Tom Burne

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Australian Centres of Research Excellence will receive $72 million under today’s funding announcement. This scheme supports researchers in capacity building activities, including in specific areas such as One Health research projects led by Professor Joshua Francis from @MenziesResearch and Professor Glenn Browning from @unimelb. Read more on their research in our media release: ow.ly/7V1w50WI181

223 health and medical researchers will share in a $274 million investment to boost innovative research that leads to discoveries that improve the health of all Australians under NHMRC’s 2024 Ideas Grants round. Read more: ow.ly/4OBp50Uskeb

@rsuarezsaa @UQMedicine @UQ_News @QldBrainInst @arc_gov_au Wonderful news Rodrigo, congratulations!

Happily humbled to be listed today, and deeply thankful for our excellent team, collaborators, and the extraordinarily supportive academic environment at the School of Biomedical Sciences @UQMedicine @UQ_News @QldBrainInst @arc_gov_au 🥂🔬

@Phil_Baty tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It takes women almost 15 years longer than men to progress to full professorships at top UK universities on average, according to a new study. linkedin.com/posts/philbaty…

@MFWitches #_Toc27135069" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aph.gov.au/About_Parliame…

Controversial opinion: a lot of men are unfit for influential careers including (perhaps especially) in politics since their primary instinct is to support the “Bro Code” by voting with the (usually male) leader of their political party instead of supporting their conscience and this is why we rarely see people crossing the floor and publicly disagreeing with their party and when we do it’s usually women. (PS: Patriarchy ensures many women are also soaked in these “Bro Code” norms meaning they also do the bidding of the patriarchal leader.) (PPS: This might also help explain why the vast majority of Teal independents are women.) (PPPS: We’ve explained before how men tend to see themselves as men first and humans second while women tend to see themselves as human first and women second, which also helps explain why many men tend to support other men rather than their conscience when making decisions on important issues.) (PPPPS: All women - and many men - have seen how many men will “band together” to defend one or more other men, such as during a debate on sexist jokes or rape culture; hence we’ve seen this “Bro Code” propensity for ourselves many times so don’t fucking tell us it doesn’t exist.) (PPPPPS: This “Bro Code” propensity is why it’s so incredibly fucking important to dismantle men’s entrenched systems of power and misogynist control which include the relentless demeaning and objectification of women via gross, woman-hating radio shows: unless we do dismantle that sexism and hate such men will continue to harm women’s prospects and will continue to exert most planetary control so the huge humanitarian issues we all face won’t be solved and may, in fact, continue to get worse.) (PPPPPPS: No men were harmed during the writing of this tweet but a shitload of them will claim they were.) #StatusBRO #WarOnWomen #NotAllMen #FreePalestine

@StevenSalzberg1 @Nature @RetractionWatch @ProfBootyPhD "These flaws have subsequently affected more than a dozen additional published studies that used the same data and whose results are likely invalid as well." journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Wow, @nature has retracted the 2020 Poore et al. cancer microbiome paper that we showed (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…) was deeply flawed. The retraction date is tomorrow so I can't yet read the official notice, but I'll update when I can @RetractionWatch @ProfBootyPhD

@ClaireFoldi @molpsychiatry @KynaConn @MonashBDI Nice work Claire, Kyna and team! Fabulous news 😍😍😍

First empirical #psychedelics study from the lab has been accepted in @molpsychiatry 🥂! Tune into the “tweets” of the illustrious @KynaConn for deets of the final story! 😁 @MonashBDI #FoldiLab #anorexia

@TheFlorey @UniMelb Huge congratulations Jess !😍😍😍

We're thrilled to have Associate Professor Jess Nithianantharajah as the new Head of the Florey Department at the @UniMelb! A/Prof Nithianantharajah is also Head of our Synapse Biology and Cognition Group, and a Research Co-Lead of The Florey’s Mental Health Mission.

@EllaCoo55777104 Is thhttps://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/horrific-injuries-woman-attacked-by-man-while-jogging-in-forest-near-ballarat-20230214-p5ckdk.html

Ex-footballer’s son charged with murder over disappearance of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy - The Age 😳😳 ex AFL ‘s son is charged with the murder of Samantha Murphy !! apple.news/AjWC1r7nXSuqGO…

@baym Clearly a Schrödinger's bin

Sometimes I wonder whether English is the right language for us to be using in hospitals

Just a reminder that JobKeeper was the idea of Australian unions & we had to drag the Morrison Govt kicking and screaming to implement it #Nemesis

@wabalabadubdaa @Matkins2021 @JennyTa22393082 @pepedownunder @woolworths to stop kids from chroming...another form of substance abuse.

@Matkins2021 @JennyTa22393082 @pepedownunder @woolworths Why are deodorant cabinets locked up?

@newscientist The subtitle would have been a better title for this article by Alice Klein. "Genetic studies suggest postmenopausal women are so crucial to the survival of grandchildren that we evolved genes to keep their brains healthy"

Why do women live so long after the menopause? #Echobox=1706486999" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/mg2613…

@adambspencer It is sickening. I have never forgotten that on 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Bulger.

Two 16 year olds arrested over the murder of a much loved, community focused doctor who at 33 had the best years of his life and his community’s service ahead of him Sixteen. years. old

@BoneJeni Marinara = seafaring (i.e. sailor), not seafood. Made this mistake when we went to Italy expecting seafood, only to get tomato sauce. Down under we call marinara sauce napolitana sauce

Bound to cause ripples, if not break the bonds of AUKUS, but ffs, why do Americans call tomato passata "marinara sauce"???? THIS IS MARINARA!!! Marinara = seafood.

@christlet @robinsall beautiful structures when looking in or out.... made me think of the crab nebula. Just goes to show the need for better microscopes and telescopes.

@sebatlab There are better studies than this, but using the whole human dose in rats is common practice... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

The only thing more ridiculous than this turd of a paper about rats that show BS “Autism” behavior after insanely high doses of Covid vaccine and no proper controls is the tsunami of stupid on Twitter that thinks this is gotcha moment pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38198049/

#BPA2024 @biolpsychaust

@autismcrisis Time to rethink the MIA hypothesis...for me the key sentence here is "Timing of offspring exposure does not alter the association between exposure and NDD risk in children, which places doubt on the proposed mechanism of risk transmission triggered in pregnancy"

Findings "strongly imply that there is no specific link between maternal mental illness or maternal infection during pregnancy" & neurodevelopmental disabilities (including autism) in offspring cambridge.org/core/journals/… free

So although males and females seem to perform similarly on different spatial memory tasks there may be differences in neural circuitry underlying decision making under conditions of uncertainty

However, on the TUNL task we found that females had altered performance under conditions of uncertainty, and this was associated with changes in the intensity of perineuronal nets and parvalbumin expression in the retrosplenial cortex

Our new paper is just out from @phoebe_mayne who used biological sex as a variable to assess spatial memory in mice, as part of her PhD project @QldBrainInst @QCMHR doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.…