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Dr Heather McCormack @heathermccormack.bsky.social · 26d

Kath’s participants identified social media as a site of risk for workplace health and safety for people doing sexual health work in the digital space - this reflects my own experience but I feel it’s gotten so much worse in just the last few years #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social

Findings:
Our orgs want cheap reach into our
PLWHIV communities for our messages and community development BUT it isn't working anymore. Reach is limited. AND social media less safe.
Workshop participant

We've done quite a bit of thinking about how, as an organisation, we're going to manage those group conversations [on messaging apps] - given that there's a sort of 24/7 potential for people to be engaging and talking. And how we work around moderation, and our staff's right to switch off, and all of those kind of things.
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Dr Heather McCormack @heathermccormack.bsky.social · 26d

Supporting digital capabilities in a way that also supports rights and autonomy means moving away from an understanding of the term that relies on individual knowledge. Individual knowledge is insufficient in situations of systems and governance failure #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social

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Dr Heather McCormack @heathermccormack.bsky.social · 26d

The amazing @katha.bsky.social presenting on building digital capabilities in hostile social media environments. The context stuff is fascinating - this has been a deeply weird but also vitally important four year period for Kath to have been leading this research #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025

Why are digital capabilities important for the HIN sector?
• Digital and data technologies are central to both health and social support systems and community experiences of connection, wellbeing & learning
• 'Digital health' is not the same thing as 'digital public health'
• Digital content moderation policies often flag HIV/SRH content as
'against community standards'
• Targeted harassment and surveillance of marginalised communities is increasing - impacting health consumers and health organisations.

Digital transformation policy environment
National Strategies and Plans
• The Digital Health Blueprint and Action Plan 2023
- 2033, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care
• The Digital Health Action Plan, 2023
• National Digital Health Strategy 2023-2028,
Australian Digital Health Agency
• National Digital Health Strategy and
Roadmap 2023 - 2028, ADHA
• National Digital Health Capability Action
Plan, 2023
• Australian Digital Health Capability
Framework, ADHA/AIDH, 2024
Platform content moderation policies
• Meta's 'community notes' fact-checking model
2025
• Meta's changes to hateful conduct policy to allow more 'free speech' 2025
International Guidance
• Global Strategy on Digital health 2020-2025 - WHO, 2020 *recently extended until 2027.
• Guidance on the rights-based ethical use of digital technologies in HIV and health programmes - UNDP, 2021
• UNICEF Safer Chatbots Implementation Guide -
UNICEF, 2022
• The role of artificial intelligence in sexual and reproductive health and rights - WHO, 2024
• Digital transformation handbook for primary health care - WHO, 2024
e-Safety Office
• Online Safety Act 2021
• Industry codes and standards (ratified 2025)
• Phase 1: illegal content (eg. child exploitation material)
• Phase 2: preventing young people from accessing “inappropriate' content

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Sep 8

Featuring @katha.bsky.social @floreani.bsky.social and guest presenters from across the sector, @muyiiyamu.bsky.social Melanie Bissessor, Caitlin Learmonth, Daniel Reeders, Amy Tong, and Jess Wilms.

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Sep 9

A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals & communities navigate the overwhelming & often unreliable online information about sexual & reproductive health by building digital & data capabilities @katha.bsky.social
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From ‘Doctor Google’ to Data-Driven Care: The Future of Digital Health Literacy - ADM+S Centre

A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals and communities navigate the overwhelming and often unreliable online information about...

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A/Prof Carissa Bonner @carissabonner.bsky.social · Aug 20

New paper on our Heart Yarning Tool! Summarising how we codesigned shared decision making support for Heart Health Checks with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sydney.edu.au @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @isdmsociety.bsky.social

The Heart Health Yarning Tool: Co‐Designing a Shared Decision‐Making Tool With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Management

Introduction Due to the ongoing impact of colonisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live with a greater burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than non-Indigenous Australians. Share...

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · Aug 1

Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone.

Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza

Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

www.thelancet.com

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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools...

Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social.

@digital-health.bsky.social

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The following text presented using bulleted banners:
Suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools:
1. Involve end users early
2. Engage your target population, including ‘extreme users’
3. Create opportunities for unexpected input
4. Involve users more than once
5. Close the feedback loop

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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · Jul 28

New publication reviewing research literature reporting on user involvement the design of digital HIV and sexual health tools- led by @aliciajeanking.bsky.social & Ethan Trey Cardwell, with a great set of illustrious co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

User Input in the Development of Digital Sexual Health Tools: A Scoping Review and Guidance for Tool Developers

Background or Context Studies reporting the use of digital tools to promote the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) have proliferated in recent years.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for."

@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:

Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is bang on the money

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.

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Alicia King (she/her) @aliciajeanking.bsky.social · Jul 24

What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area?

Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055...

In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool…

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Jul 22

Privileged to be a part of this project, led by the incomparable Britt Paris.

AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 22

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions

Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 10

Do you know someone looking for a great PhD opportunity with a great academic supervisor? PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia” hblog.org/2025/06/18/p...

PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia”

I have a scholarship for a PhD student to work on my Future Fellowship project. Below is the description that will soon appear on UTS’s website. Feel free to ping me if you’re intereste…

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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations Jathan!

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Jun 28

Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab

Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info [email protected] @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

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Dr Melody Taba @melodytaba.bsky.social · Jun 27

My PhD framework is now LIVE!

We co-designed 5 recommendations for improving social media health communication to young people, with young people and health orgs📱

🔗: www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/social-media-comms-for-young-people-framework

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDSky #PublicHealth 🦘🎓

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The Sizzle - Australia's favourite tech newsletter @thesizzle.com.au · Jun 18

Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea
Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS

READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/aussies-love-don-t-know-what-age-assurance-is-iran-whatsapp-ban-and-mastodon-s-ai-plea-f6b7f1bfe4385

Aussies love/don't know what age assurance is, Iran WhatsApp ban and Mastodon's AI plea

Plus: Turn newsletters into RSS

thesizzle.com.au

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 16

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does.
#201FirstNationsArticles

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Jun 13

With less than 6 months until Australia's teen social media ban kicks in (!) we aren't much closer to knowing how it will work.

I wrote what needs to happen before the ban, what people think it'll look like, and why we're going to find out some details in the next 2 weeks.

www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · May 30

Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...

Patterns of Surprise and Ambivalence: Studying Social Media Visuality by Way of Aggregated Autoethnography | Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research

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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · Jun 3

Solidarity Shaun, to you and all our Macquarie colleagues

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · May 29

While new online industry codes aim to protect children from harmful content, experts warn they could unintentionally restrict access to vital sexual health and education resources, particularly for young and marginalised groups. @katha.bsky.social #SexEd #DigitalRights
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Sexual health info online is crucial for teens. Australia’s new tech codes may threaten their access

Draft rules to restrict ‘age-inappropriate content’ may also affect essential information about sex and sexual health.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · May 16

Well known, Palestinian artist Elham Al-Boddi, 33, of Beit Lahia, was killed in an airstrike yesterday.

Her husband had been killed months earlier.

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