Dr James Kite
@jdkite.bsky.social
Academic with Prevention Research Collaboration at Uni of Sydney. Cyclist. Swans fan.
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We couldn’t possibly change the date. It’s just not something we do.
January 19, 2026 at 7:35 AM
We couldn’t possibly change the date. It’s just not something we do.
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I love how “running errands” is just paying money in different locations.
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
I love how “running errands” is just paying money in different locations.
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New #PhD paper out! 📢
We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.
More in thread & link :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.
More in thread & link :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:41 AM
New #PhD paper out! 📢
We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.
More in thread & link :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky 🛟 🧪 🦘🎓
We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.
More in thread & link :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#AcademicSky 🛟 🧪 🦘🎓
These ‘hard men’ are always so incredibly thin skinned
The 2025 election just keeps on giving. 🍿🍿🍿
Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory
The report, co-authored by Liberal grandees Pru Goward and Nick Minchin, has now been sent to a legal team to ensure it is watertight while the party decides what step to take next.
www.abc.net.au
January 18, 2026 at 9:07 AM
These ‘hard men’ are always so incredibly thin skinned
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Australians are deciding USA is not a place to visit… oddly they still are going to Canada. Almost like there is something specific about the US..
#ThePoint
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#ThePoint
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January 18, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Australians are deciding USA is not a place to visit… oddly they still are going to Canada. Almost like there is something specific about the US..
#ThePoint
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#ThePoint
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I am happy to share a link to our paper just published in The Lancet - Please use the following link to access the paper lnkd.in/da32YhZn
January 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I am happy to share a link to our paper just published in The Lancet - Please use the following link to access the paper lnkd.in/da32YhZn
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Strong Songs Season Eight is now underway! The season premiere is about “Rosanna” by Toto.
This episode was incredibly fun to make - what a band, and what a great song. (And what a pair of guitar solos??) I hope you enjoy it. 🎶
This episode was incredibly fun to make - what a band, and what a great song. (And what a pair of guitar solos??) I hope you enjoy it. 🎶
S08E01 - "Rosanna" by Toto
Kirk kicks off Strong Songs Season Eight with a second helping of Toto, whose song "Africa" got the very first episode of Strong Songs he ever made. This time around he's focusing on 1982's "Rosanna,"...
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January 16, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Strong Songs Season Eight is now underway! The season premiere is about “Rosanna” by Toto.
This episode was incredibly fun to make - what a band, and what a great song. (And what a pair of guitar solos??) I hope you enjoy it. 🎶
This episode was incredibly fun to make - what a band, and what a great song. (And what a pair of guitar solos??) I hope you enjoy it. 🎶
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"Malinauskas' Adelaide Festival mess reveals a political class disconnected from the people" @amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.deepcutnews.com/p/adelaide-f...
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Malinauskas' Adelaide Festival mess reveals a political class disconnected from the people – Amy Remeikis
From Adelaide to Bondi, the political-media class are deciding the "correct" view – and targeting those who dare to dissent
www.deepcutnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
"Malinauskas' Adelaide Festival mess reveals a political class disconnected from the people" @amyremeikis.bsky.social
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www.deepcutnews.com/p/adelaide-f...
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My column on gold prices going nuts and how much the 167 tonnes of the RBA’s gold Costello sold in 1997 would now be worth…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it | Greg Jericho
A decision to sell two-thirds of Australia’s gold reserves in the 1990s is starting to look like a bad one as global uncertainty reigns
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
My column on gold prices going nuts and how much the 167 tonnes of the RBA’s gold Costello sold in 1997 would now be worth…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Screen time on its own is not inherently bad. The study has simple measures but it nonetheless highlights how the social media ban is a blunt instrument for a complex problem.
"Social media time does not increase teenagers’ mental health problems – study. Research finds no evidence heavier social media use or more gaming increases symptoms of anxiety or depression." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Social media time does not increase teenagers’ mental health problems – study
Research finds no evidence heavier social media use or more gaming increases symptoms of anxiety or depression
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Screen time on its own is not inherently bad. The study has simple measures but it nonetheless highlights how the social media ban is a blunt instrument for a complex problem.
This is fascinating. I get regular requests to be a guest editor from Frontiers and MDPI journals & always ignore them because the workload would be extreme for a very small benefit to me. Never occurred to me that I could just write all the articles myself!
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is fascinating. I get regular requests to be a guest editor from Frontiers and MDPI journals & always ignore them because the workload would be extreme for a very small benefit to me. Never occurred to me that I could just write all the articles myself!
