📣 Applications are NOW OPEN for the 2026 Hastings Center Summer Bioethics Program! ✨ Highly competitive program 👥 Only 20 students will be selected 🗓 Application deadline: March 13 🔗 https://bit.ly/4cjw7qc

Global power shifts don’t just change politics 🌍—they shape who sets the rules for ethical research. ⚖️ Jonathan D. Moreno explores what an “imperial hegemon” could mean for global research ethics, AI 🤖, and gene editing 🧬. Read! https://bit.ly/4a8HEHw

👏🎉 Episode 8 of Bioethics Chats! HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social sits down with James Giordano, PhD, DPhil who is internationally recognized for his research on the use of neurocognitive science & technology in military & intelligence operations. 🔗: https://bit.ly/3ZL5wuV

📄✨ NEW paper in the American Journal of Public Health co-authored by HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social “Navigating ‘Wicked’ Disagreement in Public Health.” 🔗: https://bit.ly/4r23Jxg #PublicHealth #Bioethics #HealthPolicy #EthicsInPublicHealth #TrustInScience

🎙️ New podcast episode alert! HC Research Scholar Insoo Hyun joins Dr. Jeremy Koenig on The DNA of Things podcast. Together, they explore how ethics, politics, AI, stem cells, and the future of human identity are colliding in real time. 🧬🤖 🎧 https://bit.ly/4trniRt

🌟 Join us for the 10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference – happening virtually on March 12-13, 2026! 👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/4axd1vl #ReproductiveEthics #Bioethics #HealthcareEthics #VirtualConference

NEW paper 📄 by HC Board Chair Joseph J. Fins examines the cross-border legacies of William Osler and Wilder Penfield—and why US-Canada collaboration in neuroscience and ethics matters more than ever. Read: https://bit.ly/4akn99M #WilliamOsler #WilderPenfield #AcademicFreedom

NEW paper 📄 by HC Board Chair Joseph J. Fins examines the cross-border legacies of William Osler and Wilder Penfield—and why US-Canada collaboration in neuroscience and ethics matters more than ever. Read: https://bit.ly/4akn99M #WilliamOsler #WilderPenfield #AcademicFreedom

🤖⚖️ How should human–AI dissonance be addressed ethically? 📢 HC Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will participate in a conference on 2/9 presented by @columbiaethics.bsky.social to explore the clinical, legal, and ethical stakes. 🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/4rz6RAR

🎉 Nomination deadline has been extended to 2/13/26 for the 2026 Hastings Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards! These awards honor physicians who deliver exceptional end-of-life care. Awards: 🏆 $15K Early-Career (≤10 yrs) 🏆 $25K Senior Leadership (15+ yrs, underserved focus) 🔗 https://bit.ly/3VMP9ff

A dying cancer patient asks for CPR—but privately tells doctors she doesn’t really want it. Her family is pressuring her. 💔 Is it ever ethical to forgo or “slow” CPR? Where do compassion and transparency collide? 🆕🔗 https://bit.ly/3NMb5qc #Bioethics #EndOfLifeCare

❄️Ethical implications of snow days? With Winter Storm Fern behind us and a potential for another storm this weekend, our staff weighs in!🤓 @varditravitsky.bsky.social What’s your verdict?🥶 #winterstormfern #newyorksnow #snowday #bioethics #northeast #snowmuchfun

✨ Join us for an exciting conversation on AI and healthcare! HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social will deliver the keynote at Touro University Law Center’s symposium exploring the rapidly evolving role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. 🤖⚕️ 🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/3LDOqf0

When a #pregnant person is declared #braindead, should fetal rights take precedence over those of the patient? ⚖️ New paper in AJOB co-authored by HC Research Scholar Virginia A. Brown and Faith Fletcher, HC Fellow. 📖 https://bit.ly/4r4MBXm #endoflifecare #healthlaw

📖 New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: in a powerful reflection, author Vladyslava Kachkovska, M.D. shares how life and work in #Ukraine during the ongoing invasion have revealed the profound necessity of #bioethics 🔗: https://lnkd.in/g9YJj2Md #UkraineWar #EthicsInCrisis

