A September report from Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar alongside a group of academics from institutions including Northeastern Univeristy and tech advocacy organizations found that teen accounts were still able to send “grossly offensive and misogynistic comments” and view posts describing “demeaning sexual acts.”

The researchers—from Northeastern University, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, the University of Rochester and Harvard—asked survey takers whether they supported the administration’s freezing of “billions of dollars in federal research grants to universities.”

Administered by scholars at Northeastern, Rutgers, and Harvard Universities and the University of Rochester, that survey found general opposition to federal-funding cuts to science and to health research. And overall, 75 percent of the more than 31,000 respondents reported either some or a lot of trust in colleges “to do what is right.”

The review was led by Arturo Béjar, a former senior engineer at Meta, as well as New York University and Northeastern University academics and the UK’s Molly Rose Foundation, among others.

A recent report involving Northeastern University found that teen accounts researchers created were recommended age-inappropriate sexual content, including “graphic sexual descriptions, the use of cartoons to describe demeaning sexual acts, and brief displays of nudity.”

Now living at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, the striking crustacean has a bright orange shell with black freckles and blue joints.

Although the study advances science in the field, it’s too soon to draw conclusions because the “work is early stage (and) effect sizes are small,” said brain game researcher Aaron Seitz, a joint professor of psychology, game design, and physical therapy, movement and rehabilitation services at the Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences in […]

Stephen E. Flynn is a political science professor at Northeastern University and founding director of the university’s Defense Industrial Base Institute.