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Psychology Today
Let Music Be Your Medicine
In her lab at Northeastern University, Loui is testing the use of music and light to provide stimulation in the delta and gamma frequencies, respectively.
Survey: Debt and discrimination head up American concerns for higher ed
David Lazer, another study researcher and a Northeastern political science and computer sciences professor, highlighted that while half the survey population disapproved of Trump’s threats to universities’ tax-exempt statuses, roughly 25% of people neither agreed nor disagreed.
Meta tightens teen safeguards on Instagram with PG-13-style content filters
A report in September from Northeastern University showed numerous safety features Meta has implemented on Instagram over the years do not work well or exist.
Rare 1-in-30-million calico lobster makes her spooky debut
A rare and seasonally-colored lobster is joining spiders, bats, and even some oozing fungi as some of nature’s best Halloween ambassadors. Meet Jackie (short for jack-o’-lantern), a rare orange and black lobster making her debut at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts.
Innovation is a priority with Maine Technology Institute awards
Northeastern University’s Roux Institute, in Portland, received an award of $375,000 award with $500,000 in matching funds.
Global News
Voting Rights Act set to face Republican challenge in U.S. Supreme Court
Jeremy R. Paul, Northeastern University Professor of Law, joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss the impact of redistricting by U.S. states like Texas and California, and how fruitful U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban mail-in voting will be – Aug 24, 2025
Instagram limits teen accounts as California adds warnings to social media
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.”
Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump’s Higher Ed Cuts
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.”
Americans’ Faith in Higher Ed Has Declined Even Further
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.”
Instagram to bring in version of PG-13 system to protect children, says Meta
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.
Instagram says it’s safeguarding teens by limiting them to PG-13 content
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.”
City AM
Labour delays decision on China’s mega embassy application
Professor Sophia Economides, head of engineering at Northeastern University London, told City AM that while she could not confirm the site was unsafe, the location “raises legitimate technical concerns”.