James Scheibner
@jamesscheibner.bsky.social
Academic researcher in bioethics, public health ethics, data privacy, patent, copyright, open source licensing, technology transfer, citizen science and access to justice. Plays lap steel, MTG and Dwarf Fortress in my spare time. Opinions my own.
The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...
Cross-border health data sharing between Singapore and Switzerland: controlling for competing regulatory requirements
Abstract. Research in biomedical and health sciences using data-intensive methods increasingly involve multi-party cross-border institutional collaboration
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October 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...
I just published a new article with Tina Hardin, Wendy Keech and Bernadette Richards that compares data sharing legislation in Australia at both federal and state level and its impact on health and social welfare data sharing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Public data sharing legislation, privacy and sharing of health and social welfare data in Australia: a legal and policy document analysis | Data & Policy | Cambridge Core
Public data sharing legislation, privacy and sharing of health and social welfare data in Australia: a legal and policy document analysis - Volume 7
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October 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I just published a new article with Tina Hardin, Wendy Keech and Bernadette Richards that compares data sharing legislation in Australia at both federal and state level and its impact on health and social welfare data sharing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Interesting recent decision from the CJEU that states pseudonymisation may be enough to prevent individuals from being identified in a dataset. This appears to be the direction the OAIC is heading in w.r.t deidentification techniques.
Joint Guidelines on the Interplay between the Digital Markets Act and the General Data Protection Regulation: EDPB observations on anonymization and pseudonymization following the CJEU ruling in EDPS v SRB (C-413/23 P).
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Interesting recent decision from the CJEU that states pseudonymisation may be enough to prevent individuals from being identified in a dataset. This appears to be the direction the OAIC is heading in w.r.t deidentification techniques.
Is it a mournful ode to a relationship that’s now over, or a paean to repairability? Either way, absolutely loving track number 6 by the Radium Dolls: radiumdolls.bandcamp.com/album/all-do...
All Doll'd Up, by Radium Dolls
6 track album
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October 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Is it a mournful ode to a relationship that’s now over, or a paean to repairability? Either way, absolutely loving track number 6 by the Radium Dolls: radiumdolls.bandcamp.com/album/all-do...
I do some online teaching, and this is one of the benefits, along with opening up education to people in rural and regional areas. However, to quote a friend, if you want to build a house you gotta push concrete. There are skills you get from face to face that are difficult to replicate with online.
The impression I got from OU was always that it was especially good for folks where the traditional benefits (like full time, campus based) are, for some people, explicitly disbenefits because they're mid-career or have specific care responsibilities that make on-campus study hard too
October 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I do some online teaching, and this is one of the benefits, along with opening up education to people in rural and regional areas. However, to quote a friend, if you want to build a house you gotta push concrete. There are skills you get from face to face that are difficult to replicate with online.
Brave New World by Iron Maiden
In defense of Taylor Swift...what's the best 12th album anyone has ever made?
October 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Brave New World by Iron Maiden
Followed up by a paper I’ve been working on for two years getting accepted for publication. Huzzah!
That feel when a manuscript you’ve been working on for a year and a half gets accepted for publication
a close up of a cartoon character 's face with a serious expression .
Alt: a gif of m bison from the street fighter cartoon saying ‘Yes! Yes!’
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September 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Followed up by a paper I’ve been working on for two years getting accepted for publication. Huzzah!
That feel when a manuscript you’ve been working on for a year and a half gets accepted for publication
a close up of a cartoon character 's face with a serious expression .
Alt: a gif of m bison from the street fighter cartoon saying ‘Yes! Yes!’
media.tenor.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
That feel when a manuscript you’ve been working on for a year and a half gets accepted for publication
Ah, Bluebook, my nemesis… we meet again…
September 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ah, Bluebook, my nemesis… we meet again…
It has to be a two way tie between Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft for similar reasons.
Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?
August 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It has to be a two way tie between Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft for similar reasons.
This is an excellent article by Mazzucato and Gernone. There is more than one way to regulate AI than stretching copyright: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This is an excellent article by Mazzucato and Gernone. There is more than one way to regulate AI than stretching copyright: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...
Reposted by James Scheibner
This week, the Italian DPA issued warnings about the risks of incorrect use of medical reports and AI.
In that same line, the @OAICgov just published a report on I-MED, at
www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...
In that same line, the @OAICgov just published a report on I-MED, at
www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...
Report into preliminary inquiries of I-MED
Report into preliminary inquiries of I-MED’s disclosure of de-identified patient information
www.oaic.gov.au
July 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This week, the Italian DPA issued warnings about the risks of incorrect use of medical reports and AI.
In that same line, the @OAICgov just published a report on I-MED, at
www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...
In that same line, the @OAICgov just published a report on I-MED, at
www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/priv...
As @drdebgleeson.bsky.social notes, the US may also place pressure on Australia to provide drug manufacturers with greater notice of when a generic drug could enter the market. This would permit manufacturers to delay access to cheaper generics in Australia.
