‪Shobita Parthasarathy‬: Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa
He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona

Yousof is a widely-quoted policy expert on US-Iran relations (his dissertation is on US foreign policy particularly related to Iran and nuclear power)

https://bsky.app/profile/shobitap.org/post/3mk65f2qk2c25

All Content from Business Insider | Americans feel worse about the economy than ever before by Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff

Americans are feeling bad about the economy, and it's due in part to prices at the gas pump.Camden Hall/NurPhoto via Getty Images

New data showed consumer sentiment slipped to a record low in April.Rising gas prices are affecting people's view of the economy.Other economic issues, like the frozen job market, are probably worsening the dreariness.Americans' economic mood can be succinctly described in one word: Terrible.

While inflation soars as conflict with Iran drags on and shows up at the gas pump, consumer sentiment is plummeting. University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index, which tracks how American consumers feel about economic conditions, fell to 47.6 in April — a record low and a nearly 11% decline month-over-month.

Read the original article on Business Insider

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-sentiment-record-low-umich-gas-prices-inflation-economy-2026-4

#consumer-sentiment #economy #gasprices #inflation #umich-consumer-sentiment

The #fourthReichUSA #tortured a chinese scientist to #death and the media calls it "hostile questioning"

#UMich investigating researcher’s death after alleged questioning
😱😓🤬
https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/umich-investigating-engineering-researchers-death-after-alleged-questioning-by-u-s-government/

That was quite the game! #Hail to the victors

#UMich #MarchMadness #NCAA #GoBlue

Let's go Blue!

#NCAA #MarchMadness #GoBlue #UMich

Computational Physics (2nd Edition)

https://websites.umich.edu/~mejn/cp2/

#HackerNews #ComputationalPhysics #ComputationalPhysics2ndEdition #PhysicsResources #UMich #Publications #STEMEducation

Let's go Blue!

#GoBlue #UMich #MBB #NCAA #MarchMadness

📰 New traffic light technology to reduce wait time at metro Detroit intersections — #MichiganPublic

#UMich researchers use #AI to analyze #Detroit traffic flows using anonymized GPS data and compute new timings to synchronize traffic lights. Then they physically load the timing data into traffic lights. They hope to be able to remotely update traffic light data in the future.

Is this a good, harmless use of AI?

https://www.michiganpublic.org/transportation-infrastructure/2025-12-04/new-traffic-light-technology-to-reduce-wait-time-at-metro-detroit-intersections

#DTW