NativeBio has a WorldWide presence and many of us are asked to speak at major events, wherever we are needed. Soon, Rotorua, Aotearoa (NZ) for the Genomics Standards Consortium and University of Otago. genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC26-Rotoru...

1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

The problem with treating science like a startup thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-...

The problem with treating science like a startup

Few New Zealanders spend much time thinking about volcanic monitoring but when a volcano erupts, we expect expertise to exist immediately.

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Good news for you Ngāti Tūreiti (too late) types! Abstract submission for the QRW satellite, Environmental Omics on 3-4 Sep at Ōtautahi (ChCh), has been extended until the 1st July. Get one in: www.queenstownresearchweek.org/abstract-sub...

Alana Alexander@laninsky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kia ora folks - tukuna your abstracts! We’d love to hear about the cool mahi you are doing!

Happy to share that the new Cetacean Genomes Project website is up and running! www.cetaceangenomesproject.org @philmor1964.bsky.social @laninsky.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social @rockyrockyrocky.bsky.social

CGP

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Whale Scientists@whalescientists.bsky.social · last mo.

Calling cetacean researchers and collaborators! 🧬 We’re sharing on behalf of the Cetacean Genomes Project, a global initiative working to generate reference-quality genomes for cetaceans worldwide. They are looking for contributors/collaborators working with samples, genomic data, or collections.

Kia ora folks - tukuna your abstracts! We’d love to hear about the cool mahi you are doing!

Alana Alexander@laninsky.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The ‘Environmental Omics’ satellite of QRW2026, is happening at Te Pae, Ōtautahi, 3-4 Sep. Further information at: www.queenstownresearchweek.org/latest-advan.... Abstract submission (due June 24th): www.queenstownresearchweek.org/abstract-sub...

imagine making the answer key to a high-school math test ––not by solving the math problems; not by asking a mathematician to solve the problems; and not by consulting a proven, trusted math resource.. but by averaging the answers every student gave to each question on that test.

The ‘Environmental Omics’ satellite of QRW2026, is happening at Te Pae, Ōtautahi, 3-4 Sep. Further information at: www.queenstownresearchweek.org/latest-advan.... Abstract submission (due June 24th): www.queenstownresearchweek.org/abstract-sub...

The 2026 Genomic Standards Consortium meeting is now open! genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC26-Rotoru.... Awesome line up of folks, particularly focussing on genomic standards in Indigenous contexts: genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC26-Rotoru... See ya in Rotovegas, NZ!

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

My usual Anzac Day post. George was Ngāi Tahu.

Here we go fam. Time to beat this oppressive, nasty, racist, divisive, Tiriti bashing bullshit AGAIN 😡 Sign up as a claimant supporting. #nzpol #ToituTeTiriti forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The 2026 Genomic Standards Consortium meeting is now open! genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC26-Rotoru.... Awesome line up of folks, particularly focussing on genomic standards in Indigenous contexts: genomicsstandardsconsortium.github.io/GSC26-Rotoru... See ya in Rotovegas, NZ!

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵 If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

Manage My Health CEO: 'Trust us even though we've dropped the ball'

The chief executive of beleaguered patient portal says he is open to standing down if required.

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Now that it's public: RIP FluTracking, which I understand only cost $50k per year to administer, yet provided incredibly valuable and irreplaceable information on levels of influenza-like-illness. What an utterly dim decision.

SING Aotearoa is on! SING Aotearoa 2026 - Ōtepoti (Dunedin) - 8-13 February 2026 Applications for SING Aotearoa 2026 are now OPEN, head to www.singaotearoa.nz. Applications close 15 December. Please share share share with your networks, group chats and socials across the motu.

SING Aotearoa

Summer Internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics

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Only one week left to apply

Mick Westbury@mick2474.bsky.social · 11mo ago

☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling! Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD Reposts appreciated 😁

In case you are looking for Indigenous thrillers/horror stories this October. Fricking love libraries that put together lists like this. pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...?

One final bit of good news - 234600 people across the motu voted to remove Māori wards, 245800 to keep them - 51.1% of all votes were to keep them, 48.9% not to. The majority of the country that voted were in favour so suck it coalition!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

led by wahine toa Tara, I'm lucky enough to be beside a rōpū of awesome Māori and Pacific "earliesh" career researchers on this one - our advice to the rangatira o āpōpō who are entering into STEM research training (ki a au, he reta aroha nā ngā tuākana tēnei): www.journal.mai.ac.nz/system/files...

Dr Tara McAllister@taramcallister.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Māori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...

This TikTok should be titled: “The Right Wing Explained” Well worth 90s of your time, & very applicable to the incoherent hypocrisy & gaslighting we see from Seymour, Peters & the Luxo-pool Noodle. This will get worse the longer NACT hold power here in NZ as it will feed their tantrum. #nzpol

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

“Overall, the message from this survey is positive; evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction

Many who have obtained PhDs in evolutionary biology will ultimately pursue careers that fall outside a narrow definition of an academic career. At the same time, PhD students and supervisors of PhD st...

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@taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social has posted these on Facebook so I'm sharing the joy here because we all felt Ellen Tamati's mamae. All of the mana, all of the time.✊✌️🥰 #ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

@sebasalco.bsky.social doing an awesome job repping the team on the research we were lucky enough to conduct on these taonga.

Joseph Guhlin@josephguhlin.bsky.social · last yr.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... Sebastian Alvarez-Costes spoke to Melissa Chan-Green about endangered Hector and Maui dolphins! Must listen! #conservation #animals #genomics

With fewer than 100 Māui dolphins left, and Hector’s also endangered, these rare subspecies are hard to find and even harder to study. But Otago researchers have cracked their DNA, revealing just how vulnerable they are and what it will take to protect them.💙🐬 Read more here🔗:

Smart solution delivers on dolphin DNA

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species –understanding their past and how they have adapted to their environment helps conservationists protect them.

otago.ac.nz

🧪 Great work on Hector’s & Māui genomes with @laninsky.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-07...

Innovative DNA assembly process produces high-quality reference genomes for endangered dolphins

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have adapted to their environment helps conservationists protect them.

phys.org

Tēnā koe e te whānau - ka kimihia tētahi tumuaki hou ki tō Te Koha Waimarie (tō taku pēpi) kohanga - tēnā, horahia tēnei pānui ki ngā tāngata e hīkaka ana ki tēnei wero! www.seek.co.nz/job/85125985...

Head Teacher/Kaiako Kaiārahi Job in North Dunedin, Otago - SEEK

Become Kaiako kaiārahi at Otago's only bilingual early childhood centre. Where the team enjoys strong whānau support while providing early learning.

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