# ![@ProfJennyGraves Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2727638732.png) @ProfJennyGraves Jenny Graves

Jenny Graves posts on X about science, hay, life of, universe of the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Men lose their Y chromosome as they age. Scientists thought it didnt matter but now were learning more The Y chromosome doesnt seem to do much except determine sex but its loss in older men might be linked to heart disease cancer and Alzheimers"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/men-lose-their-y-chromosome-as-they-age-scientists-thought-it-didnt-matter-but-now-were-learning-more-275823)  2026-02-13T00:52Z 45.9K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@CSIROPublishing @HoggCarolyn @KathyBelov and your kids will enjoy "Saving the Tasmanian Devil" by my friend US children's author Dorothy Hinshaw Patent published by HMH Books out August 20th. Good month for devils"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1141937214877683713)  2019-06-21T05:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Monash_Science Congratulations Ros"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1793592794894000208)  2024-05-23T10:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MakovaLab @Nature Fantastic to have all these data at last Kateryna. Whatever happened to the gorilla Y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1796328683923533890)  2024-05-30T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's interesting that Neanderthal DNA contains no trace of the male-inducing gene SRY; maybe just hard to clone maybe it was lost from the Neanderthal Y https://theconversation.com/modern-human-dna-contains-bits-from-all-over-the-neanderthal-genome-except-the-y-chromosome-what-happened-230984 https://theconversation.com/modern-human-dna-contains-bits-from-all-over-the-neanderthal-genome-except-the-y-chromosome-what-happened-230984"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1802498923703247227)  2024-06-17T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ShafaWaters @DenisOMeally @hardiprpatel @mud_skip I love it when my kids get together"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1806483855903478182)  2024-06-28T00:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@latrobe @arc_gov_au Congratulations Sue on joining this important body. And congratulations ARC for recruiting such an able and experienced Deputy Chair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1806486147058806865)  2024-06-28T00:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ATinyGreenCell They are really big chromosomes containing pretty much the same genes as all other mammals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1807261466476896537)  2024-06-30T03:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GeneticsAus Congratulations Mikaeylah on your terrific talk and terrific work breeding tougher corroboree frogs Best of luck Jenny Graves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1812376811105591648)  2024-07-14T06:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/jenny-graves-chromosomes-genes-evolution-origins https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/jenny-graves-chromosomes-genes-evolution-origins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1814196912939295224)  2024-07-19T07:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@KAlreja I still bear the scars from that koala hug"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1814629679716049027)  2024-07-20T11:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Vale Opera Alex. One of my first PhD students Alex Dobrovic shared widely his deep love and understanding of music and science. We will miss his wonderful mix of culture and curiosity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1814632980687823187)  2024-07-20T12:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Kong_Z_Hong Love it that Origins is getting a re-run at https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YRH7MD7F4U0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YRH7MD7F4U0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1816726842801570207)  2024-07-26T06:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Forty years ago I showed that genes on the inactive X in female mammals are silenced because they are not transcribed into RNA. Sniffy Nature reviewers bounced my paper because "what else could it be" Well read our new paper that documents the "else" http://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322360121 http://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322360121"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1818095783423713524)  2024-07-30T01:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"And here's our Conversation article that describes our new dosage compensation work via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/whats-the-secret-of-genetic-equality-between-the-sexes-new-platypus-chromosome-research-may-hold-the-key-235214utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/whats-the-secret-of-genetic-equality-between-the-sexes-new-platypus-chromosome-research-may-hold-the-key-235214utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1818492019020275911)  2024-07-31T03:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@HolleleyClare @erin_e_hahn @mralexandervir @c_frere @NicolaEKent Fantastic Clare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1818499130546966539)  2024-07-31T04:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SABE_latrobe @ColinBrooksMP @latrobe When I first joined La Trobe Uni in [----] I was thrilled to find my name on the door of my new lab in Dymotape letters at least 1cm high. [--] years later "  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1823197996114497920)  2024-08-13T03:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@arc_gov_au Lots of good intentions here. Now how about some research funds to make it reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1823200302113460407)  2024-08-13T03:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm very chuffed that the libretto for "Origins" (oratorio that tells the creation story from science) that I wrote with poet Leigh Hay was chosen for the [----] Anthology of Australia's best science writing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1826160235939328107)  2024-08-21T07:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Yes you can see the whole Origins libretto plus music and visuals at It's the Creation story from science https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YRH7MD7F4U0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YRH7MD7F4U0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1826402980788355543)  2024-08-21T23:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bethpenrose Yes it's sooo unhelpful. I copy the file cut out the text unite figures with legends and look at them side-by-side with the text"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1826920575308370413)  2024-08-23T09:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Yes thats me in black velvet to the right of the podium after negotiating my way from the alto section past the tuba and four double bases. Leigh Hay and composer Nick Buc are on the left conductor Peter Bandy on the podium. Exultant at standing ovation from full house"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1827245224990806474)  2024-08-24T07:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SciencNews @Nature I greatly value my position as Thinker in Residence at the University of Canberra. Colleagues are so jealous. You mean you get paid to think Well not paid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1828387641810919829)  2024-08-27T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Science_Academy @UniCanberra Yay Arthur Look forward to your maiden speech in a few weeks. Sill you bring your dragon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1829089266582093962)  2024-08-29T09:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@McfaddenGeoff Can't go far wrong when you work on sex in funny animals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1839494370934059414)  2024-09-27T02:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Proud to win the Ruby Payne Scott career award from the Australian Academy of Science. Ruby is one of my heroes; pioneer radio astronomer driven out of science when she became pregnant called a disgrace to CSIRO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1839507297648976207)  2024-09-27T03:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Same thing with my mother Ann Marshall; she gave geography lectures at U of Adelaide for male staff away at the war. Tutor salary didnt cover minding the baby (me). She applied for and got a job after the war - a disgrace to womanhood but winner of the John Lewis gold medal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1839507300467519773)  2024-09-27T03:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Things have improved a bit for women here standing with the Hon Sam Mostyn Australias new GG