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Kath Albury
@katha.bsky.social

ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health. .. more

Psychology 34%
Sociology 16%

It's very clear that social media is not the safest place for trans folks - that why I'm supporting TGV to provide more in-person peer-support in regional Victoria!

Every dollar you donate for GiveOut Day will be matched if you donate before Thursday: giveoutday.org.au/kath-albury

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Kath’s participants identified social media as a site of risk for workplace health and safety for people doing sexual health work in the digital space - this reflects my own experience but I feel it’s gotten so much worse in just the last few years #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social

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Supporting digital capabilities in a way that also supports rights and autonomy means moving away from an understanding of the term that relies on individual knowledge. Individual knowledge is insufficient in situations of systems and governance failure #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social

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The amazing @katha.bsky.social presenting on building digital capabilities in hostile social media environments. The context stuff is fascinating - this has been a deeply weird but also vitally important four year period for Kath to have been leading this research #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025

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A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals & communities navigate the overwhelming & often unreliable online information about sexual & reproductive health by building digital & data capabilities @katha.bsky.social
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From ‘Doctor Google’ to Data-Driven Care: The Future of Digital Health Literacy - ADM+S Centre
A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals and communities navigate the overwhelming and often unreliable online information about...
www.admscentre.org.au

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Featuring @katha.bsky.social @floreani.bsky.social and guest presenters from across the sector, @muyiiyamu.bsky.social Melanie Bissessor, Caitlin Learmonth, Daniel Reeders, Amy Tong, and Jess Wilms.

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Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone.

Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
www.thelancet.com

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Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools...

Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social.

@digital-health.bsky.social

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New publication reviewing research literature reporting on user involvement the design of digital HIV and sexual health tools- led by @aliciajeanking.bsky.social & Ethan Trey Cardwell, with a great set of illustrious co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
User Input in the Development of Digital Sexual Health Tools: A Scoping Review and Guidance for Tool Developers
Background or Context Studies reporting the use of digital tools to promote the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) have proliferated in recent years.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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This is Lil Hobbs. He’s just waking up. Thought everyone would enjoy seeing his routine. Big stretch included. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
I was in Canberra yesterday alongside other digital media experts to brief members of the cross bench and government on some of the key policies being debated at present, social media bans, age verification, and misinformation. @qutdmrc.bsky.social

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I made a starter pack of a motley crew of folks I enjoy. Let me know if you’d like to be added to this list (or taken off)!

go.bsky.app/9yxgizB
PSA: Bluesky is a public social network, like a blog. Posts are visible to anyone online. Built on the AT Protocol, it supports PUBLIC, portable conversations by storing data in accessible repositories.

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It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.

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What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area?

Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055...

In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool…

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"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for."

@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:
Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
lareviewofbooks.org

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 22
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
www.aaup.org
Do you know someone looking for a great PhD opportunity with a great academic supervisor? PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia” hblog.org/2025/06/18/p...
PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia”
I have a scholarship for a PhD student to work on my Future Fellowship project. Below is the description that will soon appear on UTS’s website. Feel free to ping me if you’re intereste…
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Congratulations Jathan!

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Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
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My PhD framework is now LIVE!

We co-designed 5 recommendations for improving social media health communication to young people, with young people and health orgs📱

🔗: www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/social-media-comms-for-young-people-framework

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDSky #PublicHealth 🦘🎓

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Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea
Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS

READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/aussies-love-don-t-know-what-age-assurance-is-iran-whatsapp-ban-and-mastodon-s-ai-plea-f6b7f1bfe4385
Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea
Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS
thesizzle.com.au
The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does.
#201FirstNationsArticles
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
With less than 6 months until Australia's teen social media ban kicks in (!) we aren't much closer to knowing how it will work.

I wrote what needs to happen before the ban, what people think it'll look like, and why we're going to find out some details in the next 2 weeks.

www.crikey.com.au/20...

Solidarity Shaun, to you and all our Macquarie colleagues
Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...
Patterns of Surprise and Ambivalence: Studying Social Media Visuality by Way of Aggregated Autoethnography | Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
www.qualitative-research.net

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While new online industry codes aim to protect children from harmful content, experts warn they could unintentionally restrict access to vital sexual health and education resources, particularly for young and marginalised groups. @katha.bsky.social #SexEd #DigitalRights
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Sexual health info online is crucial for teens. Australia’s new tech codes may threaten their access
Draft rules to restrict ‘age-inappropriate content’ may also affect essential information about sex and sexual health.
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Well known, Palestinian artist Elham Al-Boddi, 33, of Beit Lahia, was killed in an airstrike yesterday.

Her husband had been killed months earlier.