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2013-06-17 01:25:00 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

Exciting news: we've just launched a blog that will describe the sequencing of the tuatara genome: why we are so keen to do it, how we'll go about and what we hope to learn: 

2013-03-29 09:04:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A few photos from fieldwork on Little Barrier Is. 

2013-02-12 01:08:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A new post on Darwin in New Zealand, New Zealand biology in Darwin's thinking and how me might celebrate Darwin Day here http://sciblogs.co.nz/the-atavism/2013/02/12/darwin-and-new-zealand/

2011-12-21 21:32:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

More from the garden: ladybird larvae 1 aphids nill

2011-12-21 03:04:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Back home in Masterton for christmas, and have run into a little ecosystem in the backyward. Ants by the thousands leaving a nest somewhere near the house, some of them off to tend to aphids on a shrub about 10m away. And where there are aphids there are ladybirds (this is the NZ native _Apolinus lividigaster_) and their wonderfully spikey larvae.

2011-12-06 20:48:56 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

I'm willing to bet you've never actually seen a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog. UNTIL NOW. :)
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2011-10-08 23:22:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Photos/pictures that will end up on my blog

2011-08-05 21:57:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So starting with this month's issue of Discover, I'm writing a mini-column called World's Scrappiest Creatures, about the awesome survival strategies of underdog animals. The first one is about snails that travel on the world's worst budget airline - they get eaten by birds and excreted out the other end.

If you've got any tips for future beasties, let me know. (Obviously not stuff I cover on Not Exactly Rocket Science) Especially if you've got the heads-up on stuff from smaller journals that I might not be aware of.

EDIT: I should clarify that this is essentially a news column, so it can't be just any random awesome animal. Has to be based on new science.

2011-07-22 23:37:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Our friends Bug Girl https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000637485019
and Tree Lobsters https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tree-Lobsters/53297023898
(amongst others) just had their profiles deleted, because of the "Real Names" policy.

Please submit feedback to Google, indicating that this is silly and unhelpful;
because the current policy will keep good people with nicks from using Google Plus,
and yet allow other people to register realistic-looking aliases.

Some discussion here, courtesy of Bug:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Real_Names%22_policy%3F
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/no_pseudonyms_allowed_is_google_pluss_real_name_po.php

2011-07-20 21:15:50 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

I did manage to snatch a to completely geek out about those snails that survive a trip through a birds gut. You can go read about why it matters, and how awesome Pacific Islands snails are in general, on the Scientific American guest blog

2011-07-18 22:37:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

eiei!!! vão com calma nos posts! ñ to conseguindo acompanhar!!!!

Me Espereeeeeeeeemmmmmm!!!!!

2011-07-18 05:34:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2011-07-07 03:57:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Scrapbook Photos

2012-10-24 07:32:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

David Winter changed his profile photo.