The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...

I just published a new article with Tina Hardin, Wendy Keech and Bernadette Richards that compares data sharing legislation in Australia at both federal and state level and its impact on health and social welfare data sharing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interesting recent decision from the CJEU that states pseudonymisation may be enough to prevent individuals from being identified in a dataset. This appears to be the direction the OAIC is heading in w.r.t deidentification techniques.

Is it a mournful ode to a relationship that’s now over, or a paean to repairability? Either way, absolutely loving track number 6 by the Radium Dolls: radiumdolls.bandcamp.com/album/all-do...

I do some online teaching, and this is one of the benefits, along with opening up education to people in rural and regional areas. However, to quote a friend, if you want to build a house you gotta push concrete. There are skills you get from face to face that are difficult to replicate with online.

Brave New World by Iron Maiden

Followed up by a paper I’ve been working on for two years getting accepted for publication. Huzzah!

That feel when a manuscript you’ve been working on for a year and a half gets accepted for publication

Ah, Bluebook, my nemesis… we meet again…

It has to be a two way tie between Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft for similar reasons.

This is an excellent article by Mazzucato and Gernone. There is more than one way to regulate AI than stretching copyright: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...

This week, the Italian DPA issued warnings about the risks of incorrect use of medical reports and AI. In that same line, the @OAICgov just published a report on I-MED, at www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...

As @drdebgleeson.bsky.social notes, the US may also place pressure on Australia to provide drug manufacturers with greater notice of when a generic drug could enter the market. This would permit manufacturers to delay access to cheaper generics in Australia.

It's all getting going in Victoria now. Covid, flu, RSV, it's even looking like a good year for Influenza B. This would be an excellent weekend to book in covid & flu shots at your pharmacy. And pleasepleaseplease: If you're feeling sick, stay home.🙏 www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...

Only a 2 for me!

Reminder for these positions - wanna come work with @drnajimagi.bsky.social and I in Adelaide? Applications close soon www.linkedin.com/posts/ruth-h...

One of my hobbies involves seeing how often I can drop an otherwise contextually appropriate quote from a film in an everyday conversation without the other person noticing:

Agreed, well worth reading.

It’s a really nice feeling when you mark an incredibly well researched and written student assignment. Really makes my day :)

Fantastic development

As the US pulls out of the WHO (official departure is Jan 21st, 2026) its budget contribution loss means that China replaces it as the largest funder. It will go from effectively funding ~15% to 20% of the total fees paid by states. The US has withdrawn US$600m in annual funding. 🤔🤦🏾

Reminder that in Australia the shingles #vaccination is free for a number of age groups and risk conditions and this now covers the newer (arguably better) Shingrix vaccine compared to the older Zostavax. Source: www.health.gov.au/topics/immun...

A very thoughtful and measured article by James Gurney of Dinotopia fame on the legal and ethical issues raised by AI generated artworks. Well worth a read: jamesgurney.substack.com/p/ai-art-pro...

Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR”)

Good step in the right direction

If governments want to increase spending on defence in the name of ‘national security’, they also need to increase spending on health and welfare.

Now this is an interesting development. I can understand the author’s scepticism about Fedora, but an immutable OS is pretty stable still.

Good article by @drdebgleeson.bsky.social on how the US could pressure Australia into restricting access to generic drugs: theconversation.com/trump-has-au...

Placing tariffs on islands that are only inhabited by penguins is an omen that the Year of the Linux Desktop is truly upon us.

It’s clear now they really want TSMC to drop all of its production in Taipei and move to Arizona.

Good news story for today

Things might be dreadful in the world right now, but at least there’s a new season of Taskmaster Australia.

Post a ship that’s not Star Trek or Star Wars

I am mildly disappointed that only one of my articles is included. I also think that a lot of discussion about this fails to distinguish between the conduct of LibGen (which originated as a mechanism to share restricted content in the Soviet Union) and Meta. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Something that has slid under the radar here is Trump using tariffs to try and force technology transfer from Taiwan to the US: www.npr.org/2025/03/12/g...

Hoping to confirm if #NDIS participants & applicants included in #HWLEbsworth leak have been told yet which records were included. If you or anyone else knows: Signal JeremyNadel.86 www.itnews.com.au/news/644-ndi...

Good letter about how the Australian government should respond to attacks on the multilateral system underpinning global health by the US government.

It would be a real shame if a scientist working on this project leaked their research to the WHO Afrigen hub, or to a big vaccine manufacturer in India or Bangladesh.

Completely agree with Josh. This would be such a cheap investment with some real long term payoffs.

So this sounds pretty good: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Another excellent article by @amymaxmen.bsky.social about the consequences of the US’s withdrawal from WHO. If you’re interested in global health reporting, follow her!

And Australia too. If the government wanted to supercharge the new ACDC it would start immediately headhunting.

An excellent article by Kent Buse and colleagues on how the WHO and member states can respond to the shortsighted decision of the incoming US administration to withdraw.

It’s stating the obvious, but the consequences of the US leaving the WHO are going to be devastating, from a massive funding shortfall to a power gap.

For no particular reason, thinking about how Schleswig-Holstein’s government is replacing Microsoft Windows on government computers with Linux in the name of ‘digital sovereignty’.

Are you working on a paper about patient confidentiality in healthcare? If so, BMC Medical Ethics currently has a call for papers open for a special edition (which I am guest editor for): www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Reminder for Australian policy makers: this is why insisting on backdoors and decryption for security and law enforcement purposes at the expense of privacy is a very very bad idea.