End of a long story which my phd covers: stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360525…. Good to see that the judge didn’t award reparations. Shame that they were convicted.

Seen an academic praise the idea that all research should be justified to the public. They seemingly have no notion that research impact and "public value" is one of the things used to justify firing staff and closing departments. It's the government who set those standards!

Government limiting universities free speech by dictating what Universities can and can’t talk about.

How can literature inform our understanding of racism, white supremacy, and extremism in Aotearoa? We explore this and more with award-winning author Dr. Tina Makereti on our latest episode of Unsettling Extremism. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. hwt.ac.nz/answering-big-…

The podcast No Such Thing As A Fish had a discussion about one of the topics of my research - nonviolent protest and the '3.5% rule'. Gutted that they didn't refer to my 2020 paper on the topic (interfacejournal.net/wp-content/upl…). Could have done with a few hundred thousand referrals.

Slowly disengaging myself from X - no longer posting, unfollowing some people. You can find me at bsky.app/profile/kylerm….

I wrote a thing about the FSU's attempt to take over InternetNZ: thespinoff.co.nz/internet/04-03…