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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“If this happened at Sydney Children's Hospital…it would be considered malpractice.” Neurosurgeon @drruthmitchell.bsky.social and UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti have delivered a breathtaking presentation on the harm being inflicted upon the children of Gaza www.theillawarraflame.com.au/mps-respond-...

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MPs respond after Gaza lecture reveals children's plight

Federal leaders Alison Byrnes and Carol Berry attended Thursday's public lecture about the Gaza war's toll on children. On Friday, the Illawarra MPs responded to a call for Australia to meet internati...

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Refugee Action Campaign in Canberra @raccanberra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Join UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti and Australian neurosurgeon @drruthmitchell.bsky.social for an evening examining the impact of the ongoing genocide in Palestine on children. www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

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“The essence of childhood has been destroyed”

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IPPNW @ippnw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"A Global Assembly of Nobel Laureates called Thursday for rapid action to bring about the complete elimination of nuclear weapons." Read the IPPNW Press release from the Assembly: peaceandhealthblog.com/2026/07/17/g...

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Global Nobel Laureates call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, noting risks of AI integration

More than 200 Nobel laureates, scientists, diplomats, technology experts, religious leaders and peace advocates gathered in Rome to urge that artificial intelligence serve humanity rather than acce…

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/06/2026

I don't think Anthropic really meant it this way but what an amazing demonstration of why generative AI's energy consumption is only getting worse, and dirtier. "Improvements" only come from nesting chatbots within chatbots, rather than any fundamental smarter design. It's Bitcoin x 1000

a graphic showing "agent" and dynamic workflows for claude; just a nest of chatbots all referring to each other

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The difference between the current and former ministers’ approach to the AI industry is stark. Ayres telling us that the potentially massive risks don’t need guardrails, and self-regulation is fine, is an insult to our intelligence. Listen to Ed Husic. #4Corners #auspol

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

While everyone is watching hantavirus I'm actually much more eager to learn more about the Ebola outbreak in DRC's Ituri Province that Africa CDC has confirmed. Early information makes it sound very large for an outbreak that has just been reported: "about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths"

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The Australian is making it increasingly difficult for the Betoota Advocate to position its satire

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lisaooo.bsky.social @lisaooo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thank you for going to help and bear witness.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Retweeting, because we MUST keep bearing witness. '...the physical witness written on the bodies of these patients was that the ceasefire really has not meant the cessation of hostilities, of violence against the bodies of the people of Gaza. It’s ongoing.' #genocide💔

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sharon clues @sharonclues.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A wonderful interview. Thank you 🙏🏼🥰

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 13, Article number: 528 (2026) Cite this article

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Retraction Note to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04787-y, published online 06 May 2025

The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.

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D. Ross Camidge @drcamidge.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This last weekend was our 2026 survivors celebration. Everyone at least 5 years out from their lung cancer diagnosis gets invited. I’m only 4 years but as I’m the director of the program I think I get my invite through other criteria 😘

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

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Ruth Mitchell @drruthmitchell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I recently returned from a medical mission to Gaza, working as a neurosurgeon with the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association. I spoke to Croakey Health Media about my experience, and here is the interview. #neurosurgery #publichealth www.croakey.org/inside-gazas...

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Inside Gaza’s hospitals: neurosurgeon Ruth Mitchell on deprivation, courage and determination

With Israel enforcing a blanket ban on international journalists entering Gaza it is getting harder to find independent accounts of

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/04/2026

In light of Orban's loss in Hungary, it is SO vital to go listen to this @naomiaklein.bsky.social interview with @themaybe.org / @alixdunn.com. Don't mistake the muscularity of anger for real, sustained power. Fascists of all kinds are showing how scared they are every single day.

