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Garðar Árnason

@gardar.bsky.social

Professor of Philosophy, University of Akureyri

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Ethical, legal and social aspects of human cerebral organoids and their governance in Germany, the U... Human cerebral organoids (HCOs) are model systems that enable researchers to investigate the human brain in ways that had previously been impossible. The emergence of HCOs was accompanied by both expe...

Very happy to see this article published, it's been a long process and not always easy. Kudos to @anjapichl.bsky.social for seeing this through, to @robranisch.bsky.social and to all the authors for their contributions.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

13.11.2023 10:40 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

📣Jobs: Join my team @ethicslab.bsky.social!
Interested in #MedicalEthics, Data, or #AIEthics?
We're hiring a student research assistant / #Hilfskraft at the University of Potsdam
Student status? ✅
Remote work possible? ✅🌎
No need to be enrolled at Uni Potsdam.
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01.11.2023 08:47 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Call for abstracts! Next year the annual European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care takes place in Frankfurt, Germany, 21.-24. August. It's always a friendly venue for academics at all career stages. More information at espmh.org

27.10.2023 08:36 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Quote with a picture of water that you took

24.10.2023 21:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And not only in winter or fall 😁 we had some pretty strong storms early in the summer

19.10.2023 10:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful skies this morning

19.10.2023 09:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Good to be back in beautiful Tübingen

12.10.2023 10:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

German law is very restrictive, to the point of making the derivation of human embryonic stem cells a criminal offence. The views expressed tend very strongly towards liberalisation.

09.10.2023 14:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today and tomorrow I am in Berlin attending a conference on human embryos in medical research, organized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (#BMBF).

09.10.2023 14:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Abstract just submitted for the World Congress of Bioethics in Doha next year. I had a very interesting and fun discussion with organizer Mohammed Ghaly in Riga in August. We talked about the ethical aspects of having the congress in Qatar, but also Islamic views on disability and synthetic embryos.

30.09.2023 16:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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