Ben Perry

Recombination has a major role in evolution. Sex-differences in recombination (yes!!) – heterochiasmy – are common but not well understood. Our new paper in @HeredityJournal examines heterochiasmy in the hihi/stitchbird using a high-density linkage map.🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s41437…

There has been comment by methane science accord members about breeding for reduced methane emissions in sheep here is the science-informed response ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rur…

We are looking for an Assistant Research Fellow to join the group and work on #phages as part of our @MBIEsci funded work. You must have right to live and work in NZ to be eligible. Details below otago.taleo.net/careersection/… please share

Scientific work is funny because you cross some work off your todo list and often you think, “finally, I can get to work”.

Further accolades for our Low Methane Sheep Breeding team, which has tonight been named as the recipient of the @royalsocietynz's prestigious Pickering Medal, as part of the 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa .... /3

A big congrats to our own Ken Dodds, named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics at its conference in Perth last night - for his outstanding contributions to the science of genetics and animal improvement #AAABG 🔬👏

We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist, or a Scientist with aligned skills, to join our @AgResearchNEWS Animal Genomics Team based near Dunedin, New Zealand. We welcome international applications from those that can obtain the required NZ visas. yourcareer.agresearch.co.nz/job/Scientist/…

Very cool to have portable accumulation chambers made by our team in NZ now being used in the UK - helping farmers to reduce their on-farm methane just like we are doing in NZ 🐑🔬. Read more👇 bbc.com/news/articles/… @SuzanneRowe101 @mcewanjc

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative nature.com/articles/d4158…

Kiwi-made tech in action overseas, helping to address climate change 🐑🧬🔬👇

Gets me hyped 👏 youtube.com/watch?v=3yHDy1…

1/2 #DYK? The reasons we chose to ban the six categories of single-use plastic items were because they: 1. are commonly found in the environment, 2.are harmful to wildlife and their habitat, ⬇️

The Jones Medal for a lifetime achievement award in pure or applied mathematics or statistics has been awarded for the first time this year in the @royalsocietynz Research Honours Aotearoa, and the inaugural winner is our own Dr Ken Dodds. Congrats, Ken! 👏🏅.... /3

Our research in the climate change/greenhouse gas space has netted us the Supreme Award in the @science_nz Awards for a second consecutive year - with our Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Inventory Development Team being honoured at tonight's awards dinner 👏🏆.... /3

The author of the #rust Pulp library came in, changed a few lines of my code, and got my reverse complement function from 2GiB/s to 23GiB/s. #bioinformatics

@TheAtavism @JosephGuhlin I think mamba is written in C++ while conda uses python, meaning mamba’s dependency solver is fasta

@JosephGuhlin mamba? I don't runderstand how it differs but can often solve these in minutes

Left conda creating an environment overnight, and since it's been 10 hours I'm gonna ctrl-c it and try something else.

THIS is the graphic that you all need to share today.

Since 1969 Strassen’s algorithm has famously stood as the fastest way to multiply 2 matrices - but with #AlphaTensor we’ve found a new algorithm that’s faster, with potential to improve efficiency by 10-20% across trillions of calculations per day! dpmd.ai/dm-alpha-tensor

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