Ginny Barbour
@ginnybarbour.bsky.social
Only my views but for full transparency, work is EiC Medical Journal of Australia, open science,co-chair DORA. Adjunct Prof, QUT. Not work: environment, running, would be singer and gardener Living on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land in Meanjin/Brisbane
For all map nerds everywhere 🗺️🧐https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=c6dd4e7cfd-nature-briefing-daily-20251107&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-51822884
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
For all map nerds everywhere 🗺️🧐https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=c6dd4e7cfd-nature-briefing-daily-20251107&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-51822884
Pumpkin risotto. Happy Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Pumpkin risotto. Happy Halloween! 🎃
39c in Brisbane today with smog from fires. A visiting colleague from India said that this is weather there they warn you about keeping out of for your health
39c in Spring. What’s coming for summer? ☀️🔥
Minister Watt @albomp.bsky.social there’s no time to delay to take action on the #climatecrisis
39c in Spring. What’s coming for summer? ☀️🔥
Minister Watt @albomp.bsky.social there’s no time to delay to take action on the #climatecrisis
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
39c in Brisbane today with smog from fires. A visiting colleague from India said that this is weather there they warn you about keeping out of for your health
39c in Spring. What’s coming for summer? ☀️🔥
Minister Watt @albomp.bsky.social there’s no time to delay to take action on the #climatecrisis
39c in Spring. What’s coming for summer? ☀️🔥
Minister Watt @albomp.bsky.social there’s no time to delay to take action on the #climatecrisis
Loved/inspired by this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
“The skills of real-world superheroes are solidarity,strategy, patience, persistence, vision, & the ability to inspire hope in others. The rescuers we need are mostly not individuals, they are collectives…”
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
“The skills of real-world superheroes are solidarity,strategy, patience, persistence, vision, & the ability to inspire hope in others. The rescuers we need are mostly not individuals, they are collectives…”
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Loved/inspired by this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
“The skills of real-world superheroes are solidarity,strategy, patience, persistence, vision, & the ability to inspire hope in others. The rescuers we need are mostly not individuals, they are collectives…”
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
“The skills of real-world superheroes are solidarity,strategy, patience, persistence, vision, & the ability to inspire hope in others. The rescuers we need are mostly not individuals, they are collectives…”
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
Love them all but in times like this I feel we need more exuberant dinosaurs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birdoftheyear #teamcassowary
#birdoftheyear #teamcassowary
October 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Love them all but in times like this I feel we need more exuberant dinosaurs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birdoftheyear #teamcassowary
#birdoftheyear #teamcassowary
This is a very good description of what is being done in the US and we need to recognise this for what it is:
‘“mal-information” – twisting information to reach a certain end’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘“mal-information” – twisting information to reach a certain end’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is a very good description of what is being done in the US and we need to recognise this for what it is:
‘“mal-information” – twisting information to reach a certain end’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘“mal-information” – twisting information to reach a certain end’
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Just taken news off the front page of my @australia.theguardian.com app & now this ⬇️ instead of you know who *every single hour of every single day* is my home page. I’m not avoiding news but in the interest of my sanity, I’m titrating it.Also subscribe to news orgs you care about. & vote for birds
September 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Just taken news off the front page of my @australia.theguardian.com app & now this ⬇️ instead of you know who *every single hour of every single day* is my home page. I’m not avoiding news but in the interest of my sanity, I’m titrating it.Also subscribe to news orgs you care about. & vote for birds
Really fascinating session from @utas.edu.au Island of Ideas series on “Staying Well in a Struggling System” Professor Graeme Zosky, Professor Verity Cleland,
Professor Martin Hensher,
Dr Michelle Morgan - we need preventative, systems approaches!
Professor Martin Hensher,
Dr Michelle Morgan - we need preventative, systems approaches!
September 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Really fascinating session from @utas.edu.au Island of Ideas series on “Staying Well in a Struggling System” Professor Graeme Zosky, Professor Verity Cleland,
Professor Martin Hensher,
Dr Michelle Morgan - we need preventative, systems approaches!
Professor Martin Hensher,
Dr Michelle Morgan - we need preventative, systems approaches!
Today’s marches reminded me of this lesson from @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the importance of physical demonstration. If you haven’t read his book - it’s a really compelling read for our times. ia801505.us.archive.org/11/items/on-...
