#academics — Public Fediverse posts
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Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business remains No. 1 in South Carolina, climbs nationally in Niche rankings https://www.byteseu.com/2347646/ #academics #accounting #business #DepartmentOfFinance #WilburOAndAnnPowersCollegeOfBusiness
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#HigherEd figures from #Duke, #Harvard , #UCLA & #Yale reveàled as chums amongst #EpsteinFiles in latest doc drop.
#DOJ released a new batch of 3 million pages from #JeffreyEpstein case, revealing correspondence with prominent figures at top tier schools even after his 2008 conviction with name-drops including figures from #Kinsey Institute having lunch with Epstein and a former Israeli PM.
Latest doc dump includes over a half dozen top #academics in trove, prompting some #Edu institutional embarrassment.
Amongst those shown to have years of sporadic contacts are a prominent #Connecticut school's computer science professor David Gelernter, who was infamously injured after being targeted by #Unabomber Ted Kacynski, but later in life crafted correspondence casually chatting with the convicted sex offender regarding female students on campus he had working for him.
A controversial Duke "behavioral economics" professor named David Ariely who wrote an advice column in #WSJ for a decade is mentioned 636x, although he had previously confirmed only two meetings with Epstein, despite documents that now show at least seven personal interactions.
Others newly named include some top Harvard donors and academics along with those previously mentioned such as former #SocialSciences dean Stephen M. Kosslyn, "Evolution Center" director Martin Nowak and #LarrySummers.
#Florida police first began investigating #Epstein in March 2005 after a 14-year-old girl reported being molested at his home not far from Mar-A-Lago. Eventuallly arrested after a probe in 2006, he pleaded guilty to lesser prostitution charges through a non-prosecution agreement arranged by future #Drumpf admin official Alex Acosta in June 2008. By mid 2019, under add'l media scrutiny, #Epstein himself was found dead in a detention cell in #Federal custody while awaiting trial on new sex #trafficking charges.
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The ban on #InternationalStudents would also impact #HarvardLaw's Juris Doctor [the graduate program for every #lawyer in the #US] & Doctor of Juridical Science programs. Each #JD class of 560 typically includes 45 to 50 intl students—about 9%—for a total of about 150 #students spread across 3 classes. The #SJD, which is for aspiring #legal #academics & typically has ~60 people enrolled, also draws heavily from overseas.
#Trump #law #immigration #AcademicFreedom #BrainDrain #Harvard
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Rabina Scott Finite Automat and Their Decision Problems
https://www.yodaiken.com/2025/01/30/rabina-scott-finite-automat-and-their-decision-problems/
#academics #theory #AutomataTheory #FiniteAutomate #Rabin #Scott #StateMachines -
Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations
“The Arabian Peninsula was the initial site of the out-of-Africa migrations that occurred between 125,000 and 60,000 yr ago, leading to the hypothesis that the first Eurasian populations were established on the Peninsula and that contemporary indigenous Arabs are direct descendants of these ancient peoples.”
Rodriguez-Flores, J.L. et al. (2016) ‘Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations,’ Genome Research, 26(2), pp. 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.191478.115.
#OpenAccess #OA #Reserach #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Ancient #DNA #Arab #Arabs #MiddleEast #Asia #Eurasia #Eurasian #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
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Hi all. Any #recommendations of people to follow in East and Southern #Africa? I’ve found some and realise there are virtually no servers on the continent, which will hopefully change. But some of us here are gradually migrating. So any suggestions of #journalists, #analysts, #researchers, #academics, #conservationists, #scientists, #artists, #musicians, #troublemakers and #storytellers in #Africa or focussed on #Africa would be welcome.
