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Just think, English teachers of Aotearoa New Zealand: there was a March 2025 version of the rewritten senior English curriculum that didn’t fully embrace Rata’s determination to “end decolonisation’s success”. That version instructed you to help students explore Aotearoa New Zealand perspectives, and said you must include Māori and Pacific authors in your teaching programme. […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-09-28T22:29:29+0000

2024 had been a good year for Stanford. The speed bump that was the outcry over the senior English curriculum and the lack of consultation had been smoothly managed by her, and she was on a roll with the ‘Make it Count’ maths plan and the impending rollout of the junior English curriculum. Rata, too, […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-09-27T18:43:09+0000

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Today most people are perfectly happy to accept Charles Darwin’s ideas about ‘evolution by means of natural selection’ as the dominant paradigm in biology. So many of us may be quite surprised to know that this has not always been the case among professional biologists. First, the very idea of evolution as ‘descent with modification from ancestral forms’ predates Darwin (see below). Second, during his own lifetime Darwin’s account was overshadowed in the imagination of the Victorian public by Robert Chambers’ 1844 speculative work Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.This book invokes quite differ-ent processes driving evolution – sometimes called a mixture of magick plus the ‘inherit

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The following article, Harrison, S., Baker, M.G., Benschop, J. et al. One Health Outlook 2, 4 (2020), was published online by BMC on31 January 2020 at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-0011-0. It is © The Author(s) 2020, but is Open Access and is distributedunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), whichpermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that appropriate credit is given to the originalauthor(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes are indicated. Permission to republishthe paper here has been obtained from the authors

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​At the one-day symposium to mark the first author’s formal retirement, he gave a presentation titled ‘A life in bryo-zoology’, noting that he began publishing on Bryozoa in the late 1960s, with a taxonomic article in a student journal (Gordon 1967) followed by a paper in Nature (Gordon 1968). Of the 174 peer-reviewed papers published since then, 137 have focused on some aspect of bryozoology (e.g. ecology, conservation, growth, anatomy, ultrastructure, form and function, systematics, paleontology, phylogeny, marine fouling and invasive species, marine natural products). During the past 50 years of his research, perceptions of phylum Bryozoa in the scientific community have changed markedly

​Few biologists have had such an impact on the understanding of New Zealand biodiversity as Dr Dennis Preston Gordon (1944 – ) (Figure 1). His canon of more than 170 scientific publications covers the full gamut of biodiversity studies, ranging from taxonomy and systematics, ecology, evolution and life history, to large-scale syntheses of regional and global patterns, and the higher order of classification of all living organisms. In the 1990s, as project leader of the taxonomy programme at NIWA, Dennis became increasingly involved in tackling the overarching challenges facing biodiversity science1. His work in this area has informed research and environmental management decision-making in N

​The study of taxonomy and systematics can enhance ecological and conservation science. However, understanding how taxonomy and systematics can bring about such enhancement is not always readily appreciated. This situation can lead to some ecologists ignoring or dismissing the benefits of working with taxonomists and systematists to achieve their goals. Here I provide examples, from collaborative research with marine bryozoologist Dennis Gordon, on how his understanding of taxonomy and systematics has enabled insights into the regeneration of biogenic reef habitat impacted by fishing, the factors that influence the distribution of bryozoan assemblages and thickets in the New Zealand region,