According to an instagram post, they were protesting investment in “weapons manufacturers, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BlackRock, and others.” BlackRock is not a weapons manufacturer. It manages index funds.

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars a year on research projects — but few journalists monitor and report on research fraud and errors.

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Academic chapter and two books authored by Francesca Gino appear to plagiarize from sources including student theses, blogs, and news reports, via ⁦Cathleen O'Grady⁩ science.org/content/articl…

SCOOP: A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden admin to help secure the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton University researcher believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq by Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah.
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a Blake Hounshell classic!

Huge thank you to Andrew Ross Sorkin and Squawk Box for the opportunity to discuss my dispatch from a campus in turmoil.

Breaking News: New York City agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who were arrested and forced by the police to remove their hijabs before being photographed. nyti.ms/3J7Vgo4

The Przemyśl, Poland community united to honor the exuberant life of Damian Soból. Following a mass at the Cathedral of Przemyśl, there was a memorial walk to Volunteer Corner at the very same train station where Damian first greeted Ukrainians fleeing from home with WCK in 2022.

I assume they give this award to Peter Baker every year - I’ve never seen anyone better at banging out perfectly crafted news stories on deadline.

No one could deserve it more. And no one can weave together so many strands of information so quickly and so thoroughly. Forever impressed.

Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns 100 more expressions of concern and another retraction retractionwatch.com/2024/04/03/emb…

I want to know what all of the people I know who dropped out of Stanford to work at OAI think about this…

This! A big reason why college newsrooms struggle to attract proper diversity is the financial hurdle to spending so much time and energy on a paper. Investment in college journalism — in compensating people fairly, providing resources, and training — is investment in the future.

Stanford students say they want peace in Gaza—yet aggression and abuse have become an accepted part of activism, Theo Baker, an undergraduate student, reports. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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