“What CITI Program is Reading” is our biweekly blog series which highlights news articles curated by our staff and relevant to research, higher education, healthcare, technology, and more. Follow us on LinkedIn for upcoming editions and more information from CITI Program.
Research
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
Source: nature More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Source: Times Higher Education Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
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The Evolution Of A Clinical Research Coordinator
Source: Clinical Leader Briana White is a CRC with Superior Clinical Research, a small clinical research site in Smithfield NC. She talks about how she got into the clinical industry and what she struggles with in her job (spoiler alert: it involves tech).
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The Return of the Dire Wolf
Source: TIME Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.
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Technology Ethics
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Source: nature Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.
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AI In Higher Ed: Understanding The Past And Present To Fuel Future Success
Source: Forbes With the spring semester in full swing, it is timely to consider past and present challenges to inform what the future of AI in higher education could be.
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Safety
From Accident to Improvement: A Case Study of Nitric Acid Splashing into Eyes During a Teaching Lab
Source: ACS Publications During a laboratory session involving the acidic digestion of a soil sample for flame atomic absorption spectroscopy, a student sustained a near-miss eye injury due to a concentrated nitric acid splash following the detachment of the syringe and filter.
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Hospitals have a medical waste problem. Bioplastics offer a solution.
Source: Corporate Knights Plant-based alternatives to traditional plastics could reduce the waste burden of health-care systems, but rollout remains challenging
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Compliance
Court Throws Out LDT Rule
Source: College of American Pathologists A US District Court judge today nullified the FDA regulation on the oversight of laboratory-developed tests, agreeing with plaintiffs’ and the College of American Pathologists’ arguments that the rule should be vacated.
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Higher Education
Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards
Source: The New York Times As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.
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Medical schools are eliminating the use of cadavers, and that’s a shame
Source: STAT “What will be lost when medical students are no longer made to uncomfortably face death to learn from what a real human body can teach?”
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