Diego Silva
@dsilvaphd.bsky.social
Señor Lecturer @sydhealthethics University of Sydney. Interested in ethics & politics of health. (Bioethics. Public health ethics.) And I consume too much sports. (he/him) 🇨🇦🇺🇾🌏
This is so unbelievably shortsighted and will hurt Australians for years to come.
Climate of fear: are CSIRO’s sweeping job cuts a sign Australia doesn’t care about the extinction crisis?
Ever decreasing funding for the globally respected government agency mirrors an industry-wide trend that could hinder scientific breakthroughs
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is so unbelievably shortsighted and will hurt Australians for years to come.
I feel sympathy for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
2025 - you're the gift that keeps on giving...
2025 - you're the gift that keeps on giving...
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I feel sympathy for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
2025 - you're the gift that keeps on giving...
2025 - you're the gift that keeps on giving...
Modernity as expressed in one powerful sign.
(Source: HouseEurope!)
(Source: HouseEurope!)
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Modernity as expressed in one powerful sign.
(Source: HouseEurope!)
(Source: HouseEurope!)
If I think about it, my love of futbol is responsible for, like, 58% of my knowledge of world geography
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
If I think about it, my love of futbol is responsible for, like, 58% of my knowledge of world geography
How - HOW!?!? - is it possible for FIFA to be more morally bankrupt than it already is?!?! HOW?!
What can you give your mate who’s desperately upset on missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize?
FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀
FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
How - HOW!?!? - is it possible for FIFA to be more morally bankrupt than it already is?!?! HOW?!
Shoutout to whoever wrote this headline. 10/10
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Shoutout to whoever wrote this headline. 10/10
Reposted by Diego Silva
A reminder that our next RUTA conference will focus on the role of embodied and rooted knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers of shifts in power. Deadline for submissions is Nov 15. We welcome a wide range of presentation and art formats, while prioritising transregional and global panels
RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation
Annual Conference
12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
URL: ruta-association.org...
Annual Conference
12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
URL: ruta-association.org...
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A reminder that our next RUTA conference will focus on the role of embodied and rooted knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers of shifts in power. Deadline for submissions is Nov 15. We welcome a wide range of presentation and art formats, while prioritising transregional and global panels
Reposted by Diego Silva
Uruguay, aprueba la muerte médicamente asistida a través de un procedimiento legislativo. Un gran avance para los derechos de los pacientes.
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
Uruguay aprueba ley de eutanasia, la primera en América Latina
El Senado aprobó la norma titulada "Muerte Digna" con 20 votos a favor de un total de 31 parlamentarios presentes. Aunque Colombia y Ecuador fueron los primeros países del contintente en despenalizar ...
www.jornada.com.mx
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Uruguay, aprueba la muerte médicamente asistida a través de un procedimiento legislativo. Un gran avance para los derechos de los pacientes.
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
The best story of the week, IMO, is Cape Verde qualifying for the 2026 World Cup! 💪
(I know FIFA is corrupt and evil, but I’m still gonna enjoy that a country of 500K qualified out of CAF - not an easy task!!)
(I know FIFA is corrupt and evil, but I’m still gonna enjoy that a country of 500K qualified out of CAF - not an easy task!!)
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The best story of the week, IMO, is Cape Verde qualifying for the 2026 World Cup! 💪
(I know FIFA is corrupt and evil, but I’m still gonna enjoy that a country of 500K qualified out of CAF - not an easy task!!)
(I know FIFA is corrupt and evil, but I’m still gonna enjoy that a country of 500K qualified out of CAF - not an easy task!!)
Honoured to be working as co Editor in Chief of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry!
We have such a wonderful history to build from but, no doubt, it’s a difficult and transitional time for academic publishing. Helping steward JBI, alongside Chris and Bronwen, will be an exciting new challenge!
We have such a wonderful history to build from but, no doubt, it’s a difficult and transitional time for academic publishing. Helping steward JBI, alongside Chris and Bronwen, will be an exciting new challenge!
📣 Introducing new JBI editors-in-chief (content) Chris Mayes and Diego Silva.
They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.
Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!
They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.
Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Honoured to be working as co Editor in Chief of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry!
We have such a wonderful history to build from but, no doubt, it’s a difficult and transitional time for academic publishing. Helping steward JBI, alongside Chris and Bronwen, will be an exciting new challenge!
We have such a wonderful history to build from but, no doubt, it’s a difficult and transitional time for academic publishing. Helping steward JBI, alongside Chris and Bronwen, will be an exciting new challenge!
Reposted by Diego Silva
📣 Introducing new JBI editors-in-chief (content) Chris Mayes and Diego Silva.
They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.
Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!
They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.
Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
📣 Introducing new JBI editors-in-chief (content) Chris Mayes and Diego Silva.
They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.
Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!
They both join our continuing editor-in-chief of production, Bronwen Morrell.
Thanks to our outgoing EiC (content) Michael Ashby, who is retiring from the JBI and leaving it in these great hands!
What are the ethical parameters of modelling infectious diseases, particularly during an outbreak or pandemic? Sara Del Valle, Michael Plank, & I answer this question in our new paper looking at the ethics of disease modelling for public health policy, particularly as it pertains to school closures.
Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures | Interface Focus
Mathematical models of infectious diseases are frequently used as a tool to support
public health policy and decisions around the implementation of interventions such
as school closures. However, most...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
What are the ethical parameters of modelling infectious diseases, particularly during an outbreak or pandemic? Sara Del Valle, Michael Plank, & I answer this question in our new paper looking at the ethics of disease modelling for public health policy, particularly as it pertains to school closures.
