South Australian public schools are currently underfunded by $337 million per year, causing mass teacher shortages and alarming declines in student & teacher wellbeing.

Anthony Albanese our teachers and children deserve better. Fully fund public school now! #auspol #saparli

Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Monopolies are intrinsically destabilizing and inevitably implode...eventually. Guessing *which* of the loathesome monopolies that make us all miserable will be the first domino is a hard call, but Ticketmaster is definitely…

The evidence that autism has genetic origins is overwhelming. But we don't do a good job of communicating that. And that void is readily filled with pseudoscience...

We are seeking a postdoctoral scientist to join our team! You’ll be working on NHMRC and Heart Foundation funded research projects investigating the molecular and developmental mechanisms underpinning congenital heart defects. Please share and apply! workingatunisa.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?e…

A Matter of Trust – Research Misconduct in Australia
* Australia’s lack of a research integrity watchdog leads to wasted funds, misdirected efforts and risks to public health.
Kristen Scicluna writes Australia Institute

australiainstitute.org.au/post/a-matter-…

John Streicher This more or less captures my position. It isn't that I don't regret that it could have been more*, it's just that even at reduced pace it feels better than doing other things.
*drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2015/03/04/gen…

MCRI researchers have heard from Federal Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Dr Andrew Leigh, who spoke about how #randomisedtrials can challenge conventional wisdom & drive evidence-based policy. | #MCRI #MCRI Research #HealthPolicy Andrew Leigh Prof Sharon Goldfeld

Now out in Nature Cell Biology Please see thread below. Thanks to the amazing team and collaborators!! Our website is also live (cellularlipidatlas.com)
nature.com/articles/s4155…
rdcu.be/dD5U6
Baker Institute
Still a lot more to discover lipids and immune cell function!

How does this end up in Cell?

Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

ANNOUNCEMENT - Applications Open:
Sunday 21 April I will be continuing #20phds20mins on Einstein A Go Go – Group 9! 3rrrfm
20 PhD students will be selected from the applications received by 5pm Sunday 7th April AEST.

Each interview will be approximately 1 minute long. PhD…

Inspiring few days discussing respiratory disease with the Aussie lung community #TSANZSRS2024 🫁 Also very honoured to have received the Moderna Research Award for Lung Health in Respiratory Viruses which will fund our work understanding alveolar epithelial infections 🦠

We have positions open for new group leaders in Cancer Immunology Peter Mac Cancer Centre Peter Mac Research
Come and work with brilliant colleagues, in a world class immunology program and cancer research institute in the heart of Melbourne!!
Detail are below....
seek.com.au/job/74523445?r…

It’s great to be back on Twitter after Benjamin Parker from UniMelb MDHS lost access (thanks Elon Musk for firing staff and disabling SMS 2FA). Stay tuned for lots of metabolic proteomic news and research!
Here’s a photo of Tiggy the Chihuahua to start your weekend…

After 8 months of fighting.... there are finally 2 cabinets hanging in the lab. Science in Germany is when you need 500 phone calls and 24 meetings to have 2 shitty wall cabinets in your fu€^ing lab. Today I celebrate the victory.

7 days left for applications. Free surfing lessons from me for the successful candidates to really get you into the Aussie lifestyle 🤟

Nice work from Ben Parker's group University of Melbourne University of MelbourneCMR demonstrating important role for the AMPK target C18ORF25 in fast twitch muscle.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Postdoc advertised in my lab to study mobile DNA in mammalian genomes. Permanent position with superannuation and tax concessions in addition to advertised salary. Would suit someone straight out of PhD or a more experienced staff scientist.

Please RT

nature.com/naturecareers/…

Just a little fun for a Sat morning. ARC funding vs fossil fuel company tax concessions in 2022-23. Big thanks to the awesome ARC Tracker for all that you do. Please do something to fix this Australian Government.

Sources: australiainstitute.org.au/report/fossil-…
arc.gov.au/about/our-orga…

Fun fact!

In 2020-21 (most recent available ATO data), Australia's nurses paid more than three times more tax than the gas industry. #auspol

* This info comes from just 2 different DMers. They reported the same number of submissions, but I cannot rule out that they just heard the same rumour. I wish the ARC would just tell us this stuff!

Also note that last year’s number of funded MPs (421) was a historical low.