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Post by muzled on Aug 15, 2024 12:50:25 GMT 12
I'm not sure why anyone would read te Harrold, but it's good to see they're making so much money they can turn down adverts and pander to what some minority political party tells them to do. A jellyfish would have more spine than the people running harrold.
This one is much more important. I didn't realise that Dame Jacinda's PIJF still runs until next year. That starts to make some sense why harrold would no longer run the hobson pledge ad's. Well worth a listen. theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/muriel-newman-on-the-foreshore-seabed-controversy |
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Post by muzled on Aug 19, 2024 10:55:45 GMT 12
I assume these appointments mean nuzlds most useless bureaucrat is getting arsed out of his job? (that would be Paul Hunt, funnily enough it rhymes with - useless ....) www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/08/three_great_appointments_by_goldsmith.htmlJustice Minister Paul Goldsmith is appointing Dr Stephen Rainbow as the new Chief Human Rights Commissioner as part of three major leadership changes.
“Dr Rainbow’s career has encompassed a range of roles including managing government relations for the largest infrastructure project in New Zealand, lecturing at Victoria University, as Director of Urban Strategy at Wellington City Council, and National Manager of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust,” Mr Goldsmith says.
“He served as a Wellington City Councillor from 1989 to 1998, and has been active in promoting LBGT rights and is a former board member of the Burnett Foundation Aotearoa.
This is a great appointment. Stephen actually believes that free speech is an important human right, and he will focus the Commission more on human rights and less on Corbynista politics. Stephen started his politics with the Labour, then the Greens, then Progressive Greens and finally National.
“I am also appointing Dr Gail Pacheco as the next Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner.
“Dr Pacheco is a Professor of Economics and Director of the NZ Policy Research Institute at Auckland University of Technology.
I don’t know who personally, but she is a well respected economics professional who has specialised in areas such as family incomes and gender pay. This strongly suggests she will take an empirical research based approach to her role which is absolutely what she wants. She has won economics prizes and served as President of the NZ Association of Economists. “Finally, Dr Melissa Derby will become the new Race Relations Commissioner.
“Dr Derby is a senior lecturer at Waikato University, teaching early literacy and human development. Her primary area of research is early literacy, and in particular, exploring the role of whānau in fostering foundational preliteracy skills.
“Her work has been recognised through a range of awards, including a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Award.
Melissa is on the board of the Free Speech Union, and is a champion of free speech as a core human right. Despite being the largest civil liberties/human rights groups in NZ, the former Commissioners wouldn’t even meet with the FSU and now one of their board members is a Commissioner. It shows what a difference a change of government can make. |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Aug 19, 2024 11:37:51 GMT 12
but until when the next big shuffle on government benches.
I only hope that things can be screwed down properly.
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Post by muzled on Aug 20, 2024 7:33:17 GMT 12
I got to about line 5. Thought I did quite well tbh... www.auckland.ac.nz/en/engineering/our-research/discover/research-areas-and-facilities/mperc.html
Māori and Pasifika Engineering Research Centre (MPERC)
We promote the integration of Mātauranga Māori and Pasifika knowledge with engineering disciplines to support the indigenous communities in Aotearoa and Pacific Island countries.
There are pressing engineering issues across Aotearoa and the Pacific region, such as the increase in frequency and intensity of natural hazards and the growing impact of climate change. These issues affect the Māori and Pacific communities.
Māori and Pasifika worldviews, engineering knowledge and research methodologies can enhance engineering research and capability that address those issues. We aim to achieve the following Kaupapa:
Recognise and emphasise the importance and place of Mātauranga Māori and Pasifika knowledge systems in contemporary engineering research in Aotearoa and the Pacific region
Develop a transdisciplinary research system that initiates, enhances and maintains the integrity of Māori and Pasifika Knowledge within engineering research
Collaboration between Māori and Pasifika Research – Shared benefits and learning
To provide synergy in engineering research activities in Aotearoa and the Pacific region
Align engineering research activities in the faculty to strengthen the capacity of researchers to undertake research activities relevant to Tangata Whenua and Tangata Pasifika
Grow, maintain and support Māori and Pasifika engineering students and researchers
Seek Research Funding and conduct practical research activities
Our research
The centre will conduct research activities that address engineering issues in our communities. In our first few years we will prioritize water, climate change adaptation, cultural engineering and decision-making, earthquakes, tsunamis, natural disasters, renewable energy and humanitarian engineering.
We recognise the benefits produced through transdisciplinary research and engagement, which is why multiple academic and non-academic stakeholders interact within the centre. Engineers and scientists from different disciplines will work with Māori and Pacific communities to discover innovative ideas that address the needs of society.
How can you work with us?
Connect with us. We connect with communities to determine their research needs through hui and engagement events.
Work with us. We work with government agencies, industry groups and stakeholders on research that benefit Māori and Pacific communities.
