Looks like CC BY NC 4.0 - great. Very cool image!

Cool image - what is the licence? Can it be reused?

The verbal gymnastics don't change the fundamental reality that whatever they create will not be a dodo. Fun to watch them try though.

I'll mark it on my calendar: birds that superficially resemble dodos in 5-7 years.

Just in time for a major new release of ggplot2! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

Nice! The second edition of 'R for Data Science' (free online book) is great for a refresher and all round amazing resource, in case you hadn't heard of it. It's helped me a lot.

Would love to see researchers properly incentivised and rewarded by funders/institutions to publish fewer papers. One of the many interventions needed to untable the web of problems with academic publishing.

Great article! One of my favourite non-Aotearoa examples is Ampulex compressa (emerald cockroach wasp). Pretty amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySw...

You've run workshops for media orgs before, right? Why don't these points about CC in particular make it into the handbooks or documentation used by the journos?

FYI iNaturalist have added an update to the post, including: "We are not giving Google special access to your iNat data, and we have no obligation to use Google’s infrastructure as part of this grant. Google is providing funding and advice on how to potentially leverage AI."

Yes - retraction should be encouraged when issues surface, not punished. Surely one of the biggest bang-for-buck moves would be for institutions/funders to lower the # of pubs they judge/evaluate/reward researchers on each year. Many of these integrity issues are symptoms of demanding quantity.

Most concerning to me is the attempt by the VC to frame it as a win for 'academic freedom', even though University lawyers repeatedly argued that academic freedom was a 'privelege' and that Wiles should stop talking about her expertise.

Nice one, congrats on the new role Fonti!

I couldn't have done it without the amazing support and guidance from my supervisors Greg Holwell & Gonzalo Avila, and our collaborators Kye Chung Park & Lee-Anne Manning. I'm truely grateful to have had the opportunity to work with and learn from all of them.

...the moment of attack means we're examining ecological host range (the hosts that are actually attacked in the field, as opposed to physiological host range, or the hosts that support development of the agent, often tested in a lab setting).