Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
December 1, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Curiosity Rover spotted on the surface of Mars by the orbiting MRO spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Curiosity Rover spotted on the surface of Mars by the orbiting MRO spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Workers across the university at UoA are on strike today.
March 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Workers across the university at UoA are on strike today.
TL:DR Siouxsie gets 20k and the Judge tells UoA they fucked up on almost every point
July 8, 2024 at 4:59 AM
TL:DR Siouxsie gets 20k and the Judge tells UoA they fucked up on almost every point
I don't know but maybe if UoA were less absolute dicks to their staff they could have avoided having to pay 200k
June 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I don't know but maybe if UoA were less absolute dicks to their staff they could have avoided having to pay 200k
Jupiter's moon Io as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
August 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Jupiter's moon Io as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Image credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
2/ Stop calling the USA "America." Mexico, Greenland and Canada are also in the Americas. We should all get together and call ourselves the "the United Opposition of America, "UOA! UOA! UOA!
February 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
2/ Stop calling the USA "America." Mexico, Greenland and Canada are also in the Americas. We should all get together and call ourselves the "the United Opposition of America, "UOA! UOA! UOA!
UoA paid $1.5 million to fight their own staff instead of fufilling their obiligations to their own staff. Make it make sense 🤯🤯🤯
June 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
UoA paid $1.5 million to fight their own staff instead of fufilling their obiligations to their own staff. Make it make sense 🤯🤯🤯
On this day, which would have been Don Dunstan's 100th birthday, I remembered the time in 2013 when I found his chair in a storeroom in the Napier Building at UoA. How did I know it was his chair? There was a sign "Don Dunstan's chair. Do not sit." (which I removed to take this pic).
September 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM
On this day, which would have been Don Dunstan's 100th birthday, I remembered the time in 2013 when I found his chair in a storeroom in the Napier Building at UoA. How did I know it was his chair? There was a sign "Don Dunstan's chair. Do not sit." (which I removed to take this pic).
The hearing for Wiles v UoA finishes today. I was in court for about half of it. The UoA was unable to produce written evidence to back up most of its claims re: health & safety. Emails from staff raising concerns went unanswered. Straightforward mitigations inexplicably took years to put in place.
November 27, 2023 at 6:24 PM
The hearing for Wiles v UoA finishes today. I was in court for about half of it. The UoA was unable to produce written evidence to back up most of its claims re: health & safety. Emails from staff raising concerns went unanswered. Straightforward mitigations inexplicably took years to put in place.
eliminating the marsden to create an underfunded replacement ('TRF') led the govt to cap the # of apps from each uni
obvious outcome: junior PIs are getting triaged more than senior PIs, so their science isn't even considered. heard today from a junior prof at UoA who didn't make the cut
#nzpol
obvious outcome: junior PIs are getting triaged more than senior PIs, so their science isn't even considered. heard today from a junior prof at UoA who didn't make the cut
#nzpol
#marsdenshmarsden I guess 🪦
Marsden Fund cut 29% as NZ kills blue-sky research funding
New Zealand's flagship discovery research fund is running its final round before being absorbed into a government-directed system. The 29% funding cut lands on a country that already spends half the O...
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September 24, 2026 at 5:36 AM
eliminating the marsden to create an underfunded replacement ('TRF') led the govt to cap the # of apps from each uni
obvious outcome: junior PIs are getting triaged more than senior PIs, so their science isn't even considered. heard today from a junior prof at UoA who didn't make the cut
#nzpol
obvious outcome: junior PIs are getting triaged more than senior PIs, so their science isn't even considered. heard today from a junior prof at UoA who didn't make the cut
#nzpol
There is a good article about Wiles v the UoA in this month’s North & South by Sasha Borissenko. This passage in particular highlights the “aggressive” (and I’m quoting Judge Holden here) approach of the UoA, following Siouxsie’s personal grievance. 1/N
December 18, 2023 at 3:02 AM
There is a good article about Wiles v the UoA in this month’s North & South by Sasha Borissenko. This passage in particular highlights the “aggressive” (and I’m quoting Judge Holden here) approach of the UoA, following Siouxsie’s personal grievance. 1/N
I still find it obscene that the UoA wasted 1.2M+ on getting to this point. With no consequences for those who made that call?
July 9, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I still find it obscene that the UoA wasted 1.2M+ on getting to this point. With no consequences for those who made that call?
