Its taken a while, but a summary of our "enhanced surveillance" for HPAI that we undertook last spring is now on bioRxiv. Lots of cool LPAI viruses in arriving shorebirds, but no HPAI. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fact for today: Canada has climbed from 4th to 2nd in the latest international reputation rankings. The US has dropped dramatically, from 30th to 48th among the 60 top economies. Switzerland ranks first, Russia last. The rankings are often a factor in country investment decisions.

I'm sure this utterly reflects his "market value" 🙄

Mamdani has made higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations a central pillar of his economic agenda.

Victoria’s husband has cystic fibrosis. Without health insurance, his medication costs $300,000 per year. Republicans’ failure to extend ACA subsidies means that Victoria and her husband won't be able to afford their insurance. These are the stakes for working people in this fight. We cannot cave.

MAGA mainstreams Fuentes. Fuentes: “Jews are running society, women need to shut up…Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Autumn in Kharkiv. I can't believe it's almost winter again.I used to love winter. loved the holiday season in the big city, where everything sparkled and shone Winter isn't so lovely when your neighbor is trying to bomb you into cold and darkness, kill you, and raze your city

I'm doing some research while our late teen and 20yo are conducting a high-level discussion about this stuff. Being a parent is great isn't it?🤣 (poaent posts emoji that, as far as he's concerned, means just what it looks like) oakmonitoronline.com/19820/featur....

Thanks from a grateful nation

If you take ANYTHING a compulsive liar says at face value, then perhaps the problem is just as much with you as it is with them. Facts can point to their evidence-based sources. Liars can only point to other liars for their source. If they even do that.

Well that's bullshit.

This is the second time that those who could be bothered to get out and vote, bought this same property, knowing full well what they were paying for. Let's not overlook that fact with catchy but misleading headlines.

Verdict Number One: America Has Big-Time Buyer’s Remorse About Trump newrepublic.com/article/2027... via @newrepublic.com

A very important article in @foreignaffairs.com The real sanctions hurting the Russian economy are the Ukrainian long-ranged sanctions on Russian oil refining and production. Unlike Trump's sham "sanctions", these are real ones which are taking a real toll. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...

Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!) An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏

Evidence continues to accumulate linking exposure to air pollution with dementia. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...

Indeed, election perversion operations are being pushed right now. Though the palpable air of panic is at least something to behold

These are some pretty mad swings - at least they would be if this were an Australian election. 10% to more than 20% ->20% towards the left. Across the board. Wild message being sent here. Maybe there is hope for the US yet.

Early in the count, just 19%, but a definite vote Yes to redistricting #Prop50 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEN1... Pete Davidson’s take on his home borough explains a lot.

Virginia changes to a Democrat Governor. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

#Mamdani starts strong with 36% counted.

'Star Trek 4’ is reportedly no longer happening Paramount is moving on from the cast led by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana (via Variety)

Filtered air for chickens, but not for students, workers or patients: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

russian attack drone launches have quadrupled this year, Sky News reports. The terrorist state sent 44,000+ Shaheds to kill Ukrainians in 2025, which is 300% more than in 2024. Naturally, this has caused an increased amount of civilian casualties👇

We can't let rage win! 💪 Research shows anger, not fear, shifts political beliefs source.washu.edu/2025/10/rese... "...the researchers found that anger — not fear — was the primary emotion tied to a shift toward conservative views."

Timothy Caulfield warns of a “knowledge crisis,” urges unions to push back against health misinformation cupe.ca/tim-caulfiel... via @cupescfp.bsky.social 🙏 "Vaccine debates are no longer about data — they’ve become symbols of political identity."

Carney Goes from 'Elbows Up' to Apologies via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

The nation's top spy uses a major speech to warn there is a "realistic possibility" a foreign government will try to assassinate a dissident on Australian soil, saying ASIO believes "at least three" nations are willing and capable of carrying out such a plot.

'Little did they know': ASIO boss reveals spy confrontation, and fresh Russia threats

From Gaza to Sudan, and Syria to Ukraine, the long-standing idea that health should not be targeted in conflict is being increasingly undermined. In a new World Report, Sharmila Devi explores the erosion of medical neutrality: tinyurl.com/3j3sjb3f

The radiation effects have been ruinous, according to US government reports cited by the Atomic Heritage Foundation, which said the testing was responsible for 55% of cancers on some of the islands' northern atolls. https://cnn.it/4op9uUB

#ClimateSolutions and #Inequality.

Might be also of relevance for #NZ: State of Indoor Air in Australia Report 2025 thriveiaq.com/our-impact/s... (H/T @mackayim.bsky.social)

The final maths exams ever (for the parents) are over! #Grade12

There used to be a program - Bushlight - that set up renewable energy systems in remote communities (and trained the locals in how to maintain and manage them). Presumably cancelled by the Abbott government on the basis of being successful www.cfat.org.au/bushlight-ar...

Microgrids would completely solve this deliberate policy of punishing Indigenous people and could be purchased and installed at any time, if the government had any interest in doing so energynews.africa/2024/09/20/m...

Something Prof Morawska contributed to... "The Impact of indoor air quality on the transmission of airborne viral diseases in public buildings" -May 2024 #CleanAir #Airborne #transmission #filtration #UVC www.chiefscientist.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Using mobile air cleaners [MACs] in school classrooms for aerosol removal 😶‍🌫️ 7 commercial MACs tested, all could remove aerosols 😶‍🌫️ Upward-facing exhaust was better for mixing room air 😶‍🌫️ ≥2 devices for the classroom plus mechanical a/c 😶‍🌫️ Loudness was a problem journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"Bowen said the new offer showed that free solar energy in the day was “proof that what’s good for the planet is good for your pocket”." -this is what's needed from government. Returning the rewards to the people. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Despite attention on #flu centering on the global threat of a pandemic and the potential effects of the virus in an increasingly interconnected global community, "our results show that seasonal #influenza contributes to a substantial burden of LRTIs" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Increasingly seeing a strange false logic in political discourse around science, which goes something like: 1. No observational evidence can be trusted 2. The only reliable evidence is an RCT 3. RCTs involving pharma can't be trusted 4. Public funds shouldn't cover RCTs, so pharma must do them

Doing some origami with my 4 year old earlier and asked him what we should make next. Him: “I’d like a rocket…” Me: *starts looking up origami rockets* Him: “…with a fox driving it"

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

This does not bode well:

"more than 90 per cent of the time we are indoors, be at home, office, school … so it is indoor air which is the most important for our health. "This is the problem right now — we must establish indoor air quality standards, and mandate those standards." www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Congratulations to Distinguished Prof Lidia Morawska FAA FTSE (QUT) for being awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2025! 🎉 Prof Morawska was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 2020 and in 2023 received the Academy’s Mathew Flinders Medal.