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Associated Press

Visiting assistant professor of law, Ezra Young, discusses the lack of consequences faced by insurers who discriminate based on gender identity.

The Washington Post

“Studies show that kids privately disagree with social norms they publicly endorse,” says Michael Macy, professor of information science and sociology. “Kids even have a term for that kind of inauthenticity – they call them posers.”

CBS News

“Like many of the changes Twitter has enacted since Elon Musk took over, the rollout of Twitter Blue has been frenetic and wildly inconsistent,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communications. 

Vox

 

Louis Hyman, professor of industrial and labor relations, discusses the history of mass layoffs in corporate America.

BBC

 

Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, weighs on on Twitter's decision to offer paid-only verifications.

Bloomberg

“Talk is cheap but it’s not that cheap, it’s not nothing,” says Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab. “If you can’t get systems changed, then incrementalism is better than doing nothing — it creates a stone that rolls downhill and gets bigger.”

Associated Press

In a study led by Ian Hewson, professor of microbiology, a team of researchers discovered a unicellular ciliate to be the cause of significant sea urchin deaths.

Wired

Ilana Brito, associate professor of biomedical engineering, discusses microbiome research from the University of Trento.

CBS News

Video shows trash-collecting robots that were deployed by a team of student researchers, Fanjan Bu, Ilan Mandel, Wen-Ying Lee, and Wendy Ju, to better understand human-robot interactions.

The Washington Post

 

Saule Omarova, professor of law, discusses options for more secure banking in this opinion essay.

CNBC

“There’s been a lot of embarrassing, contradictory statements that have come out from the discovery process that even if Dominion loses there will have been pain inflicted on Fox along the way,” says Gautam Hans, associate professor of law.

The Wall Street Journal

 

Jean Bonhotal, senior extension associate at CALS, discusses compost blends and suggests opting for local mixes.