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The Future of Bioethics Publishing: Ethical Risks and Infrastructural Power @ WCB2026
Interested in Bioethics Commons? Register your interest and co-dream it with us (~3 min): https://survey.borant.eu/s/bioethics-commons-wcb Academic publishing is not a neutral vehicle for bioethical knowledge: it embeds implicit and explicit value assumptions that shape who can publish, how credit is assigned, and which voices become authoritative. Recent developments (multiple failures of OA transformative agreements, peer review…
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Democracy and Health. Mapping the Field & Developing Design Principles for Democratizing Healthcare Governance @ WCB 2026
Abstract Democratic ideals are invoked frequently in debates on health and healthcare governance, yet the meaning and practical implications of “democracy” in this context often remain underspecified. This workshop builds on an ongoing scoping review that maps how the relationship between democracy and health is conceptualized across the bioethics, public health, and health policy literature.…
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Misinformation, Disinformation, and Autonomy. Against the Epistemic Paternalism Trap @ Brocher Foundation 2026
Most tools developed to counter the issues of misinformation and disinformation at scale replicate the very problem they aim to solve. By filtering, flagging, and moderating content, such tools replace human judgment with algorithmic judgment rather than empowering the people navigating the information ecosystem. This is what we refer to as the epistemic paternalism trap.…
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Responsible Research with Social Media and Health Data @ University of Twente 2026
Social media data offers unprecedented opportunities for understanding human behavior, public discourse, and health-related phenomena, but it also raises complex ethical, legal, and privacy challenges. This lecture explores the distinctive issues involved in working with social media data, including informed consent in public or semi-public spaces, data anonymization and re-identification risks, platform governance, and cross-border…
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Doing research with AI @IBME
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming scientific work, but their integration into research workflows raises profound epistemic, methodological, and ethical questions. This presentation clarifies the distinction between research on AI (examining model behaviour, biases, evaluation reliability, and failure modes) and research with AI, where models function as instruments embedded in data pipelines for coding,…
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Rethinking Resources and Results @ IBME
Over the past 20 years, academia has increasingly been managed through metrics such as funding, staff numbers, publication counts, and citation scores, based on the assumption that more inputs automatically produce more outputs. Using two decades of institutional data from the IBME, this presentation challenges that logic. Through correlations, multiple regressions, and Granger causality analyses,…
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Research with Health Data: Ethical Issues, Risk Mitigation, and Data Management Practices @ EUTOPIA Health workshop, Ljubljana
Health data offers immense potential for advancing medical research, but it also raises pressing ethical questions. This lecture and the following workshop explore the complex landscape of working with health-related data, from informed consent and data anonymization to governance challenges and cross-border sharing. Participants will gain practical insights into identifying ethical risks, applying mitigation strategies,…
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TERA @ UiO – CME visiting fellow 2025
In this deck I present my overall work and research interests, and an update on the TERA (Translating Ethics into Regulatory Action) research project, which is the core topic for my visiting period @ University of Oslo – Center for Medical Ethics.
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The role of AI in election interference and political propaganda in Europe
Notes for the panel discussion “Artificial Intelligence: A double-edged sword for truth” @ Voices 2025 Introduction Existing and emerging digital technologies pose significant concerns, challenges, and risks for the functioning of healthy and full democracies (see: EGE 2023). AI-driven disinformation and misinformation pose a growing threat to society’s information ecosystem. Advances in generative AI enable…
Lectures and presentations
Those who do not share their slides after publicly presenting them shall burn in eternal flames.
As I’d rather not being a kebab for the eternity, here I collect my lectures and presentations – mostly in English, sometimes in Italian, depending on context&public.