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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 10h

📣 We’re hiring! Join The Hastings Center for Bioethics team. We’re seeking a Manager of Grants and Project Support. 📍 Garrison, NY | Hybrid 💼 Full-time 💰Salary range: $70,000–$85,000 📅 Apply by October 31, 2026 🔗, bit.ly/3TFPV0c

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

⚖️ What happens when an execution by lethal injection goes wrong? A NEW HC Bioethics Forum essay examines the ethical questions surrounding lethal injection following Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike. 📖 bit.ly/4AOyE5D

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📚🧠 HC Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger, whose work focuses on dementia and caregiving, reviews journalist Robert Kolker’s book, The Vanishing Family, in Science! 📖: bit.ly/4hIyC6E #dementia #caregiving #bioethics

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📣Nominations open tomorrow, October 1, for the 2027 Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Nursing Awards! 🩺💙 🏆 Up to three outstanding nurses will be selected, with each recipient receiving an unrestricted $25,000 award. 🔗: cdfawards.org

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🤖 Can #AI be programmed to behave ethically—and what happens when it becomes difficult for humans to control? NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay explores the challenges of AI regulation, alignment, and ethical boundaries. 📖 bit.ly/4hyyVAP

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧬 What makes a genetic condition “serious”? A NEW paper co-authored by Hastings President @VarditRavitsky explores this complex question in preconception carrier screening and proposes a framework to support policy decisions. 📖 bit.ly/4hr4pIX

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📅 🎤 Mark your calendar! Hastings Center President @varditravitsky.bsky.social is heading to the field Festival: A Festival of Ideas, Entertainment, Learning & Discovery in Lenox, MA 10/23-10/25. 🔗 Learn more and register, bit.ly/4xHRkBn

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🧬 What can the death of Jesse Gelsinger teach us about research ethics today? Join Hastings Center Fellow Arthur Caplan for an ELSIconversations webinar exploring the case’s lasting impact on #GeneTherapy and #ResearchEthics. 📅 Oct. 2 | 12 PM ET🔗 evt.to/gmaioguhw

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚗💨 Beep beep… it’s bioethics! 🧬 Do research ethics rules apply in the Looney Tunes universe? Hastings Fellow Jonathan D. Moreno explores Coyote vs. Acme, informed consent, research participants and potential harms. 🐰💥 📖 bit.ly/46F4Quo #Bioethics #ResearchEthics

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎓 Meet the 2026–27 Sadler Scholars! Six advanced doctoral students join The Hastings Center for Bioethics to explore AI ethics, medical ethics & humanities, and genomic ethics. 🧬🤖 Meet the new cohort: bit.ly/4h87u1U

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📍 Boston-area friends: Join HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social for a medical ethics and business ethics symposium on 10/24! 🧬 Session 3: Ethical Challenges of the Private Offer of IVF 📍 Hilton Boston Park Plaza 🎟 FREE to attend — registration required 🔗: bit.ly/4rlsOEB

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised concerns about chronic illness among U.S. children in a 9/17 speech to Children’s Health Defense. Improving children’s health matters—but solutions should be grounded in scientific evidence, not misinformation. bit.ly/4hkiXKF

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🧠🔬 What can mice with human brain cells teach us about disease? Hastings Senior Researcher Insoo Hyun speaks with @endpts.com about a model implanting human #neurons into mouse brains to study disease and #drugdevelopment 📖 Read more: bit.ly/4hx8xse #Neuroscience

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🌎🤖 What does AI’s growing environmental footprint mean for bioethics? In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Joseph J. Fins proposes factoring AI’s environmental impact into LEED certification. 🌱🏢 📖 Read more: bit.ly/4xCDUqk #Bioethics #AI #Sustainability

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

⚕️ What happens when political and legal judgments begin to override evidence-based medical decision-making? A NEW article from Yale Law & Policy Review, co-authored by HC board member Louise King. 📖: bit.ly/4AadyhH

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📅 HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social will speak at Case Western Reserve University on 11/5 to explore an important question in genetics and bioethics: 🧬 What makes a genetic condition “serious”—and why does that distinction matter ethically? 🔗 bit.ly/4hlhNQ0

