Science Media Centre NZ @smcnz.bsky.social Independent, unbiased scientific information for the New Zealand media | sciencemediacentre.co.nz
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
thekawhiakid @thekawhiakid.bsky.social Kāwhia is my kāinga, but based in Te Awa Kairangi now.
Like a bit of sport & nature, would not be shocked to be described as a leftie.
@kiki-reb.bsky.social @kiki-reb.bsky.social 
Tina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
Ruth De Souza @desouzarn.bsky.social She/her. Critical RN. PhD, FACN. Editorial Board JAN. Cultural Safety in health and in the arts. Diasporic Goan via East Africa and Aotearoa on Bunurong country. Gardening, reading, surfing and cooking. Free Palestine.
Podcaster http://www.ruthdesouza.com
Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus. 
rebecca k reilly hour @rkr.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/rkrei 
Cassie/Nova @cassiehart.bsky.social Award winning Māori/Pakeha queer writer of speculative fiction, editor, and mentor from Aotearoa New Zealand.
she/they/ia
Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe
Kathryn van Beek @kathrynvanbeek.bsky.social Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is a Pākehā New Zealander of Dutch and English descent. A Robert Burns Fellow and a Winston Churchill McNeish Writers’ Fellow, Kathryn has a doctorate on the topic of using writing as a tool for positive change.
Sue Bradford @suebra.bsky.social Activist & educator for social, economic, Te Tiriti & ecological justice. Former Green MP. In solidarity with all who work for a beyond capitalist, beyond colonialist future.
Hannah Marshall @hannahmarsh.bsky.social I don't use social media. Buy my book instead! https://www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/Hannah-Marshall-It's-a-Bit-More-Complicated-Than-That-9781991006943
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social #NZNO National Executive member. Registered Nurse from Aotearoa New Zealand. Views here my own. Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet ✊🌹🍉
Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social The Gradual Shipwreck
Writer. Books & Music
#MDANT 🏅
Programme Director: WORD Christchurch
Views my own
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Caoimhe @caoimhe-rose.bsky.social Publicist @THWUPbooks
Thomas Nash @thomasnash.bsky.social Cities, transport and economic and climate transitions
Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social Councillor for Wharangi Ward, Te Kaunihera o Pōneke. Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.
Jennifer @jennifilm.nz Queer & trans writer, photographer, and advocate from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Gender villain, woke ideological feral, extremist lefty loser, party witch, etc.
I ako tonu au i te reo Māori - mehemea ka hē au, kia pai mai!
jenniferkshields.nz
James Borrowdale @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social Writer, journalist
Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social International award winning broadcaster, based in Dunedin NZ now trying to take over the news media world with #BHN
Find us at www.bhn.nz
Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social detective investigating life | Lost/Found editor at Split/Lip Press | abigailwashere.com/links
Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social Reader. Walker. Author of short story collections Hailman and Fox pub by @theemmapress.bsky.social 📚
leanneradojkovich.com
Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social Author & editor. Billy Bird (Penguin Random, 2016). To the Occupant (OUP, 2019). The Pink Jumpsuit (QWP, 2021). Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (OUP, 2024).Author pic by Caroline Davies. Cover photo art work by Sharon Singer.
Jack Remiel Cottrell @jackremiel.bsky.social Writes words, referees rugby, procrastinates like a pro. He/him
NZSA Wellington Branch @nzsauthorswgtn.bsky.social Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Branch of New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) @nzsa.bsky.social
#pukapuka
https://authors.org.nz/about/branches/wellington-branch/
Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.
Craig Gamble @craiggamble66.bsky.social Writer, publisher. Tries to do good.
Juan @juanzaramaperini.bsky.social Photojournalist and writer.
Perennially confused.
Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social PR hack. Sometimes maybe good. Sometimes maybe shit.
He/Him
Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social Freelance writer & editor, full-time silly sausage. Books, bikes, better places, beastly puns. She/ her/ the cats’ mother. 😽😈🏳️⚧️✊
Aspirational af. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau aka New Auck City. Always starting something; feel free to pick up where I leave off.
Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking.
Ngāi Tahu/Scottish.
Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library.
Gam zu l'tova.
Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social Editor and writer. Formerly: editor of North & South, exec editor at Huffpost Highline and The New Republic.
Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social I write.
John Hart @farmgeek.bsky.social I’m quite fond of trees.
You can DM me the old fashioned way on farmgeek at gmail dot com
Whakaoriori Masterton, Aotearoa
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Ecology at Lincoln Uni, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Scientist, teacher, dad, bibliophile, cricket tragic, snorkeler, rockpooler (fond of crabs). Uses traits to understand plant responses to disturbance. Likes to BBQ plants.
