Neil Gemmell
Geneticist. Pure + applied science mostly with a biodiversity bent. Inordinately fond of 🧬 🐟 🦭 🐋 and beer. Gaffs/typos due to lack of coffee, time, and/or mind-altering parasites. Eternal optimist. Rebel just for kicks.
- Reposted by Neil GemmellLanding in Dunedin Aotearoa in about 90 minutes for the start of a trip that represents the culmination of a dream I’ve had since I was ten years old.
- Reposted by Neil GemmellThis isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellThree German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
- Reposted by Neil GemmellNZ’s climate law to change – Expert Reaction
- Reposted by Neil GemmellAcademics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellJess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellOur latest preprint evaluates sampling strategies for the detection of avian influenza virus from the environment @profgemmell.bsky.social @dwinter.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Neil GemmellPrivate consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellFoundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
- Reposted by Neil GemmellThe White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellMay the anti-ICE movement continue to spread nationwide! This is the Los Angeles spirit your news broadcast isn’t showing…
- Reposted by Neil GemmellMy co-chair François Houllier and I are delighted with this resounding success, after 2 years of preparation and many hurdles to overcome. The recommendations will be presented to Heads of State and Governments tomorrow, the day before #UNOC starts. #OOSC #ScienceForTheOcean
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellPresidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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- I think in local parlance this is called “Selling the farm to buy a tractor”…
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- Gutting to see Predator Free 2025 disestablished in the latest budget and rolled into DOC, which in turn is facing its own budget challenges. Lost funding and, more importantly, capacity and capability through this disestablishment makes the goal harder to achieve. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/26/i...
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- Reposted by Neil GemmellThe state of NZ science and research. Grossly underfunded. Watchdog warns of ‘grave danger’ if science reform botched newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/09/e...
- There you have it - when economists say slashing science finding may be dire, likely it is catastrophic.
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