"OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top." Helluva lede. www.ft.com/content/23e5...

This is my prediction

on this logic all the alleged rapists could be sacked without notice. So as to you know cut off their income based on “serious” allegations. Oddly nobody is proposing that employed rapists be punished without a guilty plea or guilty verdict. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Read our new paper! How do we close the 17-year evidence-to-practice gap? Master protocols (which streamline treatment trials) could be adapted to accelerate implementation Key is long-term, place-based partnerships w/ co-production, collaboration & embedded evaluation doi.org/10.1186/s128...

This kind of big modern cruise ship is always so funny to me, because it's basically 'hey, what if we took a bunch of things you like to do on holiday, then added a thing that made it slightly more dangerous that also increases the price and means you can't leave'.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter" You don't say?

One of the great threads

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise www.abc.net.au/news/science... CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP: 1982-83 = 0.17 2024-25 = 0.03 ... Scientific extinction event imminent?

Big oof. on.ft.com/4peYLvP

Are you autistic and living in Australia? If so, please consider completing my research survey. It takes 45-60min and will help us understand the experience and impacts of autism identification, to try improve access to autism identification. tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 #autismresearch #psychresearch

Every state apart from Tas is pulling their weight with hospital expenditure. The Feds not wanting to pay for the additional demand on hospitals that the FEDS CREATE from underfunding their primary health, NDIS and aged care system responsibilities is pathetic bullshit www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Australian/NZ academia has deep and entrenched problems, but throughout my career I have learnt the most bonkers things about US academia and this “job interviews in hotel rooms” stuff is right up there Every interview I’ve ever had has been in a meeting room or office like normal goddamn people

Uh this is enormous

When right-wingers talk about how easy some nebulous group of sponging “others” have it compared to the ordinary decent hardworking citizen, the easy question to ask is “would you want to swap places with one?” And they wouldn’t ever want to. So that’s that problem dealt with. Next issue, please.

Kevin Mitchell tells it as it is. There nothing there! We're easily captured by a simple narrative for an incredibly complex etiology. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Magnificent

LNP’s disarray on climate is going to give a lot of cover to Labor’s sub standard performance #auspol

We did a thing. 😬

So well written as well. I’ve always loved the alliteration of ‘the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds’

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Day Today’s legacy is a whole generation of people who say “proof, if proof be need be” and can’t quite remember the real phrase.

Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us. This is politics today. We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.

Something something market signals.

What a boondoggle - the Saudi ‘Line in the Sand’, with trains with no baggage and global-cladding-gobbling bird-killing mirror finish sounds like the world’s most wasteful and expensive dumb thing

T­he future of Austr­alian medical research is being held back, not by a lack of ideas, talent, or urgency, but by the failure to honour a long‐held funding promise, a situation all the more perplexing given that the promised funds are already available. Read more: www.burnet.edu.au/news/burnet-...

"Tesla shareholder approve one trillion dollar pay deal for Elon Musk."

one dynamic that i think has a (minor) impact on how people perceive AI use: it's way more noticeable when it's used badly. you can tell when someone has just churned out work slop.

Very sad to see the major university in the East Midlands 'suspending' (i.e. planning to close) key courses like Modern Languages and Music and scaling back Nursing. It's a scandal that top universities are just being left to go to the wall after years of underfunding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i said what i said

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

A broken university system is letting Australia down https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/a-broken-university-system-is-letting-australia-down/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-broken-university-system-is-letting-australia-down #auspol

Wilfred Owen died #OTD in 1918. This is the life size bronze statue of him in Cae Glas Park, Oswestry - the town of his birth. #Shropshire

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Why can't we have nice things?

Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.

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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, my first rule of thumb, I don’t say where I’m going or where I’m coming from

Who *are* all these people? Where are my friends? Why are you selling me stuff I’m almost interested in? Where’s everyone gone? open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

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Women, and families, should be encouraged and supported by government policy to have exactly as many babies as they want. No more, no less. This will often be none / just one where women also value their work outside the home. This seems the case here. I don’t see why this is remotely controversial.

Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tonight in 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated toward direct confrontation, a sentry on patrol at Duluth Air Force Base in Minnesota thought he saw someone climbing the perimeter fence. He shot at the intruder and activated the base sabotage alarm, which by design automatically triggered ...

Co-occurring autism, catatonia, & psychosis?--scoping review finds 17 papers, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... "studies failed to describe how the three diagnostic constructs were differentiated from each other" "symptoms were somewhat arbitrarily attributed to one construct versus the other"

💬Our new paper: We spoke w/ young people in Early Psychosis Services. They want: 🔹 A Safe space: feeling welcomed/not judged 🔹 Unconditional support “on my side” 🔹 Active involvement & partnership 🔹 Gradual self-management: building confidence connection & autonomy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...