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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Lived long enough to see the collapse of the public sphere.

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

For more info! www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Very pleased to have a chapter with Avner de-Shalit published in this new collection edited by Alice Baderin and David Miller: Why Political Theory Needs Social Science. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The Committee on Evil Literature was established in Ireland #OTD in 1926, 100 years ago. A thread on Yeats arguing against the censorship advocated by that Committee, which informed the passing of the Censorship of Publications Act 1929.

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If you are coming to Paris, and have yet to do so, don't forget to register before midnight CET! To register, go to: www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases. Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...

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New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 14/11/2025

The Academy’s Life and Health Sciences Committee has released reports from two policy-related events, one addressing the future of Irish bioethics and one addressing the importance of fundamental biomedical research. You can read these now on our website: www.ria.ie/2025/11/12/r...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Early registeration deadline! Wed 12th November @ 23:59 CET Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Paris, 11-12 June, 2026. We had a great response to the call for abstracts! For those selected, and for all welcome to attend, register this week at: www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Existential Threats & Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges, Paris, 11-12 June 2026. In response to a number of requests: => New deadline - abstract submissions = 5 Nov => New deadline - early registration = 12 Nov See: www.csb.eu.com/conference.

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Early registeration by 23.59 CEST tonight (24.10.25) for the conference "Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges", 11-12 June, Paris 2026. For more info: www.csb.eu.com/conference.

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Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference

"Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

CFA extended: In response to a number of requests, 250-word (max) abstracts can still be submitted until the end of 22nd Oct. Wednesday (11.59pm CET/CEST) via the website: www.csb.eu.com/conference/

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Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference

"Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join some of the leading names in bioethics to discuss AI, enhancements, germline gene edits, climate change, conflict & war, bioterrorism, social media & polarization. Send an abstract on Wed. 15 Oct for 'Existential Threats' conference, Paris, 11-12 June 2026. For info: www.csb.eu.com/conference

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Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference

"Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Participants arriving in Tübingen for the 2025 CIVIS BIP Science, Ethics & Governance of Human Gene Editing! The final year of the CIVIS/Ethics of Genome Editing Research Unit (@robranisch.bsky.social) event, first coordinated by @gardar.bsky.social & myself back in 2022! @unituebingen.bsky.social

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

'Timely Intervention': "Clinical trials of OTOF-gene therapy for severe deafness in children. We outline some ethical considerations on consent, vulnerability, & uncertainity. Ellen Reisinger, Hans-Jörg Ehni, Oliver Feeney & Urban Wiesing in: Human Gene Therapy. www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Françoise Baylis @francoisebaylis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What has 10 years of CRISPR and 50 years since Asilomar taught us about life, law, policy, politics, religion, and ethics? Join me (and colleagues) for the opening conversation at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit. Register: lnkd.in/eedQgBfj

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Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) @incet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

📢New papers published in "Diametros" as part of the forthcoming special issue "Bioethics Meets Political Philosophy": 👉Thaddeus Metz, Intuitions about Just Public Healthcare Versus Liberal Political Theory 👉Greg Bognar, Liberalism and Human Genetic Enhancement diametros.uj.edu.pl/diametros/is...

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Early View | Diametros

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Holly Fernandez Lynch, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania: “Once you have asked people to undertake the burden and risk of research participation, you don’t get to then just decide, Oh, we don’t want to do it anymore.”

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Elisabeth Langmann @elangmann.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

www.biomedcentral.com/collections/... Submission deadline: 19 December 2025 #bioethics #PublicHealth #ageism

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Françoise Baylis @francoisebaylis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“Denis Rebrikov, MD, the Russian scientist who stated publicly in 2019 that he wanted to use CRISPR to help deaf couples edit embryos to become hearing-enabled ..now says he is no longer pursuing HHGE for deafness because “deaf couples don’t want hearing children.” www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...

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Experts Discuss Guardrails for Heritable Human Genome Editing

Officials at ARM, ASGCT, and ISCT convened a small group of scientists, policy experts, religious leaders and patient advocates, in Washington, DC, this week to review the current state of HHGE guidel...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

FYI: My own slightly pessimistic 'Polarizing biotechnologies & a polarized public' brings together my current worries with some of my ethics and public engagement thoughts on future genomic editing/enhancement techology: jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho... (see the other great papers in this Issue too)

Cover image of the new Special Issue titled 'Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them': in the current issue of the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies (2005: Vol. 35. No 2)

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Delighted to remotely join the incredibly resiliant, couragous scholars in Ukraine's Zaporizhia State Medical & Pharmaceutical University for the 6th Int. Scientific & Practical Conference "Socially-Ethical and Deontological Problems of Modern Medicine": mphu.edu.ua/new_5988.html

PowerPoint title slide of presentation 'Disability, Selection & Genome Editing: Rethinking (non)identity-affecting debates', by Oliver Feeney; picture of conference participants in room around table; programme cover for 6th International Scientific-Practical Conference Socio-ethical and Deontological Problems of Contemporary Medicine Zaporizhzhia State Medical And Pharmaceutical University, Ukraine
20-21 February 2025.

