MAHA actually stands for Make America Hungry Again. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

“If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool, and that their mission is to combat and defeat global Jewry, and you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit in that evil”. Cruz was right. Had he been feeling braver, he would not have stopped there.

Not just the lede...the whole article is wow.

Odd name for an AI company.

We're thrilled to announce we're recruiting for our #T32 #ELSI postdoc. Position starts Summer 2026. Please spread the word! Learn more and apply: medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/elsipostdoc

Really appreciate this letter from Penn's President Jameson responding to the proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." penntoday.upenn.edu/announcement...

This is a fantastic, well-supported 3-year post-doc in our Division of Medical Ethics at Penn. Please share (and apply if interested!)

1/ Thrilled to announce that @pennmehp.bsky.social is recruiting for our NHGRI-funded postdoctoral fellowship in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomics. Please share widely. Details at medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/elsipostdoc

A new @jama.com Insights article by LDI Fellows Kyra O’Brien, Emily Largent, and Jason Karlawish advises clinicians on how to communicate a diagnosis of MCI or dementia—emphasizing triadic communication, personalized content, and emotional support. http://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.13006

Congratulations Stacie! So well deserved.

Scrolling all the pics and wondering: was it just an absolutely beautiful day in every corner of the country?

Go Boston. #NoKings

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

WaPo also gets it wrong: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20... How about: "MIT Rejects Trump Administration's Offer to Lose Everything"

Framing @nytimes.com is all wrong. How about this: “Trump admin threatened 9 universities with withdrawal of critical things to which they’re legally entitled if they decline to align with the administration’s ideological agenda for higher ed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Thank you MIT.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

This is the strongest response against “the compact” that I’ve seen. There’s no way for a u over with to give up guaranteed state funds for the promise of possible access to (unknown) federal funds. cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social

These criticisms are predictable but problematic. The guy was forced out under dubious (to be generous) circumstances. It was not a case of someone looking to leverage his FDA position for his next big thing.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social: Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The linked blog post is a must-read. Speaking only for myself: any university that signs this "deal" agrees to be taken hostage by the administration.

Read the "compact": www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u... Then this spot on analysis: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

It "offers an edge" like a gun wielding mugger offers "an edge" on staying alive if you hand over your $. We're talking about student loans, grants, contracts, visas, nonprofit status - those are the benefits Trump says schools are free to "forego" if they reject the compact. Try surviving w/o them!

Terribly pernicious framing from @washingtonpost.com: "A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities." It's not a funding advantage, it's utter destruction of schools that refuse. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Few topics in health care policy can incite passions like insurer prior authorization. What do researchers know about this practice? I spoke with @dgorenstein.bsky.social and @lesliemwalker.bsky.social for the latest @tradeoffs.org podcast. tradeoffs.org/2025/09/25/a...

Apropos of yesterday's announcements about autism.

Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense. Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS. Integrity black hole. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: inside Trump’s “very important” autism announcement for Monday — new warnings on tylenol’s risk for pregnant women — new endorsement of leucovorin’s potential as autism treatment — new NIH data science initiatives underway

@sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social it is what I would call fact-free drivel. Pretty insulting to the dedicated therapists and psychiatrists who try to do more with less. #Medsky #Psychsky #pediatrics #mentalhealth

Adding: the attack on the CDC.

2) Ken Stern via @knightcolumbia.org: "To my great chagrin, most Jewish organizations & leaders, w/some notable exceptions, have cheered on the Trump admin’s assault on universities, not acknowledging the larger agenda of the administration or its impact on democratic norms & thus Jewish security."

Grateful for this recognition, from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, of Penn Bioethics's three decades of excellence.

This is very, very powerful. Please read. Link here: dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...

"This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania (and CHIBE affiliate!) who was not involved in the work. @hthirumurthy.bsky.social

This makes no sense. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Art history major, doctor, and bioethicist here. This piece is an embarrassment. And the thread is worth a read.

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

Email sent to our Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty today. For a brief moment, I thought it was a nudge rather than an opportunity to learn some local history.

Something positive for the weekend.

OMG.

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

The Center for Practical Ethics at @olemiss.bsky.social is hiring a Director of Strategic Ethics Education Initiatives. The Center "models and facilitates civil discourse" and "develops the skills needed for character-building". PhD in philosophy a plus! Job listing can be found in the link below:

This is a crime. I can’t put it any other way.

AGs suing the Trump administration argue that these actions are not based in law, since no federal statute prohibits gender-affirming care in the United States. Instead, these actions are an intimidation tactic to suppress the health care, the lawsuit alleges. 19thnews.org/2025/08/gend...

'Crimson Courage' is urging Harvard *not* to knuckle under to Trump protection-money demands, as Columbia and Brown have Started as Harvard-alum movement, now seeking support from all who care about acad independence Can read and sign letter here. (We have) crimsoncourage.fillout.com/august-letter

17 drug companies just got this letter. We're now on to White House vs pharma in addition to White House vs auto OEMs, White House vs dropshippers, White House vs the construction and hospitality industry, etc.

Excellent takedown of Nucleus Embryo by Arthur Caplan and James Tabery. The problem with Nucleus isn't eugenics. It is rescued from its own eugenic intentions by the fact that it won't work. It is bogus science.

I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet