My Association for Consumer Research (ACR) boss gummed a note for me on the #ACR2023 #GratitudeGumWall. Thank you Rajiv for encouraging, inspiring and motivating me, and simply making me smile🙂

Yes, words can matter but more often they are just thought-terminating devices - my opinion in today's Sydney Morning Herald

What's insomnia like for most people who can't sleep? 🤔 It's rarely depicted as an illness that can be treated. 🎬 Instead, most movies portray insomnia at extremes, with people suffering hallucinations or delusions, write experts from (University of Sydney). theconversation.com/whats-insomnia…

How big is science’s fake-paper problem? Analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature go.nature.com/471a4PJ

"The choices & actions we take now will have impacts for thousands of years" Jennifer Morgan in her keynote University of Sydney 🇦🇺yesterday ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Summit #COP28. Here are some of the key messages from the speech👇1/9

University of Sydney has been ranked the top institution across 20 fields by The The Australian's 2024 Research Magazine. 18 researchers have also been named leaders in their research areas. See the results: sydneyuni.co/40uEAyQ #LeadershipForGood #USYD #Research

The words that have served as a rallying cry for pro-Palestinian protesters have also attracted accusations of antisemitism. How did a call for self-determination become divisive? trib.al/ng3k9Lc

Even experts struggle to tell which social media posts are evidence-based. So, what do we do?...spoiler alert, I'm one of the experts ! Check out the piece in the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Erin Madden Dr Katrina Prior and I wrote based on the findings of our new paper. theconversation.com/even-experts-s…

Dit jaar wordt er voor het eerst door Leiden University en Ardi Stoios-Braken aan University of Sydney een #CleveringaLezing georganiseerd en die wordt gegeven door ... ik zei de gek. Wil je meer weten? Luister dan naar SBS Australia hier: sbs.com.au/language/dutch…

📖The winners have been announced in the revamped Prime Minister's Literary Awards and they're a diverse bunch of books, with a focus on reconnection, regeneration, questioning and beauty. #PMLA2023 theconversation.com/the-revamped-p…

Australia’s underinvestment in research is becoming a national security issue in a time of tense global competition, some prominent VCs warn. As expert Gwil Croucher told me, Silicon Valley was built by US govt funds not just clever businesses Daniella White theage.com.au/education/aust…

2/5 of time of top scientists is spent on other things than science (often looking for funding). One reason is the science system is full of complicated bureaucracy. What to do about it? Article in The Economist this week.

IF we don’t fit in then we are seen as problematic, justifiably promoting a punitive approach to cultural diversity & its differences. This is where the concept of whiteness wins. Our society is set up to believe western & white views are correct. White is right & West is best 👀

Gisterenavond gaf ik mijn #CleveringaLezing aan de University of Sydney. SBS Australia Dutch was erbij en sprak na afloop met mij. Ook vroegen ze ambassadeur Ardi Stoios-Braken en enkele aanwezigen wat zij hebben opgestoken van deze lezing. sbs.com.au/language/dutch…

Science is essential for human flourishing – why does so much science communication paint a bleak, nihilist picture of the world? As Chris Ellis (University of Sydney) writes, science communicators need to stop telling everybody the universe is a meaningless void. theconversation.com/science-commun…

Ministers will no longer approve Australian Research Council grants under bid to stop ‘political interference’ 👇👇👇 theguardian.com/australia-news…

Thanks Sydney Uni Media team for the write up of our CHASS #CHASS2023 opening plenary on the Future of HASS in our Universities, hosted by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and featuring Prof Lisa Adkins Dr Rhonda Itaoui Gabriel Miller 🇨🇦 Frank Bongiorno sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…

Looking for something to dive into summer with? From classic Aussie cinema and new twists on old classics, our critics have you sorted. 🎬 Featuring recommendations from experts at notredameaus, James Cook Uni, University of Canterbury, RMIT University, University of Sydney + UniSA. theconversation.com/classic-aussie…