Dana Howard

@thedanahoward.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor | Bioethics and Philosophy. Views represented here are my own and not that of my employer.

Professional website: https://sites.google.com/site/danasarahhoward/

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 3h

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

www.theguardian.com

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 21h

First snow in Columbus for my birthday.

A patio dusted with snow, patio seats and table also with a light blanket of snow.

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 21h

still making bread.

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 1d

Good to know

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 1d

“Harrington added that Preventive is compelled to work outside the U.S. because the Food and Drug Administration is prohibited from reviewing applications for human trials involving embryo editing. “

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d

www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...

"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.

www.wsj.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.

www.wsj.com

Reposted by Dana Howard

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 3d

Had a great time at the @sacnas.bsky.social conference last week! Many Ohio State folks (see pic, including @astrojennifer.bsky.social, @denisemondragon.bsky.social, and me) attended despite restrictions. Congrats to @denisemondragon.bsky.social on winning best grad poster presentation!

Reposted by Dana Howard

Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 4d

Please don’t call ECT ‘shock therapy’, an outdated and inaccurate term.
The controversy surrounding ECT comes from movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
ECT has changed radically since then, but it is still rarely depicted accurately today.

www.statnews.com/2016/05/20/s...

Don't call electroconvulsive therapy 'shock therapy'

Despite its portrayal in the media, electroconvulsive therapy isn't medically or clinically controversial. Calling it that risks people's mental health and even their lives.

www.statnews.com

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isaac @sevier.io · 4d

"'There’s been this air of inevitability around data centers and AI and all this new tech stuff coming out — how it’s going to happen, so either get out of the way or get run over,' he said.

'And our job is to try and remind people in power of their humanity, at the end of the day.'"

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The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics

Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against AI development.

heatmap.news

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 4d

“Slingshot has not tested Ash, which is free to use, as part of a clinical trial…as scrutiny of both general-purpose chatbots and chatbots designed for therapy rose, Slingshot stopped marketing Ash as a therapy chatbot. The start-up now promotes the app for “mental health and emotional well-being.”

Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Are AI Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use? Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use?

www.nytimes.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.

This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

A scanned Supreme Court of the United States order, dated November 6, 2025, in the case Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al., No. 25A319. The document discusses an Executive Branch policy requiring passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The highlighted passage reads: “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases.” The Court grants the government’s application for a stay at this preliminary stage, reasoning that the government is likely to succeed on the merits and that the policy does not violate equal protection principles.

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use?

www.nytimes.com

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 4d

For more on how emergency declarations could be used to address climate issues, see this brief. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Seven Ways the Executive Branch Can Turbocharge Green Industrial Policy - Roosevelt Institute

There are seven tools President Biden can use to create the green energy jobs of the future, while limiting inflation.

rooseveltinstitute.org

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 4d

LOL

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 4d

Change in Headline

Before: Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
After: Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 4d

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.

Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.

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The word "growth" is a core term in the language of climate politics. As we just saw, climate economists estimate the costs of climate damages relative to the amount of economic growth they project into the twenty-first century, and by and large they assume that such growth will continue no matter how hot and chaotic the planet gets. Their belief in a future of continued economic growth enables another idea sometimes used to justify sustaining the fossil- fuel economy: the idea that economic growth is itself a climate-change solution, a form of environmental protection that will shield the prosperous from climate devastation. This belief is so bipartisan, so ubiquitous, that it's not quite accurate to call it propaganda. It's best understood as a *myth*. This myth is often taken for reality by both fossil-fuel partisans on the right and climate-conscious progressives on the center-left.

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 4d

Change in Headline

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 5d

The laws have put doctors under increasing pressure, complicating the standard medical treatments for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, premature membrane rupture, and other pregnancy problems. These laws are driving much-needed doctors from certain states.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Iowa doesn't have enough OB-GYNs. Is the state's abortion ban part of the problem?

Iowa ranks last among states for the number of OB-GYNS per capita. State legislators are trying to recruit more, but some doctors say the state's strict abortion ban is partially to blame.

www.npr.org

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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 5d

New: About 40% of the private attorneys who serve as court-appointed counsel for indigent federal defendants in New Mexico announced they will stop taking new cases, citing a funding crisis that has left them and other Criminal Justice Act lawyers unpaid since July. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 5d

The UC President axed a signature part of our Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). UCOP cites the budget, but PPFP is a key program the Trump admin is threatening us over.

UCOP is capitulating to Trump's threats, piecemeal. Ominous, worrying.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program

Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

www.insidehighered.com

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 6d

NativeBio (nativebio.org) and Mass Design Group (massdesigngroup.org/videos) will be at Abundant Futures (events.massdesigngroup.org/abundantfutu...) next week in Boston! Here's how we've worked together for Indian Country vimeo.com/762043373

Native BioData Consortium

This is "Native BioData Consortium" by MASS Design Group on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com

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Hank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 6d

Fascinating. Colossal (think "Dire-ish" wolves) bought Viagen (think pet, and livestock) cloning.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Not sure what I think about it, tho I can see that Colossal might benefit from Viagen's technology and experience.

Biotech company Colossal, which brought dire wolves back to life, acquires Viagen

Colossal Biosciences, which has brought to life a small pack of genetically modified dire wolves, has acquired cloning company Viagen.

www.usatoday.com

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 6d

Polls open until 7:30pm today in Cincinnati with mayor, nine city council slots, judges, ballot issues and tax levies on the ballot.

An “Ohio Voted”’sticker held by a hand against a sidewalk background.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 6d

In this opinion piece, two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.

Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust

Two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.

www.technologyreview.com

Reposted by Dana Howard

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

3 people set off of a bomb at Harvard medical school yesterday and it's barely gotten any attention.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliat...

www.thecrimson.com

Reposted by Dana Howard

Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 9d

Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously passes congressional map further GOP advantage ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/31/o...

Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously passes congressional map further GOP advantage • Ohio Capital Journal

The Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously passed a congressional map in a Friday morning meeting, increasing Republican advantage in the state 12-3 and blocking a referendum effort.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 9d

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).

Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 10d

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 10d

Ok, I did it - I created my first Change.org petition: Let Central Ohio Kids Trick-Or-Treat on Halloween!

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 10d

Ok, I did it - I created my first Change.org petition: Let Central Ohio Kids Trick-Or-Treat on Halloween!

Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social · 11d

met this no drama llama last week at ASBH! Keep it up little buddy.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 11d

BATTLE STATIONS PATRIOTS, CAESAR THE NO DRAMA LLAMA HAS BEEN DEPLOYED IN PORTLAND REPEAT, THE LLAMA IS LIVE AND ARMED

Caesar the No Drama Llama attends ICE
protest

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