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Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network. In mid-February, Daniel Baker, a US veteran described by the media as “anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists, and anti-police,” wa...

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Biden’s presidential cabinet confirmations Following his inauguration on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden started to assemble the most diverse Cabinet in United States history. The Senate has already confirmed Biden’s nominations for the core 15 positions; of the additional eight Cabinet-level positions, the Senate has confirmed six. Of the 21 confirmed positions, Biden’s Cabinet is 45 percent female and is 55 percent non-white, making it the most diverse Cabinet in the country’s history. ...

Posted April 9th, 2021 for Broad Institute Welcome to the April 9, 2021 installment of Research Roundup , a recurring snapshot of recent studies published by scientists at the Broad Institute and their collaborators. Enhancing V2F maps GWASs have yielded thousands of genetic variants linked to disease. To help figure out the function of many of these variants, Joseph Nasser (now at Caltech), Drew Bergman, Charles Fulco (now at Bristol Myers Squibb), Philine Guckelberger (now at...

Northeastern University announced Wednesday afternoon that it would join Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in filing a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over new rules barring international students from living in the country while taking online courses. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asks... MIT Jan 10, 2020 Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein donated more t...

Roundup: Signs of Hope for Scientific Integrity and Public Health Liz Borkowski, UCS Science Network, UCS | April 8, 2021, 1:36 pm EDT This post is part of a series of . The first quarter of 2021 began with a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and ended with both the Biden administration and Congress having taken important steps to safeguard scientific integrity and speed COVID-19 vaccinations. Execu...

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden used his first Cabinet meeting to promote his new infrastructure plan, but the gathering had a very different look and tone from those held by his predecessor. To begin with, the full Cabinet met Thursday in the spacious East Room, rather than the comparatively cramped West Wing room that bears its name, to allow for social distancing. All attendees, including the president, donned masks. And the afterno...

President Joe Bidens first Cabinet meeting looked and felt different from those of his predecessor. Bidens full Cabinet met Thursday in the spacious White House East Room, not the comparatively cramped West Wing room that bears the groups name, to allow for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Many smaller tables were pushed together to create one gigantic square. Department secretaries and other participants wore face masks. And the portion of the meeting opened to press cover...

President Joe Biden tasked five cabinet members to help promote his administration’s $2.3 trillion “American Jobs” plan. He met with the five — Pete Buttigieg, Jennifer Granholm, Marcia Fudge, Marty Walsh, and Gina Raimondo — and about 20 others on Thursday in the White House.

The coronavirus pandemic gave the gathering a very different look from Cabinet meetings held by Biden's predecessors.