🧵 Speaking at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing summit at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge this week, I highlighted a critical challenge: the deliberate fracturing of our knowledge ecosystems along ideological lines. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/g... - ThreadSky

alondra.bsky.social • 4 days ago

🧵 Speaking at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing summit at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge this week, I highlighted a critical challenge: the deliberate fracturing of our knowledge ecosystems along ideological lines. https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/global-observatory-genome-editing-summit-crispr-ethics-human-dignity/

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compactlaw.co.uk•4 days ago

Hmm…saw Cambridge…then realised it was Cambridge Mass. Pity. How about Cambridge, England? Europe more than happy to offer sanctuary to American talent.

katyavdgk.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌 thanks

alondra.bsky.social•4 days ago

We face active campaigns to discredit research that challenges economic interests or social hierarchies.

For 50 years, the field of bioethics has focused on laws, regulations & norms but failed to adequately grapple with issues of power.

kevinbarron.bsky.social•4 days ago

“but failed to adequately grapple with issues of power”
This is true across the board in education and our society as a whole. We are now seeing the consequences of that failure.
It also cuts across party lines, and will haunt our children and grandchildren.

alondra.bsky.social•4 days ago

The wielding of government power to cancel research contracts; lay off federal science, technology and public health workers; disinvest from the futures of students and communities; and undermine research standards demonstrates that our innovation ecosystem was never a "triple helix" of equal power.

alondra.bsky.social•4 days ago

Our research institutions must develop robust defenses against politically motivated interference while maintaining legitimate accountability to public interests, including strategic spaces for ethical deliberation that create genuine opportunities for mutual & bidirectional learning.

alondra.bsky.social•4 days ago

In the space of bioethics this might include:

*independent review boards with diverse stakeholders (not just scientists) to evaluate research priorities and funding decisions

*true scientific integrity: binding frameworks that separate day-to-day research operations from political appointments

alondra.bsky.social•4 days ago

*A portfolio approach to research funding that includes sustained federal funding supplemented by community support, state funding, private foundations, international collaborations, and other partnerships, creating accountability structures that serve public interests, not just political ones.

sambrambling.bsky.social•3 days ago

If I may add a perspective from data and records management, I hope institutions will also take advantage of this critical junction to develop transparent, ethical, and responsive frameworks informed by the transdisciplinary expertise of the UN'S World Summit on the Information Society.

dnmnb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Problem today is the truth and what’s true are considered questionable, subjected to political agendas.

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