“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
Stanford cuts $140 million, warns of layoffs as research funding dries up, endowment tax looms
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Like other universities, Stanford has been hit by the Trump administration’s cutting of federal research funding.
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A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
Source: nature A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language, even in previously unseen situations.
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Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America
Source: The Wall Street Journal The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.
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What we’ll lose if bird banding ends
Source: The Washington Post Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.
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The Quiet Consultant of Ethics Retires
Source: University of Miami Dr. Kenneth Goodman, a “center of gravity” for issues that matter, built the Miller School into a world-renowned biomedical ethics powerhouse.
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Why CRA Proficiency Needs A Boost From Better Assessment And Training
Source: Clinical Leader Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) monitoring clinical trials can be considered one of clinical research’s original commitments to patient centricity.
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Technology Ethics
Disclosing generative AI use for writing assistance should be voluntary
Source: Sage Journals Researchers have been using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to support writing manuscripts for several years now.
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Compliance
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 324 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $14.6 Billion in Alleged Fraud
Source: U.S. Department of Justice The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants.
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Via the False Claims Act, NIH Puts Universities on Edge
Source: Undark A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.
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Safety
Electrical energy in the workplace
Source: Safety+Health Magazine How can organizations develop a practical lockout/tagout program that addresses electrical energy sources during maintenance?
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