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Ben Harris-Roxas
@benhr.bsky.social
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Researcher and educator from Sydney, Australia. You’ll usually find me on the forgotten parts of the web.

https://unsw.to/ben_hr
https://harrisroxashealth.com

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 12h
By 2030 will we see a new rule emerge, where the ALP primary = 2x Greens primary?

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Dr Melody Taba @melodytaba.bsky.social · 13h
New #PhD paper out! 📢

We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.

More in thread & link :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AcademicSky 🛟 🧪 🦘🎓
Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 17h
*fictional

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 18h
These people are giving the factional fascist post-apocalyptic police-judiciary of Megacity One a bad name.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 1d
“And then I realised, it’s not census date yet.”

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 1d
Combined hot-desking open plan this seems positively idyllic.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 2d
💯

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 2d
Albany's heritage-listed skate park 'The Snake Run' celebrates its 50th birthday
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
'Living the dream': Growing up with Australia's first skate park
Australia is home to one of the world's oldest surviving skate parks, which is as much a product of surfing culture as it is a time capsule of skating history.
www.abc.net.au

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 3d
This is quite an important read: The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 4d
Yes agreed! The labour is just in a form Graeber doesn’t value.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 4d
I’ve been thinking a bit about where I expend my time and energy and I’ve realised admin work is cognitively shallow but emotionally noisy.

This is probably obvious to many but was kind of revelatory to me. It doesn’t need brainpower but involves a tonne of emotional labour.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 6d
wow!
You corrected the factual inaccuracy underlying a joke? That’s so cool! What happened next? Applause, kisses, cheers... but the real reward was getting to start a sentence with “Actually,”

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Jon Wolter @wolter.bsky.social · 8d
One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 10d
Utah pilot program allows AI to autonomously order prescription refills for 190 common meds. Sounds dangerous, frankly.
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 13d
Forget you Now You See Me nonsense, this is magic I can get behind.
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 13d
If you haven’t done it already you’re just lazy.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 14d
Heatwaves across south-eastern Australia from Wednesday, projected to be the worst in six years: https://benhr.xyz/2026/01/05/heatwaves-across-southeastern-australia-from.html
Heatwaves across south-eastern Australia from Wednesday, projected to be the worst in six years
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 14d
That’s the main thing I took from Maimonides

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 15d
The list of films on Letterboxd
Solarpunk films (an attempt at a comprehensive list)
Films exploring how we might live sustainably, justly, and joyfully while refusing both naïve utopianism and dystopian despair. What makes a film solarpunk? It has something to do with ecological rest...
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 15d
I spent the holidays watching 37 solarpunk films and it turned out to be unexpectedly moving. What stays with me: these aren't escapist fantasies. They're imaginative rehearsals for futures we might actually build.
Imagining a better future: What I learned from solarpunk films
The author has been compiling a growing list of solarpunk films, defining the genre as depicting ecological restoration, community-focused solutions, and hopeful futures. Through examining various …
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 15d
"”Tuvalu’s first climate migrants have arrived in Australia, marking the beginning of a historic relocation as rising seas threaten to swallow their island home… Among the Pacific people selected in the initial intake of climat... https://benhr.xyz/2026/01/04/tuvalus-first-climate-migrants-have.html
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 15d
Slop :(

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 16d
Geordie no: broligarch
Geordie yes: extractigarch

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 16d
I feel comfortable characterising things that nobody could be bothered to write as not being worth reading, i.e. slop.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Ben Harris‐Roxas, Margot C. Finn

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 16d
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 17d
Apologies, Australian *Turf* Club

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 17d
I wonder if he’ll also be humbled by the Australian Jockey Club

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 18d
The only subgenre worse than books written by journalists.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 18d
I thought “that sounds interesting”, then I read the blurb:

“Dan Wang—“a gifted observer of contemporary China” (Ross Douthat)”

No thanks.

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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 18d
Yeah it’s def one to process. I still feel about seven different things about it.