Two women with white shirts promote EYES: Encouraging Young Scientists and Engineers
https://einhorn.cornell.edu/opportunity/encouraging-young-engineers-and-scientists-eyes/
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope
An evening discussing falling enrollment in #STEM courses at universities across Europe, especially traditional studies like chemistry, geology and meteorology. I wonder if young people are unaware of just how interesting #STEM careers to be? Or do they have the perception it's "too hard" compared to other subjects where easier grades may be had? Or is it simply they think they can have "better"* jobs in other fields?
#AcademicChatter
*Where better might mean higher paid, more prestigious, more certain of employment, or less workload or some combination of all of these... ?
"Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals
I knew since I was young id be falling down this road (my eroded and distorted memories are falling in line, there is nothing to prove anything, yet sometimes narrative is all we have)
HarperCollins UK drops children's author and comedian David Walliams following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward young women (Paul Glynn/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev8p7d0gmgo
The consequences of the 996 working hour system:
"On the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage – is often expressed through buzzwords. There is tangping, or “lying flat”, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China’s high-pressure economy. There is runxue, or “run philosophy”, which re…
A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram (Libby Brooks/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/d