“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
‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of Controversy
Source: Scientific American A controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study’s authors are crying foul.
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Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications
Source: National Institutes of Health NIH is providing guidance to researchers on the appropriate usage of artificial intelligence to maintain the fairness and originality of NIH’s research application process.
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Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants
Source: Science Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment.
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How Does the NIH Initiative to Prioritize Human-Based Research Affect Research Proposing the Use of Laboratory Animals?
Source: National Institutes of Health In July 2025, NIH announced it will no longer develop new funding opportunities focused exclusively on animal models of human disease.
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Technology Ethics
Our Theater of Anonymity
Source: Wiley Online Library Ethics review boards are increasingly asked to review big health data research proposals using a regulatory framework written prior to the current era of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Stop Fighting AI Glazing
Source: Jeremy Utley Everyone’s panicking about “AI glazing.” But what if it’s a feature, not a bug? The creative industry's most successful practitioners understand something the rest of us are missing.
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Inside Trump’s Ambitious AI Action Plan
Source: Stanford HAI The White House favors market-driven growth and light governance, signaling a departure from the previous administration.
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Safety
A Dangerous Gap: Why Phasing Out Animal Models Threatens U.S. Preparedness for CBRNE and Pandemic Threats
Source: Global Biodefense The NIH's move to reduce animal research threatens critical U.S. preparedness for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRNE) threats.
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Building safer laboratories by evolving culture and practice
Source: ScienceDirect Fostering a safe and productive environment in the laboratory is a challenge that faces both institutions and individual researchers at every stage of their careers.
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Quality
This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it.
Source: The Washington Post Medical progress depends on independent journals to advance science without political interference.
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US medical groups fill gap with own vaccine guides amid ‘information crisis’
Source: The Guardian As official health guidance changes, scientific groups are stepping in with evidence-based recommendations.
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