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The Maybe

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“There is something better than science and that is science with a moral compass, science in the service of humanity.” Moral compass is exactly what’s missing these days www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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Lessons From William H. Foege, A Global Health Legend

Dr William H. Foege, a legend in global public health, passed away on 24 January 2026. His life and legacy offer several lessons for global public health

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My tribue to Dr Bill Foege and the lessons we can learn from his inspiring life Lessons From William H. Foege, A Global Health Legend @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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Lessons From William H. Foege, A Global Health Legend

Dr William H. Foege, a legend in global public health, passed away on 24 January 2026. His life and legacy offer several lessons for global public health

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it Pressure your senators

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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🧵5 years ago today, the #NuclearBan Treaty entered into force meaning it became legally binding intenational law. Thanks to the treaty, for the first time in history nuclear weapons are illegal and there is a plan to eliminate them. #5yearsTPNW 🥳

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The only place I want to see soldiers in civil society

Two soft boiled eggs with toast “soldiers” the paper and a coffee all presented in some very sweet vintage crockery with hand painted flowers (that we hardly ever use)

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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 06/01/2026

It’s just so amazing to spend your life trying to help people, only to watch a few incompetent men casually endanger the lives and health of so many more people than you could ever help

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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Just spoke to my local library - they said they cannot offer extended hours for refuge from the heat as they do not have the funding 😭. Sucks that local councils have to fund this .. where is the Federal Environment minister? They're the ones approving new coal and gas mines.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Just to be clear social media bans are not about avoiding harm they are about avoiding meaningful regulation.

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This post has been updated with further commentary: Victorian Government faces avalanche of opposition over its move against VicHealth www.croakey.org/victorian-go...

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Victorian Government faces avalanche of opposition over its move against VicHealth

The outpouring of support for VicHealth continues following last week’s shock announcement that the Victorian Government plans to close it

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Improving health and healthcare in remote communities, what will it take? – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/improving-he...

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

you know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends? you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no

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Dr Linda Kirkman @lindathestar.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A short-sighted, anti-public health decision. Do they want illness and misery to increase?

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"VicHealth folding doesn’t just harm Victoria, it dismantles a global template for how to get health promotion right." www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 03/12/2025

"No matter what he meant, it was a terrible thing to say." @drruthmitchell.bsky.social on how Trump's call to resume US nuclear testing sent officials scrambling. Dr Mitchell, Nobel Prize winner w/ @ican-australia.bsky.social, discusses non-proliferation & the US health system 👉 theaus.in/48BtmgG

Photo of President Donald Trump, speaking at a lectern
NEW EPISODE | The nuclear option
Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Elon left me here

The year is 2035. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton and 4 words written on the wall. What are the words?

Picture of a rocket and two astronauts

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

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AI’s water problem is worse than we thought

A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

the full quote here english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

Q. It wasn’t just Trumpism. Some Democratic voices say it’s time to move beyond the issue of trans rights in areas like sports, which affect very few people.

A. You could say that about the Jews, Black people or Haitians, or any very vulnerable minority. Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/11/2025

Some people are replying here with things already addressed in this thread and paper, so please click through bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

For the love of god please make it stop…

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This times a bersquillion. People need other people to hear them, understand them, believe them. Otherwise we may as well all be fridges connected intermittently to the internet for no apparent reason.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

How did @propublica.org reporter @ericumansky.bsky.social learn that the Trump administration had just gone ahead and made it significantly harder for male vets with breast cancer to get coverage? This crucial info was not made public. Read his 🧵 for the details👇

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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

WEHI stands behind the @aamri.bsky.social campaign to strengthen the sector and secure the future of medical research. Join the call to release the full MRFF and support our scientists to keep saving lives. Find out more: www.aamri.org.au/mrff #releasethefullmrff

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An Leavy @an-leavy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Says the man sending troops into his own country’s cities and killing civilians in speed boats off the Venezuelan coast…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Two tiny humans (twins, 2?) are sitting in an extra-wide stroller as their mum does her food shop. Both are cradling a broccoli in each of their laps with the air of tiny princes holding scepters. Benevolent Brassica monarchs in a Mum-pushed chariot. (3)

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