Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social
Rare & neuromuscular disease researcher at UWA & the Harry Perkins Institute, Perth 🇦🇺 Passionate about #sciencefunding, #womeninSTEM, #EMCRs Mum of 👦👧🐶 Posting about genomics, rare disease, PI life & wine https://www.ravenscroftlab.com
Anyone else hit the email refresh season, #NHMRC #investigatorgrant outcomes pending?!
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Less than 1 in 10 NHMRC grants requests were successful, despite the Govt sitting on $25 billion in the Medical Research Future Fund. Gough would turn in his grave if knew what Albo was doing under the banner of Labor.
Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly. Join the campaign!
Medical Research Matters
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Last night the sunset on my last day of a much-needed break. Hoping for a kinder, calmer year. My word for 2026 is boundaries. What’s yours? #goalsetting #newPI #womeninSTEM
8am #Vac-swim at the beach, perfect way to spent two weeks of the summer holidays. Always good when the shark helicopter comes over and keeps going #mullaloobeach
The government can’t claim that medical research is a priority while failing to treat it as one. Nine in 10 leading researchers in Australia are missing out on government support for world‑class proposals, leaving exceptional talent uncertain about their future.
Most researchers miss out on innovation grants while medical fund sits on $25b
Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.
theage.com.au
Medical research matters! Australian scientists are making potentially lifesaving breakthroughs into the molecular mechanisms of brain tumours - discoveries with potential for commercialisation and global uptake. We should support them better via the MRFF and NHMRC.
Mark’s deadly cancer will come back. Now scientists know why
When Mark Norris finished his cancer treatment, there was nothing doctors could do except wait for it to return. The father of two says that’s not good enough.
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Wow, the Aus gov spending on medical research this year equates to 0.004 submarines. How many people do submarines help vs medical research again? I forgot 🤔
Dr Monique Ryan@mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 8mo ago
Impact of chronic underfunding 150 survey responses & counting. Please consider adding your voice and sharing your stories. lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG Storytelling is key to our humanity. We can make economic arguments and health arguments, but the power of stories can not be underestimated #SaveOzScience
“This feels like yet another attack on our research community that is already under siege” Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social has issued a media release about the ARC's proposed restructure and job cuts 👇
Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important. Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her)@samstehbens.bsky.social · 8mo ago@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers ‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’ lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG 1/
Thank you @drshanerrr.bsky.social for speaking on behalf of all of us. It’s such wasted effort for 92% of applicants. Wouldn’t it be great if they took the spare 600 mil gathering dust at MRFF and funded an extra 10% of ideas grants?
Dr Shane Huntington OAM@drshanerrr.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research. I will not rest until we see this resolved.
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
this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience
Natalia Sampaio@drnatsampaio.bsky.social · 9mo agoAn abismal 8% success rate for this year’s #NHMRC #IdeasGrant scheme. Must be an all time low. Congratulations to those successful, you really earned it! Commiserations to the NINETY TWO percent of applicants who didn’t get it… #australianresearch #discoveriesneeddollars 🥼🧪🔬🧫 🇦🇺
The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT. ‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund
Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.
theage.com.au
Calling Australian #EMCR in health and medical research - anyone willing to speak to media and provide quotes about the impact of the MRFF underspend on researchers, on how tough it is in medical research? Please contact me! #NHMRC #MRFF #biomedicalscience #SaveOzScience #medicalresearch
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The government is starving medical research in Australia and we risk losing talent. Thanks @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for asking questions of this government #SaveOzScience #MRFF #medicalresearch
Should be working on my talk for #HGSA2025 Miss 7 had other ideas. Painting, it’ll be fun they said #procrastipainting
is there any way to find details of an individual with a variant in #gnomADv4 One allele in 1.6M....
