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Paul Gardner

@ppgardne.bsky.social

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Bioinformatics, RNA, benchmarking & educating to fund kayaking and fishing. Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand. From Whāngārā.

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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 14h

Opening for an epidemiologist at my organisation, the Pacific Community (SPC). Based in Suva; not in my Statistics division but in the Public Health Division next door. Applications close 26 October Fiji time. careers.spc.int/job/epidemio...

Epidemiologist - Infectious Diseases

Noumea, New Caledonia or Suva, Fiji based position Attractive expatriate package Join the principal development organisation in the region Description The Pa...

careers.spc.int

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 18h

The "heckle" was Mik helpfully reminding me what department I worked in, when I momentarily forgot... this will haunt me for a while.

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm, we might need a meta-meta-analysis!

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

"The Government will continue to invest in a broad range of research activities including blue skies, strategic, mission-led, applied, commercialisation and business facing."

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

"Each pillar will use a mix of tools that can include contestable grants, mission‑led research platforms, strategic capability‑building schemes and infrastructure support."

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

"Public investment in science will be guided by four pillars of national importance focused around the economy, environment, health and society, and technology."

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

"A new independent board, Research Funding New Zealand, will bring together multiple decision-makers, including the (MBIE) Science Board and Marsden Fund Council, to make future funding decisions."

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

Gotcha -- could be worse -- I grew up rural with a party line, shared with all neighbours. We had to know which ring was ours & say "working?" after picking the phone up. ;-P

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 1d

You still have a landline?

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 2d

*scraped

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 5d

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Staff Scientist

About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 5d

Sure, which is so easily subverted as to be meaningless. This only protects against the most naive of user.

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone that thinks email is a secure means of communication is kidding themselves.

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 8d

I regret to inform you that my lab only wears long-sleeve denim jackets. Best of luck with your future endeavours.

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 8d

There's a reason why a negative binomial is used to model RNA-seq data rather than a mean value. The people computing IF don't understand this -- and many other things...

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 8d

I love the RNA journal, but not because of its impact factor!

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 8d

Fewer papermill pubs slipping through? Also, American date format, or normal?

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 9d

Shocker.

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 9d

In AoNZ at 18 you can:
-be tried as an adult
-serve the NZDF
-buy alcohol & cigarettes
-vote
-drive a class 2 truck
-work fulltime, including in a bar
But according to NZGovt CoC these are children 🙄

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 10d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 9d

Shockingly apt. Monday morning gift from @petermace.bsky.social

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 12d

There's a Dunedin-Ōtepoti based crime series?! Yes please! Thanks @vandasymon.bsky.social

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 14d

Sent this to a friend yesterday, who had never heard of it, so re-upping for other Ōtepoti Dunedin folk who are finding the whole voting thing a bit overwhelming.

Mark Baxter @tartanperil.bsky.social · Sep 11

#Dunedin peeps - my Leftie-progressive DCC-ORC Voters Guide is finally completed and live....
Please feel free to share far and wide if you find it helpful (because, with suspicious timing, I've been blocked from my usual platform it gets good distribution on 😢 ).
tinyurl.com/BaxtersLefti...

Baxter’s Leftie/Progressive

Baxter’s Leftie-Progressive DCC & ORC Election Guide 2025 V1.1 Last Updated: 11/09/2025 No idea which of the seemingly 100s of candidates lean to the Left or Right? Or who won’t flog off our asse...

Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 14d

a person is holding a red and white cup in their hand .

ALT: a person is holding a red and white cup in their hand .

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 14d

Who says statisticians don't have fun?