I am loving this! In te reo, manu includes the pekapeka (as well as some flying insects I believe), so this is awesome 💚 great opportunity to think about biological classification differently!

For rebuttals against “waiting for a different vaccine” 🙄

Liam was one of our founding students at HPSS. He was one of the most genuinely kind & compassionate kids I’ve ever met, the same for his step/siblings. It’s awful his tragic death is being used this way - but why am I not surprised? Antivax rats clinging to a sinking ship of 13%

When the drive for every eligible Kiwi to get vaccinated is described as “divisive” it makes me wonder: have we ever, in our history, been more united in our actions? 88% now. Chasing 90+. This is what a united Aotearoa looks like and I ❤️ it.

Love this! As soon as I realised our bats are included in the term manu, this seemed like the best vote! 💚

David Farrier deserves NZer of the year for digging into this crap! And omg the replies from City Impact! 😳

I reckon Tim Minchin should come up with an additional verse for the Covid antivaxxers! One of the last big concerts I went to pre-Covid actually! Feels like an age ago, 2019! youtu.be/RFO6ZhUW38w

Am spending far too much time trying to correct FB antivaxxers about high level Biology concepts when I should be marking exams! 🙄😬 But, if anyone wants to know about N1-methylpsuedouridine (the ‘synthetic’ nucleotide in the mRNA Pfizer vax), then ask away! 😂

I just saw someone referring to Brian Tamaki as "Pastor of Muppets" and the teenage Metallica fan in me is loving it.

Kids are critical parts of Aotearoa's pandemic response but are routinely excluded from our public discussions (and our "90%" vaccination targets!) Jin Russell and I are trying to change that, so we made this update just for kids thanks to The Spinoff thespinoff.co.nz/science/19-11-…

The workers stood down for failing to comply with the government's vaccine mandate received a big media platform this week. The people they may have put at risk were all-but invisible in the coverage rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

The best entertainment in at least a few weeks - read the other quote tweets for this! As for my take, I’ll just leave this here…

Just declaring that since receiving my first ‘cease and desist’ letter (aka pseudolegal babble) from some freedom coalition group, that I have in fact ceased all (not just some) genocide and crimes against humanity. Still teaching about vaccines and conspiracy theories though!

Very interesting data.

#horizonslive what is your opinion on ‘Oumuamua and Avi Loeb?