Ben Harris-Roxas @ben_hr@social.coop

Universal pension system considered as retirees call for tax and income reform https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/universal-pension-for-all-retirees-call-for-tax-and-income-reform-20200524-p54vx4.html I think it was @mikelynch who said “remember the good old days when Baby Boomers we’re simply going to overwhelm our aged care system”

Antidepressants or Tolkien character? https://antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh/ More difficult than I’d have guessed.

Scientists are trying to save Minnesota’s North Woods forest from climate change https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/climate-solutions/climate-change-minnesota/

#climate_change #climate_solutions

WHO webinar on COVID-19 and the health of seafarers https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eA7M8XFOR8GcTmoHM2R24A a significant issue for international transmission of the virus, but also for the 150,000 seafarers who are directly affected.

A First Dog on the Moon live action cartoon! Will the coronavirus save us from climate change? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/21/a-first-dog-on-the-moon-live-action-cartoon-will-the-coronavirus-save-us-from-climate-change

The UK’s public health response to covid-19 https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1932

Do I want to get up at 5am on Sunday to watch Shaolin vs Wu Tang with commentary from RZA? Probably not, but almost https://cinema.36chambers.com/products/shaolin-vs-wu-tang-replay-w-commentary-from-rza

Where I call bullshit on the way we do the PhD – The Thesis Whisperer
https://thesiswhisperer.com/2020/05/13/stop-letting-the-ghosts-of-old-academia-haunt-you/

Too many of my peers train HDRs for *their own* career paths, which are no longer available to those who've come after.

Spare a thought for the 150,000 seafarers going from port to port, unloading at docks that are open for cargo but closed to them – with no return home in sight. http://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/may/11/cargo-ship-sailors-press-ganged-into-keeping-the-worlds-trade-afloat

‪With everyone on lockdown, the unicyclists are finally returning. Nature is healing. ‬

Twenty-one thousand university jobs to be lost in the next six months, one third in research, and many of those currently redeployed to investigate COVID-19 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-11/australia-research-workforce-facing-widespread-coronavirus-pain/12234704

A good Health Affairs post with ideas we should be urgently acting on in Australia: Three Workforce Strategies To Help COVID Affected Communities
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200507.525599/full/

#COVID19 #Australia #CHWs

Screen New Deal: Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia - Naomi Klein
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/andrew-cuomo-eric-schmidt-coronavirus-tech-shock-doctrine/

#COVID19 #surveillance

Entertaining read: The real Lord of the Flies - what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

#recommended #longreads

“We are learning while we are sailing.” A recommended read on one expert’s personal experience of COVID-19 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19 #covid19

Hallo Masto

Retraining the unemployed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/retraining-unemployed-fight-covid-19/ CHWs may play a really useful role, especially in OECD countries that have failed to adopt this workforce model #COVID19

@liamvhogan How do you reckon Bird is going through iso?

Look forward to seeing @liamvhogan there