Ben Smith
@bensmithphd.bsky.social
Senior Implementation Scientist at the Daffodil Centre & Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow #impsci #survonc #digitalhealth #healthequity Opinions my own
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Ben Smith
@bensmithphd.bsky.social
· Apr 3
Step-by-step: A clinical pathway for stepped care management of fear of cancer recurrence
YouTube video by The Daffodil Centre
youtu.be
🚨New 2 min🎞️summarising step-by-step plan to address fear of #cancer recurrence in clinical practice.
Watch youtu.be/cr_3KEOTAv8?...
Read the 📰 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Listen to the podcast w/ @bogda-koczwara.bsky.social & Sophie Lebel🎙️ oncologynews.com.au/clinical-foc...
Explanatory🧵👇
Watch youtu.be/cr_3KEOTAv8?...
Read the 📰 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Listen to the podcast w/ @bogda-koczwara.bsky.social & Sophie Lebel🎙️ oncologynews.com.au/clinical-foc...
Explanatory🧵👇
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I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EV drivers set to pay road user charges as record number of electric cars selling in Australia
PM says sustainable revenue for roads is needed as report shows nearly one in 10 new car sales are electric vehicles
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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An excellent development! Gay and bi men now able to donate blood. I can highly recommend being a donor -- the staff are lovely, the snacks are plentiful and the demand on your time is very small.
Ban lifted: Gay and bisexual men among over 600,000 Australians newly eligible to donate blood
Rules that have effectively banned all sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma will be lifted, in a world-first move that would expand Australia’s donor pool and redress a ...
www.smh.com.au
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
An excellent development! Gay and bi men now able to donate blood. I can highly recommend being a donor -- the staff are lovely, the snacks are plentiful and the demand on your time is very small.
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Glad to see that open or transparent peer review is increasingly gaining ground!
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01
Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Glad to see that open or transparent peer review is increasingly gaining ground!
🧠New📰in @apajournals.bsky.social #HealthPsychology
🕸️We used network analysis to explore how different components of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are interconnected
🎯Findings suggest key intervention targets
📖 Read more: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#FCR #PsyOnc #SurvOnc @daffodilcentre.org
🕸️We used network analysis to explore how different components of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are interconnected
🎯Findings suggest key intervention targets
📖 Read more: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#FCR #PsyOnc #SurvOnc @daffodilcentre.org
June 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
🧠New📰in @apajournals.bsky.social #HealthPsychology
🕸️We used network analysis to explore how different components of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are interconnected
🎯Findings suggest key intervention targets
📖 Read more: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#FCR #PsyOnc #SurvOnc @daffodilcentre.org
🕸️We used network analysis to explore how different components of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are interconnected
🎯Findings suggest key intervention targets
📖 Read more: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#FCR #PsyOnc #SurvOnc @daffodilcentre.org
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🔍 U-CARE study published: Parents of children treated for cancer found an internet-administered CBT self-help programme helpful, but identified room for improvement. Co-analysis with public contributors with lived experience added important insights.
👉 bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👉 bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
The acceptability and feasibility of an internet-administered, guided, low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for parents of children treated for cancer: findings from a qualitative ...
Background Despite parents of children treated for cancer commonly reporting psychological difficulties such as symptoms of depression and anxiety, there is a lack of evidence-based psychological inte...
bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
🔍 U-CARE study published: Parents of children treated for cancer found an internet-administered CBT self-help programme helpful, but identified room for improvement. Co-analysis with public contributors with lived experience added important insights.
👉 bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
👉 bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Late breaking at #ASCO25:
A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial: nej.md/4mh5RPL
@ascocancer.bsky.social
A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial: nej.md/4mh5RPL
@ascocancer.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Late breaking at #ASCO25:
A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial: nej.md/4mh5RPL
@ascocancer.bsky.social
A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial: nej.md/4mh5RPL
@ascocancer.bsky.social
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The #ASCO25 #OncoAlertTOP10 Abstracts in #SupportiveCare These are some of our picks of TOP abstracts we look forward to be presented at the upcoming ASCO Meeting in Chicago 🇺🇸
May 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The #ASCO25 #OncoAlertTOP10 Abstracts in #SupportiveCare These are some of our picks of TOP abstracts we look forward to be presented at the upcoming ASCO Meeting in Chicago 🇺🇸
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One final board member introduction remains... Prof @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social is our hard working, inspiring President of the International #SharedDecisionMaking Society. (1/n)
May 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
One final board member introduction remains... Prof @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social is our hard working, inspiring President of the International #SharedDecisionMaking Society. (1/n)
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NEW RESEARCH🔬| This study gathered insights from healthcare professionals worldwide, suggesting guidelines to improve the emotional and psychological outcomes of lung cancer screening.
READ MORE🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
READ MORE🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
May 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
NEW RESEARCH🔬| This study gathered insights from healthcare professionals worldwide, suggesting guidelines to improve the emotional and psychological outcomes of lung cancer screening.
READ MORE🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
READ MORE🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
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Honored to be presenting alongside two of the best Prof @michael-jefford.bsky.social & Prof #LarissaNekhlyudov on this important topic!
