“We’re playing with fire,” said Sam Scarpino, a professor at Northeastern University, who helped lead pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation during the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re really not doing the surveillance to say that it’s not here.”

They teamed up with Northeastern University researcher Laura Edelson to collect and analyze data about the number of videos produced and how often they were viewed from Oct. 7 to January 29 of this year

Among key questions will be whether the legislation interferes with the overall content of speech on TikTok, Elettra Bietti, an assistant professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, noted following the law’s passage last month — as content-based restrictions meet a higher level of scrutiny.

“The relationship between the FDA’s regulatory power and the state’s power to regulate the practice of medicine is a complicated one” and “the FDA’s involvement in mifepristone is much more complex than with most medications,” said Wendy Parmet, a health law professor at Northeastern University.

The best strategy for tackling those moments of stress actually involves some preparation: Highly successful people get ahead of their unsteadiness with a key mindset shift, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist, author and psychology professor at Northeastern University. 

“The movements themselves become a potent symbol for the other side,” said Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communication, public policy, and urban affairs at Northeastern University.

Building a booming business in streaming music without taking on any of the legwork of striking deals with labels and distributors. That causes David Herlihy, a copyright lawyer and music industry professor at Northeastern University, to describe Musi as a “bottom feeder.” 

“The strength in the first quarter in part reflects timing; withholding taxes in both the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2023 were both relatively weak,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, senior contributing editor and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at Northeastern University.

POLITICO teamed up with Laura Edelson, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, to track pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli TikTok content over four months between Oct. 7, 2023, and Jan. 29, 2024. 

Northeastern University has been given a $9 million grant to investigate how advanced artificial intelligence systems operate, including their societal impacts. The grant, announced by the National Science Foundation, will allow for what Northeastern hopes will be a new collaborative research platform.

“You’d expect Massachusetts employment to grow more slowly than the nation because we are an older state,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, senior contributing editor for MassBenchmarks and emeritus professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University. “Eventually, the demographics are going to catch up with us.”

While it’s not a clinical diagnosis, Dr Laurie Kramer, Professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University, researches sibling relationships and says explicitly or implicitly, older daughters are frequently given more caregiving responsibilities at home – which continue into adulthood, when they will often co-ordinate family get togethers or care of elderly parents.