as well as Ed Husick and Academy Pres Jagadish addressing a sea of senior women scientists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1839507303244116398)  2024-09-27T03:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DrEmmaLJohnston What terrific news. Congratulations Emma We will be expecting great things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1841005937802555668)  2024-10-01T06:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We grow berries and citrus and I make jam and marmalade to sell in support of the Heidelberg Choral Society. John thought the last batch was so good he entered it into the Melbourne Royal Show defying my ridicule. Just found the marmalade won third prize. Pinnacle of my career"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1841017349576819189)  2024-10-01T07:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Danwheels [--] fresh limes picked that morning including [--] Makrut limes - oh the bouquet Less sugar than most recipes (about 2/3 weight). Only [--] or [--] cups water not [--]. Limes sliced boiled and left overnight before adding sugar. Everything sterile (my cell culture background handy here)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1841378979133211097)  2024-10-02T07:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrShaneRRR and such a wonderful demonstration of the power of X chromosome inactivation to create mosaic phenotype in female heterozygous for X-borne gene for orange/black fur (those lovely orange and black spots)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1841688778542612587)  2024-10-03T03:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ATSE_au @DrAAAchariya @OneVenturesVC @NCIG2013 @ourANU @TheKids_AU @pepcanadell @CSIRO @UniMelb @UNSW @RioTinto @Australian_Navy @QUT @IMOS_AUS @UTAS_ @DrMistyJenkins @WEHI_research Congratulations Misty So happy to see you on the ATSE Fellow list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1841694640392798322)  2024-10-03T04:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrShaneRRR Never too late Shane And increasingly exciting as biology overlaps more and more with chemistry and physics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1841721685617344577)  2024-10-03T06:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@virologistjoe @wc_ratcliff Ah this is the book I've been waiting for. I want to know how linear chromosomes evolved how mitosis and meiosis evolved how chromatin 3D structure and chromosome territories evolved. How does natural selection constrain and enhance cell function"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1842467850621214779)  2024-10-05T07:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ProfCarlSagan and are suspicious of science and technology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1842723322725089294)  2024-10-06T00:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why do humans have near-equal numbers of male and female babies unlike many other animals A new genetic study looks for clues via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/why-do-humans-have-near-equal-numbers-of-male-and-female-babies-unlike-many-other-animals-a-new-genetic-study-looks-for-clues-241360utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/why-do-humans-have-near-equal-numbers-of-male-and-female-babies-unlike-many-other-animals-a-new-genetic-study-looks-for-clues-241360utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1846824127841423528)  2024-10-17T08:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@latrobe Sex ratio is more complex than you thought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1846824445887107335)  2024-10-17T08:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"With co-librettist Leigh Hay at the Sydney launch of Best Australian Science Writing [----] which contains our libretto for Part I Origin of the Universe and includes the link to the Origins video so we hope for another wave of Origins fans. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YRH7MD7F4U0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=YRH7MD7F4U0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1855564643668009246)  2024-11-10T10:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"With old friends and colleagues Aurora Ruiz-Herrera and Irina Solovei at the 3D Genome conference in Sanya China. Our job to relate the patterns that chromatin conformation analyses reveal with what we see under the microscope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1856272022319575374)  2024-11-12T09:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ScienceAlert AAAARGH I can't stand diagrams like these. The Y chromosome is not Y-shaped And the X is X-shaped only if the centromere is in the middle (like human X). The X was called "X" for "Unknown" because they were present in different numbers in males and females. The Y followed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/2012480433447936068)  2026-01-17T11:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Check out my latest article: Thoughts on the International Day of Women & Girls in Science via @LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-international-day-women-girls-science-jenny-graves-esbsc https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-international-day-women-girls-science-jenny-graves-esbsc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021353774816891148)  2026-02-10T22:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"No epigenetics and environmental responsiveness dont undermine Darwinian evolution Epigenetics is consistent with the theory of evolution in fact Darwin predicted that tiny parcels might somehow provide a flow of information from experience to inheritance"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/no-epigenetics-and-environmental-responsiveness-dont-undermine-darwinian-evolution-65647)  2017-05-01T13:11Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Specks of dust on the microscope slide No we are looking at the building blocks of our genome Our genomes are built from the tiny chromosomes of a small spineless creature that lived [---] million years ago"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/specks-of-dust-on-the-microscope-slide-no-we-are-looking-at-the-building-blocks-of-our-genome-168784)  2021-11-02T23:33Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"What we learn from a fish that can change sex in just [--] days When a male bluehead wrasse is removed from the group he dominates the largest female changes sex rapidly transforming ovaries into sperm-producing testes. Molecular research shows how"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/what-we-learn-from-a-fish-that-can-change-sex-in-just-10-days-129063)  2020-01-30T07:07Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"African scientists recognise that diverse sexuality is the norm Mate choice is one of the most highly selected traits in any animal. Just ask a fruitfly which devotes a large share of its genes to choosing and attracting a mate"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/african-scientists-recognise-that-diverse-sexuality-is-the-norm-43050)  2015-06-15T04:33Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"These sex-starved creatures scavenge new genes from other pondlife Rotifers are tiny creatures found in ponds or puddles and can reproduce without sex. The theory says they should not have survived so how have they done it"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/these-sex-starved-creatures-scavenge-new-genes-from-other-pondlife-56913)  2016-04-15T00:23Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Did sex drive mammal evolution How one species can become two How new species are created is at the core of the theory of evolution. Mammals may be a good example of how sex chromosome change drove major groups apart"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/did-sex-drive-mammal-evolution-how-one-species-can-become-two-62535)  2016-07-27T01:54Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Whats the secret of genetic equality between the sexes New platypus chromosome research may hold the key Females have twice as many copies of some genes as males do and exactly how different species manage this imbalance has puzzled scientists for decades"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/whats-the-secret-of-genetic-equality-between-the-sexes-new-platypus-chromosome-research-may-hold-the-key-235214)  2024-07-31T03:40Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"What makes you a man or a woman Geneticist Jenny Graves explains There are many cultural and social factors involved in making a baby into a man or a woman. But biologically speaking sex starts when youre just a tiny group of cells in your mothers uterus"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/what-makes-you-a-man-or-a-woman-geneticist-jenny-graves-explains-102983)  2018-09-23T06:12Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Coronavirus and sex hormones baldness may be a risk factor and anti-androgens a treatment An intriguing link could help us