User:Adrian J. Hunter

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Me in real life
I teach biology, biochemistry and genetics to science and medicine students at The University of Adelaide.

This user is an educator.

This user has a PhD in molecular genetics.

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user is interested in
Molecular Biology.

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

This user comes from Adelaide, South Australia.

Peer reviewed papers

Hunter, A. J.; Jin, B.; Kelly, J. M. (2011). "Independent duplications of α-amylase in different strains of Aspergillus oryzae". Fungal Genetics and Biology. 48 (4): 438–444. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2011.01.006. PMID 21277379.
Hunter, A. J.; Morris, T. A.; Jin, B.; Saint, C. P.; Kelly, J. M. (2013). "Deletion of creB in Aspergillus oryzae Increases Secreted Hydrolytic Enzyme Activity". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79 (18): 5480–5487. doi:10.1128/AEM.01406-13. PMC 3754153. PMID 23835170.
one to come...

Lame claim to fame
The founder of Aspergillus genetics was Guido Pontecorvo. Pontecorvo had a collaborator, who had a PhD student, who had another PhD supervisor, who had another PhD student, who had a PhD student, who had a PhD student, who is me.

Me in Wikipedia
Most of my day-to-day edits are in response to changes I see in my watchlist. I repair vandalism and spam, tweak new additions, and respond to talk page comments. When time permits I copyedit, do WikiGnome stuff, and respond to edit requests—if you're a friendly and capable person, Wikipedia really needs your help on that last job.

This user page averages around 150 views per month. I've no idea why.

This user assumes good faith.

This user has been helping the Internet not suck since 2006.

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This user page has been vandalized 27 times.

This user is not a prose nazi and sees no problem with a list or a table being on an article.

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This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

Other stuff
80,000 Hours has advice about how to do the most good in your career.
Givewell identifies the most cost-effective charities.
Clearer Thinking can help you become a more effective person.

0.{\bar {9}}=1

This user knows that 0.999... is exactly 1.

This user has been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

Hanlon's Razor

This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. ^†

Shinies

This user is the proud winner of a Silliest wikilink of the month award.

This editor is a
**Veteran Editor IV**
and is entitled to display
this
**Gold Editor Star**.

		The Bio-star
		For repeated demonstration of academic level insight, and encylopedic rigor on bioscience pages. NickCT (talk) 15:02, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
		This Modest barnstar is awarded to Adrian J. Hunter for copy editing articles totalling 4,199 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa ^(Talk) 14:46, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your courteous help at the Help Desk. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for helping me figure out that diff thing. A significant improvement. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:24, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Adrian J. Hunter for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:41, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	I love the way you both met the immediate need and also explained how to do it. Now a lot more people know that this is possible and can try it out themselves. Thanks. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:47, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

	Barnstar of Royal Fiat
	Thank you for making me smile. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:44, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The 2019 Cure Award

In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Highs and lows of my WikiCareer

Met Jimbo [1]
Wrote a FAQ [2]
Defended Tyrion [3]
Exposed citogenesis [4] (What?)
Cracked a tough one [5]
Received mystery thanks [6]
Encountered my antithesis [7]
Spoiled a romantic gesture [8]
Responded to a creationist [9]
Got thanked after 53 weeks [10]
Got answered after 9.3 years [11]
Shrank a page by 189823 bytes [12]
Inspired a quasi-religious response [13]
Said yes to a question asked in jest [14]
Added a link to a page about overlinking [15]
Caught a copyvio that had stood for 27 months [16]
Cleaned up after some Japanese pharmacy students [17]
Replaced the entire contents of one page with those of another [18] (Follow-up)
Explained the Ninety-ninety rule [19][20][21]
Insisted bull sharks' diet does not include humans [22][23][24]
Changed mould back to mold [25][26][27][28][29]

Things I've been accused of

Being a virtue signalling tool (response)

Gallery

My babies: four of the Aspergillus strains I worked with during my PhD.
This grape marc from South Australia's Barossa Valley smells divine.
This Capsela model can turn itself around after running into a wall.
Although there are 10 mm in 1 cm, there are 100 mm² in 1 cm². (Used in Area – needs larger numbers and conversion to .svg)
The large size and natural pigmentation of these red onion cells make them ideal for microscopy training.
I had to stand on my roof to remove this widowmaker from above my house.
Gastric caeca...
...tracheal system...
...and crop of a cockroach.
Artemia salina (brine shrimp) cyst...
...and larva.
Pollen cones of Pinus radiata
Lacewing
Sori of a sword fern
Custom demands that all long-time Wikipedians must upload a picture of their cat. So here's Princess.
Whopping rain moths from around uni
Lizzy the sleepy lizard shed most of her skin in one go.
These Posidonia australis fruit were collected as part of a citizen science project to help restore South Australia's seagrasses.
Novel explanation of haploinsufficiency

Long-standing errors I've found and fixed (also, a reminder we still have a way to go)

Glycolysis does not produce FADH₂, but the lead of Glycolysis said it did for nearly 5 months, and the error was viewed ~250,000 times.
Glycerophospholipids are not "almost exclusive to plant and animal cell membranes", but Glycerophospholipid said they were for nearly 2 years, and the error was viewed ~150,000 times.
T cells cannot also be called "thymocytes", but the lead of T cell said they could be for over 5 months, and the error was viewed ~250,000 times.
Protein-coding genes comprise ~28% of the human genome, but C-value enigma said ~1.5% for 5.5 years, and the error was viewed ~100,000 times.
Pyruvate carboxylase is present in muscle, but the lead of Pyruvate carboxylase said it wasn't for over 7 years, and the error was viewed >150,000 times.
Cyclic photophosphorylation does not involve photosystem II, but Photophosphorylation said it did for over 6 months, and the error was viewed ~50,000 times.
Water potential is not the opposite of osmotic potential, but the lead of Osmotic pressure said it was for 6.5 years, and the error was viewed ~2,000,000 times.
Transposons are not "primarily prokaryotic", but we classified them thus for nearly 3 years in a NavBox transcluded in 17 articles.
This is not a type II survivorship curve, but Survivorship curve said it was for nearly 5 years, and the error was viewed >200,000 times.
Endothermic process was vandalised to give "cooling ice" as an example, and the error persisted for nearly 4 months and was viewed ~50,000 times.
Humans do not produce 50% male offspring, but Y chromosome said they did for over 20 months, and the error was viewed >400,000 times.
These two images incorrectly included CO as one of the gases in the Miller-Urey experiment, and the error stood for nearly 7 years, was viewed >1,000,000 times on the English Wikipedia, and propagated to 25 other language Wikipedias.

And the winner is...

The casein:whey ratio in milk varies greatly between species, but Milk just said it was around 80:20 for over 12 years, and the error was viewed over 3.5 million times just in the last four years.

For more about these errors and others, see User:Adrian J. Hunter/Errors.

How to be elite

How to ask for help [30]
How to talk to a bot [31]
How to vandalise a userpage [32]
How to write an edit summary [33]
How to defend a company's honour [34]
How to subtly sneak in some corporate promotion [35]

Interesting things

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