#SaveOzScience www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

We have 1 on-going position available in our team. Great opportunity for anyone interested in helping develop major research grant opportunities, especially across arts, education, law and business areas. Applications close Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 11.59pm AEST www.seek.com.au/job/91503846...

📢 Our April issue is online! This issue of #EJHG expands our understanding from rare neurodevelopmental disorders to genetic insights into cardiovascular, dermatological, and muscular diseases. 🧬 🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/ejhg/volumes...

From variants to answers: The evolution of genetic counseling in IEI. New Perspective from Blanca García-Solís, Rebeca Pérez de Diego, and Silvia Sánchez-Ramón (Hospital Clínico San Carlos): rupress.org/jhi/article/... #Diagnostics #InbornErrorsOfImmunity @esidsociety.bsky.social

NACC's new report finds that two of the Robodebt Six engaged in serious corrupt conduct www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Investigator grant who? Im out here enjoying a blissful family holiday to Tassie! Although a visit to Mona with a toddler is equal parts fun and stress.

Good luck everyone!

At this stage it’s a Schrödinger cat situation, I both have and have not been successful in my application. But that’s okay, happy to wait, it’s not like our livelihood and ability to continue research depends on this announcement #nhmrc

I’m very excited to share our new pre-print! What started as my spreadsheet to track genomic testing in paediatric immunology, has become a nearly 10y audit of genomic testing outcomes. The paper may have already been rejected twice, but I think it’s seriously cool data!

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

Guest Post: They Canceled Our Anti-Eugenics Talk. The Censorship Proved Our Point. by Ambreen Khan, Kim Zayhowski, Robert Resta, and Laura Hercher This piece is our team’s account of censorship and threats from members of the genetic counseling community. It is both testimony and a demand that our…

In Honour of Black History Month, the Journal of Genetic Counseling has created a Virtual Issue celebrating the contribution of Black Authors who have published in their journal. Explore the Virtual Issue here: https://ow.ly/HL9S50Yh4vP

When you open LinkedIn after being offline for a while and find out Kevin McCloud had visited your workplace! As avid #granddesigns fan I can’t believed I missed this!!!!

February is #BlackHistoryMonth In recognition, the Journal of Genetic Counseling has updated our special virtual issue on this topic, and its all free to read for everyone for 30 days! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #AcademicSky 🧪 #GeneChat 1/2

Terrific to see this out! 10 years of variant interpretation courses delivered to >1000 participants 👏👏👏 And of course thoroughly evaluated 😁🇦🇺

What a moment.

New papers in the Journal of Genetic Counseling: 3/3 "Australian patients' experiences of undergoing whole exome sequencing for fetal structural anomalies prior to receiving results" #AcademicSky 🧪 #GeneChat onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣New from Nisselle & co! 📄Variant interpretation training for the #genomics era: Learning outcomes to inform professional competencies and education

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!

When less is more: with the runaway train of #scientificpublishing under increasing strain, Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social argues in @nature.com that slowing down is critical to avoid system collapse. This year, he plans to halve his publication output. 🔎 Would you consider #slowscience?

More voices standing up.

One day you’ll need to go to the shops Christmas week. Don’t do it! The carpark will be chaos. You’ll see a car reverse into another…moments later, another car will reverse into your car. You’ll then send dashcam video to insurance where you were listening to #Shameless pod review Twilight #vampires

Impact of chronic underfunding 150 survey responses & counting. Please consider adding your voice and sharing your stories. lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG Storytelling is key to our humanity. We can make economic arguments and health arguments, but the power of stories can not be underestimated #SaveOzScience

In this Nature Medicine paper, we draw from our experiences in evaluating and implementing #genomics in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong and the US www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research. I will not rest until we see this resolved.

Frikkin amazing stuff.

Excited to share this new paper from Dr Sam Kahler & team. 3D total body photography + AI identified cutaneous phenotypes linked to late-onset invasive melanoma risk, advancing personalised melanoma risk stratification. 🔗 academic.oup.com/bjd/advance-... #MelanomaResearch #3DImaging #Dermatology

🧬 Genomic testing is key for paediatric inborn errors of immunity (IEI), but how do parents experience mainstream genomic testing in #IEI? 📢 Interviews highlight psychosocial impacts and a need for tailored support. @tatyanes.bsky.social #Genetics #RareDisease ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You know you’re sleep deprived when you go to get a glass and find a milk bottle in the cupboard that looks ready to pop… husband and I have no recollection of how the milk got there. Theory is one of us got milk for our son from the fridge and put the bottle in the cupboard. #parenting

New study from group, extends the BOADICEA/CanRisk breast cancer risk model to include continuous mammographic density (MD) from automated tools like Volpara & STRATUS Available via CanRisk (www.canrisk.org) 📄 Ficorella et al, JCO Precision Oncology: doi.org/10.1200/PO-2...