Nothing feels like being home like watching Baroness Von Sketch Show!
❤️😆
❤️😆
September 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Nothing feels like being home like watching Baroness Von Sketch Show!
❤️😆
❤️😆
Reposted by Diego Silva
Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
Reposted by Diego Silva
La Diaria(14-09-2025 10:36): Historia: Julia Paternain, la primera uruguaya en ganar una medalla en un Mundial de atletismo https://ladiaria.com.uy/deporte/articulo/2025/9/historia-julia-paternain-la-primera-uruguaya-en-ganar-una-medalla-en-un-mundial-de-atletismo/
September 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
La Diaria(14-09-2025 10:36): Historia: Julia Paternain, la primera uruguaya en ganar una medalla en un Mundial de atletismo https://ladiaria.com.uy/deporte/articulo/2025/9/historia-julia-paternain-la-primera-uruguaya-en-ganar-una-medalla-en-un-mundial-de-atletismo/
So cool to watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce run what will - likely - be her last 100m race at the #WorldAthletics Championship. What an amazing career! Absolute beast 💪 What a legend!
September 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So cool to watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce run what will - likely - be her last 100m race at the #WorldAthletics Championship. What an amazing career! Absolute beast 💪 What a legend!
Well done Victoria - important step in the right direction!
#Aboriginal #sovereignty #selfdetermination
#Aboriginal #sovereignty #selfdetermination
September 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Well done Victoria - important step in the right direction!
#Aboriginal #sovereignty #selfdetermination
#Aboriginal #sovereignty #selfdetermination
#NBA nerd open question:
How much of the Ballmer/Kawhi Leonard/Aspire saga is being interpreted through the post-truth glasses of 2025? What LEGAL effect, if any, will this have?
Gist (clumsily stated): the evidentiary standard in the NBA CBA allows for circumstantial evidence in cases ...
How much of the Ballmer/Kawhi Leonard/Aspire saga is being interpreted through the post-truth glasses of 2025? What LEGAL effect, if any, will this have?
Gist (clumsily stated): the evidentiary standard in the NBA CBA allows for circumstantial evidence in cases ...
September 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
#NBA nerd open question:
How much of the Ballmer/Kawhi Leonard/Aspire saga is being interpreted through the post-truth glasses of 2025? What LEGAL effect, if any, will this have?
Gist (clumsily stated): the evidentiary standard in the NBA CBA allows for circumstantial evidence in cases ...
How much of the Ballmer/Kawhi Leonard/Aspire saga is being interpreted through the post-truth glasses of 2025? What LEGAL effect, if any, will this have?
Gist (clumsily stated): the evidentiary standard in the NBA CBA allows for circumstantial evidence in cases ...
'One presumes this specific advice [to wash one’s underpants if you’re fired] came about after staff learned that 10% of the university was about to be slashed, 400 workers were about to lose their jobs and, as the cry of “are you shitting me?!” roared throughout the campus tower,...
To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …
It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
'One presumes this specific advice [to wash one’s underpants if you’re fired] came about after staff learned that 10% of the university was about to be slashed, 400 workers were about to lose their jobs and, as the cry of “are you shitting me?!” roared throughout the campus tower,...
@sidlowe.bsky.social How’s that for Real Oviedo? They score even on the other side of the continent! Even when they’re not playing, technically! (Viñas para Uruguay contra Peru)
September 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@sidlowe.bsky.social How’s that for Real Oviedo? They score even on the other side of the continent! Even when they’re not playing, technically! (Viñas para Uruguay contra Peru)
Looks like this will be a great opportunity for those working on #AMR and #ethics, #justice.
Exciting stuff!
Exciting stuff!
Call for Papers
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: [email protected]
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: [email protected]
September 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by Diego Silva
Call for Papers
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: [email protected]
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: [email protected]
September 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Call for Papers
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: [email protected]
Special Issue in the Monash Bioethics Review SpringerEthics
Antimicrobial Resistance, Historical Responsibility & Intergenerational Justice
Funding support for open access
Deadline: 01 April 2026
link.springer.com/collections/...
Contact: [email protected]
Nothing says 'prevention' like cutting funds to your federal public health agency after a pandemic.
@mark-carney.bsky.social - how is gutting public health 'efficient'? How much will this cost when Canada is left unprepared for the next pandemic?
@mark-carney.bsky.social - how is gutting public health 'efficient'? How much will this cost when Canada is left unprepared for the next pandemic?
PHAC cutting hundreds of jobs as part of 'post-pandemic recalibration' | CBC News
The Public Health Agency of Canada is cutting roughly 10 per cent of its employees as it continues to shrink its workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.cbc.ca
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Nothing says 'prevention' like cutting funds to your federal public health agency after a pandemic.
@mark-carney.bsky.social - how is gutting public health 'efficient'? How much will this cost when Canada is left unprepared for the next pandemic?
@mark-carney.bsky.social - how is gutting public health 'efficient'? How much will this cost when Canada is left unprepared for the next pandemic?
Reposted by Diego Silva
Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)
PSA Around the World 2025 - Philosophy of Science Association
www.philsci.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Just registered for PSA Around the World Eastern Europe. Hope you do too! Organised by @philsci.bsky.social with @eenphilsci.bsky.social this online conference over three afternoons in November covers the past and the present of #philsci in Eastern n Central Europe (where it arguably started!)