The current PhD stipend in NZ is 20% below the minimum wage, which itself is below the cost of living in most cities... New Zealand's Universities: Increase the PhD stipend to minimum wage - Sign the Petition! chng.it/RyXdgMfM via Change.org

I sure do miss the bicycle infrastructure from back home. Would love to see more of this in #Dunedin. 🇳🇱🚴🇳🇿

Picking up groceries with an F-150 is like... Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer or Making toast with a flamethrower. 6 out of 10 trips are under 5 miles. Love this ad from the UK.

Great couple of weeks doing fieldwork in Tauranga with the #sexyfish team Haylee Quertermous Chloe van der Burg Neil Gemmell - Outdoors neuroscience, how good!

All in a day’s work: testing an underwater drone for Spotty observation in the wild 🐟 Then back to the cryostat to observe the wild Spotty brain 🥼😎 #spottty #wild

Time for something a little different at VSD Hawaii. Kaj Kamstra talking on the neuroanatomy of socially controlled sex changing fish. This process starts in the brain, oftengiven by a visual cue, leading to complete sex reversal. So cool - but I am very biased.

Awesome time in Hawaii with Haylee Quertermous and Neil Gemmell. Thank you VSD Hawaii for a great meeting and really appreciate the travel award. Hoping to be back in 2026!

🐟🧠 Neuroanatomy of a sex changing fish: the New Zealand spotty wrasse brain atlas 🐟🧠 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How can a spotty change its spots? Fish up a male and the bossiest female will take his place. Now University of Otago geneticists have shown how slippery sexuality can be, with 96 snapshots of a transitioning fish going female-male - and everything in between #icg2023 gemmell-lab.anatomy.otago.ac.nz

Dietary wheat gluten induces astro- and microgliosis in the hypothalamus of male mice 🐭🧠 doi.org/10.1111/jne.13…

Great time visiting the Uni of Sunshine Coast UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast for a few days to run some ELISAs. The days consist mostly of pipetting and admiring kangaroos on campus 🦘👨‍🔬🦘👨‍🔬🦘

Starts tomorrow. NZ Fish of the Year. Stand by for utterly biased campaigning for a common, clever little fish that just happens to change sex…. It deserves your vote. Haylee Quertermous Kaj Kamstra Chloe van der Burg Culum Brown 🇺🇦 📎ChristineJasoni emr.org.nz/education/even…

Going through the histology of our latest Spotty wrasse experiment and it never ceases to amaze me that this fish can completely reorganise its gonad in a matter of weeks. Surely the Spotty deserves your vote for NZ fish of the year: mountainstosea.org.nz/fish

Tough week in Tauranga. Too much fresh air, sunshine and spotties. Awful job I’ve got..