Rebekah White
@rebekahwhite.bsky.social
Science journalist, contributor @nzgeo.bsky.social, writes mostly about climate engineering, conservation, birds & also science fiction
This might be my favourite advertisement of all time. No beating around the bush. No lies. No exaggeration.
(also, it's biscuits in the British sense)
(also, it's biscuits in the British sense)
July 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This might be my favourite advertisement of all time. No beating around the bush. No lies. No exaggeration.
(also, it's biscuits in the British sense)
(also, it's biscuits in the British sense)
Spending the week in Hong Kong en route to the UK learning about research here (and visiting one of my best friends). I love this city - it's so easy to go between super-dense neighbourhoods and national parks.
Also, there are a lot of very good dogs.
Also, there are a lot of very good dogs.
April 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Spending the week in Hong Kong en route to the UK learning about research here (and visiting one of my best friends). I love this city - it's so easy to go between super-dense neighbourhoods and national parks.
Also, there are a lot of very good dogs.
Also, there are a lot of very good dogs.
Here are some bird stories I prepared earlier: authory.com/RebekahWhite...
April 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Here are some bird stories I prepared earlier: authory.com/RebekahWhite...
This is a picture of my brain leaking out of my ears after learning too much at #OceaniaSeabirds. But I'm always interested in cool bird stories!
And @jmrbrock.bsky.social lurking there wants seabird dandruff samples from all over the Pacific. Or just someone to talk to about ferns.
And @jmrbrock.bsky.social lurking there wants seabird dandruff samples from all over the Pacific. Or just someone to talk to about ferns.
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This is a picture of my brain leaking out of my ears after learning too much at #OceaniaSeabirds. But I'm always interested in cool bird stories!
And @jmrbrock.bsky.social lurking there wants seabird dandruff samples from all over the Pacific. Or just someone to talk to about ferns.
And @jmrbrock.bsky.social lurking there wants seabird dandruff samples from all over the Pacific. Or just someone to talk to about ferns.
Some people tell me my accent is incomprehensible! Determine for yourself. I'm on the @science.org podcast talking about geoengineering: www.science.org/content/podc...
April 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Some people tell me my accent is incomprehensible! Determine for yourself. I'm on the @science.org podcast talking about geoengineering: www.science.org/content/podc...
Do I know anyone going to World Press Photo in May? Looks like there will be at least one person from NZGeo attending, maybe two! We'd love to meet other cool folks/publishers/people trying to keep photojournalism alive.
Pic from Tatsiana's winning portfolio: www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...
Pic from Tatsiana's winning portfolio: www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...
April 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Do I know anyone going to World Press Photo in May? Looks like there will be at least one person from NZGeo attending, maybe two! We'd love to meet other cool folks/publishers/people trying to keep photojournalism alive.
Pic from Tatsiana's winning portfolio: www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...
Pic from Tatsiana's winning portfolio: www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...
In light of recent events, I have been sending this website to basically everybody: my family, my editors, my Hinge chats owlsintowels.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
In light of recent events, I have been sending this website to basically everybody: my family, my editors, my Hinge chats owlsintowels.org
I love the work I do and hope to keep doing it for a long time, but sometimes projects don't line up very well and I end up trying to finish a draft in the middle of the night on a camping trip to a random island.
That's my best friend keeping me company. I think he's asleep.
That's my best friend keeping me company. I think he's asleep.
March 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I love the work I do and hope to keep doing it for a long time, but sometimes projects don't line up very well and I end up trying to finish a draft in the middle of the night on a camping trip to a random island.
That's my best friend keeping me company. I think he's asleep.
That's my best friend keeping me company. I think he's asleep.
Even in the rain, this is one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen. I didn't realise before now that the arches are all segments of the same sphere.
How wonderful to have a statement to intense/difficult artistic genius right in the middle of your city
How wonderful to have a statement to intense/difficult artistic genius right in the middle of your city
March 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Even in the rain, this is one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen. I didn't realise before now that the arches are all segments of the same sphere.
How wonderful to have a statement to intense/difficult artistic genius right in the middle of your city
How wonderful to have a statement to intense/difficult artistic genius right in the middle of your city
Considering being a volunteer hut warden here, which would make this my office for a week or so.
January 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Considering being a volunteer hut warden here, which would make this my office for a week or so.
The news is bonkers. The world is still very beautiful. This is what I've been telling myself. Here's Angelus Hut, which is on public conservation land.
January 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The news is bonkers. The world is still very beautiful. This is what I've been telling myself. Here's Angelus Hut, which is on public conservation land.
Went on a big walk in a national park at the top of the South Island for a couple days and it was so beautiful my friend said, "It looks like a screensaver!"
January 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Went on a big walk in a national park at the top of the South Island for a couple days and it was so beautiful my friend said, "It looks like a screensaver!"
