Megan Prictor

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 Annual Lecture: Ethics of Polygenic Editing and Selection Professor Julian Savulescu will deliver the inaugural Lecture for the Law, Health and Society Research Unit

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

Review of Surrogacy Laws: Issues Paper (2025) Submissions in response to the Issues Paper are now open. The Issues Paper introduces our inquiry and explains what we have been asked to do. It provides a brief overview of surrogacy laws in Australi...

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/...

Man in green shirt and hat installing a seismic sensor for the US ShakeAlert system in a field near San Francisco

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
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Details : Research Fellow (Health Genomics Governance) : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

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

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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."
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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 $.

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We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇!

Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination?
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Strathclyde Law School is advertising for a readership in public law. Details here:

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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:

Screen shot of article 'Saving trouble, saving time: the role and impact of healthcare consultation recordings in Australian legal proceedings' by Megan Prictor, Medical Law Review 33(1) Winter 2025 Published 14 March 2025

3/3 Patients often recorded because they did not TRUST their healthcare provider. Importantly, there are no cases about consented recordings made for broader patient benefit. Lawful, mutually agreed recordings of healthcare consultations present very low risk of adverse medico-legal consequences.

2/3, Most of the consultation recordings were made in the context of pre-existing conflicts. mainly involving personal injury, professional misconduct, and family law. Recordings had the greatest value in matters involving professional misconduct. In other matters, findings were mixed....

Saving trouble, saving time: the role and impact of healthcare consultation recordings in Australian legal proceedings Abstract. Healthcare professionals have long expressed concern about their exposure to litigation if they allow consultations to be recorded. There has bee

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...

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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 becomes a legal person as treaty settlement passes into law Mt Taranaki will be jointly managed by iwi and the Crown and the name Mt Egmont will be consigned to history.

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 When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

‘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...

There's a platypus in there somewhere

Pond reflecting the native forest

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

Rocky coastline and sea under cloudy evening sky. Near Lorne, Victoria

Evening calm

a close up of a man 's face with the words but that is not for them to decide below him Alt: A close up of Gandalf’s face with the words “but that is not for them to decide” below him

“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

Colorful twilight over the sea , reflected in the patterned wet sand.

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.

Beach and blue sky