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Viertel @nhmrc & @HeartFoundation Fellow & #Hypertension Lab Head @Monash_Science. Gut microbes, 🐶 lover, #Cancer survivor @Science_Academy Gottschalk🏅she/her
Dec 1, 2023 31 tweets 8 min read
Excited to share my opinion piece on rethinking culture to unlock the potential of research

Grateful to @HyperAHA & editors @LabTouyz & @endocelldoc for the support

A 🧵 about why I wrote this & why it matters

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HY… I’d like to start this by thanking my team members @HamdiAJama & @Jo0Donnell, my friend & #scicomm superstar @DrShaneRRR, my colleague & DEI champion A/Prof Christen Mirth & my husband for their feedback 🙏 this was invaluable
Jun 22, 2022 12 tweets 13 min read
I'm super excited to share the results of our phase 2 randomised clinical trial using gut microbial metabolites to lower #bloodpressure, for now as a pre-print

@VicHeartInst @MonashBiol @Monash_Science @MonashUni

Funded by @heartfoundation @nhmrc

A 🧵

medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Work led by @HamdiAJama @dakotarrj in collaboration with many at @MonashUni and @BakerResearchAu inc @lab_nakai @RachelClimie @CreekLab @GeoffreyHead plus others not on Twitter
Sep 28, 2021 14 tweets 7 min read
Let's talk about giving and receiving #feedback

A 🧵about my experience as a peer-reviewer as well as an applicant for the #NHMRC IG scheme

1/ As a reviewer, this is the first year of the #NHMRC IG scheme that we were allowed to give feedback

Why feedback is important? Because for the ~85% who missed out, feedback gives them at least a learning opportunity (or at least it should)

2/
Sep 2, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
As I’m scoring fellowships I have some suggestions for those writing one, now or in the future:

1- Make it easy for the reader to find the info we need. Use headings, separate types of presentations (oral/poster/presenter/invited) and papers (first author or not) 2-Give the info that was asked in a succinct manner. No need to write hundreds of words just because you are allowed to.

If they ask you to list your top 5 papers/awards/presentations but you have 3 don’t make up stuff that is not relevant

We can see through that 🤨
Jun 24, 2020 17 tweets 10 min read
Truly grateful to announce I have been promoted to Associate Professor at @MonashBiol 😊

I would like to thank my team & former team members, my collaborators, mentors, colleagues for the support and feedback @BBM_Wong and @RobertB_R, & my boss @OBryanMoira for the push to apply Inspired by @jane_bourke_phd I would like to share how I got here because I look up to many & constantly think I am not doing 'well' enough. What I learned over the years is that on paper things look much more glamorous than they are (I call it the Instagram of academia) 1/