Tip of the hat to all the #nhmrc Investigator grant recipients. By now you both know who you are

Best lab Christmas party ever! Not shown, dinner at Julius and drinks at Mr Percival’s - this is Bowles lab, with visitor Monica Kam Draskau from @SvingenT lab, at Brush and Barrel, getting all creative!

Go Team! Amazing work and beautiful images to boot!

Please check out interview of Prof Margaret Gardiner with Fran Kelly - We would have no vaccine if it was not for >20 years of prior fundamental discovery science - it is not just clinical trials we need to fund. "Are you listening politicians?" ABC News abc.net.au/radionational/…

1/6 Aussie couples are infertile. Not life-threatening, but really devastating. We try to figure out how sperm and eggs are made - so we can do something about it! #SaveOzScience #AdvanceAustraliaCare #DiscoveriesNeedDollars

Cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death. We study how a healthy blood vasculature is maintained. Our grant investigating what causes bleedings in the brain was not funded. Research identifying new therapeutic avenues is on hold. #AdvanceAustraliaCare #stroke #auspol

Every $ invested into the health & medical research sector by the NHMRC returns ~ $3.20 in economic, social and health benefits The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR). High attrition rates in a highly skilled workforce equates to huge losses for 🇦🇺. The sector is on its knees. Things need to change now.

“National Health and Medical Research Council, a separate funding body, needed more funds, as it has to reject 90 per cent of grant applications”. Australian medical research funding doesn't pass governance test: Chris Bowen smh.com.au/politics/feder…

And I'm off to Canberra for Science Meets Parliament 2023 #SMP2023 Science & Technology Australia to champion the AMAZING reproductive biology research of SRB. So many great stories, so much talent ... This will be a dream!

Reproductive biologists unite! Dr. Nicola Rivers and Dr Jarrod McKenna will be working with SRB (Cassy Spiller) and Uni of Adelaide (Kylie Dunning and Dr Tiffany Tan) researchers to advocate for more support & funding for Australian reproductive health. #smp2023 Science & Technology Australia

A moving address from the Minister for #Industry and #Science, the Hon Ed Husic MP. Let’s not forget that Australia is the global origin of #STEM and has an undeniable history and future of innovation, creativity and science. #npc National Press Club #smp2023 #scicomm Science & Technology Australia 1/2

Proud to report this new germ cell-specific Cre transgenic mouse line - Ddx4‐iCre. It comes on much earlier than the Mvh-Cre, whew! PhD work of the excellent and now Dr . and supervised by the excellent Cassy Spiller onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dv…

The 'Repro Rockettes' Kelly Walton Josephine Bowles Fiona Cheung Cassy Spiller will be walking 30km Coastrek Sunshine Coast 2023 this Friday ☀️. Please sponsor our trek for your ❤️, the ❤️ you love, and the ❤️ of all Australians. SRB coastrek.com.au/st/10531/t

The ‘Repro Rockettes’ have completed the Sunshine Coast 30km Coastrek 2023. SRB Travelling with another UQ News UQ Medicine team ‘From UQ to beyond’. Please sponsor our team! #queenslandwinter coastrek.com.au/st/10531/t