Congrats to Murdoch Children's A/Prof @GweeAmanda who has received an HCF Australia grant for her trial, which aims to better treat #children with #bone and #joint #infections through early #antibiotic treatment Read more: mcri.edu.au/news/project-b… @gweeamanda HCF Australia

Introducing our next interviewee of the Interview with Experts Series ✨ Dr Henrietta Williams ✨ Dr Williams is a Sexual Health Physician at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre seeing patients with STIs.

I remember breaking down to my Ph.D. advisor about how stupid I felt while troubleshooting a problem in my project when she handed me this paper. Years later it is still relevant to young students starting off in Science. It's ok to feel stupid, we all do on a regular basis.

“This grant proposal describes breeding experiments in peas. This reviewer remains unconvinced about the translational benefits. Applicant should switch to a more economically important crop like wheat. Applicant’s productivity also an issue, no paper published in last 8 years”.

We are on the look-out for a Research Assistant/Officer to join the Lynn Systems Immunology Group in Adelaide to investigate how microbes (pathogenic and commensal) modulate the immune system in different contexts. sahmri.org.au/careers-and-st… SAHMRI EMBL Australia Flinders University

Australia has become the first country to offer self-testing swabs for cervical cancer screening. As of today, all eligible women just need to visit their GP and can choose to perform a self-test at the practice without a doctor present. ow.ly/mNXz50JMe99

The survey on options to reach gender equity in the investigator grant scheme closes tomorrow. You can read the discussion paper and find a link to the survey here: nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publi…

Came across this great table summarizing the barriers to cost-efficient clinical trials, in this perspective by Lauer et al. 5 years old but still so relevant today - so many areas to work on! nature.com/articles/nrcar…

One of my favourite genres of scientific discoveries is when someone uses genetics to knock out a gene or a process that, based on a vast body of literature, is just assumed to be absolutely essential for VERY IMPORTANT STUFF and they find that?...the animals are mostly fine.....

TIL the idea the coffee dehydrates you is based on a study from 1928 that looked at 3 people ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

📢 Just 2 days left to apply. The world-leading #InfectiousDiseases Research Group led by Prof Nigel Curtis, is looking for a Senior Project Coordinator to join our team. Find out more or apply: seek.com.au/job/58684456 #BCGvaccine #COVID19 #TB #BRACEtrial Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)

Published today in NEJM nej.md/41XGg3A #BRACEtrial found #BCGvaccine does not protect against #COVID19 Huge thank you to our participants & #researchers across🇦🇺🇳🇱🇪🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷 for their dedication. It's been an honour to work alongside & learn from this amazing team 👏

Brilliant analysis highlighting one of the dangers of #AI.

Are you a Bioinformatician looking for an interesting role? Here are a few exciting opportunities to work with our team: career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobre…

New study shows that BCG vaccination not enhance antibody responses to COVID-19 vaccination. The #BRACEtrial findings shed light on the impact of vaccine platform and BCG vaccination on immunity against #COVID19. #vaccines #immunology

Our review explores potential reasons for the inconsistent findings between the 11 trials that have reported the effect of #BCG vaccination on protection against symptomatic #COVID19. bit.ly/44wYhq6 Christie Noble @immunity_lab Laure Pittet Clinical Infectious Diseases #BRACEtrial #IDtwitter