This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

🚨 Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making. Led by Serene Ong. You can’t know if you’ll want genetic risk info until after you get it. Could “digital life models” help? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The latest from JME Practical Bioethics: ‘Beat dementia’: the ethical risks of a triumphalist slogan jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New Paper 🚨 "Are Psychedelics Ethically Exceptional After All? Some Further Reflections" by @Katherine_Chg, @ExistWell (David B. Yaden), and Kyle Patch in @bioethics_net

If consent under third-party coercion is voluntary, we should rethink informed consent jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Thoughts on this? ➡️Forget Plagiarism: It's Originality, Utility, and Contribution That Matter in Academia Now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Informed consent under coercion: the limits of the interpersonal justification jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

What Should a Public Health Approach to Sleep Look Like? journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/what...

🚨 Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making. Led by Serene Ong. You can’t know if you’ll want genetic risk info until after you get it. Could “digital life models” help? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🚨 Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent. UK study: AI-supported surgical consent is seen as valid, but trusted and liked less than human-led consent—even with identical information. Hybrid AI + human models may work best. www.academia.edu/145604807/Is...

Impartial Beneficence Predicts Greater and More Uniform Concern for Others Across Social Relationships 
🚨Recent work by Brian D. Earp, Killian L. McLoughlin, Mina Caraccio, Rachel Calcott, Joshua Rottman, Margaret S. Clark & Molly J. Crockett

Machine+Behavior is back! Pls spread the word. 18-19 May Submission 8 Feb Speakers include: Tom Griffiths, Allan Dafoe, Thore Graepel, Laura Weidinger, Kinga Makovi, @baronca.bsky.social, @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, Emilio Calvano, Brian D. Earp, Christopher Summerfield machinebehavior.science

What are the ethics of Mr Beast-style “philanthrotainment” -? Read the latest in @JME_BMJ Practical Bioethics, showcasing the broader scope of the new journal jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

Here is the link, with a preview of the article below www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Not my case, but I agree that there are better and worse #AI tools for scholarly writing and better ways to use #LLMs than adopting their output without further reflection and literature review.

Are LLMs to English class what calculators are to math class? open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

Waiting for my work laptop security update to complete so I can change my email autoreply from "I am unwell and hope to be back tomorrow" to "I am on annual leave until 5th Jan, see you next term."

This has been a challenge for all the cross cultural work I have done.

New paper 🚨 Are LLMs just “calculators for writing”? In this new paper led by Cristina Voinea, we argue that while there are some aspects of the analogy that can be defended, ultimately it is inadequate. www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

Wow, here is a throwback … sent from mum going through boxes at home

Can unpredictability undermine consent? Rethinking the transformative experience objection - Journal of Medical Ethics blog blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New paper 🚨Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making | in American Journal of Bioethics (@bioethics_net) -- led by @SereneAKOng www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Physicists are split on whether generative AI is having a net positive or negative effect on the field. My latest for Physics Magazine: physics.aps.org/articles/v18... @briandavidearp.bsky.social, @danielucko.bsky.social

UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

What are your favorite “vintage” pieces on AI that are just as relevant today?

Call for submissions 📢 JME Practical Bioethics is calling for papers on: Global bioethics perspectives on ectogestation. Submissions are open until 24th May 2026. Link to the Call for Papers: jmepb.bmj.com/pages/perspe...

Is love addiction real – and what does it look like? www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Call for submissions 📢 JME Practical Bioethics is calling for papers on: Global bioethics perspectives on ectogestation. Submissions are open until 24th May 2026. Link to the Call for Papers: jmepb.bmj.com/pages/perspe...

Call for submissions 📢 JME Practical Bioethics is calling for papers on: Doing ethics with AI. Submissions are open until 24th May 2026. Link to the Call for Papers: jmepb.bmj.com/pages/doing-...

‘He needs to be a boy’: Unnecessary surgeries being performed on intersex children www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

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The Making of Digital Ghosts: Designing Ethical AI Afterlives arxiv.org/abs/2511.200...

Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/25/p...

Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great to see some content now populating the JME Practical Bioethics website! An editorial, a correspondence ... and our first peer-reviewed article, an inside look at the recent revision of the Declaration of Helsinki ☺️ jmepb.bmj.com

Breath to death: nitrogen asphyxiation for execution and assisted suicide | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I don’t like small talk but there are some fair points in this…. ‘It’s incredibly useful’: why small talk is actually great www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

International core ethical principles for medical research put to the test: the newly revised Declaration of Helsinki jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

Undisclosed financial COIs among author-physicians in leading psychiatry journals bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

Great advice from Jenn Blumenthal Barby - How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author - Bioethics Today bioethicstoday.org/blog/how-to-...

My employer has added yet another step to the login process, so there are now THREE web pages to click through *each time I log in*. With a TTL of around 1 hour, this means I have to log into each individual system multiple times per day. This is a huge waste of time. 😔 #academia

Teaching a philsoophy of science class but the students also get a "methodology of science" class where they are taught what science is... it's a challenge 🫠

Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Worthwhile, from Elizabeth Barnes … The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...