If you're interested in #OpenScience, join us for the first public event for the Australian Open Science Network on 30 March: Open Science in Australia: How can we support key international initiatives https://www.caul.edu.au/events/open-science-australia-how-can-we-support-key-international-initiatives

More on the Australian Open Science Network: https://www.caul.edu.au/services-programs/australian-open-science-network

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#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #FAIRdata

If you work at an Australian or New Zealand university and you're interested in #OpenTexts, this announcement is for you.

📢 The 2023 OER Collective DIY Open Textbook Grants round is now open for EOIs! Authors from 35 participating Australian and New Zealand unis are eligible to apply. Up to $35,000 available in 2023 across three categories - Large Cohorts, Small Cohorts, and Kickstarter Grants. Grants include $500 for peer review stipends and space to publish on the #OERCollective Pressbooks platform.

Grants info: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/grants/

Participating unis: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/about/

#OER #OpenTextbooks

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This is a really important piece published by The Conversation today: ‘Women are often told their fertility ‘falls off a cliff’ after 35, but is that right?’ https://theconversation.com/women-are-often-told-their-fertility-falls-off-a-cliff-at-35-but-is-that-right-189978

Spoiler: it doesn’t fall off a cliff, but it does roll rapidly down a fairly steep mountain.

I’ve spent 2022 trying to get pregnant via IVF. I have done 5 egg retrievals and 5 embryo transfers. I am a textbook example of how few euploid embryos (embryos with the correct number of chromosomes) you make at 40. From 52 eggs retrieved, I’ve made 3 euploid embryos. I’ve also got 3 untested embryos frozen (not all can be tested) and I’m awaiting test results on another. I’ve transferred 4 untested embryos and I’m currently in the two week wait following transfer of 1 of my 3 normal embryos. Based on the stats (and my personal stats almost exactly match the literature), I’d be lucky if 1 of the untested embryos was normal.

I knew this would be difficult. I’ve walked the IVF path with others close to me. But I had no idea that I would make so few euploid embryos. I knew it would get harder with age, but I didn’t know it would get *this* hard.

And here’s why: no one tells us. We are told to be careful not to accidentally get pregnant, but we are not told that it might be bloody difficult to do it when we are ready to try.

So let’s tell people. Feel free to boost this post. Or just share the article. Because we need to start talking about this.

Great news from Aotearoa New Zealand this afternoon - #OpenAccess funder mandate announced by Dr Ayesha Verrall, Minister of Research, Science & Innovation for all research funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment.

https://twitter.com/ChiefSciAdvisor/status/1594922378370625536

Apologies for the link to the bird site - no info on the Ministry website yet.

#OA

A project team I'm working with is looking for Indigenous researchers who produce non-traditional research outputs to participate in an interview. It's part of a study that is developing a framework to help #AcademicLibraries better support researchers who produce #NTROs #NTRO.

Can you help connect @garypearce and team with someone who might be interested in participating?

Info at https://www.caul.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/strategy/fair-researcher_interviews_-_picf.pdf

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