This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

“You guys are probably next, right? …Stanley cites Australia’s history of Indigenous displacement, its “performatively vicious” treatment of asylum seekers and the fierce “anti-woke” rhetoric that pierces public discourse. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Are you an early career researcher looking to get published? Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with @writersandartists.bsky.social. Find out how you can apply here (UK only): https://bit.ly/4nd2sBp

As @jesgilbert.bsky.social & I warn in our book The Secret Life of Data, all "smart" apps and devices are Trojan horses that can be reprogrammed to serve new functions after you've already invite them into your home and your life. Usually without consent & to your detriment. Caveat digital emptor.

BREAKING: #ANU has announced that there will be no forced redundancies. ✊ Union members fought tirelessly to save these jobs, and every university staff member facing job cuts can take heart from what we have achieved. Together, we have changed what is possible. nteu.au/[email protected]

BREAKING | ANU staff in the College of Arts and Social Sciences have received a Cease Work Order due to dangerous working conditions. Under the WHS Act staff will be paid while this order is in place. The order seeks to protect lives and wellbeing.

After a brief hiatus, the Read Them Sideways podcast is back! In this week's episode, Klaus Groebner (@gklaus.bsky.social) interviews Dr Ehsan Dehghan (@essideh.com) about his new book: The Discursive-Digital Link. Listen to Klaus and Ehsan chat about the new book below!

Did Bruna Paroni and I coin a term? We stumbled into using 'inauthentic coordinated fan behaviour' to talk about mobilising a fandom to astroturf a message. (So, at least some actors ARE fans, but also paid to spread a message.) It seems like that should already be a term. Is it? #fanstudies

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done Check it out at Australian Policy Online here: apo.org.au/node/331920

🆕 Very excited to announce the launch of M/C Journal issue 28.3: '#fan', edited by @svegaard.bsky.social and @vilkins.bsky.social. #mcjournal journal.media-cultur...

The picture on the article is from Brisbane. Where protests are usually tepid (in my limited experience). This was massive. So bad even Queenslanders turned out? (Fave sign spot: “Make Humanity Great Again”)

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch

New study — out today in Journalism Practice! In it, we analyze the qualities of a news story (about climate-related emergencies) that predict whether/how much it is shared/engaged with on Facebook and republished by other media outlets.

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-A...

Sam and I did a thing. Though honestly, the real work isn’t ours. We received some great articles for this. Thanks to the authors and reviewers! They were all wonderful and we can’t thank them enough. Go read the excellent articles that came out of it all.

Very excited to share that my book, The Discursive-Digital Link, is now available for pre-order on Routledge: tinyurl.com/the-ddl. The e-book is already available to order with a 30% discount! You can also read the synopsis and the Introduction chapter on my website: essideh.com/ddl/ (thread)

<<stage whisper>> It was never about jobs.

Wow. The dog almost copped it.

People are downloading free VPNs to jump over the new restrictions imposed by the Online Safety Act ... but this can cause a much bigger problem 👀

We were lucky to be joined by @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social on the Read Them Sideways podcast to talk about their new book with host, @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/00Go...

I don't know if posting the link is the best way to do this tbh as it doesn't include the title. Here you go.

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

As we talk about the cheerful insanity of Australia's Social Media Ban again this morning, here's your periodical reminder that the book it's inspired by - The Anxious Generation - is hogwash. Not just me saying it, but this little journal you might have heard of: Nature. www.nature.com/artic...

I enjoyed teaming up w @antmandan.bsky.social on Radio National's Life Matters today to discuss the increase in age-gating in Australia with both the social media ban for under16s & phase 2 industry codes beginning in December. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #socialmedia #ageverification #auspol

Incidentally, it’s never bad media literacy to ask yourself about the rhetorical situation of utterances, especially by content creators: - why does this need to be said? - why in this form? - why by this person? - why to this audience? - why in this moment? - for what purpose?

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the #Pharos of #Alexandria for a long time was the tallest lighthouse on record - until it was destroyed in a series of earthquakes. Now, a ‪@cnrs.fr-CEAlex team has recovered its impressive remains from the seabed: archaeologymag.com/2025/07/ligh...

Excited to share my new article, "Mapping and Measuring Listening in Public Communication Settings", now published in Media and Communication (@CogitatioMaC)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess

Israel claimed Hamas was stealing aid but actually armed the gangs that were stealing it to “combat Hamas” and then blamed Hamas and the UN. The UN says it can’t deliver aid because between Israeli attacks and those of the Israeli-armed gangs, it’s too unsafe. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

I just donated to several of these (vetted) organizations. Please consider doing the same if you have the means and are outraged by the Israeli starvation of the Gaza population.

Made this cute little website over the past month in my spare time. So many fish have been drawn!!! No idea where they're all coming from. A real field of dreams moment :)

Important content.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

So, if humanities produce good job outcomes, humanities have a secure ROI that bring in more than they cost, and STEM now has an even lower ROI due to grant cuts…. shouldn’t we invest more in humanities where less $$ goes a longer way? Apparently not. We should ask why not. /9

No words 💔

"The myth persists because there’s always a market for anti-feminist backlash, and now that we’re in the middle of an anti-education backlash as well, a mostly female teaching force is sadly an easy target."

Huge news from the International Court of Justice in the Hague – the start of a new era of climate accountability The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

Jasper’s research is super fascinating - and he was very patient in explaining to me what we might mean by “robot” in the contact of health care.

Auguste Rodin, The Three Shades, 1881-86 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136741

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it.

The degree to which the fossil fuel industries have clocked the populist far right as their last chance to slow the energy transition - and is funding them to undermine it at every step - is one of the biggest stories in global politics, largely and widely ignored.

Do you want to work with us? 7 PhD positions, full time, for 3 years, at the faculty of humanities at NTNU (Trondheim): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline for applications is 15 October, applicants must align the application with one of the relevant research groups (see the call for details).

Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it. While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

Woooow! That was so… predictable!

“By placing Palantir at the heart of its operations, Coles quietly smuggles in several key assumptions: that food is a commodity to be optimised, that paying for labour is a risk rather than a responsibility, and that data can capture everything of importance.”

Dr Ashwin Nagappa provided his thoughts to SBS Hindi on the proposed social media ban for under 16s in Australia. This podcast also features the thoughts of young children and families, providing important perspectives. www.sbs.com.au/langu...