Instagram unveiled measures designed to keep teens safe while using the app. Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication, notes that many of the features are opt-in which “puts the onus on the teen users and potentially their parents to engage in this form of self-regulation. It deflects responsibility from the platform.” 

“There is potential for crop damage from chromate accumulated in soil, as well as possible risk to human health if chromate levels in soils are too high,” says Murray McBride, professor of soil and crop sciences. 

Diego Diel, associate professor of population medicine, explains how his COVID-19 testing lab is working to identify variants and mutations in the coronavirus genome. “It’s really important to identify variants as early as possible after they emerge,” says Diel.

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, talks about why the People’s Bank of China want a digital currency. 

“These companies have tremendous power and are reaping tremendous rewards from the creator economy, but they don’t provide the mechanisms of support that a traditional workplace would,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication. “The job is profoundly individualized and precarious. The fact is, it’s all on you.” 

“The more eruptions that we study, the more we are going to understand how they behave,” says Esteban Gazel, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. 

“The Supreme Court will uphold the Mississippi 15-week ban,” says Sherry Colb, professor of law. “It will say that it is not overruling Casey because it does not need to reach the question, since a 15-week ban does not impose an undue burden. That statement will be at best manipulative and at worst dishonest.” 

In this op-ed, Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, and Nicole Hassoun, a former Einaudi Center visiting scholar, argue that global health leaders must adopt a treaty on pandemic preparedness and response and that it must prioritize new incentives for pharmaceutical companies and equity between nations.

Sherry Colb, professor of law, says, “The ability to breathe is essential for life, but it is not the sort of thing to which we attach moral status, any more than the ability to see or to walk or to speak are such abilities.” 

“This is an extraordinarily rare occurrence, to use a state court to stop picketing during a strike,” says Cathy Creighton, senior extension associate in the ILR School. 

Todd Schmit, associate professor of applied economics and policy, says, “If we can agree that access to broadband is a public good — for educating our children, for access to health care, for expanding business opportunities — there should be a defensible basis for government assistance in funding the operations of those programs. But I think that’s a harder story to tell.” 

Joseph Margulies, professor of practice in law and government, says the cases around the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery are similar in that they involve the “convergence of citizen’s arrest, open carry gun laws and stand your ground.”