Alan Regenberg
@aregenberg.bsky.social
Bioethicist, etc: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Ethics & emerging biotech. Curator: @bermaninstitute.bsky.social. Baltimore enthusiast. He/Him.
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Jonathan Moreno: What Does an Imperial Hegemon Mean for Research Ethics? | The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay www.thehastingscenter.org/what-does-an...
What Does an Imperial Hegemon Mean for Research Ethics? : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
What matters for bioethics in a diminished or radically revised global order also matters the world. To take one current example of norms at risk, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention h...
www.thehastingscenter.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Jonathan Moreno: What Does an Imperial Hegemon Mean for Research Ethics? | The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay www.thehastingscenter.org/what-does-an...
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, TX. In letters and drawings, 8 kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight. | Propublica www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, TX. In letters and drawings, 8 kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight. | Propublica www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science. Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science
Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses.
www.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science. Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Health Advice From AI Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows. In part, the problem has to do with how users are asking their questions. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Health Advice From AI Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows. In part, the problem has to do with how users are asking their questions. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say. Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say
Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
RFK Jr misled Senate during confirmation, Congress members and Hawaii governor say. Newly revealed emails undermine Kennedy’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of deadly measles outbreak | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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#Bioethics Seminar TODAY, Noon EST (via Zoom): Nagla Rizk, PhD, "What is Feminist Artificial Intelligence? Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa" Open to all. Link for more info and to join via Zoom: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
#Bioethics Seminar TODAY, Noon EST (via Zoom): Nagla Rizk, PhD, "What is Feminist Artificial Intelligence? Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa" Open to all. Link for more info and to join via Zoom: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...
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How words discredit: A taxonomy of stigmatizing language in the Electronic Health Record - Amanda McArthur, Alya Ahmad, Anne Links, Kathleen Warner, Paul Drew, Mary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha | PEC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How words discredit: A taxonomy of stigmatizing language in the Electronic Health Record
Language in electronic health records (EHRs) can transmit stigma, discrediting patients in ways that undermine the clinician-patient relationship and …
www.sciencedirect.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
How words discredit: A taxonomy of stigmatizing language in the Electronic Health Record - Amanda McArthur, Alya Ahmad, Anne Links, Kathleen Warner, Paul Drew, Mary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha | PEC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Unidos somos América.
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NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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“What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected.”
Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
The birther of a nation.
nyti.ms
February 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
“What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected.”
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
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Former FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf: HHS leadership is focused on policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy. Personal experience and observation are no replacement for outcomes data. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/a... via @statnews.com
Former FDA commissioner: HHS leadership is focused on policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy
“Doctors are not a flock of free-range chickens wandering about offices and hospitals and making up best practices, one clinician at the time,” writes Robert Califf.
www.statnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Former FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf: HHS leadership is focused on policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy. Personal experience and observation are no replacement for outcomes data. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/a... via @statnews.com
Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations
Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau
www.science.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH research is in the red zone. $561M in grants for cancer and heart disease is frozen, and 304 trials are defunded. Vacancies in 15 director roles create a leadership gap that stalls medical progress here in the US.
#MedSky 🛟 #AcademicSky
#MedSky 🛟 #AcademicSky
Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds
In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.
arstechnica.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
NIH research is in the red zone. $561M in grants for cancer and heart disease is frozen, and 304 trials are defunded. Vacancies in 15 director roles create a leadership gap that stalls medical progress here in the US.
#MedSky 🛟 #AcademicSky
#MedSky 🛟 #AcademicSky
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I strongly encourage everyone to read these two pages from Bernard E. Trappy, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices.
In brief, this NEJM article describes #physicians' observations and experiences in the wake of ICE's occupation and mass operations in Minnesota.
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(1/5) 🧪
In brief, this NEJM article describes #physicians' observations and experiences in the wake of ICE's occupation and mass operations in Minnesota.
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(1/5) 🧪
We Do Care | NEJM
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their
voices.
www.nejm.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I strongly encourage everyone to read these two pages from Bernard E. Trappy, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices.
In brief, this NEJM article describes #physicians' observations and experiences in the wake of ICE's occupation and mass operations in Minnesota.
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(1/5) 🧪
In brief, this NEJM article describes #physicians' observations and experiences in the wake of ICE's occupation and mass operations in Minnesota.
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(1/5) 🧪
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Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Whole Milk, Widespread Collapse, SNAP, Scaling Up Aquaculture, Women Farmers in Guatemala, Farmers Share Challenges, Coping Strategies, Satellite Data, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...
Global Food Ethics and Policy Program: News Roundup
mailchi.mp
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Whole Milk, Widespread Collapse, SNAP, Scaling Up Aquaculture, Women Farmers in Guatemala, Farmers Share Challenges, Coping Strategies, Satellite Data, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...
AI Agents do not possess intentions or goals and draw their abilities from large swathes of human communication...“It is still worth studying because it tells us something important about how people imagine AI, what they want agents to do...” Neves adds. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
AI Agents do not possess intentions or goals and draw their abilities from large swathes of human communication...“It is still worth studying because it tells us something important about how people imagine AI, what they want agents to do...” Neves adds. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots. Advisory committee panelists have said — contrary to scientific consensus — that they believe the Covid shots are dangerous and should be taken off the market. They are also reviewing research on vaccines for pregnant women. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots. Advisory committee panelists have said — contrary to scientific consensus — that they believe the Covid shots are dangerous and should be taken off the market. They are also reviewing research on vaccines for pregnant women. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion - 1) undermine Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers by questioning their credibility and block their funding. 2) try to ban mifepristone in part by saying it’s unsafe (despite ample evidence). theconversation.com/federal-and-...
Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion
Four years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling gave states the power to ban abortion, further restrictions are arriving through legislation and litigation.
theconversation.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion - 1) undermine Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers by questioning their credibility and block their funding. 2) try to ban mifepristone in part by saying it’s unsafe (despite ample evidence). theconversation.com/federal-and-...
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows. Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows
Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects
www.science.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows. Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...