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Jan Strugnell

@janstrugnell.bsky.social
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Marine biologist, evolutionary biologist, geneticist. Also @marine-omics.bsky.social

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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
the @marine-omics.bsky.social team had a great week at #icrs2026 in Auckland, NZ presenting our genomics research!
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Petrol powered new car sales now a minority in UK over year, and declining. It’s over. cleantechnica.com/2026/06/26/u...
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UK Sales of Electric Vehicles Just Overtook Petrol Cars for the First Time - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, accord...
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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Regional Director of Conservation Programs, Hawai'i (Coral Reef Alliance) Learn more here: coral.org/job-opportun... #coralreefs #jobs #coralreefalliance #careers #regionaldirector #hawaii #conservation #landandsea #coastalecology #marinebiology
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Regional Director, Conservation Programs (Hawai'i) - Coral Reef Alliance
Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is seeking a motivated and resourceful individual to support our work on the Hawai'i Hub Team.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Jeff Shima @drjeffshima.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dream job alert: Terrestrial vertebrate biologist/ecologist (tenure-track) in New Zealand! Join us @ Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Lecturer ≈ US Assistant Prof. NZ lifestyle, weird animals, & great colleagues Apply here: tinyurl.com/mubu7np8
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🌊 postdoc opening
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
#showyourstripes #ocean, #australia #brisbane, #globe
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Imagine being filmed alive in your own home for the first time in scientific history and the headline is “very ugly.” The goblin shark survives a kilometer down, ambushes prey with a jaw that fires like a slingshot, and predates most “cute” animals. Thankfully, it can’t hear you down there.
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This (very ugly) shark has finally been caught on camera in its natural habitat | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Known for its massive retractable jaw, the spooky footage shows the goblin shark lurking deep in the Pacific Ocean.
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Marine-Omics @marine-omics.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Looking for a great funded PhD project on the genomics of adaptation in Antarctic marine invertebrates? Look no further! www.marine-omics.net/phd-projects... @janstrugnell.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social 🐙🇦🇶🪸
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Projects on offer – Marine Omics
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New paper in TREE! - We argue that structural genomic variation may influence evolutionary processes in the Southern Ocean through time - shaping adaptation, diversification & divergence. 🇦🇶🧬🐟@lausally.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social @marine-omics.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ntherk.bsky.social @ntherk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Proud to see this paper from @akopyan.bsky.social's PhD published in Science, with co-first author @fishyomics.bsky.social Silversides adapt across a steep temperature gradient through multiple chromosomal inversions that maintain continuous trait variation rather than simple ecotype switches
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Read all about our adventures catching a real-life demogorgon from the Antarctic deep! @marine-omics.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social www.marine-omics.net/2026/03/04/f...
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In Current Biology! *Uncovering genetic hotspots in the Southern Ocean informs conservation action *Only 28% of genetic hotspots are protected *Keeping current & adopting proposed MPAs boosts hotspot protection @lausally.bsky.social @marine-omics.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 15/01/2026
Happy 25th birthday, @wikipedia.org! 🎂 The first edit in Wikipedia's database, to HomePage, was made on January 15, 2001, at 19:27 (UTC), and stated in its entirety "This is the new WikiPedia!" Over 65 million articles across 300+ languages. Here's to many more 🎉 #Wikipedia25 🧪
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Antarctica's Future is Our Future www.youtube.com/watch?v=YErA...
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Antarctica's Future is Our Future
YouTube video by SAEF - Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Check out our new paper 'Putting Structural Variants Into Practice: The Role of Chromosomal Inversions in the Management of Marine Environments' led by the fabulous Nadja Schneller @marine-omics.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Putting Structural Variants Into Practice: The Role of Chromosomal Inversions in the Management of Marine Environments
Major threats to marine species and ecosystems include overfishing, invasive species, pollution and climate change. The changing climate not only imposes direct threats through the impacts of severe ...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/12/2025
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Latest PBS Terra - Weathered episode is absolutely a must watch - extremely fast sea level rises are likely very soon!
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You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Anna Brüniche-Olsen @annabruniche.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non-Model Species #popgen #consgen doi.org/10.1111/1755...
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Accurate Runs of Homozygosity Estimation From Low Coverage Genome Sequences in Non‐Model Species
Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are increasingly being analysed using whole genome sequences in non-model species as a measure of inbreeding and to assess demographic history, thus providing useful inform...
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El Ess🌻🚫Dominionism @bonnietheconure.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“If a species as iconic as the African penguin is struggling to survive,” said one researcher, “it raises the question of how many other species are disappearing without us even noticing.” www.commondreams.org/news/african...
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62,000 African Penguins Starving to Death Highlights Humanity-Driven Extinction Crisis | Common Dreams
A study on starving African penguins highlights the devastating impact of human activity on the planet's biodiversity.
