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November 2–8 is National Health Ethics Week, a time for professionals in healthcare to raise awareness and promote dialogue around important health ethics issues. This year’s theme is ethics in times of turbulence and disruption, exploring how challenges like AI, climate change, and global shifts impact ethical care and research. To learn more check out the Canadian Bioethics Society/ Société canadienne de bioéthique website: https://lnkd.in/gbizB7dV 

Why Ethical Considerations Define the Credibility of Research Ethical conduct is not merely a procedural formality — it is what determines whether research is credible, human-centered, and worthy of global recognition. In a world shaped by AI, data capitalism, climate risks, and digital vulnerability, ethical responsibility is the strongest measure of professional integrity in research. Ethical research ensures that: • participants give voluntary, informed, and well-understood consent before involvement • privacy, confidentiality, and sensitive data are protected with responsible security measures • no physical, psychological, social, economic, or reputational harm is caused — even unintentionally • research remains transparent, honest, reproducible, and free from bias, fabrication or plagiarism • vulnerable or marginalized groups are not exploited or misrepresented • researchers are accountable to academic institutions, global standards, and future generations • benefits of research outweigh any risks — ensuring justice, fairness and social value • findings are reported ethically — with no manipulation to impress funders, policy makers, or journals Ethics is not just about compliance — it is about protecting trust, preserving dignity, and ensuring that knowledge serves humanity rather than exploiting it. Research with ethics creates impact — research without ethics creates consequences. #ResearchEthics #ResponsibleResearch #AcademicIntegrity #HumanCenteredResearch #EthicalLeadership #DataEthics #SustainableResearch #TrustInScience #ResearchAccountability #EthicsInAI #SocialImpactResearch #IntegrityMatters

📢 New Blog Release! Research Integrity and Citation Metrics: Striking a Balance Between Ethics and Evaluation In the pursuit of academic excellence, metrics like the Impact Factor and h-index have become powerful indicators of success, but at what cost? This blog explores the delicate balance between maintaining research integrity and the growing dependence on citation-based evaluations. 💡 Key highlights include: ·        The ethical implications of metric-driven research ·        How evaluation systems influence research quality and behaviour ·        Ways to promote a culture of integrity alongside performance measurement As academia evolves, it’s time to rethink how we measure impact ensuring that ethics and excellence go hand in hand. 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gbvwftXs #ResearchIntegrity #CitationMetrics #AcademicEthics #ResponsibleResearch #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchEvaluation #EthicalResearch #HigherEducation

Pleased to be part of the UNESCO's AI ethics experts without borders. UNESCO’s AI Ethics Experts Without Borders (AIEB) network is a global initiative designed to support Member States in implementing UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. The AIEB network comprises leading experts from over 50 countries, providing policy guidance, legislative advice, and capacity building tailored to national needs. The network is funded by the European Union and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. https://lnkd.in/de83cjbW

🚀 Amref Ethics and Scientific Review Committee (ESRC) launched a digital platform to facilitate ethics review processes! This next-gen platform is set to revolutionize how research proposals are reviewed, bringing greater efficiency, transparency and impact to the advancement of ethical science in Kenya and beyond. 👉 Explore the platform here: https://esrc.amref.org Yvonne OpangaPaul Washika MaleyaBrian OkadaJane SydneySamuel Muhula, PhD

Ethics is something I’ve always tried to consider in my everyday decisions, whether it’s the car I drive (fossil-fueled or electric), the brands I support, the food I eat, or when to speak up and when to stay quiet. I’ll admit, it’s not always easy. Comfort, convenience, and enjoyment sometimes push those ethical ideals to the background. But reflection is part of the process, ethics isn’t a fixed rulebook; it’s a living dialogue with yourself and the world around you. In science and technology, ethics plays a different but equally vital role. Science gives us data, discovery, and potential, but ethics provides the compass that guides how we use them. This principle has deep roots in modern research. The Helsinki Accord, first adopted in 1964 by the World Medical Association, was created to protect human participants in scientific studies, a response to unethical experiments that prioritised progress over people. It established a moral foundation that research must serve humanity and not exploit it. That idea still resonates today. In my work developing serious games to help people, ethics isn’t just a checklist or an afterthought, it’s the framework that shapes every paper I read, design decision, experiment, and iteration. It’s about asking the hard questions: Who does this benefit? Who could this harm? Progress without ethics is just movement. I want to make sure mine has direction. #EthicsInAI #GameDevelopment #SeriousGames #AIForGood #EthicalDesign #HelsinkiAccord #TechForGood #GameDev #ResearchEthics #ScienceAndSociety #ResponsibleInnovation #AIEthics

