LilMikeSFFeb 28

As bombs fly over Iran former #FoxNews host #Hegseth bans attendees of ivy league and other top colleges from enlistment in US Military #DOD employment...The institutions include #MIT, #Princeton, #Yale, Brown, #Georgetown, #JohnsHopkins, #Columbia, George Washington, #Tufts, St. Louis and Carnegie Mellon, as well as the College of William & Mary in VA, #Middlebury College in VT and Queen’s University of Canada

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/pentagon-universities-think-tanks.html

#TheIdiocracyIsReal #Edu

Hegseth Cuts Ties With Yale, Georgetown and Other Top Universities

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Yale, Princeton, Brown and other elite colleges and think tanks of indoctrinating service members with liberal ideologies.

The New York Times
NonilexFeb 10

#Immigration Judge Says #Trump Admin Cannot Deport #Tufts Student

The student, #RumeysaOzturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy #authoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/immigration-judge-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Immigration Judge Says Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Cannot Be Deported

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexJan 16

Young added, “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the #Constitution.”

Young’s comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep #sanction against the #Trump admin for seeking to “chill” the #FreeSpeech of pro-#Palestinian #activists targeted for arrest & removal weeks after Trump took office—including #Columbia University’s #MahmoudKhalil & #MohsenMadhawi, as well as #Tufts PhD student #RumeysaOzturk & #Georgetown academic #BadarKhanSuri.

#law

NBESDec 9

Informe oficial revela irregularidades en investigación. estudiante de tufts puede... #Actualidad #Investigación

#NBES #Tufts #Trump

Más info: https://nbes.blog/tufts-student-can-resume-research-after-trump-administration/

rivalNov 18
«“This generation of #young #Chinese #researchers identify strongly with #opensource #culture because they benefit so much from it,” says Thomas Qitong Cao, an assistant professor of technology policy at #Tufts University.»
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions
#MIT #AI #LLM #open-source #science #openscience #history #future #humanity #community #share #sharingiscaring
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions

With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

MIT Technology Review
Show threadknizerNov 6
#BostonWeekend 12x Sat ART 10-6 Fall Open Studios BU & MassArt & Tufts SMFA https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-2025-open-studios-bu-massart-smfa-tickets-1735471113819
#BostonArt #Boston #Tufts #MassArt #BU
Fall 2025 Open Studios: BU, MassArt, SMFA

A citywide celebration of emerging artists, bringing together the MFA student communities of Boston University, MassArt, and SMFA at Tufts.

Eventbrite
Show threadknizerJul 25, 2025
#BostonWeekend 25/x
Sun KIDS MOVIE #BigHero6 at #Tufts Park in #MedfordMA - Free https://medfordma.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=31119 (h/t @ted) #Boston #BostonKids #BostonFilm
Show threadOzzie D, NP-hard  Jun 26, 2025
Dr. Robbie Goldstein, #MassDPH commissioner and #Tufts alum, previously founded and headed the #MGH #Transgender Health Program. If you see him, offer a high-five or a hug for these efforts.
Universal HubJun 21, 2025
Boston judge orders one regime agency to permanently ditch policy limiting how much colleges get paid for supporting federally funded research
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-judge-orders-one-regime-agency-permanently-ditch-policy
#MIT #Tufts #lawsuits #NSF #IndirectCosts
Boston judge orders one regime agency to permanently ditch policy limiting how much colleges get paid for supporting federally funded research

US District Court Judge Indira Talwani tonight ordered the National Science Foundation to permanently end a regime policy that would  cost MIT, Tufts and every other research university in the country hundreds of millions of dollars they would use to pay for the labs, materials and assistants needed to support the grants the foundation claimed it would keep doling out.

Universal Hub
NonilexMay 20, 2025

#BadarKhanSuri, a postdoc fellow at #Georgetown, was released after 58 days.

#RumeyzaOzturk, a #Tufts doctoral student, was released after 45 days.

#MohsenMahdawi, a #Columbia undergrad, was released after 16 days.

But 72 days after his arrest on Mar 9, #MahmoudKhalil — the country’s most prominent pro-#Palestinian #protester turned prisoner — is still detained in Jena, LA….

#Trump #immigration #law #dissent #democracy #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-detention-judge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4CE24CD2-E7AD-4501-B3EF-08583FEDF33B

Why Mahmoud Khalil Remains in Detention as Other Protesters Are Freed

The judge in the case, Michael E. Farbiarz, has yet to weigh in fully on the issues of free speech and due process as Mr. Khalil passes the weeks in Jena, La.

The New York Times