A truly inspiring fireside chat with the one and only Robert Langer. Think big, have impact, and the importance of role models and convergence. “There is very little that is impossible”. Thank you for organising it @biomelb and @VicGovBio! #mRNASeries

A thorough lab cleaning today at CSIRO with some collector’s items like #Windows95 and Bio-Rad Life Science floppy disks;). Unfortunately no 8” or 5¼ inch ones.

Melbourne’s winter has officially started #DMSO. #chemistry #AcademicChatter

How to manipulate your University ranking with $$: sirisacademic.com/blog/the-affil…

Exciting opportunity to join an interdisciplinary team on development of preclinical models & nanomedicine for childhood brain cancer. See link below. Childrens Cancer Institute NanoMed UNSW RNA Institute Philipp Graber Aria Ahmed-Cox Research Officer ccia.connxcareers.com//Job/Details/7…

Wonderful to see this project on #nanomedicine in #3D #BBB and #braincancer continuing to build momentum at the Childrens Cancer Institute🧠💪. Are you a #postdoc with #3Dculture, #microscopy and/or #animal experience & want to live near this🏄‍♀️🌅? Check out the role below👇Prof Maria Kavallaris AM 🌈

📢 I'm very honoured to become the #STEM ambassador to Michelle Ananda-Rajah MP – member for #Higgins. I'm excited to share my expertise and be a strong ambassador for #science and #technology in public policy🔬📝- especially for the #biomedical and #medtech sectors.🌏

Meet #STEMambassador Dr Lars Esser – CSIRO biomaterials research scientist and a passionate science communicator. Lars looks forward to actively engaging with Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah MP to help shape STEM-related policies. scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/profile/dr-lar…

Superstar STEM Ambassadors. ⭐ A huge congratulations to the amazing #TeamCSIRO members who have been named Science & Technology Australia STEM Ambassadors: Dr Maja Arsic, Dr Lars Esser, Dr @StalkerLinda and Allison Hortle. 👉 spr.ly/6019PODrx

Learnt that there is also a #Hamilton in Victoria thanks to this funny mistake :) #FIFAWomensWorldCup De Limburger

Should we celebrate the doctors who experiment on themselves? – aeon.co/essays/should-… via Aeon Magazine. A very balanced and thought provoking article.

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses CRISPR gene editing as a treatment for diseases go.nature.com/46kZe5Y

We have a rare entry-level #job for a synthetic organic #chemist in our Bioconjugates & Biomaterials team at CSIRO. A great opportunity for any student who just finished their honours or masters degrees. Perhaps one of yours ⁦Monash Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences⁩? ⚗️🧪 linkedin.com/jobs/view/3743…

#Melbourne’s weather is surprisingly easy to understand in the summer. A northerly wind ⬇️ means scorching hot🔥, while a southerly ⬆️ almost immediately brings a cool relief ❄️. Usually within the same day/hour too :)

This Sunday on Einstein A Go Go 3rrrfm I will once again be joined by 20 amazing PhD students for #20phds20mins. It will be a fast paced show of 20 different topics. This will be the 9th cohort (10th if you count the virtual program last year!). Those on Twitter include:

A fascinating and inspiring story about ingenuity, stubbornness, and making a difference. The #BiVacor artificial ❤️ story & the need to see #Australia’s IP not as export product, but to create manufacturing facilities & jobs to promote local translation. amp.theage.com.au/national/the-a…

#AI translation apps are a fun way to spend time on the #Shanghai metro. Pretty impressive too - next to the ease of using Airalo eSIM Store eSIM cards and practicing Chinese using HelloChinese . It makes #travelling even more fun :) ✈️ #Papago #ChatGPT

Congratulations to Peije Russell for winning the prize for best talk at #Oznanomed. Amazing job! Peije is developing #theranostic nanoparticles for cardiovascular diseases for his #PhD at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in collaboration with ACBD, ANSTO and CSIRO.

It’s almost time for the fifth #Dutch-#Anglo war, although this time it will be fought out on a football field in Germany and not on sea. #EURO2024 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Dut…

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