Bevan Weir

@rhizobia.nz

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New Zealand mycology / bacteriology scientist at Manaaki Whenua working on 🍄 #fungi and 🦠 #bacteria taxonomy mostly using 🧬 on 🧫. Hobbies: #fountainpens, #cycling, #homebrew, #photography, and #archery website: https://rhizobia.nz/about

sea lion with head raised, covered in beach sand. flys surround the head.
Panorama image of a beach in the distance flanked by green hils
a small gull with a dark black bill, looking up towards the sun. standing on grass.
Royal spoonbills, a white bird with a curious black spoon-shaped bill
screenshot showing silly suggested spelling correction
Tiny 12V 5W bulb
a kingfisher bird with bright blue wing feathers and white to tan chest feathers perched looking to the left
unusual airplane flightpath
plane flight tracking
bird caught in the act of slipping over as it tries to drink from a sugar water feeder
small green, brown, and grey bird with a striking white rim around its eye perching on a small twig
example mushroom you could be working on!
View from airplane widow in flight with sea and coastline
a pair of possums fighting and jumping around in a tree
The new toxin-producing species Pseudopithomyces toxicarius with sporulation on grass, photo growing on agar plates, and microscopy images of the spores
Auckland city landscape photo
seven different fountain pen inks in bottles with pens filled with each ink in front. The ink colours are sparkling gold, dark coffee, shimmer green, orange, dark brown, grey, and blue
Flag of Canada
Wine glass with pink slushy liquid
A line graph. the res line at the top is fairly consistent temperate at 21 degrees celsius. A blue line below is a curve from high to low.
A glass of coffee with ice cubes, in the background a paper bag of mt Atkinson coffee
circuit diagram
A bottle of “broken heart” whiskey and glass
A custom fridge with three beer kegs and several beer cans
Screenshot showing abnormally high heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature during sleep last night
Arrow with purple and white vanes (fletches) being repaired, mounted in a jig. A tube of cyanoacrylate glue sits on the bench
Large dark area of burnt grass on mountain
apparently user 1,332,713
branded polo shirt from mountain green archery club. Green and black triangles geometric design.
outside picture of a conferece venue with a 'welcome to the conference' sign.
Judith Collins tweet from 16 May 2013
Speakers in front of a ‘save science’ sign
Diseased banana cut open, inside is a hard fibrous red mass along with normal banana fruit
Archery target with 8 arrows in the gold centre of the target
Luxon sign at the protest
Crowd at the protest
Photo of mycologist Dr Bevan Weir and TV presenter Hilary Barry
Southern Hemisphere night sky with the milky way
oleander plant leaves with small black swollen galls
Lets try that again
wax-eye / tauhou bird spots the camera
an orange recurve archery bow sitting on a grass background
Photo of a kingfisher sitting on a washing line,
photo of Ukrainian beer 'obolon' can and beer poured into a glass
Cover of the book "the Forgotten Forest" by Robert Vennell
Photo of speaker at podium in church
A histogram showing The number of boys born in New Zealand called "Bevan" each year since 1900. A peak in boys named is around 1975, with fewer than 10 per year after the year 2000
a photo of a native New Zealand bird the stitchbird - hihi - Notiomystis cincta
screenshot of deck.blue
two side by side computer fans. old on the left, new on the right.