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petersuber<p>Update. "<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> freezes funds to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> and four other universities, but can’t tell them."<br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-funds-harvard-and-four-other-universities-can-t-tell-them" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/ni</span><span class="invisible">h-freezes-funds-harvard-and-four-other-universities-can-t-tell-them</span></a><br>(<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a>) </p><p>"After freezing all grants to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brown</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WeillCornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeillCornell</span></a> Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a>)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email." </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Funding</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin is also attempting to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deport</span></a> some foreign protesters &amp; has revoked hundreds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visas</span></a> across the country.</p><p>The Trump admin has frozen or canceled some <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Princeton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Princeton</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brown</span></a>, University of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> as well.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a></p>
b̴̨h̷̢̨s̴̡̡̕͡ù̢á̴͘͠r͘͝e̛͠z̨̀<p>“The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations”</p><p>Sexual predators protecting sexual predators 😡</p><p><a href="https://suarez.social/tags/northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>northwestern</span></a> <a href="https://suarez.social/tags/federalfunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federalfunding</span></a> <a href="https://suarez.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@chicagotribune" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chicagotribune</span></a></span><br><a href="https://flipboard.com/@chicagotribune@flipboard.com/national-politics-ohtdv63jz/-/a-Kf4xreDYTnKU6gO9F90TtQ%3Aa%3A56578555-%2F0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@chicagotribune@</span><span class="invisible">flipboard.com/national-politics-ohtdv63jz/-/a-Kf4xreDYTnKU6gO9F90TtQ%3Aa%3A56578555-%2F0</span></a></p>
AnnaAnthro<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> White House freezes funds for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> universities in latest political shakedown </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> </p><p>«&nbsp;Universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas,” the Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff wrote on 31 March.</p><p>On Tuesday, the Trump administrationfroze over $1bn in funding for Cornell.&nbsp;»</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-administration-cornell-northwestern-funding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/08/trump-administration-cornell-northwestern-funding</span></a></p>
Henrik Schönemann<p>Forgot to ping <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicsunite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicsunite</span></a></span> </p><p>re <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a> and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/SafeguardingResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a><br>more here: <a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114306496055433943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1143064</span><span class="invisible">96055433943</span></a></p>
Henrik Schönemann<p>Are there any <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a> or <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> folks here?<br>If yes, would you DM me?</p><p>It's related to <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/SafeguardingResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a> <br>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SafeguardingResearch</span></a></span></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a> &amp; $790 million for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> amid *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a>* [white man sad] investigations into both schools.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> pause involves mostly grants &amp; contracts with the depts of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> [HUGE school at Cornell], <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> &amp; Human Services.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiIntellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiIntellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaziState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaziState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteWashing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
Niko Komin<p>Yesterday, I posted about the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/hiringFreeze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hiringFreeze</span></a> at UCSD due to <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/NIHcuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NIHcuts</span></a>. According to "Inside Higher Ed", other universities also froze their hiring, in one way or another: <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/NCSU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NCSU</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/02/19/federal-funding-uncertainty-prompts-hiring-freezes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">insidehighered.com/news/govern</span><span class="invisible">ment/politics-elections/2025/02/19/federal-funding-uncertainty-prompts-hiring-freezes</span></a></p>
Jared Rutecki<p>The Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> University, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> Department announced. <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/04/trump-administration-opens-antisemitism-inquiries-5-colleges-including-northwestern" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.wttw.com/2025/02/04/trump</span><span class="invisible">-administration-opens-antisemitism-inquiries-5-colleges-including-northwestern</span></a></p>
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴<p>From @darrenrovell.bsky.social on Dead 🐦:</p><p>College graduation speeches can be given any time, similar from decade to decade. </p><p>Which is why <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IllGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IllGov</span></a> Pritzker’s “How To Spot An Idiot” at <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a>’s graduation is so genius. </p><p>It is the speech for TODAY.<br>____</p><p>Video:<br><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1673659149417078788.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">threadreaderapp.com/thread/167</span><span class="invisible">3659149417078788.html</span></a></p>
Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱<p>An <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/team" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>team</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/researchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>researchers</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> first time <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/demonstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demonstration</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teleportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teleportation</span></a> over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/busy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>busy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cables</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/12/first-demonstration-of-quantum-teleportation-over-busy-internet-cables/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.northwestern.edu/stories/</span><span class="invisible">2024/12/first-demonstration-of-quantum-teleportation-over-busy-internet-cables/</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>A revolutionary lab at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> promises to unlock the secrets to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/longevity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longevity</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/november-2024/the-new-science-of-aging-backward/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chicagomag.com/chicago-magazin</span><span class="invisible">e/november-2024/the-new-science-of-aging-backward/</span></a></p>
scholar_farmer<p>CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:</p><p>I'm speaking at <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard: <br>The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"</p><p>It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Nuntastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nuntastic</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Soundscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Soundscape</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Monasticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monasticism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Dominicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dominicans</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ObservantReforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObservantReforms</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/15thc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15thc</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CountsBehavingBadly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountsBehavingBadly</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Journalism Professor’s Suspension Shows the Hypocrisy of “Objectivity”<br><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/journalism-professors-suspension-shows-the-hypocrisy-of-objectivity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/journali</span><span class="invisible">sm-professors-suspension-shows-the-hypocrisy-of-objectivity/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StevenThrasher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StevenThrasher</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a></p>
Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:<p>Reading the paper just published by Groh, Sankaranarayanan, Singh, et al in <u>Nature Communications</u> "Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video" (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51998-z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-51998-z</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MediaLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLab</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a>).</p><p>One takeaway is that participants were more easily fooled by video+TTS deepfakes than by video+voice-actor deepfakes, and even more easily by video+subtitles only.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DeepFakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepFakes</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/communications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communications</span></a></p>
Mark Taylor<p>🏈 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CFB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CFB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CollegeFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeFootball</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cfb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cfb</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a></p>
Zeitgeisty Aphorisms<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a> is the brother of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CollegeFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeFootball</span></a>.</p>
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras<p>Got this email earlier and I’m still upset about it. Some unnamed “team from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Stanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stanford</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cornell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cornell</span></a>” fed our preprint through their “<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>" to generate "suggestions" on how we could improve it. </p><p>This feels like some really shit <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/HCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HCI</span></a> study that seems to think asking for consent is optional. And like one that wants to spin out into an even shittier start-up in the future (hence not giving any names of team members)? </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/hci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hci</span></a></span></p>
Lab Horizons<p>Northwestern University engineers have developed MaxDiff RL, a new AI algorithm enhancing robot reliability by using “designed randomness” to improve data quality and accelerate learning in robotics</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://labhorizons.co.uk/2024/05/random-robots-are-better-robots-according-to-new-study/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">labhorizons.co.uk/2024/05/rand</span><span class="invisible">om-robots-are-better-robots-according-to-new-study/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LabHorizons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabHorizons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algorithm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>northwestern</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/study" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>study</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robotics</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>Since I'm addressing a student <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encampment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encampment</span></a> to-day, it's a good time to remind y'all that gains are being made, with campuses as far apart as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Northwestern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northwestern</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brown</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UCRiverside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UCRiverside</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rutgers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rutgers</span></a> agreeing to negotiations on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/divestment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divestment</span></a> from Israel. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a>.</p>