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Possibly!
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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I seem to remember you posting a photo from here on Flickr around 20 years ago!
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couple of great articles that look at disability lived experience and expertise - what is it, why is it important, and how can we value and promote these skills?

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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Melting indeed
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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I grew up in a town where there were several Aboriginal deaths in custody in the ‘80s. The final report of the RCIADIC was released 34 years ago.

Nothing’s changed.

“More First Nations people have died in custody in New South Wales so far this year than ever before, the state coroner has revealed”
More Indigenous Australians died in custody in NSW this year than ever before, coroner reveals
State’s tough on crime measures compounding the problem, one expert says, despite pledge to close the gap
www.theguardian.com
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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It’s not book week but somehow book week is to blame.
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Everyone underestimates the diabetic foot
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The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Fair questions

by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Western Sydney University students and alumni emailed to say their degrees had been “revoked”. These incidents are damaging because they mirror the officious and depersonalised tone of so much comms. If acting in more human and humane ways was the norm, these incidents wouldn’t be so harmful.
University students told degrees 'revoked' in 'fraudulent' emails
Western Sydney University has apologised to current and former students who received emails claiming their degrees have been "revoked", saying the messages are "not legitimate".
www.abc.net.au
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas — Reposted by Evelyne de Leeuw

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The Sorbonne ditches university rankings: https://benhr.xyz/2025/10/07/the-sorbonne-ditches-university-rankings.html
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and reform research assessment, in accordance with the university’s commitment to the CoARA Agreement and the Barcelona Declaration. Sorbonne University is choosing open and transparent databases to assess its academic performance.
www.sorbonne-universite.fr
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Clearly not taking their inspiration from Iolanthe nymag.com/intelligence...
Bad News, John Roberts Will Not Wear a Striped Robe for Impeachment Trial
The impeachment trial just got a little less sartorially interesting.
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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French Prime Minister stay in office 2026 challenge
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Nicely done!
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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time for representative democracy but no time for System Crash, smdh
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Reposted by Ben Harris‐Roxas, Katrina Navickas, Kai Arzheimer

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In memoriam...
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University of Technology Sydney responds to concerns about planned cuts to public health www.croakey.org/university-o... #publichealth
University of Technology Sydney responds to concerns about planned cuts to public health
www.croakey.org
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Ron Smith
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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I’m proud to announce my new role as Chief Content Officer for SlopApp and I look forward to the many challenges of the role.

“OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos”
OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.
www.wired.com
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What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k
Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
www.abc.net.au
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Reposted by Ben Harris‐Roxas, Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law , and 6 more

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THE MEME IS REAL
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time - Daniel Demant at InSight+
University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time - InSight+
Australia has just emerged from one of the worst global health crises in living memory. COVID-19 showed us how critical public health expertise is to protect lives, guide governments and support vulnerable communities. It also exposed workforce shortages across public health, health services management, palliative care and diabetes education — all areas the University of …
insightplus.mja.com.au
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Rick Morton in the Saturday Paper:

> The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its own enterprise agreement, until it was forced to release it.
Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet
The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Reposted by Ben Harris‐Roxas, Bronwyn Fredericks, Catherine J. Frieman

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University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet
The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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A small way of showing your support for students and staff at UTS:

Petition · Save UTS Public Health – For Students, Communities, and Equity
Firma la petición
Save UTS Public Health – For Students, Communities, and Equity
www.change.org
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Block free since ‘23
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by Melissa Sweet — Reposted by Ben Harris‐Roxas, Martin Tomko, Naomi Priest , and 3 more

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Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Flinders University jobs under threat as news of proposed restructure spreads
Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands.
www.abc.net.au
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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What about In Vitro (2024)? Though that’s a very rural film.
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by Ben Harris‐Roxas

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Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

The ever-diminishing set of use cases for LLMs…
Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human decision-making. We adapt a resume-style audit to scientific publishing, developing a multi-role LLM simulation (editor/reviewer) that evaluates a representative set of high-quality manuscripts across the physical, biological, and social sciences under randomized author identities (institutional prestige, gender, race). The audit reveals a strong and consistent institutional-prestige bias: identical papers attributed to low-prestige affiliations face a significantly higher risk of rejection, despite only modest differences in LLM-assessed quality. To probe mechanisms, we generate synthetic CVs for the same author profiles; these encode large prestige-linked disparities and an inverted prestige-tenure gradient relative to national benchmarks. The results suggest that both domain norms and prestige-linked priors embedded in training data shape paper-level outcomes once identity is visible, converting affiliation into a decisive status cue.
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Calls for action to stop public health cuts at University of Technology Sydney www.croakey.org/calls-for-ac...
Calls for action to stop public health cuts at University of Technology Sydney
www.croakey.org
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