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Join us for a special event featuring @mja.com.au Editor-in-Chief, Professor @ginnybarbour.bsky.social, who will give an insider's view on how to outsmart scammers in research and publishing, what to beware of how to thrive. 🗓 Wednesday 16 July 2025, 4–6pm 📍 QUT Gardens Theatre 🎫 bit.ly/42QEGT2

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Oh dear, yes theconversation.com/your-smartph...

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New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO uses science-y language to sound legit—but it’s being used to dismiss real evidence, like COVID vaccine benefits in pregnancy. John Timmer breaks it down & cites a piece by our founder on how Trump’s EO threatens to reshape US science around a political agenda⬇️ bit.ly/4jxe0Ny

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Great to see

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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While this absolute shocker of a project has been approved by @albomp.bsky.social's government for now, I'm proud to say I joined many others in rejecting this horrific climate bomb that will also destroy globally significant and ancient culture. More 👉 www.ccwa.org.au/scientists_e...

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Fantastic upcoming event- www.dea.org.au/healthy_ocea...

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Went down a rabbit hole today and came across this about @mja.com.au by Jeremy Fisher link.springer.com/content/pdf/... Would love to know more about it. Some fabulous quotes…particularly enjoyed the “eccentric” editors. If you’ve got history about the MJA - get in touch!

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In @mja.com.au today Annual COVID‐19 vaccination campaigns at same time as flu vaccination could reduce COVID‐19‐related hospitalisations & makes campaign logistics simpler www.mja.com.au/journal/2025... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... @burnetinstitute.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social

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The ongoing loss of life, starvation and human suffering in Gaza is unconscionable and I do not accept that Australia's influence is limited. I have written to the Prime Minister asking him to use the authority of his office in a stand against the actions of Israel. #gaza #auspol bit.ly/4mz81ut

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Filters are a marketing trick to make cigarettes seem less dangerous. Smoking kills, with or without a filter. They make it easier to start smoking & harder to quit. Filters have even contributed to a rise in an aggressive type of lung cancer. #TobaccoExposed #WorldNoTobaccoDay 🚭

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Despite claiming successes against the Greens, right-wing lobby group Advance shifted very few votes and contributed to the failures of the Liberal Party. Jason Koutsoukis on how Australia's richest non-party lobby group missed the mark:

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No woman would or should willingly allow a small group of men in masks to accost them into an unmarked vehicle under the guise of "law enforcement." Men have no idea the fear women have been raised with of this exact situation. Don't let it happen to someone else in front of you, either.

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To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.

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www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20836/...

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Join >1,000 supporters backing Raelene Cooper vs Woodside #NorthWestShelfExtension #SaveMurujuga #BrowseToNorthWestShelf #ScottReef

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Brisbane friends - artists or not (I’m not!) this will be a lot of fun. Spaces limited - book here. events.humanitix.com/introduction...

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In this context, I suggest replacing the word “hallucinations” with “fraud.”

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It takes nothing away from the brilliance of this show to acknowledge that this character was often humiliated and harassed in ways we would now recognize as totally gross, and it was Swit’s job to be plausibly so above it and so hyper-competent that she wasn’t pitiable or hateable.

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What living your values looks like 💚 "[Ms MacMahon] did not press for your imprisonment, and she says prisons can be counterproductive as a general statement of social research which no doubt has a sound basis," www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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And get your COVID booster (and flu, while you’re at it) 💉💉

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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me!

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New emissions data is out - and it’s not good news. Carbon pollution is going up, and it’s higher than under Morrison’s Libs. Labor’s approval of new coal and gas like the North West Shelf has consequences for the planet. Two climate tests so far - and Labor’s failed both.

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How much coal would the French have to find under the Louvre to destroy it? How much gas would the UK need to find under Stonehenge to knock it down? Australia must be the richest country in the world willing to destroy its ancient heritage for one more gas project #climate

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Just a thought - maybe submit the paper for rigorous peer review before publishing 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The key issue: “The Executive Order empowers a political appointee at each agency to make their own assessment of research through that agency based on this standard.”

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One of the insane facts I discovered writing this article is that WA collects more revenue from motorists in registration than it collects from fossil fuel companies in gas royalties

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Done.

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Breaking News: A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave. It's the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming, experts said.

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The humanitarian situation in Gaza is beyond catastrophic. Over 600 days of hostilities, coupled with severe restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian relief, continue to inflict immense & widespread suffering on civilians. Read more: http://ms.spr.ly/63326ScHaY

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Labor approved 30🤯 NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects in Albanese's 1st term of government As Ketan Joshi explains: "the act of supplying fossil fuels influences how much eventually gets burned. A system of active, intense expansion of fossil fuel supply naturally leads to higher usage"

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Dr Ken Mulvaney thought that once people realised how important the rock art was, there would be no more industrial development at Murujuga. Instead he's seen multiple new developments built, creating acidic emissions that are slowly destroying the rock art. #auspol

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Watt’s North West Shelf approval exposes the deeper dysfunction at the heart of Australian environmental governance: where the laws are weak, the incentives perverse, and real power lies with the fossil fuel lobby

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Statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Look at these gorgeous gangly regent parrot chicks - the gold frosted tips and orange beak- absolutely perfect 💅 (fun fact these were the first ones I ever saw 🤩🤩🤩🤩)

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Murujuga has more than one million petroglyphs, some up to 50,000 years old. The North West Shelf extension places them at risk.

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Meet Murray Watt, Aust’s new environment minister. His 1st major act? Approving one of the most polluting fossil fuel projects in the nation’s history –shattering any pretence of climate leadership from a government elected, in part, on that very promise #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/murray-watts...

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"Someone’s making a killing — but it’s not us." Our president Jo Dodds has written a powerful piece calling out the Albanese Government’s devastating approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas expansion. 📖 Read Jo's piece here: shorturl.at/miCin #AusPol #ClimateAction

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As Murray Watt signs the death warrant for an ancient treasure, we've launched a new documentary. The Fight to Save Murujuga lays out the ironclad evidence that the government has ignored in granting one of Australia’s biggest polluters, Woodside Energy, a licence to destroy Murujuga. #savemurujuga

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Fantastic presentations by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and Ben Mail. This is a topic all researchers, editors, publishers and users of research need to know about

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