"stupidity" is essential for productivity.... I've never felt more validated in my life 😅

I'm very excited to share my first, first-author publication out today in Nature Communications!! We conducted a global survey of anaerobic gut fungi (AGF) in mammalian herbivores (the largest of its kind to date!) Here's what we found 🧵 rdcu.be/dfq1u

Congratulations to NANOGrav for detecting evidence that gravitational waves fill the cosmos. These ripples in the fabric of space happen when massive objects like black holes circle one another before colliding. The result brings us closer to understanding how galaxies evolve.

Thanks for hosting me Raphael! It was great to meet everyone and make new connections in the #hologenomics space 😊🦠✈️

Tonight there are #kakapo in the forest of the North Island of Aotearoa for the first time in over a century. We released four into Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain today. #conservation #returnofthekakapo

📢Call for abstracts! Submit your research for the 9th One Health Aotearoa Symposium (One Health Aotearoa). Open to all career stages, incl. students. Themes cover #AntimicrobialResistance, infectious diseases, #Climate change & more Deadline: 30th Aug See: onehealth.org.nz/symposium2023/… 🌏🦠

Awesome to see our first #kākāpō genomic analyses published; congrats to the entire team! nature.com/articles/d4158… Most fun was discussing the analyses w the amazing recovery team Dr Andrew Digby Deidre Vercoe Daryl Eason et al. More to follow v soon Helmholtz AI Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich

How to write a great grant application: A 13-step checklist for success go.nature.com/3sKuXPP

So Oxford Nanopore discovered something a few days ago - and it has to do with light. And they posted this image (sorry, too good not to share off the community). Yes, that’s 469% increased output. So, we decided to give it a shot and …

And in other news: there’s one week left to adopt a #kakapo for delivery before Christmas. Adoptions close 10th Dec. It’s a great way to support #conservation of this critically endangered species. Thank you to everyone who’s helped so far! doc.govt.nz/adopt-a-kakapo

New paper out in Molecular Ecology! Molecular ecology of microbiomes in the wild: Common pitfalls, methodological advances and future directions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Last week's NZ Microbiological Society conference was full of fantastic talks from such a range of disciplines! Was great to catch up with friends old and new, and meet some amazing leaders in the field. 'Till next year! Featuring yours truly...

It was a wonderful surprise to receive my school's Early Career Researcher of the year award this month along with stellar human Ally Palmer! Photo featuring the party hat I wore during my talk because it was also my birthday that day...cue 200 people singing HB at me😳

Are you submitting a paper and want to share code associated with it, but not sure where to start? A how-to guide for code-sharing in biology arxiv.org/abs/2401.03068

NZMEC: New Zealand Microbial Ecology Consortium is finally happening! Opening plenary from Bonnie Bassler is a masterclass of top science and communication. Her work on quorum sensing was my first exposure to microbiology back as an undergraduate student. I've been hooked since.

Follow the gases to find life! Many microbes can subsist on trace gases alone and generate their own water 🦠 Chris Greening Chris Greening at NZMEC 2024

Early Career microbial ecologists are invited to apply for financial support to further develop their academic knowledge and skills at hosting Institutions. 🔗 isme-microbes.org/isme-supportin… #microbialecologist #microbiology #ecology #microbialecology

New episode OUT NOW! Listen in to find out how Dr Katerina Guschanski and her team extract ancient DNA from calcified dental calculus, to study their bacterial composition from before the existence of mass-produced antibiotics. #AMR Behavioural Ecology @ Edinburgh @Ed_Infect_Diseases

My first ISME conference, what an incredible opening ceremony! Looking forward to chairing the Animal Microbiomes session tomorrow #isme19 #CapeTown

Excited to be at #ISME19 in Cape Town this year! Looks like a stellar line up of research :) if you're keen to hear more about my postdoc in Kim Handley's Environmental Metagenomics group, drop into my talk at 3:40pm Tuesday in the freshwater session 🥳