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Oli Griffith
@oligriffith.bsky.social
ARC Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Studying the evolution, genetics, and physiology of placentation in reptiles and mammals #evodevo #devoevo He/They
I was fortunate enough to be awarded the @geneticsaus.bsky.social Spencer Smith-White Conference award which allowed me to attend GSA in Brisbane last week and present some of my PhD work. It’s always great to re-connect with the society and was an honour to be recognised by GSA! #GSA2026
The 2nd part of my postdoc is now out as a preprint! A challenging but fulfilling team effort to perform genome editing in opossums. We found that the lncRNA RSX is essential to initiate X-inactivation in marsupials 🦘 A long-standing question since the discovery that Xist is absent in marsupials 👇
Turner Lab@lab-turner.bsky.social · last mo.New preprint 📢 Thrilled to share our long-awaited work on the role of RSX in marsupial X-inactivation. This was a huge team effort over the years, led by @aureliencourtois.bsky.social @sermenchero.bsky.social Sugako Ogushi and Waz Varsally, that allowed us to set up genome editing in opossum embryos
Next up is the awesome Rosie Martin talking about the role of transposons on the evolution of reptile pregnancy. #GSA2016
Pleased to share our latest! We show that the chick limb can be directed to recapitulate key stages in mammalian evolution, providing a unifying model for digit patterning across amniotes. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_...
Transforming avian to mammalian modes of digit patterning
How a conserved embryonic organiser-the Sonic hedgehog (Shh)-expressing Zone of Polarising Activity (ZPA)-generates diverse limb architectures in amniotes remains a central problem in evolutionary and...
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#DiscoveryProjects #DP27 Detailed assessor reports should be released in ARC's RMS tomorrow (23 Jun). Normally about 11am, Canberra time (but it varies). Remember the #ARC3DayRule: Think an assessment is "inappropriate"? You've only got 3 days to lodge a "request for review" 👇
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Awesome to see our paper on marsupial DNA methylation reprogramming in @natcomms.nature.com. We found epigenetic reprogramming of the placenta is conserved across mammals, but reprogramming of the embryo is confined to eutherians. Led by the amazing @angeloniallegra.bsky.social & @kseskv.bsky.social
DNA methylation reprogramming in marsupial embryos is restricted to the extraembryonic lineage - Nature Communications
Here the authors generate a new genome and the first embryonic methylomes of an Australian marsupial to show that the embryo retains high DNA methylation while the trophectoderm undergoes erasure...
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Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the assistant minister for the digital economy, Andrew Charlton says. Growth in datacentres has exploded in the past two years, Charlton told the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night, with 44 projects in the pipeline in New South Wales alone seeking 11GW of capacity on the electricity grid. Continue reading...
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A wealth tax is “not a punishment but a sign of social justice and solidarity in a functioning and humane country” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax
New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity
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We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
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Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science
2 x full time, continuing positions, located on the Camperdown Campus in the Faculty of Science Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Pro...
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Jim Chalmers says fewer properties selling at auction may be a ‘good thing’ for first home buyers
Jim Chalmers says fewer properties selling at auction may be a ‘good thing’ for first home buyers
Auction success hit a new low for the year on the last Saturday in May, with just 54.5% of homes sold The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has suggested falling auction clearance rates may be a “good thing” for first home buyers if it means they aren’t competing against as many property investors. After data was released showing home prices in Australia’s capital cities had begun to fall and buyers were abandoning auctions, Chalmers on Monday said Labor’s proposed property tax reforms weren’t the only thing slowing the housing market. Continue reading...
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Job going at @australiainstitute.org.au. 🚨🚨🚨 Come work with @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social and help us change the nation for the better! www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/TheA...
Content Producer - Video and Social - Job in Canberra & ACT - The Australia Institute
Create impactful video and social content on Australia’s biggest issues. Join a leading think tank to turn research into compelling stories across platforms.
