Deborah Marsh
@djmarsh24.bsky.social
Cancer Scientist & Head, Translational Oncology Group | Professor & Discipline Leader, Medical Science @ the Uni of Technology Sydney | mum, enquirer | just trying to work it all out | thoughts always my own | she/her
profiles.uts.edu.au/deborah.marsh
profiles.uts.edu.au/deborah.marsh
Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si... #NSWPremiersPrizes #CoralReefs 🧪
Category 5: Dr Jennifer Matthews
YouTube video by NSW Premier's Department
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November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Thrilled for my colleague Dr Jen Matthews who has been awarded the 2025 NSW Premier’s Prize for Science & Engineering – Early Career Researcher (Biological Sciences) of the Year for her work on corals. Hear from Jen at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Si... #NSWPremiersPrizes #CoralReefs 🧪
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Bad antibodies are a major roadblock in biomedical research, harming reproducibility and wasting resources.
The International Antibody Validation Meeting was created to fix it.
Watch the talks from the 5th Antibody Validation Meeting (2025)
tinyurl.com/AntibodyVali...
#Integrity #reproducibility
The International Antibody Validation Meeting was created to fix it.
Watch the talks from the 5th Antibody Validation Meeting (2025)
tinyurl.com/AntibodyVali...
#Integrity #reproducibility
5th International Antibody Validation Meeting - YouTube
Listen to talks from the speakers at the 5th AbVal meeting, held in Bath on the 9-11th September 2025.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Bad antibodies are a major roadblock in biomedical research, harming reproducibility and wasting resources.
The International Antibody Validation Meeting was created to fix it.
Watch the talks from the 5th Antibody Validation Meeting (2025)
tinyurl.com/AntibodyVali...
#Integrity #reproducibility
The International Antibody Validation Meeting was created to fix it.
Watch the talks from the 5th Antibody Validation Meeting (2025)
tinyurl.com/AntibodyVali...
#Integrity #reproducibility
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University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
go.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪
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I never watch myself, but ICYMI 👉🏼 📽️ www.chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw-p...
2025 NSW Scientist of the Year
www.chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I never watch myself, but ICYMI 👉🏼 📽️ www.chiefscientist.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw-p...
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Congratulations to Academy Fellow Professor Nalini Joshi who has been named NSW Scientist of the Year – the first time a mathematician has received NSW’s highest honour for scientific endeavour! Prof Joshi was elected an Academy Fellow in 2008.
An article from @sydney.edu.au about today’s significant event #NSWPremiersPrizes news-opinion.sydney.edu.au/link/id/zzzz...
Nalini Joshi named 2025 NSW Scientist of the Year
Trailblazing mathematician Professor Nalini Joshi has been awarded the top scientific accolade in NSW for 2025.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Congratulations to Academy Fellow Professor Nalini Joshi who has been named NSW Scientist of the Year – the first time a mathematician has received NSW’s highest honour for scientific endeavour! Prof Joshi was elected an Academy Fellow in 2008.
Combining #CSIRO job cuts with job losses that have already happened & are happening now at Australian universities, there is a huge problem in our country keeping scientific research afloat, let alone thriving. We needed political action years ago but the next best time is right now. #STEM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Proud/excited/nervous that our drug repurposing for platinum resistant HGSOC #ovariancancer has opened in Newcastle, NSW. As the consumer team leader on this 5+year project am especially excited to trial an oral drug with low toxicity compared to usual chemo infusions.
anzctr.org.au/Trial/Regist...
anzctr.org.au/Trial/Regist...
ANZCTR - Registration
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November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Proud/excited/nervous that our drug repurposing for platinum resistant HGSOC #ovariancancer has opened in Newcastle, NSW. As the consumer team leader on this 5+year project am especially excited to trial an oral drug with low toxicity compared to usual chemo infusions.
anzctr.org.au/Trial/Regist...
anzctr.org.au/Trial/Regist...
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It was an honour to present with @djmarsh24.bsky.social at the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' last week.
