Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺

Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.

The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

"It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on, who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go." Barack Obama.

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a man is sitting in a chair reading a newspaper called the press-herald ALT: a man is sitting in a chair reading a newspaper called the press-herald

Calling Australian #EMCR in health and medical research - anyone willing to speak to media and provide quotes about the impact of the MRFF underspend on researchers, on how tough it is in medical research? Please contact me! #NHMRC #MRFF #biomedicalscience #SaveOzScience #medicalresearch

The government is starving medical research in Australia and we risk losing talent. Thanks @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for asking questions of this government

#SaveOzScience #MRFF #medicalresearch

A locus on the dancefloor #HGSA2025

Should be working on my talk for #HGSA2025
Miss 7 had other ideas. Painting, it’ll be fun they said #procrastipainting

is there any way to find details of an individual with a variant in #gnomADv4 One allele in 1.6M....

Following our God Complex story on #4Corners on Monday on issues including gender politics of neurosurgery, #surgeon and fmr AMA Vic President Dr Jill Tomlinson lamented that of Epworth’s 25 neurosurgeons, none are women. This was #Epworth neurosurgeon Paul D’Urso’s (now-deleted – 🤷🏻‍♀️) reply:

Sapphire has been down a large part of the day *sigh* #NHMRC #hungergames

Master 11’s starter word on worldle is sigma

Lab curry potluck #teamsthateattogether

Congrats to all involved with this study associating mono-allelic POLR3A variants with #peripheralneuropathy.

So good to catch up with some of the key players at #ESHG2025 Milan where Jevin Parmar presented the study on behalf of the collaborative team #raredisease #CMT

Writing #NHMRC #investigatorgrant during school holidays #momademia #womeninSTEM

*carrels

A hive of activity in the cartels today #teamwork #raredisease #genomics

#naturescapes #outofoffice

Also, check out the News & Views summarizing our findings, written by Youjia Guo & @themodzlab.bsky.social 🤩🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out of office
#LSmerchants #hoipolloiorange #margaretriverregion #naturescapes

Young Archie competition 2025: Australia’s awards for child portrait artists – in pictures Running alongside the Archibald prize, the Young Archie competition invites artists aged between five and 18 years to submit portraits of people who are special to them and who play a significant role in their lives. This year more than 3,200 entries were received. All 70 finalists are on show at the Art Gallery of NSW until 17 August * Archibald prize 2025 finalists: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Chen, Jackie O and others – in pictures Continue reading...

Young Archie competition 2025: Australia’s awards for child portrait artists – in pictures

Dear academics: you can’t take your H-index with you.

The dystonin gene encodes three major isoforms: DST-a, -b, and -e. Jacob et al. report that variants exclusively affecting DST-b cause an autosomal recessive congenital myopathy, while variants that also affect DST-a cause a lethal contracture syndrome. tinyurl.com/3p99pu9j

Revisiting sacred Wednesdays (just for a few hours this morning) - we both needed it today #womeninSTEM #puttingoutfires #leadingishard

Some nights require brandy #wiseestate #beautifulstranger

Even stunning in winter #Perth #thinkingtime #NHMRC #grantwriting

Congrats Dr Mridul Johari on this important study, huge thanks to the many collaborators and the patients and their families. We describe a large cohort of patients with mono- or bi-allergic variants in TUBA4A and myopathies, some presenting at birth. #myopathy #raredisease

They come like that from the shop, they are sweet and sour pairs

Sharing my love of DNA and genomics with a cohort of yr6 kids.

Knackered after 3 classes back to back and hats off to teachers everywhere.

We extracted 🧬 from 🍓 and made 🧬 helices from haribo base-paired bears. Great questions from all the kids and so much engagement

Novel missense variants in CFL2 affect F-actin depolymerisation and expand the disease spectrum of CFL2-related myopathy Abstract. Cofilin-2, encoded by CFL2, is an actin-binding protein essential for regulating actin filament dynamics in skeletal muscle. Biallelic variants i

New #hmg_journal paper: Novel missense variants in CFL2 affect F-actin depolymerisation and expand the disease spectrum of CFL2-related myopathy. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/2xusbna7

Wonderful to finally have Dr Sanam Mustafa back in Perth with the @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social seminar. Talking about applying GPCR-based tools to Toll receptors to better understand pathways involved in #chronicpain
Sanam was a postdoc in the Pfleger lab at WAIMR/Perkins 2009-11

This arrived today, couldn’t have arrived at a better time. #jacindaardern #kindness #leadingwithvunreability