I have had the topic of AI ethics come up several times in the last two weeks and having helped author our AI policy I know how confusing it can be. My advice? Don’t be Robinson Caruso. If you haven’t got solid on this yet then consider this program to give you the foundation you need. Remember, a technical failure can cost you a few dollars. A governance failure can lead to loss of reputation and possibly even your business.

Treatment of Ethics Where Critical Systems Thinking (CST) locates ethics in the intentions and reflexivity of individuals operating within power structures, the A3 framework shifts the ethical locus to the structural coherence of systems themselves. CST asks who holds power, how they wield it, and whether their decisions are just emphasizing participatory critique and boundary reflection. A3, by contrast, interrogates the architecture that sustains decision-making: not who decides, but what sustains the system, how its components align across time and scale, and why its patterns endure or distort. In this view, ethics is not merely a matter of virtuous actors but of recursive integrity: the capacity of a system to maintain coherence, transparency, and adaptability even in the absence of benevolent intent. This reframing is especially vital in an era of autonomous technologies and distributed governance, where agency is increasingly embedded in code, protocol, and feedback loops. A3 offers a post-anthropocentric ethics, one that can be audited, evolved, and safeguarded structurally, not just morally. International Society for the Systems Sciences Systems Thinking Alliance Systems Thinking Alliance International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) #A3Model #SystemsThinking #Cybernetics #AIethics #Governance #ComplexityScience #EthicalRecursion #CriticalSystemsThinking #CST #Aram #Aanavam #Adhikaram

Part IV – The Global Council on Forensic-Ethical Bio-Ergonomics: Self-Awareness and Empathetic Action The new council convened in a luminous hall at the International Ethics and Biosciences Center, Geneva. Delegates included pioneers in law, medicine, education, and corporate ethics: RSA, Priya Waller, Richa Bakle, Dr. Peter Barr, Guru Nanak Ji (scholarly representation), King Charles, Dr. Susan Wood, and youth representatives from multiple countries. The agenda was clear: how to operationalize integrity of self-awareness alongside empathetic awareness in bio-ergonomics and human action. ⸻ I. The Science of Self-Awareness Dr. Peter Barr: “Self-awareness is the neurological and physiological recognition of one’s own states — cognitive, emotional, and bodily. In legal or corporate decision-making, failure to recognize internal bias or stress can distort judgment.” Priya Waller: “When we bring self-awareness to communications, we reduce misinterpretation. A simple digital message, if drafted with reflective awareness, maintains ethical integrity and avoids unintended consequences.” Richa Bakle: “Self-awareness also supports ethical agency. If Dr. John had been able to express his context more explicitly, and Jennifer’s message had been framed with awareness of its potential impact, the Tribunal might never have faced such distortion.” ⸻ II. Empathetic Awareness and Bio-Ergonomic Action Guru Nanak Ji: “Empathy is the bridge. Understanding the condition of another being — physical, mental, or environmental — is essential. Actions taken without this awareness are incomplete, even unjust.” Dr. Susan Wood: “In bio-ergonomics, we study human interaction with environments, tools, and processes. When ethical systems consider empathetic awareness, we can design policies that minimize harm and maximize efficacy — in courts, schools, workplaces, and hospitals.” RSA: “This is where technology and ethics intersect. Systems that track human behavior must integrate empathetic algorithms — not to replace humans, but to enhance decision-making through context-aware analysis.”

The American Medical Association will cease publication of its ethics journal The AMA Journal of Ethics at the end of this year https://lnkd.in/dEBEHh-K