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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📣New publication from the Everyday Ethics Lab! 📣 A Survey of Canadian Psychiatrists’ Attitudes Towards Palliative Care Approaches for Severe and Persistent Mental Illness #palliativepsychiatry #bioethics 🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07067437261474291

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Can AI be virtuous? @fignuisance.bsky.social and I argue no. We respond to a @bmj.com Health & Care Informatics paper proposing virtues for clinical AI. We caution that anthropomorphizing AI can obscure human moral agency and distort ethical frameworks. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/2frsdhd6 #bioethics

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A few words on what motivated this paper. Our concern is that we may wake up one day and realize how much influence commercial actors using AI tools can have on health. This risk is greater because AI companies now have a substantial technological advantage over regulators -->

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Researchers can use AI-CDoH to examine actors, data, how AI shapes knowledge or behaviour, who is targeted, and health impacts. It can help identify where AI enabled commercial influence occurs, how it operates, and what forms of oversight or intervention may be needed. 8/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI platforms as health influencing infrastructure: Chatbots, search engines, social media, and recommendation systems increasingly mediate health advice, self-diagnosis, and purchasing. Their design, data practices, and commercial incentives shape what information and products people see. 7/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI shaping of the public narrative: AI enables highly personalized messaging across chatbots, search, and social media. It can amplify doubt, make commercial claims seem widely accepted, and influence how people understand health risks, products, and responsibility. 6/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI regulatory and policy capture: AI can identify regulatory vulnerabilities, tailor arguments to decision makers, and generate submissions at scale. When regulators and public institutions adopt commercial AI systems, biased data or algorithms may also affect regulatory and policy decisions. 5/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI knowledge capture: AI can change how scientific evidence is generated, synthesized, framed, and shared. Companies can use it to target clinicians or researchers, amplify favourable findings, and obscure evidence that challenges commercial goals. 4/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Through this framework (AI-CDoH), we examine: 👉 AI knowledge capture 👉 AI regulatory and policy capture 👉 AI shaping of the public narrative 👉 AI platforms as health influencing infrastructure 3/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

An AI commercial determinants of health framework can help identify how AI is transforming existing mechanisms of commercial influence and enabling new tactics through which commercial actors may influence health. 2/9

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

How is AI changing the ways commercial actors influence health? Check out our new article published in BMJ: "Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health." We introduce the AI commercial determinants of health (AI-CDoH) framework 🧵 @bmj.com 1/9

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I was just talking about this issue yesterday. Way too much sensory overload.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 09/07/2026

I worry that this same is true for journals requiring “disclosure” of gen AI use. Journals can appear to be doing SOMEthing by requiring disclosure of gen AI, but it doesn’t actually improve the quality of manuscripts in the journal.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

⤵️⤵️ Disclosure is a floor, not a ceiling, and believing that disclosure discharges all moral obligations to counter the effects of #MotivatedBias is a huge mistake.

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Agreed, but decades of COI research show disclosure alone is insufficient. It doesn't change the underlying relationship, and can backfire. Audiences may trust a transparent speaker more and scrutinize their data/arguments less. #bioethics #COI www.science.org/content/arti...

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Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures

A new petition urges greater transparency amid growing ties to AI and other companies

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Another no-hitter heartbreak for this organization, which has had so many over the years. Dave Stieb still stands alone, while Dylan Cease joins the crowded, growing group of #BlueJays pitchers to lose theirs in the ninth. A brilliant, but bittersweet day on the mound.

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

After the 6th, Dylan Cease told John Schneider he could throw 120 pitches. After the 7th? He said he had 130 in him. Schneider wanted to give it to him: “I’m a fan of baseball … If I can let a player have that opportunity, I’m going to do it every single time.” #BlueJays

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thrilled to announce that the special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal on Chronic Pain and Social Justice is now published! 🙏 to the authors, EIC Dr Quill Kukla and Aaron Gray, & the brilliant Dr @jadawlittle-phd.bsky.social, co-conspirator/co-editor #bioethics tinyurl.com/459ba584

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Project MUSE - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal-Volume 35, Numbers 3-4, September/December 2025

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ethics-washing — the cooptation of ethicists by commercial actors who wish to present themselves as more ‘ethical’ than they probably are — is very real! Great Daily Nous post by Lisa Herzog, Marijn Hoijtink, Gijs van Maanen, Ann-Katrien Oimann, and Linnet Taylor. dailynous.com/2026/06/16/w...

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When There’s no Fun in Funding: External Research Money, Ethics-Washing, and Positive Academic Freedom (guest post) - Daily Nous

Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet this engagement with ethics may be superficial, ...

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I'm so honoured to receive this award. I just try to show up, listen, and support learners who are far more talented than me! Each one has taught me something and challenged my thinking. They remind me why the work we do in bioethics matters. Thank you 🙏 and congrats to all the award recipients!

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I sat down w/ Dr Dan Cox to chat about the limits of medicine, goals of care, reducing suffering, quality of life, & palliative psychiatry. 🍎https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-is-palliative-psychiatry-with-dr-daniel-buchman/id1734318570?i=1000771879361 🛜 open.spotify.com/episode/7Aao...