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Exciting new work on parallel #evolution: — genetic variants across butterflies are located in similar noncoding regions in ivory and optix. — in … more distant moths, a large inversion containing ivory, closely mirroring the supergene architecture of Heliconius. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Checkout our latest paper, describing the first embryonic staging scheme for a skink. Led by PhD student Jinglin Wen! doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
Post‐Oviposition Embryonic Staging Scheme for the Delicate Skink, Lampropholis delicata
We detail the morphology of post-oviposition embryos throughout development and compare it with reptilian embryonic staging schemes from other squamates. We identified 16 embryo stages based on the d...
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Do you wanna learn about new labs researching #EvoDevo across the Americas? Check them out here! Frogs 🐸, butterflies 🦋 and cnidarians 🪼 #embryos
EvoDevo PanAm@evodevopanam.bsky.social · 4mo ago✨A central mission of PASEDB is to foster networking, discussion, and a sense of community We want to highlight new #EvoDevo labs in Pan-America. In our first newsletter issue, we highlight: - Roberto Márquez - Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social - Bruno Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social
Here's their target: "Meanwhile, in-kind transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and healthcare are increasing." Public Education Public Disability Care Public Health care They want to be America.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4mo agoYou mean the superannuation tax breaks? No? You mean the CGT discount? No? You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No? You mean the free gas for multinationals? No? You mean the failure of the PRRT? No? You mean the tax dodging trusts? No? You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No? No you mean the NDIS FFS
Japan raises more tax revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia does. Japan has a tax on gas and coal imports that raises more money than Aus PRRT. Great new research out today @australiainstitute.org.au @richarddenniss.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/report/taxin...
"We find that while TAD boundaries pair more frequently than non-boundary regions, these interactions are infrequent and are uncorrelated with transcriptional activity of genes within the TAD" elifesciences.org/articles/110...
TAD boundaries and gene activity are uncoupled
Single-cell analysis fails to find a functional link between the organization of chromatin domain organization and gene activity.
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We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4mo agoAfter advancements in gene editing led to the successful treatment of life-threatening health conditions, some tech bros are considering a new application for the controversial science: making super-smart babies to save the world from dangerously capable AI.
2x PhD projects available at @rennesuniv.bsky.social. 1. Why populations rise & fall: global demography of amphibians & reptiles sfecologie.org/offre/funded... 2. Demographic resilience & persistence of populations under climate warming sfecologie.org/offre/funded... Deadline: 30 May 2026
Reminder: the Jenny Donald Undergraduate Student Conference Award closes 11:59pm, 7 May (AEST). Know a keen genetics undergraduate? Encourage them to apply for free registration to GSA 2026 in Brisbane! 🌴🧬📆
Genetics Society of AustralAsia@geneticsaus.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Jenny Donald Undergraduate Student Conference Award is awarded to assist 3rds year genetics students to attend the annual conference. The GSA committee may elect to offer more than one award in a given year. Applications due 11:59pm 7th May AEST genetics.org.au/awards/#Dona...
Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
📣GSA 2026 Award winners announced! 📣 All winners will be presenting at 🧬GSA 2026🧬 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. 🚩Reminder to submit your abstracts by April 6th and register to hear these amazing researchers present their work!
We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders. We offer: 🔬 World-class IT infrastructure 🧠 Creative freedom for your research 📊 Access to the world’s most comprehensive open biological data Apply by 11 April embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers @johnlees.bacpop.org @embl.org
I got the rejection email today. I didn't have any luck with the Australian Geographic photo comp this year. No need for sympathy. I'm used to it. It's very competitive. Here's one of my unsuccessful entries. A yellow-tailed rock wallaby at Boolcoomatta Reserve.
Awesome to see our paper that explores the role of inflammation during marsupial pregnancy come out @plosbiology.org. We found that embryos secrete inflammatory signals that directly impact embryo survival and nutrient allocation. Explaining why inflammation has been retained in implantation.
Fetal inflammatory signals regulate maternal investment during marsupial pregnancy
Marsupial pregnancy is short and characterized by a spike in inflammation which has been proposed to represent a maternal immune response to fetal contact that limits gestation. This study shows that ...
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