student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

The University of Alabama suspends two student-run magazines, one focused on Black students and another on women's issues, citing federal anti-DEI guidance (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/university-of-alabama-dei-tru…

University of Alabama closes student magazines for women, Black students
The University of Alabama has suspended the publication of two student-run magazines — one primarily focused on Black students and another on women’s issues — citing federal guidance against diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses. A university official informed the editors of Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice magazines on Monday of the decision. A spokeswoman for the university said in a statement that the university is committed to helping all students but “must also c…

Texas warns schools of possible state takeover over student protests, appoints misconduct enforcer | TPR
https://www.tpr.org/news/2026-02-04/texas-warns-schools-of-possible-state-takeover-over-student-protests-appoints-misconduct-enforcer

She was allowed a phone call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer.
The next day, a federal judge issued an emergency order barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her case could be reviewed.
But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported to her native Honduras,
a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.

Terrible, racism and discrimination are institutionalized in the US now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.WYI1.WPh…

U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
Officials told staff members at two student-run publications, called Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice, that they were not compliant with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on diversity programs.

University of Alabama Shuts Down Two Student Magazines https://thedissenter.org/university-of-alabama-shuts-down-two-student-magazines/

The continued racist policies of the USA government are immoral, illegal and unconstitutional.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/student-describes-horror-show-ice-deportation-to-honduras-at-thanksgiving

This shows how Abbott feels about the 1st Amendment.
Gov. Abbott responds to student walkouts in Texas: ‘About time students like this were arrested’ https://ground.news/article/gov-abbott-responds-to-student-walkouts-in-texas-about-time-students-like-this-were-arrested_f0042d

“[Florida's education commissioner] encouraged families to have conversations with students about the ‘importance of not allowing civic engagement to detract from time in the classroom.’”
AKA asking parents in a so called “parental rights” state to help suppress their children’s 1A rights to freedom of speech and assembly
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/02/03/florida-education-commissioner-gives-guidance-on-student-ice-protests/88495396007/

"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."

The Weakest Link
The professor stopped the class. He asked one students for his phone number. After entering the number into a device looking like a handheld calculator, he asked this unsuspecting student to go outside the classroom and call a friend or a relative. The student complied. After a few seconds, to our astonishment, the machine picked up the call. We could all clearly hear our friend talking to his mum about dinner plans for that evening.

Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment (Stephanie Saul/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/colleges-see-major-racial-shifts-in-student-enrollment.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p55#a260203p55

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kid…

LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
Los Angeles Unified is the first district of its size to face an organized campaign by parents demanding that schools pull back on mandatory screen time.

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

The Future Talent Programme (FTP) 2026 is now open!
If you’re a student or young professional in IT, networking, or a related field, FTP26 is your chance to learn, grow, & maybe even take the stage at #TNC26 in Helsinki.
FTP26 gives you practical presentation training, personalised feedback, and a supportive community that cheers you on as you shape your Lightning Talk idea. No press…

StudentS lose vaccine challenge | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/student-lose-vaccine-challenge/

I was out-as-a-fox this afternoon and got flagged down by a student who asked me if I was looking for things to take pictures of who led me to this red tailed hawk devouring a squirrel at the base of a tree where squirrel tracks converged
#photo #photography

📣 PhD Position in Computational & Systems Neuroscience (Marseille, France)

⏰ Deadline: January 28, 2026
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on neuromodulatory control of predictive processing in mouse vision, co-supervised by Ede Rancz (INMED) and myself.
This CENTURI project com…

Ede Rancz (@ederancz.bsky.social)
neuroscientist, free will denier

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for #CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: https…

I've been away for some time now but today I'm back. My NUC has a new install of #popos and I think I like it (so far). Not everything works as I would like, but it works good enough to work on.
So I'm back in the saddle working away reading student work for wednesdays seminars.
What do you do this cold (-14 degrees celsius) evening?

Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…

Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,” says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hards…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

#scofflaws

College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order
Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says

Man arrested after altercation with student at school walkout protest in Buda https://ground.news/article/man-arrested-after-altercation-with-student-at-school-walkout-protest-in-buda

Some people (mostly in movies) would rather return to prison because "free" boarding and lodging, but a student not clearing the first year of a 4-year university course and staying put for free boarding and lodging on campus?
#Genius. 🤓
#life #strategy #economics

Carbonaceous Cosmic Dust Analogs Distinguish between Ion Bombardment and Temperature: #CosmicDust in her lab. What she found could help us understand how life started on Earth: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2026/02/02/cosmic-dust-carbonaceous-analogue-infrared.html - study reverse-engineers stellar chemical cocktail of fundamental molecules using infrared 'fingerprints'.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

NEXUS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2026
https://ift.tt/Hv26SMr
updated: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 2:27pmfull name / name of organization: University of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 87 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

Once, at the National Student Drama Festival, where I was volunteering as a techie, there was a show that involved a butcher's knife, and they had decided to use a real one and "blunt" it by covering the edge in sellotape.
Turns out this was not a very effective way of rendering the knife safe.

