Joe Brock

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From culture wars to AI disruption, universities face a reckoning over their role in society High fees, student dissatisfaction and repeated governance issues dominating the headlines have fuelled an intense political climate for universities. Well before President Donald Trump was re-elected...

Universities have played a central role in democracies…but then we started trying to run them like businesses…Great piece by the VC of University of Western Sydney, Prof George Williams in @thepointau.bsky.social

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

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New Australia Institute analysis reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets.

#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

Trump to designate anti-fascist Antifa movement a ‘major terrorist’ group US President Trump describes group as a ‘dangerous, radical left disaster’ as well as a ‘major terrorist organisation’.

There is no organisation called antifa, it's an idea. What Trump is doing is trying to criminalise *anyone* who opposes fascist regimes, like his.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

This moment is a chance to rebuild ANU into a democratic, accountable and thriving institution that has the trust and confidence of its community once again.

It must not be wasted.

Robot mechanic x synthetic biologist! 🙌

Word!

Happy to report our enzyme found a home! rdcu.be/eaGXG New kid on the block P450 O-demethylase SyoA-the specificity of a monooxygenase with the simplicity of catalysis driven by peroxide. Retrofit your P450 with this active site chemistry today! #lignin #syringol Out today in Nature Communications.

Congrats team!!!

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...

It's impossible to look away from those starving children. Free Gaza! Free Palestine, now! Stop this unspeakably horrific genocide!

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Shoes of ANU

ANU cuts are impacting an innumerable amount of people. Here are just some of their stories. www.shoesofanu.com

"This Cannot Be Fixed With Better Consulting
The fundamental problem is that corporate transformation methodology is incompatible with democratic institutional governance"

Thoughtful analysis. Seems that the Alumni office may have new problems attracting donations from actual consultants.

It’s absolutely critical that the Albanese govt holds firm against the attacks on the PBS by US pharma. That includes protecting generics.

Affordable medicines are key to our universal health system.

Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 For updates: Subscribe to OurANU Substack: https://substack.com...

On 29 May, 530 ANU staff sent this open letter to ANU’s executive and council members. In it, we raise serious concerns about the justifications for and consequences of proposed cuts and redundancies.

The letter remains open for further signatures.

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From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.

YouTube video by Brut America Silicon Valley hackers replaced crosswalk audio with fake Musk, Zuckerberg, and Trump audio.

A rare bright spot of 😂 in these dark times: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1i...

Send us your papers celebrating yeasts!

Kelly Nguyen with her research group

Excellent opportunity available for a motivated #postdoc to join @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social’s group investigating the roles of histones in regulating telomerase using a multi-disciplinary approach.
More details: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Apply by 04 MAY
#PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Colossal Squid, 1st Live Observation | Searching for New Species in the South Sandwich Islands

🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑
First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo

Gene synthesis is often the most expensive part of protein engineering with generative models.

Happy to have played a small part in this work, where Chase developed a method for precision library construction at scale, with per-gene costs as low as $1.50.

@philromero.bsky.social

The new #Propagandhi single is 🔥
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Animal name of the day:
Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis
(I fought autocorrect and I won)
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Meat consumption was proposed as a driver of brain size increase in human evolution because hunting and meat-eating are manly activities. But the science says something different!🏺🧪

Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On the international day of women and girls in science, I'm very proud of my first PhD student Alice Shin presenting her research in the lightning sessions at Lorne proteins! @lorneproteins.bsky.social