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Best student talk (from a group of excellent talks - really tough choice for the judges) was Rebecca French from Massey University for her talk on human disturbance of hoiho in the subantarctic Islands. Congratulations, Rebecca!#BirdsNZ2018

Considering viruses beyond their role as drivers of disease ⁦Trends in Microbiology⁩ #OneHealth sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The high abundance and diversity of viruses in nature, often in the apparent absence of disease, suggests that they are naturally embedded into global ecosystems at all ecological scales. Virus are much more than pathogenesis.

Rebecca French Metagenomics can be applied to ecology and wildlife management by looking at viruses as part of the ecosystem and NOT just as a disease #AWMS2019

THIS THIS THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THIS. Please watch and share. Brilliantly and simply put.

New diving behaviour identified in subantarctic yellow-eyed #penguins. Recently published study by Chris G. Muller and colleagues ➡️ bit.ly/meps_648_191

Metatranscriptomic Comparison of Viromes in Endemic and Introduced Passerines in New Zealand 👉mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/7… Holmes & colleagues characterise the #virome of New Zealand endemic and introduced species of #passerine Check it now!

Novel Viral and Microbial Species in a Translocated Toutouwai (Petroica longipes) Population from Aotearoa/New Zealand biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Check out our paper just published in nature ecology + evolution! Host phylogeny shapes the virome of an island ecosystem - on Anchor Island/Pukenui, a very special little island in Fiordland NZ. With @edwardcholmes Dr Andrew Digby Michelle Wille Dr KeCain nature.com/articles/s4155…

Boom! An exciting discovery in Christchurch with the finding of this rare fledgling bittern: ow.ly/VxWy9

Hand-reared #kakapo chicks put in outdoor pens for a month for weaning. Here's Wendy2 being 'begged' after feeding.

Today I'm in #kaikoura & just saw a feral cat munching on a dead seabird on the beach! Feral cats are a serious threat to native wildlife