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Andrew Baillie
@andrewbaillie.bsky.social
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He/him, Clin Psych, Prof Allied Health, @sydneyuni.bsky.social & SLHD, boundary spanner, implementation science SHP, addictions Matilda Centre & Edith Collins Centre. Unceded Lands of the Eora Nation.

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 1d
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Laura can’t afford unpaid work her allied health study needs
It could cost less than $300 million over four years to support allied health students doing mandatory practical placements.
www.smh.com.au

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d
This is why we say there can be no science-as-usual now. This passage is from Peter Drucker’s essay in the Atlantic about the crossroads that science stood at during Nazism. Science doesn’t just need funding — it needs the fundamental freedoms that come with democracy. Freedom of speech.
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THERE IS NO SCIENCE-AS-USUAL UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM. "​The new Nazi commissar wasted no time on the amenities. He immediately announced that Jews would be forbidden to enter university premises and would be dismissed without salary on March 15; this was something no one had thought possible despite the Nazis' loud anti-Semitism. Then he launched into a tirade of abuse, filth, and four-letter words such as had been heard rarely even in the barracks and never before in academia. He pointed his finger at one department chairman after another and said, "You either do what I tell you or we'll put you into a concentration camp." There was silence when he finished; everybody waited for the distinguished biochemist-physiologist. The great liberal got up, cleared his throat, and said, "Very interesting, Mr. Commissar, and in some respects very illuminating; but one point I didn't get too clearly. Will there be more money for research in physiology?" ​The meeting broke up shortly thereafter with the commissar assuring the scholars that indeed there would be plenty of money for "racially pure science." A few of the professors had the courage to walk out with their Jewish colleagues, but most kept a safe distance from these men who only a few hours earlier had been their close friends. I went out sick unto death—and I knew that I was going to leave Germany within forty-eight hours." ​SOURCE: PETER DRUCKER FOR THE ATLANTIC, "THE MONSTER AND THE LAMB" ​SCIENCE NEEDS DEMOCRACY.

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 10d
Oh i hear you - its too good to miss out on being "on the record" in a journal - maybe an OSF link so you get a doi and it gets picked up by academic searchers?

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 10d
Wow this is one of the neatest applications of test theory and clever modelling to shine light on variation between self report and task results. Thanks @natehaines.bsky.social looking forward to reading the paper!
natehaines.bsky.social Nathaniel Haines @natehaines.bsky.social · 14d
1/9 New blog is live! This is part 2 of a series—last time we looked at the Dunning-Kruger effect, now we are digging in to Implicit vs Explicit attitudes and the Implicit Association Test. To start, of course we need a good meme...

haines-lab.com/post/part-2-...

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · 10d
Great to see the Whitlams playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra this evening. So many good songs but youtu.be/7B49zI5UrAQ?... had all its sting! #whitlams #bangamblingadvertising
The Whitlams - Blow Up The Pokies (Official Video)
YouTube video by thewhitlamsofficial
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Nathaniel Haines @natehaines.bsky.social · 14d
1/9 New blog is live! This is part 2 of a series—last time we looked at the Dunning-Kruger effect, now we are digging in to Implicit vs Explicit attitudes and the Implicit Association Test. To start, of course we need a good meme...

haines-lab.com/post/part-2-...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23d
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 24d
An introduction to psychometric theory with applications in R by William Revelle
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/psychology.html#an-introduction-to-psychometric-theory-with-applications-in-r

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HiTOP @hitop-system.bsky.social · 27d
The HiTOP Society will have its first free-standing conference this year on June 4-6. The Call for Abstracts is now open, and we hope you'll consider submitting your HiTOP-related work!

www.hitop-system.org/hitop-2026-c...
HiTOP 2026 Conference
Call for Abstracts for the HiTOP 2026 conference
www.hitop-system.org

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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 27d
It’s intuitively obvious that ads for zero-alcohol products that share a parent brand (e.g. Guinness 0, Heineken 0.0) are also ads for the alcoholic brand.

Now we have clear evidence that teenagers see it that way too.

New study on zero alcohol marketing 👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“I just saw the alcohol brand, I never really thought of the zeros”: Young people’s views of NoLo and alibi alcohol sponsorship
Alcohol companies frequently use sports sponsorship to maintain high visibility, even in jurisdictions with advertising restrictions. Strategies such …
www.sciencedirect.com

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · Jan 9
Mums who drank during pregnancy call for universal alcohol warnings: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/mums-drank-pregnancy-alcohol-warning-labels/106154908
Mums who drank during pregnancy call for universal alcohol warnings
New research shows thousands of alcohol products remain on Australian shelves without mandated pregnancy warning labels.
www.abc.net.au

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · Jan 9
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(only one of the many people already killed by this rogue regime)
Post from Instagram amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love & better angels of our nature. What they call death & void, We know is breath & voice; In the end, gorgeously, Endures our enormity. You could believe departed to be the dawn When the blank night has so long stood. But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone, When they forever are so fiercely Good.

