Early Liver Transplantation for Alcohol‐Related Liver Disease and Desire to Donate: A Nationally Representative US Survey - Janetta Brundage, Baimaji, Mayan Teles, Rivka Abedon, Aura Teles, Hannah Sung, Po-Hung Chen, Daniel Warren, Andrew Cameron, Olivia Kates onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hospital CEO Pay Is Too Damn High — The wage gap at nonprofit facilities is growing at a difficult economic moment. by Sabrina D Wang, MD www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Trump Pressure Risks Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns: A federal judge said that faculty members were being affected in their teaching and research by the Trump administration’s pressure campaign. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Researchers ‘decode’ Mandarin Chinese from neural signals: Advances in brain-computer interfaces could help millions who use tonal languages speak again after stroke or disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Chatbots don’t judge. Customers prefer robots over humans when it comes to to purchasing products that traditionally come with a degree of embarrassment – like acne cream, diarrhea medication, adult sex toys or personal lubricant. theconversation.com/chatbots-don...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup - Erroneous Filings, Chatbots Debunk, AI Brain Rot, Limiting Autonomous Weapons, AI Is Not God, AI Music, Leveraging AI and Tech for Patient Safety, + More mailchi.mp/d01c24da587e...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup: Editing Human Embryos? Chimps Weigh Evidence, Rewiring the Past, Artificial Brains, Leveraging AI and Tech for Patient Safety, Children Banned from Chatbot Use, Blockchain Biobanking, Personalized Gene Editing, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Are AI Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use? Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids: Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/s...

DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says - Sweeping DHS power grab would collect face, iris, voice scans of all immigrants | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The need for a global effort to attend to human neural organoid and assembloid research: A continuing international process is needed to monitor and advise this rapidly progressing field - Sergiu Pasca, Paola Arlotta, Philip Campbell et al., incl. our Jeremy Sugarman www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Images for AI use can be sourced responsibly: A high-quality image data set shows that tech companies can obtain informed consent and avoid data bias without breaking the bank. | Nature Editorial www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - New Events, Human Embryo Editing, Feels Like Home, Shredded Cred, Hard to Find Evidence, Stuck in Limbo, Brain Rot, Lost SNAP, Alone and Unhoused, Medical Care for Transgender Youth, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Can AI be truly creative? Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information theconversation.com/why-people-d...

HIV knows no borders, and the Trump administration’s new strategy leave Americans vulnerable – an HIV-prevention expert explains theconversation.com/hiv-knows-no...

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Narratives before numbers: Reimagining conversations about race, ethnicity, and ancestry information in genetic counseling practice - Emily Peugh, Sara Chandros Hull, Leila Jamal | Journal of Genetic Counseling - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Bleak... How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts: New work requirements are expected to leave millions of poor Americans uninsured. For Equifax, which charges states steep prices for its trove of employment data, it is a business opportunity. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Delayed Revision, Decentralized Biobanking, Leveraging AI and Tech for Patient Safety, Reducing Attrition, Narratives Before Numbers, Responsible Sharing of Qualitative Data, Islamic Conceptions of Human Dignity, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too | Shots - Health News - NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...

New paper thread 🧵 Out today in Annals of Internal Medicine, Stephanie Morain @bermaninstitute.bsky.social and I discuss the role of IRBs in facilitating appropriate inclusion of pregnant people in clinical research: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... (1/6)

First clinical trial transplanting pig kidneys into people begins - the study’s initial transplant was performed successfully at NYU Langone Health. | AP News apnews.com/article/pig-...

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

#Bioethics Seminar - Mary Catherine Beach, "Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Patient Health Records to Promote Respect for Patients" - Mon, Nov 10, Noon. Open to all, attend in-person, lunch provided, Feinstone Hall, @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social - Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree? A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Free-Text Responses in a Nationally Representative Experimental Survey about End-of-Life Care Choices: ChatGPT-4o-Assisted Qualitative Analytical Study - Elizabeth Goldberg, Mario Macis, Megan Bounds et al. | JMIR Aging aging.jmir.org/2025/1/e76335

Rummaging Rebooted: Advances in digital surveillance technologies have posed difficult questions for Fourth Amendment doctrine - Natalie Ram | Technology Law cyber.jotwell.com/rummaging-re...

Leveraging artificial intelligence and technology for patient safety: Opportunities, risks, and challenges - Odia Kane, Albert W. Wu | Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Reducing Registry Members’ Attrition When Invited to Donate : Evidence from a Large Stem Cell Registry - Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Mario Macis et al. | American Journal of Health Economics: Vol 11, No 4 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Now accepting applications - Ruth R Faden Professorship of Education in Bioethics: Seeking a proven leader in bioethics education, with a track record of excellence and innovation in bioethics education. Link for more information and to apply, deadline - December 15 apply.interfolio.com/175471

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question,” writes the Times editorial board.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Personalized gene editing helped one baby: can it be rolled out widely? In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The challenge of creating brains in a lab - Lab-grown brains don’t have to inspire horror. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’: Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Decentralized Biobanking to Empower Patient Engagement in Biospecimen Research: Operational Feasibility Case Study - By Ananya Dewan, Vivian Altiery De Jesus, Eve Budd, William Sanchez, Jeff Kahn, Robert Miller, Mario Macis, Marielle Gross www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup: Bailout, Plastic Packaging, Wireless Sensor Networks, Whole Foods, MAHA & Healthy Eating, Refugees, Food Banks, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules: Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Workslop, Why AI Hallucinates, Why AI Breaks Bad, In Love With A Chatbot, Sycophantic Chatbots, Misrepresenting News, Supercharging Inequality, Powering Surveillance Tech, Carebot Governance, + More mailchi.mp/f721b3bb5d9c...

New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos. 7 years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children | w comments from our @jeffkahnbioethics.bsky.social | WIRED www.wired.com/story/startu...