1. It's really remarkable how much of our scientific funding, hiring & tenure system is built on the fear that, left to their own devices scientists will waste their time studying the wrong things & if given any sort of good job security will just stop doing science altogether.

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New NHMRC Ideas Grant for the SAHMRI clinical autophagy program! We will measure lysosomal function in the brain using PET imaging - collab between Lysosomal Health in Ageing (Julian Carosi Sanjna Singh) and Dr Ed Robins (SAHMRI MITRU) Ryan O’Hare Doig, Ph.D., many others!! 🧠🧠☢️☢️

But can it run a gel?

Reposting and bookmarking as I have read this over 50 times in the last year. I genuinely think this is the greatest scientific resource ever published in the field of spinal cord injury.. 🤯

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Taylor & Francis: $800M Wiley: $1.8 billion They pay: Academic authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0

If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs

As a PI, most of my lab skills have deteriorated. I barely know how to do anything in the lab, but I'm pretty good at multi-factor authentication, paperwork, electronic signatures... I also tell myself that I'm good at thinking about the big picture, whatever that means.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Tommy..

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