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · Jan 6
Miri such excellent news! so well deserved! - straight to the “pool room” (aka promotion application folder)
a man and a woman are sitting in a living room and the man is saying `` this is going straight to the pool room '' .
ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a living room and the man is saying `` this is going straight to the pool room '' .
media.tenor.com

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Jan 4
A 24-year-old NSW border resident says dismissive treatment in hospitals, long waits for care and limited access to services has pushed her away from support.
Patient says 'traumatising' hospital care deepened her mental health crisis
A 24-year-old NSW border resident says dismissive treatment in hospitals, long waits for care and limited access to services has pushed her away from support.
www.abc.net.au

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WHO @who.int · Jan 3
Mental health is shaped by social and structural factors—yet too often, mental health policies fail to address them.
Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jan 2
funding lotteries have been waiting for this moment
monicamedhist.bsky.social Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Dec 19
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jan 1
Israel’s government says it will suspend the licenses of dozens of humanitarian groups operating in Gaza beginning Thursday, which relief workers say will lead to deeper suffering and difficulty receiving medicine. https://wapo.st/4qxbFWC

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Dec 31
The Israeli government says the organisations have not met new requirements, which include recognising Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and banning any so-called "de-legitimisation" of Israel.
'Simply unprecedented': Israel banning dozens of charities from Gaza
The Israeli government says the organisations have not met new requirements, which include recognising Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and banning any so-called "de-legitimisation" of Israel.
www.abc.net.au

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 30
"Why did I act embarrassed about something that had finally given me the passionate spark I had been looking for in science?"

Check out one of our top #ScienceWorkingLife essays of 2025: https://scim.ag/4jr2yok
An illustration of researchers turned into fish, with text: I thought imposter syndrome caused my Ph.D. struggles. I was wrong

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · Dec 30
Proof

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · Dec 30
Wondering about what cowboy science would be like …. And this came up in my feed doi.org/10.1017/S000...
https://doi.org/10.1017/S000983882300037X

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WHO @who.int · Dec 30
⚠️ 2025: WHO forecasts a global shortfall of 11.1 million health workers by 2030.

While the nursing workforce has grown to almost 30 million worldwide, inequalities between countries are a barrier to achieving universal health coverage.
WHO forecasts a global shortfall of 11.1 million health workers by 2030. While the nursing workforce has grown to almost 30 million worldwide, there are wide inequalities between countries.

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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · Dec 29
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com

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Andrew Baillie @andrewbaillie.bsky.social · Dec 29
Very sad news!
wombatscholar.bsky.social Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Dec 29
Shocked to learn of the death of Emma Johnston, the young vice-chancellor (president) at the University of Melbourne. I knew Emma at Sydney, vivacious and charming, a vibrant research leader. A marine ecologist, she was also committed to the humanities, due to undergraduate HPS training at Melbourne
Notice of the passing of our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Emma Johnston AO
vcmail.unimelb.edu.au

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Dec 29
Shocked to learn of the death of Emma Johnston, the young vice-chancellor (president) at the University of Melbourne. I knew Emma at Sydney, vivacious and charming, a vibrant research leader. A marine ecologist, she was also committed to the humanities, due to undergraduate HPS training at Melbourne
Notice of the passing of our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Emma Johnston AO
vcmail.unimelb.edu.au

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Médecins Sans Frontières @handle.invalid · Dec 26
Seeking safety is not a crime.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Dec 25
The personal and societal consequences of dyslexia can be catastrophic. At every grade level, dyslexic students are more likely to be suspended, expelled, or placed in juvenile detention. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
www.newyorker.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · Dec 24
Persistent Long COVID. Millions face ongoing exhaustion and disabling symptoms, with setbacks that repeatedly derail daily life. Time authorities fully recognised LC — especially as an occupational injury for healthcare workers who sacrificed so much for us all.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Patterns of long COVID symptoms among healthcare workers in the UK and variations by sociodemographic, clinical and occupational factors: a cross-sectional analysis of a nationwide study (UK-REACH) - ...
Objectives: This study aimed to examine symptom patterns between healthcare workers (HCWs) with and without long COVID, identify the most common long COVID symp...
journals.sagepub.com

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Dec 22
Western Australian research is showing a strong link between homelessness and poor health, with life expectancy more than 30 years lower for people without secure housing.
Poor sleep, unhealthy diets and stress compound for the homeless
Western Australian research is showing a strong link between homelessness and poor health, with life expectancy more than 30 years lower for people without secure housing.
www.abc.net.au

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Médecins Sans Frontières @handle.invalid · Dec 22
👋 Meet Helina Tsegaye! She is a counsellor with us in Tigray, Ethiopia. Helina has an important message to share:

“The brain is part of the body; just as the stomach can get sick, so can the mind. It is important to seek professional help when needed. Mental health care saves lives.”