understand why men are at higher risk from COVID-19 than women. It also might pave the way for a potential treatment"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-and-sex-hormones-baldness-may-be-a-risk-factor-and-anti-androgens-a-treatment-140340)  2020-06-23T05:51Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Sex genes the Y chromosome and the future of men The Y chromosome that little chain of genes that determines the sex of humans is not as tough as you might think. In fact if we look at the Y chromosome over the course of our evolution weve seen it"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/sex-genes-the-y-chromosome-and-the-future-of-men-32893)  2014-11-14T10:19Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"How genes and evolution shape gender and transgender identity Its not about trauma or how you were raised: evidence now points to a biological basis for transgender and to the action of particular genes in that determination"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/how-genes-and-evolution-shape-gender-and-transgender-identity-108911)  2019-01-23T21:48Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"How birds become male or female and occasionally both Birds have some of the most amazing sex differences of any animal. They can control the sex of offspring and even produce rare half-male half-females. And their sex genes and chromosomes are quite different from ours"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/how-birds-become-male-or-female-and-occasionally-both-112061)  2019-03-12T06:06Z 45.9K followers, 925.7K engagements


"Nothing is not nothing: how a scientist set out to sing the story of our origins Evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves loves classical choral music but grew tired of its biblical themes. So she set out to write an alternative based in science"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/nothing-is-not-nothing-how-a-scientist-set-out-to-sing-the-story-of-our-origins-207607)  2023-06-26T05:36Z 208.1M followers, [----] engagements


"Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome except the Y chromosome. What happened A mysterious century-old law of genetics may explain the puzzling genetic legacy of our extinct Neanderthal cousins"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/modern-human-dna-contains-bits-from-all-over-the-neanderthal-genome-except-the-y-chromosome-what-happened-230984)  2024-06-17T00:30Z 45.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome but a new sex gene discovery in spiny rats brings hope for humanity The human Y chromosome could disappear over time putting our species in jeopardy. But some rodents have managed just fine without it and we now know how"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/men-are-slowly-losing-their-y-chromosome-but-a-new-sex-gene-discovery-in-spiny-rats-brings-hope-for-humanity-195903)  2022-12-05T19:49Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"A huge project is underway to sequence the genome of every complex species on Earth The monumental Earth Biogenome Project has galvanised hundreds of geneticists and bioinformaticists from all over the world"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/a-huge-project-is-underway-to-sequence-the-genome-of-every-complex-species-on-earth-175033)  2022-01-19T23:25Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Curious Kids: how do scientists know evolution is real In science we look at the evidence and try to find the theory that best explains it. And thats what happened when it came to figuring out evolution"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-scientists-know-evolution-is-real-122039)  2019-10-01T03:17Z 45.9K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Boy girl or Dilemmas when sex development goes awry Many babies are born with a genetic variant that can result in the child being neither a typical boy or girl. There has been considerable debate about whether the child should be treated"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/boy-girl-or-dilemmas-when-sex-development-goes-awry-49359)  2016-03-11T01:24Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Kids learning and health is shaped by genes they dont inherit as well as genes they do A new paper describes the idea of genetic nurture where parents genes even those not passed on to their child have major effects on kids health and educational attainment"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/kids-learning-and-health-is-shaped-by-genes-they-dont-inherit-as-well-as-genes-they-do-90852)  2018-02-03T11:55Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"How and why did homosexual behaviour evolve in humans and other animals A new cross-species study shows same-sex sexual behaviour has social benefits for groups which explains its high frequency in humans and other mammals"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/how-and-why-did-homosexual-behaviour-evolve-in-humans-and-other-animals-215331)  2023-10-12T06:15Z 208.1M followers, [----] engagements


"The sex gene SRY and Parkinsons disease: how genes act differently in male and female brains Parkinsons disease is twice as common in men than in women. A sex gene called SRY found only in men could go some way to explaining this and might pave the way for potential treatments"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/the-sex-gene-sry-and-parkinsons-disease-how-genes-act-differently-in-male-and-female-brains-121764)  2019-08-13T07:14Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Fierce female moles have male-like hormones and genitals. We now know how this happens. Female moles evolved to have high testosterone levels making them fiercer diggers and mothers. Female hyenas share this trait but it means they must give birth through a male-like phallus"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/fierce-female-moles-have-male-like-hormones-and-genitals-we-now-know-how-this-happens-149174)  2020-11-13T06:11Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Differences between men and women are more than the sum of their genes What produces the differences between men and women Are they trivial or profound Are they genetic or environmental or both And are men really closer genetically to chimpanzees than to women"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/differences-between-men-and-women-are-more-than-the-sum-of-their-genes-39490)  2015-07-31T12:48Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Why do humans have near-equal numbers of male and female babies unlike many other animals A new genetic study looks for clues Humans have roughly the same number of male and female babies but there may be variation between families. A new genetic analysis of huge human populations explores the reasons why"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/why-do-humans-have-near-equal-numbers-of-male-and-female-babies-unlike-many-other-animals-a-new-genetic-study-looks-for-clues-241360)  2024-10-17T08:02Z 45.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Not just about sex: throughout our bodies thousands of genes act differently in men and women Like it or not evidence now shows that men and women differ genetically far more profoundly that we previously recognised. An analysis from the [----] winner of the Prime Ministers Prize for Science"  
[X Link](https://theconversation.com/not-just-about-sex-throughout-our-bodies-thousands-of-genes-act-differently-in-men-and-women-86613)  2017-11-01T09:43Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements


"Great to have a chance to talk to science-lovers of all ages in La Trobe's hinterland through the NorthSETEM Network. Look forward to exploring sex and evolution and what it means for humans on June [--] at Eltham High. https://twitter.com/RoyalSocietyVic/status/997065920181776384 https://twitter.com/RoyalSocietyVic/status/997065920181776384"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1002369708086079488)  2018-06-01T02:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@j9deakin Please note this lovely chromosome diagram is Janine's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1014472467346145280)  2018-07-04T11:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@UNSWScience @ramacgenomics @UNSW @DrRebeccaJ @KathyBelov @austmus Thrilled that my Koala CUTE gene discovery has been recognised"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1014474479181807617)  2018-07-04T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"four takes on curiosity put together by the incomparable Benjamin law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1028438014190440448)  2018-08-12T00:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"and sometimes a little silly too. Great to meet up with my colleague Beatrice Alba at the Bendigo Writers Festival"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1028438488541159425)  2018-08-12T00:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"and sometimes a little silly. Great to meet up with my La Trobe colleague Beatrice Alba at the Bendigo Writers