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Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI: Key Information, published by Aryeh Englander on May 19, 2024 on LessWrong. I thought that the recently released International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI seemed like a pretty good summary of the state of the field on AI risks, in addition to being about as close to a statement of expert consensus as we're likely to get at this point. I noticed that each section of the report has a useful "Key Information" bit with a bunch of bullet points summarizing that section. So for my own use as well as perhaps the use of others, and because I like bullet-point summaries, I've copy-pasted all the "Key Information" lists here. 1 Introduction [Bullet points taken from the "About this report" part of the Executive Summary] This is the interim publication of the first 'International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI'. A diverse group of 75 artificial intelligence (AI) experts contributed to this report, including an international Expert Advisory Panel nominated by 30 countries, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations (UN). Led by the Chair of this report, the independent experts writing this report collectively had full discretion over its content. At a time of unprecedented progress in AI development, this first publication restricts its focus to a type of AI that has advanced particularly rapidly in recent years: General-purpose AI, or AI that can perform a wide variety of tasks. Amid rapid advancements, research on general-purpose AI is currently in a time of scientific discovery and is not yet settled science. People around the world will only be able to enjoy general-purpose AI's many potential benefits safely if its risks are appropriately managed. This report focuses on identifying these risks and evaluating technical methods for assessing and mitigating them. It does not aim to comprehensively assess all possible societal impacts of general-purpose AI, including its many potential benefits. For the first time in history, this interim report brought together experts nominated by 30 countries, the EU, and the UN, and other world-leading experts, to provide a shared scientific, evidence-based foundation for discussions and decisions about general-purpose AI safety. We continue to disagree on several questions, minor and major, around general-purpose AI capabilities, risks, and risk mitigations. But we consider this project essential for improving our collective understanding of this technology and its potential risks, and for moving closer towards consensus and effective risk mitigation to ensure people can experience the potential benefits of general-purpose AI safely. The stakes are high. We look forward to continuing this effort. 2 Capabilities 2.1 How does General-Purpose AI gain its capabilities? General-purpose AI models and systems can produce text, images, video, labels for unlabelled data, and initiate actions. The lifecycle of general-purpose AI models and systems typically involves computationally intensive 'pre-training', labour-intensive 'fine-tuning', and continual post-deployment monitoring and updates. There are various types of general-purpose AI. Examples of general-purpose AI models include: Chatbot-style language models, such as GPT-4, Gemini-1.5, Claude-3, Qwen1.5, Llama-3, and Mistral Large. Image generators, such as DALLE-3, Midjourney-5, and Stable Diffusion-3. Video generators such as SORA. Robotics and navigation systems, such as PaLM-E. Predictors of various structures in molecular biology such as AlphaFold 3. 2.2 What current general-purpose AI systems are capable of General-purpose AI capabilities are difficult to estimate reliably but most experts agree that current general-purpose AI capabilities include: Assisting programmers and writing short ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI: Key Information, published by Aryeh Englander on May 19, 2024 on LessWrong. I thought that the recently released International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI seemed like a pretty good summary of the state of the field on AI risks, in addition to being about as close to a statement of expert consensus as we're likely to get at this point. I noticed that each section of the report has a useful "Key Information" bit with a bunch of bullet points summarizing that section. So for my own use as well as perhaps the use of others, and because I like bullet-point summaries, I've copy-pasted all the "Key Information" lists here. 1 Introduction [Bullet points taken from the "About this report" part of the Executive Summary] This is the interim publication of the first 'International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI'. A diverse group of 75 artificial intelligence (AI) experts contributed to this report, including an international Expert Advisory Panel nominated by 30 countries, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations (UN). Led by the Chair of this report, the independent experts writing this report collectively had full discretion over its content. At a time of unprecedented progress in AI development, this first publication restricts its focus to a type of AI that has advanced particularly rapidly in recent years: General-purpose AI, or AI that can perform a wide variety of tasks. Amid rapid advancements, research on general-purpose AI is currently in a time of scientific discovery and is not yet settled science. People around the world will only be able to enjoy general-purpose AI's many potential benefits safely if its risks are appropriately managed. This report focuses on identifying these risks and evaluating technical methods for assessing and mitigating them. It does not aim to comprehensively assess all possible societal impacts of general-purpose AI, including its many potential benefits. For the first time in history, this interim report brought together experts nominated by 30 countries, the EU, and the UN, and other world-leading experts, to provide a shared scientific, evidence-based foundation for discussions and decisions about general-purpose AI safety. We continue to disagree on several questions, minor and major, around general-purpose AI capabilities, risks, and risk mitigations. But we consider this project essential for improving our collective understanding of this technology and its potential risks, and for moving closer towards consensus and effective risk mitigation to ensure people can experience the potential benefits of general-purpose AI safely. The stakes are high. We look forward to continuing this effort. 2 Capabilities 2.1 How does General-Purpose AI gain its capabilities? General-purpose AI models and systems can produce text, images, video, labels for unlabelled data, and initiate actions. The lifecycle of general-purpose AI models and systems typically involves computationally intensive 'pre-training', labour-intensive 'fine-tuning', and continual post-deployment monitoring and updates. There are various types of general-purpose AI. Examples of general-purpose AI models include: Chatbot-style language models, such as GPT-4, Gemini-1.5, Claude-3, Qwen1.5, Llama-3, and Mistral Large. Image generators, such as DALLE-3, Midjourney-5, and Stable Diffusion-3. Video generators such as SORA. Robotics and navigation systems, such as PaLM-E. Predictors of various structures in molecular biology such as AlphaFold 3. 2.2 What current general-purpose AI systems are capable of General-purpose AI capabilities are difficult to estimate reliably but most experts agree that current general-purpose AI capabilities include: Assisting programmers and writing short ...

