Mark Connor
@markfrommq.bsky.social
Cricket, rugba league, music and efficacy … posting from Wallemettagal land
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“In psychology undergrads” is analogous to “in mice”.
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“In psychology undergrads” is analogous to “in mice”.
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It’s really meaningful to have such insightful coverage from a leader in the field @zenbrainest.bsky.social and Xianglin Huang. We appreciate the time they took to write up this very nice commentary!
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It’s really meaningful to have such insightful coverage from a leader in the field @zenbrainest.bsky.social and Xianglin Huang. We appreciate the time they took to write up this very nice commentary!
my old room mate … not C Stuart or Spider …
In case anyone's interested, this is the work both Astronaut Stan Love and Spider Robinson helped me with.
Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon
Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon [Hardwick, C. Stuart, Robinson, Spider, Shoemaker, Martin L., Barretta, Mike, Monaghan, Sean, Rylander, K. B., Ferguson, Ronald D., Levine, David D., Fulda, Nancy, Rotundo, Matthew S.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Final Frontier: A Sci-fi Celebration of the Indomitable Spirit That Carried Humanity to the Moon
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November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
my old room mate … not C Stuart or Spider …
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Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Characterising the Multiple‐Plastic Degrading Strain of Bacillus subtilis GM_03 From the Galleria mellonella Microbiome
A novel strain of Bacillus subtilis has been isolated from plastic-fed Galleria mellonella larvae, which shows evidence of degradation of both LDPE and PU plastics. Genes potentially associated with ....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
May 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
(another) sad day, always seems to be farewells … fond memories of great shows with fab bands …
Anthony Albanese leads Labor to election win after Coalition vote collapses; Peter Dutton set to lose Dickson …. Fuck yeah !!! See ya toxic potato … and even Bennelong …
May 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Anthony Albanese leads Labor to election win after Coalition vote collapses; Peter Dutton set to lose Dickson …. Fuck yeah !!! See ya toxic potato … and even Bennelong …
i don't need a cure ...
RIP David Thomas aka (in the early days) Crocus Behemoth: those first four Pere Ubu singles were stunning in 1975-1977 (post punk before punk) leading up the The Modern Dance and Dub Housing. Born 1953, I salute you fellow Snake
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
i don't need a cure ...
David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls, dies aged 75 … and i’m still looking for a kiss …
March 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls, dies aged 75 … and i’m still looking for a kiss …
Strong feels for all my science colleagues in the US, suffering ignorant wicked actions by people who do not care for reason, light or common good. I trust enough Americans know what (medical) science has brought them, what they are about to lose, and what they can do about it …
February 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Strong feels for all my science colleagues in the US, suffering ignorant wicked actions by people who do not care for reason, light or common good. I trust enough Americans know what (medical) science has brought them, what they are about to lose, and what they can do about it …
Still coming to Sydney ? Lovely !
First paper of 2025 — the Sydney funnel-web spider is actually at least three different species:
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@flindersuniversity.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
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The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) - BMC Ecology and Evolution
The Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 is an iconic Australian species and considered among the most dangerously venomous spiders for humans. Originally described in 18...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Still coming to Sydney ? Lovely !
our bin chickens are evolving @dieterhochuli.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
our bin chickens are evolving @dieterhochuli.bsky.social
Sydney, 2025 … 20 m out from the beach, where the sand drops off, peace can be found …
January 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Sydney, 2025 … 20 m out from the beach, where the sand drops off, peace can be found …
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Reading:
The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA by @malte.the100.ci
'Rogue RA flits from lab to lab under the guise of an assistant, embedding themself just long enough to wreak havoc, before vanishing into the academic ether'
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA by @malte.the100.ci
'Rogue RA flits from lab to lab under the guise of an assistant, embedding themself just long enough to wreak havoc, before vanishing into the academic ether'
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA
The 100% CI unravels serial cases of mysterious research misconduct that can be traced back to a single villain striking from the shadows: Rogue RA
www.the100.ci
December 30, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Reading:
The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA by @malte.the100.ci
'Rogue RA flits from lab to lab under the guise of an assistant, embedding themself just long enough to wreak havoc, before vanishing into the academic ether'
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
The Untold Mystery of Rogue RA by @malte.the100.ci
'Rogue RA flits from lab to lab under the guise of an assistant, embedding themself just long enough to wreak havoc, before vanishing into the academic ether'
www.the100.ci/2024/12/18/r...
not all dress ups for the humans …
December 2, 2024 at 9:54 PM
not all dress ups for the humans …
Hmm … getting ready for the season …
November 30, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Hmm … getting ready for the season …
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Friend of mine out in LA just took this picture on the 405. And yes, all news and media outlets you have permission to use this. Wild
August 21, 2023 at 5:37 PM
Friend of mine out in LA just took this picture on the 405. And yes, all news and media outlets you have permission to use this. Wild
So ... new work from Michael Udoh, Marina Santiago & colleagues at BayMedica - defining which of the naturally occuring isomers of the phytocannabinoid CB2 agonist cannabichromene is active at the receptor ... can you guess ???
https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.08.01.551199v1
https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.08.01.551199v1
November 17, 2024 at 8:17 PM
So ... new work from Michael Udoh, Marina Santiago & colleagues at BayMedica - defining which of the naturally occuring isomers of the phytocannabinoid CB2 agonist cannabichromene is active at the receptor ... can you guess ???
https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.08.01.551199v1
https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.08.01.551199v1
Here goes ... happy to have played a small part in this new paper about novel cannabinoid CB2 ligands as potential PET ligands ... colleagues at USyd, UQ, ...
Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of Fluorinated 5-Azaindoles as CB2 PET Radioligands - https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00345
Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of Fluorinated 5-Azaindoles as CB2 PET Radioligands - https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00345
Just a moment...
doi.org
November 17, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Here goes ... happy to have played a small part in this new paper about novel cannabinoid CB2 ligands as potential PET ligands ... colleagues at USyd, UQ, ...
Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of Fluorinated 5-Azaindoles as CB2 PET Radioligands - https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00345
Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of Fluorinated 5-Azaindoles as CB2 PET Radioligands - https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00345