Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

once again plugging this amazing resource for anyone in the paediatric cancer space. so much data, so easily accessible

Auckland Uni has responded to my OIA request re consultancy spending in 2024-2025 $600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation services" etc This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years

woohoo! forever in awe of medical science - love to see the power of vaccination and improved screening

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

The day Trump won I said I wasn't going to visit the US under a Trump presidency. If you don't have to visit, don't. Don't support Trump, don't take the risk.

Welcome Josh! Josh is completing his Honours with us, testing how certain therapies can help the immune system fight medulloblastoma, the most common brain cancer in kids. Josh is excited to see the impact of the Cancer Centre's work through our strong researcher-clinician collaborations.

💪Neuro-Oncology Pediatrics – a new open access journal by EANO & @neuroonc.bsky.social for the global #pediatric & AYA #NeuroOncology community. Now open for submissions! 🔗 academic.oup.com/neuro-onc-peds Editor-in-Chief: S. Mueller Executive Editors: M. A. Roldán (EANO), @bandolab.bsky.social (SNO)

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We've launched the Armamentarium, a new toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain and spinal cord. This #OpenScience resource was made possible thanks to support from the NIH BRAIN Initiative and teamwork with our collaborators. 🧠📈 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

My lab mate Jacob Byrne is both an incredibly dedicated brain cancer researcher and also, apparently, super human. He's running a marathon every day for 30 days in September to raise money for children's brain cancer research. You can support Jacob as he runs 30 marathons here 👉 bit.ly/4j5I3M7

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

This is unreal, I can’t even begin to fathom how devastating this would be. My heart goes out to our colleagues in the US.

Loving job::job! Chuck long-running code into job::job blocks, Rstudio will execute that code in the background so your console is free to do other stuff. Great if you, like me, always have 5 quarto documents open

Congratulations to winners of The Brain Prize 2025! Professors @michellemonje.bsky.social, @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and @hhmi.org Investigator, and Frank Winkler, Heidelberg University Hospital, have pioneered the field of Cancer Neuroscience. Learn more: brainprize.org/winners/canc...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

this is an awesome resource for paediatric cancer research, highly recommend!

"The science of extreme longevity continues as an immense joke." —The first man to “survive” past 110 actually died at 65. —Blue zones are a myth —Pervasive false claims about longevity and supercentenarians Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

A moving parent’s perspective www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...