Bioinformatics, RNA, benchmarking & educating to fund kayaking and fishing. Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand. From Whāngārā.
I walked the GENE 4th years through this story yesterday. They were suitably horrified. On a related note, how many retractions, links to papermills, research misconduct etc. should be allowed before the entirety of a group's work can be delisted from the academic record?
Paul Gardner1/8 Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are at the top of the evidence hierarchy. They influence clinical practice, policy and future research. So I was surprised to find a series of 12 reviews with remarkably similar PRISMA literature-search figures.
@rnasociety.bsky.social is pretty good!
Paul SmaldinoAcademics: What's a journal in your field that's great? I feel like they are a dwindling breed. Criteria: (1) No APC. Supports green or diamond OA. (2) High-quality and relatively fast peer review. (3) Editors who provide real curational value and exercise purposeful agency in the decision process.
I spent months hunting for missing essential & highly conserved ncRNAs in avian genomes -- eventually we realized they were all on microchromosomes.
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍🐦 Why are bird genomes so difficult to assemble? Birds have dozens of tiny, gene-rich microchromosomes that are frequently fragmented, misplaced, or missing from genome assemblies despite containing important genetic information. 📖 Read the publication: lnkd.in/gar-GrKZ #BirdGenomics #Biodiversity
Genomics Aotearoa (postdoctoral) Fellowships -- closing date is 17 June 2026: www.genomics-aotearoa.org.nz/about/fellow...
GA2.0 Fellowship Scheme | Genomics AotearoaCall for Expressions of InterestGenomics Aotearoa is establishing a Fellowship scheme to lift the capability building initiated during the first funding period to the next stage.www.genomics-aotearoa.org.nz"The sheer arrogance of this coalition Government, and its lack of accountability to the electorate is breathtaking." newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/a...
Anne Salmond: Democracy for saleAlmost daily, the rights of citizens to participate in decision-making are being stripped away, writes former New Zealander of the Year Dame Anne Salmondnewsroom.co.nz