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Kath Albury

@katha.bsky.social
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ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.

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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Two new reports from Swinburne's Social Innovation Research Institute and @napwha.bsky.social: NAPWHA Social Media Harm Reduction Guide. doi.org/10.25916/sut... & Legal and policy implications affecting HIV community organisations’ use of digital technologies and platforms. doi.org/10.25916/sut...
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It's very clear that social media is not the safest place for trans folks - that why I'm supporting TGV to provide more in-person peer-support in regional Victoria! Every dollar you donate for GiveOut Day will be matched if you donate before Thursday: giveoutday.org.au/kath-albury
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Dr Heather McCormack @heathermccormack.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Kath’s participants identified social media as a site of risk for workplace health and safety for people doing sexual health work in the digital space - this reflects my own experience but I feel it’s gotten so much worse in just the last few years #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social
Findings:
Our orgs want cheap reach into our
PLWHIV communities for our messages and community development BUT it isn't working anymore. Reach is limited. AND social media less safe.
Workshop participant

We've done quite a bit of thinking about how, as an organisation, we're going to manage those group conversations [on messaging apps] - given that there's a sort of 24/7 potential for people to be engaging and talking. And how we work around moderation, and our staff's right to switch off, and all of those kind of things.
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Dr Heather McCormack @heathermccormack.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Supporting digital capabilities in a way that also supports rights and autonomy means moving away from an understanding of the term that relies on individual knowledge. Individual knowledge is insufficient in situations of systems and governance failure #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social
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Dr Heather McCormack @heathermccormack.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The amazing @katha.bsky.social presenting on building digital capabilities in hostile social media environments. The context stuff is fascinating - this has been a deeply weird but also vitally important four year period for Kath to have been leading this research #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025
Why are digital capabilities important for the HIN sector?
• Digital and data technologies are central to both health and social support systems and community experiences of connection, wellbeing & learning
• 'Digital health' is not the same thing as 'digital public health'
• Digital content moderation policies often flag HIV/SRH content as
'against community standards'
• Targeted harassment and surveillance of marginalised communities is increasing - impacting health consumers and health organisations.Digital transformation policy environment
National Strategies and Plans
• The Digital Health Blueprint and Action Plan 2023
- 2033, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
• The Digital Health Action Plan, 2023
• National Digital Health Strategy 2023-2028,
Australian Digital Health Agency
• National Digital Health Strategy and
Roadmap 2023 - 2028, ADHA
• National Digital Health Capability Action
Plan, 2023
• Australian Digital Health Capability
Framework, ADHA/AIDH, 2024
Platform content moderation policies
• Meta's 'community notes' fact-checking model
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• Meta's changes to hateful conduct policy to allow more 'free speech' 2025
International Guidance
• Global Strategy on Digital health 2020-2025 - WHO, 2020 *recently extended until 2027.
• Guidance on the rights-based ethical use of digital technologies in HIV and health programmes - UNDP, 2021
• UNICEF Safer Chatbots Implementation Guide -
UNICEF, 2022
• The role of artificial intelligence in sexual and reproductive health and rights - WHO, 2024
• Digital transformation handbook for primary health care - WHO, 2024
e-Safety Office
• Online Safety Act 2021
• Industry codes and standards (ratified 2025)
• Phase 1: illegal content (eg. child exploitation material)
• Phase 2: preventing young people from accessing “inappropriate' content
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 08/09/2025
Featuring @katha.bsky.social @floreani.bsky.social and guest presenters from across the sector, @muyiiyamu.bsky.social Melanie Bissessor, Caitlin Learmonth, Daniel Reeders, Amy Tong, and Jess Wilms.
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 09/09/2025
A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals & communities navigate the overwhelming & often unreliable online information about sexual & reproductive health by building digital & data capabilities @katha.bsky.social bit.ly/3Vu0cKh
admscentre.org.au
From ‘Doctor Google’ to Data-Driven Care: The Future of Digital Health Literacy - ADM+S Centre
A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals and communities navigate the overwhelming and often unreliable online information about...
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A/Prof Carissa Bonner @carissabonner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New paper on our Heart Yarning Tool! Summarising how we codesigned shared decision making support for Heart Health Checks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sydney.edu.au @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @isdmsociety.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The Heart Health Yarning Tool: Co‐Designing a Shared Decision‐Making Tool With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Management
Introduction Due to the ongoing impact of colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live with a greater burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than non-Indigenous Australians. Share...
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone. Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools... Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social. @digital-health.bsky.social 3/3
The following text presented using bulleted banners: 
Suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools:
1. Involve end users early
2. Engage your target population, including ‘extreme users’
3. Create opportunities for unexpected input
4. Involve users more than once
5. Close the feedback loop
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New publication reviewing research literature reporting on user involvement the design of digital HIV and sexual health tools- led by @aliciajeanking.bsky.social & Ethan Trey Cardwell, with a great set of illustrious co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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User Input in the Development of Digital Sexual Health Tools: A Scoping Review and Guidance for Tool Developers
Background or Context Studies reporting the use of digital tools to promote the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) have proliferated in recent years.....
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:
lareviewofbooks.org
Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is bang on the money
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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area? Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055... In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool… 1/
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Privileged to be a part of this project, led by the incomparable Britt Paris.
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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Do you know someone looking for a great PhD opportunity with a great academic supervisor? PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia” hblog.org/2025/06/18/p...
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PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia”
I have a scholarship for a PhD student to work on my Future Fellowship project. Below is the description that will soon appear on UTS’s website. Feel free to ping me if you’re intereste…
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 28/06/2025
Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
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2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
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Dr Melody Taba @melodytaba.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My PhD framework is now LIVE! We co-designed 5 recommendations for improving social media health communication to young people, with young people and health orgs📱 🔗: www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/social-media-comms-for-young-people-framework #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDSky #PublicHealth 🦘🎓
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The Sizzle - Australia's favourite tech newsletter @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025
Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS READ: thesizzle.com.au/p/aussies-love-don…
thesizzle.com.au
Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea
Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS
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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...
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Patterns of Surprise and Ambivalence: Studying Social Media Visuality by Way of Aggregated Autoethnography | Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 29/05/2025
While new online industry codes aim to protect children from harmful content, experts warn they could unintentionally restrict access to vital sexual health and education resources, particularly for young and marginalised groups. @katha.bsky.social #SexEd #DigitalRights bit.ly/45szRlO
bit.ly
Sexual health info online is crucial for teens. Australia’s new tech codes may threaten their access
Draft rules to restrict ‘age-inappropriate content’ may also affect essential information about sex and sexual health.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Well known, Palestinian artist Elham Al-Boddi, 33, of Beit Lahia, was killed in an airstrike yesterday. Her husband had been killed months earlier.
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We are pleased to announce that the Australian Research Council-funded Digital and Data Capabilities for Sexual and Reproductive Health knowledge translation website is live! Visit ddcsrh.com for evidence-based resources supporting digital transformation in the SRH sector.
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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New piece out with the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory team: what political ads are Australians seeing online? We map the ads of #auspol2025. @internetobservatory.org.au @gisellenewton.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social @kateeuph.bsky.social theconversation.com/what-politic...
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What political ads are Australians seeing online? Astroturfing, fake grassroots groups, and outright falsehoods
New data shows how groups with benign-sounding names like ‘Mums for Nuclear’ are running political ad campaigns online. But they don’t even have to be truthful.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"This guide for journalists is offered in the context of the ongoing and rapidly intensifying criminalization of migrants in the U.S." via @interruptcrim.bsky.social
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Don’t Be A Copagandist: Migration Edition — Interrupting Criminalization
This guide for journalists is offered in the context of the ongoing and rapidly intensifying criminalization of migrants in the U.S. Immigrants to this country, particularly those who are racialized a...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy Saint George Day, queers!
Man in a pink shirt takes selfie in front of a mural of George Michael as a saint riding a unicorn and shooting rainbow lasers from his hands.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/04/2025
JOIN OUR TEAM: the Sociological Review Foundation is currently seeking a part-time Development Manager. In this key role, you will drive our charity’s strategic growth initiatives and fundraising calls, expand our partnerships and generate revenue. CLOSING SOON - deadline 2 May. buff.ly/zTLz6ab
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Do you want all your Facebook and Instagram photos, posts and data to be used by Meta to train AI? If not, then *now* is the time to object. This article explains how. datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st...
datenschutz-hamburg.de
Meta starts AI training with personal data - those who want to object must act quickly (english version)
Meta AI will be trained from May with posts, photos and comments from Facebook and Instagram users
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What can a politician's OnlyFans can teach us about the contemporary digital sexual health landscape? I am always wary of posting hot takes, but 'digital business as usual' is not serving SRH organisations: www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-p...
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Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm recruiting LGBTQ+ young people for research interviews about TikTok & peer-based mental health support. Participants must be aged 16-25, LGBTQ+, AUS-based. $50 voucher. This follows up findings from the Digital Peer Support study. Info & register at digitalpeersupport.com/news/ Please share! 😊
IMAGE TEXT: Seeking LGBTQ+ interview participants (aged 16-25) for research on TikTok & mental health support
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 07/04/2025
Are you keen to pursue further studies in health, health law, bioethics, or a related field, to promote the health of people with innate variations of sex characteristics? Consider this PhD scholarship for domestic (Australian/NZ) students! Closing date: 27 April www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
sydney.edu.au
Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Improving the Health of People Born with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics
Up to $30,000 scholarship to support a student who is undertaking research in the field of bioethics or health law related to the Interconnect Health Research project’s focus.
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Three (2 at Deakin & 1 at ECU) PhD scholarship opportunities are available as part of a new Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Youth Futures after Mobility The full details are available via a Word document available here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...
tasa.org.au
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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative: aivl.org.au/resources/re...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 has "a magic to it i haven't felt before." I'm reminded of Peter Nagy and Gina Neff's article about "the conjuration of algorithms—a strategically deployed narrative device that uses the principles of magic to manipulate the public perception of technologies."
journals.sagepub.com
Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians - Peter Nagy, Gina Neff, 2024
In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 30/03/2025
🧭🤖 “Turning right”? Political shifts in ChatGPT A study using 3,000+ tests shows newer ChatGPT versions are shifting right on the political compass. Not user-driven – the shift may stem from system-level changes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1057/s415... #SciComm #GenAI 🧪
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“Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - “Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Gaza’s one million children – who have endured more than 15 months of war – have been plunged back into a world of fear and death. The attacks and the violence must stop – now." www.croakey.org/amid-scenes-...
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Amid scenes of “unspeakable horror” in Gaza, agencies call for ceasefire and justice
International human rights and humanitarian agencies have expressed horror at Israel’s attacks on Gaza that killed more than 400 Palestinians
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I’m very pleased to share the first academic publication from my ARC-funded ‘digital & data capabilities for sexual and reproductive health’ project today. It daws on interviews with researchers & practitioners to consider digital health promotion: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Digital determinants of sexual and reproductive health—workforce perspectives on digital and data literacies
Abstract. This article explores the impact of digital transformation on sexual and reproductive health promotion from an interdisciplinary perspective, foc
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/03/2025
❓APIs ❓Browser extensions ❓Apps ‼️ Yes, those, too: blog.archive.org/2025/03/13/w...
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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yes! 🙌 Linking to archived versions of webpages in your CVs and research reports ensures long-term access, even if the original resource is removed or temporarily unavailable.
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Jenny Sundén @jenmadelene.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This one is on pleasure! I wrote an article with @katha.bsky.social and @zahrastardust.bsky.social about LGBTQ+ people’s uses and experiences of sextech and the tension between pleasure as a commodity in sexual capitalism and pleasure as something more improvisational and unpredictable.
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Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia - Jenny Sundén, Kath Albury, Zahra Stardust, 2025
Sexual pleasure is a question of sexual justice and sexual rights in so far as who is allowed or denied pleasure is a vital issue for queer, trans, and nonbinar...
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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.
europepmc.org
Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever scholar.archive.org
INTERNET ARCHIVE (blue steel-like metallic bold print) 
SCHOLAR (in marker style-gloing red text)
surrounded by yellow sparkles
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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our researchers at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University are exploring how children understand and use digital technologies as part of our Children's Forum series 📅 8 March: Contact s.mennell@curtin.edu.au 📅 15 March: events.humanitix.com/childrens-fo...
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Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
@sandyosullivan.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @jenniferredmond.bsky.social
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