Welcome reception of 5th Aus-NZ Croatian Women in Leadership. Lovely to meet another girl from Blato, Debra Gavranich.

Applications are open for the Frances Separovic Scholarship for domestic students enrolling at @unimelb.bsky.social in an undergraduate degree and are experiencing disadvantaged circumstances. Preference to those from regional or remote areas of Australia. scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/franc...

Congratulations to the awardees of the 2025 #PMPrizes. Delighted to meet Prof. Michael Wear at the @science.org.au. Michael is the inaugural awardee of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Systems. Read more at www.industry.gov.au/news/introdu...

Dying: A Memoir is on at @artscentremelb.bsky.social. Presented by Melbourne Theatre Company, adapted for the stage by Benjamin Law, performed by Genevieve Morris, Cory Taylor’s final work confronts the anxiety and despair that surrounds death with honesty, clarity and trying to learn to live fully.

Science20 (S20) South Africa, Academy of Science of South Africa has issued its 2025 Statement on Climate Change and Well-being, calling for urgent, science-driven action to protect the well-being of people, ecosystems, & the planet; save lives boost sustainability. www.assaf.org.za/2025/10/31/s...

Odile Eisenstein: ‘Some of the most important advice is to be persistent’. This #WomenInScience and pioneer in theoretical #chemistry on teaching herself programming and the importance of freedom. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/odil...

Read this marvellous story about my #chemistry colleague, Anastasios Polyzos pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

Thank you for the recognition. See 2025 Victorian Senior of the Year Award recipients at www.seniorsonline.vic.gov.au/festival-and...

Pleased to have participated in the panel presentations and discussion at the Victorian Croatian Chamber of Commerce STEMM Summit today, together with David Smith and Jelena Likić.

Looking forward to next week's Melbourne University Chemical Society (MUCS) seminar which will be the 4th Frances Separovic Lecture and will be presented by Prof. Maria Forsyth. #chemistry

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

How to spend a day waiting for a flight at Heathrow: Coffee at T3 with Louise from #TeamHB4 of Homeward Bound; meet Ale & her team at @rsc.org; catch the Kerry James Marshall and Kiefer/van Gogh exhibitions at the #RoyalAcademyofArts; and then dinner in the Qantas Lounge with Leann & Mike.

Thank you Priyanka for representing me at the Women of Colour in STEM Awards 2025 and celebrating the remarkable finalists, winners, and STEM Sisters community. #WomenInScience #WOCinSTEMAwards #WomenInSTEM

Congratulations to our esteemed colleague, Richard Robson, whose work highlights the strong nexus between teaching and research. #chemistry www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

4 WEEKS TO SUMMIT 2025 Join us in Melbourne from 7-9th November for the AUS-NZ Croatian Women in Leadership summit at the Langham Hotel. Pleased to participate in the event with other members of the Advisory Council.

The @University of Melbourne has honoured pioneering 95-year-old #WomenInScience Alison Harcourt AO by naming a seminar room after her. Ms Harcourt started her maths degree at the University in 1947, as just one of two women in the subject. science.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/s...

After stopping by the original Tesla in Zagreb, went to the island of Korcula where these three little girls met together again in Blato for the first time after 68 years.

Why an inclusive culture is the best way to unlock chemistry’s potential: Reasonable adjustments enable diverse teams that can grow, innovate and tackle global problems www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...

0n 16 Sep 2025, Minister for Foreign Affairs, @senatorwong.bsky.social, announced opening of applications for 2025-26 Maitri Grant and Matri Scholarships & Fellowships programs with up to $5M, respectively, for strengthening of Australia-India relationship. www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...

Inspire STEM: A Gallery Honouring Women of Colour and Allies in #STEM: October 4 @ 1:00 pm – October 6 @ 4:00 pm at Melbourne Docklands by STEM Sisters stemsisters.org.au/event/inspir... #WomenInScience

Elizabeth Hinde and Jorge Alegre-Cebollada to receive 2026 @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Michael and Kate Bárány Award www.biophysics.org/news-room/el... Congratulations to my colleague @lizhinde.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 2025 Australian Society for Biophysics awardees: Prof Adelle Coster for Bob Robertson Award for her contributions to Australian #biophysics, & Assoc Prof Matthew Baker for McAulay-Hope Prize for original & innovative biophysics. See ASB2025 at biophysics.org.au/meetings/202...

Learnt so much by participating in a panel discussion on 'Executive Leadership in Higher Education' with Prof. Chioma Blaise Chikere, Jose Frantz, and Sally Osei-Appiah, moderated by Brenda Moodley at Women Leaders in Higher Education #WLHESummit2025 held at University of Johannesburg.

Chemical Landmark honours first female PhD in chemistry: First #WomenInScience to earn a PhD in #chemistry, Lydia Sesemann was awarded her doctorate >150 years ago. SCNAT - Swiss Academy of Sciences honoured University of Zurich as a historically significant site. chem.scnat.ch/en/chemical_...

