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...

Delighted to see this high-quality marsupial reprogramming work from @lab-turner.bsky.social and kiwi @bryonyleeke.bsky.social (rdcu.be/emAjn). We also saw muted PGC reprogramming in brushtail possum rdcu.be/emAk5. Same is true for Zebrafish. Maybe eutherians and complete erasure is the outlier?

We're excited to publish our latest study led by Bryony Leeke @bryonyleeke.bsky.social and Wazeer Varsally, now out in @nature.com 🍾This study focusses on the epigenome of marsupial embryos 🦘 mapping DNA methylation in embryo development to specific embryo events www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Fascinating to learn more about the brushtail possum in its home range - and wonderful to see the NZ possum assembly (rdcu.be/ekB2O) helping clarify taxonomy.....Congrats Shelby Middleton, @pezoporus.bsky.social and co-authors academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Australia’s common brushtail possum has long been neglected in terms of its taxonomy. My amazing PhD student Shelby Middleton along with a stellar supervisor team has attempted to resolve this species. Check it here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Really proud of @sebasalco.bsky.social's mahi on this one, and grateful to the iwi and hapū who entrusted us with their ngā ika moana taonga. @royalsocietynz.bsky.social, University of Otago, Genomics Aotearoa and ORG.one provided funding, and thanks to all incl coauthors who provided tautoko!

Excited to see issue on ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation out @royalsociety.org Philosophical Transactions B. Thanks to authors & co-editors @liamfaller.bsky.social @andershlund.bsky.social Maria Barna. Wonderful cover Bulat Fatkhullin! #ribosomes royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Delighted to share our 'Androgen clock' paper in #PNAS ow.ly/Guts50ULghF - the first way to predict long-term androgen exposure using DNA alone. We so much more than the sequence we are born with! Stellar work (and animation - SOUND ON) by Dr Victoria Sugrue youtu.be/GL55yjMalII