Study with us. We are constantly promoting pathways for Māori and Pasifika students into undergraduate and postgraduate study. We want to increase Māori and Pasifika resilience by adequately preparing future generations.
Our people
Director
Dr Kilisimasi Latu
Co-Director
Dr Tumanako Fa’aui
Members
Professor Jason Ingham
Associate Professor Rajnish Sharma
Steve Roberts
Nona Taute
Steven Lopati
Dr Ru Nicholson
Haukapuanui Vercoe
Sonny Vercoe
Our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The centre aims to directly promote and enact article two of Te Tiriti by working with communities to enable rangatiratanga, actively working alongside whānau, hapū and iwi to realise aspirations for their rohe. The centre has Dr Tūmanako Fa'aui as the co-director, a Māori ECR with growing experience in working with Māori communities and has existing relationships with iwi and hapū across Aotearoa through ongoing research work and whakapapa.
The centre will provide a hub for Māori and Pasifika researchers to support and nurture Māori and Pasifika research excellence while assisting non-Māori/Pasifika within the faculty and research centre to meaningfully engage and collaborate with Tangata Whenua, further expanding and maintaining relationships.
A key aspect of the centre is promoting pathways for Māori and Pasifika students into postgraduate study, especially for contexts and opportunities where students and staff can research within the rohe they whakapapa to. External Māori academic advisors have been approached to tautoko and guide the research centre, with further aspirations to expand this to include community members. |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Aug 20, 2024 9:16:16 GMT 12
another trough to suck out off.
What a load of..........
The engineering in the western and eastern civilzation has stood the test of time.
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Post by ComfortZone on Aug 20, 2024 9:46:55 GMT 12
Sure as hell is not the same Faculty I attended 1980-84, what a load of bollocks |
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Post by muzled on Aug 20, 2024 10:02:40 GMT 12
Sure as hell is not the same Faculty I attended 1980-84, what a load of bollocks Excellent interview with Prof John Raine on how damaging it's going to become. theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/john-raine-on-the-future-of-new-zealand-universitiesHere's the article he wrote which the interview was done on. www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/john-raine-ideological-illogic-facts-not-feels-pleaseAs one colleague at the University of Auckland said, “It's quite extraordinary that we are launching a course called "Epistemological justice: indigenising STEM" while at the same time we're being forced to cut science courses.”
As regards STEM subjects, when European colonists arrived in the late 18th and into the 19th century, Māori scientific/technical knowledge was approximately at the stage of other developing societies at or pre-3,000 BC, acknowledging that the spiritual/vitalist/animist parts of matauranga Māori would have been differentiated form those of other societies by the names for, and qualities ascribed to, flora, fauna and inanimate objects, and also to gods such as Ranginui/sky father. This was a society without the wheel, and without mathematics, physics, chemistry or biology, but which had extensive phenomenological understandings of food sources, that fire cooks and can cause burns, that clean water is necessary for life, that some plants have medicinal properties, weather patterns, and navigation by the sun and stars, etc. Such knowledge is of very considerable interest from a historical point of view, clearly desirable to preserve for cultural reasons, but of current relevance to STEM courses only if it complements modern science in a functional way, as unpalatable as that is to those who would include it. |
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Post by Cantab on Aug 20, 2024 11:20:10 GMT 12
It belongs in the anthropology or history department.
This is government spending or Tax that is funding this, how we get an economic return on this is unclear, the potential for economic damage is real.
Maori were barely entering the Stone Age prior to colonisation yet they claim others are culturally appropriation their heritage. Seem to caught on to the concepts of Money and Welfare pretty well.
NZ is incredibly multicultural yet it is only the Pacific Islanders that seem to struggle to develop and grow to their full potential in this society apparently through no fault of their own.
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Post by ComfortZone on Aug 21, 2024 3:24:51 GMT 12
just another example of how once highly regarded institutions have been corrupted www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/08/the_latest_marsden_fund_spending.htmlThe latest Marsden Fund spending The Taxpayers’ Union has highlighted some of the grants from the Royal Society’s Marsden Fund (funded by taxpayers) which is meant to be for the best science and humanities in NZ. They include: -$360,000 to study Big Things such as the Ohakune Carrot, with a focus on “a critical gaze to the privileging of Pākehā-centred narratives in current research on roadside “Big Things” and “Weaving together feminist, participatory, and filmic geographies, this project seeks to re-centre alternative stories currently hidden in the Big Things’ shadows“
-$360,000 to collect disabled indigenous stories about climate change with “establishing how such stories resist ableist narratives and theorise and advance disability-centred ways of creating sustainable and just environmental futures.“
-$861,000 to explore dark nudges and sludge on social media in relation to advertising alcohol.
