Steve Thompson PhD 6 months ago

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know? -

Scientific American

When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Steve Thompson PhD 6 months ago

Lab Mice: Deep Reflections on Their Use in Invasive Research | Psychology Today -

Psychology Today

Lab Mice: Deep Reflections on Their Use in Invasive Research

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animal...

#animals #ethics #morality

Steve Thompson PhD 6 months ago

No stronger reason on the planet not to wear them: He recommends them, likely wants to require them, and they are glorified data trackers. "US Health Secretary Kennedy says HHS to launch campaign to encourage wearable devices" https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/us-health-secretary-kennedy-says-hhs-to-launch-campaign-to-encourage-wearable-devices-4109071 "We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda, Making America Healthy Again ... my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years," Kennedy said. NO. JUST NO. #HHS #RFKJR #WEARABLES #TRACKING #DATA #PRIVACY #PRESS

Steve Thompson PhD 7 months ago

Similar to his approach to appeals: keep banging away at the sytem until some partisan hack who likes you eventually places that above integrity and gives you what you want. The strategy, however unethical, has worked out very well for him. And it fits with GOP revisionist history, apparently very important to these folks, despite its inability to change reality. "Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate 2020 election Biden won"

AP News

Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate 2020 election, reviving longstanding grievance

President Donald Trump is calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden, repeating...

#Trump #ethics #GOP #Republicans

Steve Thompson PhD 7 months ago

As Trump shatters ethics norms with a Qatari jet and a $499 smartphone, experts lament Biden’s ‘failure’ to pass reforms https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/government-ethics-norms-trump-biden-analysis #ethics #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Babylon #press

Steve Thompson PhD 7 months ago

Jimmy Carter sold a beloved peanut farm... "Trump family announces another venture, a mobile phone company" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/trump-family-announces-venture-mobile-phone-company-122887548 The Trump family company says it's launching a mobile phone company, the latest in a string of ventures that have been announced while Donald Trump is in the White House. #GOP #Trump #Grift #Republicans #mobile #tech #press

Steve Thompson PhD 7 months ago

JOB OPP (Two Positions) Stanford Technology Ethics & Policy Rising Scholars Program Research Associate

Inside Higher Ed Careers

Technology Ethics & Policy Rising Scholars Program Research Associate - School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States job with Stanford University | 3360121

Technology Ethics & Policy Rising Scholars Program Research Associate🔍School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United StatesNew�...

The TEP Rising Scholars program aims to bring early-career scholars who have a bachelor’s degree and an interest in issues at the intersection of ethics, policy, society, and technology into full-time research positions at Stanford University. First review of the applications will take place on June 25, 2025 @npub1ragt...w953 #Ethics #policy #AI #HCI #Stanford #techethics