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre

College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p46#a251130p46

I'm sure you're great, o future student of mine, but really, you didn't need to ask your enrollment question at 10am on New Year's Day - it could've waited until Monday.

aCAdeMiC FrEedOM. 🤡
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/mel-curth-oklahoma-instructor-firing.html

Louisiana nursing student speaks out during her six-month ICE detention | US immigration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/louisiana-nursing-student-ice-detention "A recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans S…

2026 will bring massive changes to federal student loans : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5630504/2026-federal-loans-student-changes-save-plan

Erasmus is back.
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme | European Union | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme?CMP=Share_An…

Unsealed court documents show the Trump administration revoked Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa based on her op-ed in the Tufts Daily student paper (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-rubio-student-speech.h…

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.

🌼🌷🏵️ Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
#agriculture

Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
Rebecca Stup '23, MS '26, is a master's student in the lab of Antonio DiTommaso, a weed ecologist and associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). DiTommaso's lab has been exploring planting wildflower strips along farmland as a strategy to increase biodiversity, attract pollinators and combat weeds.

A girl was injured after being hit by a car sporting a large Trump flag on Thursday afternoon.
The driver of the vehicle then sped away to screams from a crowd of high school students protesting ICE.
The incident took place outside Fremont High School in Fremont, Nebraska.
In video captured by Veronica Sandoval of News Channel Nebraska, a young man is seen entering a red SUV with a Trump flag mounted on the back.
The young man reportedly drove past the protest multip…

Car With Trump Flag Rams High School Student Protesting Against ICE
The student was taken to a hospital for her injuries.

"Sea levels are rising—but in Greenland, they will fall"
#Greenland #Oceans
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sea-…

Sea levels are rising—but in Greenland, they will fall
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications. "The Greenland coastline is going to experience quite a different outcome," says lead author Lauren Lewright, a Ph.D. student in geophysics working at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia Climate School. "Sea level in Greenland is actually projected to fall."

Raiders-Linked Fernando Mendoza Shares Big Peyton Manning Lesson https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-shares-peyton-manning-lesson/

"Tracking Instructional Themes at the Reference Desk"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/8611
"Academic libraries play a vital role in supporting student learning by offering both structured instruction and point-of-need research assi…

What’s everybody’s read on the attempt at a second general strike this Friday?
From where I sit, it feels much more like a social media action than the on the 23rd; I don’t see the unions or same kind of organizing infrastructure behind it.
On the other hand, apparently it •is• getting a lot of social media traction in some circles? “All I see posts about,” said one student.
What’s the read from where you sit? Does this one have legs? Or is it a day to keep our powder dry?

🪢 Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space
#space

Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space
Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor, Jeff Baur, at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, developed a creative and efficient energy-saving method to morph 2D structures into curved 3D structures while in space.

Unfähigkeit aus Überzeugung - Kieler Geographiestudent klagt öffentlich über seine Überlastung mit 2km Fußweg und demonstriert seine Unfähigkeit und seine Unwilligkeit zur Achtung der StVO.
Es ist halt irgendwie Teil des Erwachsenwerdens und damit auch Teil des Studiums für manche, dass man sein Leben eigenverantwortlich in den Griff bekommt. Ich wünsche ihm, dass er das schafft, bevor er größeren Schaden anrichtet.

Auto abgeschleppt: Kieler Student macht seinem Ärger über fehlende Parkplätze Luft
Für Neubauten der Uni Kiel mussten in der Olshausenstraße 300 Parkplätze weichen. Studierende und Beschäftigte sind seither die Leidtragenden der Parknot. Nun sind regelmäßig Abschleppwagen im Einsatz, um falsch abgestellte Autos abzutransportieren. Ein Student fordert eine Alternative.

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth (Annabelle Zhang/The Dartmouth)
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/01/zhang-college-approached-and-paid-student-to-write-op-ed-in-the-dartmouth
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p129#a260129p129

"The bill would give antitrust protections to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), pre-empting state regulations on the issue, and clarify nationwide that student athletes are not employees, precluding many labor rights and limiting their ability to profit off their name, image, and likeness."
House GOP forced to cancel vote on new Trump bill - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/score-act/

I think about this every time I pass the bus stop where it happened (now built out to protect people better). Two young men from two very different versions of Limerick city, two lives destroyed (one very much by his own actions).
https://www.

Sentence for gangland figure who killed student Joe Drennan increased by five years
Limerick student was killed in hit and run crash in which convicted man had filmed himself speeding

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-making-course-michigan-state-university/<…

Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away.

