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Nathan Emmerich
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Bioethicist at ANU, mostly medical ethics. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8199-4673
The celar irony being that the arts and humanities are the best way to AI proof your education and the higher education industry as a whole: www.afr.com/work-and-car...
‘We can’t force people to wisdom’: Why no one is studying arts
As universities become more like vocational colleges than places of higher learning, the humanities are in steep decline. They can and should be saved.
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August 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New paper in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics: Conscientious Objection and the Provision of Abortion at Late(r) Stages of Pregnancy cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cj...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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July 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Did AI write that headline?
Coco Gauff went down in a shocking first-round Wimbledon upset to Dayana Yastremska in straight sets.

Gauff, the tournament’s No. 2 seed, was coming off her second Grand Slam singles title with a win in the French Open last month.
Coco Gauff is upset at Wimbledon by Dayana Yastremska in first round
Gauff, the No. 2 seed, was ousted in straight sets just weeks after winning her second Grand Slam title at the French Open.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark. Will she win the fight to get Zammi back?
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump."

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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
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LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.
www.lse.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Texas midwife arrested for allegedly providing abortions amid state’s near-total ban www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Texas midwife arrested for allegedly providing abortions amid state’s near-total ban
Maria Margarita Rojas charged with illegal performance of procedure, considered a second-degree felony in the state
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March 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It is not really about ‘influence’ (on a decision) but being able to act on one’s decisions free from harassment and intimidation. For the most part, those attending clinics have made the decision.
The Case of Abortion Safe Zones - Thomas Mitchell writes about the ethics of influence in the case of abortions. Are #safezones, as have been recently introduced, an effective tool to ensure a woman’s decision to abort remains free of external influences?

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Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones | Practical Ethics
by Thomas Mitchell In September last year, the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024 came into effect. This Act establishes safe zones of 200 metres in all directions around clinic...
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February 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Is it just me that think the there is something interesting to be said about language policing and conceptual engineering vis link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Interesting, but perhaps not useful…
Conceptual Engineering Should be Empirical - Erkenntnis
Conceptual engineering is a philosophical method that aims to design and spread conceptual and linguistic devices to cause meaningful changes in the world. So far, however, conceptual engineers have s...
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February 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Queensland halts prescription of puberty blockers and hormones for children with gender dysphoria: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland halts prescription of puberty blockers and hormones for children with gender dysphoria
Pause comes as Crisafulli government launches independent review after reports gender-affirming hormones were given without proper consultation
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January 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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“We are arguably no nearer to engineering artificial consciousness than we were a decade ago. Instead we have engineered artificial language mirrors... and for the purposes of producing the grand illusion of consciousness,” argues @shannonvallor.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/3yxzgRp

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The dangerous illusion of AI consciousness | Shannon Vallor
AI expert and DeepMind contributor Shannon Vallor explores OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model, based on the ideas of her new book, ‘The AI Mirror’. Despite modest intellectual improvements, AGI's…
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January 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Dating apps have no interest in helping people find love.
December 30, 2024 at 2:27 PM
@dananddanfilms.bsky.social is always relevant:
December 22, 2024 at 4:26 PM
The Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Support Network: medcast.com.au/communities/...
AusCAPPS | Medcast
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December 18, 2024 at 1:15 AM
NSW abortion deserts: just three of 220 public hospitals provide terminations, research finds: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW abortion deserts: just three of 220 public hospitals provide terminations, research finds
Exclusive: All 15 health districts and the state’s health minister refuse to give public information on access to terminations
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December 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Push to stop NSW hospitals opting out of abortions as healthcare ‘deserts’ exposed: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Push to stop NSW hospitals opting out of abortions as healthcare ‘deserts’ exposed
Greens MP Dr Amanda Cohn says ‘far too little has changed’ since abortion was decriminalised in NSW five years ago
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:04 AM