First Published September, 2016, in VetScript. This is an extract from my original piece by the same name, which can be viewed here. It’s a familiar scene. We sit in restless quiet in a too-hot room, pens shuffling against refill pads, laptop keyboards clicking, trying to keep our notes coherent, notes that all too soon... Continue Reading →

First Published 3 May, 2019, for Sciblogs. View the original post here. Six of New Zealand’s ‘space pioneers’ have been commemorated in a new series of stamps launched by New Zealand Post. Designed by Hannah Fortune, and sprinkled with a layer of real meteorite dust, the stamps feature homegrown talent including Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Charles... Continue Reading →

First Published 4 April, 2019, for Sciblogs. View the original post here. Focusing conservation efforts on 169 islands, including five in New Zealand, could help to combat the global extinction crisis. Humboldt Penguin, Choros Island, Chile. Maria Jose Vilches, supplied This is according to the findings of a collaborative study between forty institutions, including universities... Continue Reading →

First Published 3 September 2019, for MyView. View the original post here. Starting university can be hard. Transferring to a new university as a postgraduate student has its challenges too, as Master’s student Erin Maessen found out when she moved to Wellington last year to begin her studies again. For Erin, the walk up the... Continue Reading →

First Published 7 June 2019, for MyView. View the original post here. Erin Maessen spent the summer researching attitudes to native eels as part of the Masters of Science in Society programme. Now she shares some of the highs and lows of the journey. An eel from the Mount Victoria adventure playground I didn’t intend... Continue Reading →