Today, June 26, is Rare Cancer Awareness Day. Every 12 minutes in Australia someone is told they have a rare cancer. Sharing for my colleague in the picture, the people with lived experience we work with as researchers, & for all the people I don’t know walking this path. 🧪 #RareCancerAwarenessDay

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr.. Alongside Frederick Li, he helped identify Li-Fraumeni syndrome and advance understanding of inherited cancer risk. His work gave generations of families knowledge and hope. We honor his legacy and lasting impact on the LFS community.

The Marie Krogh Young Women in Science Prize is open across Australia & New Zealand - recognising outstanding people who fit eligibility in science & medicine who embody Innovation, Leadership & Impact. www.novonordisk.com.au/marie-krogh-...

Are biologists using #Overleaf ? New to me when raised but the engineers seem to be all over it. 🧪 www.overleaf.com/for/universi...

On National Cancer Survivors Day, we honor and celebrate everyone whose life has been touched by cancer As oncology nurses and healthcare professionals, we are privileged to witness the courage of patients and care partners each day. Thank you for inspiring us!

If more of the world’s wealth was firmly in the hands of women, you can’t help but wonder if things might be very different. Less war, more health perhaps? Thank you Melinda French Gates. apnews.com/article/meli...

It is rare to see a standing ovation at a scientific cancer meeting, especially when the slide is a Kaplan Meier survival curve. Beyond thrilled to see the progress being made in the treatment of #PancreaticCancer. #daraxonrasib #RAS-drivenCancer #PrecisionMedicine 👏👏

This is good-“Universities are not corporations in need of strong CEOs.They are federations of expertise held together by norms, trust & a shared commitment to inquiry..The work of leadership..is to steward institutions where that independence can flourish” 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

A stranger gave me these beautiful flowers yesterday. She was about to travel & couldn’t bear to throw them away. When a stranger gives another stranger flowers because she can’t contemplate turning her back on their beauty without sharing them, somehow the world feels a little more OK. #tulips

A global problem. My university in Australia shut down from CANVAS until “at least” Monday. In higher education and in so many aspects of life, we are all too vulnerable to cyberattacks. Didn’t see this one coming though. #CANVAS

Celebrating David Attenborough’s birthday tonight by watching one of his many documentaries. This one “Rise of Animals - Triumph of Vertebrates”. Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough! Thank you for sharing your love and curiosity of life with the rest of us. Always special.

“Tofersen targets only about 2% of A.L.S. patients, those whose disease is caused by a mutation on the SOD1 gene.” “Despite the small numbers, evidence that some patients are getting better —& that others are not getting worse— is generating excitement & optimism” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/w...

We are so grateful to @Pam Belluck and @nytimes for telling our community’s story and making ALS progress visible. THIS is progress—I AM ALS pushed for Tofersen, the FDA understood this need, and it paid off. We won’t stop bit.ly/NYT-tofersen

It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

Jim Allison, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work that led to CAR-T therapies, has been consistent and loud about the critical importance of public funding for fundamental research.

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

On April 28, 1996, a gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur. Walter Mikac's wife and two daughters were among them. Thirty years on, he says gun control is as important as ever.

Kudos to these visionary women for this longitudinal study of Women’s Health, covering 4 generations of women born 1921-26, 1946-51, 1973-78 and 1989-95. #WomensHealth #ChildrensHealth #endometriosis #menopause #ChronicDisease #obesity #DomesticViolence #Aging news.uq.edu.au/2026-04-aust...

Expanding the power of drugs used to treat liquid malignancies into solid tumours. We screened an epigenetic compound library against cell lines models of ovarian clear cell carcinoma. The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib shows promise #ovariancancer #ibrutinib 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I often think that if the world could be run like a scientific collaboration with valued colleagues located around the globe, what a place it could be. As @astrokatie.com notes - "joy, international teamwork, diversity". Important reminder we're actually capable of this as a species 🧪#Artemis II

Do we grow wiser as we age? I spent 15+ years chasing glam journals, wasting time and energy (and frustrating my team and co-authors). I don’t want to wake up at 70 and realize my life went into convincing a few editors my work was trendy enough. Enough. I’ll try to be smarter.

Brilliant talk by my colleague Dr Dongli Liu from UNSW at ANZGOG (Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group) on the Gold Coast this week. All about development of organoids from patients with ovarian and endometrial cancer & their value in drug testing. #organoids #tumoroids #ANZGOGASM2026

Opinion piece just published by Adrian Barnett makes for interesting reading - "Research Grant System Teeters on the Cusp of an AI Hellscape" 🧪#grantwriting #AI #researchfunds futurecampus.com.au/2026/03/22/r...

Honours student Anaida Nirula giving her formative presentation today. Excited to be working on PTEN again after somewhat of a hiatus 😊. This time working to understand the role of loss of #PTEN in #endometriosis. Anaida nailed her presentation & I am excited for her discoveries this year! 🧪

Walt Whitman, transcendentally. #StephenColbert #poetry #EdwardNorton #Brooklyn www.tiktok.com/@colbertlate...

