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Meg Doerr

@MegDoerr

Director #ResearchEthics #ELSI @SageBio, advocate for #OpenScience, #privacy, and #InformedConsent; #IAmAGeneticCounselor, she/her on bluesky @MegDoerr

Se unió Mart 2014
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ProPublica
ProPublica@propublica·
A Dept. of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica set new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cited no new science, instead relying on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government: propub.li/4dfmMAk
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Dr. Catharine Young
Dr. Catharine Young@DrCatharineY·
We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI. But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders. With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.
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Meg Doerr@MegDoerr·
Many thanks to our academic collaborators @KapoorAstha, @AnoukRuhaak, @JasmineMcNealy, Joon-Ho Yu, @DrTaualii, Melissa Creary, and Samuel A. Moore, and community expert leads Odia Kane, David Andres Emery, Kalei Glozier, and Andrea Downing for their work on the project!
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Meg Doerr@MegDoerr·
Feel free to share with friends and colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you there!
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Meg Doerr@MegDoerr·
🔔 Upcoming Webinar: Bringing Community Priorities into Big Health Data Research Introducing CHIRON (Community Health Interests for Researchers & Oversight Networks), a toolkit to aid researchers & oversight bodies in thinking through community impacts of data reuse
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Eric Topol
Eric Topol@EricTopol·
This week's @Nature cover highlights a report of A.I. mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s4158…
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ProPublica
ProPublica@propublica·
In August, we reported the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year, with the number of doctors still in the agency dropping each month since Trump took office. If you recently left the VA, here's how to share your story with us: propublica.org/getinvolved/he…
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Helen Toner
Helen Toner@hlntnr·
New CSET work taking an empirical look (based on 250 papers) at the kinds of AI research that are enabled by open-weight models: ⬇️
Kyle Miller@KyauMill21

Based on this sample, we find that open-weight models enable a diverse range of seven use cases (ie ways one can observe, interact with, or change a model), ranging from fine-tuning a model’s knowledge, to examining its internals, to compressing its parameters or precision

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Zach Schermele
Zach Schermele@ZachSchermele·
NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being “decimated,” as one person described. “They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding,” said another. “I’m not sure how these programs exist moving forward.”
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LenaSun
LenaSun@bylenasun·
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
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Dr. Lucky Tran
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran·
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
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Dr. Catharine Young
Dr. Catharine Young@DrCatharineY·
Friday night massacre. The CDC just lost dozens of its top scientists and its entire D.C. office. This isn’t streamlining the government - it’s dismantling our ability to detect and respond to outbreaks before they spread. You can’t cut your way to safety.
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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦
Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦@cmclymer·
On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade went on national television and called for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. "Just kill 'em," he said. There hasn't been one word about it in The New York Times or The Washington Post or USA Today.
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Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS
Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS@DrPlantel·
The #1 cause of death in children isn’t mold, parasites, leaky gut, gluten, or food dyes. It’s firearms. So why are we patting ourselves on the back because food companies are voluntarily pulling dyes, while the leading killer of kids goes unaddressed? Every day, parents hold their breath when they drop their kids at school, praying today isn’t the day the unthinkable happens. This isn’t new. It’s a long standing crisis. How many more children have to die before we wake the hell up?
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