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Rohena Duncombe

@princelysum.bsky.social
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Economics. Environment. Health equity. Sociology. Science. Down Under. DOB 313 ppm

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 19h
🌳 Peru's forests sort birds by canopy shape Canopy types across Peruvian rainforest track which birds live there, how vulnerable they are, and human disturbance, better than rainfall or terrain alone. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77135-6 #Ecology #Birds #Rainforest #Biodiversity 🧪
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Canopy functional composition as an indicator of bird traits, taxonomy, and vulnerability in tropical Peruvian forests - Nature Communications
Tropical forest canopies exhibit immense chemical and structural diversity. This study shows that remotely mapped forest functional groups can predict the life histories, morphologies, and vulnerabili...
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Rohena Duncombe @princelysum.bsky.social · 18h
In Australia too. If we really cared about the health of our population we wouldn't continually increase the number of children being raised in poverty @MarkButler.bsky.social
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Civil society organizations across Africa have reaffirmed a simple truth: safe abortion is essential healthcare. For International Safe Abortion Day, they call on African governments to fully implement the Maputo Protocol, reform national laws, and implement safe abortion into public healthcare.
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Joint civil society organisations statement on International Safe Abortion Day 2026: Safe abortion is essential healthcare: A call to action
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines help reduce your chance of getting seriously sick—and are essential for protecting people who are immunocompromised. @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/a-guide-to-f...
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 22h
#Medsky🧪 #oncosky #Microsky #publichealth #vaccinesmatter @sciam.bsky.social Want to protect yourself against cancer? Get vaccinated Many cancers associated with infection are preventable . An estimated 1 in 8 cancer cases… www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-...
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One in eight new cancers are likely caused by infections—there’s an easy way to protect yourself
Many cancers associated with infection are preventable
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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bondholders quenched, Puerto Ricans parched. #econsky
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Larry @larrymilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is fascinating #auspol it shows exactly how many people may be harmed by each coal mine
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Previously described as a potential ‘sleeper issue’ for Australian politics, deepfake political content is rapidly becoming a very real electoral challenge.” #auspol
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess whether it's the quality or quantiy. Our education system isn't doing enough to equip people with the skills to critically assess political claims.
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great new technology makes it difficult for fossil foolers to hide behind BS arguments. I'm looking at you, Albo. #Auspol theconversation.com/we-can-final...
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We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature
For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.
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Kathy F @tweetfrankie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is standard vanilla fraud. Years go we were told someone at a broadcaster did the same and we were unwittingly suppliers. The question is: what was the NGV head of finance and CEO doing if this IT person was faking docs & lodging expense requisitions? #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
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NGV’s former IT chief accused of $8 million fraud from gallery
The National Gallery of Victoria’s former head of IT is accused of issuing hundreds of fake invoices over a number of years to steal $8 million from the institution.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Research launch: Collaborative responses to online attacks on environmental defenders in Brazil, Kenya, Mexico and the Philippines apc-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Collaborative responses to online attacks on environmental defenders in Brazil, Kenya, Mexico and the Philippines
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage. They claim lifting people out of poverty is inflationary. Can't recall millionaires restraining on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Have they tried living on minimum wage? archive.ph/h0pVc
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Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage
Companies warn that a steep rise in labour costs will fuel inflation and cut jobs for young people
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ClimateSolutions are #EnergySecurity
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This footage is 35 years old. It shows how Israel was treating Palestinians decades ago. The oppression did not begin on October 7; it has been a reality for generations.
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Emil @codewizard.se · 28/09/2026
The insecurity of the Russian ppl are astounding. When was the last time someone attacked Ryssia, and not as a response to Russian attacks?
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HBurlingame @hburlingame.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Comparative data confirms Australia is already the world’s only triple-A-rated economy with GDP growth above 2%, the jobless rate and inflation both below 4.7% and interest rates in the optimum band of 2.5% to 5.5%.” independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Australia's craven newsrooms suffer worst week in a very bad year
The mainstream media continue to deny the positives, amplify the negatives and fabricate falsehoods.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Camie Davis 👏💙 The film Naza shows how the IDF accepted high civilian casualty rates in Gaza. So naturally Israeli Jews called for the death of the filmmakers. And now Zionists in NYC are protesting the film.
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/hlJ-d... #Sport Watch highlights from the Grand Final that happened last weekend
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The Coolest Sport You’ve NEVER Seen Has Its Super Bowl This Weekend 🇦🇺
YouTube video by Sports Ketchup
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘Not acting on climate change means a certain World War in the lifetime of anybody born from now on.’ Scientists explain that climate change is a far bigger threat than governments are telling you: 😢😢😢🤬
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI The truth hurts Israelis While Their Genocide Murders Tens of thousands In Gaza The West Bank It’s deliberate It’s killing innocents
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please sign and share this important petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pr...
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Protect Safe Abortions in Victoria
Safe abortion has always been a union issue. Because when politicians choose to turn abortion from a reproductive health procedure into a criminal offence, it’s not their rich mates who lose access t...
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AliceK - globalise the innitafucker @coalisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I agree with everything said by David Shoebridge, and his conclusion. I’d go further. Countries like Australia have actively ignored international law, such that our governments behaviour sabotages the ethical reasoning behind bodies like the ICC ICJ & UN #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09...
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Australia shouldn’t get a seat at the UN security council
Australia is campaigning for a Security Council seat on a promise to defend international law. Yet Albanese condemned Russia by name while saying nothing comparable about US actions – even after Trump...
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mattP#BRETURN @matt66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last year my kid was in PE owned hall of residence, a company registered in jersey where we paid the rent. So tax payers money, lent to student, sent to tax haven ....laundered money not coming back to UK
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The DSM did describe paraphilic disorders but the approach was nothing like the syndromes & disorders defined for women who were subjected to trauma at the hands of men. #MVAWG #CPTSD #psychiatry
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity to Edinburgh University colleagues - no one takes the decision to strike for 5 weeks lightly. Millions of pounds of cuts and thousands of jobs at risk, despite Edinburgh having no deficit. And solidarity too to strikers at Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian.
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, on Australia being the poorer if people are denied education. A poorer economy and a poorer civilisation.
A photo of Australian former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam - now deceased, who talked about poverty being a national waste as well as being an individual waste.
We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper efucation.The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilisation, because of this human and national waste.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/09/2026
A study in Scientific Reports presents evidence that African elephants in Kenya’s Mount Elgon region may self-medicate by eating specific plants when sick. go.nature.com/3ToVXSI 🧪
This is figure 5, which shows the trunk of P. latifolius (Podo tree), showing elephant tusking of the bark.
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Exsibilation @exsibilation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This chestnut is making the rounds again. A few notes: 1. Epi impact of masking are just as irrelevant as epi impact of C19 vaccination: nobody is doing either 2. The 2025 thread dismisses clean air interventions as marginal. This is wrong 3. Individual protection is the important part. Masks work
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Princess Buttercup ☠ @sckitupbttrcp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Essentially Anderson argued by having brown faces as the only faces on the posters you are 'responsibling' those families who identify with those faces, for the disease. In effect causing ongoing psychological ongoing harm to said families. The opposite of the intention behind the campaign.
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AliceK - globalise the innitafucker @coalisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An Extraordinary Meeting in defence of international law and the rules based order was held in New York on Friday @albomp.bsky.social (talk is cheap) wasn’t there. The focus of The Hague Group is on action in defence of universal values. Something our PM’s immune to #auspol The countries ;
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AusNewsToday @ausnewstoday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Old computers 'since the beginning of the internet' let OpenAI's agents in. Cabinet meets today. If your Medicare records, your MyGov, or a state department file lives on a system nobody has updated in a decade. reddit.com/r/AusNewsToday #auspol
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Old computers 'since the beginning of the internet' let OpenAI's agents in. Cabinet meets today.
If your Medicare records, your MyGov, or a state department file lives on a system nobody has updated in a decade, the room in Canberra deciding what happens next is meeting today.
