Masters student - Te Herenga Waka (VUW) | BSc Ecology & Biodiversity, Science Communication | My thoughts are silly. My views are my own. My opinions are woke.
New Zealand
Joined April 2017
- Tweets4.2K
- Following403
- Followers86
- Likes18.7K
Jay A. retweeted
this might end up being one of the worst disenfranchisements in modern NZ history, and zero established institutions - particularly media - did enough to raise awareness or effectively wield power to stop it
an indictment of every single mainstream leader in the country, frankly
Jay A. retweeted
Update: Today’s catastrophic flood along the Nepal–Tibet border was initially suspected to be a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). But new satellite analysis points instead to a massive glacier collapse and ice-rock avalanche that blocked a river before unleashing a devastating surge. A #GLOF contribution is still being investigated.
The disaster highlights the growing hazards of a rapidly changing high-mountain environment due to warming. The graphic below shows the long-term record of reported GLOFs a related, glacier hazard. #Tibet #Nepal #Glacier
Jay A. retweeted
The Greens want to:
- Increase public funding and support for the Predator Free 2050 goal
- Entrench Māori seats
- Give Māori more say on immigration
- Implement a high trust model at Work and Income
- Expand mental health services
- Expand buses for rural schools and fund buses for kōhanga
- Phase out bottom trawling and protect 30% of the ocean
- Repeal and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act
- Extend hate speech laws
- Phase out alcohol advertising
- End all subsidies for irrigation and dam projects where it’s obviously destroying the ecosystem
- Recognise Palestine
- Limit rent increases to 2%pa
- Expand housing first, funding for Transitional Housing and same day accomodation for homeless people
- Introduce a tax free threshold
- Increase the refugee quota to 5000
- Extend legal aid
You know what. I think I’m voting Green
Jay A. retweeted
The best way we could honor David Attenborough on his 100th birthday?
LISTEN TO HIM & ACT!
Jay A. retweeted
"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it"
Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home. – at Kapiti Coast District, New Zealand
Jay A. retweeted
Pop Base has donated $10,000 to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund which provides medical attention to children in Palestine and Lebanon amid the ongoing genocide.
We encourage anybody with the means to contribute if they can. Find out more here: gascf.org
Jay A. retweeted
That's the Foreign Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand with him, LAUGHING at the question of genocide. I've never felt so ashamed of a government before.
We were once so courageous.
@mfatnz @winstonpeters @jacktake @TovaOBrien @MaikiSherman @JohnJCampbell @1NewsNZ @rnz.
Jay A. retweeted
In linguistics studies across cultures, humans have been shown to associate certain nonwords with shapes; the iconic example is “bouba,” which associates with a round shape, and “kiki,” which sounds spiky.
In a new Science study, researchers report that the bouba-kiki effect is also exhibited by newly hatched chickens.
The authors propose that such sound-shape correspondences may belong to a set of innate cross-modal associations that are shared across species, rather than being a speech-related phenomenon that is distinctive to humans.
📄: scim.ag/4aDbId6
#SciencePerspective: scim.ag/3Mr3lJX
Jay A. retweeted
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
Jay A. retweeted
Hello @Nickelodeon @paramountco this video confuses me as a consumer and makes me think less of SpongeBob as a brand. I will never be purchasing any SpongeBob related merchandise or watching any SpongeBob related media because of this video.
