Trauma is carried in your DNA. But science reveals a more complicated story While trauma can ripple across generations, its effects aren’t hard-coded in our genes.

Wrote this piece because it seemed to me that plasticity is what's missing from the public discourse on transgenerational effects, read more here: Trauma is carried in your DNA. But science reveals a more complicated story theconversation.com/trauma-is-ca...

First edition of my newsletter: My pudding paradox or what to do when the world feels broken AF.

It started with Christmas pudding and ended in existential dread.

I wrote this for anyone overwhelmed right now!

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Against the odds: Tara-Lyn Camilleri’s journey through science and chronic illness Dr Tara-Lyn Camilleri’s name first gained attention in 2022 when her research, published during her PhD candidacy at the Monash University School of Biological Sciences, made headlines for uncovering ...

@taralync.bsky.social did her PhD here @monashbiol.bsky.social. She has been very open and honest about her challenges and this is a great article showcasing her achievements and struggles
monash.edu/science/news...

Trust me, I’m chronically ill The bias we all have is what is stopping us from understanding and working with dynamic illness and disability

For the few I have on here, I've written a very personal piece on chronic illness that explores bias and the real reasons it is so difficult to get workplace accommodations and flexibility, read it here: taralync.medium.com/trust-me-im-...

So sorry to hear it, it is definitely a struggle no matter what but I do think conditions and awareness are overall improving.

This is so insane that it beggars belief honestly. There's nothing to say those going through this, and that will be affected directly by this, other than it sucks, it is oppression, and even in countries outside of the US we support you and will fight against this.

Bleak, grim, terrible news is coming in fast these days. I'm sorry for all my academic folks in the US and others who rely on government funding and programs, as well as the many PhDs I know working for federal agencies. Destruction and chaos is the point, I know, and it extremely sucks.

a little girl is laying on the floor in a playground with the words status written on the bottom ALT: a little girl is laying on the floor in a playground with the words status written on the bottom

Where can I scream into a void? (Is it here?) I’ve got to say, with everything going on, trying to find a job while managing my chronic illness, and trying to gauge what work I can do when I can no longer struggle through a 9-5 job, is exhausting! Add in constant medical appointments, etc. #burntout

I have basic accommodations, no visible disability (dynamic), and yet I've never had them done without having to go through months of advocating for myself until finally I get a chair or some lab modifications, multiple universities too. Always a fight, and damage done to the health in the process.

A photo of female Drosophila melanogaster seminal receptacle with GFP tagged sperm.

Why is an old male reproductively doomed to fail? Is it poor sperm and seminal fluid, or do females not like him and his ejaculate?
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social, @taralync.bsky.social, et al.

Image: Krish Sangvi & Martin Jahn

Seminal fluid not sperm important for age-related fertility decline but it can be reversed 👇

bit.ly/4jnX79b

📽️Krish Sanghvi - Sperm swimming inside the female’s seminal receptacle in fruit fly females.

@krishsanghvi11.bsky.social, @taralync.bsky.social

I have had to quit the lab entirely, at least for now, know how you feel!

Reproductive output of old males is limited by seminal fluid, not sperm number What causes an old male to reproductively fail? Is it his sperm or seminal fluid? In fruit flies, old males produce fewer offspring than young males. But s

Is low fecundity of old males a consequence of seminal fluid or sperm declines, or female post-mating responses? Our new paper in evolution letters finds some surprising answers!

academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

"Swift parrots in a forest being logged now.
Stunning images by Rob Blakers show these critically endangered birds within an active logging area in #Tasmania's Eastern Tiers.
#SwiftParrots are on the brink of extinction" ...
- Bob Brown Foundation
bobbrown.org.au
#EndNativeForestLogging
#Auspol

Statement from the Biodiversity Council on Nature Positive Bills scuppered by PM | Biodiversity Council Australia The Biodiversity Council is deeply disappointed that the Prime Minister has vetoed a deal to deliver a national environment protection authority and an information-gathering agency - two key election ...

“This was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver meaningful legislative reform and leave a long-term legacy for the protection of nature."

Watch the full interview: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/stateme...

I know, I know, I'm always the one complaining about academia. But I do have to say that if we don't change the incentive structures in academia and really change the publish or perish culture--things like this will continue to happen (not at all to justify these actions but to understand them).

‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others

I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again

www.science.org/content/arti...

Thanks heaps Ros, fingers crossed for her!

Donate to Help Eliza Access New Critical Apheresis Treatment, organized by Eliza Charley Eliza Charley suffers from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME): a devastat… Eliza Charley needs your support for Help Eliza Access New Critical Apheresis Treatment

My daughter @ElizaCharley.bsky.social has ME. Apheresis to filer microclots in 2022 was a game-changer. She’s been set back years with Cvd. Please consider supporting a GoFundMe for a new round of treatment. If you can’t please read the about her journey and get informed gofund.me/6f20766a

So sorry to read this story Ros, it is unfortunately very similar to my own and others I know with chronic illness, and getting covid is like being back at the beginning again. I hope she is able to get the treatment and that it helps to improve quality of life.