Awesome work by @zornitza.bsky.social and collaborators showing the immediate value of WGS for newborn screening in a cohort of 1,000 Australian babies. Now we need larger, more diverse cohorts to show this approach can achieve population scale!

Idyllic camping weekend! Moments like this reminds me why I love living in Queensland. Such a family friendly place, with lots of hidden gems to explore.

🤗 Out now @naturemedicine.bsky.social results of our genomic NBS study BabyScreen+ 👶🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1,000 babies WGS using existing cards 600+ conditions 13 day TAT 16 diagnoses (vs 1 in std NBS) High clinical impact High parental acceptability

Dear Everyone, I've read the #NHMRC draft strategy and I have notes ... So I'm going to...🧵🤔🧵😱🧵😵‍💫🧵🙏🧵🧵🧵 This is a repost from X because you all need to know! #NHMRCdraftStratergy #Ihavenotes #ValueFundamentalScience @nhmrc.bsky.social

Are you an Australasian GC who has done research this year? Then apply to the @gcr-connect.bsky.social showcase. Prizes are available for top abstract. Details 👇 @jodieingles27.bsky.social @laurayeates1.bsky.social @amandamwillis.bsky.social @genetic-fi.bsky.social @sarahred.bsky.social

The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Francesca Albanese speaks for humanity when she speaks for Palestinians 🇵🇸: ‘It’s not 75 years since the Nakba. It’s 75 years OF the Nakba.’ It’s ethnic cleansing. It’s genocide.

Formal recognition of the state of Palestine overnight is a welcome step but we must also listen to the experts outlining what further steps Australia & other nations must take to prevent the ongoing genocide in Gaza. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

PRS are well know to have variable performance across ancestries, frequently with a European bias. We looked closely at fairness of PRS for CVD risk prediction, both with PRS on it's own and in an integrated risk score... Our results were surprising... 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling Australian #EMCR in health and medical research - anyone willing to speak to media and provide quotes about the impact of the MRFF underspend on researchers, on how tough it is in medical research? Please contact me! #NHMRC #MRFF #biomedicalscience #SaveOzScience #medicalresearch

When a mum and son day out turns into a face plant on the playground, a bad blood nose and you walking around like you’ve stepped out of a blood bath… Happy to say both child and shirt are all okay!

We often hear about the ‘leaky pipeline’ in STEMM – but what if women aren’t leaving, they’re pivoting? 💡 In our August Newsletter we caught up with Cassie Leonard, Founder of ELMM Coaching, to get a sneak peek into the new release Beyond the Pipeline 👀 Read more 👉 shorturl.at/oPV3l

Fantastic 1st session at #IMPAHC2025 highlights incl ✨Uncle Frank: Welcome to the Country & sharing stories about country ✨Steph Archer: developing a CanRisk user interface ✨Laura Forest: implementing personalised #Breastcancer risk in primary care ✨Paul James: w/early & exciting data from the PRiMo

I’m honoured to have been awarded a Young Tall Poppy Science Award for 2025, among a cohort of inspiring researchers from across QLD and Australia. The Young Tall Poppy award celebrates excellence in research and a passion for sharing science with the broader community.

I’m honoured to have been awarded a Young Tall Poppy Science Award for 2025, among a cohort of inspiring researchers from across QLD and Australia. The Young Tall Poppy award celebrates excellence in research and a passion for sharing science with the broader community.

Day one of #HGSA2025 and #asgc2025. Very excited for this jam packed program, catching up with friends, and lots of learning. Thanks to @laurayeates1.bsky.social and the committee for organising such a great program! 🤗

Packed room today for the @gcr-connect.bsky.social Life After PhD event. I love seeing so many GCs interested in research!!! How lucky are we to have so many brilliant GCs sharing their career stories. First up Melody Menezes, executive director of clinical genetics services at VCGS.

On the Uber to the airport for #HGSA2025, I realised I’d left my sunglasses at home. Arranged for a friend to bring them, messaged my husband to leave them outside… His reply? “Do you want your wallet too?!” 🤦🏻‍♀️😳

Another uncritical puff piece that lacks the bare minimum in checking the science. And to pit ethicists against parents/ kids...detestable. "Move fast and break things has not worked very well for Silicon Valley in health care (...) the things you are breaking are babies." - @hankgreely.bsky.social