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...

Nearly lost our girl to tick paralysis. Paralysed all legs & respiratory muscles. Shaved, 3 days in a medically induced coma, intubated & ventilated. ‘Brave Girl’ bandana from the vet last night. Please remember anti-tick medication for your pets. Bad tick season in Sydney right now. #DogsofBluesky

“Easier to send a rocket ship to the moon than open a PowerPoint on Zoom” - speaker just now #HybridMeeting 🧪🤣

Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si... #NSWPremiersPrizes #CoralReefs 🧪

Bad antibodies are a major roadblock in biomedical research, harming reproducibility and wasting resources. The International Antibody Validation Meeting was created to fix it. Watch the talks from the 5th Antibody Validation Meeting (2025) tinyurl.com/AntibodyVali... #Integrity #reproducibility

University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪

I never watch myself, but ICYMI 👉🏼 📽️ www.chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw-p...

Congratulations to Academy Fellow Professor Nalini Joshi who has been named NSW Scientist of the Year – the first time a mathematician has received NSW’s highest honour for scientific endeavour! Prof Joshi was elected an Academy Fellow in 2008.

Combining #CSIRO job cuts with job losses that have already happened & are happening now at Australian universities, there is a huge problem in our country keeping scientific research afloat, let alone thriving. We needed political action years ago but the next best time is right now. #STEM

Proud/excited/nervous that our drug repurposing for platinum resistant HGSOC #ovariancancer has opened in Newcastle, NSW. As the consumer team leader on this 5+year project am especially excited to trial an oral drug with low toxicity compared to usual chemo infusions. anzctr.org.au/Trial/Regist...

It was an honour to present with @djmarsh24.bsky.social at the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' last week.

Registrations for the 7th Australian Bioprinting Workshop run by @carminegentile.bsky.social being held December 1-2 at the University of Technology Sydney are still open. Run as a hybrid event for ease of participation. Australian & international speakers. #Ausbioprint 🧪https://www.ausbioprint.com/

Looking forward to a day when I am no longer asked to include animal experiments by reviewers of our research papers. #MedicalResearch #AnimalWelfare #3Rs #DrugRepurposing #Organ-on-a-chip #Tumour-on-a-chip #Tumoroids #Assembloids #Organoids 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

In this review, @gsilvani.bsky.social, Martina Stenzel, & @kriskilian.bsky.social of @nanomed-unsw.bsky.social discuss how advances in #organoids & perfusable MPS are transforming nanoparticle design & accelerating nanodrug development by enabling more predictive assessments of efficacy.

Important in politics to have competitive oppositions to help to avoid the risk of complacency for those in power. Still so much for labour to achieve, including ‘fixing’ higher education. Suspect that Liberals are way off the pulse of most Australians on this one. #netzero

At a time of scrutiny on university governance it was good to hear in yesterday’s Senate inquiry that @flindersuniversity.bsky.social - has open Council meetings - publishes Council minutes & - staff & student Council members are in the room for confidential sessions www.youtube.com/live/9RAyu17...

Listening to witnesses being sworn in at a Parliamentary Enquiry on university governance ending with “so help me god”. Wondered about the power of these words in a largely secular & multicultural society that Australia is today. Keep this for historical gravitas or maybe we need an alternative?

Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97 Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy

Science and our wider society is advanced through the practice of basic science. Basic science is the engine that makes it all work. Janni changed the world through her work in fruit fly embryonic development that taught us about evolution, transcription and cell fate during development.

Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW University Sector - a difficult day for my university. Expertly chaired by The Hon. Dr Sarah KAINE, BEc, PhD MLC (thank you). Acknowledging everyone who spoke today & especially the 3 #UTS students. #Governance #UniversityGovernance #OperationalSustainability

Had the pleasure of presenting with cancer consumer & friend @herbalgill.bsky.social today as part of the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' run by SPHERE on 'The impact of successful partnerships in cancer research'. Picture is 4 yrs old but msgs still ring true.

Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.

Submitting abstracts with my PhD students to 2026 meetings & hitting home that I still need a lot more of 2025 to achieve that long academic list!! #LorneCancer (www.lornecancer.org) #LorneGenome (www.lornegenome.org)

Young &/or budding academics - if you're asking someone to be a #referee for you, make sure you ask can they be a SUPPORTIVE referee. Tell them about the position & ask their availability to give a reference. Referees - don't put to the bottom of your pile to do 'whenever'. Opportunities pass.

Sadly I heard today that Jim Peacock has died. Jim was the foremost pioneer of plant molecular biology in Australia & globally. He was both my mentor and friend and will be sorely missed by many #plantscience 🧪 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

Leadership 101 - ‘Don’t throw your people under the bus’. Glad to see this hold true on the international stage. #Albanese #Rudd

Thrilled to see our preprint featured in Science News! 🩸 Big thanks to Holly Barker for writing such a thoughtful piece about our work. So exciting to see broader attention to menstruation research and new model systems! www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Fantastic talk by Prof Alan D’Andrea (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School) showing how the EWS-FLI1 fusion disrupts POLQ splicing and impairs the MMEJ DNA repair pathway in Ewing sarcoma @Australian Cell Cycle, DNA Repair, and Telomere Meeting 2025 #ACDTM25#CancerResearch

Starting today in Melbourne … I definitely have FOMO but 2 from my lab are there with posters - postdoc @amanialghalayini.bsky.social and PhD student Tali Skipper. Know this will be a great meeting!

Seems that #Darwinian selection is at play in our pond. Breeding when they feel like it, increasingly survivors are black baby fish that eventually turn white. Sometimes they’re quite big before they turn. Camouflage is excellent!! Give it 50 yrs & I think all fish could be white. #NaturalSelection

Made time to watch Jane Goodall's Famous Last Words. By the end my tears were rolling with a strong sense of loss mixed with gratefulness for what she accomplished & shared. Her scientific curiosity, even about death, & her message to retain hope so important. www.netflix.com/au/title/820...

I remain puzzled as to why some continue to trot out that academia is not the "real world". I have endless responsibilities, deadlines, expectations, and work long hours. This is my "real world" & I hope that my efforts over a long career contribute to improving the "real world" of others. 🧪

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were honored for research into how the body helps the immune system avoid attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.

My daughter & I had the privilege of listening to Jane Goodall speak in Sydney. A night we will always remember. So sad to wake to the news of her passing this morning. Jane Goodall will be sorely missed but beautifully remembered. A tremendous legacy that will sustain. #RIP #JaneGoodall

Catching the lift with undergrad science students. One of them to another - “They used great language like mRNA vaccine & PCR. YESSSS” (accompanied by fist pump). Me to myself “YESSSS” 😊🧪

Medical Research Future Fund: Advocates urge increased disbursements amid US research cuts “the government could release as much as $1.4 billion each year, more than double the current amount.” Funding delivers breakthroughs! ⁦‪ www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Celebrating 1st authorships in the group. Congratulations again to 2nd yr PhD student Tali Skipper on her paper out in Cellular Oncology - "Revealing genetic drivers of ovarian cancer and chemoresistance: insights from whole-genome CRISPR-knockout library screens". doi: 10.1007/s13402-025-01102-4 🎉🧪

3D Bioprinted Mini Placentas Poised to Revolutionize Pregnancy Research In a groundbreaking advancement that promises to revolutionize our understanding of pregnancy complications, scientists at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have successfully 3D bioprinted miniature placentas, or…

Our first Editorial is entitled "Women's Health For All". www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

‘3D printed mini-placentas offer a new way to study pregnancy complications’ – University of Technology Sydney researchers create placental organoids that ‘shed light on complications like preeclampsia’: theconversation.com/3d-printed-m... Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We share the story behind our recent publication in this @springernature.com Behind the Paper blog post 🤰📰🌐 communities.springernature.com/posts/design...