Prof Stephen Wood
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Occasional chorister, professional academic
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Derek Powazek
about 11 hours ago
"OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top." Helluva lede.
www.ft.com/content/23e5...
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad
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This is my prediction
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Dr Ingrid M
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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.
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Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251124-poverty-is-not-evidence-the-presumption-of-innocence-must-apply-to-everyone
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Alyssa Milton
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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...
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Could master protocols be adapted for effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies? - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Master protocols leverage a common trial infrastructure for launching multiple sub-studies. Translational research aims to progress scientific discoveries toward public health impact, which...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02684-1
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Stephen Bush
2 days ago
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'.
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Lora Kolodny
2 days ago
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...
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Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/meta-internal-research-social-media-harm-court-filing.html
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Musa Okwonga
3 days ago
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Dr Dean Burnett
5 days ago
"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter" You don't say?
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One of the great threads
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Greg Jericho
6 days ago
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now
#ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/251119-csiro-350-researcher-job-cuts-a-damning-indictment-on-government-priorities-misses-golden-opportunity-on-research
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Professor Euan Ritchie
7 days ago
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?
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The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-11-19/csiro-cuts-tip-australia-science-funding/106026174
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FT Alphaville
8 days ago
Big oof.
on.ft.com/4peYLvP
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Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
[FREE TO READ] And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
https://on.ft.com/4peYLvP
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Onorah
about 2 months ago
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
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Possum
9 days ago
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...
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'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/anthony-albanese-tells-states-to-rein-in-hospital-spending/106017654
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André Brett
9 days ago
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
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Iron Spike
10 days ago
Uh this is enormous
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Joel Morris
10 days ago
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.
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Uta Frith
11 days ago
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...
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Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell
A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/going-against-gut-qa-kevin-mitchell-autism-microbiome-theory/?utm_source=The%20Transmitter%20newsletters&utm_campaign=be1ed27254-WEEKLY%2020251115%20%28STATE%20OF%20NEURO%29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-f8e49bcda4-169252858
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Preeti Chhibber
11 days ago
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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Tim Lyons
11 days ago
Magnificent
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Denise Shrivell
13 days ago
LNP’s disarray on climate is going to give a lot of cover to Labor’s sub standard performance
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Darren Dahly
13 days ago
We did a thing. 😬
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So well written as well. I’ve always loved the alliteration of ‘the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds’
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Adam Serwer
14 days ago
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
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Gemma Arrowsmith
15 days ago
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.
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Tim Hollo
14 days ago
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.
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Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
https://in-between-days.ghost.io/net-zero-reality-and-the-extinction-of-politics-as-usual/
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Stilgherrian
15 days ago
Something something market signals.
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Jenny Nicholls
17 days ago
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
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Burnet Institute
19 days ago
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-...
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Burnet backs calls to fully release MRFF: media release
The MRFF was established to transform Australian health and medical research. We are calling on all funds to be released.
https://www.burnet.edu.au/news/burnet-backs-calls-to-fully-release-mrff/
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Tim Dunlop
19 days ago
"Tesla shareholder approve one trillion dollar pay deal for Elon Musk."
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CAMERON WILSON
19 days ago
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.
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David K Smith
19 days ago
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...
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9zwqvn53o?at_format=image&at_bbc_team=editorial
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The Sizzle - Australia's favourite tech newsletter
19 days ago
i said what i said
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Mark Lemley
20 days ago
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...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/
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Independent Media Australia.
21 days ago
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
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A broken university system is letting Australia down
Poor governance, poor policy and decades of neoliberalism have broken Australia’s university sector, with devastating consequences for students and the country.
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
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Helen
22 days ago
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
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A.R. Moxon
about 2 months ago
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?
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Boston Tom Levenson
23 days ago
Why can't we have nice things?
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rahaeli
23 days ago
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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Society for Mental Health Research
26 days ago
🚨 Calling all EMCRs attending
#SMHR2025
! 🚨 Remember to register for our pre-conference workshop designed by EMCRs for EMCRs. Hear from inspiring panellists, plus have your ideas assessed for a small seed fund to kickstart your next project‼️ More info 👉
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Snugbucket
27 days ago
Straya
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Jonathan Green
27 days ago
Top headlines some time in 2052: Thousands of heat deaths as mid-winter hot cell lingers Floods engulf Melbourne’s inner east The top suburbs you wish you bought into Try this time friendly crispy lemon chicken …
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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
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Joel Morris
28 days ago
Who *are* all these people? Where are my friends? Why are you selling me stuff I’m almost interested in? Where’s everyone gone?
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This is not my beautiful pub...
The strangeness of social media as it stops being a social hub.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joelmorris/p/this-is-not-my-beautiful-pub?r=2bgqhl&utm_medium=ios
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Orygen
29 days ago
RESOURCE | 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
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Kate Watson
30 days ago
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.
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David K Smith
about 1 month ago
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...
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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
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Stephen Schwartz
about 1 month ago
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 ...
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Michelle Dawson
about 1 month ago
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"
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Co-occurrence of Autism, Psychosis and Catatonia: A Scoping Review - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Purpose Autism, psychosis and catatonia were once considered part of schizophrenia. While both autism and catatonia have been “detached” from schizophrenia, co-occurrence of the three conditions may b...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-025-07086-2
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Alyssa Milton
about 1 month ago
💬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...
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The clinical and psychosocial journey of young people engaging with early intervention psychosis services: qualitative study | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
The clinical and psychosocial journey of young people engaging with early intervention psychosis services: qualitative study - Volume 11 Issue 6
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/clinical-and-psychosocial-journey-of-young-people-engaging-with-early-intervention-psychosis-services-qualitative-study/33C4EAD7861D338FD9F65ABE3F7F2373
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