Taylor Gallagher
@taylorigallagher.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate | Aspiring Visionary Scientist | Future Leader in Biodiversity Conservation
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Joseph Guhlin
19 days ago
🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest
#penguins
. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho
#conservation
#genomics
#birds
#nzwildlife
#endangered
#wildlife
#nature
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bioRxiv Genomics
4 months ago
Dissecting functional regulatory convergence over 160 million years of therian evolution
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.662670v1
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Mathieu Preußner
4 months ago
1/2 🧬🎨 When gills do Pointillism! For this
#FluorescenceFriday
, here’s a dissected gill arch expressing nuclear fgf10b:nEOS — depth color-coded: blue for medial filaments, yellow for lateral ones.
#Zebrafish
#DevBio
#Microscopy
#Gills
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises - Nature Ecology & Evolution
First-instar orchid mantis nymphs avoid predators by mimicking black-red assassin bugs, whereas those in later instars avoid predators and attract prey by camouflaging themselves as lighter-coloured f...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02737-0
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Nic Rawlence
4 months ago
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Are claims of de-extincting the moa more hype than science?
Emile Donovan speaks to Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, Director of the University of Otago's Palaeogenetics Laboratory.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018994921/are-claims-of-de-extincting-the-moa-more-hype-than-science
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Erin Delargy
4 months ago
Very excited to present on Wednesday at GSA this year on my HCR and spatial transcriptomic data for honeybees! I'm on at 12 in OGGB5 in the Sir Owen Glenn building!✨
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Very excited to be speaking this week at
#GSA
about our current work on velvet worms! 🐛 Come along to the Sir Own Glenn Building (OGGB3) on Wednesday 9th July at 12:00PM to hear all about a gigantic genome, slime gland transcriptomics, and more!
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Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur: Current Biology
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Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur
Marx et al. report the first detailed study of fossilized plesiosaur soft tissues. These show that plesiosaurs possessed both smooth body skin and scaly flippers.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2900001-6
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‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature
Insects use “crazy turning” to dry off after a cooling dip in water
https://www.science.org/content/article/absolutely-insane-dragonfly-s-extreme-loop-loops-are-unparalleled-nature
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As an early-career researcher, I loved doing outreach. So I made it my career
“My new path wasn’t as straightforward as the academic route,” this educator writes
https://scim.ag/42iV4gH
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Daniel Ibrahim
12 months ago
🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺 Ever wonder how
#TADs
compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!! Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals! SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-024-01427-y
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Dr Kym Abrams
over 1 year ago
Since we've been talking about velvet worms (Onychophora), I've been looking for references and was struck by this thought - who did it it first - nature or Disney? Art imitating nature again 🤔😀
#InsertAnInvert2024
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Nic Rawlence
11 months ago
You can check out my and others expert opinions on new research showing an increased risk of climate-driven extinctions in
#NewZealand
biodiversity (
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
) here
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/06/n...
@smcnz.bsky.social
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NZ and Aus wildlife among most vulnerable to climate-driven extinction - Expert Reaction
New Zealand species are among the most vulnerable to extinction in a warming world, according to a global analysis of 30 years of research. The author finds that under a projected 2.7°C rise above pr...
https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/06/nz-and-aus-wildlife-among-most-vulnerable-to-climate-driven-extinction-expert-reaction/
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