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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 7d

If you have any ideas, concerns, words of caution, please reach out - we’re always ears. We'd love to hear from you!

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 7d

Honoured to be working as co Editor in Chief of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry!

We have such a wonderful history to build from but, no doubt, it’s a difficult and transitional time for academic publishing. Helping steward JBI, alongside Chris and Bronwen, will be an exciting new challenge!

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Introducing new JBI editors-in-chief (content) Chris Mayes and Diego Silva.

They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.

Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!

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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Introducing new JBI editors-in-chief (content) Chris Mayes and Diego Silva.

They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.

Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 9d

Future Liberal leader or party disruptor? Andrew Hastie and the rise of the ‘Maga right’

WA MP offers a divisive brand of politics that shuns net zero and migration and is anchored in flag-waving patriotism, faith and family

www.theguardian.com

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 11d

Dude, just do 30 rep sets of your favourite lifts with 30 second rest. 😉😅

Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 12d

We show how justice, equity, solidarity, and freedom/autonomy - understood as key or foundational values or principles - can help inform our models and how we communicate our data with decision-makers and the general public.

Check it out!

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 12d

What are the ethical parameters of modelling infectious diseases, particularly during an outbreak or pandemic? Sara Del Valle, Michael Plank, & I answer this question in our new paper looking at the ethics of disease modelling for public health policy, particularly as it pertains to school closures.

Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures | Interface Focus

Mathematical models of infectious diseases are frequently used as a tool to support public health policy and decisions around the implementation of interventions such as school closures. However, most...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 12d

Nothing feels like being home like watching Baroness Von Sketch Show!

❤️😆

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17d

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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CNUY @cnoticiasuy.bsky.social · 24d

La Diaria(14-09-2025 10:36): Historia: Julia Paternain, la primera uruguaya en ganar una medalla en un Mundial de atletismo https://ladiaria.com.uy/deporte/articulo/2025/9/historia-julia-paternain-la-primera-uruguaya-en-ganar-una-medalla-en-un-mundial-de-atletismo/

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 24d

So cool to watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce run what will - likely - be her last 100m race at the #WorldAthletics Championship. What an amazing career! Absolute beast 💪 What a legend!

Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 25d

Will be curious how we‘ll speak of this at the upcoming Union meeting in November. (Assuming people attend which will be difficult with funds drying up)

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