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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · 2d

This is an amazing gift! ❤️

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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 2d

I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

www.ucl.ac.uk

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The Association of Lifetime Lawyers @lifetimelawyers.bsky.social · 22d

Don’t miss our live member-only webinar with Niamh Warnock of LawCare on mental health in the legal sector. Learn about key challenges, free support resources, and how to promote wellbeing at work. Book now: www.lifetimelawyers.org.uk/Public/Indus...

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · 6d

LawCare’s new Life in the Law 2025 report highlights the opportunity to build a legal sector that values its people and protects their mental health and wellbeing at work. This is fundamental to the profession’s ability to administer justice and uphold the rule of law

lawcare.org.uk/life-in-the-...

Forward to LawCare’s Life in the Law 2025 report, by Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · 10d

Found myself at a yōkai festival in Kyoto, Japan recently. A land with the most fascinating history and culture. Yōkai are believed to be supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. This one was just pretty damn cool.

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Sep 3

Looks interesting. Digitalisation of justice systems and its implications for the legal profession. Helpful livestream option.

www.ccbe.eu/actions/even...

CCBE-ELF event 2025 - CCBE

The CCBE and ELF are organising an event on Friday 3 October from 9.00 to 16.00 (CET), in the European Parliament, Brussels.

www.ccbe.eu

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UCL Centre for Ethics & Law @uclcel.bsky.social · Sep 1

We are delighted to share the recording of @stephenmayson.bsky.social UCL lunch hour lecture discussing lawyers and what it means (or should mean) to be acting in a client's best interests.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pa5...

#ProfessionalEthics
#LegalProfession
#BestInterests

@laws.ucl.ac.uk

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 27

Really astounded to learn there have been 308 of these cases so far. 140 involved lawyers and 33 referrals to Bars/regulators. 157 were litigants in person. I had no idea there were so many. The number increases almost daily.

AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

www.damiencharlotin.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Aug 24

It sounds naive, I'm sure, but looking back over the last 20-odd years of discussions about what is wrong with academia and how or how not to fix it, the idea that scholars produce knowledge (not just jobs, tech, or texts), and that that is an important social good, is largely and strikingly absent.

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 19

This is extraordinary. A litigants in person guide that is extremely comprehensive (205 pages). So much time must have gone into compiling this.

Here is my guide to reliable sources of legal information for litigants in person. | Sally McLaren

Here is my guide to reliable sources of legal information for litigants in person. You are welcome to share, link to or host as needed. Introduction to the guide: Navigating the legal system without...

www.linkedin.com

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 17

It just warms my heart to see EIGHT permanent lectureship opportunities like this. #Psychology postgrads👇

#AcademicSky #PhDChat

Lecturer in Psychology at City St George’s, University of London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Psychology on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 16

@openuniversity.bsky.social thank you for this new addition to your OpenLearn.

Lawyers, law academics, law students, anyone working in law 🌏…

I think we should all be making use of this, especially as it’s free and clearly a lot of collective effort has gone into it.

www.open.edu/openlearncre...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 16

'classic persuasion principles like authority, commitment, and unity can dramatically increase an AI’s likelihood to comply with requests they are designed to refuse...This emergence of “parahuman” tendencies suggests that social scientists have a valuable role to play in understanding AI behavior.'

Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 16

Fascinating research. Really like the presentation of it too.

gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests

gail.wharton.upenn.edu

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 16

Fascinating research. Really like the presentation of it too.

gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests

gail.wharton.upenn.edu

Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

This needs also to be here.

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

This is fabulous news! 👏

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

The sad irony is that maths and physics are more likely the subjects which AI will transform, whereas the arts, humanities, social sciences, and languages are deeply human - humans communicating with humans, the stuff we will crave for in greater amounts in decades to come. IMO.

Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

And it’s just really interesting to read.

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

Peer reviewing. When your data only partially support your hypotheses, please go into why you think that might be, in the discussion section. It really helps theory development and future research if you give some ideas about why your results don’t support what you expected.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Aug 15

Scientists consider sharing findings with study participants a “moral duty” but still do it inconsistently, according to new research
#academicsky #research

Study participants ‘rarely told’ about results of research

Review finds strong support for dissemination of results rarely followed through in practice

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

Also, a good reminder in the paper that psychosocial risk management is not just about managing negative impacts in the organisation. It’s also about managing the risks effectively to achieve positive outcomes, i.e. good mental health and wellbeing, ethical behaviour, fewer mistakes, etc. 5/5

Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

…detrimental to the health and safety of individuals, and may impact other negative organisational outcomes such as sickness absenteeism, reduced productivity or human error." 4/5

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

These factors do not immediately have negative or positive connotations. However, when reference is made to a psychosocial risk, it means that these aspects of work organisation, design and management are likely to be….. 3/5

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

This, from the paper, speaks directly to this:

"The term ‘psychosocial factors’ refers to aspects of work organisation, design and management that include, among other things, work demands, the availability of organisational support, rewards and interpersonal relationships in the workplace…. 2/5

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · Aug 15

Can we stop talking about psychosocial risks ONLY in relation to mental health and wellbeing at work. These risks and the management of them are also relevant to other organisational outcomes, e.g. ethical decision making and behaviour. 1/5

doi.org/10.1177/2031...

The concepts of ‘mental health in the workplace’ and ‘psychosocial risks’: A clarification from a legal perspective - Loïc Lerouge, 2025

Since the consecutive Swedish, Spanish and Belgian Presidencies of the EU Council in 2023 and 2024, the European Commission was under the pressure to introduce ...

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