Tracey Johnson is the CEO of Inala Primary Care, a charitable general practice in Queensland's most disadvantaged suburban location and co-founder of Cubiko, a practice dashboard software solution.   The IPC model was named as one of four which should be adopted nationally under the 10 Year Health Reform Process and embraces multi-disciplinary care, social prescribing, shared medical appointments, beacon clinics with hospital partners and a raft of research with universities exploring how practices provide value based care.  She is Deputy Chair of the Primary Care Advisory Group of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and she is on the Expert Advisory Panel overseeing the review of general practice incentives. Interview starts at 5:20 mins ... Interested in studying lifestyle medicine, health coaching and models of care in health and wellbeing?  Check out the JCU postgraduate courses: Grad Cert, Grad Diploma, and Master.  For more information on our new 3 week online microcredential in Lifestyle Medicine and Mental Health: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/lifestyle-medicine-for-mental-health-services. This course is designed to support the innovation of whole of person mental health care in primary, tertiary and community settings. We cover the evidence for lifestyle and social assessment and interventions in mental health, health coaching and behaviour change, medication optimisation to reduce side effects and how to implement lifestyle and social programs in mental health settings. If you find this podcast valuable then subscribing, sharing, rating it 5 stars and leaving a review is appreciated. If you would like to send in your thoughts, insights, opinions, provide feedback or request a topic, please contact me via thegpshow.com  Thank you for listening and your support.

The interplay between corporate and clinical governance is a challenging one, which has both separate and overlapping principles. Governing bodies of aged care providers must understand how both clinical and corporate governance work and the impact that these principles have on the quality of care that is provided to consumers. This podcast will explore what the interplay of clinical and corporate governance looks like and how governing body members and executives can navigate that interplay in the board room to achieve the best possible outcomes for consumers. This episode will discuss the importance that governance frameworks have on the ability of an organisation and its staff to deliver quality care and will set out some tools that leaders can use to understand, lead and drive quality care in aged care. This episode features Dr Cathy Balding . Cathy works with acute, community and aged care boards, executives and leaders to ‘make quality make sense'; specialising in ‘strategic clinical governance systems with purpose' that focus on achieving a high quality point of care and service experience.  After a career as a quality manager, health service executive, accreditation assessor and quality policymaker, Cathy decided it was time to focus on what it really takes for leaders and managers to shape quality and clinical governance systems for consistently good care. She is now the author of three books on this topic, has developed state-wide clinical governance frameworks and conducted published research into characteristics of effective quality and clinical governance systems.  She is a current RSL LifeCare NSW Board Director, chairing the Board Quality, Safety and People Committee, and sits on the Alfred Health Board Quality Committee as an external expert. Cathy is a member of two Commonwealth aged care committees: the ‘Sector Quality Reference Group' and the ‘Expert Advisory Panel for a new aged care regulatory framework.' To learn more or to sign up for the Governing for Reform in Aged care program visit: https://gfr.agedcarequality.gov.au If you are interested in further reading about Dr Balding's work you can read download her paper on clinical governance: https://www.aicg.edu.au/download-aged-care-paper/ You can also access further resources about quality systems here: https://www.cathybalding.com/quality-tools

With Corinne Ofstie. Content note: this episode addresses femicide. “December 6, 1989 was a terrible moment that became a transformative movement,” writes Canadian Women's Foundation President and CEO Paulette Senior in The Toronto Star. “Every year on December 6, we need to revive the momentum anew. Advocates made sure that the 1989 massacre led to stricter firearm laws and new anti-violence efforts. We need the same energy in 2022 to end abuse in sports and male-dominated sectors, build safety for Indigenous women, Black and racialized women, women with disabilities, and others at elevated risk, and reverse rising rates of femicide, family violence, and sexual assault we've seen in Canada over the last few years. There is never a year when Dec. 6 should not rejuvenate our movement.” We still have much to do to end this preventable violence. Many of us are mindful of and mourning the recent Winnipeg police announcement of charges laid against a man for the murder of four Indigenous women, a man linked to white supremacist ideology. Many of us are mindful of and mourning these rising rates of gender-based violence, the impact of which will reverberate for years. Corinne Ofstie (she/her), Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services (AASAS), addresses the issue of femicide today. Amongst her other work, Corinne is a member of the Rebuilding Lives Committee for the Canadian Women's Foundation and an Expert Advisory Panel member of Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability. Corinne is a registered social worker with expertise working as a cross-sector coordinator within community, system and government organizations in both the sexual and domestic violence services sectors. In her role with AASAS, Corinne works to achieve the goals and objectives of numerous special projects including the Healthier and Safer Alberta Workplaces project which includes an anti-workplace sexual harassment awareness campaign and training. Among her many achievements, Corinne co-chaired the provincial Collaborative Justice Response to Sexual Violence Committee and was a member of the Gender Equality Network of Canada from 2017 to 2020. In 2018, Corinne was awarded Avenue Magazine's #Top40Under40. Relevant links: Be a Signal for Help Responder Please listen, subscribe, rate, and review this podcast and share it with others. If you appreciate this content, if you want to get in on the efforts to build a gender equal Canada, please donate at canadianwomen.org and consider becoming a monthly donor. Facebook: Canadian Women's Foundation Twitter: @cdnwomenfdn LinkedIn: The Canadian Women's Foundation Instagram: @canadianwomensfoundation

Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about psychedelics and mortality. They discuss the current state of psychedelic research, the timeline for FDA approvals, the risks to mental health posed by psychedelics in vulnerable populations, the use of psychedelics among the well, the relationship between psychedelics and meditation, advice for “bad” trips, microdosing, Roland’s stage-4 cancer diagnosis, reflections on death, and other topics. Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He is author of 420 journal articles and book chapters, and has trained more than 50 postdoctoral research fellows. Roland has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs, and as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. Roland has a long-term meditation practice and has been conducting human research with psychedelics for more than 20 years. Website: Griffithsfund.org, Endowment Funding Letter, hopkinspsychedelic.org Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

In this episode of Done By Law we feature audio from the wonderful seminar ‘Women's Lived Experience in Decarceration and Carceral Resistance', held on Monday 24 October 2022 at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.This evening of discussion, reflections and solutions was hosted by Fitzroy Legal Service and featured the insightful contributions of a number of expert panellists, including practitioners, and women with lived experience of incarceration and the criminal justice system. Panel 1 – Systemic changes required to address women's over-incarcerationElena Campbell (Moderator) – Centre for Innovative JusticeKaren Fletcher – Flat OutLisa Abbott – TaskForceElena Pappas – LACWMegan Pearce – VLAPanel 2 – Women's Lived ExperienceNina Storey (Moderator) – Homes Not Prisons, Women Transforming JusticeJacqui Bampton – Women Transforming JusticeSara Stilianos – Homes Not Prisons, Women Transforming JusticeJasmine Barzani – Homes Not PrisonsWe have unfortunately only been able to feature 30 minutes of this jam packed two and a half hour evening. To watch the whole event, head to YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_TlMR3tTo&ab_channel=FitzroyLegalService  ***Full biographies Panel 1: Elena Pappas LACWElena is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women, and community legal centre established specifically to combat women's increasing criminalisation and imprisonment. She also sits on the Board as an Executive Director.  Elena is a passionate advocate and leader who is dedicated to working collaboratively with organisation and individuals to address the causes of women's criminalisation.  She currently leads LACW's policy and systemic advocacy work, and is Co-Convenor of Smart Justice for Women, a sub-committee of the broader Smart Justice coalition convened by the Federation of Community Legal Centres.  Elena previously worked at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service where she held the position of Senior Lawyer in the Criminal Law team. She advised and appeared on behalf of clients in complex criminal matters and shared responsibility for the mentoring and management of junior and support staff. Prior to this, Elena was an Associate in the Workplace Relations team of a private law firm in Melbourne. She holds a Master of Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne. She has worked as a volunteer with the Mental Health Legal Centre, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Fitzroy Legal Service.Lisa AbbottTaskforceLisa Abbott is the Executive Manager Social Impact and Growth at TaskForce Community Agency, a not-for profit operating in Victoria delivering a suite of services to our most marginalised. Lisa has worked with those in contact with the justice system for 20 years in Government and community and over the last five years has been leading the development and delivery of the Living Free Project, a project supporting vulnerable girls and women who are at risk of, or are in early contact with, the justice system. The project drives cross sectoral collaboration and seeks to improve service system responses to enhance how our health and community sectors support women who often fall through service gaps.Karen FletcherFlat OutKaren Fletcher is the Executive Officer of Flat Out Inc, a community organisation that supports and advocates for women and trans and gender diverse people to get out and stay out of prison. She is a lawyer by trade has worked as a prison advocacy lawyer at Fitzroy Legal Service and Prisoners Legal Service QLD and as a public health lawyer, with a special interest in drug decriminalisation, in government and non-government agencies. She is an activist in the Homes not Prisons campaign in Victoria.Megan PearceVLAMegan has spent much of her career working alongside criminalised people, particularly women and children. Having started her career as a criminal defence lawyer at Legal Aid Queensland, Megan has also led major law reform inquiries into Victoria's criminal trial process and child protection system.Between 2018 and 2022, Megan worked at Darebin Community Legal Centre (which merged with Fitzroy Legal Service in 2019), first managing the Women Transforming Justice project and then Fitzroy Legal Service's Social Action and Public Interest Law team. In both these roles Megan contributed to program design and advocacy work aimed at disrupting the cycle of women's criminalisation. In July 2022 Megan commenced a role at Victoria Legal Aid focusing on discrimination and equality law.In 2013-14, Megan also completed a master of laws at the University of Toronto, where her thesis critiqued the effectiveness of human rights frameworks to respond to violence against womenElena CampbellCIJAssociate Director of Research, Advocacy & Policy, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University. Elena is a lawyer, writer and former political staffer who has worked in legal and social policy for over two decades. Elena's expertise includes therapeutic justice, court interventions, the impacts of crime victimisation and the prevention and elimination of violence against women and children.  At the CIJ, Elena oversees a program of research which predominantly focuses on family violence, court interventions, crime victimisation and the way in which experiences of trauma - including structural and systemic trauma - can push vulnerable cohorts, particularly women, into contact with the criminal justice system. Elena has led projects for Government departments and courts to support the implementation of recommendations from Victoria's Royal Commission into Family Violence. Elena has also been Principal Chief Investigator in multiple, ANROWS-funded projects looking at the use of violence by young people and adults.  Previously Elena worked as a legal adviser and staffer in the Victorian Government for over a decade. Elena has also been employed as a consultant for a range of social policy and justice organisations, including the Australian Human Rights Commission.  Panel 2: Nina StoreyHNP and WTJNina is an unapologetic criminalized survivor. Having experienced state sanctioned violence she now spends her time advocating for the rights of criminalized survivors. Nina would love to see the abolishment of the prison industrial complex in her lifetime.  Her systemic advocacy commenced in 2018 as a member of the Women's Transforming Justice Project. Nina now sits on the council of Victim Survivors Advisory Council, is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel at Safe and Equal, a WEAVER for research group at Melbourne University and sits on the steering committee of the Homes Not Prisons Campaign. Nina stands in solidarity with the traditional owners of these lands and acknowledges they have the solutions to living in a world of unity, we must make space and elevate their voices for their stories to be told and shared.      Nina lives works and plays in Millowl, Phillip island on the lands of the Bunurong people of the Kulin nations, with her son and Kelpie.   Jacqui BamptonWTJ Jacqui is a formally incarcerated woman who has worked with Fitzroy Legal Service as part of the Women's Leadership Group. She lives with anxiety and mental health concerns, and has previously struggled with substance dependency and homelessness. Jacqui is deeply passionate about working alongside other criminalised people, with a particular interest in supporting women to navigate child protection. Jacqui is a warm advocate, loyal friend and proud single mum.   Sara-Michelle StilianosSara is an active member of several community groups and organisations aimed at ending incarceration – including as a Homes Not Prisons steering committee member and – previously – as part of Fitzroy Legal Service's Women Transforming Justice project. Sara has lived experienced of criminalisation and incarceration. She's driven toward social change and is a fierce advocate for abolishing the carceral system and it's supporting structures, which only serve to perpetuate further harm and violence by exerting power and control over people's lives. Alongside studying a Bachelor Degree in Social Science, Sara stands in solidarity with all oppressed women and continues to fight for the rights of women and children. 

