Non-tenured faculty members at NYU go on strike

The union representing the faculty, CFU UAW, said that the strike was on as of 11 a.m. Monday.

Day 9 of demanding answers from Zohran Mamdani ( @[email protected] ) on his complicity with the Trump administration and NYU Langone’s transphobic and child-endangering policies. @[email protected] @[email protected] #langone #nyu #zohran #nyc #lgbtq #trump #trans
Day 8 of demanding answers from Zohran Mamdani ( @[email protected] ) on his inaction toward NYU Langone and Trans healthcare in NYC. This has helped incentivize the DOJ to maneuver against the AG. I thought you were different than Schumer so Thanks for that. @[email protected] #langone #nyu

This month, CTCS (IIT Madras) & @PIK_climate present a webinar:
📢: The asymptotic state of decaying turbulence
🎙️: Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan, New York University
📅: March 30 |⏰ 19:30 IST | 16:00 CEST | 10:00 EDT
🔗: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0BicRp5MTFqu8Yf3I2jCcQ

#Complexsystems #phd #computationalfluiddynamics #Turbulence #NonlinearDynamics #Bifurcations #NYU #ITCP #PIK #webinarinvite #Zoomcodes #ComplexNetworks #MachineLearning #fluidmechanics

Day 7 of (we’re demanding now) answers from Zohran Mamdani ( @[email protected] ) on his policy toward NYU Langone and Trans healthcare in NYC. An LGBTQIA+ liaison is great but it is lip service until you tell us what you believe and what you are going to do. @[email protected] #langone #nyu

NYU students picket university senate demanding sanctuary campus

New York, NY – On March 12, around 20 NYU students and faculty picketed at the front of the Kimmel Center, where the university senate was set to take place. The Students for a Democratic Society at NYU organized the picket to demand a sanctuary campus.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/nyu-students-picket-university-senate-demanding-sanctuary-campus

[en] Haidt: dramatic global decay in cognition, attention spans, civic life

"Social psychologist Jonathan #Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the #damage #smartphones and social media are doing to our #cognition, our civic fabric, and our #children’s #wellbeing ..."

"... our collective inability to put our phones away, our #compulsion to check social media ... is causing a host of societal problems" ... "far beyond any rise in #anxiety and #depression."

"... the #destruction of the human capacity to pay #attention. ... if we can’t focus or stay on a task for more than 30 seconds."

"We allowed a few giant companies to own our children’s attention ..."

"The good news is, there is human agency"

https://news.mit.edu/2026/personal-tech-social-media-and-humanity-decline-0306

#manipulation #addiction #bigtech #socialmedia #mit #stern #nyu

Personal tech, social media, and the “decline of humanity”

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the damage cellphones and social media are doing to our cognition and civic fabric, while calling for renewed action to ward off their effects, in the latest of MIT’s Compton Lectures.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NYU students and faculty rally to demand no war with Iran

New York, NY – On March 3, around 25 NYU students and faculty gathered in the rain at Washington Square Park to oppose the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/nyu-students-and-faculty-rally-to-demand-no-war-with-iran

RE: https://twitter.com/MikeVacc/status/2028159489912852888

this is so weird to me. John was at #NYU Law while i was there finishing my BA. we crossed paths often. he really was one of those people who could disappear in a crowd.

like, he biked and skateboarded to school; hung out in the different cafés in the area.

i have no idea what arrangement his family had with the city and the university, but his time at NYU was the opposite of all of this.

i do have to say, in #NYC we have a weird dynamic: the more famous you are, the more we ignore you.

Microplastics found in prostate cancer tumors in NYU Langone study

https://misryoum.com/us/health/microplastics-found-in-prostate-cancer-tumors-in-nyu/

NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! Small fragments of plastic were found in the tumors of most prostate cancer patients, according to a new study from NYU Langone Health. In past studies, microplastics have been found in...

#Microplastics #found #prostate #cancer #tumors #NYU #Langone #study #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Microplastics found in prostate cancer tumors in NYU Langone study

NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! Small fragments of plastic were found in the tumors of most prostate cancer patients, according to a new

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