Tino rawe! The Ngāi Tahu dive team got pre-summer pāua samples (a few tentacles per pāua) from Karitane for our climate change kaimoana project this week! It’s a co-designed/produced project with various hapū and coastal management committees - looking at heat stress using RNA

R hive mind! Can anyone recommend a free or cheap online R course that’s very accessible and geared towards people who have no coding experience at all? For ppl who have only used excel. I have a friend in Aotearoa who really wants to develop R skills for their job! #R #rstats

RT @AwanuiTH: A very thoughtful and nuanced piece by Tihema. He reminds Pākehā who are engaging in te reo Māori spaces that understanding h…

RT @OtagoBiochemist: Passing on a message from Karla, a researcher in the Macknight lab, who just had a baby: Two weeks ago, our wee baby g…

@spiralcleavage Thanks, Nathan! Couldn’t have done it without you! Really excited to work on iwi-led, co-designed & co-produced projects to help restore our taonga over the next four years!

RT @OtagoBiochemist: PhD available, Otago Biochemistry, Dunedin NZ from Feb 2024 Mussel resilience to climate change. Population genetics,…

@IslandGenomics Thanks! I can get a VCF with the invariant sites though - the new version of stacks has that option now. Wouldn’t it be better to include the non-variant sites in this kind of analysis if I have the option? Or you don’t think so?

RT @etangata: “I knew that I’d got into med school with one of the lowest marks in the class, but I finished med school in the top 20 per c…

RT @LNivisonSmith: Did you just tweet about your new paper? 🥳 Does it feel like no-one heard you? 😞 How to use the Twitter algorithm to m…

@Bullkelp Can you send some to New Zealand? Haha

@ea_mimo All the best, wish I could be there! What an amazing journey you’ve been on! 🤗

And also to add, I will be working with other demographics/communities as well as Māori - I try to work with as many different people as I can that are living on the whenua (land) that I’m working on 🤗

I ran out of space to say thank you also to my amazing mentor @GodsoeWilliam - who also gave me a reference! 🙏 Thanks also to everyone else who helped me on my search for a job! 😊

@taramcallister4 @NZScienceLearn @otago @spiralcleavage @laninsky @testeeves @SallyNAitken @GenomicsNZ @OtagoBiochemist @GeneticsOtago Thanks e hoa!!! 😊😊😍😍 I feel so lucky and grateful!!!!

Thinking of everyone up north. Devastating 💔

Oops. Went tramping solo on the west coast and ended up having my first chopper ride... 48 hours later I was being wheeled down the isle as a bridesmaid & singing at my friends wedding 😂 Thanks Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue!! Guess I’ll be playing more music for a while…