CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.
We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed
Measuring more predicts better? This seems obvious. What am I missing?
How do people with lived experience vs professionals define anorexia recovery?
Lived experience: absence of disordered thoughts
Staff: living well despite residual symptoms
Both agreed psychological markers (not just weight) should define recovery.
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#AnorexiaNervosa #Recovery
In 2014 Ross Gittins described the MRFF as an accounting trick (www.smh.com.au/business/med...) to hide deficits rather than fund more medical research. How right he was www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
"Few experts endorse the idea that the police “had nothing to do with it🤡"
Wrong.
All of the experts endorse it. Anyone that doesn't endorse it, is not an expert on crime reduction.
Because the data on this has been clear and consistent for ~50+ years.
This is a very interesting paper!
Yes I thought it was very interesting but I’ve seen a lot of negative reactions already from within the autistic community
I think that’s about right. I felt it in the fact that the plots felt a bit flabby and the books could have used another edit.
Just quietly, Qantas dropping down from daily for Sydney to Los Angeles is a bit of an indicator. I'm probably out of date, but at one point LA was about 25% of Qantas International's revenue. www.aeroroutes.com/eng/260303-q...
THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️
Took me a moment…
GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved
The housing affordability 'debate' is so stupid. In a nutshell, negative gearing + CGT discounts accelerate price growth. Reforming it won't make houses cheaper, it will just stop continued runaway growth. Building more houses will make houses cheaper, but you need more construction workers.
University dropout inadvertently illustrating the downsides of dropping out
Ashes Hollow
If I had to pick a favourite spot on the Long Mynd it would probably be Ashes Hollow. It’s always much quieter than Carding Mill Valley, so I can explore it at a leisurely pace. Add in a bright blue sky, fluffy white clouds and the Quinny Brook - you couldn’t ask for much better! #Shropshire
Remarkable that this should be the trial that such faith is shown in an unproven technique?
Listening to WIM-FM makes Monday morning better @whatismusicpod.bsky.social
Your neologism is acceptable and I will adopt it forthwith
From a British holiday perspective that’s very late to start drinking…
A careful, quietly devastating review of research on involuntary outpatient treatment. Coercion is being oversold as a way of addressing serious mental illness, and its harms (forcing patients to accept useless or harmful meds & therapies, disempowerment, social disruption, etc) are being downplayed
#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!". More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...
I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
Is it smarter to have a dumb home? ‘We’ve seen clients unable to flush toilets’
Hmm that sounds like magic, let’s see you do it again!
40% of WA's prison population being indigenous is a massive failure of policing, racism, lazy politics and a reliance on the carceral state. There are hundreds of cascading consequences we should care about. Liam Alexander Hall's life from now on is not one of them
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
FAO @rincewind.run
Although I’m cis-het myself so have no skin in this game really, I much prefer to hear about the complexity of people rather than assume a simplistic story. Townshend came across as far more fascinating than I had realised
Helpful of this NSW police officer to do away with any pretence of neutrality. Sometimes you just gotta declare loyalty to a foreign state and wear another country’s flag on your uniform.
