Oh lord. This "de-extinction" stuff is just absolute nonsense on stilts.
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.
Genomics Aotearoa (postdoctoral) Fellowships -- closing date is 17 June 2026:
www.genomics-aotearoa.org.nz/about/fellow...
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
âThe damage âĶwill show up in a decade, when New Zealandâs deep-tech sector is thinner, its universities are less competitive for global talent, and the high-value industries âĶ 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.â
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...
Just what we need....another colonialist de-extinction company wanting to resurrect animals from the dead, this time Aotearoa New Zealand's huia ðĪŽ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
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.
ESSAY: Once a pastime associated with tweed jackets and thermoses, birdwatching is now soaring in popularity among young people.
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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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Iâll post a short ð§ĩ on the inevitability of this #DeExtinction #DisInformation graft in a bit. In the meantime my fav gifâĶ
Just what we need....another colonialist de-extinction company wanting to resurrect animals from the dead, this time Aotearoa New Zealand's huia ðĪŽ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
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...
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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 ðĪŽ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
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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 ðĪŽ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmom...
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...
