My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.

🧵 THREAD: The Arabic word that secretly names every magazine you read You pick up a magazine. You load bullets into a machsanit (Hebrew). You think these are unrelated words. You're wrong. They're the EXACT same word. Here's the incredible story... 1/8

My lab at Weizmann Institute was completely demolished by the Iranian missile a few days ago. This is hard and sad as nothing was left to save. We study heart regeneration and regenerative medicine. As such, we will regenerate, regrow and rebuild. The one thing that wasn't gone is

Two papers accepted in one day, wow 🎉

#ThinSectionThursday cathodoluminescence of fluorapatite and REE mineralisation from Nolans Bore, Australia. Other than being spectacular eye candy, this is very informative and tells quite a lot about the ore. Yay science! Image taken at CSIRO Microbeam Lab.

Can confirm. Just open the door or window and it smells like 100 bonfires outside.

Pro writing tip: When proof-reading a paper before submission or revision, change the font and print it out on paper. Trust me, you will find so many mistakes you had no idea were there, even though you've read the thing a million times on your computer screen.

Close to home, this one is literally five minutes away from my parents house…😬

Found in my daughter’s workbook

Due to neighbourhood wood heaters, we’re getting complaints from around Canberra of laundry needing to be rewashed and of coming home to a house full of smoke. It’s sad that some Canberrans don’t think or care about the impact they have on the health and lives of others.

We tried to measure an apatite composition using many different methods and failed miserably, so we wrote a paper about it. Available at the Journal of Materials Chemistry B: doi.org/10.1039/D5TB01…

Mineral Monday: Oxygen fugacity buffer calculator by Michael Anenburg Michael Anenburg has developed a graphical oxygen fugacity buffer calculator, available at fo2.rses.anu.edu.au/fo2app/ #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #mineralogy #oxygenfugacity

We're hiring Three year postdoc on geochemistry and petrology of ore-forming systems. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-…

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How do you get copper in post-subduction porphyry deposits? You flush ancient sulfide cumulates with deeper oxidised magmas! New paper out now with Shiwei Wang from Hefei UoT as lead author: nature.com/articles/s4324…

Interview for Israeli TV on rare earths!