By Centaine Snoswell, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Queensland
There are myriad, quiet ways Australians rely on an internet connection for their health and wellbeing. The impact is harder to count.
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By Gemma Blackwood, Lecturer, Media, University of Tasmania
I am one of Hobart’s many residents who travelled to a nearby beach to witness Neil the seal – an animal that has been receiving global attention for his…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Angus Taylor has delivered his most comprehensive attack so far on One Nation in a speech to the Sydney Institute.
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By Keith Rathbone, Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
Infantino’s global game runs on money and power. As they become increasingly concentrated, the possibility for challenging his leadership diminish.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government believes it can’t allow “the tech bros to let it rip”, as one source puts it. But it can’t allow the country to fall behind the pack either.
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By Estanislao Nistal Villán, Virólogo y profesor de Microbiología de la Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Sergio Rius Rocabert, Profesor colaborador doctor en microbiología. Virólogo e inmunólogo., Universidad CEU San Pablo
Understanding inflammation – and above all, how to regulate it – is one of the great medical challenges of modern medicine. Its role as the first line of defence is crucial. It occurs when the presence of infectious agents triggers an inflammatory response. As well as hindering the entry of viruses and bacteria, this acts as a distress signal, attracting other components of our immune system.
But excessive inflammatory response can be harmful. Indeed, poor regulation of inflammation plays a central role in the way many illnesses develop.
One example of this is COVID, where…
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By Amnesty International
A year after Amnesty International documented widespread abuse of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, a new briefing from the organization reveals that Filipino women are facing many of the same abuses, including being overworked, exploited and subjected to degrading treatment, as well as sexual assault in some cases. “Once we step in their homes, […] The post Global: Filipino domestic workers exploited and subjected to sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe
Between 1990 and 2008, Yugoslavia dissolved into seven independent countries that faced similar challenges, but also experienced important differences that affect their institutional responses to statelessness.
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By Darryl Veitch, Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
Allison Kealy, Director, Innovative Planet Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Telstra experienced a second major network fault after yesterday’s nationwide outage, with the telco confirming late last night that some calls, including to Triple Zero, were not going through.
At a press conference this afternoon, Michael…
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By Steve Bickley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Economics & Finance, Queensland University of Technology
What makes people change their minds, or their behaviour? Social scientists spend a lot of time thinking about this question, and experiments are one of the most powerful ways to answer it.
Experiments – testing ideas on real people – take considerable amounts of time and money. Enter large language models (LLMs): artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained to mimic certain kinds of text-based human behaviour based on vast amounts of…
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