More than 3/4 of Earth’s support systems are outside the safe zone. Ocean acidification is the latest boundary breached. The warning is stark, but failure is not inevitable. It is a choice. Read the 2025 Planetary Health Check here: planetaryhealthcheck.org/#reports-secti…

Social media is one the least meaningful things we do; spending time with family is one of the most. Yet we are spending more time on social media and less with our kids.

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

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AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (it was led by Steve Rathje ) Read the full paper here: cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Does AI improve or undercut academic scholarship? Using AI increases both the quantity & quality of academic scholarship and reduces inequality: -Researchers using AI published 36% more papers -There is also rise in the journal impact factor of adopters’ publications -GenAI

If the likelihood of a catastrophic event is > 10% then the Risks are unacceptable high. This is the point we have reached on scientific evidence for AMOC shutdown. This is the "Don't look up moment" for risks of liveability on Earth theguardian.com/environment/20…

🚨 out at American Political Science Review 🚨 ➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation ➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India ➡️ Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months ➡️ Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

Exposure to individual solutions does not weaken belief in the need for structural change! Read the paper here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… We find the same thing with climate change and public health across multiple massive global datasets (with evidence from 67 countries)

Calling all citizen scientists 🦜, next week is your chance to get out in nature and take part in this year’s Aussie Bird Count. Running from 20-26 October, the count gathers crucial data on our country’s unique bird species, tracking which birds are thriving and which may be

Really strong story from Newcastle Herald about the Hunter Region’s role sending F35 jet fighter weapons parts to Israel for its genocide in Gaza. The F35 regional hub in Williamtown isn’t for Australia’s defence, it’s a US controlled global weapons hub run by the US, for the US

As Israel breaks the ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, its F35 fighter jets are being kept in the air through parts shipped from Williamtown NSW, and made in Bendigo Vic and numerous other locations. We say it again, there must be a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

#Arctic A caribou mother cradles her newborn protectively in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This has been their territory since the late Pleistocene, but today the Trump Administration announced plans to auction off these treasured lands to oil and gas leasing. This

A massive study on the effects of social class tested 35 hypotheses in 4 countries (N = 33,536). Only 50% of prior findings replicated. Hypotheses based on differences between social class contexts in terms of constraints, uncertainty and status were well supported across

Here is the speech that The National Press Club of Australia censored: "The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists" — not brought to you by Raytheon, BAE Systems, Thales, Deloitte, Amazon Web Services or Mastercard, all of whom are sponsors of the National Press Club and are

🎃 Halloween brings out the best (and worst) of our imagination - from vampires to werewolves - but you don’t have to look to the supernatural for nightmares. Nature has plenty of its own. This spooky season, let’s celebrate nature’s freakiest animals - like horned lizards that

This year at #COP30 I am co-chairing the Planetary Science Pavilion. We hope that the pavilion can be a platform to raise the voice of science. I’d like to invite my scientist colleagues who will be in Belém and would like to get involved, to register: form.jotform.com/252752652506054

Any move to walk away from the core recommendation of the Murphy Review for a phased in total ban of gambling advertising that has unanimous support across the parliament would be a huge betrayal not only of the late Peta Murphy's legacy but of the wishes of our community.

We all know jobs for mates is a massive problem in Australian politics. A new independent report accuses the major parties of patronage & nepotism then lays out a clear way to end jobs for mates and restore public trust. abc.net.au/news/2025-12-0… The government has failed to