Dr Lesley Russell
@lrussellwolpe.bsky.social
Health policy wonk, political tragic, hiking & skiing nut.
Sydney 🇦🇺 and Keystone 🇺🇸
Sydney 🇦🇺 and Keystone 🇺🇸
Pinned
With wonderful assistance from @croakeynews.bsky.social latest edition of #TheHikingWrap is up.
My 2024 adventures:
- Exploring Kimberley WA
- Kangaroo Is Wilderness Trail
- Nakasendo Trail & Mt Fuji
- Flinders Island
Lots to inspire you. 🏃♀️
www.croakey.org/croakey-down...
My 2024 adventures:
- Exploring Kimberley WA
- Kangaroo Is Wilderness Trail
- Nakasendo Trail & Mt Fuji
- Flinders Island
Lots to inspire you. 🏃♀️
www.croakey.org/croakey-down...
Almost time for #LessonsFromWales with Prof Liz Green, Public Health Wales Consultant in Public Health, Policy and International Health and Program Director for Health Impact Assessment
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Almost time for #LessonsFromWales with Prof Liz Green, Public Health Wales Consultant in Public Health, Policy and International Health and Program Director for Health Impact Assessment
Looking forward to this event tomorrow: I’ll be attending and reporting for Croakey Conference News Service @croakeynews.bsky.social
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Wellbeing for Future Generations: Lessons from Wales and Building HIA Capacity in Australia
UNSW Sydney
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Wellbeing for Future Generations: Lessons from Wales and Building HIA Capacity in Australia
UNSW Sydney
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Wellbeing for Future Generations: Lessons from Wales and Building HIA Capacity in Australia | UNSW Sydney
Join us for this exciting event co-organised by UNSW International Centre for Future Health Systems (Medicine & Health) and UNSW Cities Institute (ADA) at the Health Translation Hub building. As citie...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Looking forward to this event tomorrow: I’ll be attending and reporting for Croakey Conference News Service @croakeynews.bsky.social
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Wellbeing for Future Generations: Lessons from Wales and Building HIA Capacity in Australia
UNSW Sydney
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Wellbeing for Future Generations: Lessons from Wales and Building HIA Capacity in Australia
UNSW Sydney
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Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else
The 13 best popular science books of 2025
Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else
www.newscientist.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best reads, says Liz Else
There is a growing body of research on the physical benefits of going for a dip in chilly water, but now researchers are starting to find that cold-water swimming may also be reshaping our brains for the better in lasting ways
Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as well as the body
There is a growing body of research on the physical benefits of going for a dip in chilly water, but now researchers are starting to find that cold-water swimming may also be reshaping our brains for the better in lasting ways
www.newscientist.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
www.newscientist.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms
In inner city Balmain we are daily delighted and sometimes irritated by the demands of two fledgling Butcher Birds in their poor besieged parent (are there any worms left in my garden?).
It’s a bad photo - but evokes the ongoing dramas.
It’s a bad photo - but evokes the ongoing dramas.
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
In inner city Balmain we are daily delighted and sometimes irritated by the demands of two fledgling Butcher Birds in their poor besieged parent (are there any worms left in my garden?).
It’s a bad photo - but evokes the ongoing dramas.
It’s a bad photo - but evokes the ongoing dramas.
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Book lovers. Life lovers! Forthwith I shall post a book a day, books I’ve read this year. Books I’ve loved & have intrigued me, changed me, occasionally books I’ve wondered if I could marry. Maybe books YOU might love. And remember, dearests of the world, how GREAT books make for Christmas presents
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Book lovers. Life lovers! Forthwith I shall post a book a day, books I’ve read this year. Books I’ve loved & have intrigued me, changed me, occasionally books I’ve wondered if I could marry. Maybe books YOU might love. And remember, dearests of the world, how GREAT books make for Christmas presents
Oh joy! A friend came bearing gifts.
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Oh joy! A friend came bearing gifts.
In India rapid decline in vulture population means increase in wild dogs, more dog bites, and thousands of additional deaths from rabies.
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Humans killed millions of vultures. Now people are paying the price.
The near-extinction of vultures in India has had severe consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In India rapid decline in vulture population means increase in wild dogs, more dog bites, and thousands of additional deaths from rabies.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Doing some research and this paper - written in 2008 - turned up.
I’m debating updating it but wonder how easy that would be as transparency has definitely not improved. Suspect these findings still hold true.
Comments?
I’m debating updating it but wonder how easy that would be as transparency has definitely not improved. Suspect these findings still hold true.
Comments?
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Doing some research and this paper - written in 2008 - turned up.
I’m debating updating it but wonder how easy that would be as transparency has definitely not improved. Suspect these findings still hold true.
Comments?
I’m debating updating it but wonder how easy that would be as transparency has definitely not improved. Suspect these findings still hold true.
Comments?
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At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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Cheap and unhealthy foods are set to become further entrenched in the Australian diet, according to health experts.
