Dr Kayleen Manwaring

Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...

ICYMI: New #PhD paper out!

We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.

Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AcademicSky #HealthPolicy 🛟 🧪 🦘🎓

Dr Bill Davies and Dr Alexandria Bradley

Graphic reading 'LBU Research Voices'

From 'Corridor Kids' to Criminologists - read all about how Dr Bill Davies and Dr Alex Bradley are unlocking the doors to higher education in prisons, and ensuring education is open to others who never thought university could be for them.

🗞️ bit.ly/4qobjRX

#AcademicSky #criminology #research

We are aware of serious concerns raised about a feature on Grok on X that produces undressed images of people and sexualised images of children. We have made urgent contact with X and xAl to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK. Based on their response we will undertake a swift assessment to determine whether there are potential compliance issues that warrant investigation.

From Ofcom, the UK’s (generally toothless) communications watchdog:

My PhD framework is now LIVE!

We co-designed 5 recommendations for improving social media health communication to young people, with young people and health orgs📱

🔗: www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/social-media-comms-for-young-people-framework

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #PhDSky #PublicHealth 🦘🎓

What teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous education If you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem:...

Great to have the chance to talk about our research in this article for The Point! In it we emphasise the risks GenAI raises for Indigenous Education and what came from our recent study testing LLMs on Indigenous topics. 🦘🎓 #edusky #academicsky

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

#academicjobs

Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology, commissioner finds The Privacy Commissioner has found Kmart broke the Privacy Act with its use of facial recognition technology, ordering the retail giant not to repeat the practice.

The Privacy Commissioner has found Kmart broke the Privacy Act with its use of facial recognition technology, ordering the retail giant not to repeat the practice.

The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.

Are you a full professor in Security Studies with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Political Science, Public Policy, History (Intelligence or National Security), or a related field?

Please consider applying for or sharing this vacancy. We're a super team!

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BEUC study shows electric cars are a good deal for consumers New medium-sized electric vehicles will be cheaper overall to run1 than their petrol equivalents from 2026 according to a new BEUC study released today. Small vehicles will follow as of 2027.

New BEUC study released today shows electric cars are a good deal for consumers! 🚗🔌

New medium-sized electric vehicles will be cheaper overall to run than their petrol equivalents from 2026. Small vehicles will follow as of 2027.

Read more 👇

Aid cuts are hampering UK science, Crick researcher says - Research Professional News Leading infectious disease scientist warns of funding drying up and visa barriers for PhD students

'Aid cuts are hampering UK #science, Crick researcher says...'
reducing overseas development aid is a disaster... for ethics, environment, ecosystem, education, excellence & economy
@crick.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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Consumers are all over the law: consumer welfare in antitrust, consumer confusion in TM, consumer understanding of art in copyright. But what is The Consumer, really?

On 10/16 and 17, we're going to dig in.....

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Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race
#philsci #philtech #philjobs

JOB: PhD candidate legal history (first half of the 20th century), University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig, Chair for Civil Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law (DEADLINE: 18... By High Contrast - Own work, CC BY 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11655231     Die Universität Regensburg ist mit ü...

JOB: PhD candidate legal history (first half of the 20th century), University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig, Chair for Civil Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law (DEADLINE: 18 July 2025)

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For all my friends with doctorates, here is your trailblazer.

License to build Public attitudes to public sector AI

Government departments and local authorities are looking to accelerate AI use in the public sector.

Our new policy briefing presents six findings from six years of Ada’s research on public attitudes towards the use of data and AI in public services.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Volume XXXI, Issue 2: Learning From Emerging Technology Governance for Guiding Quantum Technology by Gary Marchant Download as PDF

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"Today, connected TV (CTV) OSes are largely built around not just gathering user data, but also creating ways to collect new types of information about viewers in order to deliver more relevant, impactful ads."

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture 2025 – “Reflections on the Evolution of Software Copyright Law since the 1980s" - LSE Law School Events The Professor Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture series has been established as an annual event by LSE academics Dr Martin Husovec and Dr Luke McDonagh to honour the late Professor Bill Cornish who passed ...

On 13 May, Prof. @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) will deliver the Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture at LSE on software copyright since the 1980s. Prof. Martin Kretschmer (CREATe) will be a commentator.
To Attend: lselaw.events/event/the-pr...

WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media: “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government. “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.

After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

Totally.

‼️ Are you interested in children’s rights, digital forensics and digital evidence come and work with me and join a great team @crisresearch.bsky.social!

Deadline 9th of May !

#postdoc #digitalcriminology #criminology jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.

5 ways to tackle Australia’s backlog of asylum cases Overall, Australia needs a fundamental shift that recognises fairness contributes to, rather than detracts from efficiency.

🛑 In Australia, tens of thousands of people are waiting for asylum decisions.
New piece in @theconversation.com by @danghez.bsky.social, Mia Bridle and Keyvan Dorostkar outlines 5 ways to fix it: theconversation.com/5-ways-to-ta...
#RefugeeLaw #AsylumSeekers #Fairness=Efficiency #AusPol