Time… it’s hard to get our heads around large stretches of time. A new @ecolincnz article on time and evolution with extra Labyrinth and Tolkien action!
lincolnecology.org.nz/2026/02/16/i...
Want to identify kiwi individuals? A new @ecolincnz article suggests that 3D images might be a noninvasive answer.
lincolnecology.org.nz/2026/02/04/k...
Snap! I use the same figures in my first year course to teach how to read trees and how to understand dispersal patterns. Having a NZ example here doesn’t hurt either!
New Kia Pakiki podcast covering: Morgane Merien on Bug of the Year, Tom and Adrian on facts and a probabilistic worldview, Amit Sarkar and Selena Chan on AI in classroom and lectures (data sovereignty and the digital divide).
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Hear about science in Canterbury? Kia Pakiki waitaha Be Curious Canterbury. First 3 episodes on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Hosted by Roy SocNZ Cant Branch with Tom Goulter & Adrian Paterson. Spiders, AI, medical science, wildlife management and more!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Perfectly fine. I wouldn’t want all my games to be like this but sometimes it’s nice just working away in companionable silence with your friends 🙂
Postgrad Pareena Khadka talks us through the chequered history of wild cats in Aotearoa New Zealand. A new @ecolincnz article at:
lincolnecology.org.nz/2025/12/01/t...
Enjoying hearing about hot research at Canterbury Fire Forum! Thanks Tim Curran for bringing us all together at Lincoln University.
A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.
Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?
Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!
More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
Yes but not as rigorously as I should. Typically 7-9 🙂.
Do toxins from pest control baits end up in our NZ plants? Apparently not says postgrad Marie Frackiewicz in her new @ecolincnz yarn at
lincolnecology.org.nz/2025/11/19/o...
The always amazing Cory Doctorow asks ‘Who are we to blame for enshittification?’, when our platforms all decay into worse versions of themselves like, well, take your pick. A thoughtful article at Locus.
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How do we know how many birds are in the bush? Postgrad Caitlan Christmas counts the ways in a new @ecolincnz article at
lincolnecology.org.nz/2025/11/11/t...
What’s wiggling around in our vegetable crops? Postgrad Sambath Seng shows how nematodes are having huge impacts on NZ crops like maize in a new @ecolincnz article at
lincolnecology.org.nz/2025/11/06/a...
Urban cats- what do they get up to outside the house? Postgrad Linfeng Yu shows us the (not)surprising shenanigans that they get up to living near wetlands. A new @ecolincnz article at:
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It makes the reviewers more relatable! We all do this and it’s good to see that our heroes are human too! 😉
How do we monitor wild cats? Post grad Chloe McMenamin gives us some tips on how to use trail cameras to find our feline frenemies. A new @ecolincnz article at
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In a hole in the mountain there lived a bark beetle. There was no bark nor any trees. What did it eat? How did it survive? Postgrad Heidi Allan tells us a nice story of adaptation to living in alpine zones in a new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at:
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There's a great Substack piece by Adam Rutherford debunking all this nonsense.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Toxic baits are good at removing mammal pests from natural areas but what if lots of native insects are munching them too? Postgrad Kayla Valentine talks us through how weta complicate our mammal control in a new @ecolincnz article at:
t.co/qb2Nld1nGh
How do we protect parrots? Postgrad Naresh Shrestha muses on what we know about kea and rose-ringed parakeets. It’s a new EcoLincNZ article at:
lincolnecology.org.nz/2025/09/12/w...
Some plants can reproduce without pollen and seeds. Postgrad Sienna Zeng takes us into the weird world of apomixis in hawkweed and dandelions. A new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at :
lincolnecology.org.nz/2025/09/08/t...
How have we done with translocating kiwi to safer areas? PG Jessica Przychodzko notes that there’s been a lot of shifting birds around NZ over the last few decades but not a lot of checking to see if it’s been successful! New @ecolincnz article at
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How do we re-forest NZ farmed hillsides? Essentially we can just leave them alone. Postgrad Sarah Gabites explains a few tricks that might speed things along, though, in a new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at:
t.co/vrX4JwZzyQ
Himalayan tahr are both a game species and a pest species in NZ while being threatened in their native range. Postgrad Ngaire Chhiri Sherpa casts a Nepalese eye over this strange situation in a new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at :
t.co/sgN1OMKonB
Loveable rogue or just a rogue? Postgrad Muhammad Waseem describes the history of hedgehogs in NZ. A new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at :
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Boomer geckos? Two wild waitaha geckos are now in their sixth decade! Postgrad Sam Dryden explains their personal history and how their ages were calculated! A new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at
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The lost and found, and found Canterbury Knobbled weevil. Postgrad Noah Fenwick explains the history of one of the world’s rarest insects. A new @LincolnUniNZ @ecolincnz article at
t.co/fIZTzGmynn
Cities! Sounds like a fun time with a bit of thinking thrown in.
BRAIDED RIVERS are more than water. Between the braids are islands of BIODIVERSITY that need PROTECTION. Some of us take these spaces for granted. Others know what’s at stake.
PhD student Jazmynn Hodder-Swain shares her first BLOG POST — a reflection on responsibility and care.
