International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2026 | Promo YouTube video by Pandemic Sciences Institute

Only a couple of months to go until #PandemicSciences26 conference in Singapore! There's still time to register--check out the promo video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=huG7...

PAPER OUT NOW! Zeb Jamrozik, George Heriot and I argue doctors should prescribe shorter courses of antibiotics: longer treatments usually offer no additional benefit while increasing harms to patients and public health. Read it in AJOB www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Frankenstein's Babies YouTube video by Reuben College

Public Engagement Alert! 🚨🎤😄
I gave a talk at Reuben College's 'Dining with Dinosaurs' seminar series this week, where I got 100+ people chatting over dinner about whether we should pursue human enhancement, risking making 'Frankenstein's Babies'. Check out the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9j...

Many thanks to lead authors @drtessjohnson.bsky.social and @lewiscemason.bsky.social team @target-amr.bsky.social and our wonderful stakeholders who joined in and shared their invaluable views and experiences! 7/n

The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human and animal health, in addition to environmental resilience. Countries set the agenda on thei…

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was a pleasure to work with @target-amr.bsky.social colleagues to examine how genomics can help deliver the UK's National Action Plan on AMR!

New paper out! Check it out for how we should use the terms 'coercion' and 'solidarity' and how they played out during the pandemic. Are they really normative terms? We think not. Dis/agree? Write an OPC response! See AJOB for details. w/ Safura Abdool Karim, Diego S Silva. doi.org/10.1080/1526...

Richard Pallardy explores the havoc that can follow when farm animals breed with wild species, and @drtessjohnson.bsky.social looks at the fraught ethical questions raised by exciting developments in genomics...

It's a pleasure to be featured in the Uehiro Oxford Institute's #WomenInEthics series! Let's work to inspire more young women to engage in the area!

HOT OFF THE PRESS! 📸📰Delighted to announce our special issue of Monash Bioethics Review is out! Authors discuss coercion, vaccination, consent, place, forced treatment, smoking, COVID visitors, and more! Many thanks to all involved 🎉🙌 link.springer.com/journal/4059...

New paper out now! We explore why we need greater breadth and scope of the idea of 'justice' to avoid an 'unjust transition' in the ways we use and regulate antibiotics to address #AMR in the future. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

📸💊🗞️News out on my paper with @phaikyeong and Lorenz Von Seidlein on the ethical differences between antimalarial resistance and antibacterial resistance, and why we should prioritise addressing antimalarial resistance more highly! Take a read 👉 www.ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/news/ethical...

Paper now out! We look at tracking HIV transmission and how that may raise ethical considerations RE public health benefits, reduced transmission, individual liberty and privacy. doi.org/10.1111/bioe... With Francisca Faber,
Zeb Jamrozik, Lucie Abeler-Dorner, and Steph Johnson

Delighted to be involved in the British Academy's summer showcase on Saturday 21st! Do come along to talk about bugs, drugs, and justice if you're in London!

Delighted to have worked with these fantastic people and others, on a workshop and a paper that really got us thinking about coercion in public health and the work still to be done!

I’m honoured to share the news with you all that I’ve been promoted to a Senior Researcher position at the Ethox Centre! I'm delighted to continue my work on infectious disease ethics, and taking up opportunities in DPhil supervision, engagement, and international collaborations

10 Knowledge Exchange grants awarded to early career researchers working on AMR

It's time for more walks! This summer, I will be working on the Stop the Superbugs trail as a year-round add to Oxford Botanic Gardens self-guided walks offerings. Delighted to be funded by @ineosoxford.bsky.social for this work on #amr Funding announcement: www.ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/amr/news/10-...

Westminster School win the 2025 Practical Ethics and Responsibility competition! Huge congratulations to all the Finalists and Highly Commended teams for 2025

The 6th #PERC final was hard-fought between Christ's Hospital School, Highgate Senior School, St Paul's School for Girls (Birmingham) and 🥇Westminster School. Congrats to all for their hard work and enthusiasm! www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/prac...
@oxhumanities.bsky.social #PhilosophyMatters #ethics

I'm really looking forward to co-delivering a science cafe event as part of this year's BA showcase! Do come along on Saturday to learn about bugs, drugs, and tackling AMR with justice in mind.

Graphic with pictures of the speakers at IOI Early career reseatcher conference 2025, Friday 21 march @ Said Business School. Dr Liberty Duignan, Centre for Process Innovation, Dr Sion Bayliss, University of Bristol, Dr Janet Nale, Scotlands Rural College, Dr Marta Wanat, University of Oxford, Dr Jennifer Shelton, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and Dr Gregory McCallum, University of Liverpool. The Keynote speakers are Dr Linda Oyama and Dr Clive Mason.

What a line-up! Just two weeks to go until our Early Career Researcher conference at Said Business School. We’ll be joined by some fantastic speakers sharing their #AMR research.

If you can’t be with us in-person, we’ll be covering all the action with the hashtag #IOIECR25

New paper outlines ethical issues in clinical metagenomics This week, University of Oxford researchers published the first paper mapping clinical ethics questions raised by new metagenomic techniques for diagnosing disease in clinical practice.

Paper out now! We explore ethical questions with new clinical uses of metagenomics for diagnosis. We look at data sharing, consent, incidental findings, and more! Blogpost and link to article here: www.psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opi...
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social @psioxford.bsky.social

I was delighted to see this special issue published last week, after a rewarding journey through questions of #justice and #amr

New to Bluesky! I'm Tess Johnson, postdoc in #bioethics at @ethoxcentre.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk . Will be posting work-related content, views are my own.