Udo Schuklenk

Udo Schuklenk

@schuklenk.bsky.social

🇨🇦 I’m one of the Editors of Bioethics. My own research interests are currently MAiD, conscience, queer, gay, public health, reproductive health care, feminism, philosophy, research ethics, publishing ethics. I’m a hobby photographer and travel junkie.

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André Picard @picardonhealth
@picardonhealth.bsky.social

Smith rejects renewed demands for Alberta health care procurement public inquiry. Premier made comments after Globe reported RCMP investigating potential fraud and money laundering, by @carrietait.bsky.social @tomcardoso.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comSmith rejects renewed demands for Alberta health care procurement public inquiryPremier made her comments after The Globe reported RCMP are investigating potential fraud and money laundering in connection with the controversy

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André Picard @picardonhealth
@picardonhealth.bsky.social

Why is Ottawa so hellbent on limiting access to MAID? Creating additional barriers people with mental illness is discrimination, pure and simple, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Why is Ottawa so hellbent on limiting access to MAID?Creating barriers to medical assistance in dying for people with mental illness is discrimination
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social

Ottawa tables bill to ban MAID for mental illness alone. The legislation also proposes allowing people with a ‘capacity-limiting disease’ to request the procedure in advance, by @kkirkup.bsky.social @stephanielevitz.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comOttawa tables bill to ban MAID for mental illness aloneThe legislation also proposes allowing people with a ‘capacity-limiting disease’ to request the procedure in advance
Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

The Welfarist Consequentialist Case Against Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Empirical Failures, Normative Confusions, and the Primacy of Patient Care - Savulescu - Bioethics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Welfarist Consequentialist Case Against Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Empirical Failures, Normative Confusions, and the Primacy of Patient CareWe have defended the view that there should be no accommodation of conscientious objectors in health care. Numerous critics have advanced arguments designed to defeat this conclusion. We respond here...

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

Hello, new followers. I track ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. This is what the ICE Air operation looked like yesterday, Oct. 23, 2026. --88 flights --14 removal stops --3 third-country removal stops --Nearly all adult passengers shackled at the ankles, wrists & waist.

Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

Worth a read given the manufactured moral panic on this issue : Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada - Journal of Adolescent Health www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

jahonline.orgStability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in CanadaTo determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...
Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

Worth a read, even if you find it disagreeable

Itai Bavli@itaibavli.bsky.social

We reviewed The Lancet COVID Commission and The BMJ COVID series on pandemic policies in Canada, the US, and the UK. We found very limited structured trade-off evaluation within these assessments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

When the publisher’s copy editor is an AI, the final version of your ms reads, in part, ‘The United States approves the final version of this manuscript.’ where I wrote ‘US approves the final version of this manuscript.’ #improvements #academicpublishing

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

reuters.comMeta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reportsMeta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during the country's election, newsp...
Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

Censorship is a corporate thing

The A.V. Club@avclub.com

Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x

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Ezra Levin ❌👑
@ezralevin.bsky.social

A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when I have it.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

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Bill Kristol
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

No Kings. No Courtiers. No Oligarchs.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.

Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

Sums up so perfectly how universities are managed today 🥳

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

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The Lever
@levernews.com

Oscar-winning director @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social spent years investigating Elon Musk. Gibney's take is that power didn’t change Elon so much as exaggerate the worst of him. “Musk” hits theaters nationwide today, and most major platforms initially refused to run ads for the trailer.

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Jeff Dean
@jtdean.bsky.social

I have to say, I'm really proud to work for Hackett. We are a fully employee-owned company, publish excellent books at very affordable prices, and are as much like a family as we are a business. There aren't many small, independent publishers anymore, but I'm glad to be part of this one.

Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

My latest paper seems ok says the AI detection industry - I wonder how close we are to a situation where this finding will be held against the manuscript, given human limitations.

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Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲
@alexandraphelan.bsky.social

Politicians are calling on the Australian government to block the US execution live stream in Australia. The moral injury of the US government's decision is global, and will have global repercussions for the US, its people, and its leaders. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.auCalls on federal government to block US execution live stream in AustraliaIt comes after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he would make sure the public could watch the December 3 execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Jo Wolff
@jowolff.bsky.social

All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.

