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.
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
Every dollar you donate for GiveOut Day will be matched if you donate before Thursday: giveoutday.org.au/kath-albury
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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
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
![Findings:
Our orgs want cheap reach into our
PLWHIV communities for our messages and community development BUT it isn't working anymore. Reach is limited. AND social media less safe.
Workshop participant
We've done quite a bit of thinking about how, as an organisation, we're going to manage those group conversations [on messaging apps] - given that there's a sort of 24/7 potential for people to be engaging and talking. And how we work around moderation, and our staff's right to switch off, and all of those kind of things.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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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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.
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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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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
bit.ly/3Vu0cKh
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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
September 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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
bit.ly/3Vu0cKh
bit.ly/3Vu0cKh
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New paper on our Heart Yarning Tool! Summarising how we codesigned shared decision making support for Heart Health Checks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sydney.edu.au @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @isdmsociety.bsky.social
The Heart Health Yarning Tool: Co‐Designing a Shared Decision‐Making Tool With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Management
Introduction Due to the ongoing impact of colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live with a greater burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than non-Indigenous Australians. Share...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
New paper on our Heart Yarning Tool! Summarising how we codesigned shared decision making support for Heart Health Checks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sydney.edu.au @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @isdmsociety.bsky.social
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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...
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
August 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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...
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...
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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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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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July 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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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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
July 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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/...
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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:
@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
July 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"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:
@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:
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This is bang on the money
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.
July 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This is bang on the money
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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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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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July 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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…
1/
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…
1/
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Privileged to be a part of this project, led by the incomparable Britt Paris.
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
July 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Privileged to be a part of this project, led by the incomparable Britt Paris.
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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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July 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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...
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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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June 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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...
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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 🦘🎓
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 🦘🎓
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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 🦘🎓
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
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
June 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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
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
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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
#201FirstNationsArticles
June 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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
#201FirstNationsArticles
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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...
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...
June 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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...
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...
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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?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
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
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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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
May 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
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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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May 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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
bit.ly/45szRlO
bit.ly/45szRlO
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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.
Her husband had been killed months earlier.
May 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Well known, Palestinian artist Elham Al-Boddi, 33, of Beit Lahia, was killed in an airstrike yesterday.
Her husband had been killed months earlier.
Her husband had been killed months earlier.
We are pleased to announce that the Australian Research Council-funded Digital and Data Capabilities for Sexual and Reproductive Health knowledge translation website is live!
Visit ddcsrh.com for evidence-based resources supporting digital transformation in the SRH sector.
Visit ddcsrh.com for evidence-based resources supporting digital transformation in the SRH sector.
April 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
We are pleased to announce that the Australian Research Council-funded Digital and Data Capabilities for Sexual and Reproductive Health knowledge translation website is live!
Visit ddcsrh.com for evidence-based resources supporting digital transformation in the SRH sector.
Visit ddcsrh.com for evidence-based resources supporting digital transformation in the SRH sector.