Andrew Baillie

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White graphic with black and pink text. Top left: “whn.global”. Top right: “Long COVID Awareness Month”. Main text: “Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection.” The word “risk” is in bright pink; the rest is in black. Below in bright pink: “Each infection increases the risk of Long COVID.” Bottom text: “World Health Network - Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection. The more times someone is infected, the higher their risk of developing Long COVID.

Reducing infections is one of the most important ways to protect long-term health. The Five Pillars of Protection help lower risk by layering prevention strategies:

"You want me to apply for a fellowship? After what happened to Boromir?"

If anyone waiting for NHMRC to announce investigator grants can tolerate a LOTR joke

New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com
This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists.
Ethics matter, especially in science.
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Do not obey in advance.

Don’t shrink yourself, don’t censor yourself, don’t count yourself out, don’t change your company’s policies, don’t purge your research program, don’t modify your language, don’t sit back when you want to speak up.

This is OUR America. We don’t do all that here.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Milestone Anniversary for Webtool That Helps Demystify Implementation Science Originally released in 2014 and refined over the past decade using human-centered design and user feedback, the webtool gradually expanded over the years to include more than 110 D&I TMFs and new them...

@russgl.bsky.social is celebrating an anniversary for a webtool created with partners from @cumedicalschool.bsky.social, @washumedicine.bsky.social, & @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social to demystify #ImpSci.

Read More about Webtool: tinyurl.com/3s45jcay #ACCORDSCommunity

Great to be at the new Centre for Child and Adolescent Health Research planning day @sydney.edu.au such an amazing collaboration of consumers clinicians and researchers

YouTube video by Cleo Abram Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists

I guess you saw the Cleo Abram podcast on curling - a good physics explainer! youtu.be/p60I9LNHNxg?...

Now out in Psychological Medicine (led by Jodi Gilman and myself).

"Impulsivity-related predictors of adolescent substance use initiation"

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Great material for any presentation on survivor bias!

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.

PLEASE SHARE!!

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Great to be at the launch of my buddy Sophie Isobel's book on trauma informed care www.routledge.com/Trauma-Infor... #traumainformedcare

Laura can’t afford unpaid work her allied health study needs It could cost less than $300 million over four years to support allied health students doing mandatory practical placements.

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THERE IS NO SCIENCE-AS-USUAL UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM. "​The new Nazi commissar wasted no time on the amenities. He immediately announced that Jews would be forbidden to enter university premises and would be dismissed without salary on March 15; this was something no one had thought possible despite the Nazis' loud anti-Semitism. Then he launched into a tirade of abuse, filth, and four-letter words such as had been heard rarely even in the barracks and never before in academia. He pointed his finger at one department chairman after another and said, "You either do what I tell you or we'll put you into a concentration camp." There was silence when he finished; everybody waited for the distinguished biochemist-physiologist. The great liberal got up, cleared his throat, and said, "Very interesting, Mr. Commissar, and in some respects very illuminating; but one point I didn't get too clearly. Will there be more money for research in physiology?" ​The meeting broke up shortly thereafter with the commissar assuring the scholars that indeed there would be plenty of money for "racially pure science." A few of the professors had the courage to walk out with their Jewish colleagues, but most kept a safe distance from these men who only a few hours earlier had been their close friends. I went out sick unto death—and I knew that I was going to leave Germany within forty-eight hours." ​SOURCE: PETER DRUCKER FOR THE ATLANTIC, "THE MONSTER AND THE LAMB" ​SCIENCE NEEDS DEMOCRACY.

This is why we say there can be no science-as-usual now. This passage is from Peter Drucker’s essay in the Atlantic about the crossroads that science stood at during Nazism. Science doesn’t just need funding — it needs the fundamental freedoms that come with democracy. Freedom of speech.
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Oh i hear you - its too good to miss out on being "on the record" in a journal - maybe an OSF link so you get a doi and it gets picked up by academic searchers?

Wow this is one of the neatest applications of test theory and clever modelling to shine light on variation between self report and task results. Thanks @natehaines.bsky.social looking forward to reading the paper!

YouTube video by thewhitlamsofficial The Whitlams - Blow Up The Pokies (Official Video)

Great to see the Whitlams playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this evening. So many good songs but youtu.be/7B49zI5UrAQ?... had all its sting! #whitlams #bangamblingadvertising

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

An introduction to psychometric theory with applications in R by William Revelle
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/psychology.html#an-introduction-to-psychometric-theory-with-applications-in-r

Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a critical approach to patient-centred equity design - Implementation Science Communications Background The field of implementation research has recently seen much interest in equity, with a strong emphasis on recognising and responding to disparities in care. Recent studies highlight the rol...

Can we audit the equity impact of our research interventions and service designs? Yes., we can, and perhaps this paper will help!
doi.org/10.1186/s430...

HiTOP 2026 Conference Call for Abstracts for the HiTOP 2026 conference

The HiTOP Society will have its first free-standing conference this year on June 4-6. The Call for Abstracts is now open, and we hope you'll consider submitting your HiTOP-related work!

www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...

“I just saw the alcohol brand, I never really thought of the zeros”: Young people’s views of NoLo and alibi alcohol sponsorship Alcohol companies frequently use sports sponsorship to maintain high visibility, even in jurisdictions with advertising restrictions. Strategies such …

It’s intuitively obvious that ads for zero-alcohol products that share a parent brand (e.g. Guinness 0, Heineken 0.0) are also ads for the alcoholic brand.

Now we have clear evidence that teenagers see it that way too.

New study on zero alcohol marketing 👇

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Mums who drank during pregnancy call for universal alcohol warnings New research shows thousands of alcohol products remain on Australian shelves without mandated pregnancy warning labels.

Mums who drank during pregnancy call for universal alcohol warnings: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/mums-drank-pregnancy-alcohol-warning-labels/106154908

thank you for sharing these powerful, raging, perfect words

this is a combined version

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a man and a woman are sitting in a living room and the man is saying `` this is going straight to the pool room '' . ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a living room and the man is saying `` this is going straight to the pool room '' .

Miri such excellent news! so well deserved! - straight to the “pool room” (aka promotion application folder)

Patient says 'traumatising' hospital care deepened her mental health crisis A 24-year-old NSW border resident says dismissive treatment in hospitals, long waits for care and limited access to services has pushed her away from support.

A 24-year-old NSW border resident says dismissive treatment in hospitals, long waits for care and limited access to services has pushed her away from support.

Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind.

Mental health is shaped by social and structural factors—yet too often, mental health policies fail to address them.

funding lotteries have been waiting for this moment

Israel’s government says it will suspend the licenses of dozens of humanitarian groups operating in Gaza beginning Thursday, which relief workers say will lead to deeper suffering and difficulty receiving medicine. https://wapo.st/4qxbFWC