Leaving academia is not leaving research. Leaving academia is not leaving science. Leaving academia is not failing. Not sure who needs to hear this today, but please believe it.

Thank you Matilda Boseley - some excellent and much-needed #scicomm 👏🏽👏🏽

Wait… what? That equates to over AU$15,000 😱. For the privilege of having YOUR OWN WORK accessible to your peers… who reviewed it for FREE. And to the public, who likely PAID FOR IT through government grants. HAS THE WORLD GONE INSANE 🤯. I just can’t

Nature does open access

Hey Alan Duffy 👋🏽. Know of anything unusual happening in the sky tonight? My bro in Melbourne says he saw “a huge ‘something’ flying through the sky with an enormous tail”. Reckons he was 💯 sober 😂 #astronomy

A fantastic opportunity to hear from a world leader in molecular biology 🧬. Got a question for Edith 🙋🏽? Post it here!

Join us at 7.00pm AEDT this evening for what promises to be a stimulating conversation with Edith Heard DG EMBL, leading Europe's largest research as she sets a new strategic direction hosted by Clare Fedele 🔬🎙. It's #FREE. bit.ly/3HSQJ5O #scicomm #womeninstemm

"What I hope [my animations] do is that they can give people a sense of optimism about where #CancerResearch is going," says Peter Mac Cancer Centre's biomedical animator Maja Divjak, PhD speaking to Natasha Mitchell (she/her) on ABC Radio National's Science Friction. abc.net.au/radionational/…

One more reminder for this post doc position. Applications close this weekend! petermac.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.a…

As we come together to celebrate Eid al-Adha, please remember to stay COVIDSafe. That means: ✔ meeting and greeting outside when possible ✔ keeping homes well ventilated with windows and doors open

‘They lost their battle with cancer.’ How do you feel about war metaphors and cancer? They make Dr Liz O'Riordan angry. ‘As a doctor, it didn’t bother me. But the minute I became a cancer patient I suddenly hated the war terminology.’