Kayte Spector-Bagdady

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.

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

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.

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

Full page NYT

Go blue 💛💙

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

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...

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Ahem.

Louder for the lawmakers in the back.

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

“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...

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

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.

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...

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

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."

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...

It’s just so much cooler to buy used books

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

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Cheers my friend

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.)

Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

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...

This is an amazing article! And she somehow went to my high school!
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How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.

Algorithmic Wage Discrimination is spreading beyond 'Gig' work:

Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

This article compares degrees w unemployment & discusses how this computer science major doesnt want to work outside her expertise & states CS majors are 2x as likely to be unemployed as art history ones 🤦🏻‍♀️

Apparently a major uptick in professional art historians 😂

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

But can he be tempted with knish?

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.