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Star Trek and Sealife

Posted on April 23, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

I arrived back from Atlanta yesterday afternoon, my brain so fried by a week of conference action – science conference and fandom con – that this morning I incubated two tubes in the wrong incubators entirely. But I think I’ve … Continue reading →

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The Stuff You’re Made Of

Posted on April 2, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

When Mike asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year, I had an answer for once. It just wasn’t one he was expecting. I wanted to get my genotype. About ten years ago everyone got very excited when … Continue reading →

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Presentations

Posted on March 27, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

This was going to be the week I blogged about my recent acquisition of my genotype, but my brain has been well and truly fried by giving my first departmental seminar this morning, so that’s going to have to wait … Continue reading →

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New York: Part One

Posted on February 28, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

One of the things I like to tell people about Western Massachusetts which is both strictly true and kind of misleading is that we’re “only three hours from New York”, which makes it sound like an exciting day trip we … Continue reading →

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Getting Down To It

Posted on January 31, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

I’m staring down the barrel of this semester at uni with some trepidation. There are a number of major deadlines coming up, starting next week and not really stopping until mid-May. It’s basically like a preview of, you know, life … Continue reading →

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Te Ao Nui

Posted on January 15, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The non-graduate-student members of the department are gradually starting to drift back in from their winter holidays (the university shuts down for a month, but most grad students take about a week off, if that) to a slightly-more-snowy-but-not-really Massachusetts. Our … Continue reading →

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Originality

Posted on November 27, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

So I hear New Zealand had a general election the other day, which I did not cajole my American friends into staying up until 4am watching the results of and am not deeply depressed over. (On the other hand: Mike’s … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years And Counting

Posted on October 11, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

One of the major, if not the major, differences between the US and NZ postgraduate educational systems (apart from the fact that Americans call it the “graduate” system and we call it the “postgraduate” system) is that you can be … Continue reading →

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One Year On

Posted on August 15, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

A year ago last Friday, I was sitting in Christchurch Cathedral, listening to Helen Clark give a talk about development in the third world. It was three days before I was due to get on a plane and leave New … Continue reading →

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Seafloor at 4am

Posted on July 15, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

The telepresence cruise in Seattle we’re involved with has finally got underway, after several delays which illustrated why I really couldn’t be a full-time oceanographer (I have a tendency to get wound up by upcoming travel and even more wound … Continue reading →

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