🌱 CCDM researchers and students will present their latest barley disease and fungicide research at #ABTS2026 in Geelong (17–19 Aug). Talks from Xuan Hoan Dinh, Jade Davis and Varthini Govindaraju Punithan, plus a poster from Jiaping Du. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🔬 EOI now extended: CCDM Nanopore Sequencing Workshop 2026 Join us at Curtin University from 17–19 Nov for a hands-on workshop covering wet-lab sequencing + bioinformatics 📊 $500 rego | bursaries available EOIs close 1 September - buff.ly/40UXAwg @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Curtin University program helps connect young autistic people to cyber security industry

Autistic talent tapped to help fill growing cybersecurity skills gap

The cybersecurity sector is projected to need tens of thousands of roles filled by 2030. Now, a university-based program is helping provide those workers by tapping into the abilities of autistic people.

abc.net.au

Hmm, Ricky Martin? I don’t think so.

Had a go at cooking some skirt steak on the grill last night. Very tasty.

Left work a little later than usual today, and enjoyed a close encounter with some Carnaby Cockatoos feasting on the banksias in the carpark

When your dad is a chemist

Fantastic to celebrate the achievements of our graduates at the Bunuru Curtin University graduation ceremony last night.

New 🫆 research paper by my PhD student (and some other weirdos): doi.org/10.1080/0045...

The importance of determining the chemical composition of Tape adhesive prior to conducting fingermark enhancement: a preliminary study

Adhesive tape is a challenging substrate for fingermark enhancement. A range of enhancement techniques are available for the adhesive side of tapes, with powder suspensions commonly used. The abili...

doi.org

Second book for the year 💙📚#booksky

Join us for a one-day symposium celebrating Trans+ students and researchers in STEM at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London on 27th February! Free to attend #trans #transstem #lgbtstem #lgbt #stem transstemuk.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...

Sign up for: 'Celebrating transgender, non-binary, and intersex researchers in chemical sciences'

Join us for a one-day symposium on 27th February 2026 at RSC Burlington House in London

transstemuk.substack.com

The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

Some reading for the very long flight home - the latest by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

How a first-ever beard — sprouted as a good luck charm for the #Florida Panthers — turned our reporter from a spotlight-shunning, stage-shy wallflower into an improbable Santa Claus. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/24/a... via @sun-sentinel.com

A Christmas gift for Santa: What you learn as an unlikely first-time St. Nick in South Florida

How a Sun Sentinel writer’s random decision to grow a beard for the Florida Panthers led to an anxious debut as Santa Claus — and a lesson: Santa is real.

sun-sentinel.com

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

a group of police officers are talking to a man in a room with bbc written in the corner

Alt: a group of police officers are talking to a man in a room with bbc written in the corner

media.tenor.com

Dr Mel T@drmel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

It’s the 21st of December. Long way from home this year.

Off to the UK, leaving behind the first of the summer heat and blue skies above Perth.

Toads are on track to reach the Pilbara in the next 20 years. If they do, they'll threaten 25 native mammals and reptiles- 8 of which occur nowhere else in the world. The Toad Containment Zone can stop them, here's how! #wildoz #tcz theconversation.com/cane-toads-a...

Cane toads are hopping towards the Pilbara, but a water-free containment zone could stop them

Cane toads will reach Broome in the next couple of years. Creating a waterless “containment zone” is the only way to stop them pillaging the Pilbara.

theconversation.com

For today’s #WildlifeWednesday is the endangered Baudin's Black-Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii), found in south-western WA. These cockatoos can live for over 50 years and have a narrower and longer bill than the Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo, which they are sometimes mistaken for! 📷 Keith Lightbody #WildOz

First day in my new position. Just a tad nervous.

View from my mat during exercise this morning - is it a sign?

Happy Friday. Enjoying small people from around the neighbourhood running around and having fun. Is there anything more therapeutic than children laughing?

🧪 not exactly encouraging #predatorypublishing

Phew... report looks like it hit the target. So wild to know other people reading it now! www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Miscarriages of justice more likely due to forensic science crisis, report finds

Inquiry warns of rising risk in England and Wales of biased investigations, wrongful convictions and cases collapsing due to missing evidence

theguardian.com

🧪 🫆 Well, looks like that batch of reagent is working. Latent fingermarks developed with 1,2-indanedione/zinc chloride photographed in luminescence mode. Getting the practical side of my study leave underway.

Having a green sort of day.

It was standing room only for Thais Lópes fantastic Milestone 3 presentation on the research she has been carrying out into sustainable latent fingermark development for the Brazilian context for her PhD. 🧪 #CurtinForensic #forensicscience #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #frugalforensics

Homemade French onion soup in front of The Day of the Jackal. Nice way to end a relaxing Sunday.

Good night all round.

Some faith in my fellow humans restored tonight. 1. Unequivocal repudiation of culture war bullshit in our election 2. Leader of losing party conceded the election with grace 3. Leader of winning party shut down boos for losing leader "What we do in Australia is we treat people with respect"