Bronwyn Hayward@bmhayward.bsky.social

The USA sanctions on #icc judges are punitive & far reaching, isolating them & their families, disrupting/blocking credit cards/banking services/email/ insurance/travel etc The attack on judges is an attack on a moral International order by USA- where does NZ stand? www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-str...

icc-cpi.intThe ICC strongly rejects US sanctions against the institutionToday, the United States has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court as an institution. This unprecedented step follows a series of designations against thirteen independent Judges and p...

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Daniel Kelly
@dryan149.bsky.social

Open Rank Tenure / Tenure Track Position in the philosophy department as part of a university cluster hire AOS Bioethics or Philosophy of Science AOC One of (1) Philosophy of Science, (2) Philosophy, Politics, or Economics, or (3) Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence philjobs.org/job/show/32533

philjobs.org Assistant / Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant / Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Max Fawcett
@maxfawcett.bsky.social

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social

There it is. Elon Musk now advocating for Alberta separation. That should perhaps be one of the biggest reasons to vote to stay. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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John Bowker
@johnbowker.bsky.social

“The premier needed a favour from Postmedia”: In a sworn declaration, Postmedia ex-CEO Paul Godfrey claims Doug Ford’s former chief of staff told his son that approval of a Skills Development Fund grant depended on Postmedia publishing the premier’s pre-election letter to voters #onpoli

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social

Postmedia ex-CEO alleges Doug Ford’s office used ‘leverage’ over son’s company to get newspaper chain to publish pre-election letter

dlvr.itPostmedia ex-CEO alleges Doug Ford’s office used ‘leverage’ over son’s company to get newspaper chain to publish pre-election letterPremier Ford’s office calls the claims ‘categorically untrue and completely disconnected from reality’
Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

Meta 😡

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.comHow Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay barAt least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
Udo Schuklenk
@schuklenk.bsky.social

No risk of that in Ontario, always reliably late out of the gate.

The Associated Press@apnews.com

Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely. It's also a good time for vulnerable people to get vaccinated against another winter risk, RSV, and to get up to date on protection against COVID-19.

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Global Abortion Rights News
@globalabortionnews.bsky.social

Venezuelan feminist organizations protested on Monday to advance sexual and reproductive rights, and to call for decriminalization. The country has a strict abortion ban, but support networks and info sources for women who need abortion have “grown organically.”

venezuelanalysis.comVenezuela: Feminist Collectives Rally to Demand Abortion Decriminalization - VenezuelanalysisActivist María Alejandra Reyes warned that the growing influence of the religious right stands in the way of expanding women’s rights.

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Simon Nixon
@nixonsimon.bsky.social

File this under shocking but not surprising

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

bylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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André Picard @picardonhealth
@picardonhealth.bsky.social

Plasma collection in Canada is a bloody mess that needs fixing. It’s time for Grifols, the private plasma collector, to get its act together or get out of Canada, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Plasma collection in Canada is a bloody mess that needs fixingThe importance of plasma-derived medications can’t be overstated, but integrity of the system is even more crucial

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Dr Dave Hitchcock
@davehitchcock.bsky.social

"AI has not rescued the humanities. What it has done is reveal, with unusual clarity, what happens when societies allow the institutions that cultivate judgement to erode."

corp.oup.comAI just made the case for philosophy majors; the humanities should not waste it - Oxford University PressSophie Goldsworthy, Global Academic Publisher, explores how AI companies hiring philosophers may have made a compelling case for the study of humanities disciplines.

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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

Unlike many other longtime critics of liberalism, Philip Pettit doesn't take its contemporary crisis as an opportunity to kick in when it's down or to try to make common cause with the forces of autocracy. iai.tv/articles/dem...

iai.tvDemocracy without liberalism is not democracy<p><em>Chinese philosopher Tongdong Bai recently argued in IAI News that democracy and liberalism are fundamentally at odds. Electoral majorities often support illiberal policies, and this, he thinks,...

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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
@jespjournal.bsky.social

The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to find new papers about shared property, misinterpretive frames, the authorative/formal distinction, virulent claims, moral motivation, and coercion. #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

jesp.orgJournal of Ethics and Social PhilosophyJESP is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge.

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André Picard @picardonhealth
@picardonhealth.bsky.social

Alberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report says. More than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comAlberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report saysMore than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community