Dr Cameron Jones

Pleased to announce publication of my new paper on: Mould in Victorian rental disputes: analysis of VCAT litigation with comparative insights from Australian jurisdictions medcraveonline.com/JBMOA/JBMOA-14… #medcraveonline #JournalofBacteriology

Chris Bowen is doubling down. While the rest of the world is waking up to the net zero nonsense, Australia is dumping billions more into the "green" agenda in the latest budget. Meanwhile, everyday Aussies are being taxed more, and getting less. We need to stop funding fantasies and start looking after our own. Australians First!!!

Startups, small businesses and founders — please welcome your newest shareholder. They’ve invested nothing in your business, but have taken 47% of your upside.

This is how Labor’s budget works

The chart below shows the effective capital gains tax rate facing a business owner who invests $250,000 upfront, holds for 10 years, and then exits at different valuations. The result is striking: under Labor’s proposed CGT changes, Australian founders and investors would face an effective tax rate of up to 46% — roughly double the burden faced in most comparable markets, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. And this is not just a founder problem. The same logic applies across all small, medium and large businesses, and any asset, including listed equities, property, private equity, venture capital and crypto. If these changes proceed, Australia will become one of the least attractive places in the developed world to build, invest, take risk and realise gains. The one major asset still sitting outside this tax net is the owner-occupied home, which remains CGT-exempt. That creates a powerful distortion. If investment properties, businesses, shares, commercial property and other assets are hit with materially higher effective CGT rates, capital will rationally look for shelter in the family home. The likely result: less capital for startups and productive enterprise, lower productivity, more pressure on rents as investors retreat from housing, higher inflation and interest rates, weaker demand for risk assets, and even more money being recycled into owner-occupied property — the last great tax haven in Australia. In short: this is not just a profound increase in the tax burden, with zero consultation in the name of giving imprudent politicians more money to waste. It is a major repricing of risk-taking in Australia. It is not reform: it is highly regressive, as it seeks to punish entrepreneurial success, which is the key driver of long-term jobs, incomes, growth and prosperity. It does not boost productivity: it destroys it by actively discouraging innovation and business creation. It will not lower the cost of living: it will lift it by boosting rents and making us much more inefficient. It will not reduce interest rates: alongside rampant and reckless government spending and record migration, it will pressure the RBA to raise our mortgage repayments. What is perhaps most shocking is that only 12 months ago this government was elected on the basis promising to never make these changes...

Geologist Prof. Ian Plimer is spot on: Today’s science is hijacked by grants, funding, and groupthink. It rewards consensus followers, not those who dare to challenge it. 💯👇🏽

Your brain ages partially according to the country you live in. Not just your genetics. Not just your habits. Your environment. This Nature Medicine study analyzed nearly 19,000 people across 34 countries and found that cumulative exposure to pollution, instability, inequality, and poor infrastructure strongly predicts accelerated brain aging. Most people still think cognitive aging begins internally. It does not. The brain continuously models the environment surrounding it. Chronic unpredictability and physiological stress force the nervous system into long-term vigilance and adaptation. Over time, that becomes structural. The brain is not aging in isolation inside the skull. It is aging in negotiation with the conditions of daily life.

Food security and unexpected germs. Was good to discuss this on Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos. abc.net.au/listen/program… via @ABCaustralia

🚨 Breaking: MIT Researchers Used Generative AI to Design Brand-New Antibiotics That Kill Drug-Resistant Superbugs — And They Work in Completely Novel Ways. This isn’t tweaking existing drugs. AI explored millions of hypothetical molecules never seen before and discovered compounds that attack bacteria through fresh mechanisms, bypassing resistance. Here’s exactly what happened (backed by the MIT study): • Generative AI designed over 36 million possible new compounds by exploring vast, previously inaccessible chemical spaces. • Two approaches: one started with a promising antimicrobial fragment and built on it; the other let the AI freely generate molecules under basic chemical rules. • AI models screened everything computationally for activity against tough targets like drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea) and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). • Top candidates (e.g., NG1 and DN1) were synthesized and tested — they killed the bacteria effectively in lab dishes and in mouse models of infection. • Shocking part: these molecules work via novel mechanisms, primarily disrupting bacterial cell membranes (one targets a specific protein like LptA; others have broader effects). They’re structurally distinct from existing antibiotics, reducing cross-resistance risks. • This happened through the MIT Antibiotics-AI Project, led by James Collins and team. Published in Cell (2025). The wildest implication: Traditional antibiotic discovery is painfully slow and expensive — only a few dozen new ones approved in 45+ years, while resistance kills ~5 million people yearly. AI lets scientists “dream up” and evaluate theoretical molecules at massive scale, opening doors to entirely new classes of drugs. The team is now optimizing these candidates further (via Phare Bio) and applying the same platforms to other deadly pathogens like Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Why this feels like sci-fi becoming reality: • AI isn’t just assisting — it’s generating and prioritizing novel chemistry humans might never have tried. • This accelerates discovery dramatically while targeting the antimicrobial resistance crisis head-on.

