@FreeLantern

Senior lecturer @UCNZ @UCNZSOPD, human, scientist, dad, partner, immigrant, and citizen of the world. Views are my own. RT and Like are not endorsements!

 Ōtautahi, Aotearoa
Joined March 2015
  • Tweets13.8K
  • Following3.7K
  • Followers1.8K
1.6KMedia
Kia ora twitter whanau, in an effort to increase our visibility to NZ high schools we have recently produced a video for our undergraduate Chemical Formulation Design major degree @UCNZSoPD! If you are a secondary school teacher in NZ please reach out! youtu.be/gyLATT4PzrE?si=b3DR…
1
2
8
632
I have been an official #MoBro for 8 years trying to raise funding for #Movember let's share some love and raise awareness for mental health and early cancer detection nz.movember.com/mospace/1346…
3
6
296
Ali Reza Nazmi retweeted
Bridget P@Bridgetpee18 Nov 2024
They’re certainly not in politics to improve the lives of every New Zealander are they… thepress.co.nz/nz-news/36048…

School lunches from cafe next door scrapped for $3 meals from 800km away

It’s a small rural school with 200 pupils. But it could not escape the school lunch shake-up.

thepress.co.nz
26
48
2
199
6,227
Ali Reza Nazmi retweeted
Science News@SciencNews14 Nov 2024
How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng @Nature #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science
7
634
27
2,528
432,270
Ali Reza Nazmi retweeted
All Blacks
@AllBlacks8 Nov 2024
Mana 😤 Rieko Ioane leads Kapa o Pango for the first time 🔥 #AllBlacks
47
559
83
3,405
137,677
This is very true...
Will Ratcliff
@wc_ratcliff8 Nov 2024
I guess it's because I study long-term dynamics in evolution, but I see the US, democracy, hell, even human civilization as being very young. We're barely 100 generations out from the bronze age collapse! Society is an experiment, we should have no expectation of stability.
195
As if Jason Momoa needed something to make him cooler than he already is ; he plays bass in a rock band! #offtata #christchurch
Jason Momoa@prideof_gypsi3s7 Nov 2024
This weekend! Tickets @ticketmasternz and link in bio! James Hay Theater! & Saint james theater ! Come watch @oof_tatata Mahalo for your support aloha j . @rotoruaevents @rotorualakescouncil @meilivodka @blancdistribution @oof_tatata @prideofgypsies
1
199
The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. -Camille Paglia
2
8
40
2,635
What I'd just say to you is, think about me and how amazing I am. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #FullOfHimself
42
32
5
216
10,230
#Movember day 1 is almost over; @MovemberNZ who else is in to change the face of men's health?
2
3
179
Did you know that bacteria remember their past for many generations? In this new preprint from us (@VillaniAlexis and Senen Mendoza) and Banin lab (@ShmidovE ), we reveal the "how?" and "why?" underlying a long-standing mystery in bacterial memory. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Multigenerational Proteolytic Inactivation of Restriction Upon Subtle Genomic Hypomethylation

Restriction-modification (R-M) systems, present in most bacterial genomes, protect against phage infection by detecting and degrading invading foreign DNA. However, like many prokaryotic anti-phage...

biorxiv.org
2
53
3
159
19,111
This is worth watching even if u don't follow US election (still a 50:50 race) and things getting even more volatile in Middle East, trump has interview with the Saudi state media promising peace..really what a bloody world we are living in today! youtu.be/rDmMYGhHoNE?si=om9I…
1
73
Ali Reza Nazmi retweeted
Mauri@mauriceraiti24 Sep 2024
Nicola Willis: When I look in those offices I see lots of empty desks. Yes Nicola and it’s not WFH. It’s the fact you’ve made 6000 public servants redundant.
10
106
4
677
7,781
I am @KiwiNet_NZ #2024KiwiNetAwards alongside @UCNZ team keeping fingers crossed for our nominees! – at Auckland Central, Auckland
1
6
141
Ali Reza Nazmi retweeted
Heather Hendrickson@DrHHNZ5 Oct 2024
I was on @radionz this morning talking about #phages and antibiotics! rnz.co.nz/national/programme…

Fighting antibiotic resistance

How can phages, the viruses of bacteria, be used to reduce agrichemical and antibiotic use? Dr Heather Hendrickson explains.

rnz.co.nz
1
8
57
2,861
I am at #TEUStrike @UCNZ alongside all the union member staff. #UnionStrong – at Ilam, Christchurch City
10
223
oh for real who could have guessed
20
38
3
401
8,208
Ali Reza Nazmi retweeted
Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill17 Sep 2024
Replying to @chartstswift
#ILoveTaylorSwift
156
527
30
15,557
163,223
Load more