-$861,000 to help decolonise ocean worlds from imperial borders
-$861,000 to link celestial spheres to end-of-life experiences to “create opportunities to rekindle the ancient connection to the stars and re-imagine the meaning of death, while also advancing understandings about the practical application of Māori astronomy in contemporary times.“
DPF - Funnily enough I have just been looking at what sort of areas the Marsden Fund supported in 2008. They were -Can dietary lignans reduce abnormal cell growth?
-Cloning mutant Mommes: a new strategy to understand and improve epigenetic reprogramming
-Aposematic colouration in plants: ‘honest’ signals of chemical defences & influences on herbivore fitness
-How do tectonic plates lock together?
-New Zealand’s floral origins and the Oligocene land crisis
-Was collapse inevitable on Easter Island (Rapa Nui): reconstructing a civilisation’s failure
-What are the correct boundary conditions for fluid dynamics?
-Are molecular metals like metals or molecules? A case study of superheated gallium clusters
-New Zealand’s megaherbivores: resolving their ecological role and the impact of their extinction on the flora
DPF What would you rather have your taxpayer dollars spent on?
from the comments on the above:
1. In a past life I successfully obtained money from the Marsden Fund. It’s always been a bit of a lottery with a very low strike rate. The University also takes 50+% of the money off the top in overheads. There’s very little oversight of how the money is ultimately spent and not much required in the way of outcome reporting. These days the only way you can even get a full proposal considered is to somehow make what you want to do be about maori in some way.
The Marsden fund is actually a good idea in principle but like all such things it has been corrupted by the usual suspects and is now really just a way to funnel money into Universities and ensure their far left echo chamber survives.
2. As someone with multiple science qualifications, and who works in the medical science sector, I despair for the state of scientific research in general.
We have a major, ongoing replication crisis, where we struggle to repeat (i.e. “prove”) important research.
Negative publication bias is rampant – nobody wants to publish studies that say we did experiment X and found nothing, even though negative results are in fact an essential part of the process.
It feels like almost everyone is a covert p-hacker, “tweaking” their results and over-egging the meaning of banal studies because, if you want money you have to consistently produce ROCKSTAR RESULTS.
Hell, 20 years ago my supervisor showed me how to alter the scans of my western blots with image processing software “to tidy them up.” Well-intentioned, maybe; but the cold hard fact is he was telling me to “massage” the data.
Even Nobel prize winners are accused of ‘tweaking’ their research to make things look better. Just see Pete Judo’s YouTube channel for some examples.
And on top of all this we in NZ now have the Matauranga Maori cultural crap that is dumping sand into the already rusty gears of the scientific machine.
As someone who loves science it’s all very depressing.
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Post by muzled on Aug 21, 2024 10:54:02 GMT 12
Lucky we're such a wealthy country and don't have kids starving, people living in cars, underpaid nurses and coppers, huge hospital waitlists. The good thing is, I'm sure it'll only go downhill from here. I enjoyed this comment. STEAM... 🙄
Science is fucked.
We don’t even have STEM any more. It is now STEAM because the Arts were being left out.
Repeat after me: There is no Maori science.
“Maori knowledge” is equivalent to “tribal knowledge” or “country knowledge” that all cultures have had going back for thousands of years.
This is not science. Science needs knowledge attached to a theoretical and observational framework of mathematics and written language.
In the 1700s and 1800s there was a boom of natural and physical science often lead by the clergy and school teachers (ie. the literate and educated) writing down and formalising country knowledge. That has happened here too.
For example, basic knowledge genetics (in terms of the use and practice of selective breeding) was well known through many cultures for centuries. George Mendel put that into a well documented scientific framework in the 1850s.
Before the 1850s the understanding of genetic inheritance was just knowledge, after the 1850s it was science.
There is no Maori mathematics or Maori written language, therefore there is no Maori Science. |
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Post by Cantab on Aug 22, 2024 8:47:30 GMT 12
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Post by muzled on Aug 27, 2024 11:31:57 GMT 12
The tickle vs giggle case in 'straya was ruled on yesterday. Ze judge has decreed that sex isn't given at birth and is changeable. Leah Panapa has been good on this case as she got the slapdown for saying only women can have babies on air in her previous job. Gotta take your hat off to the Sal Grover, takes a pretty strong person to stand upto this bullshit. It cost her $500,000 to go to the federal court. She's taking it to the high court which will cost $500-$800,000. theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/sall-grover-on-the-giggle-vs-tickle-verdict |
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Post by harrytom on Aug 30, 2024 6:59:24 GMT 12
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Post by eri on Aug 30, 2024 8:44:05 GMT 12
sorry he passed so early
he was the great voice of moderation when tpm called for a sovereignty declaration
there's a big question mark over his son's ability to fill his shoes as successfully
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Post by harrytom on Aug 30, 2024 10:09:24 GMT 12
sorry he passed so early he was the great voice of moderation when tpm called for a sovereignty declaration there's a big question mark over his son's ability to fill his shoes as successfully got off a drink drive then assults his daughters mother 100hr community service.Yeah he should fit right in |
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