Dr. Auriol Purdie

One of our DVM students needs farmers with working dogs to complete a short survey. Please do feel free to share!

Gorgeous!

For 12wks I’ve been in Cohort 3 of the Beanstalk Drought Resilience Lab.

It gave us structured commercialisation support, market validation, investor readiness & direct mentoring from agrifood venture builders. I was selected to the final 8 & pitched my idea at an innovator showcase.

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#agritech

Arrived in Queenstown New Zealand for an 11 day #holiday. It’s pitch dark but the view from our rental is spectacular. Can’t wait to see it in the morning!

Recommended book of the day
2019. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. Albright
A very necessary book.

Find a great review here ddd.uab.cat/record/307453
For more on contemporary literature see ddd.uab.cat/record/305685
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
@blueskryb.cloud

Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director Several hundred NIH employees signed on to a letter rebuking agency actions since the start of President Trump's second term

Jay Bhattacharya shot to international attention as a founder of the Great Barrington Declaration, a protest of #Covid control measures. Now #NIH director, Bhattacharya is facing a protest declaration — from his agency's angry staff, @aniloza.bsky.social reports.
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The MAHA children’s health report mis-cited our research. That’s sloppy — and worrying Being cited in a major government report, like the MAHA report on children’s health, should be gratifying. Not this time.

Steve Woloshin has for years taught journalists how to read and interpret scientific studies accurately. Ironic to see one of his own papers is mis-cited and misrepresented in the MAHA report on the health of children. www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/m...

Global sea-surface temperatures are once again 2nd hottest on record for the day, as of May 7.

🌾I’m excited to share I have been selected for Cohort 3
of the Drought Resilience Lab with @BeanstalkAgTech!🌾

#DroughtVentureStudio #FutureDroughtFund #DroughtResilience #AgTech

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Videos reveal lax biosecurity in New York poultry markets amid bird flu outbreaks | BBC Science Focus Magazine As bird flu cases mount at inner city poultry markets, footage obtained by BBC Science Focus shows workers and the public exposed without recommended biosecurity measures

A breakdown in biosecurity in the US is a global issue. This & other reports suggest that the H5N1 outbreak in the US is still spreading in dairy & poultry populations.

How soon before it is carried to Australia?

#Biosecurity #H5N1

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USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry The move halts a Biden administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat.

Really USA?

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/24/p...

#smartcrc #regenerativemedicine #collaboration #innovation #australia… | SMART CRC | 18 comments 🎉 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗦𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗖𝗥𝗖 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗥𝗖 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 🎉 We are thrilled to formally announce the successful outcome of the SMART CRC application in Round 25 of the CRC Grants Program. This significant milestone...

What a way to finish the week! Culturon® is very proud to be a core industry partner for the newly funded SMART CRC! $238 million to create the new systems needed to bring regenerative therapies to Australians. What an achievement.

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Australian beef demand surges as US trade with China grinds to a halt Australian grain-fed beef exports to China are surging as the trade war with the US escalates, but some are warning of a bigger, more worrying picture.

Australian beef producers benefit from the US destruction of its trade relations with China.

This may be short term or maybe not?

#AustralianAgriculture

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

US LNG crippled as Australia seizes US$1.5b trade overnight What happens when the world’s second-largest economy suddenly pulls the plug on billions of dollars in US energy exports without warning, without negotiation and without a single public signal? You ge...

A fascinating read about the seismic shift in energy suppliers to China

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Fact check: are international students making it harder to find a place to rent as Dutton claims? Just 4% of Australia’s rental properties, or less than one in 20, are occupied by international students, the property council says

TL;DR: No.

Fact check: are international students making it harder to find a place to rent as Dutton claims?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Department confirms there's no ban on importing US beef Cattle Australia says Donald Trump fails to recognise that the US has had access to the Australian market since 2019, provided it can demonstrate its beef comes from cattle born, raised and slaughtere...

US singled out Aussie beef when justifying tariffs, saying US beef is banned from import.

Yet 🇦🇺 Dept Ag says there’s no ban on importing US beef provided it can prove the beef was from cattle born/ raised/slaughtered in US.

So what’s going on here? Excuses much 🤨

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

In 2022, international students added $29 billion to the Australian economy, contributing approx $25.5 billion through tuition fees & living expenses.

Loss of 80k students would remove approx $3.3B from the economy

How many houses could be built with that?

www.news.com.au/national/fed...

Cool news: The signed edition of Everything Is Tuberculosis has a second week at #1 on the Indie Bestseller list (and the unsigned edition is on the list as well, at #10).

Thanks for supporting your local independent bookstore!

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).

Thank you, Senator.

I know we're in the election cycle but this is the perfect opportunity for Australian government to promote reinvigorating Australian manufacturing. We're an ingenious nation with a history of invention.

In the meantime, there's a whole world of other nations who we can trade with.

Tariffs. 🙄 Why on earth don't America's "trading partners" just get together and turn off the tap.

There cannot possibly be anything America has that you can't get elsewhere. And sell your stuff to someone else. It probably wouldn't take long to bring matters to a head.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Sounds tasty! Will you serve it with something else (yogurt, rice pudding?)

Some measles patients in West Texas show signs of vitamin A toxicity, doctors say, raising concerns about misinformation | CNN Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity.

His views are dangerous & are going to lead to deaths/serious consequences

There are already unvaccinated children in hospital in the US with liver function issues due to excess Vitamin A. RFK has been pushing Vitamin A as a viable alternative to measles vaccines

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RFK Jr.'s history of medical misinformation raises concerns over HHS nomination Keesha Middlemass examines how RFK Jr.'s vaccine rhetoric and medical misinformation could deepen distrust from the Black community.

www.brookings.edu/articles/rfk...

www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/fact-checkin...

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The perils of RFK Junior's anti-vaccine leadership for public health With global measles cases surging more than 20% in a year, the spectre of an anti-vaccine leader like Robert F Kennedy Junior at the helm of US health policy has alarmed public health experts. Kennedy...

Disagree- there is a lot of evidence to show that Kennedy has been actively campaigning against vaccines for over 20 years, starting with claims about thimerosal in vaccines causing autism, despite extensive evidence disproving this connection.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BREAKING: RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy Workers expect notice Friday and over the weekend.

The entire staff of the US federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off.

This Office has promoted vaccines, something Kennedy is notably against & It has also handled the ‘Ending the HIV Epidemic’ program.

www.advocate.com/health/offic...

Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.

At what point do the people of the US say that enough is enough?

Looking in from afar, it seems that this new US government is actively attempting to trigger a new pandemic or at least make the lives of their most vulnerable citizens so much more difficult.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

“The ENA Data Hubs system allows users to share their pre-release data securely with an appointed list of collaborators. Users can add data to the Data Hub, and optionally include automated analysis and visualisations.”

Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...

Built a peer review system that doesn’t take forever.
Spoiler: scientists love it.
Huge thanks to the amazing team at The Company of Biologists for making Fast & Fair happen.
Read the preprint: bit.ly/4iZ30st
#biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social