“As digital technologies become increasingly embedded in education and daily life, there is a growing need for initial teacher education programmes and professional development to prioritize digital health literacy. Supporting teachers to confidently navigate, evaluate, and teach digital health concepts will be essential for preparing students to make informed health decisions in a rapidly evolving educational and digital landscape.”

🔔 ICYMI
 
Health literacy and digital health literacy profiles of final year Health and Physical Education pre-service teachers: a cross-sectional case study
 
✍️ Louisa R Peralta, Cassidy Kealy-Ashby, Rebecca Pagano, Vaughan Cruickshank
 
OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag015

Influencers are promoting these three health tests – but they risk doing more harm than good Experts warn of ‘over-diagnosis’ dangers as social media prompts the worried well to seek out unnecessary and expensive scans and blood tests

⚠️ Debunking misleading medical tests ⚠️

A new campaign from @sydney.edu.au will myth bust the need for full body MRI, AMH and testosterone testing for prevention.

This research-driven campaign led by Dr Brooke Nickel encourages looking for #EvidencenotInfluence

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Do you really need a full body MRI? YouTube video by The University of Sydney

Do you really need a full body MRI? 🤔

Listen to Dr Brooke Nickel de-bunk the need for this popular test using cold, hard evidence! ⚠️

#EvidencenotInfluence

www.youtube.com/shorts/f4PC4...

@sydney.edu.au @brookenickel.bsky.social @sydneyfmh-emcr.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

Communalytic Launches Major Platform Upgrade to Advance Social Media Research - Communalytic - A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2026 — Today, we’re excited to launch a new version of Communalytic, a leading platform for analyzing online communities and public discourse on social media. Designed ...

Researchers, are you studying public discourse on social media? If you are, check out our all-new @Communalytic.org research platform, which features a suite of easy-to-use social media data collectors & analyzers. #AcademicSky #ComSky #DiscourseAnalysis #LibrarySky #PhDSky #PolCom #ResearchSky

Women’s screening preferences shift after being informed about the 2024 USPSTF breast cancer screening guideline In 2024 the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) revised its breast cancer screening (BCS) guidelines to recommend that all women scr…

Women’s screening preferences shift after being informed about the 2024 USPSTF breast cancer screening guideline - new paper by @tamarparmet.bsky.social @ldscherer.bsky.social @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social me & others
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073839912600114X?dgcid=coauthor

The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.

#PeerReview is indeed breaking down, but I believe we should build it back up instead of scrapping it entirely.

It's how we ensure trust in science.

What would make you more likely to review your colleagues' new research?

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

📢 ABI Communication Lab Research Pathways #Workshop

Join us for insights into #research & #career pathways, #publishing + #conferences, and building your #network.

🗓 20 Feb
⏰ 9:30am–3:30pm
📍 Susan Wakil Health Building + Zoom

Register here: events.humanitix.com/research-pat...

Do #socialmedia #platforms influence academic research?
Little reason to assume they don’t.

They fund research and control data access—amplifying industry influence across the research cycle.

New comment w/ @freiling.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DataAccess #ResearchIntegrity #DSA

To address social media platforms' influence on academic research, @raffaelheiss.bsky.social and I draw on lessons learned from industry-academy collaborations in other fields. Industry influence can be subtle, so we need policy reforms, plus critical academic debates and clear ethical guidelines.

🔔 This week in InSight+

Why we must invest now in digital health interventions for adolescents

👉 buff.ly/EI5UgRA

Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...

This new study is published in @jhealthcomm.bsky.social ✍️

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔹 Research Article
📃 Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness

Read the full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#JournalofHealthCommunication #JHCUpdates #HealthCommunication #PublicHealth

Thanks so much Krestina! Was great to see you at #digitalhealthweek2026 🤩

Always such a pleasure listening to @melodytaba.bsky.social talk about her work. Such an important project ensuring the voice of young people are not only heard but used to effectively reach them through social media.

