vandals, smashing the country up to feed to the wealthy/greedy. $671m wasted…!!
Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
The bill is now more than $600 million, after another $144m was added to the scrapped iReX ferry project cost.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Please, someone, explain to me how the trope of National being good with the economy persists? They’re vandals, smashing the country up to feed to the wealthy/greedy. $671m wasted…!!
A new semester, a new pen drive… my biannual ritual of buying yet another device to take my slides to my lectures. Sadly pen drives just seem to run away at the end of every semester - ne’er to be seen again…
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A new semester, a new pen drive… my biannual ritual of buying yet another device to take my slides to my lectures. Sadly pen drives just seem to run away at the end of every semester - ne’er to be seen again…
Science on the go! This is the temporary remote office of the Managing Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology @newzealandecology.bsky.social … somewhere near gate 157, Terminal B, LAX
Also: I’m on my way home 🇳🇿 ❤️
Also: I’m on my way home 🇳🇿 ❤️
August 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Science on the go! This is the temporary remote office of the Managing Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology @newzealandecology.bsky.social … somewhere near gate 157, Terminal B, LAX
Also: I’m on my way home 🇳🇿 ❤️
Also: I’m on my way home 🇳🇿 ❤️
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Private helicopters are buzzing around Auckland and nesting on Waiheke Island.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #TheRich #Helicopters
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #TheRich #Helicopters
July 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Private helicopters are buzzing around Auckland and nesting on Waiheke Island.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #TheRich #Helicopters
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #TheRich #Helicopters
At the University of Northern Colorado for the IAVS @iavs5.bsky.social excellent annual conference… and the acronym for our hosts on their double doors reads UNC UNC, or to botanical surveyors from New Zealand UNCunc… Uncinia (I know it’s now Carex) uncinata: bastard grass. Glorious.
August 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
At the University of Northern Colorado for the IAVS @iavs5.bsky.social excellent annual conference… and the acronym for our hosts on their double doors reads UNC UNC, or to botanical surveyors from New Zealand UNCunc… Uncinia (I know it’s now Carex) uncinata: bastard grass. Glorious.
So I won an award! My presentation on fern dispersal and zoochory was awarded the Edgar T Wherry prize for best presentation on fern science at the Botany 2025 conference. Awesome. Not least as I think many folk are still a little cautious about the ideas of zoochory… chuffed.
July 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
So I won an award! My presentation on fern dispersal and zoochory was awarded the Edgar T Wherry prize for best presentation on fern science at the Botany 2025 conference. Awesome. Not least as I think many folk are still a little cautious about the ideas of zoochory… chuffed.
Frankfurt airport is chaos this morning (as ever), but I’ve made it to my gate (yay) in time for the computers to fail (boo) and my flight is now delayed (boo). Building on my getting stuck in traffic on way to Birmingham airport earlier. Frazzled. Especially on top of farewells to (elderly) parents
July 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Frankfurt airport is chaos this morning (as ever), but I’ve made it to my gate (yay) in time for the computers to fail (boo) and my flight is now delayed (boo). Building on my getting stuck in traffic on way to Birmingham airport earlier. Frazzled. Especially on top of farewells to (elderly) parents
Reviewing an edit of a scientific article and wrote a comment referring to a semi-colon as a semi-colin. Now slightly saddened that this is not, in fact, the name of this punctuation mark.
July 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Reviewing an edit of a scientific article and wrote a comment referring to a semi-colon as a semi-colin. Now slightly saddened that this is not, in fact, the name of this punctuation mark.
A fun aspect of #longCovid is the inability to travel with cannabis-derived medication (I use CBD to manage symptoms). When I leave NZ (as I did last week) I have to deal w/ a resurgence of chronic fatigue and brain fog. Hopefully one day we’ll escape conservative moral panic over these medications!
July 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A fun aspect of #longCovid is the inability to travel with cannabis-derived medication (I use CBD to manage symptoms). When I leave NZ (as I did last week) I have to deal w/ a resurgence of chronic fatigue and brain fog. Hopefully one day we’ll escape conservative moral panic over these medications!
Sadness wells like a shelf without Jaffas…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Jaffas discontinued by New Zealand confectionary company RJ’s
www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/ja...
Jaffas discontinued by New Zealand confectionary company RJ’s
www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/ja...
Iconic Kiwi lolly Jaffa comes to end, quietly discontinued by manufacturer
When shops run out of the Kiwi favourite there will be no more packets to buy.
www.nzherald.co.nz
July 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Sadness wells like a shelf without Jaffas…
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People really need to understand that Seymour is not alone.
His strategy to steal New Zealand's wealth is supported by a huge network of think tanks that is shared around the world so they can better fleece countries down to their bones for their morbidly wealthy owners.
His strategy to steal New Zealand's wealth is supported by a huge network of think tanks that is shared around the world so they can better fleece countries down to their bones for their morbidly wealthy owners.
If they don't they'll just help Atlas, and Atlas knows it too. Here's David Seymour bragging about how Labour keeps his preferred policies from low rate taxes to no capital gains tax. #nzpol
June 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
People really need to understand that Seymour is not alone.
His strategy to steal New Zealand's wealth is supported by a huge network of think tanks that is shared around the world so they can better fleece countries down to their bones for their morbidly wealthy owners.
His strategy to steal New Zealand's wealth is supported by a huge network of think tanks that is shared around the world so they can better fleece countries down to their bones for their morbidly wealthy owners.
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If NZ’s richest can climb above $100b during a so-called “tough year”, then maybe the problem isn’t the economy it’s who the economy is working for?
Growth for the few. Cuts for the many. That’s not progress. That’s inequality.
TPM backs a wealth tax
fairness isn’t radical, it’s necessary.
#NZPol
Growth for the few. Cuts for the many. That’s not progress. That’s inequality.
TPM backs a wealth tax
fairness isn’t radical, it’s necessary.
#NZPol
New Zealand's Rich Listers climb above $100 billion despite 'tough' times
Meanwhile, the co-founders of Zuru Toys, the brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray retain top spot
www.rnz.co.nz
June 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If NZ’s richest can climb above $100b during a so-called “tough year”, then maybe the problem isn’t the economy it’s who the economy is working for?
Growth for the few. Cuts for the many. That’s not progress. That’s inequality.
TPM backs a wealth tax
fairness isn’t radical, it’s necessary.
#NZPol
Growth for the few. Cuts for the many. That’s not progress. That’s inequality.
TPM backs a wealth tax
fairness isn’t radical, it’s necessary.
#NZPol
Reposted by James Brock
Reposted by James Brock
Stop conflating being transgender with being sick
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...
Stop conflating being transgender with being sick
This week, RNZ reported on a tragic death. In the process it perpetuated many harmful messages about young trans people.
thespinoff.co.nz
June 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Stop conflating being transgender with being sick
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...