Kate Evans

Aw love this! I'm actually working on a story about lonely plants right now! And no, no mate for Ned as yet!

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This
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piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

How to have a ‘mature conversation’ about asset sales Christopher Luxon wants 'a more mature conversation' about selling public assets. Big daddy Spinoff is here to explain the birds and the bees of privatisation.

Absolute gold thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-...

The track makers Moa once walked all over Aotearoa, pressing heavy feet into mud and sand. Eons later, finding just one of these footprints intact is a small miracle—a fossil that speaks to a movement, a moment in tim...

Really nice piece by @kategevans.bsky.social on moa footprint discoveries and preservation. www.nzgeo.com/mailster/547...

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#scicomm 🧪🐟🌳🦑 (please share!)

It's that time of year again. If you value the work we do @nzgeo.bsky.social, please renew your subscription! It's really very affordable, and we need you to keep the mag alive and thriving (and me in a job.) I promise we'll make it worth your while. www.nzgeo.com/newsletter/w...

Extremely accurate map of NZ’s seasons

We live in an age of extinction 😭😭😭

I can only think of the Spanish, malabares! I can ask my circus friend tomorrow though

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

Brilliant! Origami and evolution 😍
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The silent c’s of the sea world, cnidarians and ctenophores, have DNA architecture that is more similar to humans than their single-celled ancestors. www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...

Kudos to photographer Ashlee Rezin

Really should ban myself from “just having a browse” in a book shop

Yuss I definitely do! Hope you enjoy it!

Yes! We’ve met a few times and she’s a legend!

Aw hi lorcan! Come on, not great… but keen!

It was an absolute DELIGHT to speak to the Gastropod team all about Feijoas and my Feijoa book — which came out in the US this week — and in an episode also featuring durian, a fruit which inspires similar levels of obsession and belonging! #gastropod #feijoa #durian

Add me please Leah!

Annals of the Anus Have you ever thought about the backstory of your backdoor? I hadn’t, until news of a study on the evolution of the anus coincided with my own sexual evolution.

The story of how the anus evolved is *wild* Here’s my latest sexstack essay — featuring the hilarious diversity of animal butts, an excessive number of puns, and for subscribers, a personal story of my own recent discoveries. #scicomm 🐟🪼🦖🦓

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Que lindo! Gracias!

You’re as Good as Your Best Byline - Nieman Reports A love letter to the journalists who toil

Found this piece very reassuring! Thoughts? niemanreports.org/youre-as-goo...

The book Feijoa A Story of Obsession & Belonging by Kate Evans. On retail book store shelf called Whitcoulls. It is in the Whitcoulls Top 100 Books section of the shop. It's number 70. The cover has pictures of feigoa flowers, foliage and half cut open fruit.

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Spotted in the wild at Whitcoulls Silverdale today
Whitcoulls Top 100 section

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Aw yuss!

…and said, eyes shining, ‘I asked my crush out on a date, and she said yes!’ We high fived, I wished him well, and he skipped off down the street 😍❤️😍 #tinylovestory

#storytime I was walking in Christchurch on the way to a Word writer’s festival event at the art gallery this afternoon. A young man coming towards me on the footpath gave a barely suppressed giggle of glee and leapt with joy, his heels clicking together. You seem happy, I observed. He turned..(1/2)

The seeds of the valuable African ebony tree (Diospyros crassiflora, left) rely on African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis, right) for more than dispersal. (Left) Vincent Deblauwe/IITA, CBI, UCLA; (Right) Richard Rosomoff

Ebony and ivory really are a perfect harmony—African forest elephants consume the tree's fruit, and in return, their fecal matter disperses and helps protect seedlings. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

‘Observologists’ search New Zealand to give rare snail a chance at love | CNN ‘Observologists’ search New Zealand to give rare snail a chance at love

Ned is now going seriously viral. CNN came calling. The Guardian and BBC too. Get out in those gardens at night, Kiwis! Let’s find Ned a lover! (Please note Ned is a they; all snails are hermaphrodites) edition.cnn.com/2025/08/28/w...

Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’ | George Monbiot A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now.
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Let's find a mate for Ned One in 40,000 snails have the spiral on the left side of the shell, and they can only mate with other lefties. Can you help Ned find true love?

A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...