Reporting by Melissa Davey and Natasha May. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
📷: Anastasiia Krivenok / Getty Images
Reporting by Melissa Davey and Natasha May. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
📷: Anastasiia Krivenok / Getty Images
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Cheap and unhealthy foods are set to become further entrenched in the Australian diet, according to health experts.
Reporting by Melissa Davey and Natasha May. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
📷: Anastasiia Krivenok / Getty Images
Reporting by Melissa Davey and Natasha May. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
📷: Anastasiia Krivenok / Getty Images
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Two years after it was delivered, the National Health and Climate Strategy remains unfunded, and it's unclear who is responsible for its implementation. We need urgent action now. @croakeynews.bsky.social
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Federal Government is missing in action on climate health, key conference will be told
Introduction by Croakey: Calls for urgent investment in climate and health action will feature at the 2025 Climate + Health
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September 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Two years after it was delivered, the National Health and Climate Strategy remains unfunded, and it's unclear who is responsible for its implementation. We need urgent action now. @croakeynews.bsky.social
www.croakey.org/federal-gove...
www.croakey.org/federal-gove...
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What an interesting idea
An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
As bookstore numbers decline in Japan, many are leasing out shelves
The shelves are leased out to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
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November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
What an interesting idea
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Frikkin amazing stuff.
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Very pleased to see that @greens.org.au have won an inquiry into job cuts at CSIRO
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Very pleased to see that @greens.org.au have won an inquiry into job cuts at CSIRO
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
Would be great to see attention brought to bear on restructuring (cuts?) at the Australian Research Council too
Why these attacks on science in the public interest in Australia❓ Who does this serve❓
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“‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
“‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, marking the start of @UN_Women’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based violence.
Violence against women is a global crisis. Nearly one in three women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
Violence against women is a global crisis. Nearly one in three women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, marking the start of @UN_Women’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based violence.
Violence against women is a global crisis. Nearly one in three women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
Violence against women is a global crisis. Nearly one in three women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
Scientists recorded 47% drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit.
Scaled to whole island, that’s potential loss of 50,000 animals.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
Scaled to whole island, that’s potential loss of 50,000 animals.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest
Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 5...
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Scientists recorded 47% drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit.
Scaled to whole island, that’s potential loss of 50,000 animals.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
Scaled to whole island, that’s potential loss of 50,000 animals.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
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This study found that 'among individuals with a known history of #SARSCoV2 infection, 5% had a profile characterized by a persistently high #LongCOVID related symptom burden, an additional 12% had intermittently high burden of symptoms that did not improve over time.'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long COVID trajectories in the prospectively followed RECOVER-Adult US cohort - Nature Communications
Long COVID has heterogeneous presentation and clinical trajectories are not well defined. Here, the authors define trajectories using data from a prospective cohort study in the United States involvin...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This study found that 'among individuals with a known history of #SARSCoV2 infection, 5% had a profile characterized by a persistently high #LongCOVID related symptom burden, an additional 12% had intermittently high burden of symptoms that did not improve over time.'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Albanese Govt failure to progress oral health policy is exacerbating health inequities & contributing to preventable illness, suffering & hospitalisations.
Where is new National Oral Health Plan?
www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
Where is new National Oral Health Plan?
www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
Is oral health a priority for the Albanese Government? Apparently not…
Introduction by Croakey: In between the political jockeying over public hospital funding, perhaps the Prime Minister and Treasurer could ask
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November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Albanese Govt failure to progress oral health policy is exacerbating health inequities & contributing to preventable illness, suffering & hospitalisations.
Where is new National Oral Health Plan?
www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
Where is new National Oral Health Plan?
www.croakey.org/is-oral-heal...
Arriving into Ushuaia in the early morning. A lovely end to a glorious Antarctic #ShackeltonFootsteps adventure. Thanks for following along.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Arriving into Ushuaia in the early morning. A lovely end to a glorious Antarctic #ShackeltonFootsteps adventure. Thanks for following along.
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Polar bears took shelter inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s remote Kolyuchin Island. See photos by the photographer Vadim Makhorov, who found them while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea. Via The Atlantic Photo:
Photos: When the Polar Bears Move In
The photographer Vadim Makhorov, while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea, noticed a group of polar bears that were taking shelter inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s remote Kolyuchin Island.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Polar bears took shelter inside an abandoned research station on Russia’s remote Kolyuchin Island. See photos by the photographer Vadim Makhorov, who found them while recently cruising on the Chukchi Sea. Via The Atlantic Photo:
Last day at sea; we disembark tomorrow at Ushuaia. We are mesmerised by sea birds, including albatross, constantly around the ship (impossible to photograph with phone). In a few hours we will sail within 3 nautical miles of Cape Horn, then go on to enter the Beagle Channel.
#ShackeltonFootsteps
#ShackeltonFootsteps
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Last day at sea; we disembark tomorrow at Ushuaia. We are mesmerised by sea birds, including albatross, constantly around the ship (impossible to photograph with phone). In a few hours we will sail within 3 nautical miles of Cape Horn, then go on to enter the Beagle Channel.
#ShackeltonFootsteps
#ShackeltonFootsteps