The next 6 days is classic Melbourne summer weather. Cold air to the south, hot air to the north and a 20+ deg C swing in temp (20-40C 65-105F) over 3 days and repeat as the prevailing wind switches S to N.

We’re inspired by a recent WEHI-led study that has the potential to transform how ovarian cancer is treated. Read the article here: www.wehi.edu.au/news/blood-t... Read the Nature Communications paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @twistbioscience.com @wehi-research.bsky.social

JP Morgan Chase, the #1 global financier of fossil fuels between 2021 and 2024, has had to cancel its Sydney fun-run due to a heatwave www.bankingonclimatechaos.org?bank=JPMorga...

So who's going to actually *rebuild* liberal democracy? www.thebulwark.com/p/america-ne...

The timing of applause from some generals this week may be the most consequential moment for world democracy in recent memory.

The Albanese government is being urged to make it mandatory for listed firms and other large companies to post their financial results digitally after it was revealed such reporting had not happened once in the 15 years of the current voluntary system’s operation www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw. Researchers discovered you could use malformed URLs to grab .env files and steal OpenAI or Gemini API keys. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/719617/...

If your kid is eligible for the HPV vaccine I strongly encourage you to start it now (just two shots)

Truth. I produced a podcast on why boys should receive the #HPV ‘cervical cancer’ vaccine a few years ago. tl:dr it also protects men against throat #cancer, anal & penile cancers. Imagine! A vaccine that prevents cancers! 💯❤️ www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

One EV. $500 earned in three days. We’ve wrapped the early results, key takeaways, and what’s coming next in Australia’s first residential V2G trial. amber.com.au/blog/lessons...

It’s not that we didn’t know about the impending climate crisis 50 yrs ago, or that we couldn’t have done anything to avoid it, we knew about it, and scientists came up with tons of good ideas, it’s just that a tiny group or rich & powerful people refused to do anything about it.

"I've wondered ever since, where is that video? Was he lying? Does it exist? I know everyone's very focused on lists, right? You know, where are the lists. But my question is, what's in all those files that the government has, the DOJ has?" Stacey Williams joins @timmiller.bsky.social

major statement from PM Albanese on Gaza, Australia's strongest condemnation yet: "The situation has gone beyond the world’s worst fears" "Israel’s denial of aid and the killing of civilians, including children, seeking access to water and food cannot be defended or ignored"

It's pretty simple: Australia doesn't need to approve more gas projects to keep the lights on. That's just a fossil fuel industry talking point. Read Ketan's full article: australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

There's something pretty interesting in the federal government's gas projections Turns out, Australia’s gas consumption actually peaked years ago, and it's projected to keep falling. 🎙Ketan Joshi, Senior Research Associate @ketanjoshi.co #auspol

Conversely, normal decent people suffer from "pluralistic ignorance" -- because the assholes are so loud & ubiquitous, decent people don't realize that most other people share their decency. They don't realize they're in the majority.

"Australians should be well informed about the role Pine Gap plays in global intelligence. Has it played a role in the Iran bombings, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine? Is it the 'eyes' on China on behalf of the US?" | John Hewson http://satpa.pe/3rxyIDL

🚨The Catholic Church has failed to notify police of abuse allegations against one of its most senior figures – despite claiming to have done so over a week ago. NSW Police confirm "no notification" regarding Sydney's powerful Opus Dei Bishop... theklaxon.com.au/cz69

Patricia Arquette says US isn't 'safe for tourists' and calls to cancel the Olympics

Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review. Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."

A first for Australia! The Snow Centre & BioGrid Australia have launched a secure, cloud-based platform (Aridhia DRE) to fast-track immune health research. Real-time global collaboration Safe, seamless data access 🔗 www.wehi.edu.au/news/austral... #ImmuneHealth #MedTech #Research

Also how about the ABC stops hiring senior people from commercial media & other bullying cultures who may not ever understand or truly care about the tradition & importance of public broadcasting or how to be steadfast in the face of demanded favours. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“it's time for Australia’s universities to stop #greenwashing companies like Woodside...to cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry as they did with the tobacco industry.” @rodcampbell.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au #ClimateCrisis #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/time-to...

Hey Australian genetics/genomics friends: the OurDNA Symposium will be in Sydney on 14 August, just before the HGSA meeting. Learn more about inclusive recruitment for genomics and get a preview of the OurDNA variant browser! events.humanitix.com/ourdna-sympo...

In vivo CAR T cell generation to treat cancer and autoimmune disease | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you blinked, you may have missed it. Hurricane #Erick made landfall on the Mexican coast as a major hurricane early Thursday. It broke records for so early in the season. 80 mph intensification in 24 hours and earliest landfall on the Pacific side of Mexico.

When people said that there was a gas rig right next to the 12 Apostles, I really didn't expect it to be *this* close to the 12 Apostles. What the fuck!

My column today has some thoughts on how to increase productivity www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

A reminder that increasing productivity is a worthy ambition, but we also need to talk about who benefits. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

🚨🚨Paper out!! 🚨🚨 Excited to share our work (Pre-cancer Atlas of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer (HGSOC)), now published in @CD_AACR ! aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov... What if I told you HGSOC often starts in the Fallopian Tube and progresses through precancerous lesions? 1/n 🧵👇

Chatting about a graph of nearly a quarter of a century of Australian laboratory influenza virus detections.

In case you needed another reason to hate Epstein-Barr virus- it looks like it might cause primary sclerosing cholangitis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Immigrants are the first target; and if they can get away with doing these things to immigrants, what are the legal barriers from moving on to the next undesirable group?”

We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces. We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses. Hello?

a side note: this is as frontal an assault on the US by Israel as I've ever seen, and there have been some bad ones. This is Israel blowing up the planned negotiations in Oman tomorrow between the Trump envoy and Iran. This is Netanyahu saying the US can't do diplomacy he doesn't sign off on.

🧬 We just published our systematic review on deep learning-based deconvolution methods for transcriptomics data! Analyzed 13 AI tools that decompose cellular heterogeneity in bulk RNA-seq. 🧬🖥️🧪 @ufvmadrid.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Researchers found that "AI therapist chatbots are contributing to harmful mental health stigmas — and reacting in outright dangerous ways to users exhibiting signs of severe crises, including suicidality and schizophrenia-related psychosis and delusion" futurism.com/stanford-the...

It’s a pretty good barometer for our politics that Trump’s most high-profile collaborator, Elon Musk, accused Trump publicly of being a pedophile and called for his impeachment like 5 days ago and everyone appears to have simply shrugged and moved on.

The CDC is rehiring more than 400 people who had received layoff notices. Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The first navy in the world likely to see a submarine from our gigantic AUKUS spend now looks to be the Netherlands, which is buying that French design we paid $3 billion to develop ... and getting it cheap, of course. www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements. The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff. This is bad.

Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

The process for ACIP membership usually takes years of vetting, particularly for conflicts of interest. Have these people undergone the same level of scrutiny? I'm pretty sure Malone has made money from saying falsely that mRNA vaccines are unsafe.

💉 I’ve just learnt RFK Jr has named his replacements for the committee. Some names are familiar to me from following anti-vaccine circles and pseudoscience, e.g. Pebworth, Malone, Levi. Kulldorff is a member of the Great Barrington Declaration. I’d expect anti-vaccine/pseudoscience to dominate 😔

How do you 'deport' someone you have kidnapped on the high seas, in a clear act of piracy? apnews.com/article/thun...