“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
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
Source: Science A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies.
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A filamentary soft robotic probe for multimodal in utero monitoring of fetal health
Source: nature A soft robotic probe enables continuous in utero monitoring of fetal physiological parameters.
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Scientists May Have Found a Blueprint to Revive Old Cells
Source: ScienceAlert Many of the body's processes slow down or falter as we get older, including tissue regeneration.
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Technology Ethics
Guidelines needed for the use of AI in the preparation or review of IRB, IBC, and IACUC applications
Source: Taylor & Francis Online Three oversight bodies review research proposals to help ensure the safe and responsible conduct of biomedical research.
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What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research
Source: Undark Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements?
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ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop
Source: Science First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author.
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CDC Stopped Updating Key Vaccine, Infectious Disease Databases in 2025
Source: MedPage Today The inaction 'demonstrates a profound disregard for human life,' says IDSA leader.
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Benchmarking framework reveals major safety risks of using AI in lab experiments
Source: Tech Xplore While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, a new study shows that it should not yet be trusted in many lab experiments.
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Surgeons’ Experiences and Perspectives on Physical Ergonomics: A Need for Innovative Solutions
Source: Sage Journals The objective of this study is to determine the attitudes, perceptions, and real-world practices of ergonomics with the ultimate goal of deriving novel solutions.
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Role overload and safety incidents: An examination of the individual- and team-level buffering effects of psychological safety
Source: ScienceDirect In this paper we respond to calls in the literature to examine the moderating effects of individual- and team-level psychological safety on the relationship between role overload and safety incidents.
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Higher Education
ED Eyes Rewrite of Accreditation Rules
Source: Inside Higher Ed ED officials have said for months that they want to tackle the regulations governing accreditors. A Monday announcement offers more specifics on their agenda.
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