Dr Emma Katz, a leading expert in coercive control and its impact on children is interviewed by FiLiA Trustee Sally Jackson.A must for anyone working in the field or who cares about someone it has affected, Emma describes what coercive control is like for Mothers and their children and importantly how the Mother/child relationship affects its impact and their recovery. Dr Emma Katz is Senior Lecturer in Childhood & Youth at Liverpool Hope University and is the author of the much-anticipated monograph Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers' Lives (Oxford University Press, June 2022). She was a member of the Expert Advisory Panel for the HARM Network/Research England's Domestic Abuse Policy Guidance for UK Universities (2021 Her publications are internationally acclaimed, winning awards including the Wiley Prize for best paper published in Child Abuse Review 2015–18, and the Corinna Seith Prize judged by Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE). Coercive Control in Children's and Mothers' Lives is available to purchase from the FiLiA Book Shop.

In the latest Investing for Life episode, host Douglas Isles interviews Elayne Grace, CEO of the Actuaries Institute Australia.With 25 years’ international experience with leading consulting firms and major insurers, Elayne has provided strategic, economic and financial advice across a range of issues. She understands the importance of – and is passionate about – building a strong, outward-looking profession that is in high demand now and in the future. Elayne’s views are respected and sought after, having contributed to a range of industry climate change papers, Geneva Papers, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, UNEP Finance CEO briefing papers and actuarial conference papers. She was a member of the Expert Advisory Panel to the Indigenous Land Corporation and participated in the Commonwealth Study Conference and Chief Executive Women’s Leadership Program. In 2019, Elayne was named in the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence in the public policy category. Listen to this conversation to:- hear Elayne’s origin story and reflections on growing up in Ireland;- learn more about the challenges she has faced throughout her career and how she navigated each setback;- be inspired by her journey re-entering the workforce between and after children, and her advice for both men and women looking to walk that path;- hear how she led her people through the pandemic and her thoughts around the future of work.Delivered with joyful enthusiasm, Elaine’s Investing for Life story is both entertaining and thought-provoking. Her experience is a poignant reminder that standing out from the crowd can – and should be – a deliberate choice that reaps returns in the long run. Follow Elayne on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elayne-grace-56455548/. Investing for Life is hosted by Douglas Isles, Platinum Asset Management.Disclaimer: Issued by Platinum Investment Management Limited ABN 25 063 565 006, AFSL 221935. This information is general in nature and does not take into account your specific needs or circumstances. You should consider your own financial position, objectives and requirements and seek professional financial advice before making any financial decisions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapter 1: Four members of a London, Ont., family who were struck and killed by a vehicle in the city's northwest Sunday evening are believed to have been targeted because they were Muslim, the area's police chief says. Guest: Andrew Graham, Reporter for CFPL London Chapter 2: A vigil is scheduled for tonight at the mosque of five family members who police say were intentionally struck down by a driver in London, Ont.  What does this attack say about the racism that persists in Canada? Guest: Amira Elghawaby, Founding Board Member of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Chapter 3: Based on a new report by the Expert Advisory Panel to the federal Government on COVID-19 Testing and Screening, the Tourism Industry Association of Canada is announcing the launch of a new campaign to open the Canada-U.S. border that has been closed for nearly 15 months.  Guest: Beth Potter, President and CEO, Tourism Industry Association of Canada. Chapter 4: At least it got classified as “good news” on Jeopardy last night. Our housing, affordability and homelessness issues are top of mind for us in the province - but also, clearly, make headlines elsewhere, too. Even on U.S. game shows. Guest:  David Eby, Attorney General and BC Minister of Housing. Chapter 5: Following the discovery of the remains of 215 children in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School last week, the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Manitoba is resuming its investigation to identify children buried in unmarked graves at the Brandon Indian Residential School. Guest: Eldon Yellowhorn, professor of First Nations Studies and archeology at Simon Fraser University Chapter 6: Is this year's graduating class getting the short end of the stick? With restrictions continuing to be lifted, is there a way the graduates of the 2021 class can celebrate safely? Guest: Tina Barkley Chapter 7: For children who do not get enough to eat at home the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely detrimental. Guest: Marc Schutzbank, School Food Task Force. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Irfan Dhalla is a public health expert, he's been a voice of reason throughout the pandemic, and he joins Nate to discuss vaccine roll-out strategy, whether and how we should begin to allow cross-border travel, and lessons learned to prevent and prepare for a future pandemic.If you don't already follow Dr. Dhalla on Twitter, you should. He's also the vice-president and general internist at Unity Health Toronto, associate professor at U of T's medical school, and currently the co-chair of Canada's Expert Advisory Panel on Testing and Screening.That panel has issued four reports to date, and its most recent report makes recommendations for changes to our border management practices, including allowing quarantine-free travel for those with proof of immunity. Just as we followed public health guidance to impose restrictions, we must now follow public health guidance to lift them. Dr. Dhalla is a regular commentator in the media, writing recently to call for a faster second dose strategy, and having previously written in support of an elimination strategy which has proven to be the successful approach when we compare outcomes across national and subnational jurisdictions.

We know that domestic and family violence is serious problem in Australia as everyday new and shocking statistics make the headlines, but what we hear less about are the many good people who work tirelessly to help victims escape, survive and thrive. The Quicky speaks to three domestic and family violence frontline workers to find out exactly what it's like to work face-to-face with survivors and their families, and what you can do to support them.  Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Guests: Betty Taylor - Managing Director of the Red Rose Foundation, and sits on the Expert Advisory Panel of the Australian Institute for Strangulation Protection Ian Ugarte - Founder of the Australian Housing Initiative, qualified tradie, educator, full-time property investor, advisor and housing affordability advocate Nicolle Edwards - Founder and Director of RizeUp, a charity that provides practical support to families fleeing domestic violence This episode deals with family and domestic violence, and suicide. If you need help please call 1800 RESPECT. CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Daniel B. Bornstein is the Founding Director of the Center for Performance, Readiness, Resiliency, and Recovery (CPR3) and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Dan's Ph.D. and current research agenda is on effective strategies for increasing population-levels of physical activity in order to improve fitness, health and national security. Dan has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and presents regularly at national and international scientific conferences. Dan's research has been featured in over 130 media outlets worldwide, including USA Today, Newsweek, Stars and Stripes, and National Public Radio. Based on his research, Dan has provided numerous briefings to senior military personnel and lawmakers, including briefings at The Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. In addition to his research, Dan has held national leadership positions including: Project Coordinator for the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan from 2009-2014, Chair of the American Public Health Association's Physical Activity Section from 2015-2016, and is currently Chairing the Expert Advisory Panel to develop a Military Sector for the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan. With a few drinks in him, Dan will tell you he was a great sport and tactical athlete, but don't believe him. However, he did play soccer and lacrosse competitively, was a champion bodybuilder, and spent 8 years in the fire service. Dan is married to the love of his life, Meghan. Together they have two children Mia (12) and Jake (11). In this episode Dan talks about: His move from practitioner to academia. The development of the Centre for Performance, Readiness, Resiliency and Recovery (CPR3). His current research projects. The academic programmes in tactical performance and resiliency offered by The Citadel. Resources discussed in this episode: Muscle and Motion app Headspace app You can reach out to Dan via Linkedin or through his personal email at dbornstei@citadel.edu If you want to find out more about the Centre for Performance, Readiness, Resiliency and Recovery (CPR3) at https://www.citadel.edu/root/cpr3 Keep up to date with Monarch Human Performance via our website, Facebook and Instagram pages.

