A Bug of the Year campaign has combined passions for invertebrates, bioluminescence, te ao Māori, mātauranga Māori, and outreach and engagement.

The idea that there is a “science of learning” (singular) currently holds considerable policy sway in a number of Eurocentric nations. Drawing on insights from the complexity sciences however, ...

Many societal problems and challenges are better understood when viewed through a complex systems lens, even if this does not always point directly toward clear or practical solutions. Such problems ...

We live in a world more complex, interdependent, and entangled than at any point in human history — from shifting climates to fragile democracies. Yet our sciences, including complexity science, still ...

While there are many definitions of systems thinking, most ignore the “thinking” part. In this talk, I will explore what it means to apply systems thinking in practices like planning, design, research ...

Scientific researchers may be driven by curiosity, but they are constrained by the realities of the scientific ecosystems in which they operate and motivated by the incentives with which they are ...

Ngā mihi ki a tātou. Tuatahi – tēnei te mihi nui ki ngā kaikōrero, mō rātou whakaaro, moemoea, wawata. First – our huge thanks to the contributors, for their thoughts, dreams, aspirations. Tuarua – ...

Ngā mihi nui to our treasured Kaumātua Professor Tom Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Apakura), who has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year 2026 Honours. On 14 ...

You can’t get much more remote than the Chatham Islands, a bumpy plane ride 840km east of Ōtautahi. |Christchurch. Although the archipelago is made up of about ten islands, people live on just two: ...

I slowly open my groggy eyes to see my six-year-old daughter staring at me with a look of concern on her face. It’s 6am on a Monday morning, and I’m not ready for this. But it is kind of my job. And ...

Te Pūnaha Matatini is bringing acclaimed evolutionary biologist and science system researcher Professor Carl Bergstrom (University of Washington) to New Zealand in February 2026 for a series of public ...

Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities. Extreme events such as droughts ...