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I'm sad to be leaving the wonderful Applied Chemistry and Translational Biomaterials, but I'm absolutely stoked to have finished my PhD and started my new job! 🙌🥳

Cheeky Scientist bills itself on its website as the “world’s premier career training platform for PhDs.” However, many customers allege they were pushed into purchasing services they didn’t want, can’t afford, and haven’t used. scim.ag/45h

For PhDs on the job market, please don’t interact with the Cheeky Scientist. The marketing is impressive and looks legitimate but it’s exploitative and relies on pressure tactics

Blown away by how well the UniSA⁩ communications team helped bring my PhD research to life! 🎥🧪 Watch below for a sneak peek into the work I’ll be presenting about in the FameLab⁩ Australia Nationals next week! ❤️ ⁦Foundation for the WA Museum⁩ youtu.be/Bl5LCFIbw6U?si…

A huge week ahead for UniSA biomedical PhD student Cintya Dharmayanti who has made the Australian finals of FameLab, the world's leading #science communication competition. Check out Cintya's research here and wish her luck for this Thursday in Perth! brnw.ch/21wCFHE

Ready Steady Go...TLC 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Academic publishing is in deep trouble. We all know it: paper mills, thousands of Special Issues, retractions, skyrocketing APCs... What is going on? Dan Brockington , @HansonM90 , @pagomba & me we have a preprint just out, with tons of data. A 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

We've discovered that ball milling commodity plastics serves as a safe radical source, initiating intriguing reactions! Surprisingly, a simple plastic bag from a supermarket can be employed in this process! Koji Kubota,Hokkaido University ICReDD,J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our paper is now online!!! So happy to see it finally in print. Another lil contribution toward open science and hardware accessibility. It takes a village, and a few 3D printers too. A very fun project led by Dr. Mason McNair (he/him). Enjoyyy 💚 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ap…

NEW PAPER: Ever wondered why insects fly in all sorts of crazy patterns around lights at night? So did we! We set about recording flying insects to work out what's going on. I'll summarise what we found in this 🧵. Spoiler: We don't think they confuse lights with the moon.

Things that Darwin hated, a 🧵 To Charles Lyell, 1st Oct 1861 But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything

High five to UniSA researcher Cintya Dharmayanti who is a finalist in The Advertiser Woman of the Year awards. Cintya is exploring the use of #nanoparticles to treat #cancer without the debilitating side effects of #chemotherapy. Learn more about her research: brnw.ch/21wHjmD

About to publish in a scientific journal? Want to know more about specific publishers? We released The Strain Explorer, where you find data on Turnaround times, output, shares of special issues, and impact factor inflation. Here: pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_explore… Read along for a 🧵

We CT scanned a Stanley Quencher cup to look for the lead that’s supposedly inside. Here’s what we found, and what it says about how these cups are made… 🧵

📢 Check out the latest media release featuring some of Kyle Brewer ⌬'s work on implants to protect native wildlife from feral cats in our collaboration with Arid Recovery 🐱 nytimes.com/2024/04/16/sci…

Interested in 3D printable lab equipment? Check out our designs! Every like, download, and make helps get the word out on these FREE & Open Source designs Printables.com by Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @PeterPietrzyk Trevor Rife and myself printables.com/model/45750-co…

Hot off the press 🔥 check out some of this recent work by one of our recently submitted PhD candidates 🎉

Higher degree by research students in Australia work full-time hours but receive $11.7k below the minimum wage. The Universities Accord recommended that the higher degree by research stipend should be increased to support junior researchers, we are campaigning for that to happen!