More than 60% of Australian medical researchers left active research roles between 2019 & 2024 because they could not make ends meet - while my costings from the PBO suggest the govt could more than double annual spending from the MRFF without any effect on its base level of funding.
Australia's health and medical research funding is utterly broken, so many great researchers leaving and critical work not being done. It's totally unsustainable to spend months writing grants that have very little chance of being funded www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
sexist and also ableist
powerful, important reading from the always brilliant @hayleygleeson.bsky.social
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...
I don't have the spoons atm but I feel there is a piece to be written about what biopsychosocial models actually are - and how this is definitely not it, framing CBT as biopsychosocial does a massive disservice to this area of science - and critically, does serious harm to pw ME/CFS
excellent thread on pacing for people w ME/CFS and other energy limiting conditions
this is great, I love the 'as if symptoms respond to spreadsheets' line. So often health profs implicitly, or explicitly see a failure to pace as non compliance and blame pts for not recovering or for crashing. Symptoms and life are not anywhere near that simple. Also OTs are great!
Devastating the algal bloom in Sth Australia is continuing almost 12 months after it began www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
The utter sham of offsets, yet again...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
you absolutely could write to the lead researcher Prof Michael Berk at Deakin Uni, I have heard they have lived experience researchers as part of their group. it would be interesting to ask re their rationale for using the CFQ
As long as our political 'leaders' keep supporting the fossil fuel industry, major 'donors' to political parties, people, communities, wildlife and ecosystems will all face increasing dangers. It's basic physics, chemistry and ecology.
Duty of care, anyone?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New misfeasance in public office decision dropped. A cracker: Judge awarded $2m in damages, including v. rare punitive exemplary damages, against former head of Medicare watchdog. Matters are RARE. Wins rarer. A boon to potential Robodebt + other cases. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Another totally messed-up act in colonial Australia.
First Nations peoples disregarded and sidelined, again.
Wongari (dingoes) murdered.
Shame on all responsible.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Literally every criteria used in this article was there in Trump’s first presidency. The only new part is the occupation of cities and killing of citizens, which were logical next steps predicted by many. You can be a fascist and a mafioso and many other bad things at once.
Advance -- recipient of $50,000 from Australia's Special Envoy To Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal & her husband John Roth -- is helping to promote this mob Reclaim Australia Day from Indigenous protesters.
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The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.
MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
Remember this.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... amazing line up, would have loved to be there
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it's so broken
"92 per cent of Australian medical researchers who applied for the National Health and Medical Research Council’s annual “ideas grants” last year were unsuccessful; about half of those deemed to have an outstanding application were rejected."
More voices standing up.
Great reporting from the ABC.
Bowman says scientists have stopped being reluctant to say climate change was making disastrous fires like these worse.
“The temps are higher, which changes the atmosphere.”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Recent Study: Muscle tissue exposed to blood from ME/CFS & Long COVID patients leads to severe muscular and mitochondrial deterioration Source citation and arrow pointing right Images of muscle tissue deteriorating in the background.
Recent research shows blood from people with ME/CFS and Long COVID directly harms healthy muscle, reducing force, stressing mitochondria, and causing structural breakdown. Results implicate blood-borne drivers of muscle weakness, exertion intolerance, and PEM.
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Seems like there are a few issues in Malinauskas’ government www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.
Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...
