Meg Williams

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Heart for Thanks — not for the gas drilling ;)

Ooh wild, What induced the EQ?
With peat/clay is it a rolling feel eq?
*former californian currently about the nz alpine fault

Maniacal face of a (usually very handsome Rhodesian Ridgeback) dog eating clumps of mowed grass while zooming about a yard

Orangey-brown dog running on a freshly mowed, backyard slope

Plain for the weirdly comforting smell or honey nut for the leftover milk?

Right side but check out palette tools for color blind/print friendly options? (My quick go-to is color brewer :))

Maybe add response numbers atop bars?

colorbrewer2.org

A story from a few years back, when the team got caught in a whiteout blizzard. Hari is very old now, but he's still the sweetest gentleman I know.

Grocery store reference photo of ‘Possyum Supreme’ tube of dog food. Possums (not N. American opossums!) are invasive and prolifically destructive in Aotearoa New Zealand native forest ecosystems

Screenshot from Wild HQ pet food website. Wild HQ is one of the local pet food suppliers and available at farmers markets

Ah! the anti ungulate nightlife campaign isn’t goat specific — deer as well, liver treats too!

Tbf, I am really impressed with the local system for making use of introduced/invasive animals culled to protect native forest 🌳

www.wildhq.nz/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb

Fantastic article, thanks for posting!

I went to follow the author and she’s a summer reporting intern/Yale co-editor in chief of The New Journal — great hire @sacbee.com !

cake, obviously.

Sustainably sourced goat throats! Gross but yay for the well-fed dog ;)

Three open purple-pink poppy blossoms on long stems with four seedheads on stems behind on a cream background

'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

Here's the end-of-workday update, on Day 1 of the United States of Science.

A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles!

The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL

Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building.

Join the stream and show your support!

Some rare, storm-brought surfable waves: Tasman Bay

clouds and emerging blue sky reflected in estuary water - landscape view bisected by Boulder Bank spit which looks like a thin dark line

clouds and emerging blue sky reflected in estuary water. Left side shows Nelson hillside and right side of landscape view is bisected by Boulder Bank spit which looks like a thin dark line

Post-storm glassy estuary reflections.

Puppy on lead, stretch of shoreline, blue sky with white clouds.

Low tide at a stretch of beach, blue sky, happy puppy sprinting in the distance

dog beach days

NASA launches giant balloon from Wānaka Airport The balloon was the size of a rugby stadium.

NASA launches giant balloon from Wānaka Airport

Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.

landscape shot along a cobble beach, hills on horizon with pinky yellow and blue sky. A small bright full looking moon rises just above the hills

Teenager in t-shirt and shorts with an orangey brown dog standing on smooth cobbles. Small rounded boulders and cobbles shoreline facing Tasman Sea, sky is muted sunset colours (north facing)

landscape shot along a cobble beach, hills on horizon with pinky yellow and blue sky. A brown dog and teenager running in the middle distance

Sunset/Moonrise at Boulder Bank in Nelson, New Zealand.
13km naturally formed spit of cobbles.

US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops,
@fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Brown ridgeback puppy with floppy ears and long tail running along a dirt path. Green pine trees in the background, scrub vegetation in foreground

Large brown puppy curled up on dog bed, asleep with a fluffy cream-colored blanket and some chew toys

Latest Puppy Gossip:

Likes: dried goat trachea, forestry trails and his new blanket from thebrooklyn.co.nz

Dislikes: slightest rain ☔️🌧️

BraverMountain Mushing and the Amazing Ugly Dogs.'s Wedding Registry on Zola BraverMountain Mushing is having a wonderful 2025 mushing season and we would like to continue into spring with a visit to Kotzebue, AK (above the Arctic Circle!) for the Kobuk 440, a wonderful race (...

Q made a wedding registry for his Kobuk, if you care to sponsor dog jackets, etc! Or just read through for a glimpse into equipment. (I'm with his family and showed them this and his cousin pulled me aside, concerned, and said "Does Q know what watersports means?")

www.zola.com/registry/bra...

Maybe try a holiday house swap with Kate Winslet?

A 5mo old Rhodesian ridgeback puppy at a cobble/boulder sea edge

An orangey brown ridgeback puppy at a calm sandy beach

We have a 5mo pup and now ALL my algorithms line up to puppy training vids ;)

*note regarding accuracy: you can set a collection app to pull the positioning details when you collect your point, and/or you can set collection app to give a warning if satellites are sparse and accuracy is outside of the 1.5-x limit you’ve set

Yep, they’ve got a reliable reputation. I used the older version of this device and also an SXblue one that had a cool bit dorky ball cap so you could wear the device hands-free ;)

They start at about 1.5m but you can upgrade to ~23cm