Come on Barbie, let’s diversify

Come on Barbie, let’s diversify

3 Oct 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling

3 October 2023 A collaboration between ecologist Will Godsoe, educational theorist Kirsten Locke, and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Anna Brown and Jonathan Burgess. One of the amazing things about nature is the sheer diversity of living things. There are...
A raindrop hits the ground

A raindrop hits the ground

4 Sep 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling

4 September 2023 A collaboration between scientist Céline Cattoën-Gilbert and illustrator Jean Donaldson. It’s Sunday 14 August 2022, and I’m sitting in front of my computer. I feel a surge of numbing emotions and prickly memories gushing through me. My eyes scan the...
Halcombe, we have a digital twin

Halcombe, we have a digital twin

3 Aug 2023 | Our stories

3 August 2023 On Tuesday 14 April 1970, astronauts on the spacecraft Apollo 13 let Houston know they had a problem. An oxygen tank had exploded, and there was damage to the main engine. With the clock ticking, NASA employed multiple simulators to see what had caused...
Everything is information

Everything is information

3 Jul 2023 | Our stories, Storytelling

3 July 2023 A collaboration between scientist Markus Luczak-Roesch and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. In 1975, a student working in Japan made a mistake. They misunderstood some instructions in Japanese and added 1,000 times more of a...
Building a just research system, together

Building a just research system, together

9 Jun 2023 | Our stories

9 June 2023 The global research system is in crisis. One way that we are seeing this unfold is in large-scale planned redundancies at our universities in Aotearoa New Zealand. But the research system isn’t broken, it was built this way. The design of the research...