OMG My favourite website noticed my work!

Looming CSIRO job cuts come at 'critical moment' for climate change action Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.

We all lose – and future generations will lose even harder – when governments cut investments in research & researchers. Or fail to increase them to the levels actually needed.

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CSIROs' submission to the parliamentary inquiry contains an statement that I never heard while working there - but certainly rings true. Quote: "Funding constraints mean that CSIRO’s property, scientific and research infrastructure and equipment are no longer cutting-edge"

1000% We hired postdocs at CSIRO, whose visa's took 10+ months. Of course by then CSIRO research priorities had started to shift and lay-offs had begun. One of them did a PhD in the UK - apparently that visa took 3 weeks

Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important.

Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG

My work hobby is resurrecting equipment - one of the pumps on this old Janus robot is busted but the other seven are now ready to set up all my PCRs 😄

PYEAST - Python Enabled Automated Strain Transformation Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a widely used biotechnological workhorse in both academic and industrial settings. One reason for its continued popularity is the extensive legacy of genetic tools, develop...

Our groups first pre-print is out now. It describes the internal tools we've developed over the last year or so to streamline and automate yeast molecular biology workflows.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PYEAST - Python Enabled Automated Strain Transformaiton www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05....

Today, the value of the land taken from Māori is about $657 billion, while the total the Crown has spent on ALL Tiriti settlements is less than $3 billion.
As a result, generational land/property wealth has expanded for Pākeha & been effectively obliterated (stolen) for Māori #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol

Heartbreaking. This is kind of thing I point to when I have to explain to family that don't think I'll ever be able to move back home and find work as a scientist.

Shout out to collaborators at Loam bio and ROAM Agricultural who are pushing this idea into commercialization. More details here: www.roam-ag.com

This work convinced me it's not always necessary to engineer biology - for some problems, like bio-synthesizing bromoform to reduce methane emissions from cattle, the right organism is out there already and you just need to create a process around it
doi.org/10.1016/j.bt...

Me too please!