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists
Currently researching climate disinformation in alt-media
But I seem to mostly post about movies
Newsletter: feijoadispatch.nz
buy me a coffee http://ko-fi.com/byroncclark
Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social Physicist, complex systems, ex-COVID modeller, he/him
Author of "The Covid Response" https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-covid-response
Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz The Greenpeace mission is to ensure Earth's ability to nurture life in all its diversity. Follow along and join us!
greenpeace.org/aotearoa
Marama Davidson @maramadavidson.bsky.social She/her/ia
@NZGreens Co-leader based in Manurewa. Indigenous to Aotearoa/NZ. Authorised by Miriam Ross, greens.org.nz
Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Aucklander. Oppose Ford Rangers.
Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com I make TV and film. I write stuff. I was on #TheTraitorsNZ. Wrote FAKE BELIEVE (http://bit.ly/fakebelieve). Made TICKLED documentary. He/Him. dylanreeve@protonmail.com
morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social good evening 
Paul Brislen @brislen.nz Cassandra PR. Our motto: I fkn TOLD you...
I shall bind him to me, with promises. 🇳🇿🏴
Cymro o ddewis (Welsh by choice)
"We consider that Mr Brislen is an authoritative source." (BSA decision, March 2020)
Aotearoa he/him
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
Melanie Bracewell @meladoodle.bsky.social I am here! Comedian, writer and cool girl.
David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social davidslack.net
Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social New Zealand's foremost authority on the Big Fresh Animatronic Fruit & Veggies
📍Te Papa
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @aucklanduni.bsky.social - opinions mine. He/Him
Science: https://cosmology.auckland.ac.nz
Blog: https://excursionset.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/excursionset
Christina Hood @christinahood.bsky.social Climate policy nerd, mum, Ph.D ex quantum physicist, ex IEA. Climate stuff also on Linkedin. She/her. Views here are my own.
David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social I like collating data,
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social Climate science and policy. Also the occasional photo and random thoughts. Lead author IPCC AR7 WGIII (mitigation). Usual disclaimers...
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany.
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/
Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/
Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com Somewhat Known Conservation Artist | Merch Designer | Hacker Companion | Latinx Queer | She/They | NZ•Aotearoa Based/Ship Worldwide | NO AI #Art
Shop: pepperraccoon.com
Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de Fight fascism. Climate Crisis. Biodiversity Crisis. End fossil fuels.
Aktivist*innen, Eltern, Freunde und engagierte Menschen stellen sich neben #FridaysForFuture & deren Forderungen. 🦣 @parents4future@climatejustice.global https://linktr.ee/parents4future
Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.
Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social Data and visual journalist, New York Times climate team
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mira-rojanasakul
Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich, IPCC WGI Vice-chair.
#Climate #Extremes #Land.
Citizen/mum/scientist. Personal account.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter11.pdf
Twitter/X: @SISeneviratne
https://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/sonia
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org #CCNow is a collab of 500+ media outlets creating an all-newsroom approach to covering climate. The climate news & resources you need NOW: tinyurl.com/CCNowNL
Donate to support our work: https://bit.ly/3SMIvUW
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Rebekah White @rebekahwhite.bsky.social Science journalist, contributor @nzgeo.bsky.social, writes mostly about climate engineering, conservation, birds & also science fiction
Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com science writer / bird nerd / nz / ellenrykers.com
Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social Oaf - C Catherine Woulfe @catherinewoulfe.bsky.social Editor at New Zealand Geographic.
Jamie Morton @jamiemorton.bsky.social I write about science for the New Zealand Herald. Email: jamie.morton@nzherald.co.nz
Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social Sci/env/health editor The Conversation | writer Science, Nature, Eos, Guardian, Nautilus, NZ Geographic, NZ Listener | Books Science on Ice http://bit.ly/2YsvVxv Towards A Warmer World http://bit.ly/3ObP2Er
Farah @kiwifarah.bsky.social Data & longform journalist RNZ In Depth. Trying hard to get the word 'minging' in a headline. Failing. Email: farah.hancock@protonmail.com
Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social Senior Political Reporter at newsroom.co.nz covering climate change, health, energy and violent extremism | He/him ✡️
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social Award-winning science & nature journalist. Author of Northbound, a Te Araroa memoir, and Southern Nights, a history of NZ astronomy.
📍portfolio & contact: www.naomiarnold.net
Olivia Wannan @oliviawannan.bsky.social Stuff reporter writing about climate, science and the environment.
Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social Climate and energy communicator, NZ
Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet & sea level rise
She/her or they/them/ia
Giselle @giselledraws.bsky.social Illustrator/Author/Cartoonist in Aotearoa NZ
Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social Digger for Herald Business and ICIJ. Disclaimer: Views my own yadda yadda. Signal 64211931011
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social Investigative journalist | The Crewe Murders 📖 | Nellie’s Baby 🎧 | I tell stories about people | kirsty.johnston@rnz.co.nz ✉️
https://www.instagram.com/kirstyjohnston_nz?igsh=bWU4a2pqemthYm5q
Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social Nature writer & science journalist
New Zealand Geographic
Www.Kateevans.org
Words also in Scientific American, the New York Times, bioGraphic, among others. Author of FEIJOA: A STORY OF OBSESSION AND BELONGING
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app