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My Jeopardy categories would be Wikipedia, natural history of Aotearoa New Zealand, Sondheim musicals, bird bones, and enough typography to get me into trouble. Ōtautahi, Dr Him. 0000-0003-1183-2550, Q56458901
"As social-media algorithms fuel extreme opinions and the Internet is flooded with low-quality information, increasingly generated with the aid of artificial-intelligence technologies, the world needs Wikipedia just as much—if not more—as it did at the time of the platform’s creation."
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And native plants too (like Malaysia).
The @australianmuseum.bsky.social is advertising its upcoming Wikidata talk with an AI-generated garbage graphic that’s just nonsense and makes Wikidata look even more confusing than it is. Great job, folks.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Need I point out there are dozens of great photos of the beehive, some professional quality, available in Wikimedia Commons absolutely free, no effort required. Well, you do have to credit the photographer, which most papers find overly taxing. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
Please check your enrolment status BUT don't use autofill to do so, as that can cause the site to fail to find you.
I will be endlessly barracking people about this closer to Writ Day.
Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️
Steve Braunias reports on this weekend’s literary festival on the Banks Peninsula.
Al Nisbet, cancelled for being awful everywhere else, can still be found in the Kaikoura [sic] Star.
I thought that was a nice historical overview.
I’ve been using Faux-a, but since moa actually rhymes with more we may need different puns.
Thanks to this article, I went from "I must get my booster before winter" to "I will get my booster this week". So today, between meetings, I went to my local pharmacy as a walk-in. The entire process (including the precautionary hanging around afterwards) took 15 mins. Get to it Kiwis #nz
Done!
The archaeology of Ōtautahi Christchurch and Aotearoa New Zealand is being brought into the digital spotlight, through a collaboration between Wikipedian Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) and the Christchurch Archaeology Project.
www.wikimedia.nz/christchurch...
I think Poland? Very common over there.
I found the phone number and email! It was hidden under a weird little phone/envelope combo icon I’d never encountered before so missed it the first time round. Fantastic design there.
Struck by my prophetic abilities back in 2021. Someone should give me a job in science communication or something.
Literally, at work this morning:
Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B.
AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B.
Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.
My test case is “I’m a journalist/prospective student/potential funder: what is Dr X’s email address?” On Massey’s website I can eventually find a staff profile with an email; on UC the staff profiles pop up first but there’s no contact information on them!
Rakiura is about the only place in the world where you’ll see kiwi in broad daylight. Numerous tourists were excited about seeing kiwi by the road on the West Coast, and we had to explain to them what a weka was.
Oh for heaven’s sake, how hard would be it to spell out “General Impression of Size and Shape”?
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
Wow! I just bought BetterMouse and deinstalled Logi Options and Options+, thank you for pointing this out.
Well the hive-mind is not wrong. The people want climate adaptation, electrification, rail, and ferries, way before, massive road projects. And least of all- subsidised fossil fuel infrastructure.
Reviewing some old links before deleting my Twitter account I was reminded of "Civil disobedience in scientific authorship: Resistance and insubordination in science" (doi.org/10.1080/0898...) which contains a great table on deciding authorship order:
This is where I YET AGAIN encourage people, especially creators, to have, develop and actively maintain their own websites where people can find you, away from the social media sites you don't own and/or can't control and/or whose discoverability algorithms are at the whim of billionaire weirdos.
3. The fund is supposed to compensate authors for sales lost by library lending, not be a perpetual Xmas gift for writers. So if you want to count school libraries or ebooks, great. But you should stop getting compensated when your book’s out of print. Fair’s fair.