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
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No sign Australian politicians will leave X after the Grok scandal. Hard to see what if anything could make people who are still posting on there now leave. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian politicians are condemning X and Grok, so why won’t they leave the platform?
Anthony Albanese has said the AI chatbot generating sexualised images of women and children is ‘abhorrent’ but has an account posting on the site
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
No sign Australian politicians will leave X after the Grok scandal. Hard to see what if anything could make people who are still posting on there now leave. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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"This is further evidence that the share of Australia’s wealth held by the very rich is increasing.”
Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-capital-gains-for-the-rich-outpace-the-national-wages-bill-by-whopping-300-billion
Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-capital-gains-for-the-rich-outpace-the-national-wages-bill-by-whopping-300-billion
January 12, 2026 at 1:52 AM
"This is further evidence that the share of Australia’s wealth held by the very rich is increasing.”
Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-capital-gains-for-the-rich-outpace-the-national-wages-bill-by-whopping-300-billion
Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-capital-gains-for-the-rich-outpace-the-national-wages-bill-by-whopping-300-billion
Interesting time capsule!
Excellent ABC article. Over 60 years since landmark reports on smoking from UK RCP and US Surgeon General. Millions of preventable deaths on, 1964 Sydney interviewee’s question remains fundamental -“Well, tobacco is a killer. So why keep it going?".
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
'Let them smoke and die': How Aussies reacted to smoking cancer link in 1964
In 1964, a major scientific report laid bare the deadly risks of smoking, at a time when the tobacco industry had a stronghold on the public and government coffers. Delve into the ABC Archives to disc...
www.abc.net.au
January 11, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Interesting time capsule!
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🧵(1/2) In yet another challenge to Costello's tobacco policy approach, a comprehensive new meta-analysis of heated tobacco products questions their role as quit smoking aids: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39805598/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
🧵(1/2) In yet another challenge to Costello's tobacco policy approach, a comprehensive new meta-analysis of heated tobacco products questions their role as quit smoking aids: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39805598/
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Trump & RFK Jr.'s coterie of bootlicking doctors are real pieces of shit, we argue in the British Medical Journal, essentially.
Link: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Link: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Trump & RFK Jr.'s coterie of bootlicking doctors are real pieces of shit, we argue in the British Medical Journal, essentially.
Link: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Link: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
New paper! In it, we discuss the role that research plays in perpetuating and challenging weight stigma & advocate for systemic change to reduce stigma and promote health
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January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
New paper! In it, we discuss the role that research plays in perpetuating and challenging weight stigma & advocate for systemic change to reduce stigma and promote health
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
More evidence that congestion pricing works! The only way to improve traffic is by getting people out of cars as much as possible
fantastic article with data showing how congestion pricing is one of the most effective transportation policies ever.
as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:31 AM
More evidence that congestion pricing works! The only way to improve traffic is by getting people out of cars as much as possible
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fantastic article with data showing how congestion pricing is one of the most effective transportation policies ever.
as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
fantastic article with data showing how congestion pricing is one of the most effective transportation policies ever.
as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Starting 2026 by sharing a new paper from Prof Axel Bruns, A/Prof Tim Graham and DMRC colleague Simon Copland. You can check out "Sky News Australia as network propaganda: how a niche cable channel became an international right-wing propaganda machine" here!
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January 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Starting 2026 by sharing a new paper from Prof Axel Bruns, A/Prof Tim Graham and DMRC colleague Simon Copland. You can check out "Sky News Australia as network propaganda: how a niche cable channel became an international right-wing propaganda machine" here!
journals.sagepub.com...
journals.sagepub.com...
Good read on the response to bondi and how it has quickly descended into political point scoring. Albanese is hopeless but the desire to pin guilt on him is, at best, unhelpful. I am worried that the needed changes to gun laws will not happen because of this
I’m still amazed that the sub judice aspect has been ignored in the rolling media campaign for a Bondi royal commission.
In case you’ve not read about it (and why would you) I’ve written about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
In case you’ve not read about it (and why would you) I’ve written about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
January 5, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Good read on the response to bondi and how it has quickly descended into political point scoring. Albanese is hopeless but the desire to pin guilt on him is, at best, unhelpful. I am worried that the needed changes to gun laws will not happen because of this
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2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
It’s almost like it’s meaningless
I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM
It’s almost like it’s meaningless
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I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.