If you're having a tough weekend writing syllabi or a rough start to 2025, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was instead relegated to the poster session.

There’s something mildly ironic about writing medneg slides in an A & E because your teen did something utterly foreseeable!

Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!

Oh look, research says social media bans don’t solve the problems - who would have thought it www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Chapter sent, outline for new sub/article discussed (with homework!), slides down for next week, risotto in thermie - look at me, adulting!

@baerarnold.bsky.social you have found your people!

“The evidence base for the underage social media ban is poor – and yet it’s that bill being rushed through parliament, not the partial gambling ad ban, much less the full ban.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Final referencing for new chapter on social media. If you could all stop deleting your tweets that would be great, thanks: “user account deactivated” can only go in so many footnotes before it really looks like I’m just making stuff up!!

The social media ban for kids exists in a much bigger landscape of both policy and technical infrastructure: your digital identity. Here, have some actual facts. As written by me. tldr in next post. www.themandarin.com.au/281972-digit...

Because it’s not implementable, enforceable, or underpinned by any evidence? Or just cos it’s dumb?

Ummmmm, my DM’s are open??? 🤣

Memo to me … Starter packs are awesome. Until you start thinking “there are some great people in that one, and they seem to be doing some great work maybe I should hit follow, you never know when a working knowledge of zebrafish might come in handy?”

Impact scores? What impact scores.

Instead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them: Jess Travers-Wolf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do

Marking. Please send photos of cats. Or birds. Or coffee.

This potential legal attack on the nonprofit sector in the US fits with the global administrative assault on NGOs and civil society known as closing civic space, where leaders use anti-NGO laws to create barriers to entry, funding, advocacy for organizations. #nonprofitsky #polisky #contentiousky

Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

As an introvert… I feel this! Both as a teacher and as a presenter.

📣The Global Drug Survey 2024 has officially launched today! Be part of the world's largest survey of drug use, led by CRE researcher Dr Cheneal Puljevic, with two new modules on tobacco endgame policies and trends in illicit tobacco use. redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=C...

Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...

Today’s seminar prep: 23 pages of carefully referenced notes, highlighted with key speaking notes. What the students get: TLDR? Data management is not the same as privacy! Techreg law ftw 🤣

for sale: rules-based international order, never worn

“Never again” didn’t seem that complicated a concept! This is genocide happening in real time.

*Is this too scary for Bluesky? I don't want to harsh anybody's vibe here "the secret world of inventors, financiers and vendors of fearsome spy weapons like Predator" *Warning: contains actual journalistic investigation www.spiegel.de/internationa...

I encourage everybody to be very, very compassionate to people who are hurting right now. Tragedy is brutal. Violent tragedy is worse. Lift people up.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

4chan users are sharing ways to exploit the AI-powered Bing Image Creator to create hateful content. Posts of antisemitic caricatures of Orthodox men carrying migrants across the US border, preparing to eat a baby, and committing the 9/11 attacks have appeared online.

This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/

We, as a society, have given the morning people far too much power

Before Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial kicks off with jury selection tomorrow, refresh your memory on what happened, find out who's likely to testify, and get a rough idea of the legal strategies from both sides: newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/a-preview-...

Writing a paper on comparative US law. “What was your methodology here?” Well, I followed a bunch of US law people on the socials and they talked about stuff. Dress that up in academic fancy 🤣

So it’s been a week, I’ve found 3 new authors, flowers, cats, an amazing linguist podcast. Imagine what will happen when I know how this all works!

Text of Author's Guild lawsuit against OpenAI. Arguments hinge around ChatGPT summarizing & outlining sequels to the plantiffs' works. One can argue one doesn't need access to works to summarize them, but outlining sequels seems more clearly copyright infringement. authorsguild.org/app/uploads/...

Hello #Bluesky #authors #writers. You have been an amazing support of the SAG-AFTRA strike, & against AI misuse. Perhaps you might lend your signature to the letter against Data3, which unlawfully used thousands of books (including mine) to train AI. (Link to open letter in article)

I’m a stranger here myself