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🇲🇾 scientist in 🇦🇺 | 🦟 🩸 #malaria |🦙 #nanobodies | Prof @WEHI_research @ourANU | on Wurundjeri, Ngunnawal & Ngambri lands | views my own 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🍜
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For those of us who are awaiting ARC Discovery Projects EOI results today - also a gratuitous Canberra running photo at the Arboretum 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🤞🏼🤞🏼

@lbkoch9.bsky.social and I wrote a Current Opinion piece highlighting recent progress in our understanding of centromere and kinetochore function in meiosis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ARC have tweeted that they will released Discovery Projects Expression of Interest outcomes tomorrow.

The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!

This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects. Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them. The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.

#NHMRC Investigator Grant outcomes officially released, after last weeks notification to candidates. Oveall 13.4% success rate. No data on the rates of prior successful candidates being re-awarded. Suspect new candidates at EL2 and above are likely <10% overall.

Independents have shown for years that they can be a force for positive change in parliament for the communities they represent. It wouldn't be possible without volunteers and I am honoured that 850+ people from across the ACT have signed up to Team Pocock for my campaign.

As usual had a great time at the Biophysical Society annual meeting #BPS2025. Just wanted to apologise to those students/postdocs who emailed me but I was unable to get to their posters. It was impossible to see everyone. Happy to take a look if you are willing to email me PDFs.

Our new paper in print describes a new approach: release and analysis of N-glycans in less than 24 hours. A perfect approach for those that are glycan-curious as it does not require changing any of your proteomics buffers! 1/5 #glycotime #teammassspec pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Check out this wonderful work by the Tham lab on a malaria transmission blocking vaccine candidate! Includes a little on human immune responses from our team 🥳 @acreme.bsky.social @womeninmalaria.bsky.social

Interested in #malaria transmission and fertilisation? Check out our new work using cryo-EM of ENDOGENOUS sexual stage parasites to determine the Pfs230-Pfs48/45 fertilisation complex - please read & share! structures| nanobodies |human immune responses | mRNA-LNP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@altfda.bsky.social If you are a probationary FDA employee who is losing your job today, reach out to me on Signal meredithwadman.13 to help @science.org tell this important story. Confidentiality guaranteed.

I have created a Bsky account just in time for #LorneGenome25 so that I can post from (and about) the meeting. I am very proud of the program that the Organising Committee has pulled together (www.lornegenome.org) and can't wait to see you all on Sunday! Looking forward to some science by the beach!

#NHMRC sapphire portal is super slow…looks like Investigator Results have dropped. Can hear the cries of a thousand souls…commiserations to all those unfortunate to miss out. And huge congrats to the lucky few!

Looking forward to posting science fun soon - meanwhile here are “blue skies” in Canberra!

The Levashina Lab is hiring a lab technician for #malaria research in #Berlin. 🧪 Tasks: Parasite cell culture, insect breeding and rearing, assistance with animal experiments 👍 Requirements: Qualification as lab technician 📅 Deadline: March 15 More info: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2179181/job_...

Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED, and oh my lord they are gorgeous! HUGE thanks to everyone at @hopkinspress.bsky.social who made this happen, with a special shoutout to art director Molly Seamans and designer/illustrator @kglyder.bsky.social for a cover that I fell in love with the first time I saw it 🧟‍♀️

Beautiful sunrise for the last day of the 50th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function. Thanks to all the speakers, organisers and participants for making this another fabulous meeting! Save the date for next years meeting: 8-12 Feb, 2026. @lorneproteins.bsky.social

Come and set up your own group at the @mrclmb.bsky.social in Cambridge, UK. Feel free to chat/email me with questions.

⏱️ Applications close THIS SUNDAY 9/2 for the LIMS Marilyn Anderson Fellowship, for female molecular scientists at Levels C or D! Don’t wait – apply now 👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/ #STEMresearch #sciencetwitter #WomeninSTEM

Foldseek-Multimer—now published in @naturemethods.bsky.social—our fast multimer search tool, enables complex comparisons against the full PDB in seconds. It comes with BFMD, a collection of 300K+ predictions gathered from community projects. 📄 nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐 search.foldseek.com

And open SynBio Facility Director role too! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/head-of...

“We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose to not live in that world” I’m so excited to read @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book!! Please stay tuned for my interview with John in March! everythingistb.com