Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab MΔtai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
Nic Rawlence
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Just what we need....another colonialist de-extinction company wanting to resurrect animals from the dead, this time Aotearoa New Zealand's huia π€¬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
Three weeks left to apply to our postdoc position on alpine plant resilience!
Us: Three years of funding, an awesome collaborative team, a gorgeous study system, blueberry pie, unionized postdocs.
You: A PhD and experience in ancient DNA, paleoecology, and/or plant genetics and genomics.
Oh lord. This "de-extinction" stuff is just absolute nonsense on stilts.
Genomics Aotearoa (postdoctoral) Fellowships -- closing date is 17 June 2026:
www.genomics-aotearoa.org.nz/about/fellow...
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
βThe damage β¦will show up in a decade, when New Zealandβs deep-tech sector is thinner, its universities are less competitive for global talent, and the high-value industries β¦ have less to build on. By then, nobody will connect the dots back to the year the seed bank was raided to fund the harvest.β
Jacquelyn Gill
DO YOU HAVE A DIG OR ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT YOU THINK REALLY OUGHT TO BE ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN SERIES 14? Then email [email protected] and maybe @toriherridge.bsky.social Rosanna or I will get to come out and visit!
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Call for Expressions of InterestGenomics Aotearoa is establishing a Fellowship scheme to lift the capability building initiated during the first funding period to the next stage.
Being a bird nerd is now cool. Well, it always was cool, but the rest of the world is finally cottoning on. Nice write-up in the Sunday Star Times and The Post with quotes from me accessiblenews.xyz/article/www.... @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social
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Not surprisingly, I wrote a commentary about the #ColossalBio #DisInformation campaign, #ExtinctionIsForever, but genetic engineering in pursuit of aesthetics is very real (and not bad if you're intellectually honest about it)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
ESSAY: Once a pastime associated with tweed jackets and thermoses, birdwatching is now soaring in popularity among young people.
Iβll post a short 𧡠on the inevitability of this #DeExtinction #DisInformation graft in a bit. In the meantime my fav gifβ¦
New #DeExtinction company just droppedβ¦
Nic Rawlence
Paul Gardner
T. Ryan Gregory π¨π¦
Julie Blommaert
Meg Russell
#marsdenshmarsden I guess πͺ¦
New Zealand's flagship discovery research fund is running its final round before being absorbed into a government-directed system. The 29% funding cut lands on a country that already spends half the O...
Just what we need....another colonialist de-extinction company wanting to resurrect animals from the dead, this time Aotearoa New Zealand's huia π€¬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
ALT: a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames
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Nic Rawlence
Just what we need....another colonialist de-extinction company wanting to resurrect animals from the dead, this time Aotearoa New Zealand's huia π€¬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
Just what we need....another colonialist de-extinction company wanting to resurrect animals from the dead, this time Aotearoa New Zealand's huia π€¬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
