Geneticist, Anthropologist, Bash & R Coder, Interdisciplinary Researcher, Microsoft Paint Artist
Dunedin City, New Zealand
Joined November 2015
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Tanya Major retweeted
Welcome to the teaching team @geeketics.
Dr Tanya Major is the new CELS191/BIOC192 Teaching Fellow.
A great factoid that we should all share more often. Will try remember this next time I'm teaching a @thecarpentries course.
I was today's years old when i learnt R programming language was created by a Māori statistician Ross Ihaka and his colleague Robert Gentleman at the U. of Auckland fb.watch/cm4tjpTX5K/
To anyone grumbling that #wordle has changed since NYT took over, it has barely changed, they've mostly removed offensive words.
Detecting changes in the #Wordle dictionary between the "original" and "New York Times" variants. The word lists are easily found within the source code.
(There is a separate list of "solution words" too, but let's start with the main "valid guess" dictionaries).
Tanya Major retweeted
There’s interest in role of diet in #gout. However, few studies have been conducted in people with gout; one shouldn’t just extrapolate from general population studies. Diet is adjunctive at best. ULT is mainstay for definitive mgmt. @G_CANgout sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Tanya Major retweeted
Sympathy, overwhelm, distrust, pity, helplessness...
I am researching the feelings & responses people have to viewing medical crowdfunding campaigns❤️🩹⚕️💻💰👀
New Zealand people, I'd love your help to complete (and/or share) my anonymous 10-15min survey bit.ly/3wL8DTp
Medical crowdfunding is a fundamentally social phenomenon. But little is known about the affective & moral engagements of audiences/potential donors.
We are gathering data via (10-15min) survey, from anyone in NZ who has viewed a campaign in the last year: bit.ly/3wL8DTp
New tapir fact! Each toe counts as a hoof. 😮😮
Tapirs are odd-toed ungulates: they have 14 hooves - four on each front foot, three on each back foot. They may be large, solid animals, but they are able to walk quietly and delicately when required to.
#TapirTuesday
Tanya Major retweeted
Assistant Research Fellow needed immediately in the Gardner Lab to help identify functional RNAs in transcriptomes, evaluate bioinformatic software, & manage the lab.
Required background: maths/stats/biochem/genetics & research lab experience
otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
@ppgardne
Ok twitter, how long do you keep looking for something before giving up and labeling it lost forever? I'm so angry I've lost my hei matau and really don't want to think of it being gone forever. Last confirmed sighting - a selfie from September 14th 😭
"30 Fellows will be selected for a two-year Fellowship to undertake research in any field (including the humanities, mātauranga and social science) at an eligible New Zealand research institution."
mbie.govt.nz/science-and-tec…
Going through the old newspapers we found when renovating our house - here's a job advertisement for a biochemist at @otago from 1981!
@OtagoBiochemist #coincidence
Several abstracts (including ours) at #ACR2020 look at the link between diet and gout/urate levels - all encourage less focus on diet when treating #gout.
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@TonyMerriman2 @MurrayCadzow
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The folly of dietary restriction in contemporary gout? | RheumNow rheumnow.com/news/folly-diet…
Little Girl wanted to join @Hilary_Barry's #formalfriday by wearing her best dress today. She's a little late to the party, but hopes you'll forgive her - she's only a week old.
Tanya Major retweeted
Job Opportunity: Identifying the function of non-coding variants in metabolic disease in Māori and Pacific people using novel cell-based tools and enhancer assays in zebrafish
More details on our website: blogs.otago.ac.nz/go/careers…
@LeaskMegan @OtagoBiochemist
Ten years ago I was handing in my gene honours dissertation. Today my first student is handing in hers!
So proud of the effort she's put into this project and what she's achieved - even before you remember she did this during a pandemic!
@GeneticsOtago #AcademicTwitter #handinday
Tanya Major retweeted
Kia ora 🌏,
My #PhD student Laura is looking for researchers (18+ and working with #genetic #data) to take an anonymous 5-min online #questionnaire about lab sample mix-ups:
🖱️auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/j…
Re-tweeting appreciated! Thank you! 🧬💡
@ScienceUoA @GenomicsNZ @ZSLScience
Question time was worth listening to today
Journo: "Is it irresponsible of a cabinet minister to put info to the public that hasn't come from a reputable source?"
PM: "He said he got the info from a journalist so perhaps we should turn that question back on you. Next question."