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📣 Applications are now OPEN for the 2027 FASPE Medicine Fellowship! 🩺 Interested in medicine, ethics, and professional responsibility? 🔗: www.faspe-ethics.org/medical

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧬During WWII, conscientious objectors volunteered to be intentionally infected with hepatitis to advance medical research. Their story raises timeless questions about altruism, ethics, and public health. 📖 Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: bit.ly/4hs2w0b

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🆕 Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: After a suicide attempt, a 71yr old woman arrived in the ICU in shock—but breathing on her own. A DNR request, scribbled on a napkin 📝, was found beside her. Should it be honored? 🔗: bit.ly/4detbtI

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🤖🌸 What does it really mean to stay human in the age of AI? In this Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Nancy Berlinger (Hastings senior research scholar) explores a thought-provoking new report on this topic. bit.ly/4pgwiHv #AI #Bioethics #AIEthics #FutureOfAI

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

💬 Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Art Caplan: "I'm the Man." What do notions of masculinity have to do with bioethics? More than you might think. 👥 📖: bit.ly/4f8xCYf #Bioethics #MensHealth #MentalHealth #Masculinity #HealthPolicy

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Looking for something thought-provoking to read? 📖 The Hastings Center Report explores the ethical, legal, and social issues in: ⚕️ Medicine 🏥 Healthcare 🌍 Public health 🧬 Life sciences Challenge your thinking and stay informed. 🔗: bit.ly/3Ekueuv

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🚨 NEW in the Hastings Bioethics Forum: “The Enhanced Games Are Paying Athletes Well — Too Well.” bit.ly/4dw6di0 #abstract #Bioethics #SportsEthics #EnhancedGames #Doping #Athletes #SportsNews

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🌍🔥 Can tomorrow's physicians meet the health challenges of a warming world? NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, argues that climate literacy should be an essential part of medical education—not an afterthought. 📖: bit.ly/4gjgele #ClimateChange #FutureOfMedicine

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🚜💬 What happens when a migrant farm worker gets sick—but no one can understand them? 📖 Read Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Fraea Renaerts and J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD: lnkd.in/enXREXsr #Bioethics #HealthEquity #MigrantWorkers #PublicHealth #HealthcareAccess

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stay up to date with The Hastings Center for Bioethics by signing up for our weekly e-newsletter!👏📰 You will learn about our latest publications, research projects, special events and more. 🔗 bit.ly/40y4SR8 #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #Newsletter

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧠🤖 How can the law protect people from the risks of mental health AI? HC Bioethics Forum essay examines the limits of using unauthorized-practice laws to regulate AI chatbots that act like mental health professionals. 📖: bit.ly/4wzen0n @varditravitsky.bsky.social

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📣 U.S. & Canada-based bioethicists: Share your voice! Join an International Association of Bioethics virtual listening session on how it can better serve the global bioethics community. 📅 Aug. 20, — All bioethicists 📅 Aug. 21, — Early career 🔗 iabioethics.world/listening-sessions

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📣 U.S. & Canada-based bioethicists: Share your voice! Join an International Association of Bioethics virtual listening session on how it can better serve the global bioethics community. We are pleased to co-host! 📅 Aug. 20, — All bioethicists 📅 Aug. 21, — Early career 🔗 lnkd.in/dzq8RYkb

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

❤️Is AI in medicine making difficult conversations with patients too easy? “In medicine specifically, the ability to tolerate emotional ambiguity is crucial.” 📖 Read our Bioethics Forum essay bit.ly/4qeNm0W. #empathy #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIinMedicine #bioethics

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🤖🏛️ Where should AI stop in health care? HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social discusses a bipartisan Senate proposal for an AI ethics panel in @statesnewsroom.com 💬 “Should AI take on roles that involve care, or should we limit it to roles that don't?” 📖 bit.ly/4fJTbyk

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🚨 NEW Clinical Ethics Case Study: A patient repeatedly swallows razor blades and returns to the ED. How should clinicians respond when trauma, mental illness, and social circumstances drive a medical crisis? 📖 bit.ly/4wCtgjr

