Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 05/01/2026RESEARCH | A new Orygen study has found that of young people who attend headspace centres and use substances, as many as 65% also meet the criteria for substance use disorder – with important implications for early intervention. More: bit.ly/45vTEQv 021
Reposted by RoosSOUTH JERSEY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S FORUM @sjdwf2025.bsky.social · 26/12/2025In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comHow effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: veryFrom emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history 14757272458
Reposted by RoosAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Flashback post and yep, still our favorite. 233135272792
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 22/12/2025LGBTQIA+ people continue to experience significantly higher levels of mental ill-health than heterosexual people, and new research from Orygen and La Trobe University has shown why addressing stigma from every level matters. Details: bit.ly/4pP6MIy 051
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 17/12/2025Over 1.1 million Australians live with an eating disorder – and almost 1 in 3 are under 19. Early intervention saves lives, yet treatments have not improved in decades. These holidays, you can help change that: bit.ly/4pOSAPi 041
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 16/12/2025NEWS | $14m in funding from Wellcome will enable Orygen Digital and @unimelb.bsky.social to create MOST-Nexus, a world-first digital platform combining AI, clinical care, and peer support. Details: bit.ly/4pII38X 041
Reposted by RoosGlobal Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.msmagazine.comA Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill CombipackThe feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack. 154113983530
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 11/12/2025RESEARCH | The advice young men receive after a breakup is often the opposite of what they actually want and need, a new study led by Orygen Research Fellow @michaelwilson1.bsky.social has found. More: bit.ly/3KK6eob 031
Reposted by RoosGlobal Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.mississippifreepress.orgOpinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian RegimesSeda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world. 20178923121
Reposted by RoosSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.forever-wars.comTorture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator AlcatrazAmnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison 7891987410584
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 03/12/2025We were also pleased to host the inaugural Orygen Early- to Mid-Career Awards Showcase last week, with presentations from Orygen researchers including Dr @roospotkolder.bsky.social, Dr @stephmiles.bsky.social, Dr @scotttags.bsky.social, Dr Eleanor Bailey, Dr Shayden Bryce and Dr Elise Carrotte. 133
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 20/11/2025A consortium of 13 expert organisations, led by Orygen, has handed down advice on models of youth mental health care in Australia. It's a significant piece of work that we hope sets a clear path forward. Summary + full reports: bit.ly/3LPI6Rd 033
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 20/11/2025As the most effective evidence-based supported employment program used in mental health services worldwide, IPS is all about supporting young people into meaningful work and study – and so is Orygen's Youth IPS Centre of Excellence 🧵 #InclusionAtWorkWeek 131
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 17/11/20253 days left to apply for the ASEAN-Pacific Youth Mental Health Fellowship! This innovative program supports Fellows to develop a youth mental health advocacy project plan, designed around the needs of their communities in the ASEAN-Pacific region: bit.ly/4hDNWRt 021
Reposted by RoosCrikey @crikey.com.au · 04/11/2025Opinion | Right-wing populism will always and inevitably target women, because male anger — especially white male anger — is what fuels it. Bernard Keane writes.crikey.com.auMale resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women 12912
Reposted by Roos50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/11/2025This is a must read by @timothysnyder.bsky.social.open.substack.comThe Next Terrorist AttackAnd What Comes After (Updated) 811847
Reposted by Roos50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/11/2025It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable. 64174964589
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 28/10/2025RESOURCE | Used to treat psychotic spectrum disorders including schizophrenia, clozapine is a medication that comes with specific requirements such as regular physical health tests. Explaining this and similar FAQs is the focus of a new guide, co-designed with lived experience: bit.ly/3L2Z3r0 143
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warnA network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule 10126771311
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 15/10/2025RESOURCES | Schools and other educational settings are increasingly being recognised for the meaningful role they can play in supporting young people's mental health and wellbeing. These free resources are designed to help schools, teachers + clinicians: bit.ly/4oaY99W 121
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 14/10/2025Applications are open for the ASEAN-Pacific Youth Mental Health Fellowship! This opportunity is open to people aged 18 to 30, from Australia or the ASEAN-Pacific region, who are passionate about creating positive change in youth mental health: bit.ly/3LcnAGH 033
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2025This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion 261141433
Reposted by RoosWIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2025Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist. Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚wired.comJane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the WorldThe world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one. 7703180
Reposted by RoosThe Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 23/09/2025There is no clear evidence that paracetamol has any harmful effects on an unborn baby.tcnv.linkIt’s OK to use paracetamol in pregnancy. Here’s what the science says about the link with autismIt’s safe for pregnant women to take paracetamol at any stage of pregnancy. Here’s what the research says about the risk of autism. 1115743
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 14/08/2025RESEARCH | The challenges faced by families caring for a young person with mental ill-health can be significantly eased with the support of family peer workers, a new paper led by Orygen has argued – and more can be done to strengthen the field. More: bit.ly/3JfsuoT 031
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 07/08/2025Young people in Queensland are set to benefit from increased access to Orygen Digital's cutting-edge virtual reality tool, Mind VR, thanks to a $250k funding boost from the Queensland Mental Health Commission's Better Futures grant program. More: bit.ly/3HdjYWO 021
Reposted by RoosThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025‘1984’ is upon us 630154896727
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...snyder.substack.comOn Tyranny free resourcesTo use and to share, now or any time 8725101169
Reposted by RoosCrikey @crikey.com.au · 15/06/2025Australia’s strategic elites have locked us into the foreign and strategic policies of an increasingly polarised, authoritarian and unpredictable regime.crikey.com.auTwo essays rethink Australia’s alliance with Trump’s AmericaEmma Shortis and Hugh White offer compelling reasons why a reassessment of Australia's relationship with the United States is long overdue. 0318
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/06/2025"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...snyder.substack.comOn Tyranny free resourcesTo use and to share, now or any time 351791908
Reposted by RoosAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/06/2025On May 23, President Trump signed an executive order he’s calling a “restoration of gold standard science.” But don’t be fooled, this is not about scientific integrity. It’s about political control. The order gives Trump’s political appointees sweeping power over federal science. They can now: 531554438
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Trump’s story has always been that he should be president because he was rich. That was always false. In order to become rich he had to first become the president. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comTrump Family Turns Presidency Into Most Lucrative Venture YetSince he launched his campaign, the family has put dealmaking in overdrive — with memecoins, guns and new hotels abroad. 591652503
Reposted by RoosWellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Millions of people worldwide are held back by anxiety, depression and psychosis. But what if we could predict the onset or progression of these problems? This is the goal of our new Mental Health Award. [1/3] 151
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Big Lie institutionalizes itself through the children. 83908340
Reposted by RoosOrygen @orygen.org.au · 30/04/2025A newly funded clinical trial, led by Orygen researcher Dr Alex Guérin, will lay the groundwork for future treatments for conduct disorder – a condition characterised by antisocial behaviours that affects over 2% of Australian children. Details: bit.ly/44cDwnj 011
Reposted by RoosAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2025EMERGENCY ACTION Join us we’re actively working to get coalition members on the ground! Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI this morning after refusing to allow ICE agents into her courtroom. She was taken to the federal courthouse. 405162445127
Reposted by RoosRebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025You want to know the truth about why there are so many cases of autism, ADD, ADHD today? It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago. You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone. 572719451
Reposted by RoosDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025RFKjr intends to start a registry to track autistic people. Fuck NO! This is exactly how it started in 1930s Germany. 32664651707
Reposted by RoosTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/04/2025This is specifically about universities. It is very important to see how fascists and authoritarians in other countries have attacked them. And to think, as Gessen does here, about constructive responses. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’“Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.” 451375460
Reposted by RoosAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism. 167167834636
Reposted by RoosAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Autistic people are not broken. They are not burdens. They are artists, athletes, workers, friends, partners, and taxpayers. They live full lives. And yes, they write poems. They go on dates. They contribute to their communities every single day. Autistic people deserve dignity and respect, 274354469
Reposted by RoosCoach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 21/04/2025There is no honor in making others struggle solely because you did. Persevering through difficulty is worth celebrating, but is worth even more if you can lessen the burden for those who come after you, especially those less fortunate, less privileged. That way lies glory. 91323385