Jasmine flowering mid-winter in Sydney … Its scent was beautiful but 2026 is not giving us a usual winter. #climatechange

A week of creativity in the lab - Part 2. Our PhD student Teagan Fisher came runner-up in our Faculty’s 3 Minute Thesis competition with this imaginative representation of her research - “Investigating the missing link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer”. 🧪 #3MT #ovariancancer #endometriosis

A week of creativity in the lab - Part 1. Honours student Layal Dani supervised by @amanialghalayini.bsky.social was short-listed in our university’s microscopy imaging competition with her “Firework of Cancer Cells”. Congratulations to Layal who’s working on a microfluidics project 🧪 #ovariancancer

Reading David Suzuki’s “Lessons from a Lifetime”. I heard him speak in Sydney when I was young. In chap 9, “Down Under” he speaks about a “Commission for the Future” established in the 1980s on the importance of #science in Australian life & future. Needing to make this case again & again & again…

Today, June 26, is Rare Cancer Awareness Day. Every 12 minutes in Australia someone is told they have a rare cancer. Sharing for my colleague in the picture, the people with lived experience we work with as researchers, & for all the people I don’t know walking this path. 🧪 #RareCancerAwarenessDay

A stranger gave me these beautiful flowers yesterday. She was about to travel & couldn’t bear to throw them away. When a stranger gives another stranger flowers because she can’t contemplate turning her back on their beauty without sharing them, somehow the world feels a little more OK. #tulips

Expanding the power of drugs used to treat liquid malignancies into solid tumours. We screened an epigenetic compound library against cell lines models of ovarian clear cell carcinoma. The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib shows promise #ovariancancer #ibrutinib 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Brilliant talk by my colleague Dr Dongli Liu from UNSW at ANZGOG (Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group) on the Gold Coast this week. All about development of organoids from patients with ovarian and endometrial cancer & their value in drug testing. #organoids #tumoroids #ANZGOGASM2026

Honours student Anaida Nirula giving her formative presentation today. Excited to be working on PTEN again after somewhat of a hiatus 😊. This time working to understand the role of loss of #PTEN in #endometriosis. Anaida nailed her presentation & I am excited for her discoveries this year! 🧪

Our PhD student Teagan Fisher presenting her research into key genes involved in both ovarian cancer and endometriosis at the National Endometriosis Clinical & Scientific Trials (NECST) conference last week in Sydney. 🧪 #endometriosis #OvarianCancer #ChromatinRemodelling

At a conference this week & heard a dog bark during a presentation. Realised at a break there was a support dog attending. A very large & beautiful oodle not unlike the one in this picture. 1st time for me to see this. Very happy that the dog seemed to be enjoying the conference 🧪 #dogsofBluesky

Our world feels discombobulating these days, but on a house somewhere in the quiet streets of Hobart, Tasmania, a painted dog sits on a stack of painted books & made this traveller smile. #DogsofBluesky #BatteryPoint

Didn't plan it, but 1st yr as an all-girl lab. Congrats to our intern Valentina Rodriguez Cortes (High Distinction) & our honours student Anastasia Karafotias (1st Class Honours). Good luck to both for their futures! A challenging but a good yr as we've researched #ovariancancer & #endometriosis. 🧪

Nearly lost our girl to tick paralysis. Paralysed all legs & respiratory muscles. Shaved, 3 days in a medically induced coma, intubated & ventilated. ‘Brave Girl’ bandana from the vet last night. Please remember anti-tick medication for your pets. Bad tick season in Sydney right now. #DogsofBluesky

Listening to witnesses being sworn in at a Parliamentary Enquiry on university governance ending with “so help me god”. Wondered about the power of these words in a largely secular & multicultural society that Australia is today. Keep this for historical gravitas or maybe we need an alternative?

Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW University Sector - a difficult day for my university. Expertly chaired by The Hon. Dr Sarah KAINE, BEc, PhD MLC (thank you). Acknowledging everyone who spoke today & especially the 3 #UTS students. #Governance #UniversityGovernance #OperationalSustainability

Had the pleasure of presenting with cancer consumer & friend @herbalgill.bsky.social today as part of the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' run by SPHERE on 'The impact of successful partnerships in cancer research'. Picture is 4 yrs old but msgs still ring true.

Submitting abstracts with my PhD students to 2026 meetings & hitting home that I still need a lot more of 2025 to achieve that long academic list!! #LorneCancer (www.lornecancer.org) #LorneGenome (www.lornegenome.org)

Seems that #Darwinian selection is at play in our pond. Breeding when they feel like it, increasingly survivors are black baby fish that eventually turn white. Sometimes they’re quite big before they turn. Camouflage is excellent!! Give it 50 yrs & I think all fish could be white. #NaturalSelection

Celebrating 1st authorships in the group. Congratulations again to 2nd yr PhD student Tali Skipper on her paper out in Cellular Oncology - "Revealing genetic drivers of ovarian cancer and chemoresistance: insights from whole-genome CRISPR-knockout library screens". doi: 10.1007/s13402-025-01102-4 🎉🧪

It's official, I'm one of the judges for the 2025 Great Microscopy Bake-off @ the University of Technology Sydney organised by @louisecole.bsky.social on Oct 13th! Now there's a role! Microscopy-themed or science-related cakes, cupcakes or cookie decoration. Entries from last yr for inspiration 😀🧪

Plates of pasta about to go down well as our research group hosted Professor Caroline Ford and Dr Cecilia Ng on a visit to consider us as a research project site for the new Ainsworth Endometriosis Research Institute (AERI). We had lots to talk about! #endometriosis #AERI

Exceptional final 3 Minute Thesis competition at my university this week. #STEM ones my favourites - Samara Bridge from my Faculty on new ways to detect colorectal cancer with biosensors (brilliant!) & Adam Haysom-McDowell on lung cancer. Adam's slide was superb! So creative. #3MT #PhDStudents 🧪

Wrapping up with a panel in the rare cancers session after my talk last week @ the Ovarian Cancer Australia Symposium 2025 in Melbourne beside my colleague @kylie-gorringe.bsky.social. Looking for new therapies to treat Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type (SCCOHT). #ovariancancer 🧪

Oh Sydney … I always love flying home to you.

Learned from an acquaintance of a 6 yr old little girl, friend of his little girl, who died 10 days ago in Sydney from Influenza Type A. Tragic beyond words. Please get your flu jab & decrease the chance of your body being a vessel to take this virus to someone who may die from it. #vaccination #flu

New paper out from Martyn Bullock & colleagues in @cp-iscience.bsky.social - "AURKB and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways converge to regulate TERT expression" - #TERT promoter mutations & their regulatory pathways in #ThyroidCancer. #PI3K/AKT/mTOR #AURKB #telomeres #TRIM28

All scientists are good cooks I believe! Here is one of my weekend lunch winter soups. Add truffle oil & a little yoghurt & it’s a flavour explosion in your mouth - leek, zucchini, Italian parsley, broccoli, chickpeas, garlic, fennel, lemon juice, vegie stock. #soup #ScientistsWhoCook

Tao Xie from my group giving her last milestone seminar today for her PhD - "Strategies to improve the response to PARP inhibitors in pre-clinical models of ovarian cancer". A joy to watch her nail this today. Great culmination of her hard work during her PhD! #ovariancancer #PARPi #PhDLife 🧪

The special collection in @endocancer.bsky.social - "From Discovery Science to the Clinic - Heritable Endocrine Cancers and Related Disorders" is open & calling for contributions. Edited by myself, Lois Mulligan & Joanne Ngeow in memory of Prof Charis Eng erc.bioscientifica.com/page/heritab... 🧪