Happy for the Hungarians but also a momentous day for people who enjoy the thought of sad Tony Abbott

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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SMH economics editor Ross Gittins got a tooth infection that caused heart failure and nearly killed him. 44 days in the ICU. Weeks on the ward and in rehab Not a single word in Gittins’ article about the experience mentions that dental isn’t rebatable under Medicare

Local chemoarchitecture explains widespread lower cortical thickness associated with clinical high risk for psychosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Australian research ecosystem ‘chronically underfunded’. Universities’ pre-budget submissions request more funding for overheads, infrastructure and regional research. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Trans rights are human rights. #transdayofvisibility

Australia’s ban on social media for under 16 yos is not working. It was a bad idea in the first place theconversation.com/social-media...

two teaching roles in Psychology at Auckland Uni, one of which will be focused on research methods. NZ$100K+ salary these roles are unusual in that they are permanent teaching-focused faculty roles

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

It’s true, I have been on a bit of a warpath. #medicalresearchmatters

Huh, you know, I’m not that liberal after all as I would simply arrest and imprison people who make a Nazi salute in public.

This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses

“Voters aren’t turning to Reform and the Greens because they’re becoming ‘extreme’. They’re, fairly, concluding that the mainstream offer is managed decline and they’d rather roll the dice. The answer is to put forward something genuinely bolder that really changes things for them.”

This is the thing I will never be able to get my head around. “This grid infrastructure is ugly” - can you hear yourself?

A huge congratulations to everyone who decried planned, equitable and gradual emissions cuts as too radical. Now you get to experience unplanned, unjust and whiplash-inducing emissions cuts instead. Maybe lets not make the same mistake again? www.afr.com/companies/re...

Important paper! Good to see @swinburneuni.bsky.social leading this work

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed

How do people with lived experience vs professionals define anorexia recovery? Lived experience: absence of disordered thoughts Staff: living well despite residual symptoms Both agreed psychological markers (not just weight) should define recovery. buff.ly/J6wj4m8 #AnorexiaNervosa #Recovery

In 2014 Ross Gittins described the MRFF as an accounting trick (www.smh.com.au/business/med...) to hide deficits rather than fund more medical research. How right he was www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"Few experts endorse the idea that the police “had nothing to do with it🤡" Wrong. All of the experts endorse it. Anyone that doesn't endorse it, is not an expert on crime reduction. Because the data on this has been clear and consistent for ~50+ years.

This is a very interesting paper!

Just quietly, Qantas dropping down from daily for Sydney to Los Angeles is a bit of an indicator. I'm probably out of date, but at one point LA was about 25% of Qantas International's revenue. www.aeroroutes.com/eng/260303-q...

THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved

The housing affordability 'debate' is so stupid. In a nutshell, negative gearing + CGT discounts accelerate price growth. Reforming it won't make houses cheaper, it will just stop continued runaway growth. Building more houses will make houses cheaper, but you need more construction workers.

University dropout inadvertently illustrating the downsides of dropping out

If I had to pick a favourite spot on the Long Mynd it would probably be Ashes Hollow. It’s always much quieter than Carding Mill Valley, so I can explore it at a leisurely pace. Add in a bright blue sky, fluffy white clouds and the Quinny Brook - you couldn’t ask for much better! #Shropshire

Listening to WIM-FM makes Monday morning better @whatismusicpod.bsky.social

A careful, quietly devastating review of research on involuntary outpatient treatment. Coercion is being oversold as a way of addressing serious mental illness, and its harms (forcing patients to accept useless or harmful meds & therapies, disempowerment, social disruption, etc) are being downplayed

#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!". More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Is it smarter to have a dumb home? ‘We’ve seen clients unable to flush toilets’

40% of WA's prison population being indigenous is a massive failure of policing, racism, lazy politics and a reliance on the carceral state. There are hundreds of cascading consequences we should care about. Liam Alexander Hall's life from now on is not one of them www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

FAO @rincewind.run

Helpful of this NSW police officer to do away with any pretence of neutrality. Sometimes you just gotta declare loyalty to a foreign state and wear another country’s flag on your uniform.

LLMs good performance on medical exams does not translate to accurate performance in real-world settings (preregistered n~1,300 study). This can't be explained by current standard benchmarks for medical knowledge & simulated patient interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I see Australian police are excited at the opportunity to live up to their reputation

Today's Karl Stefanovic suggested to Minns that Muslims who were praying when police dragged them at the Syd Herzog protest might have been "baiting" cops who should have known the footage could be "weaponised" against them. This is how media enables rather than challenges abuses of power.

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Repost with a photo of yours that would nake a good album cover

Four paintings from tne 'Bush flowers' series, by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Australian Indigenous artist from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Our new paper led by @urskaarnautovska.bsky.social! What is making digital health work better for people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders? Access, support & reinforcing readiness for change is vital Design w/ lived experience, & change follows Read it here: www.proquest.com/openview/d5a...

Fossil fuels are dying, no matter what the oligarchs say and do theconversation.com/fossil-fuels...

Excellent thread