Packed house for the last debate!

Final debate done! It was an honour to share the stage with excellent candidates.

I wish sea gulls sounded better.

Have your say Dunedin!

The real winner on the day is my son who gets to play a lot more Minecraft with me 😁

Baby ducks spotted in the Leith. The sun is shining. It's a good day.

In a major victory for science, a French court dismissed a defamation lawsuit by the notorious French anti-GMO activist scientist Séralini, finding instead in favor of three fact-finding journalists whom Séralini had sued for calling his work “fraudulent.” allianceforscience.org/blog/2023/10/w…

Are split vote statistics out yet?

GE laws to be liberalised by the new Govt.

Gene editing of tomatoes roughly halves their water demand (presumably increasing drought resistance as well) without sacrificing yield. This didn't involve transferring any genes from another species. As such, (if I understand current regulations correctly) this wouldn't be

Was great to work on the #Alphafold3 announcement video, made with #b3d and #MolecularNodes #GeometryNodes

Alphafold 3 just dropped: nature.com/articles/s4158…

You can now write a story (excluding the letters B, J, O, U, X and Z) and then feed it into alphafold and make a folded protein out of your story:

Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain 🥳 Using cryo-electron tomography🔬, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!  biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Transit app now has great bike coverage as well as bus coverage!

You are looking at the first planting of a gene-edited crop in Italy! CRISPR grapes resisting Downey mildew disease. annameldolesi 🇺🇦 mycrispr.blog/2024/09/30/cri…

Let's get more people riding! Join Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2025 - the online community for getting more people enjoying riding. lovetoride.net/dunedin?ic=dc2…

Just 5 days left to make a submission to the Gene Technology Bill. I am very happy with the overall direction the government has taken with this legislation.