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Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social
Rare & neuromuscular disease researcher at UWA & the Harry Perkins Institute, Perth 🇦🇺

Passionate about #sciencefunding, #womeninSTEM, #EMCRs

Mum of 👦👧🐶

Posting about genomics, rare disease, PI life & wine

https://www.ravenscroftlab.com
Oh Perth - what a morning #thinkingtime
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.

‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund
Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.
www.theage.com.au
September 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
yep
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Calling Australian #EMCR in health and medical research - anyone willing to speak to media and provide quotes about the impact of the MRFF underspend on researchers, on how tough it is in medical research? Please contact me! #NHMRC #MRFF #biomedicalscience #SaveOzScience #medicalresearch
a man is sitting in a chair reading a newspaper called the press-herald
ALT: a man is sitting in a chair reading a newspaper called the press-herald
media.tenor.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The government is starving medical research in Australia and we risk losing talent. Thanks @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for asking questions of this government

#SaveOzScience #MRFF #medicalresearch
August 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A locus on the dancefloor #HGSA2025
August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Should be working on my talk for #HGSA2025
Miss 7 had other ideas. Painting, it’ll be fun they said #procrastipainting
August 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
is there any way to find details of an individual with a variant in #gnomADv4 One allele in 1.6M....
July 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
Following our God Complex story on #4Corners on Monday on issues including gender politics of neurosurgery, #surgeon and fmr AMA Vic President Dr Jill Tomlinson lamented that of Epworth’s 25 neurosurgeons, none are women. This was #Epworth neurosurgeon Paul D’Urso’s (now-deleted – 🤷🏻‍♀️) reply:
July 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Sapphire has been down a large part of the day *sigh* #NHMRC #hungergames
July 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Master 11’s starter word on worldle is sigma
July 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Lab curry potluck #teamsthateattogether
July 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Congrats to all involved with this study associating mono-allelic POLR3A variants with #peripheralneuropathy.

So good to catch up with some of the key players at #ESHG2025 Milan where Jevin Parmar presented the study on behalf of the collaborative team #raredisease #CMT
July 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Writing #NHMRC #investigatorgrant during school holidays #momademia #womeninSTEM
July 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A hive of activity in the cartels today #teamwork #raredisease #genomics
July 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
July 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
Also, check out the News & Views summarizing our findings, written by Youjia Guo & @themodzlab.bsky.social 🤩🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
July 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Dear academics: you can’t take your H-index with you.
July 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
The dystonin gene encodes three major isoforms: DST-a, -b, and -e. Jacob et al. report that variants exclusively affecting DST-b cause an autosomal recessive congenital myopathy, while variants that also affect DST-a cause a lethal contracture syndrome. tinyurl.com/3p99pu9j
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Revisiting sacred Wednesdays (just for a few hours this morning) - we both needed it today #womeninSTEM #puttingoutfires #leadingishard
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Some nights require brandy #wiseestate #beautifulstranger
June 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Even stunning in winter #Perth #thinkingtime #NHMRC #grantwriting
June 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM