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Shane Kavanagh

@shanekavanagh.bsky.social
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Public Health Researcher & Educator. PhD; Master of Public Health.

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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Qld minister tight-lipped about 'Project Invisibility' Indigenous sackings
Under the direction of Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, eight Indigenous directors have disappeared from the boards of south-east Queensland's cultural institutions.
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Universities like ANU swear by this one accounting trick! And its obscuring their financial health www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/16/a...
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Universities like ANU swear by this one accounting trick! And its obscuring their financial health
An accounting method means students, staff, citizens or even parliaments are lacking a clear financial picture of Australian universities. In the case of ANU, this approach falsely justified wide-scal...
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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The university must not become a supply chain for AI
Cash-strapped universities are being told to make AI central to their missions, by the people selling the AI.
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This video series is really fantastic for anyone wanting to understand GenAI and its effects on student learning and society more broadly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF9k...
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Part 1: How do LLMs work?
YouTube video by Andrew Perfors
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in @healthpromint.bsky.social to mark @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Watch my chat with editor @docsamantha.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?... Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...
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The evidence of things not seen
We hold many truths to be self-evident in public health. Truths on how to promote health or health for all, on the proportion of national budget that shoul
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“As richer and older Australians enjoy the lion’s share of generous tax concessions for landlords, the number of households on public housing waitlists has climbed to about 190,000, up from 169,000 in 2024, and 141,000 in 2018.”
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Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low
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Mark Ogge @markogge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If you think the fossil fuel corporations trashing our climate should pay for the damage they cause... instead of YOU! Support our call for a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Restore funding for Writers Victoria www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...
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Restore funding for Writers Victoria - Petitions - Parliament of Victoria
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Grant Duthie @grantduthie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
PhD learning: Older men value quick appointments & good recommendations for mental health support. Affordable and preferred formats of help too. Promote these fixes! #MentalHealthAwareness #PhDJourney academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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Beliefs that explain mental health help-seeking intention among older men: a reasoned action approach
Abstract. Older men seek help for mental health concerns at almost half the rate of older females. Efforts to motivate older men to seek help through healt
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans open.substack.com/pub/importan...
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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It’s an unspeakably sad day to be an Australian
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
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Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
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Aimee Brownbill @aimeebrownbill.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Keep VicHealth Independent and Strong for a Healthier Future - Sign the Petition! www.change.org/p/keep-viche... #SaveVicHealth
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Sign the Petition
Keep VicHealth Independent and Strong for a Healthier Future #SaveVicHealth
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
David Pope in Canberra Times
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
University student mental health before and after implementation of a mental health strategy: a repeated cross-sectional study from Australia url: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Great to be part of this work highlighting how universities can support student mental health and wellbeing.
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University student mental health before and after implementation of a mental health strategy: a repeated cross-sectional study from Australia
Abstract. Studies have consistently indicated that university students are at risk of experiencing poor mental health. This study analysed survey waves at
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Tom Longden @tomecon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Online now - The Right to Power - Keeping First Nations communities on prepayment connected researchers-admin.westernsydney.edu.au/ws/portalfil... @firstnationscen.bsky.social @cleanenergywire.bsky.social @climatenews.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co 🧪🔌⚡
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Grant Duthie @grantduthie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New open-access study in @healthpromint.bsky.social : what drives older men to seek help for mental health concerns You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/heap... Or take a look at our short explainer video: youtu.be/o1g7jqWAuz8 #MensHealth #MentalHealth #HealthPromotion #Research
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Beliefs that explain mental health help-seeking intention among older men: a reasoned action approach
Abstract. Older men seek help for mental health concerns at almost half the rate of older females. Efforts to motivate older men to seek help through healt
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
From @hiltzikm.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price
They were some of the most prominent academics in the country. They pushed a devastatingly wrong COVID policy, but they've never admitted their error.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/06/2025
The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit. "Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.
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Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Teaching students to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world
Join Carl Bergstrom in a talk that helps teach students to think, learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world.In this session, Carl will provide an overview of the course Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machin...
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count. Many thanks to my BU colleague @brookeenichols.bsky.social for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science. 103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day
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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
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Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“If the horrors unfolding in Gaza are not a red line for Australia to take stronger action then I don’t know what is” @davidpocock.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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If the horrors unfolding in Gaza are not a red line for Australia to take stronger action then I don’t know what is | David Pocock
Everyone knows the Australian government cannot end the war alone, but we do have an important role to play as a middle power, and it must be more than just words
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life theconversation.com/images-of-ga...
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Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life
Starvation and malnutrition are harmful for anyone. But for infants the impact can be profound and lasting.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The federal government had argued if its appeal failed it would be liable to pay native title holders compensation “to an indeterminate number of grants of interests” in the Northern Territory land and that would have “enormous financial ramifications”.
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Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation case
High court upholds ruling against commonwealth that Gumatj clan’s land was not acquired ‘on just terms’, in case initiated by renowned land rights activist
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/03/2025
"vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work" - the extremely widespread and uncritical use of software text generators as a replacement for real thought and engagement is corroding academia from the inside out theconversation.com/vague-confus...
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‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review
Peer review ensures the findings of research are trustworthy. But what happens when it’s performed by an AI model?
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Interesting (review) piece on misinformation... www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Fake News about Fake News - Boston Review
In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This needs to be urgently addressed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Nearly 4 in 5 retired single women who rent are below the poverty line
Two-thirds of retired renters are in poverty, according to new analysis from the Grattan Institute, with calls for the major parties to increase Rent Assistance to ease the burden.
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Conflicts of interest in public health research and publications
Providing communities and knowledge users with reliable, independent, and evidence-based information has always been a core function of public health (Thom
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Shane Kavanagh @shanekavanagh.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Seems like a good way to start my posts here...an older article, but seems to fit the current vibe. theconversation.com/the-tragic-s...
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The tragic story of Soviet genetics shows the folly of political meddling in science
When politics meddles with science, it can lead to tragedy, as was the case with Stalin’s favourite agricultural biologist Trofim Lysenko and his rival Nikolai Vavilov.
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