Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

In an ironic act of secrecy, an FOI request by The Australia Institute has exposed how the Attorney General’s Department deliberately avoided scrutiny of the government’s bungled attempt to change the nation’s FOI laws. 📺 Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social at Senate Estimates #auspol

My ducks are not in a row. My ibis, however..:

Come listen to me talk about computational reproducibility this week! In this @sortee.bsky.social webinar, I'm discussing what I learnt when I sat down and attempted to find and use shared data and code files to reproduce results from articles in Eco/Evo. Register via the link below:

The ABC Ombudsman has now concluded that this article, which: - falsely claimed 8 million+ Australians are on income support - falsely claimed sick leave is an income support payment is NOT in breach of the ABC's editorial guidelines. Goodness me www.abc.net.au/about/ombuds...

This remains a very funny hill to die on for me Like yes, you should confirm your citation says the thing you’re citing it for! It’s bad if your whole field is fucking up a common citation! I get yelled at by a judge and potentially sanctioned if I do this

Paul Brereton has resigned from the NACC citing the "ongoing focus on matters relating to me personally rather than the Commission’s work". He says he will "continue to resist any suggestion of impropriety."

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

Many older adults who died of COVID weren’t close to death before infection, study suggests "About 28% of older people in England who died of COVID-19 in the first 2.5 years of the pandemic would likely, if uninfected, have lived at least another 5 years" Source: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/man...

Seeking health care as a woman in one headline www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Don’t get me wrong, I never stop being shocked when people tell me they’re voting One Nation. It’s a shitful racist choice. But I understand the psychology of how people get there

Living in a rural area and working with populations facing socioeconomic disadvantage you’d never witness in the city, it doesn’t feel hard to understand why people would outright refuse to vote for either Labor or Liberals

Ahead of the 2026 federal budget, Education Minister Jason Clare has announced plans for a new national commission for early education and care.

Cruise ship outbreaks are back in the news, but how do people interact? A few years ago, we analysed almost 4m social interactions during multi-day cruises. Passengers had median of 20 (IQR 10–36) unique close contacts per day, and over 60% of contact episodes were in dining or sports areas:

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

If your brain is struggling due to anxiety,sadness,the way others have behaved,ADHD, autism,burnout,chronic illness &/or because the world’s too full of grimness then hi,me too. Research shows my photo’ll provide relief for your thoughts-pause & zoom into the details-& keep going, you’re not alone 🌿

This is big. Former leaders, executives and professionals of the oil and gas industry are urging the government to reject the expansion of fossil fuel dependence. 👏👏👏 Read the open letter: https://theaus.in/4u2HOYc

Loneliness sits awkwardly in public health. It’s not infectious. It’s not a classic lifestyle risk. But it still affects mortality. The “as deadly as smoking” claim isn’t quite right, but the real story matters. My latest article in Medium: medium.com/@adrian.este...

The technology also raises the question of whether AI camera systems are the best way to promote safe driving.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

Five and a half years in now. They're still hearing on relief, and that's before any appeals.

The audio-only version of Being a Public Scholar with @lollardfish.bsky.social is now available anywhere you get your podcasts! legendsandlectures.podbean.com/e/being-a-pu...

Posting so hard that he accidentally kicked off literary modernity

The first truly great shitposter was Danté who wrote a post over 14,000 lines long about all the people he hated

This is a perfect example of internalized ableism. Being so terrified of your own diagnosis that you endanger everyone with it by calling for it to be hidden and squirreled away where no one can find it and make everyone who has it hide in the shadows or be publicly judged.

Welcome to the Federal Court of Australia's Bluesky account. Here you'll find updates on the Court, announcements and insights into our work. We look forward to sharing information that helps keep you informed and connected. Follow along for the latest updates! #FCA

Jfc. I am shocked. Utterly surprised. /s

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

“Taylor said Albanese wasted the nation’s time. His reply was not much different” Love that headline! 😎 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

For context, here is a story from another Victorian lab trying to recruit people for an #mecfs study. Everyone thinks someone else will volunteer, surely they don't need *me*. But this is actually one of the hard parts of science. Whole trials fail because they can't recruit people!!

Seriously, if you are a woman, live in Victoria and have weird #longcovid #postcovid symptoms, these researchers 🧑‍🔬 are desperate to hear from you! 🫵Please email now!🌋

We have moved a long way from thinking about the ‘precautionary principle’ to now just ignoring a mountain of studies and hundreds of millions of long covid sufferers. It’s a very self destructive pattern of behaviour. Millions of children are impacted. I don’t know what it will take to U-turn?

‘A cruel penalty’: hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit cut if their conditions are deemed not to be lifelong. My report in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1/5

It's 8th anniversary of this paper A lot of it was only possible due to Alem's heroic FOI victory, which the #PACETrial team fought so hard to stop. That surely wasn't because the real results weren't as flattering as they had presented them? bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #MECFS

"[T]he absence of LGBTIQ+ vilification prohibitions – with neither South Australian nor Commonwealth law currently protecting our communities – implies that anti-LGBTIQ+ prejudice is not as serious as other types of hate speech." #auslaw #savotes #auspol www.starobserver.com.au/news/explain...

The 2025 death of nutrition influencer Stacey Warnecke is being examined by a Victorian coroner, with an inquest to probe the circumstances around Ms Warnecke's decline and the role of a support worker, Emily Lal. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #aushealth #auslaw

I have one word: Finally. #auspol #auslaw #racism #justice

Truly extraordinary that a country famed for a constitution of checks and balances turned out to be so exposed to a leadership personality cult.

I’ve heard these questions a hundred times at least… but I don’t get tired of explaining if people really want to know. In fact, this brings me great joy. Sharing knowledge is a privilege. It is so rewarding to see people learn new things and get benefits from it.

“Were you wearing that indoors all this time?” No, just put it on to answer the door. There is no need for me to wear it in the house. Everyone at home takes precautions while they are out.

I like talking to young people. They aren’t shy about asking a question! “Do people freak out when the way see you?” Yeah, sometimes. Only cos they are worried I’m going to infect them.

And I am telling people one at a time. When this should be advertised on TV using our tax money. #PublicHealth