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Excellent news! Now let's make sure these funds reach #MECFS research. This disease has one of the lowest quality-of-life scores of any illness. It's been starved of funding for decades.
Let's stop the suffering.
#millionsmissing @EmergeAus #MEAwarenessDay
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9 News: The 'archaic' rule forcing Australians with a disability to choose between 'love and survival
For Brothers, who lives with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis..POTS..moving into a shared home would mean the immediate loss of her Disability Support Pension
9news.com.au/national/the-ar…
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Please sign petition in article. The Australian welfare system ties disability support to a partner’s income, leaving many trapped in abusive relationships or struggling to survive. People with disabilities deserve dignity, safety, and independence. c.org/tS9P6j5VMR
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This is so important to point out! #mecfs is one of the worst and most debilitating diseases you can get - more common than anybody thinks - yet no funding for research and thus no cure.
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As usual, @julierehmeyer manages to capture things so beautifully here as she reflects on the loss of her dear friend with #MECFS. The feelings and thoughts so perfectly expressed in this piece by Julie are familiar to so many in the community: so many
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New Cell paper from the team that discovered glymphatic clearance (how your brain removes waste during sleep).
Sleep hours DIDN'T predict brain cleaning. Neither did REM or deep sleep.
They found what actually matters - and why some sleeping pills might undermine it 🧵
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And the winner of FameLab Australia 2025 is ... Tammy Lee! 🎉 👏 🏆
Tammy Lee, an embryologist representing @uwanews, is the winner of the FameLab Australia 2025 science communication competition. Kenya Fernandez, a microbiologist from the @Sydney_Uni, and Caitlin Dudley, a plant scientist representing Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), were named runners-up.
Congratulations to all finalists, who showcased their science communication skills and delivered outstanding talks!
A big thank you to all FameLab partners for their support throughout the year: the @wamuseum, @cheltfestivals, @commitaus, Community Broadcasting Foundation, @CurtinUni, @ForrestResearch, @MurdochUni, @WaInspiring, the Wellspring Group & Foundation and @uwanews.
Find out more 👉link in bio.
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Reminder - FameLab Australian Finals livestream tonight
12 amazing early career researchers who have 3 mins to tell us about their science!
From 6pm WST // 8pm AEST
#FameLab #FameLabAus #STEM @foundation_wam @em_sci
perthvideo.net/famelab-2025?…
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What a blast! A totally epic night
@em_sci
And the winner of FameLab Australia 2025 is ... Tammy Lee! 🎉 👏 🏆
Tammy Lee, an embryologist representing @uwanews, is the winner of the FameLab Australia 2025 science communication competition. Kenya Fernandez, a microbiologist from the @Sydney_Uni, and Caitlin Dudley, a plant scientist representing Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), were named runners-up.
Congratulations to all finalists, who showcased their science communication skills and delivered outstanding talks!
A big thank you to all FameLab partners for their support throughout the year: the @wamuseum, @cheltfestivals, @commitaus, Community Broadcasting Foundation, @CurtinUni, @ForrestResearch, @MurdochUni, @WaInspiring, the Wellspring Group & Foundation and @uwanews.
Find out more 👉link in bio.
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12 researchers. 12 cutting-edge projects. Just 3 minutes each. It's science explained like never before!
🎟 FameLab Australia Final: tickets on sale now!
📅 18 Sep 2025, WA Museum Boola Bardip
visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boola…
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Lives We Cannot Live is a 3-year project photographing people with #MECFS an incurable & debilitating illness. #LivesWeCannotLive #PwME #millionsmissing
Info on exhibition and book tinyurl.com/58khuv8z
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None of my #LongCOVID presentation at Keystone was confidential. In fact there was a point in my presentation where I literally urged listeners to share widely and break the conference photography rules. My team’s science is intended to be shared and communicated widely.
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Anne: Today’s research findings however do give those people who have been invalidated for years and years, ignored for years and years, gaslit, made to believe that they’ve got a psychological condition, today and overnight we have received findings that finally validate that 1/
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it’s in the DNA. It’s real. It’s organic. It’s not made up and so on a day like today where we do think of all of those people with very severe ME/CFS, we have a glimmer of hope that our future studies will lead to bio markers to new treatments, 2/
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Thank you @abcnews Suzanne Hill,
Anne Wilson CEO of Emerge Australia @EmergeAus and Dr Richard Schloeffel, long-time researcher of biomarkers in patients with ME/CFS.
For #SevereMEDay #MECFS
On ABC Nightlife (22 minute audio)
short transcript section ⬇️
abc.net.au/listen/programs/n…
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Hello and good morning from the beautiful world of the Ngunnawal people. Have a blessed day full of smiles. Throw one into the wind and let it capture the moment of those that come across it. Your journey is a blessing to yourself. So be happy, be humble and help someone who ❤️
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#FameLab’s #scicomm training is packed! In 2024 @em_sci from @commitAUS invited brilliant guest speakers @DrEmmaBeckett, Dr Vivien Rolland and Dr Naomi Koh Belic. @DrShaneRRR delivered masterful media training. #fFameLab Australia 2025 will be a truly rich and rare opportunity for participants again. Applications for FameLab Australia 2025 are now open. Don’t miss out! fwam.com.au/the-foundation-s…
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Please read this thread and share far and wide. It’s so awful that this person is having to walk this path.
It could happen to anyone. It could even be you or a family member
The systems are not supporting very sick people. They making them worse
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22/ A shout out to those who support my Patreon at patreon.com/criprights - this is the kind of work that you help me keep doing, every day.
It's not to buy me a drink. It's to enable me to keep working to keep Australians with disability supported and safe. Thank you so much!