Jury finds Instagram and YouTube addictive in lawsuit poised to reshape social media – platform design meets product liability A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoided the issue of liability for content and focused on allegations that social media platforms themselves are harmful by design.

Is this the Big Tobacco moment for Big Tech? An American jury found Meta and Google knew the design or operation of Instagram and YouTube was likely to be addictive when used by a minor, and that the platforms failed to adequately warn of that danger theconversation.com/jury-finds-i...

You'll hear lots more from me over the next wee while about the Special Issue, the individual papers, and lived experience as knowledge in higher education teaching... (4/4) #EduSky #LivedExperience #HigherEd #Universities

What started as a conversation over coffee grew into a project about rethinking what counts as knowledge in academia. Lived experience isn’t an add-on. It’s transformative and challenging how we teach, learn, and value expertise. (3/4) #EduSky #LivedExperience #HigherEd #Universities

From coffee to collaboration: reflections and insights on lived experience in higher education teaching Published in Higher Education Research & Development (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2026)

It was a privilege and delight to co-guest edit with Snita Ahir-Knight. Please read our editorial to learn about the lived experience community work that makes this Special Issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (2/4) #EduSky #LivedExperience #HigherEd #Universities

Higher Education Research & Development Benefits and challenges of integrating lived experience in higher education. Volume 45, Issue 2 of Higher Education Research & Development

The Special Issue of @herdjournal.bsky.social on lived experience in higher education teaching is out! See: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cher20/4... Please share widely. (1/4) #EduSky #LivedExperience #HigherEd #Universities

COVID-19 and long COVID 2024/25: New Zealand Health Survey | Ministry of Health NZ This page presents a summary of data from questions about COVID-19 and long COVID added to the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) in 2024/25.

The first NZ data from MOH on #longcovid numbers is out

It's based on data collected in the 2024/2025 health survey

Around 1 in 11 NZ adults reported having at least one Long Covid symptom for over three months

www.health.govt.nz/publications...

Fewer Than 2% Of Older Pedestrians Can Cross The Street In Time The length of the green signal on pedestrian crossings assumes that people can walk at a speed of 1.2 m/s. Scientists find that very few older people can walk that fast.

My March story for @forbes.com has just gone live. It's all about pedestrian crossings and how the timings they're based on no longer match the demographics of our cities ⚛️🧪👩‍🔬
www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

Chronic Illness & creative writing a free Ōtepoti Dunedin community workshop programme for people with ME/CFS or Long Covid Applications open till 13th March 2026 Funded by The Centre for Medical Humanities (University of Otago) illustrated with cartoon graphic of person (with long, curly black hair & wearing shortsleeved purple top) holding a notebook and pen

Ōtepoti: Centre for Medical Humanities at Otago Uni is funding

Chronic Illness & creative writing

a free Ōtepoti Dunedin community workshop programme for people with ME/CFS or Long Covid

Applications open till 13th March 2026 (will put link in following reply)

image: poster, same info as above

I’m not unreliable. I’m just unwell. You don’t see the hours I spend recovering. You don’t feel the guilt when I cancel. You don’t hear the noise inside my body. But I promise you I want to show up. More than you’ll ever know. @cfshealth

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Please read these responses!

Thank You Alice Wong Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.

“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.

She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”

If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up

Wahooo! Congratulations Tara.

As a reward for supporting @siouxsiew.bsky.social I've donated 6 signed copies of #TheCovidResponse. And if you want to know how important Siouxsie's case was for academic freedom in Aotearoa, I've written a piece for the NZSR on what I think it means: ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...

At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Ngā mihi nui Amy, for reading and sharing! I'm going to be saving your "wildly beautiful and important" comment for when I need writing encouragement ❤️

Ngā mihi maioha for sharing ❤️

Ngā mihi maioha for reading and sharing, Sophie x

“You hurt too much”: pain, suffering, and stigma Ngā mihi nui, thank you very much, to family, friends, and colleagues who have read and responded to this piece over the last three years. Ngā mihi nui to the students of SCIS 314 whose feedback an…

New, old, percolating writing about pain, suffering and stigma pinchesofpain.com/2025/10/17/y...

Big shakeup for NZ's research funding - Expert Reaction - Science Media Centre The Government will consolidate decision-making for New Zealand's science research funding as part of its new science system strategy. Research Funding New Zealand will be a new independent board that...

Big shakeup for NZ’s research funding – Expert Reaction

The Cochrane library is a global source of independent health evidence for everyone – why is NZ restricting access? New Zealanders download Cochrane Library health reviews daily. Restricting access is a step back to when medical knowledge was held tightly by professionals.

Another way government austerity is failing healthcare and the NZ people. Underfunded Te Whatu Ora / Health NZ is cutting access to the Cochrane Library, a gold standard source of information to support health decision-making. NZers use it 246 times per day. #nzpol

tinyurl.com/3jya8hkd

Preparing our kids for the real world? | E-Tangata “Children have a human right to a quality education that equips them for effective participation in a strong democracy — not one that simply shapes them into cogs for the economic machine.”  — Catheri...

“Children have a human right to a quality education that equips them for effective participation in a strong democracy — not one that simply shapes them into cogs for the economic machine.” — Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn.

This doesn’t surprise me. I know so many around me going down with illnesses!

Wear a mask people. I reckon this is why I haven’t gotten sick

Māori voices silenced in health, again | E-Tangata “We will no longer be tasked with local service design and delivery. Instead, our job will be to ‘engage’ and ’advise’. These changes take us from active partners to passive recipients.”  — Louisa Wal...

“We will no longer be tasked with local service design and delivery. Instead, our job will be to ‘engage’ and ’advise’. These changes take us from active partners to passive recipients.” — Louisa Wall on changes to Pae Ora law.

There’s a poster above, as well as a link below to a survey where people can sign up if interested 😊:

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Thank you very much! Any help is really appreciated. (3/3)

We’re interested in people’s experience with breastfeeding and chestfeeding pain, and would love it if you could please share the invitation to join the research with anyone you think would be keen to join an arts-based workshop about this. Babies and kids are of course welcome to attend! (2/3)

A poster showing a person breast/chest feeding in one image and craft items (pens, scissors, glue sticks in another). The text reads: "Breast/Chest-Feeding Pain Research. What is feeding pain like? What support do feeders need? Join us for a workshop about pain and what helps. Format: Creative Workshop Dates: 7, 9, or 11 August 2025. Koha and refreshments provided. This study was approved by the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University Human Ethics Committee (#HE040069).

Kia ora Wellington based friends 😊

I’m posting to let you know about a research project I have underway with Octavia Calder Dawe, Eva Neely (both from the School of Health at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington) and Carmen Timu-Parata (NZ Breastfeeding Alliance). (1/3)

The Kāpiti Coast has its own writers' festival on 9-10 August - check it out!

Wow -- I didn't realize we've been added to Spotify, too! If that's how you roll, here's the link:

open.spotify.com/show/0s6hEHu...

* Audio distribution for indies like us takes a while and it's a crapshoot with major retailers. Corporate publishers get the real access, priority lane, tools, etc.

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.