NARF was actively involved in consultation re harmonisation of MRFF/NHMRC. Thanks 🙏 to the Exec for embracing change. We need sector-wide rep on the committees 👇that will inform the new health and medical research ecosystem, #biomedicalscientists #EMCRs tinyurl.com/NEW-NHMRC-MRFF…

PhD candidates are a crucial part of any lab's wheelhouse and they deserve a liveable wage. We need to raise the PhD stipend STAT Only 7 days til this government petition closes, if you haven't signed it yet please add your voice to raise the PhD stipend aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

Twitterverse, anyone know of clear examples of homozygous variants not causing disease, but when that same variant is in trans with a lot it does cause disease. We know there are examples of this, but struggling to find them in literature #genomics #raredisease

Kudos to Dr Sarah Beecroft who 1st ID this repeat. CCG expansions in the 5’UTR of ABCD3 cause OPDM, a progressive MD that affects the eyes, muscles involved w speaking & swallowing. Huge collaborative effort, incl co-leads at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Enrico Bugiardini nature.com/articles/s4146…

In a year where I've questioned my abilities and had some tricky situations to navigate this is welcome recognition of our team's work in the #genetics of #raredisease & research impact. Thanks to Roger Cook for recognising the importance of science in this way #womenInSTEM

"Becoming a #Scientist: The Graphic Novel" is now live! Follow the inspiring stories of my amazing lab members at Cambridge University Cambridge Pathology. The diverse barriers they overcame, their #rolemodels, and their #motivation to enter science! Please share! issuu.com/adrian.liston/…

In her recent article, #CoARA Steering Board member Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social highlights the core challenges we must address to truly transform research culture. Take a look ➡️ Four things no-one wants to admit about research culture wonkhe.com/blogs/four-thi… via @wonkhe #ResearchCulture

Amazing. Imagine if academia was more like this.

A 🧵 about women applying for things. We’ve run a postdoc seminar series for the past few years. Our selection is entirely anonymized. We read only the research statements. No CV’s, no names, no lab references. But when all was revealed this year, 8/10 finalists were male.

Wonderful to be at the #WASciAwards2024 celebrating the wonderful science achievements in WA

WA Premier’s student scientist of the year Nicola Principe, inspiring cancer researcher and founder of the Kindness in Science - Kind Scientists #WASciAwards UWA Research

Thanks to Premier Roger Cook and Minister Stephen Dawson for acknowledging science in this way. This represents the efforts of the whole research team past and present. #WASciAwards

Happy to introduce sawfish, a new HiFi structural variant caller emphasizing local haplotype modeling to improve SV representation and genotyping in both single and joint-sample analysis contexts: 1/n doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Next week is our group's first attempt at a meeting-free week. I am really looking forward to some deep work and thinking time. Any tips from others that have experimented with meeting free weeks before? #meetingfreeweek #toomanymeetings #newPI

I personally funded the Dr Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Program in 2018 & have spent sig funds ensuring its success. I also work for free every day in my name charity because the govt inaction on Indigenous child suicides broke me. Yet for decades I’ve put up with

Dear younger colleagues: please, don't ever accept to write articles for "special issues". There's nothing "special" about such issues. Nobody reads them and they do nothing good for your career. They are scams that deprive you of your time and your research money.

Thoroughly enjoying this book/manual by Heiko Spallek, compulsory reading for academics at any career stage. Thanks Dr Melina Georgousakis for shining a spotlight on this one #newPI #academicleadership #authenticleader

Wonderful lunch at the AICC Patricia Kailis Women of Achievement lunch with Hon Kerry Sanderson. “One woman is a token, 2 are a conspiracy, 3 get things done” #womeninleadership

LOF variants in junctophilin 1 (JPH1) cause a congenital #myopathy with prominent facial involvement, congrats to lead authors Dr Mridul Johari & Ana Topf from Harry Perkins Institute & JWMDRC. Thanks to collaborators, the patients and their families. #mendeliome jmg.bmj.com/content/jmedge…

Just had a great briefing session with the moderators and panellists for our WMS #wms2024 career development session on engagement with industry. I’m looking forward to this one! The session is already over subscribed! #EMCR #careerdevelopment #neuromusculardisease