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notjustdna.bsky.social
Scientist and science writer from New Zealand. BioinfoTools on Twitter. Traveller. Cycle touring. More later - just setting this account up!
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#NZpol “[…] Minister Shane Jones said the decline in gas reserves was a "stark reminder" of why the Government was seeking greater investment in exploration and production.” => Fail 😞 Correct answer is step up on putting (cleaner) alternatives in place.

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Nice to spend time scrolling something that isn’t doom 😊 In Aotearoa New Zealand we had a thing called Secret Santa organised on Twitter, in its pre-X days, a nationwide, volunteer-run gifting of presents. Participant Santa look for clues about their Santee online. It’s now on Bluesky, and 1/2

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Unsurprisingly, the results were spectacularly bad.

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🗡️* “stabbed to death in the streets of Cheapside” - Might be a fun weekend read for some 😊 arstechnica.com/science/2025... —— *I would use 🔪 but this is a medieval murder 😀

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If you were to make Google’s search *index*, the underlying database of "stuff out there", accessible to other search platforms, I have to admit I’d love to see an old-fashioned Altavista-style interface option among the offerings. The old librarian-style driven-just-by-a-form search. 1/2

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30 years of satellite tracking data, 12,794 animals from 111 species - the results reveal underwater “highways” where megafauna crisscross the global ocean theconversation.com/we-tracked-1...

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Anyone know anyone on here who could maybe help with a cover image in the next week? Based on a chemical/material structure with a bit of graphic design? (For a prof fee obvs)

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By the way, because this is hybrid, it's also open to attendees from other countries. If the UK timezone is manageable for you, and you want to learn about science writing/journalism, feel free to sign up!

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Sharp jump in Covid-19, respiratory infections www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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#NZ science / government policy As I’ve tried saying before, the short-term thinking the current government has on science is not the win they think it is 1/n www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

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I remember those flying toasters 😀 Bring back the whimsy! (Feel free to show the whimsical things on your device. Mine is out-of-the-box bland 😑)

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#NZpol Useful on the use of AI on the RSB ⬇️ Personally, I would like to see a number of these voluminous submissions collected and tested against a variety of approaches as a study.* I wouldn’t trust what Seymour’s lot does with it. To be polite, he and his lot have too much of a stake in it.**

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#NZ beer 🍺 fans, and those with hearing loss I’ve had a few of his at Biochem Happy Hour 😀 Mum also spent hours "speech training" me. I’ve photographs of us at the kitchen table at it. Richard will have a larger hearing loss than mine, but it’s the same tools needed to manage “in a hearing world”.

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Schadenfeed - we have the word of the year right here!

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Sometimes this is a good solution to all the world’s problems. Bury your snoot in your paw

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#NZ High rates of whooping cough (pertusssis) in Bay of Plenty, Lakes districts; one in ten patients ending up in hospital - Dr Danny de Lore: “children most at risk were those living in communities where the immunisation rates were low” - Vaccination details at the end of the article. Please do!

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#NZ If some North Island Bluesky peeps are quiet, this may be why – www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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🖥️🧬 Lifting to the genomics/bioinformatics feed Important to think about the negative results here ⬇️

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Hear hear!

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#NZpol re Shane Jones’ insistence we "need" to drill, etc –

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#NZ If you’re travelling on east coast north to Kiakoura, expect to be redirected to take the Mt Lyford road - Best wishes to the pedestrian, and anyone else affected 🤞 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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I’d "love" to know the story behind this 😔 It may or may not be related, but it reminds me of ACT’s recent promotion of cuts to Māori-oriented and "woke", etc., science funding on other social media.

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