Investigator grant who? Im out here enjoying a blissful family holiday to Tassie! Although a visit to Mona with a toddler is equal parts fun and stress.
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Investigator grant who? Im out here enjoying a blissful family holiday to Tassie! Although a visit to Mona with a toddler is equal parts fun and stress.
Good luck everyone!
At this stage it’s a Schrödinger cat situation, I both have and have not been successful in my application. But that’s okay, happy to wait, it’s not like our livelihood and ability to continue research depends on this announcement
#nhmrc
This works builds on our previous studies incl where we piloted tested the model of care (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and assessed the experiences of parents (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
Lastly, thanks for my amazing team @igmgroup.bsky.social who made this project possible.
And what did we find?
We were able to show that a dedicate model of care for pediatric immunology:
✔️Eliminated duplicate testing
✔️Improved diagnostic yield (check out the figure below!)
✔️Improved test documentation (e.g. consent rate)
✔️Informed improvements to the model of care
So what did we do?
✔️Collected nearly 10 years worth of clinical genetic testing data in pediatric #immunology for Queensland.
✔️Described our cohort in terms of indication for testing, types of genomic test and results.
✔️Looked at the impact of a dedicated model of care on genomic test practice
I’m very excited to share our new pre-print! What started as my spreadsheet to track genomic testing in paediatric immunology, has become a nearly 10y audit of genomic testing outcomes.
The paper may have already been rejected twice, but I think it’s seriously cool data!
100%!
At this stage who knows when the outcomes will be announced. Could be this week, next week, next month 🤷🏻♀️
Exactly!
Definitely not alone!
#nhmrc Investigator grant anticipated outcomes Feb 202…
Also 2pm Friday 27th Feb….waiting….
Yes! I came here from checking my emails for the 100th time…
Guest Post: They Canceled Our Anti-Eugenics Talk. The Censorship Proved Our Point.
by Ambreen Khan, Kim Zayhowski, Robert Resta, and Laura Hercher This piece is our team’s account of censorship and threats from members of the genetic counseling community. It is both testimony and a demand that our…
In Honour of Black History Month, the Journal of Genetic Counseling has created a Virtual Issue celebrating the contribution of Black Authors who have published in their journal.
Explore the Virtual Issue here: https://ow.ly/HL9S50Yh4vP
When you open LinkedIn after being offline for a while and find out Kevin McCloud had visited your workplace! As avid #granddesigns fan I can’t believed I missed this!!!!
February is #BlackHistoryMonth
In recognition, the Journal of Genetic Counseling has updated our special virtual issue on this topic, and its all free to read for everyone for 30 days! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
#AcademicSky 🧪 #GeneChat 1/2
Terrific to see this out! 10 years of variant interpretation courses delivered to >1000 participants 👏👏👏 And of course thoroughly evaluated 😁🇦🇺
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
What a moment.
New papers in the Journal of Genetic Counseling: 3/3
"Australian patients' experiences of undergoing whole exome sequencing for fetal structural anomalies prior to receiving results"
#AcademicSky 🧪
#GeneChat
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
📣New from Nisselle & co!
📄Variant interpretation training for the #genomics era: Learning outcomes to inform professional competencies and education
Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly.
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When less is more: with the runaway train of #scientificpublishing under increasing strain, Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social argues in @nature.com that slowing down is critical to avoid system collapse. This year, he plans to halve his publication output.
🔎 Would you consider #slowscience?
More voices standing up.
Haha it’s very specific! Having to send that video to insurance while I listen to vampires and werewolf was something. 🫠
One day you’ll need to go to the shops Christmas week. Don’t do it! The carpark will be chaos. You’ll see a car reverse into another…moments later, another car will reverse into your car. You’ll then send dashcam video to insurance where you were listening to #Shameless pod review Twilight #vampires
Impact of chronic underfunding
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Storytelling is key to our humanity. We can make economic arguments and health arguments, but the power of stories can not be underestimated
#SaveOzScience
In this Nature Medicine paper, we draw from our experiences in evaluating and implementing #genomics in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong and the US
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