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums. www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
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Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490
About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and ...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
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Paul Williams @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
At present the issue is how to reinforce existing infrastructure or fortify shoreline, or relocate, Indigenous villages. In future decades major coastal cities around the world will face the same dilemma. Metres of sea-level rise are committed, even if we succeed in reaching net zero.
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Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · 10/11/2025
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
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Maria Sachkova @mariasachkova.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🪸 Two weeks to go! Please apply for this Postdoc position! 🪸
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Climate tipping points are close: scientists urge radical action before it’s too late Tipping point risks are interconnected. Most interactions among them are destabilising, meaning that tipping one system into disaster makes tipping another more likely. theconversation.com/climate-tipp...
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Climate tipping points are close: scientists urge radical action before it’s too late
Dangerous climate tipping points will threaten food, water and coastlines. They’re irreversible and only radically accelerated climate action can stop them now.
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Couldn't be more proud of my James Cook University honours student, Joshua Lesicar, who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for 2026. Josh will commence his DPhil at University of Oxford next year! www.jcu.edu.au/news/release...
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JCU marine scientist named 2026 Rhodes Scholar
Marine scientist and James Cook University (JCU) climate change researcher Joshua Lesicar will continue his studies at the prestigious University of Oxford after being named a 2026 Australia-at-Large ...
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#Plastic #ghostnets #australia 🌊🏝️🐢🪸🐟
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The ocean's least natural predator has come for Australia
Illegal fishing is ravaging the world's oceans of fish and shellfish but it is what is left behind that is creating a mess for governments worldwide and of Australia's most remote beaches.
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Applications now open for the position of Director of Pacific Biosciences Reseach Center, at University of Hawaiʻi. PBRC fosters cutting-edge research across cellular, molecular, developmental, ecological, evolutionary, and conservation biology—with a focus on Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".
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James Cook University @jcuofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🌋🌊🪸🐟 As part of an international team of researchers, @jcuofficial.bsky.social PhD candidate Lucy Southworth is studying what's happening on the seafloor three years after the 2022 eruption of the Tonga underwater volcano. Listen to the full SBS News story 🎧 👉 tinyurl.com/3c8fp5cf
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The effects of Tonga's massive volcanic explosion linger, three years on
It's been more than three and a half years since one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recent history left devastation in Tonga. An Australian-led scientific team has been studying the area s...
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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30C warming above South Pole flips Australia's spring weather forecast
Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for months.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Maarten De Brauwer @maartendb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Job opening! CSIRO @csiropublishing.bsky.social is currently hiring 2 #eDNA Postdoctoral Fellowships! sednasociety.com/2025/09/04/j...
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Job opportunities: 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships at CSIRO
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is currently recruiting two eDNA Postdoctoral Fellows. Applications close on October 5th. More information and links below. CSIRO Postdoctoral Fell…
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Nick Golledge @nick-golledge.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Any philanthropists out there that would like to support some Antarctic-focused climate change & ecosystem science? I have some ideas, and a great team...
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Australian Museum Eureka Prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🏆 Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is awarded the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM #EurekaPrizes @janstrugnell.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social @nick-golledge.bsky.social
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Peter Mumby @petemumby.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New 2yr postdoc position @ University of Queensland on coral distributions and Allee effects. Must have permission to work in Australia uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🚨Job alert Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO). tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
An open door leading to the reefer of the Gulf Coast Repository with core sections stacked in shelves.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
“Sea-level rises of multiple meters mean global political instability that will dwarf what we’re seeing right now.” - @profmattengland.bsky.social #Antarctica #ClimateEmergency grist.org/climate/anta...
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Antarctica is in extreme peril
New research catalogs several “abrupt changes,” like a precipitous loss of sea ice, unfolding in Antarctica with dire implications for us all.
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Jan Strugnell @janstrugnell.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Emerging evidence for abrupt #Antarctic changes: declining sea ice, slowing ocean circulation, reduction in ice sheets and changing ecosystems. theconversation.com/from-sea-ice...
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From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them
The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.
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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175 📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
So, what it's gonna be? Motherfucking windfarms!!! Or....motherfucking windfarms #Vattenfall #GHG #CO2
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Great Southern Reef Foundation @greatsouthernreef.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Giant Australian Cuttlefish are still gathering in large numbers and currently laying plenty of eggs, with the waters around Point Lowly remaining clean. Today, the SA Government is holding an emergency meeting to plan for risks from the harmful algal bloom spreading to the upper Spencer Gulf.
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Australian Museum Eureka Prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is a finalist in the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM #EurekaPrizes @janstrugnell.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social @nick-golledge.bsky.social
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Arko Lucieer @arkolucieer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A) The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project. careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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