Victoria Leachman

New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
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YouTube video by Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG Featured plenary talks at SPNHC-TDWG 2024

Finally got around to watching this. Gosh @siobhanleachman.bsky.social does good work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm9x...

Wellington editors – a reminder that you have a meetup this weekend!

Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.

📅 Saturday 15 March, 10am – 12pm
📍 Programme Rooms, National Library
🔗 w.wiki/DQCQ

This tension btw older open access initiatives and the rapacious scale of GenAI harvesting bots is not resolved by blocking good actors!

Doing work on my "other job" as President for @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social reporting, special votes, preparing for the AGM and best of all connecting with others doing strategy. There are times where I want to do this full time. I love making connections and leveraging for more impact.

Future stars secured as Australia U18s heroes sign with Queensland Reds The Queensland Reds and Rugby Australia have locked two of the best teenage talent in the world after signing forwards Kingsley Uys and Will Ross.

Super proud of my nephew Kingsley. What a star!

@siobhanleachman.bsky.social Thought you might like to know that a diary by George Hudson has been digitised. collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1918906

So pleased that the Information Management & Archives Team at Te Papa have reached this stage in getting approval for our draft Disposal Authority with Archives NZ. This has been such a journey. www.archives.govt.nz/manage-infor...

Government includes copyright reform in its Fall Economic Statement. Says it will amend the Copyright Act to include a new resale right for visual artists, establishing an extra royalty where their works are resold.
budget.canada.ca/update-misea...

Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 Popeye and Tintin are among the iconic works to enter the public domain in the US from next year.

Perpetually annoyed by Australian articles claiming things will become public domain based on US copyright terms. Please could you interview an Australian lawyer? Sigh www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

How do you catalogue a 150-year-old library? | Te Papa’s Blog Te Aka Matua Research Library at Te Papa currently has a collection of over 60,000 books and supports the work of Te Papa kaimahi with its wide-ranging books and resources about Aotearoa New Zealan…

When I talk about my museum work and digitisation, it's not just imaging collection items. It's also this blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/12/16/h...

Overall covid levels are below last year's average

New Zealand Ministry of Health covid data GitHub archive just updated (it has been about 3 weeks since the last update.

Reminder: Tomorrow, Sunday the 8th of December at 12 noon, the Aotearoa New Zealand Wiki meet up is happening virtually. The agenda and the Jitsi link can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Any researchers out there with opinions about the cuts to Marsden funding? Contact Deborah - she want to hear from you. And can actually help.

#nzpol

Over 250 Deans of Humanities (that’s subjects like History, Philosophy & languages like Te Reo & Chinese) & social sciences (subjects like economics /political science) strongly condemn the govt’s effective end to all humanities & social science research funding in NZ dassh.edu.au/deans-condem...

@angelo-af.bsky.social apropos of above, maybe you can suggest to UoC that including staff in the university calendar again might be a useful thing for verification of employment? It needs to be easier for people outside UoC to spot the fakes.

Wow! That looks amazing!!!

It's nice to read a level-headed analysis of what the report actually says. The immediate news media response was unedifying.

Govt cuts humanities and social science funding - Expert Reaction Humanities and social science funding has been cut from the Marsden Fund, the main fund for 'blue-skies' research in Aotearoa New Zealand. The areas that have been cut include research in subjects lik...

Some comments from me, @nicgaston.bsky.social, @troybaisden.bsky.social & @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social on the gutting of funding for humanities and social sciences in Aotearoa New Zealand… www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/04/g...

Squished (sixteenth-century?) spider in a vast 11-volume edition of the works of St Augustine (Basel, 1506) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (Peterborough.A.6.1-6). #spider #marginalia #saints #christianity #rarebooks #augustine #collecting #basel

What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...

(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)

The only reason Nigel Farage has not yet jumped on the Elgin Marbles bandwagon is that he can’t quite bring himself to object to sending something foreign back where it came from.

I've said before that govts have let both physical and intellectual infrastructure in this country run down over years and we're going to wear the cost of that over the coming generation.

Today's Marsden decision is as big a vandalism of public capacitor in NZ as the cook strait ferry cancellation.

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

Courtesy of Meaghan Sorce at the @harvard.bsky.social museum of natural history. 😉

Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 in Christchurch - Welcome to Ōtautahi, the Heart of the Mainland Annual Conference for New Zealand editors of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons

WikiCon 2025 – the annual gathering for editors of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource projects, is taking place in Ōtautahi Christchurch from Friday 16 – Sunday 18 May 2025.

More info & tickets ⬇️ events.humanitix.com/2025-wikicon...