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Social media for tracking disease outbreaks – fad or way of the future?

  • Written by C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia
imageTimeliness is important for detecting epidemics.yochika photographer/

Social media has revolutionised how we communicate. In this series, we look at how it has changed the media, politics, health, education and the law.

Infectious diseases kill more than 17 million people every year. Large outbreaks, known as epidemics, are becoming more frequent....

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The world's vanishing wild places are vital for saving species

  • Written by Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
imageCheetahs have extraordinarily low genetic diversity, placing them at risk. Copyright Amy Nichole Harris/Shutterstock

In science, it’s rare that a new idea comes along that stops people in their tracks. For ecologists, this has just happened, in a paper that found that species living in wild places have more genetic diversity than the same...

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US election: what are super PACs, and what role does money play in the race?

  • Written by Andrea Abel van Es, Research Fellow, Institute for Economics and Peace, University of Sydney
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Ask most people what they think of politics in the US, and one of the first responses you might hear is that it is corrupted by the influence of money.

Super PACs (political action committees) are a concept that has become synonymous with that corruption. Many see these entities as symbols of a broken system – a system with loopholes that...

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University changes to academic contracts are threatening freedom of speech

  • Written by Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland
imageAcademic Roz Ward was temporarily suspended from La Trobe University for her comments about the Australian flag on Facebook.Richard Milnes/Newzulu

Some universities are attempting to insert new clauses into their employment contracts that aim to limit academics’ ability to speak freely in public debate.

All universities acknowledge the role...

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  1. Business Briefing: why the future is workless
  2. How migrant workers are critical to the future of Australia's agricultural industry
  3. Speaking with: Alanna Kamp about the erasure of Chinese-Australian women from our history books
  4. Peering into the future: does science require predictions?
  5. What the consistency of your poo says about your health
  6. Kintsugi and the art of ceramic maintenance
  7. Explainer: what is contract theory and why it deserved a Nobel Prize
  8. Samsung pulls the pin on the Galaxy Note 7 but will unlikely suffer permanent damage
  9. Turnbull is trussed up, unable to deliver either marriage plebiscite or parliamentary outcome
  10. Labor maintains 52-48 lead in Newspoll
  11. New South Wales overturns greyhound ban: a win for the industry, but a massive loss for the dogs
  12. Buyouts mean the future of Australian video-on-demand is hard to picture
  13. Let's address the perfect storm of factors leading to obesity in disadvantaged children
  14. Hurricane Matthew is just the latest unnatural disaster to strike Haiti
  15. How we get sucked in by junk food specials in supermarkets
  16. Turnbull dodges on what happens after marriage plebiscite bill is defeated
  17. Australia's car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions
  18. With the plebiscite set to be blocked, who will leave a legacy of marriage equality?
  19. Data surveillance is all around us, and it's going to change our behaviour
  20. Healthy guts are swarming with bugs, so what do they do?
  21. Gut feeling: how your microbiota affects your mood, sleep and stress levels
  22. Debate reveals Trump's dated, dangerous masculinity – and how he just doesn't get it
  23. Has social media really shifted the line between personal and private forever?
  24. Worried your emails might be spied on? Here's what you can do
  25. Canada lets the states lead on climate, should Australia do the same?
  26. The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired
  27. Turnbull's misgivings on renewables overlook economic and financial realities
  28. Joe Cinque's Consolation: violence, delusion and the question of guilt
  29. Bill Shorten steps up attack on Donald Trump
  30. Labor caucus set to kill marriage vote
  31. We need to pick up the pace on innovation, says secretary of prime minister's department
  32. The off-topic Conversation #109
  33. Viciousness reaches new lows in the second debate, but it is unlikely to change the race
  34. How retro storytelling can help boost imaginative capacity
  35. Paid domestic violence leave: how do other countries do it?
  36. Trump and Clinton clash in second presidential debate: experts respond
  37. FactCheck Q A: do eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses?
  38. Private equity isn't all bad: how PE funds help companies expand overseas
  39. Health Check: what is normal vaginal discharge and what's not?
  40. Clear skies ahead: how improving the language of aviation could save lives
  41. Social media abuse is a sign that the feminist project still far from finished
  42. Post-truth politics and the US election: why the narrative trumps the facts
  43. Why ‘baby talk’ is good for your baby
  44. Renters are being left out in the cold on energy savings: here's a solution
  45. Why do parents take such different approaches to their kids' education?
  46. Younger farmers more open to sharing the family farm with outside investors
  47. In praise of trigger warnings
  48. A future world full of driverless cars... seriously?!
  49. Government knocks out 478 courses from loans under VET crackdown
  50. Panel to assist in working up long-delayed changes for universities
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