Tess Rooney
Tess Rooney
@tessjr.bsky.social
Law and culture academic, health law PhD candidate, so tired of the bathroom wars, didn’t we sort this shite already 🤦‍♀️
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If you're having a tough weekend writing syllabi or a rough start to 2025, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was instead relegated to the poster session.
January 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
There’s something mildly ironic about writing medneg slides in an A & E because your teen did something utterly foreseeable!
December 5, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference!

The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University.

The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.

Please re-post!
November 27, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Oh look, research says social media bans don’t solve the problems - who would have thought it

www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them
We need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children f...
www.bmj.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Chapter sent, outline for new sub/article discussed (with homework!), slides down for next week, risotto in thermie - look at me, adulting!
November 25, 2024 at 8:47 AM
@baerarnold.bsky.social you have found your people!
I can never retire because there's no way I could ever bring all the books in my campus office home with me.
November 24, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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“The evidence base for the underage social media ban is poor – and yet it’s that bill being rushed through parliament, not the partial gambling ad ban, much less the full ban.”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Deal or No Deal: the Albanese government’s pre-Christmas wishlist in the final sitting days of 2024 | The Agenda
If Peter Dutton senses an opportunity in blocking Labor’s agenda in the lead-up to an election, he might just take it
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Final referencing for new chapter on social media. If you could all stop deleting your tweets that would be great, thanks: “user account deactivated” can only go in so many footnotes before it really looks like I’m just making stuff up!!
November 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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The social media ban for kids exists in a much bigger landscape of both policy and technical infrastructure: your digital identity.

Here, have some actual facts. As written by me.

tldr in next post.

www.themandarin.com.au/281972-digit...
Digital ID policy fails you, your kids, and the country
Radically secure digital identity infrastructure is up and running in Europe right now. But not here, in Australia.
www.themandarin.com.au
November 20, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Because it’s not implementable, enforceable, or underpinned by any evidence? Or just cos it’s dumb?
November 18, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Ummmmm, my DM’s are open??? 🤣
Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.
November 16, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Memo to me …

Starter packs are awesome. Until you start thinking “there are some great people in that one, and they seem to be doing some great work maybe I should hit follow, you never know when a working knowledge of zebrafish might come in handy?”
November 15, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Impact scores? What impact scores.
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
November 15, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Instead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them: Jess Travers-Wolf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Instead of banning young people from social media Anthony Albanese needs to listen to them | Jess Travers-Wolf
Labor wants a duty of care bill on tech platforms, yet dismissed young people’s push for a duty of care bill on the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do
November 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Marking. Please send photos of cats. Or birds. Or coffee.
November 13, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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This potential legal attack on the nonprofit sector in the US fits with the global administrative assault on NGOs and civil society known as closing civic space, where leaders use anti-NGO laws to create barriers to entry, funding, advocacy for organizations. #nonprofitsky #polisky #contentiousky
November 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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Bluesky,

Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this

I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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As an introvert… I feel this! Both as a teacher and as a presenter.
November 11, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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📣The Global Drug Survey 2024 has officially launched today! Be part of the world's largest survey of drug use, led by CRE researcher Dr Cheneal Puljevic, with two new modules on tobacco endgame policies and trends in illicit tobacco use. redcap.health.uq.edu.au/surveys/?s=C...
January 10, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...
Decoding Fake News About The Israel-Hamas War In Gaza | Insider News
Experts say there has been an unprecedented number of fake claims about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online. Bellingcat’s open source investigators showe...
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Today’s seminar prep: 23 pages of carefully referenced notes, highlighted with key speaking notes.

What the students get:

TLDR? Data management is not the same as privacy!

Techreg law ftw 🤣
October 25, 2023 at 6:41 AM
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for sale: rules-based international order, never worn
October 14, 2023 at 1:14 PM