John Pickering

Pretty sure that's Portugal not the USA @nzherald.bsky.social
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#MediaFails #NZ

Is it just me or do all #AI generated non-realistic images for #academia look very similar? It's boring already and I pay less attention. Bring back amateur scribbles and artists inspiration.

:( I was playing that song just the other day... simple, pointed, powerful

Kaupapa Māori AI Framework World's first Indigenous Peoples AI Agent Framework for understanding and describing the nature of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent.

Some great framing of #AI and us. Dr Kairatiana Taiuru is a deep thinker & clear communicator. This is from a Māori perspective. Yet, has broader applicability & is worth a 5min read. www.taiuru.co.nz/kaupapa-maor...

Sunrise, FRIDAY, 6 March, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

(My) footprints are in the sand till a wave washes them away. That could be a metaphor for something or just…incoming tide.

Kia ora e te whānau

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon Last year, an approximately 60 metre near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Ear...

😥that asteroid will miss the 🌔
But the NASA DART mission proved we can nudge it back on 🎯
All we need now is a billionaire with a god complex looking for publicity - there's a few of them around. #StillHopeful #Astronomy

www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

The good news is that the DART mission showed us we can knock it back on course. Now we just need a billionaire after some publicity.

A summary of the new Australian clinical guideline for diagnosing and managing acute coronary syndromes 2025 has been published in the Medical Journal of Australia

Read more: buff.ly/8CIK2F8

In case you missed it last night or don't live in the best country.
#Astronomy from New Zealand #NZ

#AcademicSpam battle: Hints to include in your autodelete list:

1. subject contains an icon
2. Content starts with "Hi" or "Dear" and is addressed to your full name (incl middle initial) as it appears in publications
3. subject contains your name (sometimes backwards)

Be careful out there.

Heart Foundation NZ: Big Heart Appeal Big Heart Appeal [Working] : Make a donation today to support Big Heart Appeal [Working]

Living in #NZ? Don't forget to donate to the NZ Heart Foundation national appeal. bigheartappeal.org.nz. NZHF is key to cardiac research. I'll be out shaking a tin in Christchurch on the corner of Cashel & Oxford tomorrow avo - see you there. #Heart

Government deciding whether US should get access to New Zealanders' biometric data Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.

Not sure what there is to consider #NZ Government, the answer is No! I don’t consent & I don’t trust my data would be used or stored well by the US government.
#politics www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Highlights from Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura - 2026 nest - YouTube Highlights from Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura - 2026 nest. Learn more and donate to Kākāpō Recovery: www.doc.govt.nz/kakapocam

Did you know you can see highlights from our #kakapo nestcam: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...? In the last 24 hours we've seen a chick hatch and a rare short-tailed bat flying - and walking - around the nest. Exciting to see things never seen before! #conservation #kakapo2026

To justify the innovation to track data from source these astronomers use the experience of the amyloid-β Alzeihmers paper that was retracted from Nature in 2024, 18 years after publication, and not before the damage had been done. Maybe us medical researchers should learn from the astronomers?

I'll have a beer waiting

Welcome to the New Zealand hemisphere... that water you are looking at ... that's our front yard.

Hunting comets with @unistellar.bsky.social @setiinstitute.bsky.social citizen science. This little one (2-10 km diameter) won’t be around again for ~200,000 years. #astronomy

Climate change is here. NZ isn't ready Analysis: A serious approach to climate adaptation requires reckoning with the grim reality the future holds: more storms, more floods, more heat.

NZ must reckon with the grim reality of our future: more storms, floods and heat.

This is a confronting situation. And yet, if we are to shield our communities, our infrastructure and our economy from the worst excesses of climate change, it is one we must confront.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/18/c...

Jupiter live now. The Great Red Spot and the moon, Io. Look up. #Astronomy

Antarctic expedition collects evidence that ice sheet melted during previous warm period | Flipboard rnz.co.nz - An Antarctic sediment sample dating back millions of years shows evidence that a major ice sheet partially or totally collapsed during a previous …

Pretty cool (ahem) New Zealand science. Important for us all too.
#Antarctica #NZ flip.it/l8QOCx

Does that mean we will be able to take someone to court when they say "can" when they mean "may?" Or, worse, when they say they are "moving forward" and "socialising" a message. #GiveTheBillTeeth

As a reviewer I am often telling people that their colours are unlikely to be colour blind friendly ... so please take notice of this.
#dataviz

Familiar faces in Orion last night. #astronomy #astrophotography

Photo of a clay cuneiform tablet with a crack down the centre shown from front and sides

Drawing of a cuneiform tablet that is arranged in a table.

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name.

The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.

It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

I'm a skeptic when it comes to #AI as the solution to everything, & have little trust in the veracity of answers given by chat bots - but damn it can do pretty pictures from text. This is NotebookLM's infographic made from just the abstract of my thousand year old PhD thesis
#laser #portwinestain

Nephronauts! You need a couple of kidney shaped galaxies to go visit.

Tamar, be a little careful at interpreting the point estimates on their own. The confidence intervals for quartile 2 are large such that I have little confidence there is any effect. The differences between q3 & q4 are unlikely to be real.

Beats zoom backgrounds!

Yeee haaaaa.... my code won't know itself anymore. So much more tidy.

The dream dplyr update for my data cleaning pipelines 😍

filter_out() is going to be SO nice, no longer will I need to wrangle with annoying is.na() conditions

replace_values() and recode_values() also going to be a dream too, go read the post!

#rstats