An abismal 8% success rate for this year’s #NHMRC #IdeasGrant scheme. Must be an all time low. Congratulations to those successful, you really earned it! Commiserations to the NINETY TWO percent of applicants who didn’t get it… #australianresearch #discoveriesneeddollars 🥼🧪🔬🧫 🇦🇺

#ISEH2025 🏯 is just around the corner and hundreds of scientists will be heading to Kumamoto, Japan, for four days of education, networking, and sightseeing. Register by 7 August for the lowest rates to join us! www.iseh.org/2025Registration

The July #PreprintWatch features 25 fresh preprints that span hematopoietic development, leukemogenesis, and the latest in tech development. Plus, a video chat with @abattacks.bsky.social - one of our featured community submitters! Explore on www.simplyblood.org

@otamplin.bsky.social is presenting on Niche contact during development programs hematopoietic stem cells this September at #ISEH2025 🏯 Join us in Kumamoto to hear their full talk and register by 7 August for the best prices ➡️ www.iseh.org/2025Registra...

A gentleman and a scholar indeed! What a pleasant chat with @abattacks.bsky.social, make sure to check out our interview! Also, a submitted post from @lvchosen1.bsky.social and at least 25 preprints to review! #hemesky

Didn’t get your abstract submitted in time? Late breaking submission has just opened

🚨 There is ONE WEEK left to submit a late-breaking abstract for #ISEH2025 🏯! Submit your research by 28 July for a chance at a short talk or poster presentation. www.iseh.org/2025abstracts

The Myeloid Workshop is back in ASH! Please contact the organizers if you have an exciting story that will not be out by December they are: Zuzana Tothova , @ernstlaboratory.bsky.social @steidluli.bsky.social @ericpietras.bsky.social @kathrinbernt.bsky.social @gritsmanlab.bsky.social

OPPORTUNITY for a CHEMIST to JOIN US Are you interested in: 👍 Computer-aided ligand design 👍 Organic synthesis 👍 Biomedicine 👍 Drug development 👍 A multidisciplinary team 👍 And a PhD in Barcelona Then check this out! rb.gy/nc3lf3

The more senior you become in your career the more you are invited to write reference letters for promotion of others.These take a lot of time but it always makes me happy when I see many deserving ppl being promoted (esp underserved gps). This wk news of another success & just submitted another 😊 🤞🏻

Are you a hematology researcher and interested in serving on an @isehsociety.bsky.social committee? Please sign up in the link👇🏻 - we use this to help identify & recruit new members for various committees. We have many different committees to choose from, indicate how many are of interest to you!

Thanks to @lindemileslab.bsky.social and @challenlab.bsky.social (& team) for writing our first commentary for @isehsociety.bsky.social journal Experimental Hematology! Two recent papers on Clonal Hematopoiesis- want to learn more? Read the link here 👇🏻

Excited to see the first commentary in Experimental Hematology (@isehsociety.bsky.social)! Kudos to Aishwarya, Linde ‪@lindemileslab.bsky.social, and Grant @challenlab.bsky.social for highlighting recent papers in Exp Hem on cell-extrinsic factors in Tet2-mutant clonal hematopoiesis!! bit.ly/4k3pEAI

In this month's #PreprintWatch we’re diving into studies using less explored animal models and exciting technologies pushing the boundaries of advanced cell culture. And don't miss the video chat with Christiana Georgiou from the Lo Celso Lab www.simplyblood.org

That was a great chat, Christiana really nailed it! Have a look, her work is an absolute must, and a really original approach to long-standing questions on HSCs division

Submit an application to ISEH's Call for Volunteers! Let us know where you'd like to make an impact and apply by 11 June 👉 www.iseh.org/ISEHCommittees

Adding on to these data on chances of success in having successive NHMRC Investigator Grants funded, here are data showing the levels (EL2 & above) & the % of recipients who were previously funded, either at earlier levels (eg EL1 applying for EL2) or at the same level (eg L3 being renewed). 👇🏻

If an 🇦🇺 #biomed researcher, 🙏 consider 📝 this letter to #NHMRC advocating for ⬆️ flexibility around part-time work with #investigatorgrants. This will go some way to reducing barriers encountered by those who work part-time, incl. women of young children #womeninSTEM docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Finally got around to doing some analysis on what reapplying #NHMRC investigator grant holders* are having on the scheme. L2/L3 heavily impacted, with ~70% of the 2025 round going to previous winners. Food for thought for 1st timers trying to get in *dependent on identical names across rounds.

