Josh Jowitt
@drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social
Does Jurisprudence. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Law School; Academic Fellow, Middle Temple; Past visitor @ Library of Congress, MPIL Heidelberg & Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; Long-suffering fan of Barnsley FC. Views/opinions my own (He/him)
Universities exist to teach students & produce research This brings in the money. Academics generate the value. Everyone else is paid from that income stream. University senior management has forgotten who creates the income & who depends on it They behave as if system runs the other way around
"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"
Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 3w agoThis is a very good essay that advances a broadly humanist position on AI. Liberals, conservatives, socialists, and others should all agree that we must not sacrifice our moral agency in search of a mere facsimile of human understanding. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
I don’t know why, but this is just so funny to me. US ambassador to the Vatican: The Pope was speaking as head of the Vatican not as head of the Church The Vatican: No, the pope normally speaks as a head of the Church
Vatican clarifies pope’s role ‘as universal shepherd’ in wake of US ambassador’s comments
“The pope normally speaks as a head of the Church,” papal expert Father Roberto Regoli told EWTN News.
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🔉 Martin's Law ⚖️ In this episode of Animal Rights Tour, we explore Martin's Law, passed by the British Parliament in 1822 and championed by Richard Martin, MP for Galway. Martin's law prohibited cruelty to horses, farm animals, and other cattle. But Richard Martin didn’t stop there. (1/2)
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
Our latest paper is nicely decrypted in this thread ! ⬇️🐝
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró)@biotay.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/8 Attention and consciousness in bees They combined reversal learning, trace conditioning, and distractors, something that had not been tested in any animal until now. One of the strongest pieces of evidence for consciousness in insects. (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!
I don't unreservedly endorse everything here, but my goodness do we need a similar conversation in the UK. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...
Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era | University of Chicago Law School
OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to...
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Lawyers for Animals are prosecuting a commercial pig farm and their Farm Manager for 30 alleged animal welfare offences. The charges follow an undercover investigation into the farm in 2024 and a subsequent expert veterinary review. lawyersforanimals.substack.com/p/cranswick-...
Cranswick Farm and Farm Manager Face 30 Charges
Cranswick Country Foods PLC subsidiary and Farm Manager charged with animal welfare offences at Lincolnshire’s North Moor pig farm
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LinkedIn is the one website that would be exactly the same if it were entirely LLM generated.
They are trying to force some universities into bankruptcy. Total madness. Remember - they have pledged more money to a privately owned theme park than they‘re going to spend on the teaching grant.
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · last mo.The Department for Education has confirmed that universities will receive £50.9 million less in teaching grants next academic year. Bridget Phillipson, the education minister has defended the reduction in light of tuition fee rises. https://ow.ly/6UWJ50ZkLlf
With our nation at a crossroads, who would you like to see as the next Prime Minister? 🔸 Ron: Didn’t watch those videos 🔸 Orlando: Will NOT be opening a restaurant at No.10 🔸 Sausage woman, pushing the vegetarian option 🔸 Morrisons Pie Couple: Pie Or someone else (drop a picture into the comments)
Ist es deprimierend, wenn der Bundespräsident die beste Rede hält? Politiker und Intellektuelle gedachten in Frankfurt dem Philosophen Jürgen Habermas – warum waren sie dabei so ratlos?
Jürgen Habermas: Wem gehört der berühmte Philosoph?
Ist es deprimierend, wenn der Bundespräsident die beste Rede hält? Politiker und Intellektuelle gedachten in Frankfurt dem Philosophen Jürgen Habermas – warum waren sie dabei so ratlos?
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PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.
We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
📢 Social Class & Law Workshop (Oxford, 9 Sept). Co-organised by CIRCLE's Rachael O'Connor for PhDs/ECRs. Free to attend! Apply by 30 June: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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I'll be talking about nonhuman rights at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights today. Anyone I know in Oxford who wants to say hi, hit me up! www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
A constitutivist account of legal personhood and
On an orthodox account of the concept, legal personality is necessary pre-requisite status for a
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This requires an immediate pan-national team response from managers, key players and ministers It is unacceptable
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 2mo agoSomali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry to the United States for the World Cup, according to a Somali government official. Artan was named as a match official for the tournament in April and had been set to become the first Somali to referee at a World Cup.
Just connected a new device to eduroam at the first time of trying. First harbinger of the apocalypse.
This week on the SLSA Blog, @saharshah.bsky.social reflects on the ‘Legal Perspectives on Climate Reparations’ workshop she hosted at @bristoluni.bsky.social last year. Find out where we are one year on from 2025's "reparations moment". www.slsa.ac.uk/post/the-yea...
The Year in Climate Reparations Law: A Retrospective on a 2025 Workshop
Sahar Shah, Lecturer, University of Bristol Law SchoolKeywords: climate justice; colonialism; climate finance; international economic law; International Court of Justice“It’s just not productive getti...
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Read for free on Substack about the recent celebration of life for Paula Sparks in London, hosted by the UK Centre for Animal Law (A-LAW). “Last year, our sector lost a giant,” wrote Sonul Badiani-Hamment, A-Law’s chair. kimstallwood.substack.com
Tragic that Happy has had to die in a zoo rather than in a sanctuary, where she should have been moved to.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoHappy, a 55-year-old Asian elephant who had lived at the Bronx Zoo since 1977, has been euthanized, zoo officials said. Happy’s uncommon intelligence thrust her into an unusual legal dispute over whether she was entitled to a fundamental human right to bodily liberty. nyti.ms/3Q7ArA8
I attended one of these in 2020 and it was superb. Can't recommend it enough.
Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law@animalrightslaw.bsky.social · 2mo agoInterested in taking part in a Law Lecturers’ Workshop held at our Centre's home in #Cambridge, UK? Apply for our next in-person Law Lecturers' Workshop from 21-25 September 2026! 📑 (1/4)
