Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment Spoiler alert...NO! #Grants #academia

Mokopuna decision-making might just be the concept of the year…..

To this point, if NZ truly wants to be independent in its foreign policy, then (re)embracing a te ao Maori perspectives would be a useful path. Here is my take on that in Newsroom: newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/22/how…

Legal enablers for ecosystem-based management - Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz/tools-and-reso…

“It will not be possible for Western-trained scientists to develop truly reciprocal relations if they refuse to give up their sense of universal epistemic authority & their perceived entitlement to access Indigenous knowledges and occupy #Indigenous lands” facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/fa…

New article out with Pia Weber and Barbara Willaarts on legal pathways to protecting rivers, especially free flowing rivers, in Chile in the wake of the failed constitutional reforms linkedin.com/posts/elizabet…

For the future of global water systems we need to pay careful attention to power dynamics and scale mismatches | Global Water Forum ⁦@EzzyOD⁩ ⁦@cristyclark⁩ ⁦Rosa Cuppari⁩ ⁦Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD⁩ ⁦rational_geographic⁩ globalwaterforum.org/2024/07/11/for…

“… - and I want to be very clear - they do not speak for all non-Māori in Aotearoa.” Correct. Seymour is grossly mistaken if he thinks he speaks for all non-Māori, as he will learn 'Enough is enough' - Chris Hipkins blasts government over Māori policies rnz.co.nz/news/political…

And we have lift off! Blue Carbon Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: Law, Climate, Resilience Launches today. Royal Society Te Apārangi @cristyclark Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD Julia Dehm @EzzyOD

Kia ora Aussies If someone puts Tēna koe before your name in a letter it means Dear Aotearoa New Zealand means New Zealand Signing off with Nāku noa nā means Yours sincerely. Congratulations! You now know more than ⁦Paul Goldsmith⁩ 1news.co.nz/2024/08/06/min…

Scale‐sensitive marine law and policy design: Towards ecosystem‐based management across spatial and temporal scales - Macpherson - 2024 - WIREs Energy and Environment - Wiley Online Library wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we…

Just “wow”. No other words. Ok quite a few. Political interference in legal process… stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360464…

📢Axel Borchgrevink and I have edited a special issue: "Riverine Rights", that reflects broadly on the rights of rivers, community and nature. I've an article, too in this series. We are thankful to "Riverine Rights" project funded by Norges forskningsråd and generous contributors🧵

This recommendation -- in the Waitangi Tribunal's ngā Mātāpono/the Principles (part II) report -- is important and should be heeded by the Crown and the House. forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documen…

Academics will organise a workshop hosted in the global north, attended by the global north, and citing the global north, and call it "connecting with the global south"

Out with the black and in with the blue bsky.app/profile/prof-m…

Researchers pen scathing open letter to Minister over Marsden Fund changes | RNZ News rnz.co.nz/news/national/…