Melbourne University Chemical Society Seminar 1126. This year's Frances Separovic Lecture: "Next Generation Electrolytes for Advanced Alkali Metal Batteries" will be presented by Prof Maria Forsyth 4:15 pm on Wed 22 October 2025 at Masson Theatre, School of #Chemistry, @unimelb.bsky.social

Dr Karl Mueller: ‘I realised I had matured when I started giving away my best ideas’: The director of @amesnatlab.bsky.social in the USA discusses getting hooked on #chemistry via parental inspiration and a benchtop #NMR. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/karl...

Professor Van Thi Thanh Ho’s mission to build up sustainable chemistry in Vietnam: This #WomenInScience is driving commercialisation and inspiring new generations of scientists with her passion for green technology and #chemistry. www.chemistryworld.com/careers/van-...

Thurs 25 September is Global #Sustainability Day and @iupac.org International Younger Chemists Network @iycnglobal.bsky.social are running a series of webinars at different times during the day. Further details from www.iycnglobal.com/component/co...

Healthy indoor air is a human right: At a high-level event on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, over 300 leaders in indoor air quality will sign a global pledge to formally recognise healthy indoor air as essential to health & well-being. www.science.org.au/supporting-s...

Trailblazers with disabilities rethink how we do science: From defense research to high-performance electrodes, @cenmag.bsky.social 2025 Trailblazers issue explores how #chemistry can solve problems in new ways—and how inclusivity expands the boundaries of discovery. cen.acs.org/people/profi...

Great to catch up with #nmr and #chemistry colleagues in warm and sunny Brisbane. @marygarson.bsky.social

Meet Dr Gabrielle Kuiper, one of Australia’s leading thinkers on the energy transition. A ‘light bulb’ moment as a university student led #WomenInScience, Dr Gabrielle Kuiper, into energy research and eventually to @csiro.bsky.social www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

​Calling all #STEM professionals & students - if you’re ready to study, work, volunteer or build networks with #Croatia and the world, join Vic Croatian Chamber of Commerce STEMM Summit. Registrations close 21 Sep. Inaugural 2025 STEMM Summit www.vcccprojects.com 18-19 Oct, Rydges Hotel Canberra.

Our paper, "Effect of histidine on the antimicrobial peptide maculatin 1.1 solution-state NMR and molecular dynamics simulation structures at different protonation states", has just been accepted by @ausjchem.bsky.social. www.publish.csiro.au/CH/justaccep... #biophysics #nmr #peptides #chemistry

Three early-career researchers to pitch their innovative ideas at Falling Walls Lab in Berlin. Congratulations to Mabel Day, Auriane Drack, and Khoi Nguyen www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

The 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings #lino2025 delegates, Wenchao Duan, Ken Aldren Usman, Jess de la Perrelle, James Watson, @jessalgar.bsky.social, and Ganesh Darmayanti, celebrate with #FallingWalls Lab Finale awardee, Mabel Day, at the Australian @science.org.au annual meeting in Canberra.

The government have opened talks on association with Horizon Europe. If negotiations are successful, Australia will be associated with the fund in 2027. www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Boundless Elements: #WomenInScience Dr Karen de la Vega-Hernández on Science & Innovation. Karen shares her #chemistry journey from Cuba to Austria to leading cutting-edge drug discovery at @iciq.org She inspires the next generation of scientists. axial.acs.org/medicinal-ch...

The Advisory Council of the @iscasiapacific.bsky.social #ISCAsiaPacific met in Canberra during Science at the Shine Dome and launched Round Two of the Asia‑Pacific Academic Mentoring Program to include early‑career researchers from Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and Pacific Island nations.

Caught the blood moon over Melbourne city early this morning and compared it to another from May 2021.

Today at @science.org.au National Symposium – Australian Science, Australia's Future: Science 2035, and launch of the most comprehensive analysis of Australian science sector ever undertaken. Our #chemistry delegates to #lino2025 met with @marygarson.bsky.social, president-elect of @iupac.org.

Eight chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified. cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #chemistry

Congratulations to the new AAS Fellows!

The Australian delegation to this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on #chemistry were able to get together at the @science.org.au annual Science at the Shine Dome #ShineDome25

All set to kick off @science.org.au 2025 Science at the Shine Dome in Canberra, starting with #FallingWalls Lab Finale tomorrow; but first a quick peek at Lindy Lee's work at the National Gallery of Australia and the Cézanne to Giacometti exhibition.

Popped out to catch x Deliri by Hamill Industries hamillindustries.com at the State Library of Victoria before tonight's Science (S20) meeting.

So proud to be a finalist in the Allyship for Equity category of the 2025 Women of Colour in STEM Awards #WOCinSTEMAwards by STEM Sisters wocinstemawards.org/index.php/20...

The #WomenInScience & Engineering (WISE) committee of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA) met online today. Lovely to catch up after our meeting in Tokyo and discuss our work plans: we took a quick screenshot after some members had already left.

When Resumes Are 'Blind', More Talented Women Step Forward. Research by Katherine Coffman @Harvard explores how concealing age and gender expands pool of job applicants. 'Blind' hiring upgrades candidates “Significant, meaningful impacts on the supply of talent”. www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

Margaret Boden obituary: cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination. Pioneering artificial-intelligence scholar, whose influential work bridged cognitive science, philosophy and computer science. #WomenInScience www.nature.com/articles/d41...