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

CFP: We would very much welcome contributions from all working in this area, especially those from marginalised groups themselves: frontiersin.org/research-top... [informal queries to the guest editors, via: oliver.feeney@uni-tuebingen.de] @aem-online.bsky.social @jungemedizinethik.bsky.social

Picture of the 4 guest editors (two women, two men) of the Frontiers Research Topic titled Silenced Voices: The Role of Marginalized Groups in Debates on the Regulation of CRISPR-Cas-Based Human Genome Editing open call for submissions - deadline for abstracts - 31 March 2025; deadline for papers 31 July 2025. Contact us to find out more.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 05/02/2025

Looking forward to our half day symposium on fundamental biomedical research today aiming to demonstrate the need for increased funding for fundamental research in order to build national capacity and improve the career paths and prospects for biomedical researchers. #FundamentalResearch

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Last publication of 2024! Delighted to have co-authored this paper with Vojin Rakić & Sergey Shevchenko in the great Humana.Mente Special Issue Procreative Futures. Ethics and Politics of Human ‘Coming to the World’, edited by Federica Buongiorno & Matteo Galletti: www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

FYI @medycynapraktyczna.bsky.social: My 'Bioethical Challenges of Human Genome Editing: Messages, Imaginaries, and Realities', pp.150–155: and other fine articles in the December 2024 special issue of MEDYCYNA PRAKTYCZNA (all articles in Polish): ads.mp.pl/www/delivery...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Would Ireland benefit from having a national bioethics body? If so, what would this body look like? If not, how should Ireland address emerging bioethical challenges in the future? Some of the topics discussed at the @royalirishacademy.bsky.social www.ria.ie/2024/11/19/f... Report coming soon!

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Forum on the Future of Irish Bioethics - Royal Irish Academy

The Royal Irish Academy’s Life and Health Sciences committee recently hosted a Forum on the Future of Irish Bioethics to critically examine bioethical frameworks in Ireland.

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Final call for applications (Deadline 31 Oct) for CIVIS BIP Science, Ethics & Governance of Human Genome Editing Uni Tübingen 2025. If you are in the CIVIS Alliance universities, please do share to relevant departments and students. List of CIVIS Alliance universities are: civis.eu/en/discover-...

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The CIVIS Alliance

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

New CIVIS-Uni Tübingen output!: Angelioudaki, Badea, Bodo, Fernández-Soto, Karyampa, Kokkinakis, Kolisis, Kominea, Ozáez Armijos, Vogel & Feeney (2024) Beyond the traditional distinctions in HGE => vulnerability?: www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

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Frontiers | Beyond the traditional distinctions of genome editing: evaluating a vulnerability framework

Over 40 years ago, the 1982 Splicing Life report outlined the two distinctions that have orientated much of the normative and legal landscape of genetic inte...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Currently accepting abstracts from all who were in the Existential Threats Conference in Montenegro in May!

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

The year of 2024! Thanks to everyone taking part from Tübingen - Stockholm - Madrid - Marseille - Athens - Bucharest - Bruxelles - Rome - Lausanne! Thanks to all for a great CIVIS BIP! @unituebingen.bsky.social

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

New paper! with lead author Ana Ruxandra Badea, talented Universitatea din București participant from our 1st CIVIS Alliance on the science, ethics, governance of human genome editing summer programs in Uni Tübingen Med faculty/Ethics of genome editing Research Unit IEGM. Link here: rdcu.be/dOUDm

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Genome Editing Dilemma: Navigating Dual-Use Potential and Charting the Path Forward

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme: The science, ethics & governance of human genome editing Uni of Tübingen, 2024. Thanks everyone for a very successful series of virtual sessions! Tomorrow starts the in-person 5-day week in Tübingen!

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

FYI: Interesting European Journal of Human Genetics paper that I did a short comment on Gaydarska et al. The interplay of ethics and genetic technologies in balancing the social valuation of the human genome in UNESCO declarations: doi.org/10.1038/s414... My comment is here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Catching the next wave? The relationship between UNESCO and developments in genomics - European Journal of Human Genetics

European Journal of Human Genetics - Catching the next wave? The relationship between UNESCO and developments in genomics

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Ethics Lab @ FGW @ethicslab.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Vor einem halben Jahr, haben wir tausende Einladungen zur #Bürgerkonferenz „Robotik in der Altenpflege?“ 🤖🧓 verschickt. Das erste Wochenende liegt hinter uns. Es war intensiv und produktiv. Die Bürger:innen sind auf dem Weg zu einer gemeinsamen Empfehlung für die Pflege von morgen!🧵1/11

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

A quick reminder - in just under two weeks! Get in touch if you are interested!

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Online EGE seminar: Genomics & Beyond: A Decade in Review: On the idea of social & behavioural genetics - with Daphne Martschenko, Erik Parens & Kathryn Paige Harden. => 14 Feb 2024 @ 4pm Central European Time/10am Eastern US Time For more info: www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/files/view/a...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Watching German TV (in Tübingen) and there is a new crime drama on - set in Galway (with other locations in Ireland), but all in German/German actors playing Irish people (and not dubbed) - home away from home : ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eygn...

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Der Irland Krimi Donnerstagskrimi im Ersten

Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t.v._clips/Discord: https://discord.gg/wHsUZDHVCETwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tvclipsliveTwitter: https://...

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Oliver Feeney @oliverfeeney.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Upcoming Online/Zoom Seminar 'On the Idea of Enhancement in a time of CRISPR' - with Nicholas Agar - Vojin Rakić - Yawen Zou. When: Thursday 26 Oct 2023 @ 9am CET. If you would like to join, please contact me on: oliver.feeney@uni-tuebingen.de

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