Sophia Davidson

@sciencesophie.bsky.social

Innate Immunologist interested in upsetting cells enough to drive inflammation (especially type I Interferons!)

The money is just sitting there... while 30% kids with rare diseases don't see their 5th birthday while cancer patients transition to palliative care while neurodegenerative diseases take precious memories while brilliant scientists run out of funding and lose their jobs ...it just seems insane

@aamri.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Half the funding. Half the future. The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) was meant to deliver $1B a year — only $650M is reaching researchers. Join the call to release the full MRFF. www.aamri.org.au/mrff #releasethefullmrff @markbutlermp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social

Image: Child in a hospital bed looking at a researcher, half colour, half black and white. 
Main heading: Half the funding. Half the future.
Sub heading: Ask Canberra to keep its promise to medical research.
Text: Breakthroughs don’t happen on broken promises.
Tagline: Release the full Medical Research Future Fund aamri.org.au/mrff

Today is the last day to make a submission! You don't have to fill in the survey l, you can just upload a letter or even a video 🫵🏻Advocate for fundamental research👊🏻 @nhmrc.bsky.social need your feedback to develop the best strategy for the future of Australian medical research Link in the 🧵

Sophia Davidson@sciencesophie.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Dear Everyone, I've read the #NHMRC draft strategy and I have notes ... So I'm going to...🧵🤔🧵😱🧵😵‍💫🧵🙏🧵🧵🧵 This is a repost from X because you all need to know! #NHMRCdraftStratergy #Ihavenotes #ValueFundamentalScience @nhmrc.bsky.social