Please join us in Seattle for this interactive workshop!
#oncologynursing @oncoalert.bsky.social @pallonccop.bsky.social
@fumikochino.bsky.social
Please join us in Seattle for this interactive workshop!
#oncologynursing @oncoalert.bsky.social @pallonccop.bsky.social
@fumikochino.bsky.social
Our #MASCC25 workshop “Beyond Survivorship 101: Building Advanced Skills in Survivorship Care” will be chaired by Prof @michael-jefford.bsky.social & Prof Larissa Nekhlyudov with additional speaker Dr @darcyburbage.bsky.social.
Learn more and see all workshops here: mascc.org/annualmeetin...
Learn more and see all workshops here: mascc.org/annualmeetin...
May 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Honored to be presenting alongside two of the best Prof @michael-jefford.bsky.social & Prof #LarissaNekhlyudov on this important topic!
Please join us in Seattle for this interactive workshop!
#oncologynursing @oncoalert.bsky.social @pallonccop.bsky.social
@fumikochino.bsky.social
Please join us in Seattle for this interactive workshop!
#oncologynursing @oncoalert.bsky.social @pallonccop.bsky.social
@fumikochino.bsky.social
Interesting perspective on balancing time wealth & financial wealth through values clarification. Can relate!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How Charlie discovered that time wealth can be the key to a slower, happier life | Modern mind
Feeling tired and out of touch with what really matters to him, a busy father tries a few behavioural experiments
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Interesting perspective on balancing time wealth & financial wealth through values clarification. Can relate!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CONGRATULATIONS🎉| Dr Yuan Ni on your graduation! Yuan's thesis, titled “The Epidemiology of Multiple Primary Melanomas in Australia” was supervised by #DaffodilCentre Prof Anne Cust, and @melanomaau.bsky.social A/Prof Serigne Lo, PhD.
📍 @sydney.edu.au
📍 @sydney.edu.au
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
CONGRATULATIONS🎉| Dr Yuan Ni on your graduation! Yuan's thesis, titled “The Epidemiology of Multiple Primary Melanomas in Australia” was supervised by #DaffodilCentre Prof Anne Cust, and @melanomaau.bsky.social A/Prof Serigne Lo, PhD.
📍 @sydney.edu.au
📍 @sydney.edu.au
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This is a great thread. It's also why you can lessen that feeling of time speeding by and everything blurring together by simply doing *different* things. Get out of the rut. Start a new volunteer thing, take on a different role at work, take a vacation if you can, etc.
You know how time perception speeds up as one ages simply due to the fact that one month or year is much larger percent of someone's life at 10 years old than at 60 years old.
But also, consider how fast an infant learns versus and adult. How much new, unknown stuff a child encounters each day.
But also, consider how fast an infant learns versus and adult. How much new, unknown stuff a child encounters each day.
May 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is a great thread. It's also why you can lessen that feeling of time speeding by and everything blurring together by simply doing *different* things. Get out of the rut. Start a new volunteer thing, take on a different role at work, take a vacation if you can, etc.
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Also pleased to share this just-published paper. Work led by A/Prof Gemma McErlean to define scope and roles of all cancer nurses in the care of cancer survivors, open access at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Quality cancer survivorship care: a modified Delphi study to define nurse capabilities - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
Purpose To establish capabilities required by nurses to deliver quality cancer survivorship care in Australia. Methods A two-round online modified Delphi involving Australian cancer nurses. Initial do...
link.springer.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also pleased to share this just-published paper. Work led by A/Prof Gemma McErlean to define scope and roles of all cancer nurses in the care of cancer survivors, open access at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A preview of our education session at the ASCO annual meeting is in this ASCO Daily News article. The session will be at 8am on Sunday June 1 in room E450a, dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/treatable...
Treatable But Not Curable: Addressing Survivorship Care Needs of Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Cancer
An Education Session will highlight the recently released Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and ASCO guidelines for Survivorship Care for People Affected by Advanced or M...
dailynews.ascopubs.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A preview of our education session at the ASCO annual meeting is in this ASCO Daily News article. The session will be at 8am on Sunday June 1 in room E450a, dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/treatable...
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Excited about our upcoming ISBNPA Conference satellite workshop "Scaling Up & Sustaining Health Innovations"
📅 June 4–5 2025
📍 Newcastle NSW
More info: ncois.org.au/events/works...
📅 June 4–5 2025
📍 Newcastle NSW
More info: ncois.org.au/events/works...
May 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Excited about our upcoming ISBNPA Conference satellite workshop "Scaling Up & Sustaining Health Innovations"
📅 June 4–5 2025
📍 Newcastle NSW
More info: ncois.org.au/events/works...
📅 June 4–5 2025
📍 Newcastle NSW
More info: ncois.org.au/events/works...
