www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Great news

Over 1,700 children killed in Sudan in a single year, many by explosives. As the UN penholder Britain must do more.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #AssistedDyingBill

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... #VirtueEthics #Philosophy #Bioethics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Bioethics #Genetics #Genomics

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #Bioethics #ClinicalTrials #Pharmaceuticals

It shows what a turnaround there has been in forensics that solving a crime without DNA is now considered headline-worthy. Until 1986 that was true for *all* policing (and they didn't have CCTV either!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #DNA #GeneticFingerprinting #Bioethics

Some quick thoughts on #Genomics and #DNAtesting in light of the news about #23andMe applying for bankruptcy. medium.com/@cjrwillmott...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This has looked on the cards for several months. There are significant #Bioethics issues including #DataPrivacy [Far less significantly, it will also require me to redraft the relevant chapter of a book on #Genomics and Ethics that I've nearly completed]

*Proper* "Dignity in Dying" is about appropriate support for #PalliativeCare and hospices, not steam-rollering an #AssistedSuicide act which has raised serious cause for concern amongst so many with expertise in end-of-life matters www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Found at least 15 of my (co)authored works in the database.

www.thebookseller.com/news/society... 👇

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Who could have predicted it? Lord Darzi, who led the rapid review of the NHS, held $500k undeclared shares & $800k undeclared share options in private health companies - all missing from his House of Lords register of interests - when Streeting appointed him. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Very sorry to see that Leicester City Council are closing many museums whilst focusing efforts on two already well-supported ventures. The Abbey Pumping Station (aka "The Poo Museum" in particular is a treasure which needs more not less support www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

Civil unrest in Syria is being used as opportunity for ethnic cleansing of Christian minorities www.newsweek.com/hundreds-min...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Bioethics #CulturedMeat

A while ago, I dictated notes for something I'm writing. Looking at them today, I was mystified to read "1960s female kitchen area". Was I having some random misogynistic day? On checking back, I'm relieved to see it should have been "1960s phenylketonuria" #NewbornScreening

Given the brouhaha about #SentencingReports, I'm surprised there hasn't been discussion of either brain imaging or "my genes made me do it" #Bioethics #Neuroethics #Neurolaw

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Genomics #Bioethics #Cancer #BRCA2 #Genealogy

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m... #Bioethics #Fertility #EggFreezing

As someone who lives in the English midlands, with an active interest in #Bioethics, I'm horrified that it wasn't until Netflix #ToxicTown that I've become aware of the toxic waste scandal in Corby (1/)

m.independent.ie/farming/news... #Bioethics #Conservation #AlienSpecies #InvasiveSpecies

Rather belatedly stumbled across this review of our old book #WhereScienceAndEthicsMeet It said very kind things, so I'm happy to share it here progress.org.uk/book-review-... #Bioethics @macips01.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Bioethics #AlienSpecies #InvasiveSpecies #Bioconservation

#PublicationEthics #ResearchEthics

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #AntibioticResistance #AMR

Big issue: COVID denialism has been normalized. COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting www.science.org/content/arti... "...many countries have actually become hostile toward pandemic prevention research..." by @cohenjon.bsky.social via @science.org

"There is no solution to the crisis in the NHS that doesn’t include a solution for social care." Dismayed to see Wes Streeting acknowledge this - yet kick the issue into long grass with a commission that won't report until 2028. What hope for the NHS now? What hope for those needing care now?

www.theguardian.com/science/2024... #Bioethics #SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife

I've listed tickets for MILLTOWN BROTHERS at The Lexington, Islington tonight. The SeeTickets fan to fan marketplace seetickets.com/rd/event/mil... #SeeFan2Fan #MilltownBrothers

We need more central funding for #PalliativeCare in the UK. In the meantime, please support your local Hospice, eg loros.co.uk/ways-to-dona...

It's absurd that the last train from London to Leicester on a Saturday night goes at 22:32 (next is Sunday at 9am). For comparison you can go from Euston to Northampton at 22:37, 23:09, 23:30, 23:53 and 00:09 @eastmidrailway.bsky.social

Unbelievable #Pronatalist views expressed by Elon Musk's dad on @skynews.com.web.brid.gy #Bioethics My jaw is still on the floor

Today's book "writing" will mostly involve taking stuff out, on the grounds that (a) there isn't space and (b) it's too technical, whilst trying to disguise the joins around the holes