University of Technology Sydney responds to concerns about planned cuts to public health www.croakey.org/university-o... #publichealth

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

😳 ”The commission revealed at the inquiry it had not consulted with the creative industry or modelled either the impact of that recommendation or the benefit the industry injects into the economy.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

And that’s why we in the Democratic Party are going to direct every available resource to destroying our own candidates who want to do something about inequality or other crazy things like that

I’m proud to have signed this letter. Public health is important!

Public health cuts at UTS put students, staff and communities at risk: open letter www.croakey.org/public-healt... #publichealth

This must be why I always kill my house plants. It’s an instinct

Climate change & poverty are thrilled that they are being ignored

An interesting read. Not sure I agree that critical voices are being excluded from the conversation (at least at my institution) but the questions posed are valid and worthy of consideration regardless

Please consider signing this petition to save the UTS public health program and our colleagues. Public health is so important and our colleagues deserve better! chng.it/b7yV6tywPd

Disappointing but unsurprising that coalition MPs are still trotting this one out. Even if our emissions didn’t matter (and they do), we can hardly expect other countries to act if we just dust our hands and say “we aren’t helping”

Coalition MPs say Australia’s emissions are a fraction of the world’s total. What kind of argument is that? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure" I mean who 🤷🏻‍♀️ could speculate as to trans-Tasman similarity 🤔

“Indefensible” cuts to public health at University of Technology Sydney will have wide-ranging impacts, key groups warn www.croakey.org/indefensible... With comments from AHPA & article by Holly Donaldson, Executive Director of CAPHIA

Despite the data showing this, the age assurance report summary downplays this bias, saying "“systems performed broadly consistently across demographic groups, including Indigenous populations".

A Guardian analysis of age assurance technology trial data, which will underpin the government’s teen social media ban, shows the impact of introducing age checks will fall hardest on already-marginalised groups www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Two years on from the roll out of Wales' controversial 20mph default speed limit, new data has revealed that policy has resulted in over 1000 fewer casualties

If this is a club for parliamentarians to play sport, why does it need corporate sponsors at all?

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult. But it’s what "global health” shld be about. In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations! gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself. (I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does). Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

It’ll be nice to see this shithole improved, but it’s disappointing to see the shortsightedness on transport changes. Parramatta rd is congested because there aren’t good alternatives to driving. You want to reduce congestion? Give people genuine choice and only those who need to drive will

Slogan ideas… “Smoking hot body or your money back” – crematorium “The first one’s on the house” – chimney installers “We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows” – plastic surgeons “We’ll help bring out your inner child” – maternity ward “There’s no turning back now” – neck brace manufacturers

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural. This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it. doi.org/10.25911/MWW... A thread:

You can *feel* the passion in this piece - almost like every letter on the keyboard was pressed extra hard

One of the few times when going floppy is a good thing

Fascinating stuff!

Agree. If we can’t say ‘during Covid’ now, what are the conditions for when we could say it? Covid is here to stay so if it’s zero cases or zero deaths we’ll ALWAYS be in the pandemic, rendering the word meaningless

It’s within the rules because politicians write the rules

You may feel sore or stiff if you haven’t exercised for a while, or you’re trying something new or more intense.

Here's fun. The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release: "AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"

This is going to be a nightmare and it will be users who bear the brunt of the consequences, all because we want to exclude children from online spaces rather than working to make online spaces better

The age assurance tech trial report has been released. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I'm away until later this week so I haven't deep-dived into the teen social media ban's tech trial report, but I thought it was notable that Nine/Today's tech commentator Trevor Long said the report shows how "age assurance doesn't work"

Found on Mastodon... fediscience.org/@kaiarzheime...

From smuggling to spin: how tobacco giants hijacked the illicit trade debate ash.org.uk/media-centre... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social

Time to remove those pesky labor laws

Turns out the children do, actually, yearn for the mines www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m no big city lawyer, but this seems bad?

AFL footy is my passion. But it’s the one place I can’t come out | Dylan Harrington

ok but where's Hermann Rorschach and why did you post a picture of my parents fighting?

Homophobia is a disease so maybe they were referring to that

Excellent piece. The AFL ecosystem should be looking at how homophobia affects gay people in and around the sport, not what this suspension means for the Crows finals chances

Big money. If the saints would like to offer me a lucrative contract to come play for them, I’m all ears. I don’t even need $2m a season. My only condition is that I don’t have to play

Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts theconversation.com/vape-brands-...

Challenging the myth that vehicle drivers ‘pay their way’ through fuel excise and rego. Not even close.

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... 2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Spicy take, Hobbes, but a reasonable one. There’s plenty of evidence to show that lower speed limits make for a better urban environment for everyone. Less people in cars is genuinely the only way to improve traffic!

Wow. That’s certainly a take

🎉 New SHE Research Pod is up! 🎉 This time, it's @klmackay.bsky.social who's interviewing me about my recent paper on the notion of place and how it relates to coercive measures in infection disease control. con't

Meanwhile, we’re down here in Australia mainlining both bread AND rice in the same meal