Ana Claasen

Do you think I can find a recipe online?? 🤤🤣

Gotta admit that I liked it too

The HPAI H7 genome which caused NZ's FIRST EVER HPAI outbreak has been released.
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

It looks like it's suffering from a shelf fungus, in a good way!

5 years on, COVID remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response Hospitalisations and deaths attributed to COVID have dropped significantly since a peak in 2022. But a new variant could still reverse the trend quickly.

🦠 #NZ From @amandakvalsvig.bsky.social and other public health researchers (esp. @phcc.bsky.social)

5 years on, COVID remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response

Article from @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/5-years-on-c...

YouTube video by Roche Introducing Roche Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) Technology

Catching up on recent news in the genomics world by watching Roche's SBX technology intro, it's pretty trippy seeing the 13 yr old video from Stratos Genomics which is almost word for word identical for the first 60 seconds...! youtu.be/G8ECt04qPos vs youtu.be/ADzIXItP4hE

Welcome to the dark ages, where the stakes have never been higher

From the University of Auckland - Opinion: The appointment of conspiracy theorist RFK Jr as US Secretary of Health and Human Services is a catastrophe for public health.

Truly terrifying stuff happening in the USA right now. It's horrifying to watch 😥

Screenshot of the Firefox extension: “Welcome to the Official Internet Archive Wayback Machine Browser Extension! Go back in time to see how a website has changed through the history of the Web. Save websites, view missing 404 Not Found pages, or read archived books & papers. Most features will work without requiring an account including Save Page Now. Some features must be enabled from Settings. Turn on Private Mode to prevent automatic sending of data and to protect your privacy while browsing. Features • Save Page Now - Instantly save the page you are currently viewing in the Wayback Machine.”

The Internet Archive has tools that let you manually preserve a web page snapshot, and check to see if older versions are backed up, just in case that’s relevant today for some reason. web.archive.org

Scientists to Govt: Put your money where your mouth is

Cabinet wants more productivity out of the science sector, but isn't willing to boost funding to match the output of target countries.

Yesterday’s release with deeper analysis of the announcement and SSAG report. Read the full version at scientists.org.nz/news/13454342

Lol yes loads of "affordable" options for kids clothes eh, have you tried that little boutique at Capital Gateway? /s 🫠
I'm very grateful for hand-me-downs, a close Kmart, trade me and opshop resellers

Ah yup, gotcha. Yes not having a big box store like the Warehouse or Kmart in the inner city must be frustrating. Even Farmers in town isn't a full range store huh

Are they planning to close the Crofton Downs location?

Nomad pots🌿✨

Shake-up for science sector New Zealand’s seven Crown Research Institutes to be grouped into three new organisations.

NZAS co-president @lcsnz.bsky.social :
“The message to scientists from this govt is clear: they are expected to be a source of revenue rather than working for the public good, and anything they do that isn’t directly linked to economic gain is of little interest"
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/science-s...

Crown Research Institutes to merge into three mega science groups NIWA, GNS, ESR and numerous other bodies are set to be pulled together.

Crown Research Institutes to merge into three mega science groups
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A laptop lid covered in stickers of birds and butterflies, plus a grumpy rock, the meme dog "This is fine" surrounded by fire, and a cat wrapped in a blanket with the caption "Okay that's enough "today" for me. I'll just be a burrito over here thanks."

I'm channeling pretty much all the angsty stickers on my laptop lol

I gasped when I saw that!!

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed A long-delayed report expected to overhaul the science sector is due to be released.

Spare a thought for your science friends today (again). Whatever it is will undoubtedly leave everyone feeling a bit of uncertainty

Future of Crown Research Institutes to be revealed www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Here's a progression of the sunrise from pre-dawn through sunup.
I walked the beach for 75 minutes this morning, feet in the water, watching the dark sky slowly move through these colour shifts and into sunrise.
Papatūānuku. This is a special place.

New resources for Comirnaty JN.1 vaccines - Immunisation Advisory Centre

AoNZ peeps: the “new” JN.1 COVID is now available to those eligible

www.immune.org.nz/news/new-res...

Great thread on pertussis.
TLDR - make sure you're vaccinated, make sure your kids are vaccinated against this horrible disease

You should not expect to get pertussis and have everything be okay just because you get a 5-day course of azithromycin. Preventing pertussis disease is by far the best approach and there is nothing right now that works as well for that as being up to date on vaccines.

Pertussis is awful even if you’re not at high risk, but it literally kills and disables babies. The vaccines are not perfect, but keeping up to date and getting boosted in pregnancy is critical.

Your vaccination also protects the lives of babies under 1 who cannot be fully immunized. 10% of adults in NZ’s outbreak vs 2/3 of babies have had to be hospitalized.

Pertussis can make small children stop breathing and even a “mild” case in an adult can mean months of coughing so severe ribs break

Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape - Overland literary journal The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name...

"Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is _a story about Auckland_."

We interrupt our summer break to bring you this important piece by Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape.

I just stumbled on that too, horrifying and I almost wish I hadn't read it.