Emily Keeble at Palaeocast has just produced a great interview about rhynchocephalians with Dr. Victor Beccari, a Brazilian paleontologist who works on them. The tuatara of Aotearoa / New Zealand is the only living rhynchocephalian, but they were much more diverse in the Mesozoic.

https://www.palaeocast.com/rhynchocephalians/

#fossils
#tuatara
#Aotearoa
#NewZealnd
#rhynchocephalia

Second time in as many days someone at Shakespear Regional Park just goes off track into the bush. Like, FFS, you are not special, the rules apply to you like they do to everyone else. Can you read the signs? Today, some shithead was climbing on an old Puriri tree across a stream, probably trying to get some dumbass picture for his fkn TikTok.

Of course I told him to stay on the tracks. There's kauri dieback in the park.

SO. I. RATE.

#newzealnd #Aotearoa

Jawan Movie review straight from NewZealand #jawan #newzealnd #jawanreview

source

https://digimovie.org/jawan-movie-review-straight-from-newzealand-jawan-newzealnd-jawanreview/

#NewZealnd: "Spike in kids hospitalised ahead of RSV, COVID and whooping cough winter peak"

More than a third of hospital admissions across the country were for children, and three-quarters of these were children under 5 years old - Professor Stuart Dalziel, Starship Hospital’s head of emergency.

#NewZealand #RSV #COVID #WhoopingCough

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/132063671/spike-in-kids-hospitalised-ahead-of-rsv-covid-and-whooping-cough-winter-peak

I don't know if it would have any impact but one of the reasons why trying to move to another is hard. States see immigration as a way to attain workers and so don't want those they deem undesirable. I hate borders.

quote from new York times.
"Australia and New Zealand routinely reject migrants on the basis of their health care needs, leaving families with one ill member in a legal limbo.
People have been turned away with conditions like autism, obesity, intellectual disability, lupus and MS"

this is not something special to these countries. many countries do this. if I remember it there was a family in Canada facing deportation because a family member had autism.

borders are a tool to enforce bigotry.

article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/world/asia/migrant-disability-australia-new-zealand.html

#ableism #immigration #boarders #state #bigotry #autism #lupus #MS #obesity #newZealnd #australia #canada #communism