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Kayte Spector-Bagdady

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Law & ethics @umichmedicine (view own) Director @MichiganBioethics AE @Bioethics_net Former AD @bioethicsgov for @BarackObama Big data/little privacy

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · Apr 2

As someone who has been studying this for over a decade, my take on what 23andMe customers should really be worried about:

23andMe is potentially selling more than just genetic data – the personal survey info it collected is just as much a privacy problem

If you were a 23andMe customer, your genetic and personal information could be used in civil or criminal cases, targeted advertising, medical discrimination and so much more.

theconversation.com

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 1d

Also, it’s not like there are many other options for that particular skill set. If your training and experience is FDA regulation you can only work for the regulator or the regulated.

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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 1d

One more plug for this webinar tomorrow afternoon. Not too late to register!

Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 20d

An opportune time to promote this virtual event coming up in a few weeks, hosted by the folks at @busph.bsky.social. (Too bad there’s not much to discuss!) Details and registration: publichealthconversation.org/conversation...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 3d

Also - same trump administration that default fired many disabled federal workers when he forced them to go back to work in person?

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 4d

Full page NYT

Go blue 💛💙

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 6d

AI makes falsified academic images undetectable: www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...

This is why I argued here that GenAI is going to both make unintentional fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism more common but also research misconduct more intractable: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing

Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud

www.chemistryworld.com

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 12d

😍😍😍

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 14d

Ahem.

Louder for the lawmakers in the back.

American Society of Hematology @ash.hematology.org · 16d

🚨 60% voters say they would replace a lawmaker who backs cuts to medical researchfunding.
Medical research is a top issue, and Americans want more investment, not less.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3Kfkq8c

#Fight4Hematology #HemeSky

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 15d

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

www.bbc.com

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 15d

Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms | Harvard Medical School hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-...

Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms

Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals

hms.harvard.edu

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 15d

You know it's bad when you can't get John Yoo (of 9/11 torture memo infamy) on your side

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | What’s wrong with a military campaign against the drug trade

Trump’s boat strikes against the cartels risk crossing the line between law enforcement and war.

www.washingtonpost.com

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 15d

Between the “No More Tears” expose and now this, Johnson & Johnson has had a YEAR. T&Ps for their attorneys.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19d

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated,
"Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 20d

It’s just so much cooler to buy used books

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 20d

So fun to catch up with #NicoleHuberfeld of @bulaw.bsky.social @busph.bsky.social who came to @umichlaw.bsky.social to teach and lunch with old (as in for a long time...not the age kind) friends 🙂w/ @nbagley.bsky.social @nicholson.bsky.social

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 23d

You really can't make this story up (pun intended)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Sues Ex-HBS Professor Gino for Defamation, Accusing Her of Falsifying Evidence | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard sued behavioral scientist Francesca Gino for defamation in August, alleging the former Harvard Business School professor sent the school a falsified dataset to prove she did not commit data fr...

www.thecrimson.com

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · 28d

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 3

I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Aug 14

There are so many classic pitfalls in science communication, epidemiology, and clinical AI research in this one article that I hardly know where to begin...

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Aug 14

'The rate at which endoscopists detected precancerous growths in the colon without help from AI fell from 28.4% to 22.4% after their hospitals introduced AI assistance (...) The detection rate in AI-assisted colonoscopies was 25.3%.'

Routine AI assistance hits skills of health experts performing colonoscopies

Study comes amid rapid adoption of the fast-developing technology

www.ft.com

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Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm going to delete my post so as not to contribute to misinformation, but please know I always appreciate informed feedback!

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah - this is a great clarification Emily, thank you!

Kayte Spector-Bagdady @kaytesb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cheers my friend

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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · Aug 31

Setting aside the enormous consequences to public health, this is all just so sad. And it would have been literally unfathomable when I started studying ACIP ~20 years ago. (Or for that matter, unimaginable even just one year ago.)

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David Anderson @dmaanderson.bsky.social · Aug 31

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social

We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

uscjobs.sc.edu

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