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Honored to be a featured voice for #ASCO25
Will be sharing highlights from a patient/research advocacy perspective & likely focus in digital health interventions, supportive care advances, and diagnostics that lead to treatment optimization & risk mitigation
TY @ascocancer.bsky.social for the oppty
Will be sharing highlights from a patient/research advocacy perspective & likely focus in digital health interventions, supportive care advances, and diagnostics that lead to treatment optimization & risk mitigation
TY @ascocancer.bsky.social for the oppty
Thrilled to announce our Annual Meeting Featured Voices! Get ready for a wealth of expert perspectives and engaging discussions throughout the meeting. Don't miss out – follow along and contribute to the conversation using the official hashtag: #ASCO25
May 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Honored to be a featured voice for #ASCO25
Will be sharing highlights from a patient/research advocacy perspective & likely focus in digital health interventions, supportive care advances, and diagnostics that lead to treatment optimization & risk mitigation
TY @ascocancer.bsky.social for the oppty
Will be sharing highlights from a patient/research advocacy perspective & likely focus in digital health interventions, supportive care advances, and diagnostics that lead to treatment optimization & risk mitigation
TY @ascocancer.bsky.social for the oppty
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Things that we cover:
- How the concept of open science is not new
- Whether the benefits of open science outweigh the extra time taken to implement these practices
- The responsible development of open science practices in psychology
- Data sharing considerations
- Plus more!
- How the concept of open science is not new
- Whether the benefits of open science outweigh the extra time taken to implement these practices
- The responsible development of open science practices in psychology
- Data sharing considerations
- Plus more!
Here's a recent chat from NORRN steering committee members @agataboch.bsky.social and @dsquintana.bsky.social about common misconceptions and challenges surrounding the implementation of open research practices, with a focus on psychology research youtu.be/Eyl29VBdHjA
Open science: Fact vs. Fiction
YouTube video by Norwegian Reproducibility Network
youtu.be
May 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Things that we cover:
- How the concept of open science is not new
- Whether the benefits of open science outweigh the extra time taken to implement these practices
- The responsible development of open science practices in psychology
- Data sharing considerations
- Plus more!
- How the concept of open science is not new
- Whether the benefits of open science outweigh the extra time taken to implement these practices
- The responsible development of open science practices in psychology
- Data sharing considerations
- Plus more!
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🧠 Big takeaway from our paper just out: Introducing apps into healthcare isn’t all about tech — it’s also about navigating people, practices, and perceptions. Without early planning and local alignment, even the best apps can struggle!
📄 Read the full paper here: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66815
📄 Read the full paper here: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66815
Integrating a Mobile App to Enhance Atrial Fibrillation Care: Key Insights From an Implementation Study Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
Background: Despite the growing use of mobile health apps in managing chronic heart disease, their integration into routine care remains challenging due to dynamic, context-specific barriers. Objectiv...
www.jmir.org
May 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🧠 Big takeaway from our paper just out: Introducing apps into healthcare isn’t all about tech — it’s also about navigating people, practices, and perceptions. Without early planning and local alignment, even the best apps can struggle!
📄 Read the full paper here: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66815
📄 Read the full paper here: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66815
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From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.
ESSENTIAL reading for anyone involved in Oz unis. *Especially voting parents* ACU, ANU and UOW case studies. Appalling stats but they are ‘typical not extraordinary’: go get em @joshuablackjb.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au australiainstitute.org.au/report/elect...
Elective spending at Australian universities - The Australia Institute
Universities spend vast sums on consultants, advertising, and travel. Reducing these expenses could have prevented the deep cuts that some of these same universities have made to their staff and cours...
australiainstitute.org.au
April 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.
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Opinion | What's happening in Donald Trump's America is having a profound impact on journalism in Australia. And depending on the outcome of the election, it could get even worse.
Amid Dutton's 'hate media' and Trump's despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever
Australia’s press is already in a perilous state. But things could easily become worse.
www.crikey.com.au
April 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Opinion | What's happening in Donald Trump's America is having a profound impact on journalism in Australia. And depending on the outcome of the election, it could get even worse.
🎉 Congrats to @drannasingleton.bsky.social from @daffodilcentre.org on winning the @ipospsychooncol.bsky.social 2025 Hiroomi & Setsuko Kawano New Investigator Award for her research providing accessible & scalable psychosocial support to cancer survivors 🌟 ipos-society.org/awards/winners 👏 #IPOS2025
International Psycho-Oncology Society - Award Winners
ipos-society.org
April 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🎉 Congrats to @drannasingleton.bsky.social from @daffodilcentre.org on winning the @ipospsychooncol.bsky.social 2025 Hiroomi & Setsuko Kawano New Investigator Award for her research providing accessible & scalable psychosocial support to cancer survivors 🌟 ipos-society.org/awards/winners 👏 #IPOS2025
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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
April 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
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Step up to the podium! Tell the world about your work in #impsci, #evaluation, #EvidenceSynthesis, #KnowledgeTranslation, any project where you're bringing #research #evidence into #policy & #practice. #abstracts close 18 May @eisummit.org & @ishca-25.bsky.social combined: www.eisummit.org/abstracts
April 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Step up to the podium! Tell the world about your work in #impsci, #evaluation, #EvidenceSynthesis, #KnowledgeTranslation, any project where you're bringing #research #evidence into #policy & #practice. #abstracts close 18 May @eisummit.org & @ishca-25.bsky.social combined: www.eisummit.org/abstracts