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What CITI Program is Reading – July 3, 2025

Posted By:   CITI Program Staff Posted On:   July 3, 2025

“What CITI Program is Reading” is our biweekly blog series which highlights news articles curated by our staff and relevant to research, higher education, healthcare, technology, and more. Follow us on LinkedIn for upcoming editions and more information from CITI Program.

Research
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Stanford cuts $140 million, warns of layoffs as research funding dries up, endowment tax looms Source: San Francisco Chronicle Like other universities, Stanford has been hit by the Trump administration’s cutting of federal research funding.

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A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition Source: nature A computational model called Centaur, developed by fine-tuning a language model on a huge dataset called Psych-101, can predict and simulate human nature in experiments expressible in natural language, even in previously unseen situations. Read The Full Article
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Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America Source: The Wall Street Journal The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.

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What we’ll lose if bird banding ends Source: The Washington Post Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.

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The Quiet Consultant of Ethics Retires Source: University of Miami Dr. Kenneth Goodman, a “center of gravity” for issues that matter, built the Miller School into a world-renowned biomedical ethics powerhouse. Read The Full Article
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Why CRA Proficiency Needs A Boost From Better Assessment And Training Source: Clinical Leader Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) monitoring clinical trials can be considered one of clinical research’s original commitments to patient centricity. Read The Full Article

Technology Ethics
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Disclosing generative AI use for writing assistance should be voluntary Source: Sage Journals Researchers have been using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to support writing manuscripts for several years now. Read The Full Article

Compliance
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 324 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $14.6 Billion in Alleged Fraud Source: U.S. Department of Justice The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants. Read The Full Article
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Via the False Claims Act, NIH Puts Universities on Edge Source: Undark A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards. Read The Full Article

Safety
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Electrical energy in the workplace Source: Safety+Health Magazine How can organizations develop a practical lockout/tagout program that addresses electrical energy sources during maintenance? Read The Full Article
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