It's very clear that social media is not the safest place for trans folks - that why I'm supporting TGV to provide more in-person peer-support in regional Victoria! Every dollar you donate for GiveOut Day will be matched if you donate before Thursday: giveoutday.org.au/kath-albury

Kath’s participants identified social media as a site of risk for workplace health and safety for people doing sexual health work in the digital space - this reflects my own experience but I feel it’s gotten so much worse in just the last few years #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social

Supporting digital capabilities in a way that also supports rights and autonomy means moving away from an understanding of the term that relies on individual knowledge. Individual knowledge is insufficient in situations of systems and governance failure #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social

The amazing @katha.bsky.social presenting on building digital capabilities in hostile social media environments. The context stuff is fascinating - this has been a deeply weird but also vitally important four year period for Kath to have been leading this research #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025

Featuring @katha.bsky.social @floreani.bsky.social and guest presenters from across the sector, @muyiiyamu.bsky.social Melanie Bissessor, Caitlin Learmonth, Daniel Reeders, Amy Tong, and Jess Wilms.

A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals & communities navigate the overwhelming & often unreliable online information about sexual & reproductive health by building digital & data capabilities @katha.bsky.social bit.ly/3Vu0cKh

New paper on our Heart Yarning Tool! Summarising how we codesigned shared decision making support for Heart Health Checks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sydney.edu.au @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @isdmsociety.bsky.social

Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone. Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools... Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social. @digital-health.bsky.social 3/3

New publication reviewing research literature reporting on user involvement the design of digital HIV and sexual health tools- led by @aliciajeanking.bsky.social & Ethan Trey Cardwell, with a great set of illustrious co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:

This is bang on the money

What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area? Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055... In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool… 1/

Privileged to be a part of this project, led by the incomparable Britt Paris.

Do you know someone looking for a great PhD opportunity with a great academic supervisor? PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia” hblog.org/2025/06/18/p...

Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

My PhD framework is now LIVE! We co-designed 5 recommendations for improving social media health communication to young people, with young people and health orgs📱 🔗: www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/social-media-comms-for-young-people-framework #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDSky #PublicHealth 🦘🎓

Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/aussies-love-don-t-know-what-age-assurance-is-iran-whatsapp-ban-and-mastodon-s-ai-plea-f6b7f1bfe4385

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

With less than 6 months until Australia's teen social media ban kicks in (!) we aren't much closer to knowing how it will work. I wrote what needs to happen before the ban, what people think it'll look like, and why we're going to find out some details in the next 2 weeks. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...

While new online industry codes aim to protect children from harmful content, experts warn they could unintentionally restrict access to vital sexual health and education resources, particularly for young and marginalised groups. @katha.bsky.social #SexEd #DigitalRights bit.ly/45szRlO

Well known, Palestinian artist Elham Al-Boddi, 33, of Beit Lahia, was killed in an airstrike yesterday. Her husband had been killed months earlier.

We are pleased to announce that the Australian Research Council-funded Digital and Data Capabilities for Sexual and Reproductive Health knowledge translation website is live! Visit ddcsrh.com for evidence-based resources supporting digital transformation in the SRH sector.

New piece out with the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory team: what political ads are Australians seeing online? We map the ads of #auspol2025. @internetobservatory.org.au @gisellenewton.bsky.social @markandrejevic.bsky.social @kateeuph.bsky.social theconversation.com/what-politic...

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

"This guide for journalists is offered in the context of the ongoing and rapidly intensifying criminalization of migrants in the U.S." via @interruptcrim.bsky.social

This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.

Happy Saint George Day, queers!

JOIN OUR TEAM: the Sociological Review Foundation is currently seeking a part-time Development Manager. In this key role, you will drive our charity’s strategic growth initiatives and fundraising calls, expand our partnerships and generate revenue. CLOSING SOON - deadline 2 May. buff.ly/zTLz6ab

Do you want all your Facebook and Instagram photos, posts and data to be used by Meta to train AI? If not, then *now* is the time to object. This article explains how. datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st...

What can a politician's OnlyFans can teach us about the contemporary digital sexual health landscape? I am always wary of posting hot takes, but 'digital business as usual' is not serving SRH organisations: www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-p...

I'm recruiting LGBTQ+ young people for research interviews about TikTok & peer-based mental health support. Participants must be aged 16-25, LGBTQ+, AUS-based. $50 voucher. This follows up findings from the Digital Peer Support study. Info & register at digitalpeersupport.com/news/ Please share! 😊

Are you keen to pursue further studies in health, health law, bioethics, or a related field, to promote the health of people with innate variations of sex characteristics? Consider this PhD scholarship for domestic (Australian/NZ) students! Closing date: 27 April www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Three (2 at Deakin & 1 at ECU) PhD scholarship opportunities are available as part of a new Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project: Youth Futures after Mobility The full details are available via a Word document available here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

Our team developed a brand new AIVL Media & Communications Guide by people who use drugs (PWUD) using a harm reduction lens.🔍🤩💊💉💜 It aims to help reporters and people writing for media ensure their coverage promotes an accurate and informed narrative: aivl.org.au/resources/re...

Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 has "a magic to it i haven't felt before." I'm reminded of Peter Nagy and Gina Neff's article about "the conjuration of algorithms—a strategically deployed narrative device that uses the principles of magic to manipulate the public perception of technologies."

🧭🤖 “Turning right”? Political shifts in ChatGPT A study using 3,000+ tests shows newer ChatGPT versions are shifting right on the political compass. Not user-driven – the shift may stem from system-level changes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1057/s415... #SciComm #GenAI 🧪

"Gaza’s one million children – who have endured more than 15 months of war – have been plunged back into a world of fear and death. The attacks and the violence must stop – now." www.croakey.org/amid-scenes-...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

I’m very pleased to share the first academic publication from my ARC-funded ‘digital & data capabilities for sexual and reproductive health’ project today. It daws on interviews with researchers & practitioners to consider digital health promotion: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

❓APIs ❓Browser extensions ❓Apps ‼️ Yes, those, too: blog.archive.org/2025/03/13/w...

Yes! 🙌 Linking to archived versions of webpages in your CVs and research reports ensures long-term access, even if the original resource is removed or temporarily unavailable.

This one is on pleasure! I wrote an article with @katha.bsky.social and @zahrastardust.bsky.social about LGBTQ+ people’s uses and experiences of sextech and the tension between pleasure as a commodity in sexual capitalism and pleasure as something more improvisational and unpredictable.

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever scholar.archive.org

Our researchers at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University are exploring how children understand and use digital technologies as part of our Children's Forum series 📅 8 March: Contact [email protected] 📅 15 March: events.humanitix.com/childrens-fo...

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