Opinion | The Shocking Cancellation of a Special Issue The cancellation of a special Harvard Educational Review issue on Palestine speaks to the intensification of an already censorious climate, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and Jo Kelcey write. bit.ly/3JuhlAs

Trump Order on Grants Puts Politics Above Peer Review, Researchers Say The executive order says senior appointees must review grants, and it demands awards be easier to terminate. Research groups say it undermines science. bit.ly/3JbPLbj

🇺🇬🇮🇱⚖️ International Law in the Age of Messianic Folly ICJ Judge on why she supports Israel: “God said, ‘Wake up.’ I got out of bed and went to work… I have a strong conviction we are in the End Times. I want to be on the right side of history”monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na… v Johann Soufi

Astronomy Olympiad suspends Israel from future editions over its military actions in Gaza. The IMO (International Math Olympiad) did not. They re-admit the Russian Federation instead. indianexpress.com/article/india/… via The Indian Express

"Canada joins call for Israel to halt settlement plan meant to crush Palestinian statehood but Canada is not among the 27 countries signing a call for Israel to allow "independent foreign media access" into Gaza." cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Just when it seems there are no words left to describe the living hell in Gaza, a new one has been added: “famine”. This is not a mystery — it is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself. Famine is not only about food; it is the deliberate

This is an unwise statement that can only make people confused about what LLMs can or cannot do. Let me tell you something: Math is NOT about solving this kind of ad hoc optimization problems. Yeah, by scraping available data and then clustering it, LLMs can sometimes solve some

YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH THE FULL 3min! UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher says people should read the IPC report about the Israeli-made famine in Gaza "in sorrow and in anger." "Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony. It is a famine that we could have prevented."

"She says 'We'll bake bread tomorrow,' even when there is no flour. She says 'The windows are broken because we wanted more air,' even though that is not why the windows are broken. She says 'The baby is sleeping,' even though the baby is gone."

My God. Each pair of shoes is a child's life.

The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take collective action is…incomprehensible. I feel a such profound sense of shame & failure. It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism. 1/

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

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Maryam Abu Daqqa is her name. She worked for you.

Prominent French mathematician Jean‑Claude Sikorav (École normale supérieure de Lyon) has joined other IMO (International Math Olympiad) laureates and returned both of his IMO medals in protest against their decision to shield Israel from the consequences of its actions in Gaza

Amazing.

Better late than never.

Bizarre decision CBC