Paul Gardner
@ppgardne.bsky.social
Bioinformatics, RNA, benchmarking & educating to fund kayaking and fishing. Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand. From Whāngārā.
I hope we don't lose another great academic to the local sea lions. 😉
I'm looking forward to your visit to Otago!
I'm looking forward to your visit to Otago!
2. NB these are rough dates, with time for travel and birding in between.
Feb 10-11 University of Otago
Feb 13 University of Canterbury
Feb 17-19 University of Auckland, NetSciX Auckland
Feb 24-25 CCCSS Wellington
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect or talk about scheduling a seminar!
Feb 10-11 University of Otago
Feb 13 University of Canterbury
Feb 17-19 University of Auckland, NetSciX Auckland
Feb 24-25 CCCSS Wellington
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect or talk about scheduling a seminar!
Capital City Complex Systems Symposium 2026
Join us to explore cutting-edge knowledge of complex systems and how this knowledge is being used to drive system change.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I hope we don't lose another great academic to the local sea lions. 😉
I'm looking forward to your visit to Otago!
I'm looking forward to your visit to Otago!
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OUP want $8500 to publish a 400 word letter to the editor 🤣
January 20, 2026 at 3:44 AM
OUP want $8500 to publish a 400 word letter to the editor 🤣
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🧬 A major data reanalysis in December's most-read Genetics paper uncovers thousands of previously hidden protein-coding regions in human and mouse genomes: buff.ly/QxyMbME
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/tzg18vc
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/tzg18vc
January 17, 2026 at 11:44 PM
🧬 A major data reanalysis in December's most-read Genetics paper uncovers thousands of previously hidden protein-coding regions in human and mouse genomes: buff.ly/QxyMbME
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/tzg18vc
Have a paper people should see? See what our Editors look for: buff.ly/tzg18vc
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow - Honeybee Bacteriophages and Advanced Biotechnology -
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join the Hendrickson lab!
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
The project will involve dissecting the molecular mechanisms of a fascinating mobile element in our honeybee biocontrol phages. Sound like something you would be interested in? Get in touch! Details:
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Wonderful Whanganui!
January 8, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Wonderful Whanganui!
More Taranaki madness.
January 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
More Taranaki madness.
Saddleback - Tīeke at Lake Rotokare!
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Saddleback - Tīeke at Lake Rotokare!
@peterkdearden.bsky.social it's all go in Taranaki...
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
@peterkdearden.bsky.social it's all go in Taranaki...
Reported in April, retracted in November. Well done @springernature.com!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is up to 188 citations now. :-/
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is up to 188 citations now. :-/
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reported in April, retracted in November. Well done @springernature.com!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is up to 188 citations now. :-/
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is up to 188 citations now. :-/
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Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses - a problem for microbes too! Our lab is designing a tool to automatically choose references for input samples using features like phylogeny of reads to existing references. Any thoughts🤩? 🧪🦠🧬🖥️ #microsky
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses
Using a species-specific reference genome significantly improves the accuracy of population
genetic analyses, as exemplified by mapping gray fox sequence data to genomes of several
canid species. Mapp...
www.cell.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses - a problem for microbes too! Our lab is designing a tool to automatically choose references for input samples using features like phylogeny of reads to existing references. Any thoughts🤩? 🧪🦠🧬🖥️ #microsky
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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I’m hiring
1-year postdoc position in computational chemistry at the University of Copenhagen
The research is focusing on automated reaction prediction in collaboration with two major Pharma companies (see e.g. doi.org/10.1002/anie...)
Please share #compchem
1-year postdoc position in computational chemistry at the University of Copenhagen
The research is focusing on automated reaction prediction in collaboration with two major Pharma companies (see e.g. doi.org/10.1002/anie...)
Please share #compchem
December 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’m hiring
1-year postdoc position in computational chemistry at the University of Copenhagen
The research is focusing on automated reaction prediction in collaboration with two major Pharma companies (see e.g. doi.org/10.1002/anie...)
Please share #compchem
1-year postdoc position in computational chemistry at the University of Copenhagen
The research is focusing on automated reaction prediction in collaboration with two major Pharma companies (see e.g. doi.org/10.1002/anie...)
Please share #compchem
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We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
1/n
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
quinlanlab.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The more deep learning I do, the more I like logistic regression
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The more deep learning I do, the more I like logistic regression
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This has got to be AI generated word salad, surely, because nobody with basic knowledge of real numbers would even think to write that division of integers can generate irrational numbers.
Damn…..did the people that wrote the new “knowledge rich” curriculum even proof read their work or know how to math?
October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This has got to be AI generated word salad, surely, because nobody with basic knowledge of real numbers would even think to write that division of integers can generate irrational numbers.
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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Opening for an epidemiologist at my organisation, the Pacific Community (SPC). Based in Suva; not in my Statistics division but in the Public Health Division next door. Applications close 26 October Fiji time. careers.spc.int/job/epidemio...
Epidemiologist - Infectious Diseases
Noumea, New Caledonia or Suva, Fiji based position Attractive expatriate package Join the principal development organisation in the region Description The Pa...
careers.spc.int
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Opening for an epidemiologist at my organisation, the Pacific Community (SPC). Based in Suva; not in my Statistics division but in the Public Health Division next door. Applications close 26 October Fiji time. careers.spc.int/job/epidemio...
"A new independent board, Research Funding New Zealand, will bring together multiple decision-makers, including the (MBIE) Science Board and Marsden Fund Council, to make future funding decisions."
October 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"A new independent board, Research Funding New Zealand, will bring together multiple decision-makers, including the (MBIE) Science Board and Marsden Fund Council, to make future funding decisions."
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I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Staff Scientist
About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Anyone that thinks email is a secure means of communication is kidding themselves.
October 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Anyone that thinks email is a secure means of communication is kidding themselves.
In AoNZ at 18 you can:
-be tried as an adult
-serve the NZDF
-buy alcohol & cigarettes
-vote
-drive a class 2 truck
-work fulltime, including in a bar
But according to NZGovt CoC these are children 🙄
-be tried as an adult
-serve the NZDF
-buy alcohol & cigarettes
-vote
-drive a class 2 truck
-work fulltime, including in a bar
But according to NZGovt CoC these are children 🙄
October 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
In AoNZ at 18 you can:
-be tried as an adult
-serve the NZDF
-buy alcohol & cigarettes
-vote
-drive a class 2 truck
-work fulltime, including in a bar
But according to NZGovt CoC these are children 🙄
-be tried as an adult
-serve the NZDF
-buy alcohol & cigarettes
-vote
-drive a class 2 truck
-work fulltime, including in a bar
But according to NZGovt CoC these are children 🙄
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Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
Shockingly apt. Monday morning gift from @petermace.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Shockingly apt. Monday morning gift from @petermace.bsky.social
There's a Dunedin-Ōtepoti based crime series?! Yes please! Thanks @vandasymon.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There's a Dunedin-Ōtepoti based crime series?! Yes please! Thanks @vandasymon.bsky.social
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Sent this to a friend yesterday, who had never heard of it, so re-upping for other Ōtepoti Dunedin folk who are finding the whole voting thing a bit overwhelming.
October 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sent this to a friend yesterday, who had never heard of it, so re-upping for other Ōtepoti Dunedin folk who are finding the whole voting thing a bit overwhelming.