The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT. ‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

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

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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

The government is starving medical research in Australia and we risk losing talent. Thanks @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for asking questions of this government #SaveOzScience #MRFF #medicalresearch

A locus on the dancefloor #HGSA2025

Should be working on my talk for #HGSA2025 Miss 7 had other ideas. Painting, it’ll be fun they said #procrastipainting

is there any way to find details of an individual with a variant in #gnomADv4 One allele in 1.6M....

Following our God Complex story on #4Corners on Monday on issues including gender politics of neurosurgery, #surgeon and fmr AMA Vic President Dr Jill Tomlinson lamented that of Epworth’s 25 neurosurgeons, none are women. This was #Epworth neurosurgeon Paul D’Urso’s (now-deleted – 🤷🏻‍♀️) reply:

Sapphire has been down a large part of the day *sigh* #NHMRC #hungergames

Master 11’s starter word on worldle is sigma

Lab curry potluck #teamsthateattogether

Congrats to all involved with this study associating mono-allelic POLR3A variants with #peripheralneuropathy. So good to catch up with some of the key players at #ESHG2025 Milan where Jevin Parmar presented the study on behalf of the collaborative team #raredisease #CMT

Writing #NHMRC #investigatorgrant during school holidays #momademia #womeninSTEM

A hive of activity in the cartels today #teamwork #raredisease #genomics

#naturescapes #outofoffice

Also, check out the News & Views summarizing our findings, written by Youjia Guo & @themodzlab.bsky.social 🤩🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out of office #LSmerchants #hoipolloiorange #margaretriverregion #naturescapes

Young Archie competition 2025: Australia’s awards for child portrait artists – in pictures

Dear academics: you can’t take your H-index with you.

The dystonin gene encodes three major isoforms: DST-a, -b, and -e. Jacob et al. report that variants exclusively affecting DST-b cause an autosomal recessive congenital myopathy, while variants that also affect DST-a cause a lethal contracture syndrome. tinyurl.com/3p99pu9j

Revisiting sacred Wednesdays (just for a few hours this morning) - we both needed it today #womeninSTEM #puttingoutfires #leadingishard

Some nights require brandy #wiseestate #beautifulstranger

Even stunning in winter #Perth #thinkingtime #NHMRC #grantwriting

Congrats Dr Mridul Johari on this important study, huge thanks to the many collaborators and the patients and their families. We describe a large cohort of patients with mono- or bi-allergic variants in TUBA4A and myopathies, some presenting at birth. #myopathy #raredisease

Sharing my love of DNA and genomics with a cohort of yr6 kids. Knackered after 3 classes back to back and hats off to teachers everywhere. We extracted 🧬 from 🍓 and made 🧬 helices from haribo base-paired bears. Great questions from all the kids and so much engagement

New #hmg_journal paper: Novel missense variants in CFL2 affect F-actin depolymerisation and expand the disease spectrum of CFL2-related myopathy. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/2xusbna7

Wonderful to finally have Dr Sanam Mustafa back in Perth with the @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social seminar. Talking about applying GPCR-based tools to Toll receptors to better understand pathways involved in #chronicpain Sanam was a postdoc in the Pfleger lab at WAIMR/Perkins 2009-11

This arrived today, couldn’t have arrived at a better time. #jacindaardern #kindness #leadingwithvunreability

My interview with @mothersinsci.bsky.social is out! www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...

I met Atul once, after a phenomenal talk in Perth some 10-15 years ago. He left such an impression on me, I still recall much of what he said that day - about the need to down pipettes and mine data already generated. Tonight I am sad and I didn't even know the man. He sounds truly remarkable.

My #careerdisruptions are officially over, I've been F/T since 2021. Calculated total career disruptions one last time, only 1054 days = 2.9 years (2 x mat leave and 0.6-0.8 for a number of years). Can't believe that is all it was. I should have given us more time #NHMRC #grantwriting #momademia

#NHMRC Investigator Grant guidelines include details on increased flexibility! Able to extend grants by up to 2 years if one experiences career disruptions! A great step forward for equity and #womeninSTEM

No place like home 👠

People we need to encourage PBS to post on bsky. Wise dude be he. @cosmicpinot.bsky.social “I look around& I am scared,” Schmidt said. “The Australian government investment in its sovereign research capability was 50% higher 15 years ago as a fraction of GDP.” theconversation.com/nobel-laurea...

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#SavingScience m.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoZ...

Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions. And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy

Congrats Lein Dofash on your award at the #ESHG2025 Congress from the @eshg.bsky.social to visit Emma Baple and the @rdexeter.bsky.social #raredisease #neuromusculardisease #underrepresentedcommunities @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social

And the winner is @gringene.org with a “locus of geneticists on the dancefloor” 🏆

Justified standing ovation for Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó at #ESHG2025 She shared her adventurous scientific life and life lessons like "If you want to do something, you find a way. If not, you find excuses", and reminded us scientists to thank our near and dear because "they suffer a little bit"

Career highlight - hearing the incredible Katalin Kariko deliver the Mendel Lecture at ESHG2025 “if you want to do something you find a way, if you don’t, you find excuses” #mRNA #nobellaureate #katalinkariko

What’s the collective noun for a dance floor of geneticists #ESHG2025

Best news on last day of ESHG - upgraded to business for 17 hour return flight from London to Perth ✈️ 💤

Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social #ESGH2025 🤖 TALOS automatically and iteratively re-reviews genomes and exomes (including CNVs/SV on historic data) focus on specificity - only 0.7 candidates /trio Diagnostic yield is 5%, 248/4,744 - higher in older cases 9% 2019 4% 2022

Dr Dani Hock from @dstroudlab.bsky.social presenting on #RDMassSpec in diagnosis of #raredisease in the Multiomics session #ESHG2025

Incredible talk and beautiful images by @elfridedebaere.bsky.social on vision enhanceropathies. Much food for thought. #missingheritability #generegulation #ESHG2025

Great to be at my 1st ESHG meeting & feeling lucky to have a few of the team here too. PhD students Lein Dofash & Jevin Parmar gave great talks last night on gene discoveries. So good to meet POLR3A collaborators IRL. Amazing program, kudos to the SPC incl. Mridul Johari from our team #ESHG2025

Standing room only for the first plenary session at #ESHG2025

Fitting in a quick call before their bedtime #momademia #womeninSTEM #ESHG2025