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

💊⚖️ Science Will Not Save the Abortion Pill In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Chris ChoGlueck examines the upcoming Supreme Court case Louisiana v. FDA and what it could mean for access to abortion pills mailed to states with abortion bans. 📖: bit.ly/4fYYZpE

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🎉 The Hastings Bioethics Forum is celebrating 20 years! In a new essay, Tom Chambers revisits a question for the AI era: Can AI create truly original scholarship? He even proposes a bioethics version of the Turing test. 🔗https://bit.ly/44Vlkh9 #Bioethics #AI #Research

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🌍 Time is running out! Applications for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics Mentorship Program close August 3. 📅 Deadline: August 3 📖 Apply today: bit.ly/4g2yNK8

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🎉 Welcome Leigh Morgan to our Board of Directors! As CEO of Imaginal Leadership Strategies and former chair of Fred Hutch Cancer Center, she brings extensive leadership and governance expertise to Hastings. 📖 More: bit.ly/4bRYNFJ

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🧠 What ethical questions arise when scientists use brain organoids for biocomputing? HC Senior Researcher Insoo Hyun co-authored a NEW @nature.com article exploring the ethical challenges of this emerging field. 📖: go.nature.com/4wYwYDM

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🎉We are excited a new episode of Bioethics Chats is out NOW! Quill Kukla professor of philosophy @georgetownlaw.bsky.social chats with @varditravitsky.bsky.social about the book, global biopolitical crises, and why the world desperately needs bioethicists now. 🔗https://bit.ly/44HS2T2 #bioethics

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🧬🤔NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay argues that media coverage of a preprint on embryo gene editing may make this controversial technology seem safer—and more inevitable—than the evidence supports. 📖 bit.ly/4hj6Wqe #Bioethics #GeneEditing #CRISPR

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🏅💉 Should athletes be allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs? Hastings President Emeritus Thomas Murray joined @espn.com to discuss the ethics of the Enhanced Games. 🎥: bit.ly/4fgOBY9

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🎉 Congrats to Hastings Center Fellow Holly Fernandez Lynch recipient of @greenwallfdn.bsky.social 2026 Bernard Lo, MD Award in Bioethics! 👏 The award recognizes Holly's leadership in bridging divides through thoughtful, collaborative bioethics. 🔗: bit.ly/3QWMy3H

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: "Submit a Comment: Keep Politics Out of Science Funding." 🔬 ⏰ The deadline to submit public comments is TODAY (7/13). Read the essay and submit your comment here: bit.ly/4hav1zm

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🩺🤔 How do you make the best medical decisions when the science isn't clear? Hastings President @varditravitsky.bsky.social interviewed on Tradeoffs podcast last week (recorded at Aspen Ideas: Health). 📖: bit.ly/44iWFmk

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🌍 NEW in AJOB: How "America First" Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model What happens when global health funding disappears? HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social argues that today's health challenges demand global cooperation—not isolation. bit.ly/4yaWwPm

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🧫🤯 Scientists created the most advanced synthetic cell yet—and it can adapt and learn survival skills! Hastings Research Director Gregory Kaebnick joined NPR to discuss what “Spudcell” could mean for science and ethics. 🔬🤔 🎧 Listen: n.pr/4gZ3qB7

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🤖🌸 What does it really mean to stay human in the age of AI? In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Nancy Berlinger (Hastings senior research scholar) explores a thought-provoking new report on this topic. bit.ly/4pgwiHv #AI #Bioethics #AIEthics #FutureOfAI

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

💊⚖️ Science Will Not Save the #AbortionPill In a NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, Chris ChoGlueck examines the upcoming Supreme Court case #Louisiana v. FDA and what it could mean for access to abortion pills mailed to states with #AbortionBans. bit.ly/4fYYZpE

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The Hastings Center for Bioethics @hastingscenter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🦟❓ What if we could eliminate #mosquitoes forever? Should we? Hastings Center Research Director Gregory Kaebnick is featured in a new @vox.com podcast exploring the #ethics of wiping out species to protect #humanhealth. 🔗 : bit.ly/4gEttgM

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