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"...the NPC’s list of sponsors reveals the problem. Among them are no less than ten firms with links to the arms industry that is profiting from Israel’s destruction of Gaza, including four of the very largest defence manufacturers in the world – BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Thales."

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's the beach-food trigger. Hot windy weather = fish and chips on the beach.

Yeah, I think I'm going to do that next time.

It's so fun seeing it sped up. Had to stand there for ages holding the phone, but totally worth it.

First honeybee swarm of the season. Managed to rehouse it in one of my empty hives, without a single sting #beekeepergoals.

🌸 Spring has arrived in Australia, meaning native bees are buzzing around searching for food, mates and suitable nesting sites.

Now is the perfect time to provide habitat for our pollinating friends by building a bee hotel 🐝🧪

biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/bu...

How Jane Goodall Changed Our View of Chimps (And Humans) Forever Jane Goodall, the world's most famous primatologist, accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human.

Jane Goodall accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. 🧪

www.sciencealert.com/how-jane-goo...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

🔔 Deadline Extended!🔔 Applications for the KYD Mentors Program now close 12 October.

Apply now for the chance to participate in a structured editorial mentorship designed to support early-career writers in the development of a long-form work of fiction or non-fiction.

🔗 bit.ly/3V6fh4q

Controversial Alzheimer's drug lecanamab overcomes another regulatory hurdle, getting approved by Australia's drug regulator after two previous rejections: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.

What is the value of Meanjin? We’ve done some calculations – and it’s not about money New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.

What is the value of Meanjin? We’ve done some calculations – and it’s not about money
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Banner from the IRIC website, showing Sydney Harbor seen from the North at sunset, with lots of sail boats on the (blue) water, and Harbour Bridge on the left. In the distance the skyline of downtown.

Abstract deadline for the International Research Integrity Conference in Sydney, 16-18 November, is September 29!
researchintegrityconf.com
Speakers: Jennifer Byrne, Cyril Labbé, James Heathers, Ben Mol, Ivan Oransky, David Vaux, Annie Butler, and many more (me!).

Justice Rangiah in his own words in Lattouf v ABC penalty decision.

The broadcaster has been ordered to pay $150,000. I was previously awarded $70,000 for hurt and distress.

ABC has spent in excess of $2 million on legal fees.

The real cost to Aunty is immeasurable.

Screenshot of story from Sydney Morning Herald website. Headline reads, "Trump asserts unproven link between autism and paracetamol, urges parents to delay vaccines". Standfirst reads, "In an extraordinary, rambling press conference, the US president - based on his opinion, not science - instructed pregnant women not to take popular painkiller Tylenol". I have underlined in red the words 'unproven' and 'based on his opinion, not science'.

This is good work from @michaelkoziol.bsky.social and headline writers at the Sydney Morning Herald:

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Just because he said it, doesn't mean it should be reported straight from the horse's mouth without putting some kind of qualification/counter IN THE HEADLINE or at the very least in the lede.

Journalists need to be very very careful reporting on the paracetamol story. This is no time for straw man reporting or headlining Trump's statement without commentary, because all most people will see is the headline and take it as gospel. 1/

'Rotten' Australian university culture lashed in long-running senate inquiry Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", a senate inquiry has found.

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

Australian Academy of Science's President Stephen Garton speaks at an event, with a quote about Australia's need for systemic overhaul in science by 2035.

Read our landmark report, 'Australian Science, Australia's Future: Science 2035': https://bit.ly/ASAF2035 #Science2035

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

What do you see? 👀

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague.
#MEAAmedia

Australia to set up its first national Centre for Disease Control, a move that has been decades in the making but catalysed by lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

What a life, eh.