Professor Katie Barclay re the state of Oz unis:

Call for conttributions to special issue of @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social on 'Bioethics for the Planet', mixing medical ethics & environmental (climate) ethics - edited by Paul Komesaroff, Cara Platts, Natasha Rooney and me. EoI by May 31 to c.platts@unimelb.edu.au
#bioethics #medhum #envhum #STS

Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from her ongoing role as a distinguished professor and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications.
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The brilliant BioSocieties Special Issue: The 𝘕𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 in Life Science, Biomedicine, and Care is out now!
link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Tonight, Four Corners unpacks the crisis of university governance in Australia on #ABC.

@nteunion.bsky.social members are proud to have put university governance on the national agenda - but there is more to do!

Not yet a member? Join today at www.nteu.au/join ✊

Introduction to the special issue: The Near Human in life science, biomedicine, and care - BioSocieties BioSocieties -

Latest special issue - The Near Human

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS Seminar on Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS by Prof Deboleena Roy

Join us for a talk by Deboleena Roy (Emory University): “Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS.”

With discussants @cwaldby.bsky.social &
@jiannitien.bsky.social
Chaired by @shoshohini.bsky.social

🗓 17 March | USYD | tinyurl.com/yc2e7ah4

Sydney STS Peeps 📣

Join us for a talk by Deboleena Roy (Emory University): “Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS.”

With discussants @cwaldby.bsky.social & @jiannitien.bsky.social Chaired by @shoshohini.bsky.social

🗓 17 March | USYD | See flyer for deets

An excellent review of Medicine on a Larger Scale @universitypress.cambridge.org eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene and me - by Kirsten Ann Ehrenberger in J History of Medicine & Allied Sciences
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#histmed #histstm

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨

The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Vale Heather Goodall It is with immense sadness that the AANZEHN shares the news that our friend and colleague Heather Goodall passed away peacefully on 29 January 2026, surrounded by her family. Heather was a powerhou…

A moving obituary from @libbydeq.bsky.social and Tom Griffiths:

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Great job at The Australian National University: Research Fellow school of sociology.

Teaching Through Uncertainty This Viewpoint discusses the uncertainty that medical ethics and social medicine instructors face in regard to the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and university funding cuts.

A warning from @jama.com about damage to ethics and social medicine in the US, which we anticipated in our book Medicine on a Larger Scale, edited with @ahlie.bsky.social and Jeremy Greene, available open access from @portersqbooks.bsky.social Pity these authors didn't engage with it - but you can!

Shocked to learn of the death of Emma Johnston, the young vice-chancellor (president) at the University of Melbourne. I knew Emma at Sydney, vivacious and charming, a vibrant research leader. A marine ecologist, she was also committed to the humanities, due to undergraduate HPS training at Melbourne

View our fantastic December Special Issue: Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice at link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week

Looks like we've become complacent since the gun restrictions of the 1990s - time for even more stringent rules. The worst gun violence in Australia in 30 years...

How we can make ANU a model for proper uni governance

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The ANU Governance Project welcomes the final report of the Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Governance at Australian Higher Education providers, calling it a critical step toward restoring trust and accountability in Australia’s university sector.

www.anugovernance.org/pressrelease...

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Research Fellow, Social and Ethical Dimensions of Applied Cryobiology - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded...

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Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...

This is such an honour. Thank you to my fantastic colleagues and friends.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...

JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Proofs of the Afterword by @cwaldby.bsky.social and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social and me, published in 2026 by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...

Feedback on ANU Governance Project Draft Report The ANU Governance Project Working Group are proud to present the Draft Project Report for community feedback and consultation. The Draft Project Report is available on our website or through THIS LINK. Using a process that has involved deep listening and a participatory and deliberative process across the ANU community, we have compiled a unique and valuable body of evidence that documents what’s wrong with governance at the ANU and charts a way forward to help rebuild trust and to deliver best practice governance. Over 600 ANU staff, students, and stakeholders have participated in this project, and in contributing constructively to the future of ANU. This includes 590 members of the community who participated in our survey, 75 who participated in one-hour small group discussions, and over 40 from across the university who participated in our project workshop. The ANU community told us there a critical need for change: Over 96% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants believe current ANU governance is not fit for purpose and should be reformed. Over 92% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants expressed dissatisfaction with current ANU governance. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with current practices of transparency at the ANU. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with accountability frameworks at the ANU. The ANU Community has proposed the following near-term steps forward for a reformed ANU: Council must direct Finance to produce and publish a current budget breakdown. Council must revise and publish selection criteria for Executive positions. Council meetings must immediately be made fully accessible to the community. Academic Board must regularly review and assess the financial decisions of senior executives and Council. Commence senior leadership listening tours with the ANU community. Additional recommendations forwarded by the community are summarised in the full report, including a proposal to co-design legislative reform of the ANU Act with the community. The Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback via this form on the draft report by midnight on Tuesday 7 October. This deadline has been extended in order to allow us more time to hear and incorporate community feedback ahead of the release of our final report on Monday 20 October.

ANU colleagues and students - please share this post if you can:

The ANU governance project has extended our deadline to comment on the Draft report to next week - 7 October.

Here's a link to a feedback form, which also contains the link to the draft report:

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ANU people - please share! The ANU governance project has a media release about the presentation by the Interim Vice Chancellor's speech on Thursday here: drive.google.com/file/d/1oGH5...

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