🎧 Podcast Feature Hastings Senior Researcher Insoo Hyun is featured on @radiolab.bsky.social Podcasts, exploring the fascinating—and unsettling—world of brain organoids. 🧠 🎙️ https://radiolab.org/podcast/brain-balls #Bioethics #BrainOrganoids #Neuroscience #TrustedScience

📢 The BCC released its inaugural policy brief, Future-Proofing Trust in Health Science in Canada. The report outlines 3 key recommendations to strengthen health science ecosystem: -Reinforcing integrity -Requiring accountability -Assuming leadership 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pRsTNT

HC Senior Scholar Insoo Hyun will moderate a hybrid event tomorrow at the @museumofscience.bsky.social: 💉 “The Unfiltered Truth: Everything You’re Afraid to Ask About Vaccines.” 👉 Register: https://www.mos.org/events/unfiltered-truth-everything-youre-afraid-ask-about-vaccines

🆕 New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by @daphmarts.bsky.social & @juliaehbrown.bsky.social : As #fertility fears rise, #pronatalism pushes for more children—and increasingly, “better” ones...Genetic tools like polygenic embryo selection, raise serious ethical concerns. 👉 https://bit.ly/3YF5UdM

Trip. Fall. Head injury. Today, someone calls 911 instantly. 🚑 But in 1966, that didn’t exist. Thanks to @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social study—and Blair Sadler, JD (founding father of our Sadler Scholar Program)—modern EMS was born, shaping emergency care nationwide. https://bit.ly/3NkumyB

New Clinical Ethics Case Study 🩺 Ethicists examine a complex ER scenario involving a patient w/ suicidal thoughts, and a preexisting DNR order—and whether that directive should be respected. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4jJj6Ic #ClinicalEthics #EndOfLifeCare #MentalHealth #DNR

🎧 HC Senior Researcher Insoo Hyun joins @npr.org podcast to discuss the ethics of brain organoid research—lab-grown models that help study conditions like #autism and #schizophrenia. 🔗 Listen now: https://bit.ly/456xZOS #bioethics #organoid #brainresearch

Tune in! 🎧 HC Scholar Karen Maschke is featured on @npr.org It’s Been a Minute podcast in the episode “Are Peptides Good or Bad for You?” 🔗 Listen now to hear why this trend raises important questions about health, risk, & responsibility! https://n.pr/4sE41LU

👏 🎉Episode 7 of Bioethics Chats is out! Travis N. Rieder, PhD from @bermaninstitute.bsky.social chatted with HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social about his research on catastrophes globally to his personal struggle with opioid dependence following medical treatment. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pwy8m0

👏✨ Congratulations to Hastings Center Research Scholar Virginia A. Brown, MA, PhD on her appointment as an Affiliate with the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. #Bioethics #Equity #Collaboration #AcademicExcellence #HarvardMedicalCenter

🌍 If you missed our post last week from our President @varditravitsky.bsky.social about our highlights from 2025, this post is for you! 2025 was about meeting the moment—responding to today’s ethical challenges while preparing for those just ahead. 👉 https://bit.ly/45hyZPV

Join us on Feb 11th from 6–8pm at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Zuckerman Auditorium (NYC) 🎬✨ for the premiere of a documentary about bioethics pioneer and longtime Hastings Center colleague Nancy Dubler. Tickets, https://esbc.org/ #NancyDubler #Bioethics

🎉Congratulations to Hastings Center Fellow Judy Illes on her appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada! 🔗Read more: https://bit.ly/4q7rnrE #BiomedicalEthics #Neuroscience #OrderofCanada #Canada

🤔 What does “over-vaccination” really mean — and why is calling it dangerous so controversial? 📖 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Arthur Caplan dives into the debate, read: https://bit.ly/495WONc #Bioethics #Vaccines #RFK #VaccineSchedule

🌍 This year was about meeting the moment—responding to today’s ethical challenges while preparing for those just ahead. 💙 We’re deeply grateful to our readers and generous supporters! Highlights from our work in 2025. 👉 https://bit.ly/45hyZPV @varditravitsky.bsky.social