‘Medical research isn't just good for our health, it's also great for our economy.’ In this Budget, the govt has to commit to spending money put aside for that purpose in the Medical Research Future Fund. Before we lose more brilliant minds overseas, before we damage the sector irrevocably.

Let’s talk about #endometriosis and #womenshealth at #agces

Spoken by women who walk in the shoes - "Underfunding in gynaecological cancer research is costing women their lives". www.womencan.org.au/underfunded #gynaecancer #uterinecancer #endometrialcancer #ovariancancer #cervicalcancer #vaginalcancer #vulvarcancer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwC...

And the winner of Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is … | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

More than 60% of Australian medical researchers left active research roles between 2019 & 2024 because they could not make ends meet - while my costings from the PBO suggest the govt could more than double annual spending from the MRFF without any effect on its base level of funding.

Our PhD student Teagan Fisher presenting her research into key genes involved in both ovarian cancer and endometriosis at the National Endometriosis Clinical & Scientific Trials (NECST) conference last week in Sydney. 🧪 #endometriosis #OvarianCancer #ChromatinRemodelling

At a conference this week & heard a dog bark during a presentation. Realised at a break there was a support dog attending. A very large & beautiful oodle not unlike the one in this picture. 1st time for me to see this. Very happy that the dog seemed to be enjoying the conference 🧪 #dogsofBluesky

when it's your turn to give lab meeting and you don't have new results to show

Oh happy news 😊. Along with the rest of Australia & beyond, keeping the beloved Magda Szubanski in my thoughts. The number of times she has made us all cry with laughter, the very least we can do is this. Thank you science #MantleCellLymphoma #MedicalResearchMatters www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Global Ovarian Cancer Research Consortium Launches AI Accelerator Grant with Microsoft Collaboration#USA#New_York#Microsoft#AI_Research#Ovarian_Cancer

Congrats to VCHRI & UBC research team led by Dr. Ali Bashashati on receiving $2 million to study how AI can improve prediction of ovarian cancer survival, guide treatment selection & ultimately lead to better patient outcomes:

This is big news. As a scientist and ovarian cancer researcher, I know that platinum resistant ovarian cancer is a bear to treat. A major advance in the field of #ovariancancer. Let's keep it up and find more options for these women. #Keytruda #immunotherapy #pembrolizumab

I did my PhD on the RET proto-oncogene & the rare cancer syndrome Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia. I learnt the value of studying rare cancers & syndromes & how we can extrapolate knowledge to cancer more broadly. I learnt the value of multi-national collaborations. A valuable Special Collection #RET 🧪

Marking 30 years, the RET@Thirty Special Collection features an exclusive editorial with Professor Sir Bruce Ponder & brings together mini-reviews addressing the multifaceted aspects of RET & its impact on clinical practice. Explore the collection: erc.bioscientifica.com/page/RET@Thirty

In a world full of awfulness, here’s something wonderful. Austin Appelbee, hero of the hour. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Received a lot of requests in January to write a commentary on papers we published last year in other journals. Why on earth would I do that? We made our original contributions in our original papers! Science has a growing problem of too many publications & competing interests. Not a good thing 🧪

Our world feels discombobulating these days, but on a house somewhere in the quiet streets of Hobart, Tasmania, a painted dog sits on a stack of painted books & made this traveller smile. #DogsofBluesky #BatteryPoint

Papers continuing to come from one of the best collaborations of my career. Hoping to make a difference for women with #ovariancancer taking #DrugRepurposing approaches. Kudos to 1st & last authors & all of us in the middle. A joyful collaboration on all levels. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Didn't plan it, but 1st yr as an all-girl lab. Congrats to our intern Valentina Rodriguez Cortes (High Distinction) & our honours student Anastasia Karafotias (1st Class Honours). Good luck to both for their futures! A challenging but a good yr as we've researched #ovariancancer & #endometriosis. 🧪

In Australia we are on the way to eradicating cervical cancer in young women. Grateful that this is one fear my vaccinated daughter & her girlfriends will not have to experience in their lifetime. Thank you science. 🙏 🧪 #CervicalCancer #VaccinesWork #HPV www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

He called it a “treehouse for learning.” The story behind Frank Gehry’s only southern hemisphere project and how Sydney’s UTS Business School came to be, recalls Roy Green. #Architecture #Sydney #UTS #FrankGehry #AustralianCities

Comprehensive review out in December's Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy from postdoc in my group @amanialghalayini.bsky.social - #GynaecologicalCancer #DrugRepurposing #GynaeCancers #OvarianCancer #EndometrialCancer #Organoids #3Rs #ClinicalTrials & more!! 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

University of Sydney developed 3D-printed human-based blood-vessel models to study clot formation and stroke risk without cruel and flawed animal testing. healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/3d-p...