Join us on 1 Dec for the 4th annual FoSTER (Faculty of Science Transdisciplinary ECR Retreat) Conference! It's sure to be a great day. Rego closes 17/11. UTS Science

It’s clear there is strong support for a rethink of how we measure research careers. If you didn’t catch my piece on research assessment in yesterday’s The Sydney Morning Herald click through on this link shorturl.at/mFPRZ ACOLA #research #researchers #Ranking

That jolly time of year where you get to celebrate your wonderful team 🎄🤶🏼🥂👩🏼‍🔬

It takes two to think - Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher go.nature.com/3TSOIQK

📣 new article from DecisioNeuroLab lab. S-O associations required for #specificPIT 🐀 🧠 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38190223/

An inspired choice, recognising medical researchers & the impact they have made. theage.com.au/politics/feder… #AustraliansOfTheYear #melanoma #glioblastoma #immunotherapy

Monday meditation 🔁🧘🏼‍♀️🧠

Our love language is wombats. 💙 Wishing everyone a loved up #WombatWednesday. While not scientifically proven, we know in our hearts that sharing a wombat a week keeps your love at peak. 📷 | wombat_rescue on Instagram

New paper alert! Our research describing the role of dopamine release in dorsomedial striatum during goal-directed action is out in Cell Reports. A bit of an obstacle race, but this very important work led by Genevra Hart and Tom Burton is out now! doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

Over and snout. ✍️ Bringing you some more CSIRO sign-offs, back by popular demand. 🤩 If you love geeky puns as much as we do, we want to hear from you! Browse the opportunities to join our team: csiro.au/en/careers/imp…

What a stellar ⭐️ week it’s been so far 🇮🇹 🧠

NEW STUDY: A case report led by Florey researchers found that an insomnia drug, suvorexant, has helped a 31-year-old man withdraw from his 16-drinks-a-day alcohol addiction. 📝Read more: florey.edu.au/news/2024/05/i… #TheFlorey @StVincentsMelb #mentalhealth #addiction

Cost-of-living support for teaching, nursing and social work students ministers.education.gov.au/node/20690 UTS School of Nursing & Midwifery UTS Health thank you to the Council Deans Nursing and Midwifery Australia & NZ ACM for their continued advocacy and lobbying to the Government to recognise placement poverty for student nurses and midwives

📢 OPPORTUNITY ALERT for UNSW Alumni: the Learn to Lead 2024 program has launched! Lead to Lead is a self-paced online course that will provide you with the tools to drive your career forward and shape a brighter future. 📆 3 – 17 June Register today: navigator.unsw.edu.au/listing/learn-…

When your antibody sucks and what little signal is there is just buried in background

New preprint from the lab! I like to think there's a little something-something for (almost) everyone here: Hippocampal neuroinflammation causes sex-specific disruptions in instrumental conditioning, Pavlovian approach, and neuronal excitation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Happy Friday 🥳 Really fully, finally, actually tying off the PhD era with the acceptance of this manuscript from my earliest thesis work 🐭 🧠 shoutout to my twitterless co-authors 👏🏼 👏🏼 doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.… 👀

"The current RTP stipend is unviable for many students, limiting their autonomy and pushing them to seek other career paths." Sign this important petition to raise the PhD stipend in Australia Only 9 days left!

Hung up the lab coat 🥼 yesterday and received the most adorable+perfect parting gift 🎁 🐀 thanks to the dream team Laura Bradfield Mike Kendig Simone Rehn for a pivotal+memorable 18 months. I will miss you, and promise to daily monitor my new rat 🫡

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