this is so interesting. especially the potential for GLP-1s to have negative effects — via dopaminergic pathways — on motivation, cravings for good stuff (in moderation)
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this is so interesting. especially the potential for GLP-1s to have negative effects — via dopaminergic pathways — on motivation, cravings for good stuff (in moderation)
“The argument for public health [is] that it is better to build a fence at the top of the cliff rather than ambulances at the bottom. Closing VicHealth may look like an easy saving ahead of an election … but it is a false economy,” writes @timreadgreens.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
you couldn’t pay me to review insurance policies, i can’t fix a wifi/modem/general internet issue to save myself. i have also, in attempting to solve problems, ruined his speaker cables and expensive tools
i should say he is very useful in many other ways that i could never be.
i’ve read bring back yesterday, it is beautiful (i was also fixated on carr’s seeming lack of domestic skills, maybe in part because my husband has fked the washing so many times i feel like carr’s late wife helena did: easier just to do it than clean up the mess) www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Addressing vaccine hesitancy requires skill and patience – some days, the people who do it feel like they’re drowning in a sea of lies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
once, you needed a doctorate’s worth of knowledge and years of experience to build a biological weapon. now, AI may be able to teach you everything you need to know theconversation.com/an-illegal-b...
Staff at NIAID have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the US institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained. Read more about the shift in direction for NIAID.
go.nature.com/4twztMV
US hospitals are dispensing routinely prescribed meds to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...
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Kudelka from when Gillard's portrait was unveiled
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NSW to remove ‘good character’ from being considered at sentencing hearings in nationwide first
“every place where writing has become a social interface is now ripe for an injection of A.I., adding an automated editor into every conversation, draining some of the personal from interpersonal interaction.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
“It’s a seismic shift that runs counter to the E.P.A.’s mission statement, which says the agency’s core responsibility is to protect human health and the environment, environmental law experts said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
If ever there was a breath of fresh air and optimism in Australian academia it was Emma. Utterly devastating news.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
The danger after Bondi isn’t only that we ask the wrong questions but that we answer them too quickly. Symbolic policymaking may reassure anxious electorates, but it rarely improves security outcomes. www.smh.com.au/national/aft...
if we are to inch towards unity, the more we pause to listen, the more sure-footed our path forward will be www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
omg.
“This is not because I’m directing independent films. It’s because I like my photos and text exchanges where I like my martinis: in my hand. I’m a writer. Two of my favorite things in this world are transcripts and being right, on the spot.” www.wired.com/story/phone-...
Good morning! Read my story.
great piece, imo not so great headline that doesn’t capture its breadth and depth
The Actuaries Institute of Australia recently published our review of mortality in 2024, which you can find here. content.actuaries.asn.au/resources/re.... A quick summary of our major conclusions #thread.
Victims must always be believed. The uncomfortable truth, however, is that statistically, it is almost impossible to predict lethal family violence because it is so rare. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
“pushups won’t save you from ebola.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Trump administration is casting more doubt on the safety of vaccines, with the FDA’s top vaccine official suggesting in an internal memo, without offering evidence, that the deaths of at least 10 children were related to the Covid vaccine. Public health experts questioned the findings.
The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.
she is a former chief justice of the SCV, i think she probably chooses her words carefully. if she felt her gender was a burden - that being first in a role like that felt like a weight, at times - again it is not my place to say she's wrong
sure, which is why i included detail re the legal profession, in warren's time, being male-dominated and hostile to/exclusionary of women, and her reflections on her retirement that despite improvements there was much work still to do
because that is exactly how she described it. it’s not for me to tell her how she feels.
joining the chorus of readers singing praise for this beautiful piece. my gosh. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
