Jenny Martin
@jennymartin-ccc.bsky.social
AC FAA | Professor Emerita UQ | Adjunct Prof Griffith U | pro STEM | anti oligarchs | pro DEI | pro public education health science | pro protein structure | pro cat videos | Twitter refugee
Brisbane Australia
Brisbane Australia
Australia are you listening?
We’re looking for people who can demonstrate that they have achieved great things
You will have to have done something very important
Grrants are being launched partly in response to the turmoil in the US, with the aim of attracting top researchers
ERC+ grants= funding for American Nobel Prizes 🤬
You will have to have done something very important
Grrants are being launched partly in response to the turmoil in the US, with the aim of attracting top researchers
ERC+ grants= funding for American Nobel Prizes 🤬
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The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Australia are you listening?
Walked a little of the Cotswold way near Stroud yesterday on a glorious (almost) winter’s day
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Walked a little of the Cotswold way near Stroud yesterday on a glorious (almost) winter’s day
So much opportunity for Australia to lead, and so much apathy by decision makers
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
So much opportunity for Australia to lead, and so much apathy by decision makers
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Smart countries don’t cut funding to their world-leading science and technology research organisations.
The Albanese government has to step up and provide adequate support for research and development in Australia - it has to invest in our future.
The Albanese government has to step up and provide adequate support for research and development in Australia - it has to invest in our future.
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Smart countries don’t cut funding to their world-leading science and technology research organisations.
The Albanese government has to step up and provide adequate support for research and development in Australia - it has to invest in our future.
The Albanese government has to step up and provide adequate support for research and development in Australia - it has to invest in our future.
Awesome news!!! Congratulations and richly deserved @monsoon0.bsky.social
Congratulations to Academy Fellow Professor Nalini Joshi who has been named NSW Scientist of the Year – the first time a mathematician has received NSW’s highest honour for scientific endeavour! Prof Joshi was elected an Academy Fellow in 2008.
An article from @sydney.edu.au about today’s significant event #NSWPremiersPrizes news-opinion.sydney.edu.au/link/id/zzzz...
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Awesome news!!! Congratulations and richly deserved @monsoon0.bsky.social
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November 17 is designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action.
Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.
Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.
PDB101: Learn: Paper Models: Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
The capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.
pdb101.rcsb.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
November 17 is designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action.
Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.
Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer.
Spring into Brisbane. Lovely time of year to wander through the streets of Brissie. #BrisbaneWalks #Brisbane #Foliage
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Spring into Brisbane. Lovely time of year to wander through the streets of Brissie. #BrisbaneWalks #Brisbane #Foliage
Well this is something I am definitely on board with. Scientific publishing should not be - should never have been - a commercial enterprise
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure
are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data,
text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Well this is something I am definitely on board with. Scientific publishing should not be - should never have been - a commercial enterprise
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Well reasoned and new information - “Rosalind Franklin has been reduced to the “wronged heroine” of the double helix. She deserves to be remembered not as the victim of the double helix, but as an equal contributor to the solution of the structure.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Well reasoned and new information - “Rosalind Franklin has been reduced to the “wronged heroine” of the double helix. She deserves to be remembered not as the victim of the double helix, but as an equal contributor to the solution of the structure.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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James Watson was not just a scientist who was a racist. He was worse - a scientist who offered other racists the comfort of scientific authority.
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
James Watson was not just a scientist who was a racist. He was worse - a scientist who offered other racists the comfort of scientific authority.
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Applications are open for the Frances Separovic Scholarship for domestic students enrolling at @unimelb.bsky.social in an undergraduate degree and are experiencing disadvantaged circumstances. Preference to those from regional or remote areas of Australia. scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/franc...
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Applications are open for the Frances Separovic Scholarship for domestic students enrolling at @unimelb.bsky.social in an undergraduate degree and are experiencing disadvantaged circumstances. Preference to those from regional or remote areas of Australia. scholarships.unimelb.edu.au/awards/franc...
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How science journalists worldwide are fighting White House health misinformation
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-sci...
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How science journalists worldwide are fighting White House health misinformation
“All we can do is not get pulled into the political debates and try to be fair-minded, factual, credible and authoritative,” said STAT’s founder Rick Berke.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
How science journalists worldwide are fighting White House health misinformation
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-sci...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-sci...
Looks like a bluewash in the USA
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Looks like a bluewash in the USA
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Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.
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Every bit helps: “Even halting warming by a fraction of a degree” will help #Climate
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Every bit helps: “Even halting warming by a fraction of a degree” will help #Climate
Australian sea lion mum and pup at seal bay, kangaroo island. Fun fact: Gestation period 18 months!
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Australian sea lion mum and pup at seal bay, kangaroo island. Fun fact: Gestation period 18 months!
Kangaroo island is stunningly beautiful
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Kangaroo island is stunningly beautiful
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Half the funding. Half the future.
The Medical Research Future Fund was meant to deliver $1B each year – only $650M is reaching researchers. Join the call to release the full funds now.
www.aamri.org.au/mrff
#releasethefullmrff
The Medical Research Future Fund was meant to deliver $1B each year – only $650M is reaching researchers. Join the call to release the full funds now.
www.aamri.org.au/mrff
#releasethefullmrff
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Half the funding. Half the future.
The Medical Research Future Fund was meant to deliver $1B each year – only $650M is reaching researchers. Join the call to release the full funds now.
www.aamri.org.au/mrff
#releasethefullmrff
The Medical Research Future Fund was meant to deliver $1B each year – only $650M is reaching researchers. Join the call to release the full funds now.
www.aamri.org.au/mrff
#releasethefullmrff
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Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo
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The tawny frogmouth has been named Australia’s 2025 bird of the year, after taking second place in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll three times running.
More than 310,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 6 October and the tawny led the charge from the start, despite being hotly and persistently pursued by two cockatoos: the Baudin’s black cockatoo and the ever-popular gang-gang.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner
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Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience
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How the consumptogenic system is embedded in Australia’s policy agenda –
www.croakey.org/how-the-cons...
Professor Sharon Friel and Chelsea Hunnisett call for “an economy in service of people and the planet”.
#auspol
www.croakey.org/how-the-cons...
Professor Sharon Friel and Chelsea Hunnisett call for “an economy in service of people and the planet”.
#auspol
How the consumptogenic system is embedded in Australia’s policy agenda
In launching a series of articles investigating the need for systemic reform to promote planetary health equity, researchers Professor Sharon
www.croakey.org
October 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
How the consumptogenic system is embedded in Australia’s policy agenda –
www.croakey.org/how-the-cons...
Professor Sharon Friel and Chelsea Hunnisett call for “an economy in service of people and the planet”.
#auspol
www.croakey.org/how-the-cons...
Professor Sharon Friel and Chelsea Hunnisett call for “an economy in service of people and the planet”.
#auspol
Sad to see the US succumb to conspiracy theories and outright lies, when the science is clear #vaccines #waterfluoridation etc
Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Sad to see the US succumb to conspiracy theories and outright lies, when the science is clear #vaccines #waterfluoridation etc