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@jacksonwryan.com
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not a spy. investigative journalist. President, SJAA. Co-founder, CONTINUE magazine i write about people, science, integrity, dodgy stuff, video games, art newsletter: nobreakthroughs.com

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Lucy✨ @untitledlucegame.bsky.social · 2h
Does anyone know ANY of the devs who worked at Blue Tongue and who worked on the Polar express movie tie-in game? AND Can I talk to them about making that game?
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 6h
if you'd like to share a sugar free beverage at migw xo (and buy and celebrate australia's only best videogames magazine)
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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're a journalist, or aspiring journalist, interested in learning more about reporting on the UN and climate change the Science Journalists Association of Australia is hosting a free webinar with @roycerk2.bsky.social and I on Tuesday 29 September at 6pm Melbourne/Sydney time.
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grace mahoney! @gracemahoney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've got a pax 3day ticket for sale if anyone needs one. happy to sell for less than what I paid ($185)
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 26/09/2026
Brisbane killing Wharfie Time on the grandest stage of em all. Brock Lesnar beating Undertaker levels.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 25/09/2026
my child and my dad together we did it you did it
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Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At long last, was able to provide a more substantive response to @jacksonwryan.com, who had written at length about two of my prior Substack posts re AI, science journalism, and the rapid growth of scientific studies. reportearth.substack.com/p/nearly-two...
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Nearly two centuries of U.S. science magazines, and the lessons they teach
And a response about the future of the science journalism field.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 07/09/2026
Went on a Big Walk. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/a...
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The Joyous Big Walk Emerged From Pandemic Lockdowns (Gift Article)
The puzzle game Big Walk, by the Australian studio behind Untitled Goose Game, explores the ways we connect with one another.
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ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
FREAKON BACK WWW.FREAKON.COM.AU
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 01/09/2026
So I may have made a mistake... Which is good for people who like human writing and art!!! It means you can still secure a magazine for the next 48 hours at the cheapest price we can do it!
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources
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PixelCrib @pixelcrib.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Final Day to enter our Switch 2 Giveaway! 1. Order any ‘in-stock’ item before midnight (31 Aug) and you’ll automatically enter 2. Pre-orders excluded 3. Only AU orders eligible Apologies to our international friends, because of legal complications, this one’s AU-only for now Good luck 🤞
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Generic Person @janet-dammit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Great article by @jacksonwryan.com about Australian Universities and the struggle to maintain integrity in science: nobreakthroughs.com/australias-r...
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Australia's research integrity system is weak and inconsistent. How can we fix it?
A recent study presents small tweaks that could strengthen an ailing research integrity system.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 28/08/2026
If I was the head of editorial development at a major videogames website, and I was writing pages and pages about GTA VI, I would engage with the horrific plight of its developers, including the 34 employees dismissed in an act of union busting and documented thoroughly by dogged journalists
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 26/08/2026
Slop alert: Purveyor of stale shopping mall cinnamon rings, Donut King, has gone full AI with its new campaign that features a pink donut thing and AI-generated music. "Thinkerbell head creative tinker Zac Goldberg confirmed the entire production had been made using AI."
this is AI slop of a donut or something and a couple of shakes
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 26/08/2026
This whole damn thing has been the most fulfilling journey of my professional career and we haven't even launched it yet!!!! But its gonna rule.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 24/08/2026
Text says: "Can we stop pretending that the way we classify games in Australia, in 2026, is appropriate for adults? Because it’s not

Margaret Anderson, former director of the Classification Board
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 14/08/2026
Halloween: The Game has been classified RC - Refused Classification by the Aus Classification Board, which put out a statement. Is related to illicit drug use and incentives. Explained here: www.classification.gov.au/about-us/med...
Halloween: The Game has been classified RC - Refused Classification by the Classification Board.

In making this decision, the Classification Board has applied the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995, the National Classification Code (Code) and the Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games 2023 (Guidelines).

Halloween: The Game contains illicit drug use that is linked to an incentive or reward, in that use of the drug provides a gameplay advantage to the player. It is on this basis that the game has been refused classification, as required under the Code and Guidelines.

