Rümeysa Öztürk returns to Turkey, settles case

The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

The Boston Globe
Headline on article on #Tufts University report on #AI carnage: "If your job involves using your brain, you could be in deep trouble. At least the US Congress and Executive Branch are safe. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jobs-brain-ai-tufts-report
If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds

Researchers at Tufts University have released the "first-of-its-kind data-driven framework," dubbed the American AI Jobs Risk Index.

Futurism

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

#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

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

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/

«“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
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.

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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.