Jeremy Snyder

The bioethics/applied health ethics/public health ethics starter pack is full (150 people!). Rather than removing less active folks or gatekeeping I'll start another one - so keep letting me know if you're interested in being listed or see anyone who should be added. go.bsky.app/ERXDCeB

ICYMI: A new class action suit against what might be the largest chain of stem cell clinics in the US tells us a lot about where the clinic industry stands, its massive sales in the US, and the interplay between the FDA and state laws working against it ipscell.com/2026/10/new-...

Bioethics job opening at NIH jobs.chronicle.com/job/38051503...

That was a wild, fantastic ride. Really glad I'd read the Carreyrou book prior to anchor myself a bit.

I am ridiculously excited to be off to see You Can See Everything.

We're hiring in bioethics philjobs.org/job/show/32533

This is a really fascinating research demo, from the lab of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland: It predicts the likelihood that the ideas contained in a piece of text are AI-generated versus human-generated. A couple of examples in this thread.

Sad, unsurprising, and infuriating: "we started to lose ground the more he went online and the more he was flooded with ads for all the seemingly better alternatives: spalike clinics with vitamin infusions, naturopathic doctors and detox diets.”

The @mcgillperl.bsky.social @mcgill.ca invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Pandemic Prevention and Global Health Security to support a CIHR STEPS Team Grant focused on strengthening Canada's public health emergency response systems mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

It's important to track not only which new website the government launches, but which ones it gets rid of.

BC NDP saying Conservatives must drop North Island candidate Anna Kindy, who said natural immunity (getting COVID-19) superior to "experimental" vaccines. Reportedly received disciplinary letters from College of Physicians and Surgeons. Served as party's health critic for 2 years. 2022 video:

Great piece from @j-alonso.bsky.social in @insidehighered.com discussing how tuition and cost of living costs are leading some students to crowdfund their expenses.

Belleville Police just played a new video at a press conference showing the gunman screamed "you are going to die for the Jews" before shooting a police officer outside a synagogue It's been reported the gunman was suing the military over its vaccine mandate and blamed Jews for COVID-19

"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they should probably stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap."

On Wed, October 23th at 4:00pm, the Waide Center for Applied Ethics will host a virtual seminar (via Zoom) w/Sven Nyholm on “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.” The seminar is free and open to all. Details are available here: events.fairfield.edu/event/sven-n... | @svennyholm.bsky.social

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🚩 Ivermectin = MAJOR RED FLAG FOR BUNK 🚩 Watchdog asked Amazon to remove listings for dozens of medicines, many of which included Ivermectin www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/... "...promoted online as a cure or treatment for a wide variety of health conditions including cancer and autism."

Accepting proposals for book reviews for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Send me an email with your book, or idea for a review of a book. I'm open to reviews of art and film as well. So get creative and send me a note.

I'm very happy to share a new OA publication in Public Health Ethics. I argue for the inclusion of a principle of non-complicity among other public health ethics principles & that non-complicity complements other ethical principles & particularly addresses limitations in a principle of solidarity.

Faculty position at Calgary careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1820090...

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Very happy that philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher has been appointed as an Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada @ Waterloo, with long term funding to lead ambitious research programs aligned with Canada’s strategic priorities. #philosophy uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total).

If you haven’t already, I encourage you to check out The Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI). The SONEI website includes a rich repository of nursing-ethics related resources. My essay on everyday ethics in nursing is on the SONEI blog this week:

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

Lots of British Columbians would love to see some US nurses and family physicians heading up here.

Interesting interview with @gofundme.com CEO Tim Cadogan and @reckless.bsky.social. Cadogan says an advantage of private donations over the public safety net is that donations come "with love". This ignores consistent findings that this 'love' is distributed very, very inequitably.

Our new piece in BMJ: Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

A detailed write up of the link between Harp, Right to Try, and the Trump administration from @benstockton.bsky.social in the Telegraph with some quotes and analysis from me.

Wow - wildly unethical at the very least: “Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.” "Purported" here seems to equal "fake".

Learn to Ode!

CIHR, Canada's health granting agency, reports a flat number of grants funded with applications up over 50% in 5 years. "The result is more time spent preparing, administering and reviewing applications with ever-lower likelihoods of funding success"