Material classified as RC cannot be sold, hired, advertised or legally imported in Australia.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 14/08/2026
keep seeing people talking about pro jank footy's AI towelling them up, to that i say QUIT CRYING and GIT GUD
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 14/08/2026
if you have a phone number for a government department, why do you always tell me to send an email with my request???? i just want to talk to a human being????
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/08/2026
This will be the single best videogames magazine in Australia come September and that's not because it's the only one okay!
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 07/08/2026
🧪 A problem that seemed to have disappeared is still haunting new scientific papers. ...and why don't publishers just tell us the results of investigations into the weird stuff they let slip into the literature? nobreakthroughs.com/more-fishin/
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More Fishin'
A minor update on Latin fishies infiltrating the scientific literature.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 06/08/2026
absolutely love to hear a radio journalist thrown into a videogames piece pronounce game titles. it's as if they've stumbled upon the words of an ancient cosmic race and attempting to say them out loud will cause their tongue to dissolve "the Australian made game 'hol LOW -KNighT_ silK SOng'."
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 05/08/2026
getting the gang together tonight
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HITS - Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies @hitsters.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Are you a science journalist ready for your next story? Apply for the HITS Journalist in Residence Program: 3–6 months, exchange with researchers, and a €6,000/month stipend. 📅 Apply by 15 October 2026. We'd love to hear from you! #HITSJIR2027 ow.ly/63cC50ZvHMi Image AI modified
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 03/08/2026
*is*
seems like AI slop
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 31/07/2026
tagging every corporate comms post linkedin news makes with the ai slop button
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 30/07/2026
🧪 If there are any Australian scientists / CSIRO folk who want to chat about Doug Hilton's comments at the National Press Club yesterday, or about scientific funding in general, my contact details are here: www.jacksonwryan.com/contact/ Particularly interested in chatting with PhDs and postgrads.
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Contact
You can email me tips, stories or ideas. I would love to hear from you. Work: I currently work freelance across a variety of Australian magazines, websites and other. Commission me for science storie...
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/07/2026
Find the Sydney Games Festival strategy strange. Who is running the show?! Just say it! It's like 2 months away. And, there's already another "SYDNEY GAME FEST" ... 🧵
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 29/07/2026
🧪 New: Inspiring NSW, part of the national STEM engagement strategy, using AI-generated images of kids in labcoats on half-laptops to represent National Science Week events... Misrepresenting science / entrenching bias in 2026. Why are we still doing this? nobreakthroughs.com/the-abominab...
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The Abominable Little Ghouls of Australia's National Science Week
I believe we have a duty to call out this garbage.
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Serrels @serrels.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@jacksonwryan.com just pubbed a big update over on Kickstarter. Huge part of this has been making sure contributors get well paid for their best work. Check it out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...
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Update 13: Big Updates Time! Big Hype Time! · CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine
Hello!!!!It's been a little while between updates and we hope you're doing extremely well. We wanted to jump in and give you some SCOOPS on where we are at, what's to come, and a few sneak peeks...Thi...
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/07/2026
@aftermath.site literally does not exist without paid subscribers. It's (currently) the only way we make any money. While it's cool that over 25,000 people are subscribed to our newsletter, 'free' members actually COST us money to host, so the more people we can get signing up, the better:
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We're Having A Sale!
We've got discounts on both our monthly and annual offerings
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 27/07/2026
if you play Protest the Hero's latest album 'Within' at full volume you will not hear the Aus Alert system and thus, you will die but you will—finally—be happy.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 27/07/2026
just opened it and literally top of the page was lmao
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 27/07/2026
LinkedIn filling up with 'Claude just one-shotted this video game' or something and the "game" they show is 24 seconds long and looks like absolute horseshit, fantastic stuff
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Illuminating (and low-key infuriating) look at science + science media in Australia from @jacksonwryan.com Poll data: 91% of Australians say they "actively seek out" science news Reality: Of the top 10 news sites only 1 has a science page that both (1) exists and (2) isn't buried in sub-menus
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If you want to restore science, you need science journalism
Understanding in a car crash.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 22/07/2026
🧪 A senior scientist once crashed his car into my car on the way to work and years later I asked him for a job because the postgraduate career path in Australia is messed up. That story, and other car crashes like the Australian science funding landscape, here. nobreakthroughs.com/restore-scie...
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If you want to restore science, you need science journalism
Understanding in a car crash.
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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Latest dispatch out now. I offer some thoughts on a debate around the morality of recreational drug use, and offer a short excerpt from my book. Then we have some fun looking at a weird episode of TV where Bryan Cranston goes through a psychedelic therapy trip.
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Report #3: Bryan Cranston does psychedelic therapy on Malcolm in the Middle
This dispatch I take a look at a wild episode of psychedelic TV. But first I do a bit of a deep dive into an idea that pops up quite often: the morality of recreational drug use
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 16/07/2026
yeah sure but what does this mean for the assassin's creed series
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 16/07/2026
🧪 NEW: Australia's regulation of research integrity is not meeting the mark -- universities have no real obligation to tell the public about serious breaches, nor correct the scientific record. That seems pretty bad for science, and for trust! nobreakthroughs.com/australias-r...
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Australia's research integrity system is weak and inconsistent. How can we fix it?
A recent study presents small tweaks that could strengthen an ailing research integrity system.
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Instead of reading that post, you could be reading this one — which is, in fact, much more timely and useful and interesting than a list of papers from a year ago!
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"The bullets we've dodged have hit someone else" — UK science cuts largely spare physics and astro, hit projects and labs
Also: AI conflict of interest disclosures in philosophy, PhD admission down 15% at US universities, an AI "humanizer" tool for science, and more from last week
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 14/07/2026
I can't watch this in the US, but I'm always going to boost posts about science TV shows. They're so important to inform everyone and inspire kids toward careers in science. Wonder can, and should be, a renewable resource!
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/07/2026
🧪 I looked at where science studies/press releases were being reported, stumbling upon websites ranking high in Google Search filled with AI slop. Images on the sites erase the identity of real scientists, replacing them with airbrushed ghosts. nobreakthroughs.com/the-scientis...
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The Scientists That Don't Exist
Ghostly websites publishing science press releases are filling up with AI-generated content — and the ghosts of scientists that don't exist.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 13/07/2026
ACDC did what?@!?
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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
But without the umbrella protection of large organisations journalists are easily muzzled by people weaponizing our legal systems to quash information they don't like. It's a dangerous place to be if you value public interest reporting. Support indie writers wherever you can.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/07/2026
🧪 I looked at where science studies/press releases were being reported, stumbling upon websites ranking high in Google Search filled with AI slop. Images on the sites erase the identity of real scientists, replacing them with airbrushed ghosts. nobreakthroughs.com/the-scientis...
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The Scientists That Don't Exist
Ghostly websites publishing science press releases are filling up with AI-generated content — and the ghosts of scientists that don't exist.
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 10/07/2026
Preach 🙏
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 09/07/2026
Really great insights from Elise, much of it rings true. I'd say less press release sci journalism won't make people read more science journalism. That's the thorniest problem: Readers seem to click on the 'bad' stuff a lot more than the alternative... incentivising more bad stuff!
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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 09/07/2026
we don't talk about what oscillating between utter, endless despair and fleeting fragmentary hope does to a person enough
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