Oli Griffith

By uncovering the biology behind autoimmune disease, our researchers are opening pathways to faster diagnosis and better treatments. 🔗Help accelerate this research: https://ow.ly/gMgO50ZZbiY #AutoimmuneDisease #MedicalResearch

ARC says they'll announce outcomes of Future Fellowships (FT26) tomorrow (Tue 8 Sep). In recent times, these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time, though certainly with some variation. My bot will automatically post within a minute after the announcement.

An algorithm off switch isn’t enough. Big tech needs a duty of care over addictive designs | Zoe Daniel

I am thrilled and honoured to have won the @ausevosoc.bsky.social Best Paper Award. This means I will be giving a plenary lecture at the societies conference in December. ausevo.com/programme/ da Silva et al (2026) Nature Communications was the awarded publication. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you looking for a research opportunity that combines wet and dry-lab experience? Then don’t miss your chance to apply for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme. Applications close on 27 September. 📌 Learn more & apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd

Life goal unlocked 😮🐣🥚🥚🥚

Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Join the ARC ⬇️ We’re recruiting: - Assistant Directors (EL1) who will lead teams delivering major govt grants programs & contribute to NCGP reform. - HR Advisor (APS5) who will help support our people and employee experience across the ARC. More: www.arc.gov.au/about-arc/wo...

Especially Star Wars Scholastic books!

I was fortunate enough to be awarded the @geneticsaus.bsky.social Spencer Smith-White Conference award which allowed me to attend GSA in Brisbane last week and present some of my PhD work. It’s always great to re-connect with the society and was an honour to be recognised by GSA! #GSA2026

The 2nd part of my postdoc is now out as a preprint! A challenging but fulfilling team effort to perform genome editing in opossums. We found that the lncRNA RSX is essential to initiate X-inactivation in marsupials 🦘 A long-standing question since the discovery that Xist is absent in marsupials 👇

Carina Rubio presenting her PhD work at #GSA2026

Next up is the awesome Rosie Martin talking about the role of transposons on the evolution of reptile pregnancy. #GSA2016

Jhon Arias goal sends Colombia into last 16 as Ghana bow out of World Cup

Pleased to share our latest! We show that the chick limb can be directed to recapitulate key stages in mammalian evolution, providing a unifying model for digit patterning across amniotes. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_...

#DiscoveryProjects #DP27 Detailed assessor reports should be released in ARC's RMS tomorrow (23 Jun). Normally about 11am, Canberra time (but it varies). Remember the #ARC3DayRule: Think an assessment is "inappropriate"? You've only got 3 days to lodge a "request for review" 👇

Awesome to see our paper on marsupial DNA methylation reprogramming in @natcomms.nature.com. We found epigenetic reprogramming of the placenta is conserved across mammals, but reprogramming of the embryo is confined to eutherians. Led by the amazing @angeloniallegra.bsky.social & @kseskv.bsky.social

Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom

A wealth tax is “not a punishment but a sign of social justice and solidarity in a functioning and humane country” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci

Jim Chalmers says fewer properties selling at auction may be a ‘good thing’ for first home buyers

Job going at @australiainstitute.org.au. 🚨🚨🚨 Come work with @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social and help us change the nation for the better! www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/TheA...

Exciting new work on parallel #evolution: — genetic variants across butterflies are located in similar noncoding regions in ivory and optix. — in … more distant moths, a large inversion containing ivory, closely mirroring the supergene architecture of Heliconius. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I’m a President now. @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social

Checkout our latest paper, describing the first embryonic staging scheme for a skink. Led by PhD student Jinglin Wen! doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

Do you wanna learn about new labs researching #EvoDevo across the Americas? Check them out here! Frogs 🐸, butterflies 🦋 and cnidarians 🪼 #embryos

Here's their target: "Meanwhile, in-kind transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and healthcare are increasing." Public Education Public Disability Care Public Health care They want to be America.

Japan raises more tax revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia does. Japan has a tax on gas and coal imports that raises more money than Aus PRRT. Great new research out today @australiainstitute.org.au @richarddenniss.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/report/taxin...

"We find that while TAD boundaries pair more frequently than non-boundary regions, these interactions are infrequent and are uncorrelated with transcriptional activity of genes within the TAD" elifesciences.org/articles/110...

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

2x PhD projects available at @rennesuniv.bsky.social. 1. Why populations rise & fall: global demography of amphibians & reptiles sfecologie.org/offre/funded... 2. Demographic resilience & persistence of populations under climate warming sfecologie.org/offre/funded... Deadline: 30 May 2026

Reminder: the Jenny Donald Undergraduate Student Conference Award closes 11:59pm, 7 May (AEST). Know a keen genetics undergraduate? Encourage them to apply for free registration to GSA 2026 in Brisbane! 🌴🧬📆

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

📣GSA 2026 Award winners announced! 📣 All winners will be presenting at 🧬GSA 2026🧬 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. 🚩Reminder to submit your abstracts by April 6th and register to hear these amazing researchers present their work!

We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders. We offer: 🔬 World-class IT infrastructure 🧠 Creative freedom for your research 📊 Access to the world’s most comprehensive open biological data Apply by 11 April embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers @johnlees.bacpop.org @embl.org

I got the rejection email today. I didn't have any luck with the Australian Geographic photo comp this year. No need for sympathy. I'm used to it. It's very competitive. Here's one of my unsuccessful entries. A yellow-tailed rock wallaby at Boolcoomatta Reserve.

Awesome to see our paper that explores the role of inflammation during marsupial pregnancy come out @plosbiology.org. We found that embryos secrete inflammatory signals that directly impact embryo survival and nutrient allocation. Explaining why inflammation has been retained in implantation.

1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Translation for last year PhD students: You want to watch the ARC webpage tomorrow to see who will be looking for postdocs in 2026

New life goal achieved! #OviparousMammal #Echidna #OriginsOfPregnancy

Fetal inflammatory signals regulate maternal investment in a pregnant marsupial https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.16.669780v1

🧬 Ever wondered how something as bizarre and vital as the placenta evolved—not just in humans, but across the animal kingdom? I had a great time chatting about the wild diversity of placentation (think: lizards, sharks, and more) on the latest episode of Tiny Matters. 🎧 Listen here:

before working on this episode, i'd never thought about the fact that male seahorses have placentas, and now I can't stop thinking about it open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...

The Budget should include a massive and historic increase in funding for research. Not only is it needed, but we really should be poaching ever medical and scientific researcher from the US we can. Absolutely perfect timing.

New book out on invasions by the brilliant @benflips.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/59515

#FutureFellowships #FT25 Detailed Assessor reports are now available in RMS and rejoinders have opened. Here’s an older thread with suggestions on dealing with assessor reports – especially the #ARC3DayRule – and constructing a rejoinder. threadreaderapp.com/thread/15191...

The ARC have tweeted that they will released Discovery Projects Expression of Interest outcomes tomorrow.

We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...