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danielbuchman.bsky.social
Bioethicist and Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Views are my own. www.everydayethicslab.ca
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"This seems impressive until you consider how scientific research actually works....We’re most innovative when we... think[...] together through complex problems...the AI victory rings hollow when we consider that the humans...le[ft] their best talents behind – their collaborative relationships."

My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‼️Now Accepting Applications‼️ The Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto is accepting applications for one Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year. 📅 Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 🔗 More Info & How to Apply: ethics.utoronto.ca/contact/post-doctoral-fellowships/

When I read this story, this image was all I could think of: search.app/r4d1CcVKbXh1...

A reminder of our call for papers! ⤵️

What does it mean to lead with a disability? I asked myself this question in the lead up to my CFPC presidency. Thankfully I am well supported. www.cfp.ca/content/71/2... Thankfully, leaders across medicine are starting to reconsider the medical culture's abelist framework.

Are you interested in structural injustices in the context of bioethics? The website of the "Bioethics and Structural Injustice" network is now online: netzwerk-bioethik.de We look forward to your visit! Regina Müller, Mirjam Faissner, and Carlotta Hartmann #MedicalEthics #Bioethics #Injustice

The certainties in life: death, taxes, and 👇🏼

They don't know what "confirmation bias" means, huh

Online #gambling is booming ahead of Super Bowl. So, experts say, is the risk to public health. Recent report says harms to health, well-being from gambling ‘more substantial than previously understood,’ by Alison Northcott www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

I am so privileged to have been able to lead this with the amazing Judy Illes and work with the most remarkable people from around the world including @tryangregory and many others not on Bluesky. "Two-Eyed Seeing and Other Indigenous Perspectives for Neuroscience". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As I remarked between 2016-2020, it is very peculiar to be a conflict-of-interest scholar advancing the argument that COIs are major population health hazards during a political period in which COIs are overtly nourished and championed.

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Can we foster compassionate health care with technology? The AMS Grants support researchers and healthcare professionals to explore AI and digital technologies that transform healthcare with compassion. Apply at OSSU: https://buff.ly/3t0N8Bo

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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

Friends in Neuroethics, I will be leading a summer internship program for college students in neuroscience and society. There is going to be a journal club. What are some recent or classic readings that you would recommend me to add to the library? Thanks!

As a public health ethicist, I’m surprised by how little attention public health errors receive—especially when it comes to how we respond to them compared to medical errors

Hello, Bluesky! We’re AMS Healthcare and we’re excited to join the community. AMS Healthcare is an organization that fosters a future where compassionate healthcare thrives through innovation and technology. Let’s connect!

"The invisibility and subjectivity of pain in a biomedical culture that privileges visibility and objectivity has led many people with pain to experience stigma in the form of epistemic injustice" informative review on the stigma of chronic pain www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decisions to start involuntary nutrition in adolescents with severe eating disorders are always ethically fraught With thanks for the incredible collaboration, here's a guide to making the right call, one patient at a time #bioethics #pediatrics #psychiatry publications.aap.org/hospitalpedi...

Great to see this statement. Re-skeeting for #publichealth folks.

The toxic drug crisis is causing preventable deaths daily. CPHA's new position statement urges unified, evidence-based actions to save lives, reduce harms, and uphold dignity across Canada. Let’s prioritize solutions over stigma. Read more at: www.cpha.ca/toxic-drug-c...

Highly recommend this podcast interview with @mjcrockett.bsky.social - they traverse a lot of ground incl. neuroscience, AI ethics, narrative, Buddhism, and even epistemic injustice! Changing the world is indeed a collective project. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

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Hello BlueSky! IASP is the leading global organization supporting the study and practice of pain relief. We're excited to share knowledge and connect with an excellent network of international pain professionals.

This is objectively incorrect. It is pronounced ‘baygul’. I don’t know what a ‘baggle’ is. 🥯#thisisthehillIwilldieon

This is objectively incorrect. It is pronounced ‘baygul’. I don’t know what a ‘baggle’ is. 🥯#thisisthehillIwilldieon

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Will be of interest to folks following #bioethics skeets

CAMH is now on Bluesky! We’re excited to continue engaging with our community and sharing the work we’re doing, alongside our partners, shaping a future where #MentalHealthisHealth.

Neuroethical issues in adopting brain imaging for personalized chronic pain management: Attitudes of people with lived experience of chronic pain We surveyed Canadian adults with #chronicpain about their attitudes toward the use of brain imaging to detect and treat chronic pain. #bioethics Link ⤵️

Neuroethical issues in adopting brain imaging for personalized chronic pain management: Attitudes of people with lived experience of chronic pain We surveyed Canadian adults with #chronicpain about their attitudes toward the use of brain imaging to detect and treat chronic pain. #bioethics Link ⤵️

Today we launched The Center to End Corporate Harm, which will illuminate and counteract corporate influence on #science, the regulatory & #policy process leading to improved #health & health equity. Read about the strategic aims of the Center in the blog 👇

“Prescribing suzetrigine following surgeries ‘isn’t going to substantively change the amount of addiction in society’” @stefankertesz.bsky.social ie, profitable molecular discoveries aren’t the cure for social problems www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

New co-authored paper! 🚨 together with Katherine Cheung, Kyle Patch, and David Yaden: Distinctive But Not Exceptional: The Risks of Psychedelic Ethical Exceptionalism https://buff.ly/425UxOV

Not a meme, but I was once unexpectedly asked in a live interview to sum up my moral philosophy in three points. I said: 1. Be kind. 2. Always try to see things from the other person’s point of view. 3. Never forget your own privilege or position of power.

This has major benefits for people in Canada, but there's good and bad news in @markhollandlib.bsky.social letter today. Good: it brings all health care providers for medically necessary services into Medicare. Canadians can no longer be charged for essential health care ... #cdnpoli #cdnhealth 🧵

What's something that seems scientific but isn't? I’ll go first: much of AI research at that attempts to “solve” complex socio-cultural “problems”

What's that, you say? You are in fact curious about the ways in the history of pain informs current ethical problems in treating people in pain equitably & w/o #Stigma? Well, you might be interested in my Medicine Grand Rounds next Wednesday, which is real #ClioInTheClinic stuff! #HistMed 🗃️

Bioethics programs are recognizing the need to prioritize racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. Hear more #TeamUHN's Ann Munro Heesters on the training and commitments needed to drive meaningful #REDI change in health care institutions. Learn more: www.reliasmedia.com/articles/rec...