Cate Macinnis-Ng

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#IPBES12 is underway with opening statements. Colombia for GRULAC begins with a tribute to a ‘founding member’ who has left—the US—and hopes they will be back soon. Got a little choked up at that - ❤️ - I too hope the US will be back soon.

Good point that the details of the policy might have changed but it's never been ok to do something like this without HoD approval and funds never go to personal bank account when there's an expectation teaching will be relieved.

My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass.

It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.

I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.

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It's hard and it's not headline-grabbing, but working out 'how do we reduce the opportunities for predators not despite of Naive Man (tm) but because of him' is required. How do we steer clear of the next Wallace without requiring a target to be brave enough to call him out

From a systems point of view, "naivete" is where the analysis work begins, not ends. "He didn't know" covers arses. It does not make targets safe. Instead, it allows everybody - everybody - to carry on like we've always done (See also: people enabling James Wallace). No difficult convos.

His actions were inconsistent with university policy. Ridiculous idiot seems fair to me. bsky.app/profile/lora...

In short, he needed approval from his Head of Department and any payment to cover his time and free him up from teaching needs to be negotiated with the HoD. Any contract would go through the university. Never a personal bank account. This is all super shady at best.

"17. An appropriate transfer of funds to the University may be required to cover the service provided."

"12. The staff member must seek the prior written approval of the academic head for all professional or academic related outside activities, including approval for the nature of the outside activities to be undertaken and the time to be spent on them."

E.g. "9. Where the time taken on outside activities is such that the staff member is not able to meet their University duties, the staff member must either negotiate a fractional appointment with the University, or cease some of their outside activities."

The University of Auckland has a policy on outside activities. Any staff member emailing their personal bank account number to a potential benefactor is inconsistent with the policy (whether the benefactor is a convicted felon or not)
www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/....

The spin on Brian Boyd seems to be "he's naive ergo nothing to see here". From an individual pt of view? Maybe. (Although naivete about a "bevy of beauties" almost "stamped by a doll-making machine" ... This man should not be allowed anywhere near Lolita analysis). But from a systems pt of view?

Urgh! Sorry to hear that Rob. If I'd been chairing, I would have pounced on that. I missed a few during my time due to schedule clashes so it must of one of the ones was away for because I would have remembered that. So problematic!

I've been encouraged not to talk about this stuff because it damages the reputation of RSNZ but if we don't talk about it, the culture will never change.

Shining a light on it is not the problem - the bad behaviour is.

Having spend 5 years mixing with these dudes as a member of the RSNZ Council, he's not an anomaly amongst the Fellows. At RSNZ functions, I was regularly looked and down by these dudes and asked what I was doing there (as if I couldn't belong).

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“Shocked to discover his name there” - when another article said he’d been anticipating it…could we have some consistency at least?

Has he broken the RSNZ code of conduct? Probably not (the bar is high). Has he done himself, his university and RSNZ proud? Absolutely not.

It's not enough to just scrape through. These dudes need to do better. So. much. better.

This guy is a Fellow of RSNZ and received their prestigious Rutherford Medal in 2020 (worth $100K) for "preeminent research, scholarship or innovation".

This is what "merit-based" appointments serve up. Absolutely shameful. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a bad interview.

Cover of Te reo o te repo: The voice of the wetlands. The Te Reo o Te Repo – the Voice of the Wetland handbook series was developed to give voice to the wetlands through the voices of our people.Te Reo o Te Repo is about sharing stories with each other and in doing so, give our wetlands a voice.

Cover of Te Reo o Te Repo – Kei konei tonu au: The Voice of the Wetland – I am still here. Volume 2 of the wetland handbook series.

#WorldWetlandsDay AoNZ lost >90% of its original repo (wetlands), raising ongoing concerns about the health and future of these culturally significant ecosystems. This series responds to specific needs identified by Māori & gives voice to wetlands through the voices of our people.
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Absolutely this 👇
Society trains women to think "it's not that bad" or even think it's our own fault. We've all got a story and it's worse for women who are not white heterosexual cis women.

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UoA likes to think it's part of the Go8 but does not pay the salaries to match.

E.g. If a guest lecturer has specialist expertise, they should be paid $AU350 (~$NZ400) for a 1 h lecture (including 3 h prep time).
Demonstrators are paid over $AU50 per hour (without PhD)! I don't want to mention the UoA rate. It's shameful.

Casual staff | Human Resources - UNSW Sydney

Because UoA has no guidelines on payment rates for guest lectures, I was looking for reasonable information online and found this UNSW page showing casual academic pay rates.

I'm sure this is news to nobody but casual staff are MASSIVELY underpaid in NZ.
www.unsw.edu.au/human-resour...

Fifteen ways Luxon is increasing climate pollution (and the one way he says he is making it better but is not) - Greenpeace Aotearoa After the deadly storms, made worse by climate change, the Luxon Govt has tried to claim that it takes climate change seriously. But here are 15 pollution policies that speak louder than words.

When pressed on anything positive they are doing about climate change, the Luxon Govt points to fast tracking renewable generation. But solar farms are moving from concept to construction in less than 12 months WITHOUT USING THE FAST TRACK. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich