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Emma Tumilty (she/her)

@emtumilty.bsky.social
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Kiwi Bioethicist living in Naarm with partner, two kitties, and a massive to-read pile. "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." (Davis) #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #StopTheGenocide

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This company just radiates predator energy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 24/09/2026
Does it matter that billionaires are deliberately making people stupider & less knowledgeable, but more helpless & reliant on billionaires? Does it matter when so many of those billionaires are bigoted authoritarian eugenicists? Does it matter that think they have the right to decide for all of us?
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/09/2026
Here's what I need you to understand. Practical complexity is not the same as moral ambiguity. That the right thing is difficult to do doesn't mean that it is less of a moral imperative. Lots of necessary things are difficult. That doesn't make them morally gray.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/09/2026
Today I learned, on top of everything else, we've been bombing Somalia three times a week all year. What a country.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/09/2026
We should be treating every celebrity doing PR for the UAE the way we're treating Ed Sheeran, btw. Those celebrities doing ads for Emirates airlines? Dubai and Abu Dhabi tourism? Dubai chocolate? They're doing genocide denial too.
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Smart glasses banned from Melbourne council's pools, gyms and playgrounds
The City of Yarra has banned glasses with built-in cameras from its leisure centres, playgrounds and childcare centres to protect the community.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Haidt has no home here* *in serious discussions about youth mental health and regulation of technology
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Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers
Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/08/2026
The phenomenal singer-songwriter Jesse Welles just wrote a song called "The Nerd Reich" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Keith Muise @keithmuise80.bsky.social "Covid is mild".... Zero publications to prove it. "Covid is dangerous".... 492,027 publications to prove it. There is no debate. Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...
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LitCovid
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A ‘Nightingale prison’ is a concentration camp. A mainstream daytime breakfast television show is legitimating concentration camps for immigrants by negotiating the feasibility of mass state violence against hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions—of innocent people
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Joel Pollard @smirkingelf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Since Google is being an arsehat yet again here is a link to alternatives. cyberinsider.com/google-alter...
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Alternatives to Google Products — Regain Privacy in 2026
This Google alternatives guide gives you alternatives to every Google product, including Gmail, search, Youtube, and more.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is where Texans can check their status. Please text this link to your family and friends who vote the good way, and ask them to double check theirs. goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New survey investigates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ scientific priorities www.croakey.org/new-survey-i...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/08/2026
we hosted a training tonight to teach people who never make content how to do it for activism purposes and their videos were sooooo good. i need more grammas making short form content about lefty policy. so cute.
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Older Australians 'digitally excluded' as everyday services move online
The digital divide means the responsibility is falling to loved ones, neighbours, and retirement village staff to bridge the gap for older Australians.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 25/08/2026
the wealthy are so incandescent with rage that the general populace is becoming more educated and more able to see through their bullshit, so they must destroy publicly available education
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kevin is always an excellent read on how 'race realists' knowingly use discredited data sets and misrepresent science. I haven't read the piece yet, but as always, we have to Kirby their argument: they are fraudsters propagandising a doctrine calling for white supremacist violence against billions
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 24/08/2026
I’ve lost a few followers for rejecting the idea that academic freedom should include Nazi-style race science. In my view, the primary value of free speech is to enable political freedom. I don‘t believe it ought to extend to denying the equal status of fellow citizens, including in the academy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23/08/2026
Texas A&M fired a professor for giving a lecture about gender. No one is buying the academic freedom bullshit from the skull measuring crowd. Fuck off
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 23/08/2026
My feeling on the letter supporting Confas is that the burden is now going to be on the signatories to show that the didn‘t sign it because they are racist eugenecists. I see no good reason to assume good faith or ignorance.
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Idk it seems like a guy who harasses cisgender women at WNBA games isn't actually fighting for women's rights but then again I'm not high on aerosolized Ivermectin like most right wingers.
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 23/08/2026
I don’t know why there are 500+ academics who‘ve concluded Nathan Confas was suspended for whistleblowing when it was clearly for breaching the contract he has with his employer. Once again, this is not about free speech, it‘s about terms of employment.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Another 5-year-old boy named Liam detained by ICE on the way to soccer game, family says Liam Tadeo and his father are being held inside a notorious family detention center in rural Texas where Liam Conejo Ramos was held earlier this year www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Another 5-year-old boy named Liam detained by ICE, family says
Liam Tadeo and his father are being held inside a notorious family detention center in rural Texas where Liam Conejo Ramos was held earlier this year
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I also bristle at the idea that academic freedom means you can say any ole thing without evidence. Hell, if I say the police are predatory in my research, I have to pull fifteen thousand cites, but race scientists get to call me inherently dumb because I’m Black just cause? Absolutely not.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
After Stock professed extremist ideology twice this past week (e.g. disabled women are faking; autistic people and people with ADHD are 'unsuited' for academia) and being billed as an expert during the Arday plagiarism scandal, I forgot until now that Stock was involved in her own plagiarism scandal
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just read this morning’s Guardian story and the second half is nauseating to read. Implicitly blames him for not taking ‘support’ offered by Cambridge and resigning instead, then exhaustively details every allegation all over again, as if to hound him even after his death. Vile.
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Emma Tumilty (she/her) @emtumilty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And shouldn't survive...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The ‘supervisor’s idea that writing philosophy papers is about efficiently “performing a task” and that “human philosophy professors will have to find new tasks to perform” is the saddest shit I’ve ever heard a philosopher say. Why did he even bother with philosophy? Just be an accountant it’s fine
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Lune 🐈‍⬛ @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A few things you can never talk about in UK media: nations are recent social inventions, and were a bad idea; 'borders' are not physical boundaries, but capricious, arbitrary violence by the state against innocent people; people born elsewhere are inherently as valuable as people born nearby
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11/08/2026
It's obvious Johnston couldn't even be bothered to write the short article about how he can no longer be bothered to read. The editor in chief of Axios can no longer read or write because of LLMs. Nevertheless, he's trying to sell us LLMs. Thanks idiot guy, but I'd rather remain literate.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Library funding is tied to usage.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 05/08/2026
@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky www.ovid.com/jnls/pidj/ab...
One of the largest US studies ever conducted on the MMR vaccine and autism has just been published, analyzing more than 2.5 million children.  Researchers found no association between receiving the first MMR vaccine before age 2 and childhood autism.
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
University racism definitions won’t dismantle racism, by Alana Lentin pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...
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University racism definitions won’t dismantle racism
The government’s push for universities to adopt racism definitions risks turning anti-racism into compliance policy while leaving structural racism untouched and constraining speech on Palestine.
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ONLINEFIRST: "Awareness, knowledge, attitudes, & practices toward health research ethics & research ethics committees among healthcare postgrad. students, faculty, & professionals in The Gambia" Senghore, T, Usuf, E, Sey-Sawo, J, Silverman, H, & Njie-Carr, VPS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
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Awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward health research ethics and research ethics committees among healthcare postgraduate students, faculty, and professionals in The Gambia - Thomas Se...
Until recently, there has been no formal research ethics training program in The Gambia, despite decades of conducting research. This study aimed to evaluate th...
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ONLINEFIRST: "Ethics on the periphery: Unpacking Ghanaian NGOs’ avoidance of research oversight" Joshua Okyere journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Ethics on the periphery: Unpacking Ghanaian NGOs’ avoidance of research oversight - Joshua Okyere, 2026
Many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) conduct data collection on households, children, women, migrants and other vulnerable populations. These activities o...
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ONLINEFIRST: :Radio phone-in programs as a method of research data collection: Accounting for participation, ethics and integrity" Igudia, E. O., Olusanya, O., Oyalowo, B., & Ackrill, R. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ONLINEFIRST: "When protection becomes exclusion: Ethics governance, adolescent capacity and the limits of procedural oversight in sexuality research" Jane Rossouw journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ONLINEFIRST: "Leaving no one behind: Ethical guardrails for geroscience research" Jecker, N. S., Schiff, T., Caplan, A., Porsdam Mann, S., & Savulescu, J. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ONLINEFIRST: "Stakeholder perspectives regarding single participant research in oncology" Heynemann, S., Lipworth, W., McLachlan, S.-A., Philip, J., John, T., & Kerridge, I. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Stakeholder perspectives regarding single participant research in oncology - Sarah Heynemann, Wendy Lipworth, Sue-Anne McLachlan, Jennifer Philip, Tom John, Ian Kerridge, 2026
The term ‘N-of-1 trial’ has traditionally referred to a specific, well-defined, clinical trial methodology, involving evaluation of an intervention (or interven...
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Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ONLINEFIRST: "Ethical oversight of emerging computational and Big Data approaches in health research: A survey of German-speaking research ethics committees" Maximilian Kassai and Florian Funer journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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