In Court yesterday, we heard that the UoA had sent Siouxsie a letter in 2022 criticising tweets she sent from as far back as 2020. UoA claims the letter was not “disciplinary” & not intended to “threaten” her, but in it the UoA asserts that she had breached the Code of Conduct and cautions her.
November 21, 2023 at 7:32 PM
In Court yesterday, we heard that the UoA had sent Siouxsie a letter in 2022 criticising tweets she sent from as far back as 2020. UoA claims the letter was not “disciplinary” & not intended to “threaten” her, but in it the UoA asserts that she had breached the Code of Conduct and cautions her.
Interesting that UoA has done a u-turn on their *previously* compulsory Treaty of Waitangi course. Folding under the pressure of the white/right wing
September 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Interesting that UoA has done a u-turn on their *previously* compulsory Treaty of Waitangi course. Folding under the pressure of the white/right wing
now: United Oligarchs of America (UOA)
January 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
now: United Oligarchs of America (UOA)
Little wonder there is a substantial gender pay gap at UoA: when Siouxsie Wiles won NZer of the Year her management decided she had just ‘met expectations’.
🇳🇿 Auckland University Gender Pay Gap Report for 2023
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Auckland University News: University releases 2023 gender pay gap report
Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater said that the University’s results were disappointing, with an overall GPG of 10.8 percent, against a national average of 8.6 percent. This means that acros...
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December 6, 2023 at 9:28 PM
Little wonder there is a substantial gender pay gap at UoA: when Siouxsie Wiles won NZer of the Year her management decided she had just ‘met expectations’.
lol the uoa support robot called me "sof"
December 12, 2024 at 3:38 AM
lol the uoa support robot called me "sof"
Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
#THEAwards Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences goes to the University of Leicester for an interdisciplinary study, led by Dr Sarah Inskip, which uncovered the long-term health impacts of tobacco use in historical populations. Leicester’s second win tonight! 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
Evergreen advice. Tonight's playtest brought to you using surface imagery of Europa from the Galileo flybys, courtesy of NASA/JPL/UoA. Genuinely cannot recommend this enough.
Far Field hot tip: use NASA satellite imagery as a backdrop for your maps. Immersive, cool, public domain, and you learn a lot when hunting for an appropriate location
June 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Evergreen advice. Tonight's playtest brought to you using surface imagery of Europa from the Galileo flybys, courtesy of NASA/JPL/UoA. Genuinely cannot recommend this enough.
"All medical students, regardless of admission pathway, must meet the same academic, clinical &professional standards before they graduate," Prof Bagg
"Every student selected to study medicine at UoA has earned their place, is expected to demonstrate competence, professionalism, commitment."
"Every student selected to study medicine at UoA has earned their place, is expected to demonstrate competence, professionalism, commitment."
September 24, 2026 at 5:50 AM
"All medical students, regardless of admission pathway, must meet the same academic, clinical &professional standards before they graduate," Prof Bagg
"Every student selected to study medicine at UoA has earned their place, is expected to demonstrate competence, professionalism, commitment."
"Every student selected to study medicine at UoA has earned their place, is expected to demonstrate competence, professionalism, commitment."
targeting academics like this, alongside other attacks on artists et al while *continuously* crying about "free speech", is fascist shit
June 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
targeting academics like this, alongside other attacks on artists et al while *continuously* crying about "free speech", is fascist shit
So, bit of promotion news ...
As of March 3rd, I will be Director of the Master of Public Policy Programme here at UoA. NGL, major imposter syndrome vibes, lol :)
(before you ask, no this doesn't come with a pay increase, it's considered part of the 'service' component of my role as a lecturer)
As of March 3rd, I will be Director of the Master of Public Policy Programme here at UoA. NGL, major imposter syndrome vibes, lol :)
(before you ask, no this doesn't come with a pay increase, it's considered part of the 'service' component of my role as a lecturer)
February 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So, bit of promotion news ...
As of March 3rd, I will be Director of the Master of Public Policy Programme here at UoA. NGL, major imposter syndrome vibes, lol :)
(before you ask, no this doesn't come with a pay increase, it's considered part of the 'service' component of my role as a lecturer)
As of March 3rd, I will be Director of the Master of Public Policy Programme here at UoA. NGL, major imposter syndrome vibes, lol :)
(before you ask, no this doesn't come with a pay increase, it's considered part of the 'service' component of my role as a lecturer)