Columbia University Data Breach Impacts 860,000 https://www.securityweek.com/columbia-university-data-breach-impacts-860000/ #ColumbiaUniversity #DataBreaches #databreach #university

Columbia University Data Breach Impacts 860,000 https://www.securityweek.com/columbia-university-data-breach-impacts-860000/ #ColumbiaUniversity #DataBreaches #databreach #university

Tom Izzo states Kur Teng is Spartans’ best outside shooter https://www.rawchili.com/nba/219160/ #10 #AI #Basketball #big #Big10Hub #Carolina #College #CollegeBasketball #CollegeSports #Enabled #Highlights #Hub #Izzo #Michigan #MichiganStateBasketball #MichiganStateSpartans #ncaa #NCAABasketball #ncaab #News #North #NorthCarolinaStateUniversity #Overall #OverallPositive #Positive #Spartans #Sports #SportsNews #state #Story #StoryHighlightsAIEnabled #Tom #TomIzzo #Twitter #University

I talked with my lecturer about possibly doing the anti-Semitism/Palestinian resistance topic for my assessment.

He explained that he'd love to read my take on it even if I looked at it via the hate crime topic, but also that if he said I could do that then he'd have to say yes to everyone who asked if they could do a topic we've already covered*, but we talked about perhaps looking at protest laws and policy and using it as an example to cover that (which then opens up discussion of the BLM protests compared to the anti-covid protests).

I've also pmuch finished a presentation on coercive control and have that ready to go if I can't make the anti-Semitism one work.

I think what I need to do is plan out the essay for assessment 5, and then work backwards from that to get the presentation in line.. and that'll help me work out if I can do it. The presentation is due on the 18th, so I pmuch have 10 days to research and plan a 2000 word essay and then write and record a 10 minute video presentation outlining the issue the essay will cover.

Nothing can go wrong with this plan!

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* personally I think the "we'd have to say yes to everyone" response is pmuch always nonsense.

"Agents wait at schools, courthouses, hospitals, and churches, searching for immigrants to detain. They point guns at passersby who take photos of their license plates and tackle people into the ground as they attempt to flee. They conduct surprise checkpoints miles from U.S. borders, confiscate phones, and question people about their political beliefs when they arrive in the U.S.

Immigrant rights activists warn that ICE’s unchecked actions normalize the pervasive presence of immigration enforcement in American life. Civil rights experts say insatiable levels of surveillance by CBP and other federal agencies, alongside racial profiling of Muslim, Native American, and Latinx citizens are deconstructing democracy. Soon, immigration enforcement may escalate even further."

https://truthout.org/articles/us-universities-are-deepening-their-ties-with-ice-and-border-patrol/

I have to pick a topic to make a 10 minute video presentation on, and then write an essay about for my "Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Crime and Justice" subject.

I can choose anything that is a "contemporary or emerging issue" that I want to research, however it can't be anything that our modules already cover..

Our modules are:

- Hate Crime
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Wildlife, Animal, and Forestry Crime
- Trafficking in Cultural Property
- Identity Crime
- Technology, Digitals, and Crime Prevention
- Institutional Abuse
- Trauma, Personality Functioning, and Offending Behaviour
- Aging Offenders
- Work with Offending Behaviour
- The Professions in Criminal Justice and Wellbeing

I want to write about the NSW anti-Semitism laws, and how they're actually being used to cow criticism of Israel's genocidal actions against Palestine, but I feel like the marker is going to think that comes too close to the "hate crime" module.

I was thinking of writing about either the under-16 social media ban or about Ring door camera surveillance stuff (but both could be covered by the tech/digitals module).

The only other thing I can think of is the whole ligature points in prisons issue.

Suggestions welcome!

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 – 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗸? Excited to share that our paper "Generative AI Usage of University Students: Navigating Between Education and Business" has been accepted for #WI2025 Conference!

Picture credit: informatik2025.gi.de

We recently had a high school student visit us at the lab. She is considering studying psychology but wanted to know what that actually looks like if you aren’t a therapist.

The future of environmental psychology looks very bright, especially if the next generation of researchers is so dedicated that they even visit universities during their summer break ;)

@ Jana Zeilinger thanks for stopping by, it was a pleasure to meet you!

I need to wrap my head around the fact that private donors, sports' sponsors and students paying tens of thousands of dollars a year is not enough for universities to be financially sound.

I'd really like to see audits of these universities.
Somehow I don't think teachers' pay is the biggest expense.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/world/politics/universities-cut-deals-trump/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Kids want to be youtubers!

When it comes to success on social media I have cracked the code and discovered the secret to success! The good news is that this strategy works despite the social media ban for kids.

I reveal it all in my latest video!

#youtuber #HigherEd #University #SocialMediaBan

https://youtu.be/fEEhA9uRwnQ

Wake Forest University in North Carolina is about to do something cruel and unusual—and possibly illegal. https://act.pcrm.org/5F16MY06nUmFJVC0zBF0Cw2

science & art
side by side

The student who understood the assignment!

It took marking over 15 papers till I found the one who was actually paying attention to class.

Michigan State hockey gets pledge from forward Gavin Burcar https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/147791/ #10 #Big #Big10Hub #College #CollegeSports #Hockey #Hub #Michigan #MichiganStateSpartansHockey #MichiganStateUniversity #news #Overall #OverallPositive #Positive #Spartans #sports #SportsNews #State #Twitter #University

This is where we’re heading:

It was ‘the first time in months that I had written something without asking ChatGPT to help me along the process. I quickly realized I had forgotten how to do that. […] I came to the realization that ChatGPT has become my crutch rather than a tool.’

Interesting article about an experiment by an assistant professor of English in Virginia.

https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/

Found in a post by @26pglt with a different (yet also very valid!) focus: https://mastodon.au/@26pglt/114957209922155715

#Cornell university is about to capitulate to the #fascist regime in Washington, on the same shameful and ultimately futile model that #Columbia spearheaded. Here's what I think about anticipatory capitulation to fascists' demands. The proper response to this kind of move is FUCK THIS SHIT.

#uspol #fascism #university #highered

https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/03/guest-room-on-anticipatory-obedience-to-fascists-demands

This year Eastern #Kentucky #University has went through some tremendous changes.