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Trump administration launches new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system that asks Americans to share their personal health data and medical records with private tech companies.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

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Christine Carpenter on So, now what? warns women to be mindful of the information they put on tech platforms & how it could be used against them - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/i...

#gatescambridge #podcast

@uniofcam.bsky.social @chris4short.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Had a great (if depressing) time discussing the implications of reproductive surveillance for women’s rights with my colleagues @gatescambridge.bsky.social. If it piques your interest, give us a listen!

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

bart simpson is sitting at a desk in a room while a man in a hat stands in the doorway ALT: bart simpson is sitting at a desk in a room while a man in a hat stands in the doorway

Live footage of me trying to stay up to date on US news

Spending hours cleaning up Zotero, knowing I’m just gonna add more messy downloads later this afternoon…

…for a moment, it was really beautiful

Still a few more days to submit an abstract!

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

"In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal: The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials." -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Abortion Bans Worsen Violence in Relationships, Study Finds A new study shows that intimate partner violence increased in places requiring far travel to abortion clinics.

Abortion bans worsen intimate partner violence, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

There was ~9,000 additional incidents of IPV in states that limit abortion rights in 2023 vs 2017. That adds up to $1.24 billion in additional social costs.

Call for Abstracts! Disrupting your daily doom-scroll to share the call for ILW 2025's Emerging Voices Panel. ABILA provides *full funding* specifically for junior scholars to come present their research at ILW 😱 Consider submitting an abstract and pls reach out with any questions!

Tell me you study IR without telling me you study IR. I’ll go first:

I just explained Greggs as “sausage roll hegemony”

Can someone PLEASE tell me the point of endnotes I just don’t get it

Got a text from my dad: “best Father’s Day present ever!” with a picture.

It was worms. My brother got him worms for his compost bin and he’s delighted about it.

GW Law Celebrates Commencement 2025 | GW Law | The George Washington University The 158th Commencement of the George Washington University Law School was held on Sunday, May 18, 2025.

Harold Koh: “What I’ve learned from my dad, from my wife, from my family is that courage is contagious. So is cowardice. What you decide is a choice. And when your moment come—and believe me, it will—please make sure that the decision you make is one you can live with."

Show us your writing process in a gif.

This is pretty dystopian

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Announcing: the International Law Weekend 2025 Organizing Committee! Including @jesspeake.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, @corrarino.bsky.social, @ewickeri.bsky.social, @freyadw.bsky.social and @leilasadat1.bsky.social
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I have exactly one skill, and it’s being able to pick up a large suitcase and go “that’s just under 23 kgs”

New paper alert 🚨

Now up @ssrn.bsky.social is "Experiential Expertise: What Lived Experience Can Teach" forthcoming in BU L. Rev. It explores the contours of experiential expertise—what is it? how is it formed? how should it inform the law?

Would love any feedback!
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You guys can hang out and speak Italian together it’ll be lit

(Im not subversively pressuring him to pick either of those options for that reason at alll 👀)

He hasn’t decided yet but all options are trainable! 🥳 (and a couple are QUITE close to you)

Just found out my brother is going to grad school in Europe next year and will be just a train ride away 🥹🥹

👀👀👀 that’s always my goal

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

🫣🫣🫣

a bald man wearing glasses and a black jacket that says " do n't focus " ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a black jacket that says " do n't focus "

Me to me: you will not take on any more commitments until your first-year defense is over

Also me, currently:

Une aventure parisienne pour les Barbies de droit internationales peut-être

How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here’s what that means for your genetic data.

“Privacy advocates have long warned that the risk of entrusting genetic data to any institution is twofold—the organization could fail to protect it, but it could also hand over customer data to a new entity that they may not trust and didn’t choose.” www.wired.com/story/how-to...