This month has been a whirlwind. I am happy to announce I am the newest Scientist @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social The Xie lab 🧪will focus on understanding how inflammatory and metabolic stress promote aging and cancer risk in human🩸hematopoietic stem cells and preventative interventions.

I am honored to have been selected by my colleagues to serve a 4-year term as vice president & president of the International Society of Experimental Hematology. Now, as ever, uniting, empowering and inspiring our collective scientific community to press on is essential.

I can’t say it better than Mick 👇🏻- if you are an @isehsociety.bsky.social member please vote for the next leaders-many tough decisions here, all outstanding candidates! The society is definitely in great hands 😊

One week left for abstract submission!

Vote for the 2025-2026 Board of Directors! The election closes 18 March. You must be an ISEH member to cast a vote ➡️ Learn more: www.iseh.org/2025Election

@isehsociety.bsky.social members: Vote for the next generation of society leadership here www.iseh.org/page/2025Ele... Absolutely outstanding slate of nominees

You can now submit an abstract to the second virtual Mini Symposium taking place 26 March. Submit an abstract by 26 February and register today❗Learn more: www.iseh.org/2025MiniSymposium

First post on BSky and I'm going to use it to promote the outstanding line up of faculty that we've managed to put together for #ISEH2025 in Kumamoto, Japan (with more to come). Save the date: lots of space reserved in the program for you to present your exciting science! Link below.

If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Save the date for @isehsociety.bsky.social annual meeting in Kumamoto, Japan in September 2025! Confirmed speakers listed in the link here👇🏻, more to come! Plan to arrive early to attend the pre-meeting workshops, including iPSC & our annual workshop for grad students and post-docs. I can’t wait 😊

Thrilled to share our new paper out today in #ScienceImmunology! It’s been a long time coming and I’m so excited to be able to share it. Skeetorial (is that what we call it here?) to come when it is (a) not Saturday and (b) not my birthday. Best present ever! #ImmunoSky #RNASky

PSA for newbies: Please include ALT text on your images. This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people. Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people. Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered. Thanks!

Seeing images and photos without alt text. Come on folks - we can do better than that. It's a minute (if that) of extra time to make your post more accessible.

Finally- the starter pack we have all been waiting for is here … Hematopoiesis 🎉❤️🩸🦴 So excited to have reached a critical mass of this community on here. 🙌🏻 Let me know if you want to be added!! go.bsky.app/KWdX5w7

“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’” True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.

Can we get 1000 followers today? #Murrigellas ♥️

I had a wonderful weekend in Adelaide catching up with my dear friend Joy Wu (not on this platform yet!). There’s an amazing Chihuly Art installation in the Botanical Gardens till April ‘25, highly recommended👇🏻 Please use ALT text on your pictures- a few descriptive sentences improves accessibility!

‼️👇🏽👇🏽 The 2024 Myeloid Workshop will occur at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. Registration is required (but free) for this event, please register asap; attendance is capped. bit.ly/3ULm9nN

Medical prize award: GSK. 🧪 #NominateHer #WomeninSTEM #SuperstarsofSTEM au.gsk.com/en-au/innova...

Yesterday I wrote 7 new Wiki pages for women in science & posted on Twitter. Big mistake ! I got a *crap* tonne of negativity. Will post on here more as it’s safer. #NominateHer @ckiernan.bsky.social @louisepurton.bsky.social

Do not feed after midnight! Very cute but does anyone else see a Gremlin resemblance?

aussiebirdcount.org.au Get to it, Citizen Scientist - 20 minutes a day for one week. #birds #birdlife #Australia

Welcome over from the bird site @an-leavy.bsky.social So good to see you here! 👏🏻👏🏻😊💜 Take your time to feel this place out - I’m gradually learning and the community is growing steadily. Don’t be shy to ask questions - everyone is very helpful.

On the day of two polls 🇦🇺🇳🇿, please remember that recognizing the rights of marginalised and minoritised people is not a zero sum game. #VoteYES #nzpol

I didn't invade & colonise Australia 230 years ago. I didn't kill Indigenous landowners who had lived on & cared for these lands for at least 65,000 years. But when I #VoteYes, I will be part of today's Australia. One that wants to listen & repair harm & recognise what's true. {please boost}

It’s International Day of the Girl today (11th October in Australia) & Ada Lovelace day in the parts of the world that are still in the 10th October. Honoured to be interviewed by Olivia Cleal about my Wiki page & why it’s important that #WomeninSTEMM are visible. womensagenda.com.au/latest/what-...

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what flavour of eastern quoll you're gonna get (but the only options are choc and vanilla)

Australian Bird of the Year 2023!! Now if only there was some way we could protect their habitat… 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...