US human-subjects researchers: participant gender-related info is now extra sensitive.

Last summer I posted (linked below) about my (successful) quest for confidentiality guarantees from #WashU, and how we changed our screening questions to have pregnancy in an "any of the above" list, rather than separately.

Unfortunately, we now need to treat some gender and relationship-related data with the same heightened caution.

https://mvpa.blogspot.com/2023/06/us-researchers-use-extra-caution-with.html

#researchEthics #privacy #academicChatter

Our NIH #R35 #MIRA has been awarded! I'm glad to be continuing collaborations within #WashU #McKelveyEngineering, and pushing our development of #6D #singlemolecule #nanoscopy.

https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/2023/Looking-deeper-with-adaptive-six-dimensional-nanoscopy.html

Last Friday I (and everyone else at #WashU?) got an email from #box announcing "The all-new Box AI." The university box storage is described as #HIPAA compliant and encrypted when stored (https://it.wustl.edu/items/box-summary-of-terms-and-conditions/), which sounds good.

But the "related to providing file storage services" restriction sounds like it would allow #BoxAI, since that is described as improving access to the institution's files stored in box. (https://www.box.com/ai). I'll be asking our IT for clarification.

@debruine @hedgielib Just the phrases "Box AI" and "content cloud" makes me wonder how HIPAA-compliant box actually is. Maybe they argue info becomes de-identified when crawled by a LMM?

The email link isn't informative, just to an event (https://events.box.com/content_cloud_summit_2023). Anyone know more? I'll dig in a bit next week; we have sensitive research data on box that I thought would be ok based on #WashU 's contract with #box.

#academicChatter #HIPAA #AI

Save the date for the #WashU 2023 #ImagingScience Retreat: March 31, 2023.

This year’s retreat features two plenary talks by Dr. Christos Davatzikos and Dr. Jennifer N. Silva along with exciting short research talks by students. The day will also include a poster session, poster awards and reception!

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz8V2hUoNtvFp9adM64ivcfwQjqlSEqUj0yH1wDRtHfhTtcQ/viewform

Excited to share that our #6D #singlemolecule #superresolution #microscope, which we uses a multi-view reflector architecture, is now online in #NaturePhotonics! Congratulations #oumeng_zhang! https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566

A big thanks to Michael Vahey's group in #WashUBME
#WashUengineers #WashU

Full-text access here: https://rdcu.be/c02le

Join us for a #PhD Info Session tomorrow! Connect with faculty, students & admissions staff to learn more about the #WashU experience, academic programs, research & our application process.

Attendees will be eligible for an application fee waiver.

https://engineering.wustl.edu/academics/graduate-admissions/recruitment-schedule.html

Great write-up about #WashU #ImagingScience in #WashingtonMagazine. It's a privilege to be working with awesome researchers in #PET #EMMI #HDDOT #photonics #MRI #AI #ultrasound #photoacoustic

The people who did the work: #yongwangwashu
#BenzingerNeuro1
#joe_culver
#adameggebrecht
@cig #JhaLabWashU
#MIRimaging
#WashUengineers

https://source.wustl.edu/2022/11/pushing-the-boundaries-of-the-visible-world/

Welcome to Mastodon @cig ! #WashU