So, the incompatible 'ideology' here is being Black and/or female, I guess. | "Hegseth has been weeding out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible." | Hegseth personally intervented to stop promotions of Black and female soldiers | NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

House Republicans Are Revolting. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. | ProPublica projects.propublica.org/childhood-va...

“In Gaza, a lot of the senior doctors are gone. Either they evacuated, or they were imprisoned, or they were killed.” They haunt the halls of Al-Shifa Hospital. Months into a supposed ceasefire, doctors smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war. www.wired.com/story/gaza-w...

Spanish woman dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national attention. For nearly two years, Noelia Castillo pursued her right to die after her father put up a lengthy legal battle when a medical body in Catalonia approved her request for euthanasia in 2024 | AP News apnews.com/article/spai...

Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Not Making People Loafers, Food-Tracking Apps, Native Foods, Serious Problem, Coming For Your Grocery Bill, Fortification, False Promise of the AI Revolution, Small Specialty Crops, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

This is bad for the monkeys & for justifying the science | Lab monkeys sometimes engage in unusual and self-destructive actions—pulling their fur out, e.g., pacing in their enclosures. These behaviors may reflect a lifetime of stressful experiences. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Chats with sycophantic AI make you less kind to others. Even people who were sceptical of chatbots’ utility fell under the sway of the AI tools’ flattery. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools. The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

AI Toy Story: Potential Benefits and Risks of Chatbot Playmates - By Łukasz Kamieński | #Bioethics Forum Essay - Hastings Center for #Bioethics www.thehastingscenter.org/ai-toy-story...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Dueling AI Agents & Consciousness, Protections for Neurodata, Post-Mortem Brain Resuscitation, Race/Ethnicity in Clinical Algorithms, Finding Deepfake X-Rays, Lab-Grown Pig Esophagus, 'Organ Sacks', Cloning Limits, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

ICYMI, watch now! Anna Wexler, PhD, "Ethical and Social Dimensions of Implanted Brain-Computer Interface Research" | Berman Institute #Bioethics Seminar Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ot5...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Blocking State Laws, Intelligence Illusion, More Harm than Good? Holding Companies Accountable, Seeking Bullies, Adult Mode Risks, Coercing Agents, Roadmap for Race/Ethnicity in Clinical Algos, Watts & Bots, + More mailchi.mp/94fae63fbcc9...

OpenClaw Agents Can Be 'Guilt-Tripped' Into Self-Sabotage - “These behaviors raise unresolved questions regarding accountability, delegated authority, and responsibility for downstream harms,” researchers write | WIRED www.wired.com/story/opencl...

Implementation and evaluation of mindfulness modules for promoting resilience and well-being among nursing students: The R3 initiative for MD nurses. Erin Wright, Vickie Hughes, Sandra Swoboda, Krysia Warren Hudson, Ginger Hanson, Cynda Rushton, Rita D’Aoust www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US blockade is triggering the need for the triage of scarce resources. “This is not subtle, this is extreme,” said Paul Spiegel, “You’re already seeing hospitals changing how they are operating. The magnitude and who will be affected will depend on these horrible decisions they have to make.”

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Increased Hospital Attacks, playing god? Educational Materials, Does Ethics Still Matter? CDC Turmoil, Epic Rot, Transfusion Policy, In the Long Middle, Manikins, Banning Fluoride, Reducing Animal Testing, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Nature Editorial: AI scientists are changing research — institutions, funders and publishers must respond. The ability to automate the discovery process in some areas of scientific inquiry raises unanswered questions about how research should be conducted. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Impact of Legal Perceptions and Disclosure on Willingness to Undergo HIV Antiretroviral Resistance Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Brief Report - Coralei Neighbors et al., including Gail Geller, Juli Bollinger, Leslie Meltzer Henry, Jeremy Sugarman link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it up | NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

1 In 3 Adults Turn To AI Chatbots For Health Information, Poll Says www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

“.. He fought back tears as he explained what was there before: two wooden shelters, an outpost to make cheese, sheds for his equipment. The horse paddock was spared, but the chicken coop was gone.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

Dueling AI agents could reveal keys to restoring consciousness. A new study probes consciousness with models that simulate and classify brain activity. A neuroscientist behind the work explains its ambitions. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

These medical X-rays are all deepfakes — and they fool even radiologists. Radiologists and large language models alike have a hard time picking out real medical images from fake ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers. Repeated cloning from a single mouse failed after 58 generations. Researchers say harmful DNA changes are to blame. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

No surprises here. | Polymarket Says It Predicts the Truth. Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods. A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/t...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - Roadmap for Addressing the Use of Race/Ethnicity in Clinical Algorithms, Fair & Accurate Detection, Embedded Physician Attitudes, Cultivating Authentic Partnership, Regulating Body Donation, Equitable AI in Health Care, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Testing. R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term goal, says a cofounder, is to make human versions. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/a-bill...

The increase in hospital attacks across global conflicts should concern everyone. In Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Israel’s attack on Gaza, a dangerous precedent was established as health care facilities & staff were targeted w impunity. w comments from our Len Rubenstein www.ms.now/opinion/hosp...

New in Nature Health: how might we move towards a world in which race is not used in clinical algorithms? We need (1) careful comparison of race-aware and race-neutral algorithms and (2) systemic efforts to address underlying disparities.

A roadmap for addressing the use of race and ethnicity in clinical algorithms - Divya Shanmugam, Sidhika Balachandar, Alexandra Chouldechova, James Diao, Kadija Ferryman, Arjun Manrai, Stephen Pfohl, Neil Powe, Inioluwa Deborah Raji & Emma Pierson | Nature Health rdcu.be/e9uZa

AI algorithms can become ‘agents of chaos’. Given autonomous control of other software, programs shared private medical details and deleted files without permission | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Population-Level Digital Stroke Surveillance: Building a Fair and Accurate ICD-10 Detection Model - Charles Esenwa, Ava Liberman, Natalie Cheng, Joseph Dardick, Juan Daza-Ovalle, Daniel Labovitz, Jacqueline Lutz, Ciara Clancy, Kadija Ferryman | Cerebrovascular Diseases karger.com/ced/article/...

Physician Attitudes Embedded Within Electronic Medical Records of Persons With and Without Serious Mental Illness - Karly Murphy, Maria Grajeda Martinez, Lisa Young, Brant Chee, Gail Daumit, Mary Catherine Beach | Schizophrenia Bulletin academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

The intelligence illusion: why AI isn’t as smart as it is made out to be. Artificial-intelligence models will supposedly take over the world, but AI innovator Luc Julia tells Nature that they’re little more than glorified pocket calculators. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TODAY, Noon EDT - #Bioethics Seminar: Anna Wexler, PhD, "Ethical and Social Dimensions of Implanted Brain-Computer Interface Research". Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided. @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social W1030. Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

Man ICE shot in Glen Burnie has experienced medical neglect in custody www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

The King is mad

Great run through of where things stand at NIH and in the broader scientific community currently from @ldattaro.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

“There is no evidence that Member States of the European Union are overreaching the DSA to censor and criminalize online content”. Despite this, the Trump admin has pressed on with a wide effort to crack down on what it alleges is EU widespread censorship www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Cultivating Authentic Partnership: Cooperative Development of a Toolkit to Mitigate Group Harm in Biorepository‐Enabled Research - Shauntey Kalweit, Carly Marten, Odia Kane et al. | Health Expectations 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In a World with Many Epsteins, Does Ethics Still Matter? by Jonathan D. Moreno and Arthur Caplan | #Bioethics Forum Essay - The Hastings Center for Bioethics www.thehastingscenter.org/in-a-world-w...

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Standard Industry Practices, Policy as Punishment, Many Farm Bills, ICE's Impact, Taste, Lab-Grown Meat Policy, AI Diet Plans, Bibliometric Analysis, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Listen: Trump’s NIH ‘Reset’ Is Driving Away Scientists - Fewer breakthroughs. Weaker responses to public health crises. That’s what some former National Institutes of Health scientists predict for the agency as thousands of researchers leave. | KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

White House Unveils AI Policy Aimed at Blocking State Laws. The Trump administration on Friday released new guidelines for federal legislation on the technology, recommending some safeguards for children and consumer protections for energy costs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

When Trump paused foreign aid, it included the termination of Harerimana Ismail's work. He hasn't had a paycheck since the beginning of last year. But he's kept working to make sure that children w HIV are taking their meds, connected to medical care & feeling supported. www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...

Scientists have used stem cells to make bioengineered esophagi that they successfully implanted into pigs, restoring the animals’ ability to swallow and eat. | Lab-grown oesophagus restores pigs’ ability to swallow - Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New Mexico fully replaced the expired federal subsidies with state money, the only state to do so. Without the subsidies, an estimated 27k New Mexicans would have dropped their insurance. Instead, sign-ups have surged, with an additional 10k people now covered. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/h...