Ex evo-devo biologist with a chronic problem of changing fields, now trying to understand what makes N. meningitidis tick.
Public health surveillance, microbial genomics, evolution, ecology, developmental biology, invertebrates, NZ native plants, gardening, cider, perry, malty beer, starry into space, wish I could draw
Biology Open is pleased to launch a new grant: BiO Global South Conference Travel Grants, to help ECRs based in the Global South attend international biological and biomedical science conferences.
Next application deadline: 19 June 2026.
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Phase 1: Nothing. It's fine, don't even ask.
Phase 2: Maybe take a bus? Work from home sometimes perhaps, if your boss says you can. Otherwise nothing.
Phase 3: Ooops. Should do something but we don't really know what. Plus we criticised covid response so much, can't really do much. We're in trouble.
Phase 4: Fuck. We screwed up. Should've saved some fuel, huh? Well too late now. Mad Max, I guess?
Incredible really. Bishop tells an infrastructure sector audience today that the fuel crisis could get ugly. "It's a scary prospect and I'm not 100% sure the public have quite worked it out yet". (Business Desk, sadly paywalled.) Well whose responsibility is that, do you think? We have banged on about this before, but Luxon is incapable of showing anything remotely like leadership and it is literally his job to do so. That comes with the title, 'Prime Minister', mate. Doesn't matter that the situation is not of his doing or that tough, difficult decision will need to be made. That comes with the territory. But his job is to model the behaviour, set the vision, inspire people to give of themselves, that kind of stuff. Instead he is missing in action and his own Ministers are saying, in effect, people don't understand what is going on. Fuck me, it is frightening how bad he is.
[Edit]. See non paywalled link below, thanks to @rimu
Transport Minister Chris Bishop has told an infrastructure sector audience he doesn’t think the public fully comprehend how bad the fuel crisis might get. “It’s a scary prospect and I’m not 100% sure the public have quite worked it out yet.”Bishop made the comments at an Infrastructure NZ conference in Auckland on Thursday where he also said the Government was planning for the worst when it came to the fuel crisis. “We do not want to get into a situation where the worst arrives, and we are doing eve...
the web application is available at :
I would be interested to hear feedback regarding bugs or any unexpected behaviour, any suggestions for the user interface, or any features you feel would be useful .
of course clinicians are going to use gen-ai, there has been zero mainstream debate about the consequences of doing so
just like they were using grammarly before now 🙈
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590645/health-nz-staff-told-to-stop-using-chatgpt-to-write-clinical-notes
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