AXA Research Fund <div>Supporting Scientific Research to Protect What Matters</div>

Hello World
I wanted to share an update on my project, supported by the AXA Research Fund axa-research.org postdoctoral fellowship. The project aims to identify the optimal characteristics of decentralised social media platforms that foster prosocial digital spaces (promote safe communication)
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“Help young women to survive”: the cost-of-living crisis and the well-being of younger Australian women Abstract. The increased pressures associated with the cost-of-living crisis (CoLC) have been demonstrated to impact population health. Research has shown t

We asked more than 500 women about how the cost of living crisis has affected them. Our findings should be a wakeup call to policymakers, with women reporting they’re struggling to afford basic essentials, food, rent, medication and doctor appointments.

academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic Publishes papers on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. The journal publishes contributions from sectors beyond health, and seeks to promote theoretical, methodological, and ac...

Oxford University Press has lifted the paywall on the entire 40 year archive of @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of our flip to fully open access!

Check out the amazing work of our authors - free to read - here:

academic.oup.com/heapro

Tobacco companies targeting gen Z through social media Experts say Australia risks becoming complacent in the war against tobacco, with big companies pivoting to social media to "greenwash" their products to generation Z.

Prof Michelle Jongenelis warns: "Sixty-six Australians die every day from smoking, still to this day... We need to go back to the mass media campaigns that really highlight the dangers of smoking — we've dropped the ball on that."

Read more: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Presenters in front of slide

Final presenter in the co-design stream!

Dr Amy Von Huben presenting on consumer preferences for digital health technologies for primary healthcare in remote Indigenous Australian communities📱

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Presenters in front of slide

Next: Adnan Asger Ali presenting on organisations perspectives on digital care pathways for people with musculoskeletal conditions living in rural Australia 💪📱

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Presenters in front of slide

Next: Dr Adam Poulsen presenting on attuning digital mental health tools to young Australian voices 📱🧠

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social
@adampoulsen.bsky.social

Presenters in front of slide

Next: Jemma Mulligan presenting on co-design of digital strategies with rural allied health clinicians in implementing a clinical pathway of care for people with musculoskeletal condition 💪

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Presenters in front of slide

Next up: Tiffany Tsoukalas presenting on co-design of an AI-powered avatar intervention to bridge hospital and home in cancer surgery recovery 🏥

Presenters in front of slide

🗣️Live from the ‘Co-design in Digital Health’ stream!

Georgette Borel & Tariq Isaacs presenting on educational resources for smoking & vaping in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people 🚬
@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Dr Naseem Ahmadpour standing in front of her PowerPoint slide

Dr Naseem Ahmadpour in front of slide about our expectations of technologies beyond cure.

V interesting keynote by A/Prof Naseem Ahmadpour, who gave an overview of her work in design & virtual reality (VR) in healthcare.

Naseem calls out the tensions and patient expectations she noticed across her work & strategies to keep interventions person-centred📱

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Conference chairs standing in front of slide with names of organising committee

I’m part of the #DigitalHealthWeek2026 Organising Committee, so you’ll see me sharing some highlights on here, as well as chairing & judging some sessions in person.

Shoutout to the OC & our chairs Drs Julie Ayre & Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele
@julieayre.bsky.social
@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Conference organisers standing in front of a slide that reads “digital health week 2026”

Keen to kick off #DigitalHealthWeek2026 at University of Sydney today!

Looking forward to hearing from researchers, tech & health experts on “Digital Futures: Rethinking Health & Care”📱

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @sydneyfmh-emcr.bsky.social @sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au 🛟 🧪

Mens health influencers can be a load of bollocks - Medical Republic Growing concerns over testosterone and ‘manosphere’ influencers is prompting experts to speak out against misinformation.

“What that’s done is left a real vacuum, and obviously people have come to fill it, and that just happens to be influencers and people with commercial interests,” Senior research fellow from the @uqchsr.bsky.social Dr Piatkowski told The Medical Republic

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/mens-health-...