My thoughts about Trump's threat to slap tariffs of up to 200% on pharmaceuticals: www.theage.com.au/national/tru...
Trump is toying with us, but his 200% tariff threat could still harm sick Australians
A restriction on the supply of generic medicines to Australia is among genuine risks, regardless of the eventual tariff on pharmaceuticals.
www.theage.com.au
July 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
As @drdebgleeson.bsky.social notes, the US may also place pressure on Australia to provide drug manufacturers with greater notice of when a generic drug could enter the market. This would permit manufacturers to delay access to cheaper generics in Australia.
Reposted by James Scheibner
It's all getting going in Victoria now. Covid, flu, RSV, it's even looking like a good year for Influenza B.
This would be an excellent weekend to book in covid & flu shots at your pharmacy.
And pleasepleaseplease: If you're feeling sick, stay home.🙏
www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
This would be an excellent weekend to book in covid & flu shots at your pharmacy.
And pleasepleaseplease: If you're feeling sick, stay home.🙏
www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
June 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It's all getting going in Victoria now. Covid, flu, RSV, it's even looking like a good year for Influenza B.
This would be an excellent weekend to book in covid & flu shots at your pharmacy.
And pleasepleaseplease: If you're feeling sick, stay home.🙏
www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
This would be an excellent weekend to book in covid & flu shots at your pharmacy.
And pleasepleaseplease: If you're feeling sick, stay home.🙏
www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...
Only a 2 for me!
Relics from a lost world... and yes, it's a 0 for me.
June 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Only a 2 for me!
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Reminder for these positions - wanna come work with @drnajimagi.bsky.social and I in Adelaide? Applications close soon
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The University of South Australia's Justice & Society is hiring a Lecturer… | Ruth Haren
The University of South Australia's Justice & Society is hiring a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Law. These roles will contribute significantly to the teaching and research in the discipline ...
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May 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Reminder for these positions - wanna come work with @drnajimagi.bsky.social and I in Adelaide? Applications close soon
www.linkedin.com/posts/ruth-h...
www.linkedin.com/posts/ruth-h...
One of my hobbies involves seeing how often I can drop an otherwise contextually appropriate quote from a film in an everyday conversation without the other person noticing:
a man in a suit and tie says " you know i m something of a scientist myself "
Alt: Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002) saying ‘you know, I’m something of a scientist myself’
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May 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
One of my hobbies involves seeing how often I can drop an otherwise contextually appropriate quote from a film in an everyday conversation without the other person noticing:
Agreed, well worth reading.
🎯If you read one thing about the Pandemic Treaty, let it be this by Ebere Okereke @thinkglobalhealth.org
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/pand...
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/pand...
May 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Agreed, well worth reading.
It’s a really nice feeling when you mark an incredibly well researched and written student assignment. Really makes my day :)
May 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s a really nice feeling when you mark an incredibly well researched and written student assignment. Really makes my day :)
Fantastic development
May 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Fantastic development
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As the US pulls out of the WHO (official departure is Jan 21st, 2026) its budget contribution loss means that China replaces it as the largest funder.
It will go from effectively funding ~15% to 20% of the total fees paid by states.
The US has withdrawn US$600m in annual funding.
🤔🤦🏾
It will go from effectively funding ~15% to 20% of the total fees paid by states.
The US has withdrawn US$600m in annual funding.
🤔🤦🏾
May 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
As the US pulls out of the WHO (official departure is Jan 21st, 2026) its budget contribution loss means that China replaces it as the largest funder.
It will go from effectively funding ~15% to 20% of the total fees paid by states.
The US has withdrawn US$600m in annual funding.
🤔🤦🏾
It will go from effectively funding ~15% to 20% of the total fees paid by states.
The US has withdrawn US$600m in annual funding.
🤔🤦🏾
Reposted by James Scheibner
Reminder that in Australia the shingles #vaccination is free for a number of age groups and risk conditions and this now covers the newer (arguably better) Shingrix vaccine compared to the older Zostavax.
Source:
www.health.gov.au/topics/immun...
Source:
www.health.gov.au/topics/immun...
May 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reminder that in Australia the shingles #vaccination is free for a number of age groups and risk conditions and this now covers the newer (arguably better) Shingrix vaccine compared to the older Zostavax.
Source:
www.health.gov.au/topics/immun...
Source:
www.health.gov.au/topics/immun...
A very thoughtful and measured article by James Gurney of Dinotopia fame on the legal and ethical issues raised by AI generated artworks. Well worth a read: jamesgurney.substack.com/p/ai-art-pro...
AI Art: Promise and Peril
A discussion last week at Syracuse University
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May 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A very thoughtful and measured article by James Gurney of Dinotopia fame on the legal and ethical issues raised by AI generated artworks. Well worth a read: jamesgurney.substack.com/p/ai-art-pro...
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR”)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR”)
April 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using gifs
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR”)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR”)