Ruth Mitchell
Neurosurgery, nuclear abolition, running, cheese.
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchell“There is something better than science and that is science with a moral compass, science in the service of humanity.” Moral compass is exactly what’s missing these days www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellMy tribue to Dr Bill Foege and the lessons we can learn from his inspiring life Lessons From William H. Foege, A Global Health Legend @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellReminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it Pressure your senators
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchell🧵5 years ago today, the #NuclearBan Treaty entered into force meaning it became legally binding intenational law. Thanks to the treaty, for the first time in history nuclear weapons are illegal and there is a plan to eliminate them. #5yearsTPNW 🥳
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- Reposted by Ruth MitchellThe only place I want to see soldiers in civil society
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellIt’s just so amazing to spend your life trying to help people, only to watch a few incompetent men casually endanger the lives and health of so many more people than you could ever help
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellJust spoke to my local library - they said they cannot offer extended hours for refuge from the heat as they do not have the funding 😭. Sucks that local councils have to fund this .. where is the Federal Environment minister? They're the ones approving new coal and gas mines.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellJust to be clear social media bans are not about avoiding harm they are about avoiding meaningful regulation.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellThis post has been updated with further commentary: Victorian Government faces avalanche of opposition over its move against VicHealth www.croakey.org/victorian-go...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellImproving health and healthcare in remote communities, what will it take? – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/improving-he...
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- Reposted by Ruth Mitchellyou know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends? you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellThis is accurate
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellA short-sighted, anti-public health decision. Do they want illness and misery to increase?
- Victorian Government faces massive fight over VicHealth bombshell – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/victorian-go...
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchell"VicHealth folding doesn’t just harm Victoria, it dismantles a global template for how to get health promotion right." www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchell"No matter what he meant, it was a terrible thing to say." @drruthmitchell.bsky.social on how Trump's call to resume US nuclear testing sent officials scrambling. Dr Mitchell, Nobel Prize winner w/ @ican-australia.bsky.social, discusses non-proliferation & the US health system 👉 theaus.in/48BtmgG
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellSo many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellElon left me here
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellEveryone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellDeloitte also fucked up the same way in Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchellthe full quote here english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellAlice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellSome people are replying here with things already addressed in this thread and paper, so please click through bsky.app/profile/oliv...
- Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellFor the love of god please make it stop…
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchell'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellThis times a bersquillion. People need other people to hear them, understand them, believe them. Otherwise we may as well all be fridges connected intermittently to the internet for no apparent reason.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellIn a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellHow did @propublica.org reporter @ericumansky.bsky.social learn that the Trump administration had just gone ahead and made it significantly harder for male vets with breast cancer to get coverage? This crucial info was not made public. Read his 🧵 for the details👇
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellWEHI stands behind the @aamri.bsky.social campaign to strengthen the sector and secure the future of medical research. Join the call to release the full MRFF and support our scientists to keep saving lives. Find out more: www.aamri.org.au/mrff #releasethefullmrff
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellSays the man sending troops into his own country’s cities and killing civilians in speed boats off the Venezuelan coast…
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellImmigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellThey didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellTwo tiny humans (twins, 2?) are sitting in an extra-wide stroller as their mum does her food shop. Both are cradling a broccoli in each of their laps with the air of tiny princes holding scepters. Benevolent Brassica monarchs in a Mum-pushed chariot. (3)
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchelltbf if I was playing against Pocock in a work footy comp I’d want him banned too.
- I am so annoyed on behalf of the many bright people in science and medicine that have had to spend the day talking about paracetamol/acetaminophen and how it doesn’t cause autism. And I’m even more aggrieved for everyone with autism who is being subjected to the destructive ableist discourse.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellAustralian CDC gets a hopeful mention in this BMJ article: Retreating from science and its successes www.bmj.com/content/390/...
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellBanksy recreated by a sand artist Fred Brown on Scarborough beach.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellTo journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellDeeply disturbed by the apparently normalised class of person that hasn't said anything about 680,000 murdered Palestinians but is very upset about one Nazi podcast host.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellWe've signed onto this open letter coordinated by the Gun Safety Alliance. The NSW Conservation Hunting Bill threatens public safety, risks poor animal welfare outcomes, undermines conservation efforts & erodes Australia’s globally respected firearm laws. australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchell🚨 NEW EPISODE of Leading 🚨 Rory and Alastair speak with James Elder, UNICEF’s spokesperson, who reveals the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - and why he says it’s the worst war he’s ever witnessed. Link in the replies 👇
- How I wish I was going to be there. Have a wonderful time #icre2025 folk!
- Don’t forget - #ICRE2025 early bird registration ends in ONE WEEK!! September 12. We can’t wait to welcome you in Quebec City!
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellHosted by @rwc90.bsky.social, @khoshnevis.bsky.social, and fellow resident cochairs, this is a perfect opportunity for residents, med students and other trainees to connect with peers and mentors.
- #Residents: you’re invited to the Trainee Networking Reception on Friday, Oct. 31. It’s a great way to connect with other trainees attending ICRE; network with world-renowned #MedEd experts and win prizes! Early bird reg rate until Sept 12 : icre.royalcollege.ca/en/registrat... #ICRE2025
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellIt's going to be increasingly difficult for nuclear advocates to run the "safety fears are exaggerated" line now that one of the world's biggest nuclear power countries is actively trying to weaken / deregulate nukes Soon enough, there will be an *actual* disaster, and it'll set the industry back
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellDay two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellCase in point...read the Australian governments response to far right xenophobic marches in Aus...and compare it to the UK with talk of "island of strangers" and "legitimate concerns" You enforce the norm by...calling a spade a spade, not by kowtowing to ethnonationalists
- 16 weeks of training. Hundreds of kilometres run. And it all comes down to this. Tomorrow I’ll be running my first marathon for the Children’s Cancer Institute! #curingchildhoodcancer #notifitswhen #sydneymarathon sm25.grassrootz.com/ccia/ruth-mi...
- Reposted by Ruth Mitchellas far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school
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- Reposted by Ruth MitchellMs. Rachel for President
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellI love Neil Young mostly because of how pissed off he looks all the time now
- Reposted by Ruth MitchellIt’s so stupid that all the “but what about fairness in women’s sports” people are always talking about Oh No What If Trans and never, like, paying women athletes more
