Martin Holt

UNSW announces international fellowship program to attract the world’s best The University will offer up to 12 fellowships to outstanding international researchers whose work aligns with UNSW’s key goals and strategy.

New fellowship program at UNSW for international researchers whose work focuses on sustainability, prosperity, health, or social cohesion. Closes 10th August.

In essence, they average the scores (take the median) from the Detailed Assessors' scores, and then add them to the average of the General Assessor scores.

This has come up for us too as DP applicants write their rejoinders. There is a bit of information about how a different number of assessments is handled on this page www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...

New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Good luck to Australian researchers waiting for the DP EoI outcomes today!

Associations between country of birth, migration status and engagement in HIV care among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia, 2019–2022 Background In the last decade, while HIV diagnoses have declined among Australian-born gay and bisexual men (GBM), they have declined much less among migrant GBM, with recently arrived GBM facing pa.....

New open access paper by Simin Yu assessing effects of migration status on the HIV care cascade among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia. There was a lower level of treatment among recently arrived migrants, underscoring the importance of free access for all doi.org/10.1111/hiv....

International healthcare workers’ experiences and perceptions of the 2022 multi-country mpox outbreak In May 2022, the most widespread outbreak of sustained transmission of mpox outside of countries historically affected countries in Western and Central Africa occurred. We aimed to examine the persona...

In these unthinkably dark days for global public health I’m proud to share the results of this international survey which describes the challenging and distressing experiences of clinicians in 12 countries during the 2022/23 #mpox pandemic.

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An NHMRC review of clinical guidelines for trans and gender diverse kids and young people has been announced, it’s a good idea. The NHMRC can be relied upon to make considered, evidence based recommendations for nationally consistent treatment guidelines that (1/n) www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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Patterns of Social Support and LGBTQ + Community Involvement Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Australia and Their Effect on HIV-Related Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis - A... Peer support from social networks of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) has been recognised as a critical driver of engagement with HIV prevention. Using data from an online cr...

We conducted a latent class analysis of 1032 surveys from GBMSM in Australia, and found that social support, social engagement with LGBTQ+ people, and LGBTQ+ community involvement was associated with HIV testing and PrEP uptake. Available to read open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SPOTS Study Aotearoa Take the survey now.

Looking forward to hearing about and discussing #HIV prevention and ways to assess our progress with colleagues here in Auckland. I think there is still time to register and follow online www.spots.org.nz/symposium2025

Hi Liz! Good to hear from you. I confess I’ve not been very active here but will see if that improves this year. Hope you’re well!

An alternative interpretation is that we age out of being queer, but I’m sticking to my generational interpretation! More of us on the way.

I thought it was about right. The age distribution is crazy though (1 in 10 in the youngest bracket). Wild generational change (or at least much more openness to expression) going on there!

ABS releases first ever estimates of LGBTI+ Australians

More from the ABS on the release here: www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

Estimates and characteristics of LGBTI+ populations in Australia, 2022 Data on gender, trans and gender diverse, sexual orientation, and people born with variations of sex characteristics

And the answer is: 4.5% of Australians aged 16 years and over are LGBTI+, very similar to findings from NZ. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...

Future releases

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release data on population estimates and characteristics of #LGBTI+ people in Australia at 11.30am AEDT today. Any guesses about how many of us there will be? www.abs.gov.au/release-cale...

Preprint on levels of #mpox vaccination among Australian gay & bisexual men & non-binary people in early 2024. 54% reported any vaccination. Younger & bi+ participants, people born in Asia and Latin America, and those living outside inner city areas were less likely to be vaccinated. #sexualhealth

New open access article from our team.

Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.

Read here:
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Because cats (really pushing to fluff up my bsky algorithm as much as possible)

Black text on a white background that says: "Benjamin Riley Memory Pill / Amnesia Pill: PrEP, AIDS Generations and Gay Sexual Imaginaries Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Sydney"

My masters thesis is up online to read!! If you're interested in gay stuff, AIDS memory, sex, HIV anxiety and big feelings about inaccessible/imagined histories, have a look 🙂 ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DP25 grant outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 26 Nov).

ARC says they’ll release the Discovery Projects 2025 outcomes tomorrow.

Recently, outcomes announcements have tended to happen at/around 11am Canberra time.

My bot will pick up the announcement in RMS’s database and post immediately.

Good luck!

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