Mia K. Markey

Brutal arrest of Black student in Florida shows benefits of recording police from new vantage point A video showing the violent arrest of a Black college student in Florida has sparked calls for drivers to use cameras that show a view from inside their car.

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Vast supplies of U.S. aid remain stranded, despite State Department promises More than 60,000 metric tons of food have languished in warehouses in the United States and around the world — with expiration dates nearing on some items.

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Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death A Miami jury has ordered the automaker to pay up to $243 million after finding that the Tesla vehicle had a “defect.” It's the first time Tesla has been found liable in an Autopilot-related crash.

NEW: A Miami jury has ordered Tesla to pay up to $243 million after finding that the Tesla vehicle had a “defect.” It's the first time Tesla has been found liable in an Autopilot-related crash.

Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary Rodney Taylor placed in ‘restrictive unit’ for refusing to enter flooded cell because his prosthetic legs can’t get wet

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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

🚨Job Alert: My department in UNSW Sydney is recruiting a teaching-only Lecturer in Biophysics. The lecturer will play a key role in the pedagogical development and delivery of courses and practicals in the new undergraduate (BSc) major in #Biophysics that we are launching from 2026. #AcademicBsky 🧪

AAUP President: DOJ investigation at George Mason an attack on Academic Freedom On July 25, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter launching an investigation into the George Mason University Faculty Senate—because faculty members dared to show support fo...

‼️DOJ Investigation at George Mason an attack on Academic Freedom‼️

“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university’s own strategic plan…then no campus is safe. Today it’s Mason. Tomorrow it could be yours.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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The BME Faculty Jobs List is back for 2025-2026! Our goal is to support early-career faculty candidates with a centralized & open-access database. Please share & contribute! #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

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In 1965, the government tried replacing migrant workers with high-schoolers. It was a disaster. When the migrant-worker bracero program expired in 1965, the government recruited groups of high school male athletes to step into the fields. It was a disaster.

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‘Profound alarm’: US veterans agency roiled by fight over anti-discrimination provisions Nearly 100 lawmakers claim the agency’s recent actions put veterans’ healthcare at risk. Department of Veterans Affairs chief says ‘no one is being discriminated against at VA’

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'Five-Alarm Fire': Texas Dem Sounds Off on Trump's Bid to Gerrymander Midterms Rep. Greg Casar called for a mass Democratic response to efforts by Trump and Texas Republicans to create new GOP seats ahead of the midterms.

This is a five-alarm fire for democracy, and the entire country MUST pay attention. Trump’s scheme to rig Texas maps is just the start — if we don’t stop it, it’ll spread across the whole nation.

We need to fight like hell to stop it.

US should reject color-blind racial ideology The Trump administration’s executive orders (EOs) 14281 (1), 14173 (2), and 14151 (3) suggest that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives give jobs and other opportunities ...

"DEIA and civil rights law are not favoritism or reverse discrimination; they are a strategy to establish a just context in which a meritocracy might be possible. The racialized systemic barriers faced by some but not by others create uneven access and opportunities"

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This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through di...

"To retreat from [diversity, equity and inclusion] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward." @anthrofuentes.bsky.social

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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said? After praising Hitler earlier this week, the chatbot is now listing the “good races.”

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A deadly 1987 flood foreshadowed the Texas disaster. Survivors ask, ‘why didn’t we learn?’ The Fourth of July tragedy was described as something no one could have seen coming. But in ‘flash flood alley’, an eerily similar event 40 years ago holds important lessons

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Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review

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The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood

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Musk's Grok Chatbot Fantasized About Breaking Into X User's Home and Raping Him Policy researcher and former Democratic candidate Will Stancil has threatened to sue after he was targeted with graphic rape scenes written by Grok.

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A grid of portraits of four scientists. A headline reads: "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"

The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. “People on the right, they don’t realize they’re limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this.” nyti.ms/4lMDXtN

another perfect Rolling Stone headline: MAN AFRAID TO RIDE SUBWAY NAMED HEAD OF NASA Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space program on an interim basis

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The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts

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Q&A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union

If you or your loved ones have been impacted by President Trump's anti-trans passport policy, we're here with more information.

This perspective highlights why federal research opportunities (e.g. NSF REU internships, NSF GRFP fellowships and grant-supported technician positions) were fundamental for me to advance in the academic research ranks. Without them, I wouldn’t have been able to afford to become a scientist
#saveNSF

Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X

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Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local flood warning systems this year A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communicati...

For the Texas GOP, burning books in school libraries and persecuting trans children and their parents were far higher priorities that updating the local flood warning system.

Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’

By me: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference jeopardizing the future of US enterprise.

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