Matt Mason
@mattmrn.bsky.social
Lecturer in Nursing @usc.edu.au
Infection Prevention, Infectious Disease & Emergency Management. Opinions my own. Living on Gubbi Gubbi land.
Infection Prevention, Infectious Disease & Emergency Management. Opinions my own. Living on Gubbi Gubbi land.
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ai in education causes huge increases in workload for no increase in pay. It dramatically lowers our productivity for our employers and gives it to the pervert billionaire sector. Time for being an academic instead goes to ai guidelines, ai interviews, ai detection and referral, ai this, ai that.
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
ai in education causes huge increases in workload for no increase in pay. It dramatically lowers our productivity for our employers and gives it to the pervert billionaire sector. Time for being an academic instead goes to ai guidelines, ai interviews, ai detection and referral, ai this, ai that.
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
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This is part of a broader pattern where visas for visiting researchers and students wanting to study in Australia are being refused or delayed with little or no explanation.
Bat researchers refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific conference.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bat researchers refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific conference.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is part of a broader pattern where visas for visiting researchers and students wanting to study in Australia are being refused or delayed with little or no explanation.
Bat researchers refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific conference.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bat researchers refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific conference.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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No TISM, Clouds, Falling Joys, Frente, Models, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lucksmiths, Deadstar, Jebediah, Fauves, Hummingbirds, Tumbleweed, Underground Lovers, Died Pretty, Rocket Science, Radio Birdman, Saints, Custard, Cordrazine, Triffids, Sunnyboys, Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring… #hottest100
July 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
No TISM, Clouds, Falling Joys, Frente, Models, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lucksmiths, Deadstar, Jebediah, Fauves, Hummingbirds, Tumbleweed, Underground Lovers, Died Pretty, Rocket Science, Radio Birdman, Saints, Custard, Cordrazine, Triffids, Sunnyboys, Drones, Eddy Current Suppression Ring… #hottest100
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A disabled woman, limited English, was cut from welfare for 6 MONTHS due to comedy of errors starting with private, $1.3bn job service 'provider' and ending with govt getting their law wrong. Six days after she appealed, dept acted. To protect themselves. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Exclusive: Welfare cancellations paused after tribunal complaint
The employment department quietly stopped welfare cancellations after a complaint from a disabled woman – but did not intervene in her case, which she won six months later.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A disabled woman, limited English, was cut from welfare for 6 MONTHS due to comedy of errors starting with private, $1.3bn job service 'provider' and ending with govt getting their law wrong. Six days after she appealed, dept acted. To protect themselves. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
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Albanese govt hasn’t reversed the 100% increase on humanities degree fees, but wants a pat on the back for cutting student debt by 20%.
Clown show.
Clown show.
How the student debt cut still fails students
As promised, Labor’s first act in the 48th parliament was to cut 20 per cent off all student debt. It’s a long-overdue move and undeniably welcome. Students have spent years shouting into the void abo...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Albanese govt hasn’t reversed the 100% increase on humanities degree fees, but wants a pat on the back for cutting student debt by 20%.
Clown show.
Clown show.
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PM @albomp.bsky.social, you issued strong words yesterday
Will you back words with ACTIONS today❓
Will you #SanctionIsrael❓
Stop selling them weapons/weapon parts❓
End economic investment❓
Expel the Israeli ambassador❓
Or continue to talk in order not to ACT❓
#EndTheGenocide #Gaza #Palestine
Will you back words with ACTIONS today❓
Will you #SanctionIsrael❓
Stop selling them weapons/weapon parts❓
End economic investment❓
Expel the Israeli ambassador❓
Or continue to talk in order not to ACT❓
#EndTheGenocide #Gaza #Palestine
July 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
PM @albomp.bsky.social, you issued strong words yesterday
Will you back words with ACTIONS today❓
Will you #SanctionIsrael❓
Stop selling them weapons/weapon parts❓
End economic investment❓
Expel the Israeli ambassador❓
Or continue to talk in order not to ACT❓
#EndTheGenocide #Gaza #Palestine
Will you back words with ACTIONS today❓
Will you #SanctionIsrael❓
Stop selling them weapons/weapon parts❓
End economic investment❓
Expel the Israeli ambassador❓
Or continue to talk in order not to ACT❓
#EndTheGenocide #Gaza #Palestine
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Australia was invited to this Hague group meeting of 30 nations seeking to end the genocide in Gaza, but has chosen not to attend. The Foreign Minister Penny Wong needs to explain to the Australian public why Australia rejected the invitation.