NEXUS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2026
https://ift.tt/wbNGjp2
updated: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:13pmfull name / name of organization: University of Tennessee…
via Input 4 RELCFP

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

Great comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…

An old classic.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer (Laura Romero/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-college-student-deported-despite-judges-order/story?id=127914941
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p40#a251127p40

A look at censorship at student papers in Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma; at two colleges, students started independent papers after conflicts with administrators (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/one-battle-after-another-student-news…

One battle after another: Student papers in crisis.
On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrations—and sometimes the government—for the right to report.

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras
in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20
when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass,
said attorney Todd Pomerleau.
The Babson College student was then detained by immigration off…

College freshman deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order. That's according to an attorney for Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old at Babson College. She was detained by immigration officials at Boston Logan International Airport on November 20. A federal judge issued an emergency order the day after her arrest prohibiting the government from removing her from Massachusetts for 72 hours. However, withi…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

"Congo Reforestation Solutions: Student Group Plants 2,000 Trees to Fight Deforestation"
#Congo #Trees #Deforestation

Congo Reforestation Solutions: Student Group Plants 2,000 Trees to Fight Deforestation | Happy Eco News
Congo reforestation solutions developed by Green Congo Initiative have planted 2,000 trees across eastern provinces. The student-led organization trains youth in environmental conservation while addressing annual forest loss of 500,000 hectares. Community-based programs include climate education, sustainable agriculture, and native species planting to restore degraded ecosystems.

A student just sent me the sales rank of my book on a certain online retailer.

Anti-ICE signs seen on graduate student offices in the new computer science building
#photo #photography #immigration

The past couple of weeks have shown just how far even Trump has moved to block immigration
and to demonize immigrants in his second term,
erasing the lines around people who traditionally have been seen as special cases.
First, a 19-year-old college student who tried to fly home to surprise her family on Thanksgiving
was shackled by immigration agents and deported,
despite a court order saying she should not be removed from the United States.
And on Friday…

As Trump Deepens Immigration Crackdown, Exceptions Disappear for Afghans and Others
President Trump’s latest changes to the immigration system affect communities that traditionally have been considered special cases.

QUERY: grad student journal #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131920/query-grad-student-journal

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.

Citizen Scientist Spots Earth-like Planet: Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets

Student I photographed when we were watching the hawks
#photo #photography #cornell #portrait

Student Tased by GA Cops on School Bus Hires National Civil Rights Attorney | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/20/student-tased-by-ga-cops-on-school-bus-hires-national-civil-rights-attorney/

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Claws Graduate Student Conference https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/20/claws-graduate-student-conference

Trump Reverses Himself on Student Debt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-student-loan-pause-linda-mcmahon-joe-biden-b09a053d?st=XNsEK4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p6#a260123p6

From Business Closures to Student Walkouts, Communities Across US Demand: 'ICE Out!' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-out-now

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Cornell student shows off microchips that his club designed
https://c2s2.engineering.cornell.edu/
(as a 🦊this project worried me a bit at first glance...

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 87 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students' Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests (Zach Montague/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-rubio-student-speech.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p4#a260123p4

CfP UChicago's 23rd Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131…

Student with Pogo Stick poses under the flags at Cornell's Club Fair at Barton Hall
#photo #photography #cornell

Education Dept. pauses wage garnishment for student loan borrowers
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5693408-student-loan-wage-garnishment-debt-relief/

Zac Segal, Boston U runner and Young Republican alerted ICE to a car wash in Allston MA which had immigrants working - he said they were taking US jobs.
ICE raided the car wash.
All detained had legal status according to their lawyer.
Segal was born and schooled in London.
https://w…

Student Republican Who Called ICE on Car Wash Faces Backlash
An attorney for those detained said, "Is he taking a college seat away from an American since he's from London?"

College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order (Holly Ramer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p61#a251128p61

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Deported on the way to see family in November:
Judge Recommends U.S. Issue Visa to Student Who Was Deported in Error - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-immigration-student-deported-thanksgiving.html

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. (The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/metro/babson-college-freshman-deported/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p32#a251127p32

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

"Internal government memos show how Trump administration officials ‘conspired’ against students, judge says"
Marco Rubio personally signed off on arrests of pro-Palestine students, documents show | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marco-rubio-student-protests-palestine-b2906597.html

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab.
Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where
we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.
In "How to Change a Memory", Ramirez draws on his own memories
—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery
—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited, and even
constructed fro…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 346 nodes and 26832 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

DOJ seeks to join lawsuit against Loudoun County [VA] over trans student in locker room
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/12/12/doj-seeks-to-join-lawsuit-against-loudoun-county-over-trans-student-in-locker-room/

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

Colleges report dramatic declines in enrollment among master’s-level students amid visa issuance and immigration challenges in the U.S.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/graduate-students-and-postdocs…

International Graduate Student Enrollment Drops
Some colleges report dramatic declines in enrollment among master’s-level students amid visa issuance and immigration challenges in the U.S.

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 433 nodes and 1941 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 286 nodes and 1002 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 234 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…