🌍 This year was about meeting the moment—responding to today’s ethical challenges while preparing for those just ahead. 💙 We’re deeply grateful to our readers and generous supporters! Highlights from our work in 2025. 👉 https://bit.ly/45hyZPV @varditravitsky.bsky.social

🚨 If you have not yet donated to our end-of-year appeal, don't worry…there is still time! As grant funding risks rise and misinformation erodes trust, The Hastings Center stands firm for justice, equity, inclusion and integrity. 🙏 Give today: https://bit.ly/3WnmtK3 @varditravitsky.bsky.social

With 300+ mass shootings already in 2025, gun violence remains a devastating crisis in the U.S. 💔 NEW essay offers some hope✨—arguing that ethical frameworks from medical ethics can help us find common ground. 👉 https://bit.ly/4aXVEEE #EndGunViolence #BrownUniversity

📣📰✨It’s here! The Nov/Dec Hastings Center Special Report is out now. This timely, thought-provoking issue explores why and how caregivers should be meaningfully included in medical decision-making. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4s2YGxp #MedicalEthics #Caregivers #Bioethics

🎥✨The Hastings Center for Bioethics collaborated with the @museumofscience.bsky.social on five videos in the popular Big Question series. The series features HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social 📺The videos are now being broadcast on @pbsnews.org, watch! https://to.pbs.org/3L6gHua

Cancer treatments save lives—but can cost fertility 💔. A new technique allows fertility preservation in very young girls, even before puberty, by freezing ovarian tissue for future use 🧬. Co-authored by Hastings Center President @varditravitsky.bsky.social 🔗: https://bit.ly/4aQUQBs

📢 It’s here! The November/December issue of Ethics & Human Research is out now! 📖🧠 👉 Read the full issue: https://bit.ly/48CLFTK #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #HealthData #ResearchEthics #PublicHealth

💙 Thank you for so generously supporting The Hastings Center for Bioethics this Giving Tuesday. We deeply appreciate your investment in our work. With your help, we were able to achieve our goal and raise nearly $30,000! #GivingTuesday

🚨 If you have not yet donated to our end-of-year appeal, don't worry…there is still time! As grant funding risks rise and misinformation erodes trust, The Hastings Center stands firm for justice, equity, inclusion and integrity. 🙏 Give today: https://bit.ly/3WnmtK3

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🎥🧠📚 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, author Allison Coffelt takes us to the movies, where bioethics hits the big screen through two iconic stories: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg. 🔗 Read: www.thehastingscenter.org/the-multipli... #Bioethics

🧬 #EmbryoTesting is advancing rapidly — but how far is too far? Join us TONIGHT for “Testing Embryos: How Far Should We Go?” — the first webinar in our new series, Frontiers in the Ethics of Human Reproduction. FREE event — register here: https://bit.ly/4qSclXV

🌍 #GivingTuesday is today, LAST CHANCE to help us reach our goal! This year, your donation can be DOUBLED! How? A generous donor will match up to $10,000 in gifts received by midnight tonight. Your support fuels vital research! 💙 https://bit.ly/4hLQWeH

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Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving!🥰 ❤️ 🦃 #HappyThanksgiving

🧬 Interested in the ethics of #genetictesting of embryos? Join us on December 3, 2025, for “Testing Embryos: How Far Should We Go?” — the first webinar in our new series, Frontiers in the Ethics of Human Reproduction. FREE event: https://bit.ly/4qSclXV

🌍 #GivingTuesday is two weeks away! This year, your donation can be DOUBLED! How? A generous donor will match up to $10,000 in gifts received by midnight on Tuesday, December 2nd. Your support fuels vital research! 💙 https://bit.ly/4hLQWeH

⭐ Four international leaders in healthcare, medicine, and AI entrepreneurship have joined our Board! “They are highly accomplished innovators in their fields who have global perspective and impact,” says HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social 🔗 https://bit.ly/4p1jaVC