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.
@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.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It was an honour to present with @djmarsh24.bsky.social at the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' last week.
Registrations for the 7th Australian Bioprinting Workshop run by @carminegentile.bsky.social being held December 1-2 at the University of Technology Sydney are still open. Run as a hybrid event for ease of participation. Australian & international speakers. #Ausbioprint 🧪https://www.ausbioprint.com/
Society | Ausbioprint | Ultimo
Ausbioprint is the home of the Australiasian Society for 3D Bioprinting. A community of bioengineers, scientists, and clinicians to work in synergy with industry, government, and regulatory agencies t...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Registrations for the 7th Australian Bioprinting Workshop run by @carminegentile.bsky.social being held December 1-2 at the University of Technology Sydney are still open. Run as a hybrid event for ease of participation. Australian & international speakers. #Ausbioprint 🧪https://www.ausbioprint.com/
Looking forward to a day when I am no longer asked to include animal experiments by reviewers of our research papers. #MedicalResearch #AnimalWelfare #3Rs #DrugRepurposing #Organ-on-a-chip #Tumour-on-a-chip #Tumoroids #Assembloids #Organoids 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
UK minister unveils plan to cut animal testing through greater use of AI
New funding for researchers and streamlined regulation part of roadmap for phasing out use of animals in science
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Looking forward to a day when I am no longer asked to include animal experiments by reviewers of our research papers. #MedicalResearch #AnimalWelfare #3Rs #DrugRepurposing #Organ-on-a-chip #Tumour-on-a-chip #Tumoroids #Assembloids #Organoids 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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In this review, @gsilvani.bsky.social, Martina Stenzel, & @kriskilian.bsky.social of @nanomed-unsw.bsky.social discuss how advances in #organoids & perfusable MPS are transforming nanoparticle design & accelerating nanodrug development by enabling more predictive assessments of efficacy.
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In this review, @gsilvani.bsky.social, Martina Stenzel, & @kriskilian.bsky.social of @nanomed-unsw.bsky.social discuss how advances in #organoids & perfusable MPS are transforming nanoparticle design & accelerating nanodrug development by enabling more predictive assessments of efficacy.
Important in politics to have competitive oppositions to help to avoid the risk of complacency for those in power. Still so much for labour to achieve, including ‘fixing’ higher education. Suspect that Liberals are way off the pulse of most Australians on this one. #netzero
Holy shit. This is embarrassing for all involved
"Liberals formally abandon net zero target but will allow moderate MPs to call lower emissions a ‘welcome outcome’"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Liberals formally abandon net zero target but will allow moderate MPs to call lower emissions a ‘welcome outcome’"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Liberals formally abandon net zero target but will allow moderate MPs to call lower emissions a ‘welcome outcome’
Future Coalition government would not withdraw from Paris climate agreement altogether, Liberal frontbench decides a day after five-hour party room debate
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Important in politics to have competitive oppositions to help to avoid the risk of complacency for those in power. Still so much for labour to achieve, including ‘fixing’ higher education. Suspect that Liberals are way off the pulse of most Australians on this one. #netzero
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At a time of scrutiny on university governance it was good to hear in yesterday’s Senate inquiry that @flindersuniversity.bsky.social
- has open Council meetings
- publishes Council minutes &
- staff & student Council members are in the room for confidential sessions www.youtube.com/live/9RAyu17...
- has open Council meetings
- publishes Council minutes &
- staff & student Council members are in the room for confidential sessions www.youtube.com/live/9RAyu17...
Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee | Adelaide, SA | 10/11/2025
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
At a time of scrutiny on university governance it was good to hear in yesterday’s Senate inquiry that @flindersuniversity.bsky.social
- has open Council meetings
- publishes Council minutes &
- staff & student Council members are in the room for confidential sessions www.youtube.com/live/9RAyu17...
- has open Council meetings
- publishes Council minutes &
- staff & student Council members are in the room for confidential sessions www.youtube.com/live/9RAyu17...
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?
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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?
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Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97
Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy
Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97
Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy
Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy
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Science and our wider society is advanced through the practice of basic science.
Basic science is the engine that makes it all work.
Janni changed the world through her work in fruit fly embryonic development that taught us about evolution, transcription and cell fate during development.
Basic science is the engine that makes it all work.
Janni changed the world through her work in fruit fly embryonic development that taught us about evolution, transcription and cell fate during development.
Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! She identified 120 genes involved in specifying embryonic pattern development.
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪
I Dreamt of Fruit Flies - Lasker Foundation
In the mid-1970s, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was struggling. Two years after finishing her PhD in molecular biology, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher in a lab she longed to leave. The…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Science and our wider society is advanced through the practice of basic science.
Basic science is the engine that makes it all work.
Janni changed the world through her work in fruit fly embryonic development that taught us about evolution, transcription and cell fate during development.
Basic science is the engine that makes it all work.
Janni changed the world through her work in fruit fly embryonic development that taught us about evolution, transcription and cell fate during development.
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
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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.
@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.
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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.
@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.
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Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
World expert in air quality and COVID wins Australia's top science prize
Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
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)
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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)
Young &/or budding academics - if you're asking someone to be a #referee for you, make sure you ask can they be a SUPPORTIVE referee. Tell them about the position & ask their availability to give a reference. Referees - don't put to the bottom of your pile to do 'whenever'. Opportunities pass.
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Young &/or budding academics - if you're asking someone to be a #referee for you, make sure you ask can they be a SUPPORTIVE referee. Tell them about the position & ask their availability to give a reference. Referees - don't put to the bottom of your pile to do 'whenever'. Opportunities pass.
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Sadly I heard today that Jim Peacock has died. Jim was the foremost pioneer of plant molecular biology in Australia & globally. He was both my mentor and friend and will be sorely missed by many #plantscience 🧪 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...
Academy farewells champion of Australian science
Dr Jim Peacock AC, former Academy President, made outstanding contributions to Australian science. The Australian Academy of Science is saddened to learn of the passing of its former President and
www.science.org.au
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Sadly I heard today that Jim Peacock has died. Jim was the foremost pioneer of plant molecular biology in Australia & globally. He was both my mentor and friend and will be sorely missed by many #plantscience 🧪 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...
Leadership 101 - ‘Don’t throw your people under the bus’. Glad to see this hold true on the international stage. #Albanese #Rudd
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Trump appeared to not recognise Rudd during a meeting in the White House, and seemed to have forgiven or forgotten Rudd’s 2021 description of him as a “village idiot” and “the most destructive president in history”.
Spot on! Mr. Rudd.
Trump appeared to not recognise Rudd during a meeting in the White House, and seemed to have forgiven or forgotten Rudd’s 2021 description of him as a “village idiot” and “the most destructive president in history”.
Spot on! Mr. Rudd.
Albanese backs Rudd to keep role despite Trump criticism, saying ambassador ‘works his guts out’ in DC
Trump had told Kevin Rudd he ‘probably never will’ like him prompting apology from ambassador
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Thrilled to see our preprint featured in Science News! 🩸
Big thanks to Holly Barker for writing such a thoughtful piece about our work. So exciting to see broader attention to menstruation research and new model systems!
www.science.org/content/arti...
Big thanks to Holly Barker for writing such a thoughtful piece about our work. So exciting to see broader attention to menstruation research and new model systems!
www.science.org/content/arti...
Lab mice can now have periods like humans
Studies of rodents with a menstrual on/off switch could help people with endometriosis and other disorders
www.science.org
October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thrilled to see our preprint featured in Science News! 🩸
Big thanks to Holly Barker for writing such a thoughtful piece about our work. So exciting to see broader attention to menstruation research and new model systems!
www.science.org/content/arti...
Big thanks to Holly Barker for writing such a thoughtful piece about our work. So exciting to see broader attention to menstruation research and new model systems!
www.science.org/content/arti...
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I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