Robyn Schofield

Health care is responsible for up to 7% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the use of disposable products could reduce this footprint.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/reusing...

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Let’s hope this is a watershed moment for public health. Feels like it. Congratulations especially @drbronking.bsky.social - but also to Anna-Maria Arabia and all involved. Pls circulate the pledge and get on board. Here is an OpEd we put out yesterday www.burnet.edu.au/news/indoor-...

#CleanAir saves lives and livelihoods

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

"Es ist Vernachlässigung in höchstem Maße, Kindern in die Augen zu schauen und zu sagen: 'Wir wussten, wie wir euch schützen können, und wir haben es nicht getan", so die 19-Jährige Violet Affleck in ihrer Rede.

www.gala.de/stars/news/b...

CVF are proud supporters of the other important event at the UN today highlighting the need for "Clean Indoor Air".

It is of vital importance to *everyone*, but especially for Clinically Vulnerable people.

Thank you @drbronking.bsky.social
💙💜💗

Wonderful Bronwyn King talking clean IAQ at UNGA

"Clean air for every child in every classroom is a right, not a privilege."

"This is why for Montenegro, improving air quality in schools is not a secondary concern. It is a fundamental responsibility. A matter of safeguarding the next generation."
👏👏👏

For our scientists.

By @ellecordova.bsky.social

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC about a survey they want "stakeholders" to complete. Black text on white background above a rather outsized picture of dark blue smudges on a light-blue background. One smudge says "Survey" … you know, to catch your eye?

Once again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy:

8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter?

They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.

The Dark Ages of health care in the rest of the developed world is the present-day reality in the USA.

We docilely accept that if a person gets cancer, they'll likely lose their house or their life savings. Any threat to impose that system elsewhere would be met with fierce rebellion. We are sheep.

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates

Study has ‘profound implications for preventing the neurodegenerative disorder.’
@iansample.bsky.social @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Journal article

When I operate, my brain is running at multiple planes. I think about the pathology, the anatomy, the surgical technique but also I think about the trainees, anaesthetists, nursing staff, the patient’s home situation, the hospital protocols and even the impact of what we do on the environment.

Bounties, Mafias, and the Climate Cost of IKEA’s Fast Furniture | Atmos An insatiable thirst for cheap, ready-to-build furniture has been linked to illegal logging and assassinations of forest defenders.

IKEA furniture is cheap—but convenience comes at a cost.

the world’s largest furniture company has been linked to the razing of old-growth forests, Indigenous rights violations, and even assassination hits placed on land defenders 🧪🌍

maia wikler for @atmosmag.bsky.social

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit Norway!

Norway's government has a new tourism ad out, and it's refreshingly honest

By @thejuicemedia.bsky.social!!!!

Hot and dry conditions elevate grass pollen and sub-pollen particle concentrations in Melbourne, Australia A Wideband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor (WIBS) was used in conjunction with chemical tracer analysis for the first time during the 2022–2023 grass pollen season in Melbourne, Australia. WIBS detected ...

Our new grass pollen paper is published!
During spring, most sub-pollen particles are associated with hot and dry days.
#Melbourne #pollen #allergy

And it's the first day of spring today in Australia! 🌱

@robynschofield3.bsky.social @melbournepollen.bsky.social
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

This is so depressing.
Environmental NGO has to pay for access to ministers bc clearly nothing else is working.

Air pollution exceedance events in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, between 2000 and 2024 Air pollution events pose significant challenges to public health in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia’s most populous cities. This study evaluates publ…

Published today by my PhD student Simon Mkasimongwa looking at air quality in Sydney and Melbourne.

Highlights:
•Both cities meet national standards but fail WHO guidelines
•Data coverage in Melbourne is inadequate
•Many multi-pollutant events seen

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Big miners have banked $60b in diesel fuel tax credits A Climate Energy Finance report recommends a $50 million cap on the fuel tax subsidy for mining companies to create more cash for green projects.

Australia’s biggest miners have pocketed almost $60BN in diesel tax subsidies in <20 years.

Unless we act, taxpayers lose $84BN more by 2030.

It makes no sense for 🇦🇺ns to pay tax while coal giants get a free pass.

End this fossil fuel subsidy now.
www.afr.com/companies/mi...

First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

Didn't realise this nonsensical government advice about deleting emails was now all over the news as top advice. Madness.

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

www.independent.co.uk/news/delete-...

metro.co.uk/2025/08/12/d...

Depression, breast cancer and migraines are costing the economy billions Depression, cancer, sleep apnoea and migraines are among the leading health burdens on our workforce and it's costing Australia billions of dollars in lost work and lowered productivity, new research ...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

#MedSky

Let’s do this right.

Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive A new road charge mooted for electric vehicle drivers is based on a fundamental misconception.

Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive theconversation.com/stop-the-fre...

"Real Zero has one definition.

You commit to phasing out fossil fuels and you do it without relying on offsets, carbon capture and storage, and any other technology that does not exist yet.”

- Dr @shantabarley.bsky.social, Fortescue Chief Climate Scientist

#auspol

Big thanks to Professors Katz, Abraham, Dynan, and Troske for this wise and quick response.

NASA is now at its lowest staffing levels since the dawn of the space age.

They are destroying our scientific institutions. It will get worse and more painful until we stop them.