Festival"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1028438747606478848)  2018-08-12T00:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It's been a Curious week - at science Alive launch in adelaide with old friend Rob Morrison of The Curiosity Show fame #login"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1028464717394731008)  2018-08-12T02:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Women power in the north; scientists Misty Jenkins and Jenny Graves with politicians Vicky Ward and Danielle Green at the opening of the new Greensborough Polytech and STEMPowered HerPlace exhibition of women in science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1029992823917965312)  2018-08-16T07:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@khelgen No but I shall visit again next week for ESA and SRB meetings. I arrive Sunday morning Aug 19th and leave Monday 27th"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1030324711585013760)  2018-08-17T05:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@hopihoekstra These comments make me feel almost normal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1034310542196797440)  2018-08-28T05:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@hopihoekstra My real-life nightmare was a talk in Moscone Centre SF where the System overrode my talk with the wrong slides (60 instead of [--] min) in which my lovely animal pics didnt show and I had no control. I was sweating and near hysterical. And you know what NOBODY NOTICED"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1034310793137799168)  2018-08-28T05:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AnthCondon @latrobe @LTUresearchers I think we will have gender equity only when men DEMAND time off to know and love and guide their kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1043055500613410816)  2018-09-21T08:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@xiphane @AllenAndUnwin @latrobe @bri_lee_writer @ClareBowditch @Dr_BeatriceAlba Absolutely agree; at least the kind of practical feminism that enables women (mothers in particular) to continue and flourish in their careers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1043056455912316929)  2018-09-21T08:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I wonder if gender identity is influenced by strong female-identity and male-identity gene variants that arent necessarily congruent with whether or not you have a Y chromosomes Discussed in http://theconversation.com/what-makes-you-a-man-or-a-woman-geneticist-jenny-graves-explains-102983 http://theconversation.com/what-makes-you-a-man-or-a-woman-geneticist-jenny-graves-explains-102983"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1043744984430592000)  2018-09-23T06:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Defend Our Opera House: Support Louise Herron - Sign the Petition via @ChangeAUS https://chn.ge/2pJlR25 https://chn.ge/2pJlR25"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1049276618529820673)  2018-10-08T12:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Beating the odds to secure a permanent contract Good advice about taking rejection on the chin from Muireann Irish @Muireann_Irish. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06873-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06873-5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1049802874400661504)  2018-10-09T23:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Doc_Farr @latrobe I hope my talk was shearing enough and not too woolly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1050602969639542784)  2018-10-12T04:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ProfJimSmith @wellcometrust And do note the kangaroo bottom right not to mention the penis-worm above it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1058505376906260480)  2018-11-02T23:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ha_Tanya @DrSallyCockburn Ah that was a night to remember"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1058961423148056576)  2018-11-04T05:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@EIVertebrates @KathyBelov and these omics ladies with genome pioneer Steve O'Brien"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1059489306203451392)  2018-11-05T16:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MVEG001 My first pregnancy (1973) was in the era when nice young women were supposed to resign their tenured lectureships and take on part time tutorships. Fortunately I had no choice being sole breadwinner (my husband studying). There was no maternity leave - I took my baby to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061037771454787585)  2018-11-09T23:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MVEG001 Maternity leave is a two-edged sword. It is really important to stay engaged with work; go to meetings and seminars read write stay in touch. Six months is a long time out of the loop and it's hard to get back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061038305133780992)  2018-11-09T23:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@isikercanz @MVEG001 Im not advocating staying engaged to assuage guilt but to make it easier to pick up the job after maternity leave. Ive watched too many young women struggle to get their careers back on track after even [--] months away let alone a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061143810388848641)  2018-11-10T06:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@isikercanz @MVEG001 Id like to see institutions help by providing technical support during maternity leave to keep things going and childcare to allow participation in seminars and meetings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061143891833839616)  2018-11-10T06:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@isikercanz @MVEG001 We need MORE than a recognized right to paid leave. We need support from our employers so we can stay engaged and make transition back to work easy if we want to continue our careers. We shouldnt have to choose between staying in the loop and loving/ breastfeeding a new baby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061480832374734848)  2018-11-11T04:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@isikercanz @MVEG001 We shouldnt have to choose between staying in the loop and loving/ breastfeeding a new baby Everyone benefits if we can manage both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061480949198741504)  2018-11-11T04:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@taramcallister4 Of course it should be a choice. Not every new mother will want to return to work and their decision should be respected. What I am saying is that the women who do want to return to work will find it easier if they stay engaged. Hopefully with support from their employer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061484858214469632)  2018-11-11T05:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@taramcallister4 I speak from experience. Not maternity leave but a near fatal brain bleed and neurosurgery. I struggled to get back after [--] months convalescence during which I lost grants and staff had to abandon experiments and couldnt read let alone publish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1061485949194973186)  2018-11-11T05:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@IsobelRonai Hey cool Is this work published"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1070260485520412673)  2018-12-05T10:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@IsobelRonai Thanks for alerting me Isobel. I'll keep an eye out for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1070547728562741249)  2018-12-06T05:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Hope this article can contribute to the growing realisation that there is genetic variation in everything including sexual identity. Viva human diversity How genes and evolution shape gender and transgender identity https://t.co/NVjKFOszmR Nice article by @ProfJennyGraves via @ConversationEDU How genes and evolution shape gender and transgender identity https://t.co/NVjKFOszmR Nice article by @ProfJennyGraves via @ConversationEDU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1088187867321356289)  2019-01-23T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Hope this article can contribute to the growing realisation that there is genetic variation in everything including sexual identity. Viva human diversity via @ConversationEDU http://theconversation.com/how-genes-and-evolution-shape-gender-and-transgender-identity-108911utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton http://theconversation.com/how-genes-and-evolution-shape-gender-and-transgender-identity-108911utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1088191890988527616)  2019-01-23T21:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"#Genetic evidence for #gender #diversity #inclusivity Hope this article can contribute to the growing realisation that there is genetic variation in everything including sexual identity. Viva human diversity https://t.co/nTO6oUH3ER via @ConversationEDU Hope