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fromThe Conversation
4 days ago

Anti-trans measures don't just target transgender men and women - a sociologist explains how 'male' or 'female' categories miss the mark for nonbinary Americans

Trump's executive orders seek to limit recognition of transgender and nonbinary identities, enforcing a strict two-gender framework.
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fromHackernoon
9 months ago

The Roots of Counterspeech: A Review of Social and Technical Perspectives | HackerNoon

Counterspeech effectively mitigates hate speech through various methods, blending social and computational approaches.
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fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

Medical anthropology pioneer Arthur Kleinman to retire- Harvard Gazette

"Care, critically understood and practiced, matters most," he told a packed lecture hall last week. "This is at the center of whatever claim I can make to wisdom and truth."
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 months ago

A Formal Pledge Boosts Honest Behavior I Hereby Swear!

Oaths can encourage honesty, but their effectiveness depends on wording and timing.
Further real-world studies are needed to confirm the promise's impact on honest behavior.
fromNews Center
6 months ago

Medical School Establishes Center for Computational and Social Sciences in Health - News Center

"Utilizing large and complex datasets or advanced modeling approaches to understand the health of populations requires transdisciplinary collaboration that unites social scientists and health researchers... This kind of collaboration does not come easily, however. It requires time in the same spaces, it requires the building of trust, the development of shared language..." - Michelle Birkett, PhD.
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