By Colleen Flaherty. New paper on artificial intelligence that can (mostly) correctly pick self-identified gays and lesbians based on photos has been called nearly everything -- from bad science to an important “wake-up call.” More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A prominent journal that already accepted a controversial study about using computers to "read" sexuality based on a photo is further scrutinizing the paper after intense public backlash. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A famed atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is on leave after refusing to heed administrators' request that he give electronic lecture slides to a student with disabilities. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. State appeals court rejects proposed joint-non-tenure-track and tenured faculty union at U. Minnesota-Twin Cities. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. In a twist to discussions about campus memorials linked to slavery and racism, the natural sciences are facing new questions about monuments tied to eugenics and to individuals who denied basic rights to those nonwhite people on whom they did research. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The American Association of University Professors, the American Federation of Teachers and the Association of American Colleges and Universities released a joint statement today denouncing harassment campaigns against faculty members for their public speech. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Just because the author of a controversial article on colonialism wants it stricken from the scholarly record doesn’t mean it’s going anywhere. Critics see clickbait corrupting scholarship. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor then misrepresented the process. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Stony Brook professors worry their budget is being balanced on the backs of junior faculty colleagues and programs in the humanities, risking curricular breadth and institutional integrity. More...