Let’s not pretend Australian right wing politicians aren’t as rhetorically/morally depraved as elsewhere in the world (not that anyone reading this thread is likely guilty of this)

Yo tengo una tristeza enorme para mis compadres cubanos. La batalla contra el imperialismo nunca termina.

Temporary exclusion orders - didn’t know this was a thing in Australia (that an Australian citizen can be bared from re-entering the country if they’re a safety/terror threat). I can’t find a data on how often this has happened/happens. Anyone know if one can find said data anywhere?

Finally got around to reading this piece by @roxanegay.bsky.social It’s marvellous for its clarity, simplicity, and power. "When we stand for what is right, we have to always stand for what is right, without exception." (Da Mayor would endorse wholeheartedly)

Of vice and men

I’ve really been struggling since the US invaded Venezuela to make sense of what’s happening (emotionally, I get it from a ‘realist’, post rules-based viewpoint). As a Latino, it's impossible not to think about the history of 1970s, and the personal stories I heard growing up, of right-wing (cont)

Talk about corrupting the youth! Am I right?!?! (Too soon?)

New commentary published in @natmed.nature.com with @dsilvaphd.bsky.social, Anna Levy, and Katherine Littler: Navigating Difficult Ethical Decisions in Global Health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A very good read.

@sfu.ca is hiring Canada Impact+ Research Chairs. Research areas include health, including biotechnology; clean technology and resource value chains; environment, climate resilience and the Arctic; democratic and community resilience. Candidates must full Profs or Associate 2 years from promotion.

Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended https://theonion.com/unconventional-director-sets-shakespeare-play-in-time-1819569151/

The political power of art.

This is wild and disturbing.

What a great event! Thank you to #AABHL and all the wonderful colleagues that came ‘round. Looking forward to continuing to build with Chris Mayes, Bronwen Morrell, Sara Attinger, and the rest of the JBI @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social crew! #bioethics #healthlaw

🎄25 Days of non crappy Christmas music! 🎁 Back by popular demand! (Ok, like, two friends asked me for this.) Day one - we’re gonna start off funky (and socially-conscience) with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings!

Happy December First @maxwellsmith.bsky.social! (I’m keeping it funky this year, in your honour)

This is so unbelievably shortsighted and will hurt Australians for years to come.

Modernity as expressed in one powerful sign. (Source: HouseEurope!)

If I think about it, my love of futbol is responsible for, like, 58% of my knowledge of world geography

How - HOW!?!? - is it possible for FIFA to be more morally bankrupt than it already is?!?! HOW?!

Shoutout to whoever wrote this headline. 10/10

A reminder that our next RUTA conference will focus on the role of embodied and rooted knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers of shifts in power. Deadline for submissions is Nov 15. We welcome a wide range of presentation and art formats, while prioritising transregional and global panels

Uruguay, aprueba la muerte médicamente asistida a través de un procedimiento legislativo. Un gran avance para los derechos de los pacientes. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...

The best story of the week, IMO, is Cape Verde qualifying for the 2026 World Cup! 💪 (I know FIFA is corrupt and evil, but I’m still gonna enjoy that a country of 500K qualified out of CAF - not an easy task!!)

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!

📣 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!

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.

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

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

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!

Well done Victoria - important step in the right direction! #Aboriginal #sovereignty #selfdetermination

#NBA nerd open question: How much of the Ballmer/Kawhi Leonard/Aspire saga is being interpreted through the post-truth glasses of 2025? What LEGAL effect, if any, will this have? Gist (clumsily stated): the evidentiary standard in the NBA CBA allows for circumstantial evidence in cases ...

'One presumes this specific advice [to wash one’s underpants if you’re fired] came about after staff learned that 10% of the university was about to be slashed, 400 workers were about to lose their jobs and, as the cry of “are you shitting me?!” roared throughout the campus tower,...

@sidlowe.bsky.social How’s that for Real Oviedo? They score even on the other side of the continent! Even when they’re not playing, technically! (Viñas para Uruguay contra Peru)

Looks like this will be a great opportunity for those working on #AMR and #ethics, #justice. Exciting stuff!

Call for Papers Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice Funding support for open access Deadline: 01 April 2026 link.springer.com/collections/... Contact: [email protected]

Nothing says 'prevention' like cutting funds to your federal public health agency after a pandemic. @mark-carney.bsky.social - how is gutting public health 'efficient'? How much will this cost when Canada is left unprepared for the next pandemic?

Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)

There are a lot of ultracrepidarians at academic conferences, eh?

After this weekend across Australia a vocal minority made themselves heard, I say…

I feel there are far greater unsettling questions in our time: - why is wealth inequality growing unabatedly? - how do we respond to growing authoritarianism? - whatever happened to Alf? (Such a great show)

Whole thing worth the read. This part by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social stood out given what’s going on in Aus universities right now and how we underestimate our power and refuse to own up to the fact that universities are targeted because we are/could be powerful. We have a duty to teach and agitate

the city I live in is occupied by armed federal agents checking people's papers at random public transportation stops and people are still doing this

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

I am looking to supervise a law doctoral student at @lawmcgill.bsky.social to start in September 2026 interested in the economic contributions of #innovation in Canada. Apply directly to the Grad Office (not through me). Info at www.mcgill.ca/law/grad-stu...