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04.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 20 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1

Beliefs that explain mental health help-seeking intention among older men: a reasoned action approach Abstract. Older men seek help for mental health concerns at almost half the rate of older females. Efforts to motivate older men to seek help through healt

New open-access study in @healthpromint.bsky.social : what drives older men to seek help for mental health concerns
You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/heap...

Or take a look at our short explainer video: youtu.be/o1g7jqWAuz8
#MensHealth #MentalHealth #HealthPromotion #Research

03.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

12.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 15132 🔁 7455 💬 652 📌 855

Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price They were some of the most prominent academics in the country. They pushed a devastatingly wrong COVID policy, but they've never admitted their error.

From @hiltzikm.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

03.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 41 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1

Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Teaching students to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world Join Carl Bergstrom in a talk that helps teach students to think, learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world.In this session, Carl will provide an overview of the course Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machin...

The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit.

"Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.

13.06.2025 04:50 — 👍 95 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 2

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count.

Many thanks to my BU colleague
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science.

103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day

30.05.2025 17:39 — 👍 51 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 0

If the horrors unfolding in Gaza are not a red line for Australia to take stronger action then I don’t know what is | David Pocock Everyone knows the Australian government cannot end the war alone, but we do have an important role to play as a middle power, and it must be more than just words

“If the horrors unfolding in Gaza are not a red line for Australia to take stronger action then I don’t know what is” @davidpocock.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

30.05.2025 21:33 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0

Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life Starvation and malnutrition are harmful for anyone. But for infants the impact can be profound and lasting.

Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life
theconversation.com/images-of-ga...

26.05.2025 23:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

24.05.2025 21:27 — 👍 2481 🔁 1068 💬 101 📌 106

Indigenous leaders celebrate as court rejects appeal in landmark Yunupingu compensation case High court upholds ruling against commonwealth that Gumatj clan’s land was not acquired ‘on just terms’, in case initiated by renowned land rights activist

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The federal government had argued if its appeal failed it would be liable to pay native title holders compensation “to an indeterminate number of grants of interests” in the Northern Territory land and that would have “enormous financial ramifications”.

12.03.2025 04:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review Peer review ensures the findings of research are trustworthy. But what happens when it’s performed by an AI model?

"vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work" - the extremely widespread and uncritical use of software text generators as a replacement for real thought and engagement is corroding academia from the inside out

theconversation.com/vague-confus...

09.03.2025 21:36 — 👍 64 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0

...'In such cases, the result is not an infodemic but a marketplace of rationalizations. People do not treat harmful viruses as a consumer good, and they do not want to be infected with them; with misinformation, by contrast, they often do.'

23.02.2025 01:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

not completely convinced of framing from public health perspective, but this is good..

'Motivated believers seek out misleading content that rationalizes their favored convictions and narratives, and misinformation entrepreneurs stand to win social and financial rewards from satisfying this demand'

23.02.2025 01:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0