Sam Nichols
@samjnichols.bsky.social
little verbose idiot. Also drug and health journalist. Views my own etc
This is very belated lmao but I finished up at the ABC last month because later this month, I'll be heading to the US + studying at New York University's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting program.
It's an opportunity that still hasn't quite sunk in, but I am very grateful!!!
It's an opportunity that still hasn't quite sunk in, but I am very grateful!!!
August 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is very belated lmao but I finished up at the ABC last month because later this month, I'll be heading to the US + studying at New York University's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting program.
It's an opportunity that still hasn't quite sunk in, but I am very grateful!!!
It's an opportunity that still hasn't quite sunk in, but I am very grateful!!!
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You know what takes guts? Talking to a journo -- a total stranger -- about the toll that your work has taken on you, mentally, physically, emotionally. I'm so grateful to be given the opportunities as a reporter to speak the truth for people who feel like they don't have a voice.
July 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
You know what takes guts? Talking to a journo -- a total stranger -- about the toll that your work has taken on you, mentally, physically, emotionally. I'm so grateful to be given the opportunities as a reporter to speak the truth for people who feel like they don't have a voice.
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After everything we have gone through - with all the inappropriate intervention of previous chairs and MDs - this is BEYOND disappointing. ABC journos deserve better: to be allowed do their job without the biases of chairs and MDs undermining our independence. @withmeaa.bsky.social
Ep 12 - ABC Radio chair-bound - Media Watch
An old-school comedian reaches out to an old acquaintance - ABC Chair Kim Williams - for help scoring interviews.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
After everything we have gone through - with all the inappropriate intervention of previous chairs and MDs - this is BEYOND disappointing. ABC journos deserve better: to be allowed do their job without the biases of chairs and MDs undermining our independence. @withmeaa.bsky.social
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Ed Husic, our Minister for Science, posted on LinkedIn for International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Great!
Not so great: He incorrectly spells Dr Kirsten Banks' name (twice), copy-paste Ruby Payne Scott's achievements from a NYT obituary and gets the science of petrichor wrong.
Not so great: He incorrectly spells Dr Kirsten Banks' name (twice), copy-paste Ruby Payne Scott's achievements from a NYT obituary and gets the science of petrichor wrong.
February 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ed Husic, our Minister for Science, posted on LinkedIn for International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Great!
Not so great: He incorrectly spells Dr Kirsten Banks' name (twice), copy-paste Ruby Payne Scott's achievements from a NYT obituary and gets the science of petrichor wrong.
Not so great: He incorrectly spells Dr Kirsten Banks' name (twice), copy-paste Ruby Payne Scott's achievements from a NYT obituary and gets the science of petrichor wrong.
Emergency department workers in New South Wales are bracing for the worst following the mass exit of psychiatrists from the public health sector. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Health workers brace for the worst as psychiatrists across NSW resign
With more than half of the state's staff specialist psychiatrists set to resign by the end of the week, health workers say the impacts will reverberate throughout the healthcare system, including alre...
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January 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Emergency department workers in New South Wales are bracing for the worst following the mass exit of psychiatrists from the public health sector. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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"As of Tuesday, January 21, she will be one of more than 200 staff specialist psychiatrists working in public mental health in NSW to resign, facing an uncertain future." Excellent reporting on state's public psychiatry crisis by @biancanogrady.bsky.social www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
The crisis in the NSW mental health system
The mass resignation of psychiatrists in NSW reveals a public health system on the verge of collapse amid years of chronic underfunding even as demand has surged.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"As of Tuesday, January 21, she will be one of more than 200 staff specialist psychiatrists working in public mental health in NSW to resign, facing an uncertain future." Excellent reporting on state's public psychiatry crisis by @biancanogrady.bsky.social www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
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NSW public mental health services are on the brink of collapse. This is a crisis. Public hospital psychiatrists are saying they need to be paid competitively. “A total of 150 of the state’s 295 staff specialist psychiatrists had formally resigned by Thursday night.”
Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes
Half of psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals have tendered their resignations in the latest dispute between the state government and its workers.
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December 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
NSW public mental health services are on the brink of collapse. This is a crisis. Public hospital psychiatrists are saying they need to be paid competitively. “A total of 150 of the state’s 295 staff specialist psychiatrists had formally resigned by Thursday night.”
New from me: Naloxone can save lives. Pharmacies are also paid to stock + hand it out. Yet some pharmacies (4 in every 10 according to one paper) are still choosing not to stock naloxone. I tried to understand why. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
As opioid deaths surge across Australia, pharmacists still choose to not stock naloxone
Since 2022, the federal government has invested $26.1 million to help make naloxone, a medicine that blocks the effects of opioids, widespread. Yet some pharmacists are still choosing to not stock the...
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November 10, 2024 at 9:36 PM
New from me: Naloxone can save lives. Pharmacies are also paid to stock + hand it out. Yet some pharmacies (4 in every 10 according to one paper) are still choosing not to stock naloxone. I tried to understand why. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
New from me: Autistic Australians are saying they're blocked from quality healthcare because the healthcare system doesn't understand their needs. Turns out there's little training for healthcare workers on treating autistic patients. www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...
Misdiagnosed and gaslit: When autistic Australians go to the doctor, it's often a 'traumatic' experi...
There are over 200,000 Australians with an autism spectrum condition. But lack of healthcare training and understanding is leaving many of them without quality care.
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November 30, 2023 at 11:12 PM
New from me: Autistic Australians are saying they're blocked from quality healthcare because the healthcare system doesn't understand their needs. Turns out there's little training for healthcare workers on treating autistic patients. www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...
When can we get blue ticks
May 30, 2023 at 12:26 PM
When can we get blue ticks