New: A community coordination effort to develop a framework for long-term stewardship of federally-funded data. Powered by partnership with DataCite, CODE, Data Rescue Project, GO FAIR, Data Foundation, IOI, and others. Thanks to RWJF for support to do the work. www.cos.io/about/news/c...

Dear Coalition please note “renewables provide the cheapest form of energy; that coal-fired power is much more expensive and that global gas prices have driven energy costs up over the last few years – not the renewables transition“ Thanks @zoedaniel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

"that it is far cheaper for Australia, and the world, to make a well-coordinated effort to reach net zero by 2050' www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The prostate cancer PSA screening story over 23 years of follow-up for >166,000 participants: more detection, small reduction of mortality www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Do you do systematic reviews? You might like this excellent comparison of 8 GenAI/LLM tools that could assist with systematic reviews, published by the Health Equity Evidence Centre at Queen Mary University of London. lnkd.in/gwj57RTw

Plutocrats, petrostates, polluters & propagandists who profit from the status quo don't care if you fall victim to denial, deflection, division, or despair. Same result: disengagement. Read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

Flooding has already wiped $42B from the value of 🇦🇺 homes Climate change isn’t a future cost. It’s here, harming our economy and our safety We can’t keep ✅ fossil fuel projects at expense of communities & property values, and need to get serious about adaptation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

89% of people around the world want their governments to act faster on the #climatecrisis But while being in the majority, most people mistakenly think they are in a minority The #89%project wants to know why climate action matters to you 👇 89percent.org/tell-us-your... 1/2

Good news: Sodium EV batteries seem very close “CATL has just revealed its new Naxtra sodium-ion battery, and it’s breaking every rule in the book — lasting up to 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) while costing around 50% less than lithium-ion.“ youtu.be/eB_vfKA85po?...

🚨Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming more dangerous. Life-saving antibiotics are losing effectiveness, increasing infection risks & limiting treatment options. Some resistant infections can only be treated with antibiotics that are costly, difficult to access, & often unavailable 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u

“Unless we find a way to overcome antiscience, humankind will face its gravest threat yet—the collapse of civilization as we know it.” @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

RFK Jr. "is dead wrong" claiming vaccines are ineffective. They "have saved lives, reduced severe impairments like paralysis, brain damage, & hearing loss, and saved us billions of dollars. Enough of the dangerous deceptions on vaccines." www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/m...

Declining child mortality, fast and slow

Ah Ha! The secret system experts use for creating #overdiagnosis ;-)

Friday tip for fast reviews. Our "2weekSR" process uses automated tools (see tera-tools.com): ReviewWizard (protocol), SearchRefiner, PolyGlot (translate to multiple databases), Screenatron (&Mechatron for AI-assist), SpiderCite (forward&backward), ... video overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghW_...

#CochraneDaily Read reflections from Andy Oxman, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou on the long and winding road of promoting informed health choices in this new James Lind Library article👇 www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/pro... @jameslindlibrary.bsky.social @cochrane.org @paulglasziou.bsky.social

Acetaminophen (aka Paracetamol/Tylenol) NOT linked to autism: Swedish study followed nearly 2.5 million children born between 1995 and 2019, tracking them for up to 26 years. Analyses included pairs of siblings with/without exposure theconversation.com/paracetamol-...

How to Communicate Medical Numbers The effectiveness of sharing numerical information depends on patients’ ability to understand and interpret these numbers. Understanding numbers may be difficult for patients with limited numeracy skills. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Our health, our agriculture, our environmental safety, our ability to ameliorate and adapt to climate change, to regulate AI and to fight the next pandemic, all rely on the proper functioning of the scientific machine. We must not stand by and see it dismantled.” theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if #Australia stuck with #coal and #gas only. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren. That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.

Not ambitious enough; but good to see specific resource allocation: a C+ “The Albanese government has finally set a 2035 climate course – and it’s a mission Australia must accept” theconversation.com/the-albanese...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

A new review of multicancer early detection tests (MCED). Without any controlled studies in people without symptoms (and at increased risk), they are "not ready for popular use." @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10....

Is this Australia’s climate wake-up call? Official report reveals a hotter, harder future if we don’t act now @theconversation.com theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

Very helpful Substack article for making some sense of the diverse MAGA “factions” and their overlap & conflicting ideologies, especially Christian Nationalist cf atheist Tech Bros - thanks @asharangappa.bsky.social

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Trial-based economic evaluations of non-drug interventions in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions: a systemic review: "of 150 NDIs, 40% were cheaper and more effective, and 70% considered cost effective." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40889888/

Percent change in GHG emissions (CO2eq) per year since 1990, G7/EU. 🫣🇨🇦

If the administration releases the data for the causes-of-autism study that is supposed to be reported this month, then it could be useful to have a crowdsourced many analyst/multiverse investigation ready to go that leans-in on pre-commitment to analysis plans. Interested? Alternatives?

“For our scientists” - wonderful song by @ellecordova.bsky.social that sums up what’s happening to science in the USA youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

New research demonstrating a shift in online climate misinformation Rather than denying climate science, this 'new denial' comprises "attacks that seek to undermine and cast doubt on proposed climate solutions and those who support them." resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Viewpoint: The definition of disease is vital for clinical and public health, but broad criteria risk overdiagnosis and overtreatment ja.ma/4nbWSzg

Sometimes I wish there really was a Hell … so that Turnip & his malignant fossil-fuel buddies received their well-deserved karma. But in reality, we have to provide that hell (and support to climate activists/policy-makers).

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Heartfelt solidarity from Sydney. Our open-access book has a large chapter detailing claims & tactics used by our local fruitcakes. Happy to say they are today all but totally neutered & ridiculed here. Good luck! open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...

Saying there's no point in cutting emissions because it won't work, is like saying "I'm going to run into that wall anyway, what's the point of braking?" Every kilogram of carbon (and other) emissions avoided will reduce the extent of climate change.

States vow to fight #Trump official’s stop-work order on offshore #wind farm Rhode Island and Connecticut officials say project, slated to power 350,000 homes, is essential to their #climate goals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Said it before ...would be happy to ignore the daily outrages from the U.S...if these fuckers were not an existential threat to the entire planet. They will not 'cook' alone. nypost.com/2025/08/21/b...

One quarter of Israelis protested.

“Effects of therapeutic interventions on long COVID: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials” - evaluation of 7 interventions across 51 trials found exercise the most promising www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...