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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · Jun 8

RFK Jr's tenure at HHS is shaping up to be one of inconsistent, nonsensical, and dangerous overregulation (see, e.g., vaccines) and underregulation (see, gene and cell therapies)

Leigh Turner @leighturner.bsky.social · Jun 8

“President Trump has given us an executive order that says for every regulation that we put in place, we have to get rid of 10." HHS & FDA apparently moving forward with broad deregulatory agenda for cell & gene-based medical interventions. www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fda-...

'Not a horse and pony show': At FDA cell and gene roundtable, officials look for ways to cut red tape

At a June 5 cell and gene therapy roundtable hosted by | At a June 5 cell and gene therapy roundtable hosted by the FDA, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked t...

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Jun 9

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 9

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Jun 3

Inaugural Lecture for the Law, Health and Society Research Unit at Deakin University coming up on 24 June 5pm, featuring @juliansavulescu.bsky.social speaking on the ethics of polygenic editing and selection. Register here: bit.ly/45EzWTr

Inaugural Annual Lecture: Ethics of Polygenic Editing and Selection

Professor Julian Savulescu will deliver the inaugural Lecture for the Law, Health and Society Research Unit

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Australian Law Reform Commission @auslawreform.bsky.social · Jun 3

Submissions are now open in response to the Issues Paper, and the ALRC is inviting individuals and organisations to provide submissions until 11 July 2025.

Read the Issues Paper and learn more about the Review of Surrogacy Laws at: www.alrc.gov.au/publication/...

Review of Surrogacy Laws: Issues Paper (2025)

Submissions in response to the Issues Paper are now open. The Issues Paper introduces our inquiry and explains what we have been asked to do. It provides a brief overview of surrogacy laws in Australi...

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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · Apr 10

Regional #seismic networks are the backbone of #earthquake safety in the U.S., and funding them is critical.

Find out why with @uussquake.bsky.social @caltechseismo.bsky.social @usgs-shakealert.bsky.social University of Memphis CERI and Oklahoma Geological Survey
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Man in green shirt and hat installing a seismic sensor for the US ShakeAlert system in a field near San Francisco

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Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Apr 11

Research fellow - job opportunity (with me!) - University of Melbourne Law School - 0.5 FTE, to December 2027. Health law and genomic data governance as part of national LINEAGE project jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...

Details : Research Fellow (Health Genomics Governance) : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · Apr 6

Since trump has been firing civil servants who is going to be collecting all these tariffs? #USpol

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 30

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · Mar 27

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · Mar 21

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇!

Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination?
✅ Email PO + document questions
✅ Submit FOIA
✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation
✅ Consider outside litigation
✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Mar 19

Strathclyde Law School is advertising for a readership in public law. Details here:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI746/r...

Feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this post.

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · Mar 17

Our annual Call for Abstracts is out! We really look forward to reading about your fascinating research as we select the speakers for our 2025/2026 Seminar Series. Also, feel free to share this call with your friends and colleagues. You can find more details (including deadlines) below:

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Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Mar 15

3/3 Patients often recorded because they did not TRUST their healthcare provider. Importantly, there are no cases about consented recordings made for broader patient benefit. Lawful, mutually agreed recordings of healthcare consultations present very low risk of adverse medico-legal consequences.

Screen shot of article 'Saving trouble, saving time: the role and impact of healthcare consultation recordings in Australian legal proceedings' by Megan Prictor, Medical Law Review 33(1) Winter 2025 Published 14 March 2025

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Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Mar 15

2/3, Most of the consultation recordings were made in the context of pre-existing conflicts. mainly involving personal injury, professional misconduct, and family law. Recordings had the greatest value in matters involving professional misconduct. In other matters, findings were mixed....

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Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Mar 15

1/3 VERY pleased to let you know about new published research on the role and impact of recordings of healthcare consultations in Australian court cases. doi.org/10.1093/medl...
I looked at 46 cases decided by Australian courts...

Saving trouble, saving time: the role and impact of healthcare consultation recordings in Australian legal proceedings

Abstract. Healthcare professionals have long expressed concern about their exposure to litigation if they allow consultations to be recorded. There has bee

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Melissa Castan @drmcastan.bsky.social · Mar 6

Maybe you just need a distraction from the Cyclone, the (nearly) Election, the geo-political crises or the climate catastrophe? Try Case In Point, a lively, chatty podcast about legal curiosities and culture. Wherever you listen to your pods.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Feb 4

We’re excited to partner with the @royalsociety.org to invite applications for the International Fellowships 2025. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4hjfKtj

White banner with an image of a person working on notes. The words 'International Fellowships 2025' are written on the right-hand side.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Feb 4

Read the whole thread. Most of my research would be airbrushed out of all funding and publication in USA right now. NB good luck doing epidemiology research without the word 'bias'. #academicsky #episky

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · Jan 30

Taranaki Maunga recognised as a legal person after treaty settlement passes into Crown law in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Taranaki Maunga becomes a legal person as treaty settlement passes into law

Mt Taranaki will be jointly managed by iwi and the Crown and the name Mt Egmont will be consigned to history.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Jan 29

‘The Peace of Wild Things’ - Wendell Berry (2018)

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hiring a research-to-policy fellow to work with the Center for an Informed Public. Apply here! uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat... #jobs

UW Human Resources

University of Washington Human Resources

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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · Jan 16

Confronted with a brakeless, self-driving car with 4 passengers in it, Bentham regretted his work on utilitarianism.

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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · Jan 25

For those interested in free access to legal information, AustLII Co-Directors Philip Chung and Andrew Mowbray were today honoured by being appointed as Members of the Order of Australia (AM). The AustLII Media Release concerning the appointments is at:
www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/anno...

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Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Jan 23

There's a platypus in there somewhere

Megan Prictor @meganprictor.bsky.social · Jan 23

Just back from two weeks away and took the chance to breathe...

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