🚢🦠 #NZ The Australians and New Zealander will instead “first spend up to two days in the Netherlands, instead of returning direct from Tenerife.”

#NZ 🦠 Measles: fourth case in Wellington – Measles is likely circulating in Wellington Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ update: www.healthnz.govt.nz/health-alert... Locations of interest (no new LOIs yet added at the time of writing, but keep an eye on it): www.healthnz.govt.nz/health-topic... RNZ story ⬇️

#NZpol Good longer-form piece explaining why ⬇️

🖥️ Heads-up to Linux users, if you haven’t heard already – Incl. #bioinformatics people!

🚢🦠 All passengers now disembarked from MV Hondius. I haven’t seen much about what’s happening to the crew in Western media. The Manilla Times say, “the 38 Filipino crew members aboard the MV Hondius will undergo a mandatory six-week, or 40-day, quarantine and monitoring period in the Netherlands.”

Slightly increase a band Crowded Houses

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

#NZpol Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits – “designed to give businesses certainty”

Final reminder that applications for the LMB’s Rising Talent Fellowship close on 17 May. If you’re a Black heritage scientist looking for a postdoc position in molecular biology or associated biomedical sciences, click here to learn more about the Fellowship: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...

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🖥️🧬 Preliminary analysis of Orthohantavirus andesense virus sequences from a cruise-ship related cluster, May 2026.

🚢🦠 There’s a FAQ linked in this post ⬇️ Ironically, the Q&A in the post isn’t elaborated there, AFAICT. Maybe that’ll be updated soon?

🍎🖥️📱 26.5 update out – not very exciting, but hopefully a few more bugs squashed! – new Pride-themed wallpapers – beta for encrypted RCS messaging arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

🚢🦠 re the headline & post, my understanding of it is the *initial* quarantine period will be for 21 days, with them open to extending that to 42 days. Symptoms can take up to ~6 weeks to develop. (I’m not saying I agree with this approach, but clarifying what is being said.)

A little summary of some events. Version 1.

#NZ ⚽️ TVNZ did it again. Playing the 1News "from the start", delayed, it cut me off the last few minutes of the weather forecast. I hope they sort this out. I wouldn’t want the equivalent to happen in a FIFA World Cup match! 😠

Wikipedia can be a powerful teaching tool, but with such a massive resource at your fingertips, it can be hard to know where to start! We're pleased to share 'Wikipedia in Science Education', a resource designed for tertiary educators in Aotearoa New Zealand. 🔗 www.wikimedia.nz/wikipedia-in...

NZSL is pretty easy to learn the basics of. Getting fluent is always harder, in any language, but unlike some languages, you can get into basics quickly. There will be courses in most cities.

#NZ 🦠 Measles: fourth case in Wellington – Measles is likely circulating in Wellington Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ update: www.healthnz.govt.nz/health-alert... Locations of interest (no new LOIs yet added at the time of writing, but keep an eye on it): www.healthnz.govt.nz/health-topic... RNZ story ⬇️

Worth factoring in -

This is the coolest news! Goooooo Rachael!!! Will illustrious author Rachael King be faithful or a traitor?!

May also be of interest to those in the 🖥️🧬 space -

#NZpol Te Pāti Māori splits as MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi announces new Te Tai Tokerau Party

When I had to get the meningococcal vaccine to live in a dorm, my mom unprompted said when she was a nurse in the Army, she saw a case of it, young people who should have been very healthy, suddenly laid low and they couldn’t do anything about it as they seized, limbs turned black, and they died.

Balancing family, remote study and frontline surveillance 💪 Lauren Jelley’s doctoral journey was fuelled by determination and purpose. After graduating with a PhD in Genomic Epidemiology, Lauren is now focusing on tracking viral infections in Aotearoa 🦠  Read more here ⬇️

My ANDV #Hantavirus @nextstrain.org phylogenies now pull directly from @pathoplexus.org to incorporate all seqs I'll continue to improve them, & will keep them updated Change the Tip Labels in the left-hand menu. You can see links to all builds, plus tanglegrams at: nextstrain.org/groups/hodcr...

The sun rose above the horizon at 2:57 AM and won’t set again for 84 straight days or until August 2nd

One picture, thousands of years… 🗺️ Chester, England

🦠 Now there’s a name I remember. As a student with a hearing loss, I did a lot of cover reading to make up for not being able to follow lectures well. For some daft reason I set out to read 'General Microbiology' from cover to cover. Don’t ask me why, I can’t remember. LOL. 1/2

Baked-in epigenetic inheritance (Sorry, can’t help myself 😀 Above the core recipe, inherited down the generations.)

⚽️ Eh?

Seeing a lot of good questions about #hantavirus quarantine procedures European CDC on departing cruise ship passengers: ➡️ Considered high-risk of hantavirus ➡️ Recommends quarantine & monitoring at home for 6 weeks www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Worth factoring in -

Also a timely reminder that this is the regime behind the clever memes and playing for a stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz -

#NZpol Deciding “to abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority is, frankly, curious. In an election year when ministers are hyping up concern about news coverage, with 1News particularly in their sights, the decision to shut down the most powerful media regulator seems to go against the tide.”

Many interesting snippets of history and literature in discussions about 'AI'.*

#NZ Climate change impact Far North settlement could be first place in NZ to entirely relocate – To escape repeated floods – A longer story (some might want to keep it for the lunch break?)

The full story is subscribers-only, sharing for the post.

Instead try name the particular technique used, and give a brief explanation of how it’s being used. 'AI' is an over-arching moniker to a wide range of techniques, and the term is something of a misnomer.

🚢🦠 WHO onward plans for MV Hondius cruise ship passengers, for those wanting a glimpse at "the details". The second (next post) covers the management of contacts. 🧵⬇️

#NZpol Deciding “to abolish the Broadcasting Standards Authority is, frankly, curious. In an election year when ministers are hyping up concern about news coverage, with 1News particularly in their sights, the decision to shut down the most powerful media regulator seems to go against the tide.”

I was going to suggest knuckle bone champion, but this reply suggests she was a champion winner-take-all gamer of her day: bsky.app/profile/azte...

This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography

Committee recommends disestablishing Environment Ministry despite public opposition

#solar #water #renewable #energy 🧪 www.bgr.com/2163848/aust...

#NZpol Just hearing in passing that Willis will be on Breakfast tomorrow. (Hope I have that right!)

The Wellington Phoenix Women's team are the first New Zealand club to qualify for an @aleagues.bsky.social final!!!! You bloody beauties 2-0 win & 3-2 on aggregate over Brisbane GET IN HISTORY

🚢🦠 Cruise ship arrives in Tenerife; Spanish Science Media Centre, Expert Reactions – “The cruise ship affected by hantavirus has arrived in Tenerife, where it will anchor to facilitate the repatriation of the passengers and part of the crew” English link: sciencemediacentre.es/en/cruise-sh...