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Political Gadgets @politicalgadgets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
$503,511,390 in Federal contracts to the big consultants in 2026. $0 yesterday. {1569} politicalgadgets.com
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)
a chart showing blackout data for Australia
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ISRÆL GAVE THE KÌLLING OF PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS A NUMBER: “NAZA.” Before the bombs fell, expected civilian deaths were calculated. Even babies. Now 24 Isræli soldiers and intelligence officers are exposing the machinery from within. “A baby is 1 NAZA?” “Yes.” Watch the official trailer.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flood-affected residents have been waiting nearly four years to get their homes repaired or even rebuilt due to a severe tradesperson shortage.
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Flood victims wait four years for repairs to homes
Flood-affected residents have been waiting nearly four years to get their homes repaired or even rebuilt due to a severe tradesperson shortage.
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Gina @createnewpaths.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping." ~Hubert Reeves #eastcoastkin #stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But they are fragile. If we dry, drain, or damage peat archives, we lose one of the planet's greatest natural carbon sinks. I do this research for climate security, and our children's future. To protect their planet, we have to stop looking past the muck and start fighting to defend it. 3/3
Drained peatland for palm oil plantations in Malaysia
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look past the trees. What lies beneath our feet here is a global climate superpower. These waterlogged peatlands (bogs, fens) occupy a mere 3% of global land area, yet they pack away more carbon than all of the world's forest biomass combined. They are one of Earth's ultimate cooling mechanisms. 2/
A scientist processing a dark organic rich peat core.
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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ovi Photography @ovip.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Of Haaring and Kites #Photography #Netherlands #Scheveningen #DenHaag
Photo taken in Scheveningen during the kite festival.
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bxbx4.bsky.social @bxbx4.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Not just price In what can be best described as a terrible game of telephone, AI could begin training on error-filled, synthetic data until the very thing it was trying to create becomes absolute gibberish. This is what AI researchers call “model collapse.” www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a...
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A New Study Says AI Is Eating Its Own Tail
Grab your popcorn.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One to three minute micro-dramas watched on smartphones have taken off in India, following in the footsteps of China and South Korea www.ft.com/content/407e...
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India gets hooked on ‘snackable’ micro-dramas
Popularity of short-form videos has created employment for many actors, technicians and producers
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Rohena Duncombe @princelysum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am keen to know what the #Australian Government is doing to train us as we head into summer. What protections for our Elders against heat, what training in first aid, response to storms fires and floods ... @albomp.bsky.social
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This July, massive wildfires ravaged much of southern France. It remains to be seen if the smoke has tainted the grapes that weren’t burned. cen.acs.org/food/agricul... #chemsky 🧪
How wildfire smoke put Bordeaux’s wine at risk.
Damage might be localized, but smoke taint can stay hidden until the first sip.
by Benjamin Plackett.
Dried and burned blue grapes on the vine next to dried, brown leaves.  Credit: Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images.
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Andy @vicozandy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Too many instances of Zero-sum incomes. They are doing fine *because* others are not. The Executive class is the obvious example. Their pay rises are 1000%, while workers are a piddly %40 (approx) Home inflation profits are another zero-sum, economy killing game, the "profit" is youth misery.
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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 26/09/2026
I saw it in action. I worked in public sector also. It happens same way as any place up till now cuz of how budgeting has been done and this is a defeat of that process. All the people that have felt like they were doing so great, you know, freaking want to hate on me. What they did didn't work.
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#135YearsInSolidarity @laborforus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, an entirely separate but critical conversation 👍 Crime statistics agencies I certainly very capable, far more so than social policy agencies in my experience. However that doesn't mean the public are getting the full picture.
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Political will is what keeps Australians in #poverty. Homelessness is killing 3k people per year in Australia according to the latest intergenerational report. We must lift people out of poverty. Nobody deserves homelessness or hunger. #RaiseTheRate #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Extreme inequality is not a given. It is a political choice and we can unmake it
After a year examining global inequality alongside leading economists and experts, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz describes the crisis as both vast in scale and dangerous in trajectory. He outlines a ...
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