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Join my campaign to properly fund medical research in Australia 🔬
moniqueryan.com.au/medical_resear…
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Anita Quigley
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Anita Quigley
@Neurobionics
@RMIT @ACMD_Biofab @Unimelb. Muscle regeneration, neural organoids, functional 3D models, biomaterials & bioprinting. Tweets = my own opinions.
Melbourne, Australia. Katılım Mayıs 2011
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More than 60% of Australian medical researchers left active research roles between 2019 and 2024 because they could not make ends meet - while my costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office suggest the govt could more than double annual spending from the Medical Research Future Fund without any effect on its base level of funding.
The government has to act on this issue in this year's Budget - for our economy and for our health.
abc.net.au/news/2026-03-0…
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We just did a phagocytosis assay inside organoids.
You may clap.
GIF
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Call for papers! 📣 @SciReports welcomes papers for a new collection, "Reducing animal testing: organoids, organ on a chip, and virtual cells."
nature.com/collections/ja…
Submit yours by November 25th!
Edited by @Neurobionics (@RMIT), Masaki Nishikawa (@engineering_UT), and Maria Nordin (@lunduniversity)
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@pknoepfler @Harvard Frightening. I wonder what genes they wee planning to “enhance”.
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ICYMI: Sad, but important to discuss. New from Epstein files, @Harvard prof George Church's PGP did research on Epstein & there were plans for more including iPS cells & #CRISPR ipscell.com/2026/02/from-s… fibroblast lines were made #stemcells
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“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.”
— Terence McKenna
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Sikh Volunteers Australia are as usual on the scene supporting people in the Victorian fires.
You can help by donating so they can continue to supply freshly made food & drink.
sikhvolunteersaustralia.org/donation/
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The NHMRC yesterday announced final allocations for the year. The 2025 success rate for Ideas grants was 10%, Investigator grants 13%, and Clinical Trials 9%.
Australia's total spend on healthcare and technology innovation in medicine and biotech from the Medical Research Endowment Account and Medical Research Future Fund this year will equate to the cost of 0.004 submarines.
We're spending more on a single submarine than we'll spend on medical research in 30 years.
Medical research matters. A clever country invests in the things that matter.
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Thank you so much @unibern, Prof. Dr. Katie Peichel, and Dean Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Reymond for awarding me an honorary doctorate for my work on #ResearchIntegrity.
Congrats to the other recipients as well.
What a wonderful ceremony!
unibe.ch/university/u...
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Ebony died in her sleep overnight after a long fight with illness </3
c. 12 November 2009 – 1 December 2025
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@LiangRhea @DrShaneRRR Absolutely agree. I don’t envy an editors job though, usually having to carry out their editorial role on top of their academic job.
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@Neurobionics @DrShaneRRR As an editor, it's literally part of my job to read reviewer responses and decide which bits to action, which bits to ignore and whether a particular reviewer needs feedback/removal from the database. A good editor should have picked up malicious reviewers long before the 7th go.
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I caught up with a surgical colleague just now who has been through 7 (SEVEN!) rounds of revision with a mid range journal, each one more nitpicky than the last, now involving no fewer than 6 reviewers.
I don't think we talk enough about publication misconduct. 😡
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@DrShaneRRR @LiangRhea Writing to the editor can help too. Sometimes they need to be aware of a malicious reviewer.
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@LiangRhea One of the first lessons I learned from my PhD supervisor was that if you get unprofessional reviews, withdraw and just pick another journal. Only happened to me once but I dumped them fast!
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“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
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@JSheltzer No. Not it’s not. Academia is where many of the discoveries are made. Biotech is chasing the dollar, aiming to fulfill investors. Biotech has its place, of course, but it really can’t exist without academia in the long term. We need to invest in ideas, not just look for return.
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I love biotech but I don't think that biotech is capable of completely replacing academic research -
statnews.com/2025/11/04/are…
Jason Sheltzer@JSheltzer
Many incredible biomedical scientists have left academia for biotech/pharma. While also noting many caveats, I want to share the observation that among top scientists who left academia for industry, their biggest new discoveries almost always happened in academia:
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@DeryaTR_ I totally understand. The politics and undermining (putting the knife in while smiling) that goes on, it’s hard to describe how it leaves you feeling. Dismay, disgust and anger. I’ve seen students, postdocs and professors all behave in this way.
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When I went into science 35 years ago, I was extremely idealistic. I believed that being a scientist required the highest moral standards, that scientists cared only about advancing human knowledge & benefiting humanity, & made sacrifices for it. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Jason Locasale@LocasaleLab
Yes. I learned early in graduate school that scientists aren’t operating at any higher moral standard than anyone else. Some were outright nasty - and over the years I met some of the worst people imaginable, all parading as valiant defenders of science. Once I learned that, it became much easier to stomach the bullshit.
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“Your purpose as a scientist is to make discoveries and gift them to humanity. And those discoveries and that knowledge stays with humanity long after you are gone.”
- 2022 chemistry laureate @CarolynBertozzi, awarded for developing bioorthogonal reactions.
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Congratulations to Prof Gabrielle Belz FAA FAHMS of @UQ_news, new Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Her research in immunology reveals how immune cells fight infection, leading to breakthroughs in vaccine science and therapies for diseases like cancer. By uncovering key immune system mechanisms, she is helping shape better health outcomes around the world. #FellowsAA
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