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Humanities and Policy Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The World After COVID: In conversation with Professor Peter Frankopan (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research) and Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean of Blavatnik School of Government). Biographies: Professor Peter Frankopan Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Peter works on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia, Central and Southern Asia, and on relations between Christianity and Islam. He is particularly interested in exchanges and connections between regions and peoples. Peter specialises in the history of the Byzantine Empire in the 11th Century, and in the history of Asia Minor, Russia and the Balkans. Peter works on medieval Greek literature and rhetoric, and on diplomatic and cultrual exchange between Constantinople and the islamic world, western Europe and the principalities of southern Russia. Professor Ngaire Woods Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. She founded the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University, and co-founded (with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She led the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government. Ngaire Woods serves as a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s International Advisory Panel, and on the Boards of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto (effective September 2020). She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Global Development, the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Cape Town University. She is Chair of the Harvard University Visiting Committee on International Engagement and sits on the Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Committee. She is a member of the UK Government National Leadership Centre's Expert Advisory Panel, and of the Department for International Trade’s Trade and Economy Panel. She is an honorary governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director on the Arup Global Group Board and on the Board of the Center for International Governance Innovation. From 2016-2018, she was Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Values, Technology and Governance.She has also served as a member of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group, and as an Advisor to the IMF Board, to the Government of Oman’s Vision 2040, to the African Development Bank, to the UNDP’s Human Development Report, and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government. Ngaire Woods has published extensively on international institutions, the global economy, globalization, and governance, including the following books: The Politics of Global Regulation (with Walter Mattli, Oxford University Press, 2009), Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Oxford University Press, 2009), The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006), Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program (with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007), and Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007). She has previously published The Political Economy of Globalization (Macmillan, 2000), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (with Andrew Hurrell: Oxford University Press, 1999), Explaining International Relations since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1986). She has published numerous articles on international institutions, globalization, and governance. She has also presented numerous documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and BBC TV2. She was educated at Auckland University (BA in economics, LLB Hons in law). She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an MPhil (with Distinction) and then DPhil (in 1992) in International Relations. She won a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford (1990-1992) and subsequently taught at Harvard University (Government Department) before taking up her Fellowship at University College, Oxford and academic roles at Oxford University. Ngaire Woods was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year's Honours for services to Higher Education and Public Policy. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

HSRC Seminar: Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture - Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa: Lessons from Other Parts of the Continet 4 September 2020 

Online seminar Overview: The Mafeje Memorial Lecture provides a platform to highlight Prof Mafeje's contribution to our understanding of the Agrarian question, discuss current debates on the land question and to learn from the experiences of other African countries.  In Africa most subsistence farmers in communal areas have been facing challenges relating to infertile arable land thereby predisposing themselves to food insecurity and poverty.  Land restitution exercises, such as the Fast Track Land Reform Programme undertaken in Zimbabwe, has led to the distribution of land to previously marginalised black majority, however, the exercise also resulted in a plethora of socio-economic and political problems. Land tenure rights for women have been an issue since the colonial themes. Women still own less land, whether solely or jointly, than men. It is important to have a narrattive that addresses the plight of women in South Africa and other African countries emanating from this Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture. PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Thokozani Simelane, Research Director, AISA-HSRC 

 WELCOME REMARKS 
Prof Jimi Adesina, DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy, College of Graduate Studies, UNISA   
 Dr Godwin Murunga, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA 
 INPUTS FROM THE MAFEJE FAMILY
 Ms Dana Mafeje, Daughter of Prof Mafeje     
Mr Sandile Swana, Family Representative 

 PANEL 1: 
ARCHIE MAFEJE'S SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS 
 Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza, National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa AC Jordan Chair in African Studies at the University of Cape Town   
Archie Mafeje: the making of an engaged scholar and insights of his work for current debates on land reform    
Dr Bongani Nyoka, Research Fellow, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education/Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg   The lifetime and work of Archie Mafeje 

KEY FINDINGS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY PANEL ON LAND REFORM AND AGRICULTURE 
 Dr Vuyo Mahlati, Chairperson of the Expert Advisory Panel on Land Reform and President of the African Farmers Association of South Africa PANEL 2: LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN AFRICA  Hon Dr Mathole Motshekga, MP (Chair: Ad hoc committee on the alignment of Sec 25 of the constitution) Parliament of the Republic of South Africa    
Constitutional options on land ownership in a democratic South Africa   
 Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi    
Key issues emerging from the land and agrarian question in South Africa, what is missing and constitutionally permissible    
Prof Patricia McFadden, African Feminist Activist and Scholar (Swaziland) 
Gendered Access to Land In Southern Africa 
 Advocate Rachel Shibalira   
Women's Land Rights in Africa: Progress and Stagnation  
 Dr Walter Chambati, Executive Director, Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe   
Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa  
Dr Blessing Masamha, Post Doctoral Fellow, AISA  
The intersection between Land Reform and Food Security      

CLOSING REMARKS Prof Cheryl Hendricks, Executive Head, Africa Institute of South Africa, HSRC For more information: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/events/events/memorial-lecture-archie-mafeje

Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. The CORE project has produced an open-access e-book for a first course in economics, which is being used at UCL, Sciences Po, Toulouse School of Economics, Humboldt University and many other universities around the world. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of transition. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK's Office for Budget Responsibility.

‘Working in isolation – what's been occupying Australia's Chief Scientist in 2020?' Dr Finkel will present an overview of his work so far in 2020 – supporting the government's response to COVID-19 including convening the Rapid Research Information Forum to provide rapid responses to questions arising from the pandemic; chairing the Expert Advisory Panel for the CSIRO Report on Climate and Disaster Resilience; and chairing the Technology Investment Roadmap Ministerial Reference Group. Chair of the Day, our Honorary Member, Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Tilman Ruff AO, public health and infectious diseases physician will introduce Australia's Chief Scientist.

Microbiologist, research scientist, and co-chair of the Cambridge City COVID–19 Expert Advisory Panel (and my sister!), Jill Crittenden, joins us to talk about what face masks can do for you and people around you, what masks work best, how to make your own, and how to use masks safely. She provides science-backed information about how the coronavirus is transmitted and the best safety measures for a community. She also discusses several initiatives to provide protective gear to cashiers and to frontline healthcare workers. A crucial episode.JILL WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE THIS INFORMATION BY RECOMMENDING THAT DIY MASK MAKERS USE THE SHOP TOWEL OPTION INSTEAD OF THE PAPER TOWEL OPTION. Both are mentioned in the podcast.An article about Jill and one of the initiatives:https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/04/02/mcgovern-scientist-helps-build-covid-19-resource-to-address-shortage-of-face-masks/A How-To Video for how to make a mask:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEVve-3QeM#Masks4All,%20and%20how%20to%20make%20your%20own%20maskAdditional information about public masks:https://www.n95decon.org/masks-for-public-useConnect with Jill on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-crittenden/Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow the host on Twitter:@DiscreetGuideThe host on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/

Microbiologist, research scientist, and co-chair of the Cambridge City COVID–19 Expert Advisory Panel (and my sister!), Jill Crittenden, joins us to talk about what face masks can do for you and people around you, what masks work best, how to make your own, and how to use masks safely. She provides science-backed information about how the coronavirus is transmitted and the best safety measures for a community. She also discusses several initiatives to provide protective gear to cashiers and to frontline healthcare workers. A crucial episode.JILL WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE THIS INFORMATION BY RECOMMENDING THAT DIY MASK MAKERS USE THE SHOP TOWEL OPTION INSTEAD OF THE PAPER TOWEL OPTION. Both are mentioned in the podcast.An article about Jill and one of the initiatives:https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/04/02/mcgovern-scientist-helps-build-covid-19-resource-to-address-shortage-of-face-masks/A How-To Video for how to make a mask:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEVve-3QeM#Masks4All,%20and%20how%20to%20make%20your%20own%20maskAdditional information about public masks:https://www.n95decon.org/masks-for-public-useConnect with Jill on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-crittenden/Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow the host on Twitter:@DiscreetGuideThe host on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/

Microbiologist, research scientist, and co-chair of the Cambridge City COVID–19 Expert Advisory Panel (and my sister!), Jill Crittenden, joins us to talk about what face masks can do for you and people around you, what masks work best, how to make your own, and how to use masks safely. She provides science-backed information about how the coronavirus is transmitted and the best safety measures for a community. She also discusses several initiatives to provide protective gear to cashiers and to frontline healthcare workers. A crucial episode. JILL WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE THIS INFORMATION BY RECOMMENDING THAT DIY MASK MAKERS USE THE SHOP TOWEL OPTION INSTEAD OF THE PAPER TOWEL OPTION. Both are mentioned in the podcast. An article about Jill and one of the initiatives: https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/04/02/mcgovern-scientist-helps-build-covid-19-resource-to-address-shortage-of-face-masks/ A How-To Video for how to make a mask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVEVve-3QeM#Masks4All,%20and%20how%20to%20make%20your%20own%20mask Additional information about public masks: https://www.n95decon.org/masks-for-public-use Connect with Jill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-crittenden/ Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at: https://www.discreetguide.com/ Follow the host on Twitter: @DiscreetGuide The host on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics. They discuss the historical prohibition against their use; the clinical and scientific promise of psilocybin, mescaline, LSD, DMT, MDMA, and other compounds; the risks associated with these drugs; the role of “set and setting”; the differences between psychedelics and drugs of abuse; MDMA and neurotoxicity; experiences of unity, sacredness, love, and truth; the long-term consequences of psychedelic experiences; synthetic vs natural drugs; the prospects of devising new psychedelics; microdosing; research on psilocybin and long-term meditators; the experience of encountering other apparent beings; psilocybin treatment of addiction; and other topics. In his Afterword, Sam discusses his experience on a large dose of psilocybin—his first psychedelic experience in 25 years. Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He is author of over 380 journal articles and book chapters, and has trained more than 50 postdoctoral research fellows. Roland has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs, and as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization.

Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, and Fellow of the European Economic Association. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of transition. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility. She has acted as a consultant for international organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, and the World Bank. She has co-authored with David Soskice three macroeconomics books. Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (1990),
Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) and
Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015). She is leading an international project – the CORE project – funded by INET on undergraduate economics curriculum reform. The CORE project has published The Economy, which is free on-line at www.core-econ.org. In 2016 Wendy was awarded the CBE for services to economics and public finance.  Check out www.economicrockstar.com/wendycarlin for all books, links and resources mentioned in this episode.  

In this episode, Stephen George talks to David Mabaziira from Okusoka, a consultancy working with sectors and organisations to co-create inclusive cultures. David is a passionate advocate for all areas of diversity and inclusion. David has over 22 years’ experience as a communications practitioner and is a member of the Institute of Fundraising’s Expert Advisory Panel on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The Culture Club started as a panel session at IFC in October 2018 and was followed up by a panel session at AFP Toronto 2018. The sessions looked at how organisations build and support amazing cultures, encouraging the personalities of individuals and the organisations to emerge and that allows people to connect and align with core values and messages. This series on the Good Leaders Podcast continues that exploration, looking at the barriers and opportunities in a great culture, how power can make or break a culture, the impacts on fundraising, how brand can help or hinder, on aspiration, the behaviours needed and how to build a place where the culture becomes the catalyst for great work and change. Culture Club on Good Leaders is brought to you by the amazing gang at Blakely. Blakely are an integrated Marketing & Fundraising agency from North America with a powerful personality that delivers great high value programmes, experiences and relationships, and builds bridges that brings together marketing, comms and fundraising to offer donors an inspiring experience that raises more money for your mission. To find out more about Blakely go to blakelyjourney.com To sign up to hear more from Stephen & Good Leaders go to https://stephengeorge.lpages.co/optin/ Or to find out more about Stephen and his work, view his blog and make contact, go to stephenwgeorge.com If you want to find out more about David,  you can follow him on twitter at @davidmbaziira or @okusokaCO or look for him at www.okusoka.co.uk Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review

Roland Griffiths and the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Project - Implications for Spirituality & Therapeutics Live from Psychedelic Science 2017 Roland Griffiths, Ph.D gives the definitive talk about the psilocybin project that's underway at Johns Hopkins. The implications for spirituality and therapeutics is presented from the early sets of data obtained from the study. The program at Johns Hopkins investigates the effects of the classic hallucinogen psilocybin that includes studies of psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experiences in healthy volunteers, psilocybin-facilitated treatment of psychological distress in cancer patients, psilocybin-facilitated treatment of cigarette smoking cessation, psilocybin effects in beginning and long-term meditators, and psilocybin effects in religious leaders.  Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs. His research has been largely supported by grants from the National Institute on Health and he is author of over 360 journal articles and book chapters. He has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, and to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs. He is also currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. He has conducted extensive research with sedative-hypnotics, caffeine, and novel mood-altering drugs.  

Dr. Aiken is director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and is The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Aiken is an authority on causes, consequences, and solutions for nurse shortages in the United States and around the world. Dr. Aiken leads the International Hospital Outcomes Consortium studying the impact of nursing on patient outcomes in 8 countries, and directed the Nursing Quality Improvement Program in Russia and Armenia demonstrating the successful application of twinning initiatives in nursing to improve hospital quality. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel guiding the World Alliance for Patient Safety. She is a leading expert on global nurse migration, its consequences, and solutions in developing and developed countries. Dr. Aiken is winner of the 2006 Baxter International Foundation’s William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, the 2006 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award from Research! America for Sustained National Leadership in Health Research, and the 2005AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award in Health Services Research. She won the 2003 Individual Earnest A. Codman Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for her leadership utilizing performance measures to demonstrate relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. Her research is frequently cited by the press, and she is winner of 3 American Academy of Nursing Media Awards. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and she is a former president of the American Academy of Nursing, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Aiken is director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and is The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Aiken is an authority on causes, consequences, and solutions for nurse shortages in the United States and around the world. Dr. Aiken leads the International Hospital Outcomes Consortium studying the impact of nursing on patient outcomes in 8 countries, and directed the Nursing Quality Improvement Program in Russia and Armenia demonstrating the successful application of twinning initiatives in nursing to improve hospital quality. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel guiding the World Alliance for Patient Safety. She is a leading expert on global nurse migration, its consequences, and solutions in developing and developed countries. Dr. Aiken is winner of the 2006 Baxter International Foundation’s William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, the 2006 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award from Research! America for Sustained National Leadership in Health Research, and the 2005AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award in Health Services Research. She won the 2003 Individual Earnest A. Codman Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for her leadership utilizing performance measures to demonstrate relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. Her research is frequently cited by the press, and she is winner of 3 American Academy of Nursing Media Awards. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and she is a former president of the American Academy of Nursing, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom.