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Fiona Armstrong

H-index: 13
Public Health 41%
Medicine 26%
farmstrong.bsky.social
Tragic this is even necessary, but what a great initiative, with potential to be applied in so many contexts, populations, and geographies www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/n...
How 106 People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting — Before It Happened
www.nytimes.com
pik-potsdam.bsky.social
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
sthlmresilience.bsky.social
MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone.

Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

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simonadams.bsky.social
I played a small role helping evacuate @skateistan.bsky.social staff from Afghanistan when the Taliban took power. Amazing to finally meet Fatima and her son in Australia, 4 years later. She was the brave and inspiring teacher featured in the “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone…” documentary.

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elfdock.bsky.social
One of the biggest causes of FNP deaths in the NT

A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time.

he labelled the crash victims as "dogs" and "n***ers".
Driver who left Aboriginal man to die on Darwin road spared prison time
One man died and another was injured after Jake Danby struck them with his car outside a Darwin shopping centre in 2024, with the driver then sending a series of "disgusting" text messages about the v...
www.abc.net.au

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amyremeikis.bsky.social
Given this is making some waves - here is the piece and you can judge for yourself.

(I'm fine, there are no issues - right wing ecosystem just doing what right wing ecosystem does).

Take care of you - it's rough out there! Ax

amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk died in the America he wanted
I mourn the loss of human life. I feel compassion, empathy and grief at an inexcusable killing. But I find nothing to lionise in his legacy.
amyremeikis.substack.com

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dindjarinsway.bsky.social
Israeli conductor, Ilan Volkov gives an impassioned speech on 11th September, at the Royal Albert Hall to stop the Gaza Holocaust.....
#AllHeroesDontWearCapes
#IlanVolkov
#PromsFestival
#London
#StopGazaGenocide
lucytartan.bsky.social
Big turnout at this morning’s rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social vandalism of Meanjin. @beneltham.bsky.social called for Meanjin’s name and archive to be surrendered so the magazine can be published by someone who deserves to and appreciates the honour
Protesters gathered outside Melbourne University Publishing office at 715 Swanston St

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publichealthaus.bsky.social
How can we make sense of authoritarian politics?

What does the weaking of democratic institutions mean for #PublicHealth?

Find out Mon 15 Sept in Wollongong / Dharawal Country, hosted by @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social & our Political Economy SIG.

www.austph2025.com/workshop
@peterwtait.bsky.social
Political Economy of Health and One Health special interest groups workshop. Democracy and Public Health in a Trumpian world. Monday 15 Sept, 10am-4pm, Novotel Wollongong Northbeach.

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marquelawyers.com.au
The victim was aged between 6 and 9. The reporting seems to miss the point that a child cannot consent to sex, so "sexual experience" should be accurately described as "previous rapes". The whole thing is disgusting.
Paedophile argues relevance of girl's 'sexual experience' in appeal bid
A man who sexually abused a young girl in foster care is seeking to quash his conviction in the High Court.
www.abc.net.au
farmstrong.bsky.social
Happy news: Victoria will become the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a treaty with Victoria's First Peoples in parliament today. When the legislation is passed, it will make the First Peoples' Assembly, to be called Gellung Warl, permanent. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australia-first treaty with First Peoples to be tabled in Victorian parliament
Victoria's historic treaty is promising to "reckon with the past" and empower the state's First Peoples — and explicitly declares it will not take anything away from the broader community.
www.abc.net.au
farmstrong.bsky.social
Trump gets booed at the US Open and WTA agrees to seek media blackout 😤. But you can see it here, with Harry Sisson.
andystheory.bsky.social
Trump is seriously at risk because the US Open. Harry Sisson captured all the boos and more that the Open agreed they would conceal both. 🤣

youtu.be/0nyuJiqGRgU?...
Trump Gets LOUDLY BOOED As Tennis Stunt BACKFIRES
YouTube video by Harry Sisson
youtu.be
farmstrong.bsky.social
Incredibly brave and powerful action taken by Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women's Association (AUTWA) to force ⁦‪Kmart‬⁩ to prove it is not sourcing products from factories using forced labour in Western China. Consumers need to know.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Kmart facing legal action over belief it's sourcing products linked to forced labour
Kmart is facing court action by a group who believe some of its products may have been sourced from factories in China linked to forced labour.
www.abc.net.au

