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)

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.

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

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/...

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 buff.ly/D8Orzut

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...

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

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...

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 $.

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 1/🧵

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.

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:

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Evening calm

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

Here. Have some peace. Near Lorne, Victoria.

Good morning #booksky Just a friendly reminder that Audible, owned by Amazon/Bezos, supports the tech giant. Libro.fm offers an alternative, letting you buy audiobooks while supporting independent bookstores. Choose where your dollars go and align your listening with your values.

Please sign and help give these people safety action.amnesty.org.au/act-now/aust...

My new article draft – “Privacy in Authoritarian Times: Surveillance Capitalism and Government Surveillance” ssrn.com/abstract=510... – a set of prescriptions for protecting privacy

More people will have shown up to the People’s March against Donald Trump than his inauguration. 🤣

Nannas still having trouble in understanding why #auspol can pass a bill to protect children from social media but won’t enact legislation that protects the health and wellbeing of young people from climate change. Good luck ⬇️ and thanks from us! adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au/prominent_vo...

Post-doc in my department - looking for someone with digital methods and media theory background to work on conspiracy theory/post-truth cultures werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

A wonderful piece of art created by a Great Ormond St Hospital patient who was born with cataract and had surgery as a baby - beautifully framed and about to be put on the wall in our eye hospital (Sight And Sound)

Soooo many bots all of a sudden. Is there any way to block multiple accounts at once?

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

Reminder to ditch Amazon (Audible & Goodreads) if you can w/ alternatives like library/Libby, independent/secondhand booksellers, Tertulia (online book co-op), Libro for audiobooks & Storygraph for tracking which gives you wrap-up w/ stats & collage. I had lovely year of re-reads & new discoveries.

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

AI Law and Policy Starter Pack - I've added more folks, and it's almost full now: go.bsky.app/aHpf6o #AI

Re-upping this piece five minutes after emailing someone at my university bc a form that a student needs me to approve required me to go through an online training for some new software (which I learned about only through endless emails with an IT Services person), & I’d reached my limit. 1/2

Come join us! Yes, someone put me and @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social in charge of conference. The call for papers is out for ANZSIL 2025. Theme: "International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance". Submissions close 10 February* *before inevitable extensions anzsil.org.au/32nd-ANZSIL-...

God i love @propublica.org so much

It's been 15 minutes since I posted about my books, so it's GIVEAWAY TIME!!! If you want a FREE copy of my new @routledgelit.bsky.social collection (with @drmitchtravis.bsky.social & Kieran Tranter) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary, like & reskeet this - winner chosen at random on 5 January. 1/2

Big thanks to @mdmccradden.bsky.social and Gun Soin for sharing their wisdom on AI scribes at #aabhl Sydney today.

We have a call for papers for @mja.com.au special issue on Indigenous health. Submission deadline is Dec 23rd. Please share with your colleagues! We had the first meeting of the wonderful guest editorial team today and are looking forward to the submissions! Info here www.mja.com.au/journal/indi...

Massive day at #aabhl Sydney including Jonathan Hall Spence speaking on strategic litigation of health rights for people in immigration detention. And a very rich session on legal and ethical issues in healthcare AI. Wonderful to see friends and colleagues 😀