Dr Sea Rotmann
@drsearotmann
Austrian-Kiwi scientist (coral reef ecologist by training, social ecologist & energy justice researcher by trade). I live at the literal end of the world where I’m building an eco community & hoarding animals. Obsessed with the Kraken 🐙🦑 No DMs.
Have you read “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez? Made me want to scream with fury, but has some excellent health examples of data bias.
I have to put my beautiful Maine Coon Hexe down today, and I know pet deaths are a big turn-offs to see on your timeline, but I’m still sad AF and always feel for the other pet lovers on here going through the same awful decision 😿 15 years she was part of our family, our one-eyed polydactyl pirate.
Congrats, David!! You’re incredibly prolific, on top of being Bravid, the justice warrior! Looking forward to your new doc. Here’s our prunking rescue goat Mazikeen from Golden Bay to remind you of home 🐐 Stay safe and continue your great mahi!
Nice!! Contrast that to the Southern Hemisphere Milky Way shot from my house in Aotearoa by Jason Ng 🌌
It’s my birthday on Tuesday too! And I’ll be celebrating it with my miniature donkey boys, thinking of Letty-Lou 😻
We made a giant vulva crochet coral reef as part of a Kiwiburn art piece called the “Octopussy” 🤷♀️ 🪸 🌮
Kia ora from Aotearoa New Zealand! (Forgot my good moon camera so an iPhone strawberry moon rise it is) 🌕
1/3 An article on Aotearoa's voice at Venice paints Fiona Pardington as a beneficiary of "corporate privilege." This image is her studio: a tray table in a spare room. Her success was built through decades of hard work, not privilege.
The best thing about the Winter Solstice is that the days will slowly get longer again - even though winter has only just started… Happy Solstice, world! 🔥
The world is going to hell in a hand basket but I got to rescue another baby #goat and give it a demon’s name - meet Mazekeen, Blade of Satan, Daughter of Lilith (joining Shub Shub and Belial or Billy Bob Hornton - poor Lilith died on Christmas Eve!) 🐐🐐🐐
We call it “cat immunity” in our house (the dog is too big to sit on our laps, though he does try occasionally) 😹
I see Dan Vlader trending and Darth Putin as my first post, and my brain immediately wonders why no one calls Putin “Darth Vlader” 🤦♀️
Well, I just finished running an incredible 2-day hui (workshop) on hidden energy hardship in Aotearoa NZ with my Swedish and U.S. national experts & almost 90 amazing humans from every corner of our #energy sector: government, local govt, industry, research & the most important community sector! 🙌
Happy #aprilfoolsday - especially to the fossil fools who are learning that solar & wind power doesn’t stop when the “Straight” shuts down!
Epic #lunareclipse #bloodmoon last night from our little dark sky sanctuary at the bottom of the world 🌕
Meet the latest super cute addition to our #ecofarm family - Scottish #highlandcow Medusa the Hor(n)gon and her baby calf (we might name her Drusilla, which means "magic" or the more prosaic but hilarious Moo Heifner). Their fold names are Lady Kristen of Langside the 3rd (and 4th) #farmlife 🐮
I made my second successful thermophilic (though I haven’t proven microscopically that it’s biocompleteTM yet cause it’s still cooling down) #compost pile using Dr Elaine Ingham’s SoilFoodWeb recipe and techniques. Hoo boy, this 💩 heated up super fast! Secret party food ingredients? Burley & Tripe.
Yeah, cows are great! I didn’t realise how sophisticated their social system was until we started regeneratively farming them (v small-scale, only 50 yearlings at a time). These are our 2 pet cows Ginger & Schnitzel - and I just got us 2 Highland calves for Christmas! That article on lactation is 🤯
Late Spring has blessed us with the most stunning & intoxicating roses 🌹 #bloomscrolling
I think we could all do with some #babyduckling palate cleanser today!? #farmlife 🦆🐥🐣
#Supermoon November 2025 🌕 Rising as big as a planet over Onetahua / Farewell Spit, it turned into a hazy egg / skull for bit!
And on Day 2, they’re already out and about, following mommy Quackamollie 🦆
Spring has truly sprung and that means ALL THE BABIES on our little farm 🐣🐥🐤 #farmsky #farmlife #babyanimals #babyducks #babychicks
Supporting the #NoKings protest from the other end of the planet by finishing planting the last of 1300 native trees 🌳 Where MAGA wants to see giant polluting coal holes in the ground, we are rewilding the old coal mine on our land. Grow the good green, oppose the orange oppressor Also: baby chicks!
The news are all ridiculous, mind-bendingly stupid or outright apocalyptic RN, but I got to report on three amazing #sustainableenergy conferences in the last week: Ara Ake’s Energy Affordability & Resilience conference, He Ahi Kā E Ao Hou Māori community hui & the Māori Future Energy Summit. Hope 🙌
I’m beyond embarrassed to be a New Zealander today - and being “represented” by this grifting cooker clown 🤮🤮🤮
What do see in this picture? I see a hideous, sociopathic predator. Imagine ANY other President having that look whilst “comforting” a grieving widow at a televised memorial for his “good friend” 🤮🤮🤮
I hope our 40-resident settlement of Pūponga will become the smallest Dark Sky Sanctuary in Aotearoa 🌌 Check out the Milky Way from my land (Photo: Jason Ng): www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36083...