PhD student investigating the role of sex hormones in asthma 🫁🥼 | UoN | HMRI

Happy Science week! @Aus_ScienceWeek 😀🫁🤍 We are fortunate to have such an incredible communications team at @HMRIAustralia who are always finding engaging ways to make our science accessible to the community. Thanks for letting me be involved in this - so fun!
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@Aus_ScienceWeek is an opportunity to make science more accessible to our community. A huge thanks to @OliviaCarroll97 for allowing us to get some insight into her average day as a HMRI and @Uni_Newcastle scientist! #scienceweek
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Cheltenham Science Festival @cheltfestivals 2024! 🌎 A very fun and informative few days full of science. So awesome to watch the #FameLabUK final too! Lots of great conversations and wonderful people. A big thanks to @foundation_wam for supporting this experience! So grateful.
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🚨2 days left to apply for FameLab 2024! 🚨 On the fence about whether you should apply or not? Shoot me a message and we can chat about it! More info in thread below:
😃‼️Applications for FameLab 2024 are open!‼️😃 I highly encourage PhD students/ECRs to consider applying for this amazing opportunity. The training provided as part of #FameLab significantly shaped my capacity and confidence as a science communicator. 💡📻🫁 (1/5)
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Olivia Carroll retweeted
Great to share our publication "Landscape fire smoke airway exposure impairs respiratory and cardiac function and worsens experimental asthma" that is now available in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology jacionline.org/article/S0091…
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Olivia Carroll retweeted
Countries around the world are preparing for FameLab 2024. Australian #ECRs, #PHDs! Apply now for #FameLab Australia 2024 and take your #SciComm skills to the next level!
What a night at the NI final for @FameLab . All contestants were truly excellent, the future of SciComm in NI is very bright! But there must be one! Huge congratulations to Aaron Monson for winning! All @ NISF will be rooting for him at the UK finals in @CheltSciFest in June!
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Watching football and supporting medical research - what a combo! ⚽️ Tonight from 6:15pm. More details below.
We are delighted to announce that Northern NSW Football has named HMRI as its official Charity Shield naming rights partner for the next three years!⚽ We're so excited about this opportunity to connect with the local football community. Learn more bit.ly/3uwMZ9o
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😃‼️Applications for FameLab 2024 are open!‼️😃 I highly encourage PhD students/ECRs to consider applying for this amazing opportunity. The training provided as part of #FameLab significantly shaped my capacity and confidence as a science communicator. 💡📻🫁 (1/5)
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Still unsure? Check out this short clip which provides an awesome snapshot into what FameLab is all about 😃 youtu.be/iPtivUJ0Eic?feature…
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Still have some questions? Reach out! I’d be happy to answer any questions/queries anyone has about #FameLab 🧬🎤🫁😀
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!✨ We are proud to highlight many wonderful women & girls in STEMM through our episodes, find them on our website or any major podcasting platform- and stay tuned for more! #IDWGS2024 #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #STEMGirls
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PhD thesis submitted! So grateful for the unwavering support from my supervisors and lab mates. Could not have done this without them! Here’s to the next chapter 💪🏼🎉😀
Best part of the job is celebrating the PhD thesis submissions...congrats @OliviaCarroll97 so proud of you... shout out to Sammy on the right making us all look bad by getting Liv a lovely bunch of flowers...
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It’s FameLab final day! 😅 Excited, nervous and honoured to be representing Australia in the 2023 FameLab International final tonight. It’s going to be a great night full of awesome science from all around the world 🌏 You can tune in below from 9pm AEST 📻🫁
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Breaking up the thesis writing to talk to year 10 science students at my old high school about what my experience in science and research has looked like. Thanks to my year 8 science teacher, Mrs Willis, for the opportunity! 😊🧪
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Olivia Carroll retweeted
Do you have asthma? Researchers at @Uni_Newcastle and @HMRIAustralia are investigating the effect of a 16 week personalised dietary and physical activity programme for adults with asthma. If you are aged 18+, have a body mass index (BMI) of 30+ click here hmri.org.au/ideal-study
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T-5 minutes until the @FameLab international masterclass for 2023! Excited to meet all the other finalists and to be part of a zoom call that is covering so many different time zones 🌏😂 All in the name of sci-comm! 🥳 @cheltfestivals
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Covering so much “virtual” ground! So cool 🙌🏼 @FameLab @cheltfestivals
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Olivia Carroll retweeted
🚨Are you a mum or know a mum aged 18-45 yrs living in Australia? 🚨We need more mums to participate in an ONLINE PAID study looking at anxiety/mood after motherhood👩‍👧‍👦For more info & to sign up see: unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/f… Please share with any mums! #WomensHealth #MentalHealth
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