John Ip

Trump brands major war plan security leak to a journalist a ‘glitch’ The US president stood by his national security adviser saying “Michael Waltz has learnt a lesson, and he’s a good man" - however, inside the White House they're using other not-so-rosy words.

A major security breach is when your national security advisor puts military plans on TikTok.

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Marsden funding application 2026: “I’m a Really Useful Scientist.”

Responding to government funding incentives, and drawing upon the German legal tradition, my new title is: Associate Professor of Purposeful Legal Science with Tangible Economic Benefits.

One lives in hope.

That is, suppose minister (after being successfully JR’ed for failure to take into account MRC in putative Collins v Clark) makes same decision again. Further suppose decision motivated by desire to penalise certain kinds of research, but framed in terms of government priorities for growth etc.

I see your point about mandatory relevant considerations. But I understood Dean to be discussing the substance of what s 267 might protect against in the context of funding withdrawal.

Agree but seems improbable that one could show removal of funding was done on this basis.

Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...

You can stop asking me, and also purposeless scientists, why we don’t have Marsdens.

You say “driveway”; Auckland Transport says “vehicle crossing”.

Let’s face it - the first, third and fourth are basically coterminous with “Academics”.

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Reacting to every Trump cabinet pick.

Aka the Thomas rules.

What does it say when one experiences a twinge of excitement upon the publication of the University Calendar?

More flipping than in an IHOP amongst Trump’s former legal team. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/u...

Don’t recall this ratio of followers/following ever happening at the Bad Place. Snap-shotted for posterity.

This like the first day at a new school. Time for some blue sky thinking.