July 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Australia was invited to this Hague group meeting of 30 nations seeking to end the genocide in Gaza, but has chosen not to attend. The Foreign Minister Penny Wong needs to explain to the Australian public why Australia rejected the invitation.
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If I understand correctly she wants to police the media, have power to defund universities/the arts and deport migrants, but she has no influence over her own husband.
July 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
If I understand correctly she wants to police the media, have power to defund universities/the arts and deport migrants, but she has no influence over her own husband.
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🔔 NEW in the MJA Indigenous Health Special Issue
Taking up the challenge of eliminating racism in health care through talking about race (and culture)
✍️ Chelsea J Watego, David Singh, Kevin Yow Yeh, Helena Kajlich and Saran Singh
buff.ly/eqvcDnl
Taking up the challenge of eliminating racism in health care through talking about race (and culture)
✍️ Chelsea J Watego, David Singh, Kevin Yow Yeh, Helena Kajlich and Saran Singh
buff.ly/eqvcDnl
July 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🔔 NEW in the MJA Indigenous Health Special Issue
Taking up the challenge of eliminating racism in health care through talking about race (and culture)
✍️ Chelsea J Watego, David Singh, Kevin Yow Yeh, Helena Kajlich and Saran Singh
buff.ly/eqvcDnl
Taking up the challenge of eliminating racism in health care through talking about race (and culture)
✍️ Chelsea J Watego, David Singh, Kevin Yow Yeh, Helena Kajlich and Saran Singh
buff.ly/eqvcDnl
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How to use* PPE in healthcare
🧠 Teaching moment:
“The gown and mask aren't hiding your care—they're showing it.”
please inform your healthcare provider about this
👇
🧠 Teaching moment:
“The gown and mask aren't hiding your care—they're showing it.”
please inform your healthcare provider about this
👇
this is how -we as society- should train our public health workers ❤️🔥
June 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
How to use* PPE in healthcare
🧠 Teaching moment:
“The gown and mask aren't hiding your care—they're showing it.”
please inform your healthcare provider about this
👇
🧠 Teaching moment:
“The gown and mask aren't hiding your care—they're showing it.”
please inform your healthcare provider about this
👇
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god bless the library - mail in STD tests!
June 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
god bless the library - mail in STD tests!
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I think the new universities regular ATEC should make a rule — every time a university kills off a course like music or politics or sociology, they should also have to reduce the salary of the vice-chancellor by $100k
It’s heartbreaking to read about the dissolution of the Politics Department at Macquarie University along with the decimation of Sociology - so many brilliant scholars livelihoods being destroyed www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Proposed Macquarie University restructure will ‘hollow out’ humanities, academics say
Macquarie blames prospect of international student caps and ‘uncertainty’ about domestic student numbers for proposed academic job cuts, fewer arts courses
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I think the new universities regular ATEC should make a rule — every time a university kills off a course like music or politics or sociology, they should also have to reduce the salary of the vice-chancellor by $100k
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Frustrated by a narrow view equating surgical #sustainability with operating, @drsteverobson.bsky.social @drjohnorchard.bsky.social and I wrote a thing. Unmet need and met un-need both cost the planet. Where should we operate *less*... and more? #MedSky #GlobalHealth #equity 🌏🌳🔪
The global surgical triple goal: Surgery must improve health, be equitable, and environmentally sustainable
If carbon emissions are not substantially reduced, human health will suffer irreparably. At the same time, global healthcare suffers from inequitable …
www.sciencedirect.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Frustrated by a narrow view equating surgical #sustainability with operating, @drsteverobson.bsky.social @drjohnorchard.bsky.social and I wrote a thing. Unmet need and met un-need both cost the planet. Where should we operate *less*... and more? #MedSky #GlobalHealth #equity 🌏🌳🔪
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International Nurses Day, based on Nightingale’s birthday, seems like a good day for “Beyond Florence” to make an appearance on BlueSky. The best thing I’ve ever done with @nursingclio.bsky.social nursingclio.org/Series/serie...
