No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.
Graphic that says NOROVIRUS: YOU DON'T WANT IT. It has a figure on hands and knees with effluent coming from both ends.
Never a good sign when I have a chance to post this.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
the only public health messaging that matters ☝🏿
Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD, of @accordsresearch.bsky.social and @cuinternalmed.bsky.social, our Director of Research Ethics, recently co-authored a paper on ethical issues in organ transplantation.
@cobioethics.bsky.social
Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
“Relying on chatbots isn’t fringe — it’s the predictable result of care made scarce, stigmatized, and costly. Recognizing that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing chatbot care, but it’s past time to name what’s happening: Privately owned chatbots are functioning as public health resources.”
Nicole Foti at a podium on the right with PowerPoint with title of her talk: Health Equity in the Digital Determinants of Health, Bioethics and AI
Nicole Foti (Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics) presents interesting discussion of “digital determinants” of health and AI #asbh2025
Quinn Waeiss at podium with PowerPoint covering items related to LLMs in healthcare to their left
Quinn Waeiss (Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics) with great talk on patient and provider perspectives on AI communication tools in healthcare #asbh2025
Are you in Portland for #ASBH2025 ? Check out our list of #ELSI -related presentations and panels. Connect with ELSI scholars and let us know about what's you're up to!
connect.elsihub.org/c/general-di...
Looking forward to this session on abolitionist #bioethics at #asbh2025 (or is it #asbh25?)
Abdoul Jalil Djiberou Mahamadou on the right side of photo giving dynamic talk, on left ide is PowerPoint slide that says “Future Directions” with bulletpoints on whether legal definition of discrimination influences categories researchers use to examine bias and how public datasets and media attention influence categories researchers pay attention to for AI bias
Fantastic presentation by Abdoul Jalil Djiberou Mahamadou of Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics on subgroup populations and AI bias #ASBH2025
Michelle Pham standing to the left of PowerPoint slide with heading of “Contextualizing Engagement Practices” and examples of practices in pastel circles: feedback, collaboration and consultation
I ❤️ Bioethics— this is Michelle Pham of Michigan State U giving an inspiring talk on Community Based Participatory Research #ASBH2025
Text that says: Research Abstracts Present your neuroethics scholarship to international colleagues next April. Neuroethics 2026 - Stanford, Lucca, Stellenbosch
Neuroethics annual meeting April 15-17, 2026, including Stanford/Bay Area! Neuroethics: interdisciplinary examination of ethical, legal, social and cultural issues in brain sciences/ mental health/neurotechnology -- submit your abstract or session proposal: neuroethicssociety.org/meeting/neur...
H1-B visas are used for international medical graduates that want to pursue residencies at US hospitals.
Residents are working doctors who treat patients. Instant physician shortage.
New on What's Alan Watching?: my review of Netflix's "Black Rabbit," starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman as two brothers in trouble with the mob:
Somehow America needs to learn that every death is a world extinguished.
"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents."
a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
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Trump often lies about Chicago, using a great American city as a punching bag to entertain out-of-town racists who are scared of Black and Latino Chicagoans whom they’ve never met. He’s threatening a military occupation. Here’s a thread about Chicago, Trump and crime. 1/
This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death.
So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
I often have hospital ethics consults where I have to explain that
🏡 It’s unethical that we have do not have housing for everyone
🥗It’s unethical that our patients cannot afford the food they need
💊 It’s unethical our patients can’t afford
This story in particular is a great resource to read, bookmark, and share with your networks outside of Bluesky. Let's make Lex's dream come true by clicking through and sharing widely!
www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-ra...
By most measures (suicide, depression, anxiety), U.S. mental health is deteriorating. Bad time to demolish our mental health infrastructure.
In a new preprint, @albeccia.bsky.social et al survey the damage from recent mental health grant cuts at NIH & SAMHSA.
Check it out: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year
Chokes off billions in research funding
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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