August 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Today’s marches reminded me of this lesson from @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the importance of physical demonstration. If you haven’t read his book - it’s a really compelling read for our times. ia801505.us.archive.org/11/items/on-...
Enormous pro-Palestine march in Brisbane. Hugely diverse group of marchers. Determined but peaceful with clear calls for action. The only counter protest seemed to be three blokes on a bridge overlooking it. 🤷🏻♀️ #FreePalestine
August 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Enormous pro-Palestine march in Brisbane. Hugely diverse group of marchers. Determined but peaceful with clear calls for action. The only counter protest seemed to be three blokes on a bridge overlooking it. 🤷🏻♀️ #FreePalestine
Of all the wild Aussie slang I’ve come across since I moved to Aus, nothing will ever top this. Explained to me today and love that the Macquarie Dictionary details it so carefully. In these wild times feels appropriate as my new mission statement🕷️
www.macquariedictionary.com.au/were-not-her...
www.macquariedictionary.com.au/were-not-her...
August 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Of all the wild Aussie slang I’ve come across since I moved to Aus, nothing will ever top this. Explained to me today and love that the Macquarie Dictionary details it so carefully. In these wild times feels appropriate as my new mission statement🕷️
www.macquariedictionary.com.au/were-not-her...
www.macquariedictionary.com.au/were-not-her...
Ok, I’ll admit i haven’t delved into this report but the title and press release are so overwhelming sad in that they show the underlying violence here is so normalised www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08...
August 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ok, I’ll admit i haven’t delved into this report but the title and press release are so overwhelming sad in that they show the underlying violence here is so normalised www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08...
Magpies! Fabulous song plus snarky attitude!
August 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Magpies! Fabulous song plus snarky attitude!
I was in Brussels recently & came across a picture I knew from an Auden poem, that I’d never actually seen before - Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Rather, I knew it from a retelling by Alan Bennett in an audiobook-Poetry in Motion-that I think I played until the tape (😳) disintegrated
July 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I was in Brussels recently & came across a picture I knew from an Auden poem, that I’d never actually seen before - Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Rather, I knew it from a retelling by Alan Bennett in an audiobook-Poetry in Motion-that I think I played until the tape (😳) disintegrated
Want to support Sisters Inside, a fantastic organisation working to support women and girls who are incarcerated? sistersinside.com.au/about-sister... Take a look at their art auction this weekend app.galabid.com/art4sistersi...
July 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Want to support Sisters Inside, a fantastic organisation working to support women and girls who are incarcerated? sistersinside.com.au/about-sister... Take a look at their art auction this weekend app.galabid.com/art4sistersi...
Well, yes
“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
July 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Well, yes
“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Just started reading this fabulous book by Helen Castor. It’s got everything - family rivalry, how to be a leader & how not (in really tumultuous times), the importance of communication in leadership and what happens when a weak leader is given power Loving it www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...
July 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Just started reading this fabulous book by Helen Castor. It’s got everything - family rivalry, how to be a leader & how not (in really tumultuous times), the importance of communication in leadership and what happens when a weak leader is given power Loving it www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...
Just getting ready to do this. Looking forward to the discussion especially!
July 16, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just getting ready to do this. Looking forward to the discussion especially!
So great to catch up with previous @plos.org and other colleagues at #Metascience2025 @theobloom.bsky.social @roliroberts.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So great to catch up with previous @plos.org and other colleagues at #Metascience2025 @theobloom.bsky.social @roliroberts.bsky.social
Key role of metascience in transition to #openscience
July 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Key role of metascience in transition to #openscience
Always great to hear about the @unesco.org Open Science Recommendation - Ana Persic at #Metascience2025 “we have to do science better do we can coordinate around these values”
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Always great to hear about the @unesco.org Open Science Recommendation - Ana Persic at #Metascience2025 “we have to do science better do we can coordinate around these values”
What’s needed to get change in open science - great leadership in France explained by Marin Dacos from @grios-openscience.bsky.social at #Metascience2025
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What’s needed to get change in open science - great leadership in France explained by Marin Dacos from @grios-openscience.bsky.social at #Metascience2025
Very taken with this image of how not to design an organisation from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social at #Metascience2025 😳
July 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Very taken with this image of how not to design an organisation from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social at #Metascience2025 😳
Love this image of where we all come from at #Metascience2025
July 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Love this image of where we all come from at #Metascience2025