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Australian HPV Vaccination Marks Cervical Cancer Milestone The country’s human papillomavirus vaccination program achieves no new cervical cancers reported in people younger than 25 years for 1 year.

Australia has recorded a full year with no new cases of cervical cancer in under-25s, the group most at risk of aggressive types of the cancer-causing human papillomavirus infection.
And the reason is ... [drum roll] ... HPV #vaccination! #vaccineswork
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says

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

The ABC and ABC Friends Victoria announce Science Journalist Fellowship Program - About the ABC The ABC is delighted to announce the establishment of the ABC Science Journalist Fellowship Program, a new initiative within the ABC Radio National Science Unit.

Fantastic news from ABC Science today: a wonderful donor - former librarian Ms Margaret Bales - has given $1 million to establish a Science Journalist Fellowship Program.
www.abc.net.au/about/the-ab...

Black t-shirt with the words 'Stop Killing Journalists' in white, red and green, and a white peace dove.

Black t-shirt with the words 'you only target journalists when your enemy is the truth' in white, red and green, including a white peace dove and the MEAA logo.

@withmeaa.bsky.social is raising funds for the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, and the Media, Safety & Solidarity Fund with this fantastic t-shirt (front and back shown). Pre-order now from www.meaa.org/shop/#!/MEAA...

Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Student journalists around the world are increasingly facing the same censorship, threats and suppression of press freedom issues as the rest of the journalism world, but doing so with even less support, experience and resources.

At least 1,250 people dead: What caused the devastating Asia floods? Climate advocates say it's time to move to accountability for climate change, as people in Asia are living the evidence.

“People across South and Southeast Asia are living the data,” @harjeet11.bsky.social says it’s time to talk about the legal and moral obligations of polluting countries to act on climate change.

My latest for Al Jazeera on the deadly floods across Asia

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

#Europe 🌐 Online harassment of journalists is endemic, with women and minority groups bearing the brunt of it. @europeanjournalists.org's in-depth report provides a detailed guide for journalists’ groups to better protect journalists online. buff.ly/Nj0hGVC

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

What Australian outlets edited out of the opening of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley Awards speech on press freedom:
(The full speech is here: www.walkleys.com/dont-kid-you...)

And here it is: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Outstanding speech by Kerry O'Brien at the Walkley Awards last night about the myriad of threats to press freedom globally - the murder of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the Trump admin, prosecution of whistleblowers in Australia - and warning that we cannot take media freedom for granted.

If anyone wondering about academic funding in Aus, this is the stark reality at present. I have written countless letters to politicians like @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social, @davidpocock.bsky.social who like to say they are leading this conversation in Aus but it is really like shouting into the void.

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

Of course!

A book with a red and pink cover rests against two purple boxing gloves. The book is titled 'The Stronger Sex - What Science Tells Us About The Power Of The Female Body', by Starre Vartan.

Damn straight, @starrevartan.bsky.social! This is top of my holiday reading pile - can't wait to get into it.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Amy from Australian punk rock band, 'Amyl and the Sniffers' flipping off Anthony, the blue wiggle from The Wiggles.

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.

"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."

This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.

www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus? That’s the kind of calculation a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’.

As if carbon offsets weren’t a big enough fraud…welcome to the world of ‘biodiversity offsets’…sure the idea failed dismally in NSW but Murray Watt is keen to have a crack…

what could go wrong?

Just even more extinctions i suppose…#climate #nature

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

Courts turn on coal mines over climate impacts The NSW Land and Environment Court invalidated the approval for the Ulan coal mine expansion near Mudgee, based on a precedent set in July.

More big news today as the Land and Environment Court makes orders, by consent, overturning approval of Glencore’s Ulan Coal Mine expansion.

Johnson Legal proudly represented Mudgee District Environment Group, in their fight for a clean, healthy and safe environment.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Zero sense Sussan Ley says she’s not worried about upsetting “people in Paris”. It’s a neat way of explaining how little she understands the Paris Agreement, a failure of comprehension so great she seems to beli...

“It takes a heroic effort to make Scott Morrison look credible on climate change, but somehow Ley has managed it. The decision made this week will be the defining embarrassment of her leadership”

A Faustian pact with the fossil fuel industry. #auspol

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22072/...

Environment Week speech to Katoomba High School I was recently invited to give a talk for an Environment Week assembly at Katoomba High School in the Blue Mountains. I’m kind of proud of this speech, so here it is: “Thank you Luke an…

I gave a speech at my kids' school for #Environment Week, about #climatechange: why adults need to say sorry for screwing up the planet, why the #fossilfuel industry wants us to give up, and why I have hope.
biancanogrady.com/2025/11/13/e...

Running into COP30 with Oil and Gas As COP30 gets underway in Brazil, a new report spotlights increased oil and gas production from the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed a decade ago.

Since Paris Agreement, the U.S., Australia, Norway and Canada have increased oil and gas production by 40%. At #COP30, some of these same countries have blocked a demand by G-77 (~134 Global South countries) for a just transition mechanism to support workers. ICYMI

drilled.media/news/COP30-OCI

Screencap of the Guardian website featuring three headlines: Sussan Ley says net zero 'would be welcome', but Liberals won't pursue it. News Corp Australia chair says outlets not part of climate crisis 'denial machine'. World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature risk as fossil fuel emissions hit record high.

The climate-denying binferno that is Australian politics and media right now:

The Age called out the Myanmar genocide. Why not Gaza's? The paper's treatment of the Palestinians reeks of double standards.

Indeed.