Postdoc @OtagoBiochemist | Recent PhD from @UBC | Nat Geo Explorer | restoration ecology, introduced species & pop genomics | working w communities | she/her
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
A very thoughtful and nuanced piece by Tihema. He reminds Pākehā who are engaging in te reo Māori spaces that understanding how to be a good manuwhiri is critical.
Passing on a message from Karla, a researcher in the Macknight lab, who just had a baby:
Two weeks ago, our wee baby girl came into the world.
Currently, she is a happy and healthy baby. However, she was diagnosed with scaphocephaly, a 1/2000 birth condition,
1/n
@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!
PhD available, Otago Biochemistry, Dunedin NZ
from Feb 2024
Mussel resilience to climate change. Population genetics, quantitative approaches, and/or embryology. Work closely with industry & Māori stakeholders. Domestic fees and stipend included.
Email: [email protected]
@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?
#Popgen#genomics question… any recommendations for calculating coalescence time with ddRAD SNP data (~1350 SNPs)? I was thinking fastsimcoal2. Having trouble working out what filtering I should do b4… also should I have invariant sites in the input file? I can get that. 🙏
“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 cent, which I think goes to show that supporting Māori into med school is important.” — Dr Sue Crengle @tiekemanu
https://t.co/zzYymoF9hk
Did you just tweet about your new paper? 🥳
Does it feel like no-one heard you? 😞
How to use the Twitter algorithm to maximise the reach of your tweets 😎
@AcademicChatter@OpenAcademics
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! 😊
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…