Young son of a colleague is 100 days into a diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) requiring many blood transfusions. When people ask what they can do she says "Give blood". Amplifying her words & to people worldwide who do this to help strangers, you're amongst the best of us #AML #BloodDonation

Australian women living with breast cancer or endometriosis should feel secure that they will have continued access to life-changing medications like Zoladex.

Pharmaceutical company bows to pressure, offers life-saving drug for free

Breast cancer patients were considering removing their ovaries until the maker of Zoladex 3.6mg said they would give the drug away rather than list it on the PBS.

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A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.

From eggs to seafood to spices and spirits, testing reveals truth behind labels

A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.

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Jasmine flowering mid-winter in Sydney … Its scent was beautiful but 2026 is not giving us a usual winter. #climatechange

Reading this & thinking I must look at this paper & then realising that they are talking about our research!! 🥰 Thank you @oxford-optronix.bsky.social . Love your #GelCount for clonogenic cell survival assays. Our students are grateful they don't need to spend their time manually counting colonies!

Oxford Optronix @oxford-optronix.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A nice drug repurposing story: this study found ibrutinib reduced ovarian clear cell carcinoma viability and suppressed longer-term clonogenic survival too. GelCount used to image and count colonies, helping generate survival fraction data shown in Figure 5. #CancerResearch #DrugRepurposing

A week of creativity in the lab - Part 2. Our PhD student Teagan Fisher came runner-up in our Faculty’s 3 Minute Thesis competition with this imaginative representation of her research - “Investigating the missing link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer”. 🧪 #3MT #ovariancancer #endometriosis

A week of creativity in the lab - Part 1. Honours student Layal Dani supervised by @amanialghalayini.bsky.social was short-listed in our university’s microscopy imaging competition with her “Firework of Cancer Cells”. Congratulations to Layal who’s working on a microfluidics project 🧪 #ovariancancer

Experienced & successful science grant writers, what do you wish that someone had told you earlier in your career when you were first beginning to write grant applications to fund your research? 🧪

Reading David Suzuki’s “Lessons from a Lifetime”. I heard him speak in Sydney when I was young. In chap 9, “Down Under” he speaks about a “Commission for the Future” established in the 1980s on the importance of #science in Australian life & future. Needing to make this case again & again & again…

One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️

Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.

Grant rejoinders: Avoid using comments from a +ve Assessor to rebut another Assessor who is more critical of aspects of your proposal. For assessors, it’s easier to say something is great than spend time detailing issues. Responses need to come from your deep knowledge of your proposal. #grants 🧪

Today, June 26, is Rare Cancer Awareness Day. Every 12 minutes in Australia someone is told they have a rare cancer. Sharing for my colleague in the picture, the people with lived experience we work with as researchers, & for all the people I don’t know walking this path. 🧪 #RareCancerAwarenessDay

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr.. Alongside Frederick Li, he helped identify Li-Fraumeni syndrome and advance understanding of inherited cancer risk. His work gave generations of families knowledge and hope. We honor his legacy and lasting impact on the LFS community.

The Marie Krogh Young Women in Science Prize is open across Australia & New Zealand - recognising outstanding people who fit eligibility in science & medicine who embody Innovation, Leadership & Impact. www.novonordisk.com.au/marie-krogh-...

Marie Krogh Prize

Marie Krogh Prize

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Are biologists using #Overleaf ? New to me when raised but the engineers seem to be all over it. 🧪 www.overleaf.com/for/universi...

LaTeX editor for universities & institutions

Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor for universities and institutions that enables your students and staff to collaborate on research in real time.

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On National Cancer Survivors Day, we honor and celebrate everyone whose life has been touched by cancer As oncology nurses and healthcare professionals, we are privileged to witness the courage of patients and care partners each day. Thank you for inspiring us!

If more of the world’s wealth was firmly in the hands of women, you can’t help but wonder if things might be very different. Less war, more health perhaps? Thank you Melinda French Gates. apnews.com/article/meli...

Melinda French Gates donates $215 million to improve women's health worldwide

Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women.

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It is rare to see a standing ovation at a scientific cancer meeting, especially when the slide is a Kaplan Meier survival curve. Beyond thrilled to see the progress being made in the treatment of #PancreaticCancer. #daraxonrasib #RAS-drivenCancer #PrecisionMedicine 👏👏

Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️@snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oncologists and researchers at the ASCO 2026 conference give a standing ovation after the experimental drug daraxonrasib nearly doubles survival in a metastatic pancreatic cancer trial! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

This is good-“Universities are not corporations in need of strong CEOs.They are federations of expertise held together by norms, trust & a shared commitment to inquiry..The work of leadership..is to steward institutions where that independence can flourish” 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

On Leading People Who Don’t Want to Be Led (opinion)

Many faculty say this is not the job they signed up for. They need leaders who see this and who are looking out for them.

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A stranger gave me these beautiful flowers yesterday. She was about to travel & couldn’t bear to throw them away. When a stranger gives another stranger flowers because she can’t contemplate turning her back on their beauty without sharing them, somehow the world feels a little more OK. #tulips

A global problem. My university in Australia shut down from CANVAS until “at least” Monday. In higher education and in so many aspects of life, we are all too vulnerable to cyberattacks. Didn’t see this one coming though. #CANVAS

BYTESEU@byteseu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Several top Canadian universities hit in Canvas data breach | Daily Hive https://www.byteseu.com/2002918/ Major universities in Canada are among thousands that have been impacted by a worldwide data breach involving the learning management system Canvas. Canvas’s U.S.-based parent company, …

Celebrating David Attenborough’s birthday tonight by watching one of his many documentaries. This one “Rise of Animals - Triumph of Vertebrates”. Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough! Thank you for sharing your love and curiosity of life with the rest of us. Always special.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

“Tofersen targets only about 2% of A.L.S. patients, those whose disease is caused by a mutation on the SOD1 gene.” “Despite the small numbers, evidence that some patients are getting better —& that others are not getting worse— is generating excitement & optimism” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/w...

In a Milestone for A.L.S., a Treatment Helps Some Patients Improve

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We are so grateful to @Pam Belluck and @nytimes for telling our community’s story and making ALS progress visible. THIS is progress—I AM ALS pushed for Tofersen, the FDA understood this need, and it paid off. We won’t stop bit.ly/NYT-tofersen

It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79

La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...

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Jim Allison, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work that led to CAR-T therapies, has been consistent and loud about the critical importance of public funding for fundamental research.

Nobel Prize Winner Dr James Allison Discusses the Need to Fund More Fundamental Science | AJMC

Major discoveries only happen when there is funding for fundamental science, said James Allison, PhD, chair of the Department of Immunology, the Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair in Immunology, dire...

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notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has announced that he is cancer-free after five years of battling blood cancer