poops.nz NZ wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Variant analysis for last couple of weeks added. Almost all JN.1' (lineages with a JN.1 spike protein). While variation in levels over last 2 months, trend over last month is down / flat but levels higher than Sept/Oct.

Hey this is us... Jemma Geoghegan and I get to lead some really great early career researchers to dive deep into avian influenza in NZ and help us prepare for a highly pathogenic strain before it gets here.

Just back from seeing this live. Great goal, fun game and porirua park's the perfect venue for these games

Our media team hanging me out to dry showing my graph while saying health data isn't just lines on graphs...

Wasn't quite ready for this milestone...

Come and hear these fantastic speakers at the Pathogen Genomics satellite at Queenstown Research Week!

What, I'm speaking as well as organsing this!? This should be a really interesting/fun couple of days with a huge breadth of pathogen genomics topics covered. Prizes and travel awards for ECRs too, so please put an abstract in or come along!

poops.nz Updated dashboard -New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Weekending 19 May. Increase 📈trend nationally in levels in wastewater. KP.3 was at 22% weekending 5 May (delay due to seq machine issues). Another update on variants next week.

Finally a good way to measure sunlight hours on your property, unironically think this could be a valuable commercial tool

Some fun science today, sequencing a clinical legionella sample directly (no culturing step). Here is the gridion selectively spitting out host reads so we get more bacteria in our data

Week to 2nd June is the second week of national wastewater decline, but check you local catchment/region for how far through the wave at poops.nz Multiweek trend still not at peak, but then I was saying this week or next for that, not last week.

Everyone in the world needs to see my current manicure and nail art. Created by Ivy and team from Queen Beauty Salon on Bond St Wellington. Yes, they are hand-painted. #Bluey #Muffin #Socks #Bingo #nailart

Doesn’t really sound like a “war” then.

no words

poops.nz Updated dashboard -New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Week ending 30 June. Nationally, levels decreased again. Peak seems behind us now, for now. But at higher than low baseline a year ago. No variant update but graph added anyway- KP.3 at 50%.

poops.nz Updated dashboard - New Zealand wastewater COVID-19 surveillance. Week ending 14 July. Nationally, SARS-CoV-2 level is not too dissimilar to week before. 25 sites : 7 catchments in the South Island; rest in the North Island. No variant update.

Enormous show of opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill, with 150 organisations signing on to this open letter opposing it. Over 40 orgs signing a letter is significant in my experience. This is damning: scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2407….

Early bird registration is now open #OHA2024 The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 📅3-4 December 2024 📍University of Otago Wellington 💻In-person and online Key speakers & themes on #AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more! Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one…

Hoo boy, this is a bad idea. Objectively this is such a conservative and dated approach to ways of working that will backfire on the public service and we the public will pay the price Let me give you the reasons it’s not a good idea 🧵 rnz.co.nz/news/political…