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What is Palliative Psychiatry with Dr. Daniel Buchman | Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology

Dan is joined by Dr. Daniel Buchman, a bioethicist and scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an associate professor in the Dalla Lan…

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Dr Syd @sydmj.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My fantastic department, the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University, is growing and hiring for two TT positions! careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa... #bioethics #MedicalHumanities #ClinicalEthics

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Grand slam, Daulton Varsho. The biggest swing of the #BlueJays season so far, and so very needed. Toronto wins, 5-3.

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Dylan Cease has struck out 10 batters over seven shutout innings on 97 pitches. Complete control of this game. #BlueJays

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Dr. Buchman's work on this is so important b/c it is widely believed that medicalizing or biologizing chronic disease is a viable pathway to reducing stigma. His work builds the evidence base we need to answer the question: are such approaches important stigma-reducing strategies? #Bioethics

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🗣️ New paper from the CAMH Everyday Ethics Lab! 🧠 Do disease-based explanations of chronic pain reduce stigma? This is the question we set out to answer in our new paper in the @thejournalofpain.bsky.social #bioethics #neuroethics #stigma 1/9

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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Françoise Baylis @francoisebaylis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A new kind of fraud in academic publishing. The Asian Journal of Ethics in Health and Medicine is abusing the picture, cv & contact details of several people (including myself) on their website They falsely claim that we are a member of their Advisory Board. smerpub.com/journal-page...

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Editorial Boards | Asian Journal of Ethics in Health and Medicine - Society of Medical Education & Research

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Toronto's new eBike Share bikes are 🔥🔥🔥 1. Grey colour- Whole bike is reflective 2. Adaptive shifting 3. Built in phone holder 4. And ability to lock without a docking station for quick stops (at shops etc...) These are things that make choosing a bike way easier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vk...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I cannot tell you how apoplectic with rage it makes me that pharma successfully made atypical antipsychotics the most widely Rx'd class of off-label Rxs for KIDS and then, given the entirely predictable ++ in tardive dyskinesia, started selling another GD drug for that horrifying side effect. 1/

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Hoffman is just not cutting it. These issues go back to last season. Yes, it’s like the Jays bats are in the dead-ball era but there is a pattern to Hoffman not being able to hold or absolutely blowing the lead.

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Jeremy Davis @jeremydavis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

sounds like it's at least a *little* accessible then

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

How much pain is too much? In 2026, that's still being decided by a scale of one to ten. The biggest barrier to pain treatment isn't the pain. It's being believed. ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #chronicpain @danielbuchman.bsky.social

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stephen Lewis was a gift to the world. I remember hearing him speak probably 20 years ago or so at an event where he talked about his work in HIV/AIDS. I have never been touched by a speaker as much as I was that night and never again since. May his memory be for a blessing.

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thanks to Dr Markow for having me on the podcast! It was great to chat about all things chronic pain, including research that looks to predict, diagnose, and help treat chronic pain through biomarkers and AI -- and some of ethical questions it raises. #bioethics #chronicpain #stigma #biaseddatasets

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Maxwell Smith, PhD @maxwellsmith.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So thankful for this invitation and opportunity to discuss these important topics with such amazing folks at CAMH! Thanks again for the invite, @danielbuchman.bsky.social

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Bryn Williams-Jones @brynwj.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New open issue of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique is now online: cjb-rcb.ca Features work on vulnerability & stigma, decentralized trials & consent, MAiD & disability, AI in mental health, psychedelic research, and evolving clinical ethics practices.

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

@camhnews.bsky.social Ethics & Everyday Ethics Lab hosted @maxwellsmith.bsky.social for a talk on coercion and compulsion in mental health & addictions -- timely given involuntary tx for substance use legis emerging across 🍁. Grateful for his journal club on vaccine mandates & inf consent as well! 🙏

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Side view. Dr Max smith lecturing to an audience. Windows are half open behind him. The audience is facing forward and sitting in chairs.

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

What a fantastic opportunity for someone who is interested in public health ethics!

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Daniel Buchman @danielbuchman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm honoured and thrilled to be a co-applicant on this vital project. Ethics is not an afterthought to harm reduction. It is foundational, shaping our questions, values, and community impact. Excited to bring bioethics and stigma content expertise and collaborate with our community partners.

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Dalla Lana School of Public Health @uoftdlsph.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Public Health Sciences Associate Dean Carol Strike received $2 million from the CIHR to launch a national harm reduction network for people who use substances. “This project… builds on decades of partnership, innovation and capacity building…” 🔗 ow.ly/61sX50YxNE2. #DLSPH #PublicHealth

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CIHR grant supports pan-Canadian harm reduction network led by PHS Associate Dean

Public Health Sciences Associate Dean Carol Strike receives $2 million to develop a pan-Canadian harm reduction network to improve health and safety supports for people who use drugs.

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Itai Bavli @itaibavli.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It was a pleasure taking part in this Purple Public Health episode with Dr Salma Abdalla on public health errors. From mistakes during the opioid epidemic to policy decisions, we discussed why things go wrong in public health and why learning from these errors matters www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBV1...

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Purple Public Health episode—Beyond blame: understanding public health errors with Dr. Itai Bavli

YouTube video by Complicating The Narrative

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