Archive for November, 2021

Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 29, 2021   Harvard work guru on the make-or-break questions about jobs of the future in U.S. CNBC, Alicia Doniger from November 29, 2021 In a recent interview for CNBC’s “Work in Progress” series, [Rachel] Lipson discussed trends she says the workforce will need to adapt […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 28, 2021   Accessible data curation and analytics for international-scale citizen science datasets Nature, Scientific Data, Benjamin Murray et al. from November 22, 2021 The Covid Symptom Study, a smartphone-based surveillance study on COVID-19 symptoms in the population, is an exemplar of big data citizen science. […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 22, 2021   Joanne Cohn and the email list that led to arXiv Physics Today, Toni Feder from November 08, 2021 Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn. In the late 1980s, she was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 16, 2021   Big news: 100,000 more California community college students got a Cal Grant this year after lawmakers dropped age restrictions that for decades excluded older students. Twitter, Mikhail Zinshteyn from November 15, 2021 The original goal was adding 133,000 students, but enrollment declines affecting […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 15, 2021   SEI Asserts Bold Vision for Engineering Future Software Systems Carnegie Mellon University, News from November 03, 2021 In as little as 10 to 15 years, software engineering may look more like a technical conversation between humans and computers than a process of manually […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 15, 2021   This Elite B-School Ranked Its MBA Students’ 10 Favorite Courses Yahoo Finance, Marc Ethier from November 01, 2021 Marc Ethier Mon, November 1, 2021, 7:33 AM·4 min read Michigan Ross photo A top 10 list of most bid-on courses by full-time MBA students […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 12, 2021   The Senate has voted 58-35 to confirm statistician @_Rob_Santos as the first Latino and second-ever person of color to be Census Bureau director. Twitter, Hansi Lo Wang from November 04, 2021 Once sworn in, Santos is expected to serve through 2026 during key […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 11, 2021   Divided we sleep Science, Rodrigo Pérez Ortega from October 28, 2021 Poor sleep disproportionately undermines the health of communities of color. Researchers want to figure out why—and find solutions NREL Gets Ready To Perform Ground-Truth Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence for Equitable Decarbonization and […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 10, 2021   Personalized RNA drugs may soon be available for more rare genetic diseases Science, Jocelyn Kaiser from November 03, 2021 Three years ago, neurologist Tim Yu stunned colleagues at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting with news that in just 10 […]

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Newsletter features journalism, research papers and tools/software for November 9, 2021   Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading. Here’s a look at the new approach to teaching Twitter, Los Angeles Times from November 08, 2021 Some students accumulated so many points early on that by the end […]

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