This was the first time in eight years I didn't see any eagle rays in the bay. But the gannets and the shags and the dotterels were here, and dolphins visited us once. The water was maybe the coldest it's ever been.
This is public land, a public campground. God save the Department of Conservation.
This is public land, a public campground. God save the Department of Conservation.
January 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This was the first time in eight years I didn't see any eagle rays in the bay. But the gannets and the shags and the dotterels were here, and dolphins visited us once. The water was maybe the coldest it's ever been.
This is public land, a public campground. God save the Department of Conservation.
This is public land, a public campground. God save the Department of Conservation.
Every year I go camping on the same day at the same beach with the same group of people. And over the years I've figured out there's an importance in this kind of repetition.
It's somehow crucial that the place, season, people are the same. It lets you look back across time, concertina-like.
It's somehow crucial that the place, season, people are the same. It lets you look back across time, concertina-like.
January 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Every year I go camping on the same day at the same beach with the same group of people. And over the years I've figured out there's an importance in this kind of repetition.
It's somehow crucial that the place, season, people are the same. It lets you look back across time, concertina-like.
It's somehow crucial that the place, season, people are the same. It lets you look back across time, concertina-like.
Gonna tell everyone that this is how people in New Zealand do Christmas trees...
December 23, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Gonna tell everyone that this is how people in New Zealand do Christmas trees...
Went to a part of Auckland I've never visited for a story; can you believe there is a city just around the corner from this
November 17, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Went to a part of Auckland I've never visited for a story; can you believe there is a city just around the corner from this
Hello, especially if you followed me here from Twitter, aka the Bad Place! I'm a science journalist and I write for several different publications, mostly about conservation, climate change and the ocean. Also, I'm from New Zealand.
November 10, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Hello, especially if you followed me here from Twitter, aka the Bad Place! I'm a science journalist and I write for several different publications, mostly about conservation, climate change and the ocean. Also, I'm from New Zealand.
As the science Nobel Prizes all go to men this year (congratulations to men) let me repeat my childhood hope that I will live to see a clean sweep by women
I am 37, please hurry
I am 37, please hurry
October 9, 2024 at 10:21 PM
As the science Nobel Prizes all go to men this year (congratulations to men) let me repeat my childhood hope that I will live to see a clean sweep by women
I am 37, please hurry
I am 37, please hurry
Here's a picture for all the New Zealanders: how weird is it to see whole kawakawa leaves? no looper moths here to turn them into lace
September 10, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Here's a picture for all the New Zealanders: how weird is it to see whole kawakawa leaves? no looper moths here to turn them into lace
I finally got to visit Kew Gardens yesterday, and while it's very beautiful, I was expecting to learn a lot about plants, and there was surprisingly very little information about plants
I suppose it's more like a plant zoo than a plant museum; you just look at things and feel impressed by them
I suppose it's more like a plant zoo than a plant museum; you just look at things and feel impressed by them
September 10, 2024 at 9:04 AM
I finally got to visit Kew Gardens yesterday, and while it's very beautiful, I was expecting to learn a lot about plants, and there was surprisingly very little information about plants
I suppose it's more like a plant zoo than a plant museum; you just look at things and feel impressed by them
I suppose it's more like a plant zoo than a plant museum; you just look at things and feel impressed by them
I'm really glad to see that dubious photoshopping still reigns supreme rather than AI
September 6, 2024 at 12:51 PM
I'm really glad to see that dubious photoshopping still reigns supreme rather than AI
Happy Greta Thunberg day! My friend made a cool documentary about her, you should watch it: www.imdb.com/title/tt1039...
Here I am in Greta's spot outside the Swedish parliament, almost five years after she started protesting
Here I am in Greta's spot outside the Swedish parliament, almost five years after she started protesting
August 20, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Happy Greta Thunberg day! My friend made a cool documentary about her, you should watch it: www.imdb.com/title/tt1039...
Here I am in Greta's spot outside the Swedish parliament, almost five years after she started protesting
Here I am in Greta's spot outside the Swedish parliament, almost five years after she started protesting
Here's another map that New Zealand is not on: the map of the British Museum.
I know they've got a bunch of our stuff, but wow it's hard to find any of it
I know they've got a bunch of our stuff, but wow it's hard to find any of it
June 30, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Here's another map that New Zealand is not on: the map of the British Museum.
I know they've got a bunch of our stuff, but wow it's hard to find any of it
I know they've got a bunch of our stuff, but wow it's hard to find any of it
I'm starting to understand why the rest of Europe never votes for the UK in Eurovision
June 17, 2024 at 11:04 AM
I'm starting to understand why the rest of Europe never votes for the UK in Eurovision
Not to be a dick, but maybe we should pick just ONE name for the last interglacial period
January 23, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Not to be a dick, but maybe we should pick just ONE name for the last interglacial period