You know the summer break is wrapping up when the meetings and emails start to amp up.

I’m loving the new campus tree walk signage, more noticeable and clear. I’m going to challenge myself to refresh my tree species knowledge from my undergrad bio ecology days 🌿

Boss is back so it’s time for coffee as the lab powers back up for the new year. Here’s to the generation of some epic mass spec imaging data and insights into disease mechanisms @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

A brilliant approach to peer reviewing. Upon my return to reviewing, I am sure to use this method.

What a day! We had the best time chatting all things surf safety at the Multicultural Communities Illawrra end of year celebration.

Paper writing is looking a little different these days…

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the UOW ECR Conference. It was fun to share some of the collaborative work I’ve been involved with at @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

Rubi, Lady and I had a wonderful morning chatting all things science and career at the Women in STEMM Stroll. You can read about this great initiative here 👉 www.theillawarraflame.com.au/networking-o...

Attending the UOW ECR Conference? I’ll be sharing how we are navigating the metabolic maze of Parkinson’s disease, one cell at a time. Come join me at 12:30 pm in 19.2003! @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

I’ve always been intimidated by baking as following the recipe rarely works for me. Then it finally clicked - recipes = protocols, and thus likely require optimisation. I feel like I’ve just unlocked a dormant (and delicious) skill set 💪😋

Thoroughly enjoyed this mornings Women in STEMM Stroll from @iaccelerate.bsky.social. A wonderful opportunity to connect with the beautifully diverse network of women working in this space. Thank you @ecologee.bsky.social and @tamstutch.bsky.social for organising. 👶🏻 & 🐩 loved it too!

Traded the lab coat for hi-vis this weekend to help set up my dad’s stall for the Sydney Ceramics Market at Carriageworks. It’s been so inspiring seeing all the beautiful creations. Drop by and say hi if you’re in the neighbourhood.

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The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Grateful to have the opportunity to share some of our lipidomics work at the @molecularhorizons.bsky.social Symposium. This project has truly been an collaborative effort across the institution 💚💜🩷🩵

This would be an absolute game changer. Australian medical replace been hanging on for dear life due to lack of funding, and the collapse of the American research sector only makes it worse. We need funding so we can deliver medical advancements for our communities

And we’re off! The first @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR Symposium is underway. This mornings session covered everything from nanobody applications to a signature for metastatic cancer and ALS biomarkers.

When the theme is ‘art party’, so you make it a family affair.

Been playing around with good old faithful SH SY5Y cells as we optimise some mass spec imaging sample prep methods. Keen to get these under the mass spec to see if we are moving in the right direction!

After quitting Twitter and going into social media eXile (see what I did there?) I'm keen to get back into Academic socials. If you know people in the #vascular, #atherosclerosis, #SCAD, #ECM, #sex_difference, #proteomics, or #iPSC space I would love some recommendations please!!

Disasters like the algal bloom in SA are becoming more and more frequent due to climate change. Australia Institute research shows a climate disaster fund, paid for by big polluters, would save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. #auspol

Come and work with us! Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia? Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025 Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/

📣Calling all NSW & ACT ECRs in chemistry, biomedical, life sciences and biophysics! Looking for an opportunity to share your research and foster collaborations? Submit an abstract to @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR symposium 👉 www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...

Led by Simon Maksour, we show transcriptional repressor CoREST3 plays an isoform specific/direct role in repressing epigenetic regulator HDAC2, with CoREST3 dysregulated in AD & may contribute to altered HDAC2 levels in involved in AD @molecularhorizons.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Next Dutch house added to the window neighbourhood

Starting an evening tradition… drawing a new Dutch house on our front window 🧡

Went to continue reading some papers on NIH website and can no longer access them as the server can’t be found. Went back to X to see if there was anything circulating only to be met with what now seems to be a propaganda account 😳 I just want to finish reading my lipid papers!

🎤#ASSCR2025 featuring Maria di Biase, Ed Stanley and Josephone Bowles! Get ready to hear from leading voices in stem cell science at this year’s ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting (10–12 Nov, QT Gold Coast)! 🌊🧬 🚨 Abstracts close THIS FRIDAY, at 11:59pm! www.asscrmeeting.com.au

Less than 2 weeks to go! 🤯Mare sure you prepare your entries for our 2nd @arc_gov_au CCeMMP 'Bench to Art' Exhibition during National Science Week & win cash prizes 💰! Please like & share 👍 More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c... #CryoEM #CryoET #MembraneProtein #GPCR

First talk done and dusted since returning to work! It was a pleasure to share with 3rd year students how social media can by a useful tool as researchers

🚨 1 week to go! Abstracts & award applications for #ASSCR2025 close Fri 15 Aug 🧬 Don’t miss your chance to present your science & be recognised 🌊🌴 👉 www.asscrmeeting.com.au #StemCells #CallForAbstracts #Awards

My favourite pic from the opening of 50 Artists: 50 Years, Rubi checking out her Pépé’s artwork 😍

If you're interested, you can watch many thousands and thousands of fellow Australians right now marching across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge for peace in Palestine It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching #MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza webcamsydney.com

If you’re on UOW main campus check out the 50 Artists: 50 Years exhibition in BLD 29 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the uni. A eclectic mix of some very fine artworks.

🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She’s alive! Our first single cell mass spec imaging run on the new instrument! She wizzed through a co-culture of astrocytes and microglia at 5 um 😍

Thank you to @kylielewis.bsky.social, we now have a Homeward Bound starter pack - looking forward to connecting with the nine cohorts of #WomenInSTEMM leaders go.bsky.app/EXogj2a

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

A harmful algal bloom, fueled by a marine heat wave, has been choking South Australia's coastline, turning once-colorful ecosystems filled with thriving marine life into underwater graveyards. Read more: cnn.it/3H9z0wu

A beautiful winter’s day in Kiama

Persistent underinvestment in Australian R&D by government and the business sector is now intolerable. Within five years, Australia will be at the bottom of the OECD – no place to be in a volatile and technologically advanced world where research - and the technologies it produces -

My honours girls from last year gradated last week 🥳 They both navigated what is a challenging year with intelligence, resilience and kindness - more so as while they grew a thesis I grew my human 😅 They can be proud of the growth they undertook and their fantastic achievements @lezanne.bsky.social

It’s not every day your office buddy graduates! Congratulations Dr Chloe on the mammoth achievement of completing your PhD. So proud of how much you have grown and all that you have accomplished!!

Fairy bread at the Monday morning lab meeting is the only way to start the week!

It ain’t much, but I’m mighty proud of the preliminary box plot I made during the intro to python workshop hosted by 👏 @dezeraecox.bsky.social👏Excited to apply my new skills to some mass spec imaging data analysis 🐍

Much food for thought from the MH EMCR network workshop on the importance of, and how to craft, a research narrative as a young scientist when writing grants @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

A lot of history in this photo - the OG @lezanne.bsky.social lab members reunited to celebrate and farewell Mon for her Cambridge adventures 🥳

🎓 Calling all Master, PhD students & early-career postdocs in Europe! Applications for FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships are OPEN 🌍 Boost your research in a host lab & connect with local neuroscientists. Apply by 15 Oct 👉 buff.ly/s07WySD #grant #neuroscience #IBROinEurope @fens.org