#nhmrc Investigator grant anticipated outcomes Feb 202… Also 2pm Friday 27th Feb….waiting….

I'm starting to find that papers mis-cite my own papers in really, really perplexing ways. It's quite obvious why if you just go to that one hyped up tool and ask it about your own work... ChatGPT got my supervisor's name right but changed me to be a "William" (lol) and gave the wrong number

Do you or do you know someone impacted by bacterial #StrepA ? We are looking to hear from you! Use the QR code (or link) to register your interest in our Consumer Workshop to Help Shape the Future of a Breakthrough Vaccine to Eliminate Childhood Strep A Diseases. forms.office.com/r/7wjTxedG5G

Eric Trump's deal on Trump Tower Gold Coast is with developer David Young. His former company Young Land Corporation collapsed owing $28m to creditors. Largely uncontactable, he failed to file financial documents. ASIC were unable to locate him. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

One week left to register to the Bioimage Analysis with AI course in Pasteur! This June, 1 - 5. I give a bit more details in the thread below 👇

"Unfortunate but inevitable" 😜 More on the completely unworkable grant time-frames ARC recently introduced (up to 16 months!) & the 'oh well, maybe it'll improve?' responses provided by ARC reps in Senate Estimates. By @jsresearchpro.bsky.social for @resprofnews.bsky.social. No paywall.

1/ Updated preprint (v2) out on bioRxiv! A wonderful team effort with @nancyts.bsky.social, Lake-Ee Quek and others. “Capacity-Contribution Paradox: Fatty Acid Oxidation Compensates for Low Glucose-Derived Acetyl-CoA in Cancer” Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AI has huge potential to improve healthcare but there is limited evidence about how well AI tools work in low- and middle-income countries. We're launching the Evidence for AI in Health (EVAH) initiative, in partnership with the Gates Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation, to help change that.

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...

The CSIRO needs “at least” another $1 billion in funding over the next decade to arrest an existential slide propelled by crumbling facilities and the “sovereign risk” of losing its position as an international leader in research, writes Rick Morton. satpa.pe/VrkiwMM

I’ve officially started my lab at Monash University! 🎉 We’re diving into #cellgrowth and #lysosome biology, through the lens of molecular #structure and mechanism. I’m thrilled to say that PhD student scholarships are available—so please share widely and get in touch if you’re interested. 🤩

Excited to announce that Registration and Abstract Submission is now open for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting 2026! Please join us in Sydney for another great conference. Abstract deadline 20th April. Registrations deadline 6th May. Conference 20th-22nd May 2026 www.acmm.au

I know $1 billion sounds like a lot, but it's incredibly, astonishingly cheap to get the best minds to work over a decade on fundamental research critical to Australia. A decade!

Calling all Australian science writers! Entries are still open for The Best Australian Science Writing 2026 and the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2026. I’m delighted to be editing this year’s anthology!

This is not a dispute over nomenclature. The authors of the zombosome paper misrepresented our published data to justify introducing a new name. Whether intentional or unintentional, this misrepresentation should have not made it past peer review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just discovered $3 billion in extra nuclear sub spending between May and December $15.4B → $18.6B Where's the $3 billion going? Defence: "Take it on notice" That's enough money to build 10,000s public homes but for Defence it's pocket change they lost down back of the couch.

Last days to apply this position in our group! Do join us in this great Institute @crg.eu, with great colleagues, and help shaping the science and culture of our lab!

☕️🫰 Following Session 9 we have a morning tea to celebrate the UNESCO International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🎉, sponsored by Bio21 Platforms! EVERYONE is welcome to celebrate our fabulous Lorne Proteins women in protein science. 🧁🍪💜

Anyone ever tried super glue (cyanoacrylate) for mounting coverslips with stained mammalian cells, to be used for fluorescence microscopy? I'm looking for ways to conserve microscopy samples for a looooooong time...

I’m super excited to be opening a lab at WEHI. We’ll be focussing on how double-stranded RNA is regulated in cells, how failures in these pathways drive disease and new therapies to manipulate inflammatory responses to RNA. #newPI #RNAsky

Let's get this straight. Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election. After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Unrepaired DNA-protein crosslinks cause a process that leads to premature aging and embryonic lethality in mice. The findings in Science reveal a previously unrecognized link between defective DNA repair and immune-driven inflammatory disease. https://scim.ag/4qdZWf9

Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

It’s out! 🥳 Excited to share our new paper (with Kai Walstein, @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social and all others) on the role of M18BP1 in CENP-A loading! “M18BP1 valency and a distributed interaction footprint determine epigenetic centromere specification in humans” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Friends and colleagues, please sign this petition to increase the MRFF allocation

Tip: for any question in a newspaper title…the answer is always NO ! saves you heaps of time reading a crappy article

Fabricated data leads to wasted millions and a decade of who knows how many wasted hours in other labs who were unable to figure out why they couldn’t replicate the results. How many good scientists ended up Miss out on funding? How many cures were missed in pursuit of this charlatans work?

Live your life in a way that the dictionary pays tribute to you

PhD position in my lab!

Mitosis has a timing system. If chromosomes attach properly, cells divide on schedule and keep proliferating. If attachment is slow or incomplete, the delay is recorded — and daughter cells stop dividing. We explore this link in our new preprint. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We're hiring! JCS is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves cell biology and wants to stay connected with the field (and be part of an organisation that believes in supporting the community). www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

🔔HIRI has opened a new call to recruit Group Leaders. If you are interested in opening an RNA Biology and Infection lab, join us! Deadline: February 15. More info here 👇

Press release on our paper: today.ucsd.edu/story/new-ai...

Join my campaign calling on the Albanese government to name heatwaves and save lives: www.moniqueryan.com.au/heatwave_pet...

Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!

It’s not that complex. #auspol #climate

Dying colon cancer cells videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology

I just thought everyone should see this

Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly. Join the campaign!

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

How do nanoparticles traverse the endothelial barrier in a living organism? We explored this fundamental question using the zebrafish and PEG-based nanoparticles (NPs) in our latest article: (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...).

Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs. It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption. www.crikey.com.au/20...

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Interested in cell-cell communication and microscopy? We are searching for a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join Münster! Please Apply! @uni-muenster.de

Throw back to #utopia predicting the future once again #AUKUS youtube.com/shorts/mg5Ag...

Board of Peace

It’s all going to get so much worse www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

More voices standing up.

Got an Orbitrap-based mass spec that couldn’t do STORI/direct mass technology before (any aside from the UHMR and Tribrid Ascend)? This is a cool open-source implementation that even works on an Orbitrap Elite! #teammassspec

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