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Prof Naomi Priest PhD
@naomipriest.bsky.social
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Health equity and social inequalities
Social epidemiologist

Living and working on unceded Wurrundjeri land, Naarm/Melbourne

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Prof Naomi Priest PhD @naomipriest.bsky.social · 5d
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

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 7d
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Vow to save VicHealth causes headache for government
The Coalition will block moves to scrap the health agency, leaving the government without the upper house votes it needs.
www.theage.com.au

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 8d
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/...
‘We shouldn’t be surprised’: bushfires in Victoria push threatened species to the brink
The impact of fires on wildlife can be ‘catastrophic’, with some plant species feared extinct
www.theguardian.com

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 10d
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/...
Exclusive: Misfeasance case paves way for robodebt action
A damning judgement of ‘highhandedness or cynical disregard’ by the Medicare watchdog has established a new front for civil litigation of public servants named in the robodebt royal commission.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 15d
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...
Traditional owners heartbroken by dingo cull after Piper James's death
The Queensland government euthanises six dingoes involved in Piper James's death on K'gari, and is expected to cull more in the coming days.
www.abc.net.au

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 15d
www.croakey.org/not-a-date-t...
Not a date to celebrate – links to events, services and supports
Dozens of rallies, marches, ceremonies and other events will be held around Australia on Monday, 26 January to honour Aboriginal
www.croakey.org

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15d
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Ideas Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny. By Jonathan Rauch

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 16d
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.

www.theage.com.au/national/sec...

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 21d
The Attorney General can’t rule out that accurately describing Israel as committing genocide could land you in jail for 15 years.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21d
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.

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Prof Naomi Priest PhD @naomipriest.bsky.social · 23d
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... amazing line up, would have loved to be there
A Gathering for Gaza: Genesis Owusu, Julia Jacklin and Angie McMahon celebrate art as resistance
Thousands attend Melbourne event to raise money for non-profits dedicated to the plight of Palestinians
www.theguardian.com

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23d
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag

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Prof Naomi Priest PhD @naomipriest.bsky.social · 24d
it's so broken

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Prof Naomi Priest PhD @naomipriest.bsky.social · 24d
"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."

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Dr Shane Huntington OAM @drshanerrr.bsky.social · 24d
More voices standing up.

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 24d
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...
No time to warn or to prepare: Natimuk met the fire of our future
The anatomy of the Natimuk fire offers a glimpse into a new and faster kind of bushfire — and the growing vulnerability of communities as climate change fuels dangerous conditions.
www.abc.net.au

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rthm_health @rthm.bsky.social · 25d
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.

🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1758...
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.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 26d
Seems like there are a few issues in Malinauskas’ government www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
SA ecologist resigns from algal bloom panels, citing government's 'adversarial' approach
South Australian ecologist Dr Faith Coleman has resigned from two state government algal bloom panels and criticised the state government's approach.
www.abc.net.au

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 26d
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.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 26d
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...
The Great Silencing
Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 27d
Mr Herzog seems nice, and it's nice too that the Australian government is rolling out the red carpet for him.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
'The Commission also concluded that Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide and that Israeli authorities have failed to take action against them to punish this incitement. The Commission has not fully assessed statements by other Israeli political and military leaders and considers that they too should be assessed to determine whether they constitute incitement to commit genocide. The Commission urges the Government of Israel to comply immediately with its international legal obligations, including to end the genocide in the Gaza Strip and fully implement the provisional measures orders of the International Court of Justice.'

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28d
Boards composed of individuals with little experience in the arts & blind to the moral implications of abandoning the principle of freedom of expression, have been unnerved by the pressure exerted by politicians calculating their electoral prospects & relentless, coordinated letter-writing campaigns

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28d
"I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week" Louise Adler ✊

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28d
Going against Santos?? Malinauskus will be wanting to charge the riders with hate crimes.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
‘It’s embarrassing’: riders say time is up for fossil fuel sponsorship of heat-affected Tour Down Under
Cyclists prepare for Australia’s big race by training in extreme temperatures – and they have noticed a contradiction in the relationship with Santos
www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 29d
On Saturday, an imam and his wife were allegedly victims of a violent hate crime — forced off the road by another car, with attackers then getting out to assault the imam/threaten his wife.

ANIC put out a statement on Sunday arvo, noting rising islamophobia.

The media is just getting to it now.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jan 8
The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · Jan 8
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

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GIWL ANU @giwlanu.bsky.social · Jan 6
Time shapes everything – our work, our health, our relationships – but it's not shared evenly.

Join Prof Lyndall Strazdins and Annabel Crabb to unpack the gendered politics of work, care and burnout, and why time has become one of the most unequal resources of all.

🔗 https://ow.ly/wZuE50XQvhF

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 3
Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’
Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’
Thousands have blown down in storms and tents from China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia found to be not waterproof Thousands of tents supplied by China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to shelter displaced Palestinians in Gaza offer only limited protection against rain and wind, an assessment compiled by shelter specialists in the devastated territory has revealed. The assessment will undermine claims that Palestinians in Gaza are being supplied with adequate shelter. Fierce storms in recent weeks blew down or damaged thousands of tents, affecting at least 235,000 people, according to UN estimates. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · Dec 29
Almost a decade ago Emma Johnston, Tanya Monro and I appeared at The National Press Club of Australia to talk about our stories and our views of issues that impact on Women in Science. It was an amazing experience…

I will miss you Emma.

theconversation.com/if-we-really...
If we really want an ideas boom, we need more women at the top tiers of science
If we want a genuine ideas boom in Australia, then we need to remove the barriers preventing women from reaching the highest levels in science.
theconversation.com