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Cool Kiwi Science done with Marmite!
A University of Otago fish expert, Roe Stuart, has found weird new fish super-deep down in large montane lakes in the South Island, lured in with Marmite.
What a great story. I look forward to finding out more about what these odd fish are.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/marmite-lures-discovery-from-lake-depths
#RNZ #NZ #fish #lake #NaturalHistory #discovery #science #Marmite
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Cool Kiwi Science done with Marmite!
A University of Otago fish expert, Roe Stuart, has found weird new fish super-deep down in large montane lakes in the South Island, lured in with Marmite.
What a great story. I look forward to finding out more about what these odd fish are.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/marmite-lures-discovery-from-lake-depths
#RNZ #NZ #fish #lake #NaturalHistory #discovery #science #Marmite
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Cool Kiwi Science done with Marmite!
A University of Otago fish expert, Roe Stuart, has found weird new fish super-deep down in large montane lakes in the South Island, lured in with Marmite.
What a great story. I look forward to finding out more about what these odd fish are.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/marmite-lures-discovery-from-lake-depths
#RNZ #NZ #fish #lake #NaturalHistory #discovery #science #Marmite
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Cool Kiwi Science done with Marmite!
A University of Otago fish expert, Roe Stuart, has found weird new fish super-deep down in large montane lakes in the South Island, lured in with Marmite.
What a great story. I look forward to finding out more about what these odd fish are.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/marmite-lures-discovery-from-lake-depths
#RNZ #NZ #fish #lake #NaturalHistory #discovery #science #Marmite
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Cool Kiwi Science done with Marmite!
A University of Otago fish expert, Roe Stuart, has found weird new fish super-deep down in large montane lakes in the South Island, lured in with Marmite.
What a great story. I look forward to finding out more about what these odd fish are.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/marmite-lures-discovery-from-lake-depths
#RNZ #NZ #fish #lake #NaturalHistory #discovery #science #Marmite
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"... the Department of Corrections had posted a procurement notice on the website of GETS, the Government Electronic Tenders Service. Which is often scanned by journalists looking for stories about budget government spending."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=1ba02017-cc5b-4b48-b24a-b600be58987c
Not really a secret. So Mitchell not knowing about it is just more evidence that he's not paying attention to what's happening in his portfolio. The kneejerk response is typical though.
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"I think Morning Report will definitely be in his sights, and I think he'll want to see better audience ratings from that program, because he'll be comparing it very much to Hosking, at NewstalkZB."
#MarkJennings, Co-Editor, Newsroom, 2026
This is a classic example of the Business Idiocy described in the article by Ed Zitron I've been quoting this morning.
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I'm still catching up on MediaWatch as I struggle back to some level of functioning. Today's listen is the June 28 edition, which covers lobbyist Matthew Hooten becoming editor of the capital's daily paper, and the departing editor becoming a lobbyist for Business NZ.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=61b69c55-de7f-490c-ac20-ff0a127534a0
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Here's a local example of the "Mirror World" Naomi Klein describes in #Doppelganger;
“I believe that public discourse is damaged when a large platform labels or characterises others negatively, particularly in ways that are untrue, with the purpose or effect of silencing or discrediting them."
#JimGrenon, Canadian billionaire, media mogul, 2026
Quoted by Stuff from Grenon's affidavit;
... and read out on #Mediawatch;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=70b59078-20db-4fad-81cd-a4181277ce49
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Emile Donovan wants to stick with convention and call Pete Hegseth the "Secretary of Defence";
Why? Given the number of wars the US has started or escalated - at least 1 started during this administration too - I think Hegseth's choice of job title is curiously appropriate.
#war #defence #FairnessAndAccuracy #MediaWatch #RNZ #podcasts
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"... younger audiences do just live on these [corporate social media] platforms, and it's very difficult to get them to migrate off."
#AnnaHarcourt, former Head of Content, Re:News, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=df295b91-b6a9-4c18-b2a8-23391eac2b4a
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"There's a whole lot of AI I used that saved a whole lot of grunt work time in the production process and freed me up for creativity. But if you're dealing with an unreliable research tool, and you're checking up on it, you're not saving time, you're adding labour ..."
#DrLewisTennant, School of Communication Studies, AUT, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=7ecf3686-c69e-4786-be7c-1d36940b5fa8
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"Transmission via FM ... is a great way for broadcasters to reach an audience. All you need is 1 antenna to reach thousands of people, if not millions ... in a big city like Auckland, for example, and that costs the listeners absolutely nothing to receive. There's no data plan, there's no time lag.
#LeonWratt, Director of Content, MediaWorks, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=63971767-6465-4128-ae6c-8c1c525ed3ac
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"Removing content standards such as accuracy, balance and fairness, I think invites a significant political risk. You could end up with a rogue media operator with significant market power that chose to ignore them, with impunity. And I think that's politically dangerous, democratically it's indefensible."
#DrPeterThompson, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=bdb1a4a8-a91f-48a0-ac5e-f81f354a7021
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594762/mediawatch-putting-down-the-watchdog
This is a very complicated issue, and I'm still figuring out what I think.
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"There are recurring themes, the most dominant of these is probably reining in the overuse of Parliamentary Urgency, including skipping or curtailing the Select Committees process.
Ideas to curb urgency include automatic expiry dates for laws passed without full process, governments needing to convince the Speaker that urgency is necessary, and select committees undertaking post-hoc reviews of laws that bypass them."
#PhilSmith, 2025
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Maybe we need a long term decision-making process for #infrastructure spending that isn't hostage to the shifting political winds?
What if any capital spending projected to span multiple governments needed a supermajority in Parliament? Or to pass a referendum at an election? Either way, politicians would be forced to take a nonpartisan, long term approach to planning, building and maintaining infrastructure.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=84797662-137a-49de-a8c6-42e15eb957b6
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In my blog
Nice to be back on The Panelhttps://jackyan.com/blog/2023/09/nice-to-be-back-on-the-panel/ #ThePanel #RNZ #radio
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New fleet of trains for Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa
So if these trains use battery power, how about extending the service to Otaki!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/488925/new-fleet-of-trains-for-kapiti-coast-and-wairarapa
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"We can't afford poverty in a world in which there are environmental limits."
#TimJackson, Professor at the University of Surrey, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018875451/prof-tim-jackson-imagining-life-after-capitalism