Beyond Florence – Nursing Clio
nursingclio.org
May 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
International Nurses Day, based on Nightingale’s birthday, seems like a good day for “Beyond Florence” to make an appearance on BlueSky. The best thing I’ve ever done with @nursingclio.bsky.social nursingclio.org/Series/serie...
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Register now for WHO's Western Pacific Region IPC webinar.
Topic: Strengthening Health Systems for Sustainable Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2025
Time: 2:00–3:00 PM (AEST)
To register, please click the link below:
who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Topic: Strengthening Health Systems for Sustainable Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2025
Time: 2:00–3:00 PM (AEST)
To register, please click the link below:
who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Register now for WHO's Western Pacific Region IPC webinar.
Topic: Strengthening Health Systems for Sustainable Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2025
Time: 2:00–3:00 PM (AEST)
To register, please click the link below:
who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Topic: Strengthening Health Systems for Sustainable Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2025
Time: 2:00–3:00 PM (AEST)
To register, please click the link below:
who.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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This seems really important:
The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings.
Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO?
your turn.
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings.
Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO?
your turn.
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
April 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This seems really important:
The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings.
Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO?
your turn.
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings.
Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO?
your turn.
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
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ACIPC is calling for IPC expertise to be embedded in the new Australian CDC.
It is essential for protecting consumers and healthcare workers and strengthening readiness for future infectious disease threats.
Read the statement: tinyurl.com/3nfsfsyd
#AustralianCDC #ACIPC
It is essential for protecting consumers and healthcare workers and strengthening readiness for future infectious disease threats.
Read the statement: tinyurl.com/3nfsfsyd
#AustralianCDC #ACIPC
April 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ACIPC is calling for IPC expertise to be embedded in the new Australian CDC.
It is essential for protecting consumers and healthcare workers and strengthening readiness for future infectious disease threats.
Read the statement: tinyurl.com/3nfsfsyd
#AustralianCDC #ACIPC
It is essential for protecting consumers and healthcare workers and strengthening readiness for future infectious disease threats.
Read the statement: tinyurl.com/3nfsfsyd
#AustralianCDC #ACIPC
Latest publication with @ipcpau.bsky.social @jocelynebasseal.bsky.social Vanessa Sparke & Jacinta Wakefield. Looking at religious influences on IPC practice in healthcare settings. It's complex with more to be done to balance IPC and individual HCW needs. #IPC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Religious influences on infection prevention and control practices in healthcare settings: A scoping review
Healthcare-associated infections pose a significant global health challenge. While evidence-based infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Latest publication with @ipcpau.bsky.social @jocelynebasseal.bsky.social Vanessa Sparke & Jacinta Wakefield. Looking at religious influences on IPC practice in healthcare settings. It's complex with more to be done to balance IPC and individual HCW needs. #IPC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Australia is a very racist country, and our public institutions have been a large reason for the growing level of racism in the past few years.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Khaled Sabsabi dropped as Australia’s representative to Venice Biennale
Amid political pressure, Creative Australia says deselecting the Lebanese-born artist will avoid ‘divisive debate’
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Australia is a very racist country, and our public institutions have been a large reason for the growing level of racism in the past few years.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda moved to Aus as a 19-yr-old international student to pursue an accounting degree. Years later he sold his company for $24bn, handed out $65,000 bonuses to employees, and donated $100m to the Uni of Sydney to boost women in STEM www.smartcompany.com.au/people-human...
"Transformational": AirTrunk's Robin Khuda donates $100 million for women in STEM
AirTrunk CEO and founder Robin Khuda has donated $100 million to the University of Sydney to boost women in STEM.
www.smartcompany.com.au
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda moved to Aus as a 19-yr-old international student to pursue an accounting degree. Years later he sold his company for $24bn, handed out $65,000 bonuses to employees, and donated $100m to the Uni of Sydney to boost women in STEM www.smartcompany.com.au/people-human...
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If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
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I know there is a lot going on right now, but I can't stop reacting with horror what is going on in academia in the USA.
It's like watching medieval monks grab manuscripts as their monastery is sacked by Vikings.
It's like watching medieval monks grab manuscripts as their monastery is sacked by Vikings.
The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.
Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!
Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!
February 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I know there is a lot going on right now, but I can't stop reacting with horror what is going on in academia in the USA.
It's like watching medieval monks grab manuscripts as their monastery is sacked by Vikings.
It's like watching medieval monks grab manuscripts as their monastery is sacked by Vikings.