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yungenchee.bsky.social
For context, Alec Coles is CEO of WA Museum (Big WoodCIDE fan)
Screenshot of Woodside CEO Meg O'Neill's LinkedIn post

On the left, image shows Meg O'Neill in the centre, with WA Museum CEO, Alec Coles on her left and Foundation for the WA Museum's Coralie Bishop on her right.
They're posing in front of a display labelled 'Tropical Wonders'

On the right panel, Meg O'Neill's post reads:

"I am delighted to share that Woodside Energy, the Western Australian Museum and the Foundation for the WA Museum have extended our 28-year research collaboration for another five years.

Since 1998 Woodside has supported the Western
Australian Museum's marine biodiversity research off the WA coast.

Through this collaboration more than 700 species new to science have been discovered, including one of my favourites, the bearded velvetfish!

(You can check out this master of camouflage in the wi courtesy of the Western Australian Museum linked •).

Our extension of this collaboration will see targeted research continue along the Gascoyne coast and I can't wait to see what the talented researchers responsible for these discoveries find next!"

There've been 427 positive reactions to her post, 1 comment, 9 reposts

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gekko.bsky.social
The problem being a fair-weather friend of convenience - there when it suits you and absence the rest of the time - is you get a reputation as flakey

The Pacific region keeps calling Australia out.

The Duopoly's destroyed this relationship for decades

www.thenewdaily.com.au/pacific/2025...
Australia to feel the heat at Pacific Island talks
One of the climate justice movement's biggest wins and its influence on major emitters, including Australia, is about to be put to the test.
www.thenewdaily.com.au

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gekko.bsky.social
A. dangerous time domestically for Amerika ..

Having sacked the professional statisticians measuring economic performance, tRump is starting to find out that jobs are disappearing in Amerika

NOT his fault of course - he'll be looking to blame others as Amerika heads towards potential recession

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andystheory.bsky.social
Trump is seriously at risk because the US Open. Harry Sisson captured all the boos and more that the Open agreed they would conceal both. 🤣

youtu.be/0nyuJiqGRgU?...
Trump Gets LOUDLY BOOED As Tennis Stunt BACKFIRES
YouTube video by Harry Sisson
youtu.be

Reposted by: Fiona Armstrong

andystheory.bsky.social
A self-identified professional scientist using the screenname Mug of Glop also chimed in, saying, “lmao Trump is the absolute weakest b—- in history.”
There’s a reason tennis has sunk to triviality in this country in the last 40 years,” he added. “It’s terrified, condescending management like this.”

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pennytangey.bsky.social
He goes: We work constructively with industry.

No you don't. You have no influence on their behaviour. Your researchers tell them the marine environment is precious and they wreck it anyway.
projectdrawdown.bsky.social
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projectdrawdown.bsky.social
Smart banking is green banking! 🧠💵 #BlackRock once positioned itself as a leader in sustainable investing. However one of Europe’s largest pension funds has pulled billions from BlackRock in part because of concerns over the firm's voting record on sustainability issues.
Dutch pension fund pulls €14.5bn from BlackRock over green issues
PFZW’s move follows European backlash against American antipathy towards environmental, social and governance initiatives
www.thetimes.com

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bdsmovement.bsky.social
Turn your space into an Apartheid Free Zone. Contact your local BDS group or fill the form in our website today: bdsmovement.net/afz-registra...

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bdsmovement.bsky.social
The Apartheid Free Zones network in Japan includes bookstores, art galleries, B&Bs, fair trade shops, offices of lawmakers, university research labs and Buddhist temples.
farmstrong.bsky.social
Yes, surely! And what the hell are the media doing referring to his associates as “followers”! FFS. How to hand power to a bunch of ignorant narcissists.
sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social
A 4th person has been charged over the attack on Camp Sovereignty. Digression: It seems that Sewell is recruiting and radicalising young men in their 20s. Surely, there's something under the terrorism laws that applies to this? #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
More arrests over Camp Sovereignty attack that left multiple people injured
A man will face court today charged with offences related to the attack on Camp Sovereignty over the weekend. Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell is being held in custody over the incident.
www.abc.net.au

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