this article can contribute to the growing realisation that there is genetic variation in everything including sexual identity. Viva human diversity https://t.co/nTO6oUH3ER via @ConversationEDU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1088193113170923520)  2019-01-23T21:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Birds do sex quite differently from us. Females choose the sex of her chicks. How cool is that via @ConversationEDU http://theconversation.com/how-birds-become-male-or-female-and-occasionally-both-112061utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton http://theconversation.com/how-birds-become-male-or-female-and-occasionally-both-112061utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1105349286043168769)  2019-03-12T06:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@YMedicalmarvels @ConversationEDU As a mother of two very large babies I think eggs are a great idea. I particularly admire the emu because it is the male parent who tends the eggs and chicks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1105978128189407232)  2019-03-13T23:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Science_Academy @karenandrewsmp @SciGenderEquity Yes $1.8M for SAGE is great. But the budget cut of [---] times this amount in research funds will make it harder for Universities to step to the SAGE mark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1115451643133288448)  2019-04-09T03:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@theNASciences @latrobe Thanks to the NAS AAS Chief Scientist La Trobe colleagues friends for you congratulations. Got the news during a visit to the stromatolites at the firmest of Australia. Awesome to be joining some of my longtime heroes in science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1129085039235469313)  2019-05-16T18:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ProfGemmell @OscarJ_Ortega @MarsdenFund @epi_otago Congratulations Erica Oscar Neil and the Otago gang for a great sex reversal story and fine bit of molecular sleuthing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1149142319611777024)  2019-07-11T02:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"New PNAS paper by Vince Harley and Jooyhung Lee on how the sex gene SRY might be implicated In Parkinson's Disease. The sex gene SRY and Parkinsons disease: how genes act differently in male and female brains via @ConversationEDU http://theconversation.com/the-sex-gene-sry-and-parkinsons-disease-how-genes-act-differently-in-male-and-female-brains-121764utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton http://theconversation.com/the-sex-gene-sry-and-parkinsons-disease-how-genes-act-differently-in-male-and-female-brains-121764utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1161174288478507008)  2019-08-13T07:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SciGenderEquity @ATSE_au @Science_Academy Hooray La Trobe has made it to bronze. Congratulations to our team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1176030181527412736)  2019-09-23T07:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"My first contribution to The Conversation "Curious kids". Evidence for Evolution in [---] words. A fun challenge via @ConversationEDU http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-scientists-know-evolution-is-real-122039utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-scientists-know-evolution-is-real-122039utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1178871607885873152)  2019-10-01T03:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@liamjdrew @AdamRutherford @mathiesoniain @emjosephs @SteveBrusatte My bet is that it would look something like the ZZ male:ZW female bird system. Too bad that sex chromosomes don't fossilise too well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1193314749267660801)  2019-11-09T23:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Coronavirus and sex hormones baldness may be a risk factor and anti-androgens a treatment via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-and-sex-hormones-baldness-may-be-a-risk-factor-and-anti-androgens-a-treatment-140340utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-and-sex-hormones-baldness-may-be-a-risk-factor-and-anti-androgens-a-treatment-140340utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1275305427857666048)  2020-06-23T05:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@bodypositivehf @ConversationEDU Yes I would think so. Also women who use progesterone-based contraceptives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1276853397023408128)  2020-06-27T12:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Fierce female moles have male-like hormones and genitals. We now know how this happens. via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/fierce-female-moles-have-male-like-hormones-and-genitals-we-now-know-how-this-happens-149174utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/fierce-female-moles-have-male-like-hormones-and-genitals-we-now-know-how-this-happens-149174utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1327131966223900677)  2020-11-13T06:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@serroba Plants fungi protists too Follow the Earth BioGenome Project @EBPgenome which aims to sequence all complex life on earth and is supporting and connecting sequencing projects all around the world. Get onto their website and sign your organization up. https://www.earthbiogenome.org https://www.earthbiogenome.org"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1391900232472961026)  2021-05-10T23:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mud_skip @hardiprpatel @A_RuizHerrera @Dr_Parwinder @GrutznerFrank @ardynasios An absolute delight working with my young colleagues to show that the tiny micro chromosomes of birds and reptiles far from being genome off-cuts are the building blocks of all vertebrate chromosomes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1413355975579344898)  2021-07-09T04:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Interesting new article in The Conversation - Is when you lose your virginity and have your first kid really written in your genes Not quite via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/is-when-you-lose-your-virginity-and-have-your-first-kid-really-written-in-your-genes-not-quite-163895utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/is-when-you-lose-your-virginity-and-have-your-first-kid-really-written-in-your-genes-not-quite-163895utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1413361396981538817)  2021-07-09T04:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HoggCarolyn @OliGriffith @MarilynRenfree And Sue Forrest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1425690885254049792)  2021-08-12T05:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HoggCarolyn @OliGriffith @MarilynRenfree And Terry Speed who was about [--] years ahead of the rest of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1426368829198725123)  2021-08-14T02:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@genomematt @arc_gov_au I am still smarting from the injustice Somehow the last [--] pages of my application got lost between the Research Office (where they were checked in my presence) and ARC. Neither the University nor ARC took responsibility and my (smart female) student lost a postdoc opportunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1428511129748213761)  2021-08-20T00:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Derekjw @whereisdaz @genomematt @arc_gov_au I like Comic Sans - it's just not quite . serious. But Arial for grant applications and Times Roman for papers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1428512345047789571)  2021-08-20T00:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@HoggCarolyn @OliGriffith @MarilynRenfree Kick-starting very literally. A lot of kicking. I was told by a prominent politician to whom I was appealing for funds to sequence the kangaroo genome that the government wasn't interested in genomics or kangaroos "but maybe a sheep or a cow""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1428513214770290696)  2021-08-20T00:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Specks of dust on the microscope slide No we are looking at the building blocks of our genome via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/specks-of-dust-on-the-microscope-slide-no-we-are-looking-at-the-building-blocks-of-our-genome-168784utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/specks-of-dust-on-the-microscope-slide-no-we-are-looking-at-the-building-blocks-of-our-genome-168784utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1455679590215479299)  2021-11-02T23:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ProfGemmell @MarsdenFund @CulumBrown @JasoniCL Terrific that this exciting project is funded. These crazy fish have answers to many of our most fundamental questions on sex determination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1456131249110601730)  2021-11-04T05:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A huge