When did signing up to meta products become a privacy risk for you and your contact list... it always was

Building an Australia where everyone has the opportunity to buy their first home. That’s real change.

When you come third place to a bin

“trainees who rely on AI during the early formative years of clinical education may fail to develop the foundational reasoning skills that safe, independent practice requires. We refer to this as ‘never-skilling’” #ansky #medsky

Australia Institute research shows that almost one in three 12-17 year-olds gamble. In fact, Australian teenagers are more likely to gamble than to play soccer, basketball, cricket or any other sport. ✍️ Add your name now to join the call for gambling reform: https://theaus.in/4vg4wvS

🔊 New Podcast Episode | Australian Anaesthesia – Ep 120 WebAIRS meets M&M with Dr Yasmin Endlich 🎙️ Associate Professor Suzi Nou in conversation with Dr Yasmin Endlich 🎧 Listen now: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/e51dfe7b-e653-4aed-b19a-3cc20a54463c/

Trying to explain to my kid how big Australia was in the 80s. He seems not to care.

Neal continues his war on bollards.

Joke’s on her cause I was saying this years before I got any COVID boosters.

“I was in crisis & expressing suicidal ideations & [ChatGPT] did not encourage me to seek human support & resources…. Rather, it fueled my mania & actively supported my self-harm plans. I later found myself in the hospital, the victim of a suicide attempt which changed my life permanently.”🛟🧪

#LaVideoDuJour La nature est fascinante Voici une grenouille de verre originaire d’Amérique Centrale et du Sud. Nom scientifique : Centrolenidae. Les sphères vertes sont des œufs et ce qui est rouge est le cœur

👏👏👏👏 This shouldn’t be necessary but here we are… “Following an outbreak, lawmakers push to require flu vaccine for all service members in budget bill provision” www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

HPV vaccination can be described as one of the most effective cancer-prevention tools we have. A new Lancet paper shows what happens when strong biology, strong epidemiology, and enough time come together: fewer women are dying from cervical cancer. marcveldhoen.substac... 1/2

Totally agree. Has been my practice and teaching for more than 10y: www.stemlynsblog.org/self-experim...

A 1,000kg mammal is wreaking havoc in Tasmania – and Neil the seal is loved for it

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

what’s a place you visited where you were not prepared for the weather? living in new orleans for three years, when we heard japanese summers were hot and humid, we thought they didn’t know heat and humidity. but actually we didn’t know. my dark-skinned husband got a sunburn through his shirt

The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

Peanuts should be introduced at 4 to 6 months of age in infants at high risk for allergy and at approximately 6 months of age in other infants. For infants with peanut allergy, early immunotherapy is safer and more effective.  Learn more: https://nej.md/3SKV5Hf

No sooner did the Commonwealth Government announce tax reform than it was targeted by AI-generated deepfakes described as "tantamount to misinformation". ✍️ Sign the petition to ban misleading political advertising in NSW ⤵️ https://theaus.in/441KDxC Read more ⤵️ https://theaus.in/4gMBBvL

“Snow coverage in Australia is in long-term decline due to increasing temperatures caused by climate change, data from the Bureau of Meteorology shows. “ www.smh.com.au/environment/...

we are spending so much time, effort, and resources unringing this bell

“Multiple sources in the children’s home division said that as they prepared for sale they were pressed to rapidly open more homes & take on more children even when they didn’t have the staff to keep up. They claim they were told this was so the company could be sold for the maximum amount of money”

The only usable valid information we are getting about the Iran war is coming from **Checks notes Iran

Hikers lost in Kosciuszko National Park rescued by drones powered by AI

Every city’s got an ominous megastructure

palantir fasciitis

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Morning.

China is eating our lunch in almost everything. (no sound needed) China builds solar parks over reservoirs. This design improves the efficiency of the panels by keeping them cooler and lowers water loss from evaporation

Those mocking the link between zoster vaccination and prevention of dementia don’t cite this Nature study showing a 20% relative reduction in dementia in the 7 years post vax. The study uses the highly valid regression discontinuity design and the best data available www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Once again, for those at the back, the effort to refute bulls*t is 10x that required to produce it. Can we please stop doing high dose Vit C trials in critical care now?

Graphic design is my passion.

more commonly known as "grades" in "classes that they took"

29 years ago today, “Buena Vista Social Club” was released. #jazzsky

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

“Vape containing potent sedative ‘etomidate’ sold in Melbourne” This is an anaesthetic agent that could kill you. www.health.vic.gov.au/drug-alerts/...

“The concern is that as more and more AI agents get deployed and begin working together, we could hit a tipping point where imagined scenarios become real. “We see this with humanity, too,” says Shah. “Our institutions can accomplish things that no individual human can.””

Albo shuts down Hanson’s monoculture “nonsense” “ppl are proud of their ethnicity” Says on first fleet arrival “Not everyone was at one. There were some in chains & some in charge of ppl in chains”💥 “It’s a nonsense argument to go back to something that was never there” #auspol

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "Trash talking: Pauline at the Press Club"

From the Australian Dept of Agriculture, Fisheries & Foreatry over on LinkedIn. Sticking with the Avoid, Record, Report triad.✔️ Simple and clear.✔️ Limited text✔️ Selected and well-used colours✔️ An App might help but theyre not cheap and, ya know, we have submarines to fund.

A leading vaccine skeptic with millions of social media followers, Dr. Joseph Mercola repeatedly said that vitamin K shots were unnecessary for newborns. But in a break from his past warnings, Mercola says he no longer believes that.

Suraj has a point.

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

“What we are seeing with the rise of populist parties, here & overseas, is a dangerous normalisation of misinformation & mistrust in expertise. Evidence-based, rigorously tested scientific & medical advances underpin our modern life & we all benefit from them at an individual & societal level.”

I was walking by an anaesthetic bay once and spotted a junior reg putting a 16g cannula without local into an 80yo having a NOF. I took him aside and said: "Have you ever had a 16g put into you without local?" "No sir" "Would you like to?" To his credit, he said "Sure" And he never did it again.

Kalshi, Polymarket, and all of their cousins should be banned. “Prediction markets” aka online gambling on every single thing is not only ripe for corruption but is incredibly dangerous to public health.

We’re all seeking to establish our identity. Some find it in their family roles. Some find it in their communities. Some find it through work. Some never stop looking for it. It’s an instinctive human need that is frequently exploited. The danger is in allowing the exploitation not the need itself.