most people have no idea what is coming - genome sequencing just crossed $100, down from $100M in 25 years - peptides just went from felony to federal policy - psychedelics just got a presidential executive order - epigenetic reprogramming just entered human trials for the first time in history - embryo editing is no longer a thought experiment: it is a clinical conversation every single thing bio/acc has been bullish about for 2 years is breaking out simultaneously honestly not a trend anymore this is an inflection point the next 6-12 months will be the most important period in the history of human biology bio/acc

An atopic child's elevated urine mycotoxins were traced back to his school environment. Indoor air quality isn't abstract—it shows up in biomarkers. Case study from Croatia. 🏫🧪 PMID: 41944406 Schools need air quality audits too. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41944406/

From $22M to $35M — California mould verdicts show that documented health impacts + documented landlord negligence = massive liability. helbocklaw.com/top-mold-lawsu…

Prediction markets don't just predict elections—they can shape them. New paper formalizes when market signals become self-fulfilling coordination devices vs. just noise. 🗳️📈 arxiv.org/abs/2604.24147

Detroit housing commission tenant says mould & roach complaints were ignored until reporters got involved. When ‘just file a work order’ means years of waiting, public housing maintenance is a public health failure. 🦠 clickondetroit.com/news/local/202…

How do AI 'judges' compare to human ones? It's complicated, says a @UChicago scholar. In annual Ryerson Lecture, legal scholar #EricPosner examines AI's growing role in legal decision-making—and why human judgment still matters news.uchicago.edu/story/how-do-a…

Systematic review of 106 indoor microbiome studies reveals a field rich in data but poor in standardization. Time for unified protocols for indoor air quality microbiome and mycobiome assessment. …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministry of Truth erased history to enslave the present. Orwell nailed it: "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth… The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” Well, welcome to 2026 Australia — where taxpayer-funded ideological thugs at the University of Sydney are running their own Ministry of Truth operation. These gutless censors are ransacking the historic journals of our pioneers and explorers, redacting and purging pages just like fascist book-burners of the past. Multiple pages of Edward John Eyre’s Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia (1845) have been deliberately mutilated — censored, hidden, and stolen from the Australian people in a despicable act of historical vandalism and cultural betrayal. Who the hell do these unelected, taxpayer-leeching bureaucrats think they are? They have zero right to touch, redact, or sanitise our primary historical records just to appease their deranged woke ideology. None. Their sacred duty is to preserve Australia’s history — not to vandalise it, or censor it to fit their poisonous prejudices. They are traitors to truth, enemies of memory, and contemptible frauds abusing public money to erase the very foundations of this nation. So where is the Education Minister Jason Clare? He should be kicking down doors at the University, demanding an immediate end to this censorship, and the full unredacted publication of every purged page, and the public sacking of those responsible. But no — he’s too busy being a pathetic puppet of the leftist woke cult to utter a single word of protest, so he’ll he hiding under his desk And Julian Leeser, Liberal Shadow Minister for Education? @JulianLeeser Come on Julian, you know this totally wrong. If you won’t roar with outrage at this blatant assault on historical truth, then you’re utterly useless. Silence in the face of such Orwellian desecration makes you complicit in the crime. Or will it, once again, be left to One Nation and the Libertarians — the only ones with the balls to call out this disgusting, dangerous, anti-Australian censorship? This madness must be crushed. Immediately. No compromise. No more excuses.

Australian tenants: mould making you sick? You may be eligible for compensation if impairment exceeds 5%. Document everything, get legal advice. share.google/jArEMR6gp7Ur2K…

Cognition—the ability to sense, interpret, and respond adaptively to the environment—is something that all living creatures do to some extent.

Not all mycotoxin damage is straightforward. Zearalenone-14-glucoside's ability to self-assemble into gels adds a dangerous new dimension to food safety. For example: Work done to detect mycotoxins in rice bran in Southeast Asia showed that Z14G was present in 60% of the samples. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

CRISPR came from bacteria. Scientists have always suspected there were hundreds more tools like it still hidden in the microbial world. MIT's new AI just found over 600 of them — in E. coli alone — in minutes. Here's what happened and why it matters. 🧵 singularityhub.com/2026/04/07/mit…