project is underway to sequence the genome of every complex species on Earth via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/a-huge-project-is-underway-to-sequence-the-genome-of-every-complex-species-on-earth-175033utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/a-huge-project-is-underway-to-sequence-the-genome-of-every-complex-species-on-earth-175033utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1483943747910246400)  2022-01-19T23:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Kinky sex genes discovered in Australian dragons #science via @CosmosMagazine https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/dragons-have-kinky-sex-genes/ https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/dragons-have-kinky-sex-genes/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1484350986336747520)  2022-01-21T02:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"At last - up on the PNAS website Sex-specific splicing of Z- and W-borne nr5a1 alleles suggests sex determination is controlled by chromosome conformation https://www.pnas.org/content/119/4/e2116475119 https://www.pnas.org/content/119/4/e2116475119"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1485758084308148224)  2022-01-24T23:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I sent an Open letter to the ARC Peer Review I have received an assignment to review an application for an ARC grant. I am happy to supply an review provided I am assured by the ARC that the scientific assessment of this application will not be overruled by ministerial veto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1506793581184700417)  2022-03-24T00:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ShafaWaters @aipolsci @ajaffe1 @KathyBelov @CFAustralia @UNSWMedicine Wonderful news and wonderful recognition for your wonderful work Shafagh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1544490431487942657)  2022-07-06T01:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@illumina @AntoBeck @WillGrantPhD11 I guess I'm flattered but I should confess that the last gene I sequenced was using Sanger technique (remember the giant radiographs)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1545556928905875457)  2022-07-08T23:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Should we bring back the thylacine It's tragic that its easier to get money for fairytale science than real science. I dont blame Andrew Pask for accepting millions from Colossal and hope that some of it goes into useful basic research and to support his Sminthopsis colony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1560861461068468224)  2022-08-20T05:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@UQBrisScience @latrobe @slqld Oh PLEASE do not use this awful image. The Y chromosome is NOT Y-shaped It is called the Y because the X is called X. And the X is called x-for-unknown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1562622209893445632)  2022-08-25T02:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This is the most exciting thing I have ever written. Thanks to my co-librettist poet (and soprano) Leigh Hayes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1615953895335026688)  2023-01-19T06:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Learning twitter [---] with my new pal (La Trobe Twitter manager and fellow singer) Caroline so I can tell the world about the origin of "Origins""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1641307900852461568)  2023-03-30T05:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is sex always determined by a single gene Or is there a "parliament" of genes that decide whether the offspring will be male or female Our new paper in Trends in Genetics answers the question of polygenic sex with a resounding NO. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2022.12.002 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2022.12.002"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1641394985030545409)  2023-03-30T11:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"For those who dont know me I'm a professor of #evolutionary #genetics with a passion for animals #science and singing. I'm a Fellow of the @Science_Academy the @theNASciences and a one-time winner of LOreal-UNESCO and [----] PM Prize for Science 🧬🎼 https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2017/release/professor-wins-top-science-prize https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2017/release/professor-wins-top-science-prize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1646053923390914560)  2023-04-12T07:33Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements


"One thing people dont know about me is that Im a passionate choral singer. Ive sung in choruses in America and Australia and Ive written and sung my own genetics songs in my lectures at @latrobe. I now sing in the Heidelberg Choral Society. 🎼"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646053926121390081)  2023-04-12T07:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"People have been asking me about my new project ORIGINSan oratorio that I produced with brilliant young Australian composer @BucNicholas and poet Leigh Hay. Rather than retell Haydns The Creation story it tells the story of Sciencethe Universe life species and humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646053931234250752)  2023-04-12T07:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I love what we've created together. It's a full length oratorio - dramatic profound fun - that will be performed with full orchestra & 100-strong choir. It will make you think despair laugh & celebrate the role of science in our understanding and stewardship of our planet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646053933763399681)  2023-04-12T07:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"From now until ORIGINS world premiere on [--] July at @MelbRecital I will tell the story of how it came to be. The origins of ORIGINS if you will. In the meantime I'd be so thrilled if you told your friends and colleagues about it 😊 #icg2023 https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2023/origins/ https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2023/origins/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646053937177575424)  2023-04-12T07:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I get bored singing about Adam and Eve in my choir. I've always thought that someone should write and compose the Creation story from Science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646058275362992128)  2023-04-12T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


". But nobody has. Maybe I could Ill call it ORIGINS of the Universe of Life of Species of Humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646058280257744898)  2023-04-12T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"First I had to re-read all my old books on cosmology evolution anthropology. Many I had struggled to get through when I bought them now they seem like old friends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646058284980514816)  2023-04-12T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If I wrote a libretto for ORIGINS I thought perhaps it could coincide with the International Congress of Genetics which will be held in Melbourne July [----]. Its co-convenor and my old friend @PhilBatterham is wildly enthusiastic. https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2023/origins/ https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2023/origins/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646058290034647040)  2023-04-12T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@botbml @latrobe Those were the days I doubt I could get away with "Love's a Plasmid" "Sexduction of the melan-coli clone" or "Let's do it let's recombine" today. Not that my genetics songs were high art more doggerel. But made genetics such fun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646392490088595456)  2023-04-13T05:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DebsChaliha @latrobe we could use more sopranos (and maybe more neuroscientists). You can join through the website (Join). See you at Evans Hall http://has.asn.au http://has.asn.au"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1646708452792877056)  2023-04-14T02:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The origin of Origins would have to start with me. How could I create a new oratorio telling the creation story from science and oversee its performance I knew I would need some expert help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1650356343780577280)  2023-04-24T04:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I nervously confided my idea to fellow singer Leigh Hay who is a published poet. She didnt laugh at me in fact she offered to help me write the libretto for Origins of the Universe of Life of Species of Humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1650356348041969666)  2023-04-24T04:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Emboldened I tried out my idea for a new oratorio on our conductor Peter Bandy. Initially dumbfounded he quickly leaped on board notin that a contemporary secular Origins could fill the hole in choral repertoire worldwide. It could become a new classic performed for decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1650356350629855233)  2023-04-24T04:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@pieinsky322 @ConversationEDU @latrobe The X and Y do a fine job in humans and other mammals but other vertebrates have quite different sex chromosomes and sex genes. Intersexuality and trans are related to all sorts of genes not on the Y"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1650426673215725569)  2023-04-24T09:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Who could compose the music for my new oratorio Origins which tells the creation story from science I had my heart set on brilliant young Melbourne composer Nicholas Buc endorsed by co-librettist Leigh Hay and conductor Peter Bandy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1656634415454498816)  2023-05-11T12:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I like that we had worked with Nick before. He composed the music for When the Bugle Calls libretto also written by Leigh Hay for the Heidelberg Choral Society's concert A call to Peace in 2015"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1656634418218536961)  2023-05-11T12:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Besides in his early career Nick But had been a music teacher at my grandkids school Eltham East Primary the kids think he is famous because he wrote the school song"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1656634420764495873)  2023-05-11T12:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Peter called Nick on the spot; You know Haydns Creation How would you like to compose a new one based on science Nick was immediately galvanised. He said later The scope was huge a composer's dream but also a nightmare due to the sheer enormity of the canvas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1656634423830532098)  2023-05-11T12:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"So now we had our creative team for Origins; poet and soprano Leigh Hay composer Nick Buc geneticist and alto (me) and conductor Peter Bandy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1656634425994780672)  2023-05-11T12:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@A_RuizHerrera Lovely paper But I'll have to rewrite the libretto for a movement in "Origins" to note that comb jellies not sponges or ribbon worms are our ultimate ancestor. "Comb jellies" ruins the scansion. Would our choir (Heidelberg Choral Society) baulk at singing "ctenophore""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1659430520718241792)  2023-05-19T05:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@pjie2 @A_RuizHerrera Thanks Peter thanks everyone. Some wonderful suggestions for altering the libretto of "Origins" in the light of recent revelations in Nature about ctenophores as the sister group to all animals. I feel a limerick coming on "  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1659802404630720515)  2023-05-20T06:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"1. Why would I think I could write a libretto for a full-scale oratorio Origins of the Universe of Life of Species of Humanity Ive authored more than [---] science articles but never a poem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1661279780325453824)  2023-05-24T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Well thats not quite true I wrote one poem as a teenager and to everyones great surprise (especially mine) it won the school literary prize. I just found it online Im amazed at the consistency of my thinking over [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1661279782691131394)  2023-05-24T07:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"1. How would I start the story of Creation a universe from nothing In a book by that name I saw a quote Nothing . IS NOT NOTHING. It made my hair stand on end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1661926298158243841)  2023-05-26T02:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"1. How to finish Inspiration came from the story of a despairing cry of how puny and insignificant are humans within the cold vast universe answered by But man is the astronomer. I love the hopefulness that uniquely we can understand the universe and maybe even ourselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1661926301199110145)  2023-05-26T02:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"1. This became the inspiration for the image that I put together for Origins a far-sighted chimpanzee gazing over James Webb telescope images of galaxies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1661926303073968128)  2023-05-26T02:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Except that my beautiful chimp turns out to be a lowland gorilla. Doesnt matter Im representing the ape ancestor of humans chimps and gorillas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1661926305888370689)  2023-05-26T02:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Only [--] movements to go in writing the libretto for Origins of the Universe of Life of Species of Humanity. Ill start with the Big Bang - not a bang but a wrinkle on the quantum surface. How do I represent its expansion in song"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1664251775401205761)  2023-06-01T12:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I visit my co-librettist poet Leigh Hay in her Treehouse She reshapes my verses into an opening blast with spooky tenor solo Nothing is not nothing and intense chorus extolling the beauty of the timeless laws of physics. https://talesfromthetreehouse.com.au/about-us/ https://talesfromthetreehouse.com.au/about-us/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1664251777955565569)  2023-06-01T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Now I am charging ahead to the cacophany of early earth a chance for timpani to shine. Composer Nick Buc will have fun with this one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1664251780748963840)  2023-06-01T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"And to end Part I The pale blue dot that astronaut Neil Armstrong saw from space no bigger than my thumb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1664251784267988994)  2023-06-01T12:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Leigh suggests a beautiful soprano solo. I can wait to hear how soloist Lee Abrahmsen @Soprano_OZ interprets our verses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1664251787577282560)  2023-06-01T12:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Immigrant_One @Science_Academy @theNASciences @johnnodvc @Genetics2023 @MelbRecital Tell me more. is it a big Y duplication There are plenty of normal men who have two Y chromosomes (XYY) so a big duplication might not have much effect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1665908765915508736)  2023-06-06T02:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"On to Part II of Origins the Origin of Life. Of several theories Ill write about my favourite Darwins little warm pond a stew of more and more complex molecules coalescing to make the building blocks of life.🔽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1666433290092580865)  2023-06-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A big leap to the discovery of DNAs structure. Such fun to dramatise Watson and Cricks excited half sentences as they constructed their famous double helix model with little chemistry but lots of audacity and a bit of skullduggery🔽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1666433292147761152)  2023-06-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We interupt Watson and Cricks excited chatter with a plaintive aria from Rosalind Franklin (sung by dramatic contralto Liane Keegan) extolling the beauty of her X ray crystallography photos of DNA that can only mean helix but complaining that Kings College is men only 🔽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1666433294551121921)  2023-06-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"For years Rosalind Franklin featured large in my molecular biology lectures though she was scrcely mentioned in the textbooks. It seemed so unfair that she died at [--] a few years before the Nobel Prize was given to Watson and Crick and her boss Maurice Wilkins. 🔽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1666433297248034816)  2023-06-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"But now there is new evidence that Rosalind Franklin far from being the unwitting and rather clueless source of crucial data that Watson and Crick were given without her knowledge knew very well how to interpret her photograph [--]. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1666433299584270337)  2023-06-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JaneDecember Hey Jane David Hayman lives on in all our marsupial sex chromosome papers. I wish I could show him the DNA sequences for Bilby compound X chromosomes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1667505668105076736)  2023-06-10T12:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrMistyJenkins Congratulations Misty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1668129565909348352)  2023-06-12T05:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Writing Part II of Origins of Life. How to describe the beauty of DNA the immortal molecule I take inspiration from the lovely DNA sculpture of Mike Fields strong and steely soaring skywards. https://mikefieldsbronzes.com https://mikefieldsbronzes.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1668786743880056833)  2023-06-14T01:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The AI research team headed by in the La Trobe University Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition created an AI image for the program. Thanks Darwin and Sanoshi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1668786746342141952)  2023-06-14T01:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The magic of DNA replication : Nick uses intervals of G-C and A-D (musical equivalent of T) to represent base pairing always and always again and again forever. I got all choked up and couldnt sing when we first rehearsed this beautiful movement; I wasnt the only one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1668786749403979776)  2023-06-14T01:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"On to The code of Life and a musical description of mutation duplication inversion deletion of a base sequence. What about a fugue I dont think anyone has tried this before. Nick Buc had fun with this movement. Not the easiest to sing but so effective and hilarious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1668786751337529344)  2023-06-14T01:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Sorry Daswin gets autocorrected to "Darwin" every time I type it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1668810117104685056)  2023-06-14T02:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CoralWarr @HeidelbergChoir @Genetics2023 Rehearsals are fabulous. The music is dramatic beautiful frankly fun. I've never seen the choir more engaged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1669908614977564672)  2023-06-17T03:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Part II Origin of Life. Now we are onto early life the rocky archive a chance to advertise the earliest crazy animal experiments fossilised in ancient rocks of the Flinders Ranges. I especially like the one with a stomach lined with teeth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1670410043370663936)  2023-06-18T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And the enigmatic stromatolites in the still salty water of Shark Bay; piles of bacterial slime still slowly growing after [--] billion years. In my photo from a trip in [----] they stretch out westward to the setting sun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1670410046516400128)  2023-06-18T12:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"We finished up Part II with the beautiful last paragraph of Darwins Origin of Species describing The Tangled Bank surely one of the richest descriptions of the web of life. It will be sung by impressive bass-baritone @AdrianTamburini"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1670410051742486529)  2023-06-18T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Was Darwin a tenor or a bass I've no odea. Our conductor insists that the bass is always the villain and the hero must be a tenor so we are upending operatic tradition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1670410054623961089)  2023-06-18T12:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@WEHI_research @WEHI_Director @CSIRO Wow that is terrific news for CSIRO and Australian science. Congratulations Doug"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1670634179925790720)  2023-06-19T03:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"On to Part III of our oratorio Origins that tells the creation story from science. Ive really been looking forward to writing The Origin of Species. The struggle of life that powers selection. The Red Queens imperious Run Run to keep your place in the race of life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1671099685048840193)  2023-06-20T10:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I used Darwins words to write him a beautiful calm aria One great law. It will be sung against hysterical heckling; Tenors and Basses hurl some of Bishop Wilberforces choice words ending with Your grandfather was a monkey. Sops and Altos shout Crush Darwin Crush Darwin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1671099687942893568)  2023-06-20T10:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I hope the good Bishop would sanction changing from his original Smash Darwin which is harder to sing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1671099690404962304)  2023-06-20T10:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Lunch with my old friend Dennis Altman🔽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1671768277624954880)  2023-06-22T06:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We compare notes on our new enterprises; Dennis' novel "Death in the Sauna" and my oratorio project "Origins""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1671768281437597696)  2023-06-22T06:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Nothing is not nothing: how a scientist set out to sing the story of our origins via @ConversationEDU https://theconversation.com/nothing-is-not-nothing-how-a-scientist-set-out-to-sing-the-story-of-our-origins-207607utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton https://theconversation.com/nothing-is-not-nothing-how-a-scientist-set-out-to-sing-the-story-of-our-origins-207607utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1673203614423322624)  2023-06-26T05:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Writing the libretto for Origin of Species portraying ways to select the fittest animal. Speckled moths changing colour choosy female lyrebirds judginging frenetic males (sexual selection). The languid ant queen with a chorus of robotic worker ants (kin selection)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1673652214857109504)  2023-06-27T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Has anyone tried to explain speciation in music Australia provides famous examples I write a double chorus of rock wallabies on either side of the river the populations differentiating until they can no longer mate with each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1673652218162204673)  2023-06-27T11:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"And alas Australia provides famous examples of animal extinction too. Extinction is a natural part of evolution but a funeral march of thylacines and little wallabies illustrates the sixth extinction that is all our own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1673652220871729152)  2023-06-27T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JulieCocquet @MHR_ReprodSci @GoniaGuy4 Great to know that good ol' ZFY does something useful for males. I always felt bad that our lab was the one to topple it from its pedestal as the mammal sex determining gene because it is not on the Y chromosome in marsupials"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1673908471333556226)  2023-06-28T04:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Writing the libretto for "origins" . Finally we get to THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY. The Third Chimpanzee makes an all-conquering appearance promising to build cities invent agriculture. We are put in our place by Darwins reminder but yet an ape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1674693503539097600)  2023-06-30T08:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Uh-oh the committee won't let me use an image of the third chimpanzee at work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1674693506542223360)  2023-06-30T08:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Dominant Mammal" us reshaping exploiting destroying our world. Nick writes ever more threatening chords. Oh dear this is getting a bit sinister. I finish with. Species born. Species die. Will we too vanish into dust Has our hour of life already run its course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1674693508270280706)  2023-06-30T08:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AdrianoAguzzi Generosity pays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1674951822749073408)  2023-07-01T01:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BucNicholas @MelbRecital Nick took the Origins rehearsal on Monday It was fabulous. The choir is so engaged in singing nic's beautiful and fun music. They wouldn't stop applauding at the end of the rehearsal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ProfJennyGraves/status/1675469757662003201)  2023-07-02T11:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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