USA soccer player Folarin Balogun is the epitome of why birthright citizenship matters: opening doors and creating opportunities to help our nation reach new heights. Attempts to upend birthright citizenship are unlawful and un-American. Team USA will show what unity looks like tonight.

Late Breaker abstracts for #APSAD26 are open! If you have new research or findings that weren't ready by the first-round deadline, this is your last chance to be a part of a world-class program. Abstracts close 11:59 (AWST) 27 July, with no extensions offered. https://ow.ly/9yrE50ZkV0U

The Socceroo star says anyone "trying to divide" the community was "probably not Australian themselves."

The Socceroo star says anyone "trying to divide" the community was "probably not Australian themselves".

BREAKING: FIFA announces Trump to referree US-Belguim game; Barron, Eric & Kushner in US team, Cup reshaped as Trump bust, & 12% levy on all tickets to go to Trump charities.

30yrs on, who hasn't changed? We learned more, we unlearned stuff that had never served anyone, we grew up, matured, found our place on the planet & realised that it was not only big enough to share but more fun to do so. Who hasn't changed? Hanson hasn't. Hasn't budged a smidge from her 🐂 💩.

Embracing complexity by reducing rigidity: guiding principles for the intersection of implementation science and qualitative research #impsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The child of BB-8?

Best Psychology nerd joke of the world cup ... so far! Thanks @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

If your parent or carer is using #methamphetamine, you might face some things that are hard to handle at your age. This factsheet can help guide you on what to look out for, and what steps you can take to look after yourself + get support: cracksintheice.org.a...

Global health advocates are calling on #FIFA to end its Coca-Cola World Cup sponsorship by 2030, warning that football’s biggest stage is being used to market sugary drinks linked to obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. ⚽🥤 ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @vitalstrategies.org 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

Today is #WorldNoTobaccoDay 🚭 Tobacco and nicotine companies deliberately design their products to hook you. Sugars, flavours, and cooling agents all mask the harshness of nicotine so you inhale more, and get addicted faster. Let's break the addiction. Help is available 👉 bit.ly/4wIK34X

🆕Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Help-Seeking for Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among Australian Public Safety Personnel Coleen Leung, Amelia Henry, Jayden Sercombe, Olivia Dobson, ... Alana Fisher, et al https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.70176 University of Sydney (USYD), Monash University

@who.int says progress toward global health goals is now “too slow, too uneven, and increasingly fragile” — with low- and middle-income countries bearing the brunt as financing, surveillance and essential services come under pressure. ✍️ @stefananderson.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

⚠️Lower-income countries are training nurses who are then recruited abroad, while their own health systems lose clinicians, educators and leaders. INSIDE VIEW: @howardcatton.bsky.social; @intcouncilofnurses.bsky.social 📖⬇️& 🔁🙏

As ANZAC day aproaches here in Australia id like to share AD Hope's Inscription for a War

The awesome @louisemewton.bsky.social and colleagues have published a cool paper - Effect of the online Rethink My Drink (rethinkmydrink.org.au) alcohol intervention on alcohol use and cognition in older adults in Australia: a RCT authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... #alcohol #dementia

Are you interested in how mental health care can be improved? Why the innovation cycle in psychotherapy is flawed? Improvements are possible, but only through small, incremental steps. Listen to the interview I had with Dan Cox about this psychotherapyandappliedpsychology.com/ep/18996789-...

Today marks 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody made 339 recommendations to address systemic racism and over-incarceration of First Nations people. Since then, more than 630 First Nations people have died in custody, including 12 so far in 2026.

An introduction to psychometric theory with applications in R by William Revelle #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/psychology.html#an-introduction-to-psychometric-theory-with-applications-in-r

WHO is warning of a deepening health crisis across the Middle East ⚠️ Only 37% of required funding has been secured for 2026. Health systems are under extreme strain—and the consequences could last generations. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @who.int @iaeaorg.bsky.social

“There was no time to process, only to move, to respond, to try to save lives.” Safa Bleik was at a hospital in Beirut when Israeli forces launched strikes across Lebanon on 8 April. She shares what it was like in the emergency room:

It’s great that the Artemis crew have travelled further from earth than any other humans but in this moment in history it reminds me of this quote from Carl Sagan

Thanks Vic Cogger for your leadership of the Anzac Institute! Looking forward to what you will do in your next role as director of the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator @sydney.edu.au and Sydney Local Health District #SBA

A cool paper on improving use of Goal Setting - using the #TDF by Sarah Brighton-Hall @natashalannin.bsky.social Alison Wighton Kylie Gough, Catherine Dean & Katharine Scrivener #GoalSetting doi.org/10.1080/0963...

We love you @the-matildas.bsky.social ! #wac26 played hard done good!

Never feel guilty explaining your symptoms to your health care provider. You have a right to ask, and a right to explore all options of care. Today’s daily dose.

In 2024, 4.9 million children under five died. But even one is too many. We need: - Stronger primary health care. - Resources directed to where children are most at risk. - Governments honoring the commitments they've already made. Child survival cannot wait 🔗 bit.ly/3PbJak9

If you’re an immigrant, if you’re first generation, if you’re a woman, a scientist of color, trans, or gay, you belong in science. - Maya English, PhD student, GETUP UAW #standupforscience #philadelphiascienceaction

📣🆕 Jack Wilson, Matthew Sunderland, Siobhan O’Dean, Tim Slade, Danielle Dawson, Olivia Dobson, Janni Leung, @garyckchan.bsky.social, Maree Teesson, Wayne Hall, Nicola Newton, @vale-addiction.bsky.social, @emilystockings.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Alcohol companies use zero-alcohol ads to get around advertising rules. It looks harmless. It isn’t. These campaigns serve as brand reminders for alcohol - including for children and weaken protections designed to reduce harm. An excellent @theguardian.com short 🔽 www.youtube.com/shorts/Nzg7r...

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Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection. The more times someone is infected, the higher their risk of developing Long COVID. Reducing infections is one of the most important ways to protect long-term health. The Five Pillars of Protection help lower risk by layering prevention strategies:

If anyone waiting for NHMRC to announce investigator grants can tolerate a LOTR joke

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Don’t shrink yourself, don’t censor yourself, don’t count yourself out, don’t change your company’s policies, don’t purge your research program, don’t modify your language, don’t sit back when you want to speak up. This is OUR America. We don’t do all that here. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

@russgl.bsky.social is celebrating an anniversary for a webtool created with partners from @cumedicalschool.bsky.social, @washumedicine.bsky.social, & @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social to demystify #ImpSci. Read More about Webtool: tinyurl.com/3s45jcay #ACCORDSCommunity

Great to be at the new Centre for Child and Adolescent Health Research planning day @sydney.edu.au such an amazing collaboration of consumers clinicians and researchers

Now out in Psychological Medicine (led by Jodi Gilman and myself). "Impulsivity-related predictors of adolescent substance use initiation" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great material for any presentation on survivor bias!

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

Great to be at the launch of my buddy Sophie Isobel's book on trauma informed care www.routledge.com/Trauma-Infor... #traumainformedcare

This is why we say there can be no science-as-usual now. This passage is from Peter Drucker’s essay in the Atlantic about the crossroads that science stood at during Nazism. Science doesn’t just need funding — it needs the fundamental freedoms that come with democracy. Freedom of speech. (1/3🧵)

Wow this is one of the neatest applications of test theory and clever modelling to shine light on variation between self report and task results. Thanks @natehaines.bsky.social looking forward to reading the paper!

Great to see the Whitlams playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this evening. So many good songs but youtu.be/7B49zI5UrAQ?... had all its sting! #whitlams #bangamblingadvertising

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”