Quotes and Mentions - March 27, 2024
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"There are very urgent practices and knowledge we can learn from Indigenous peoples about adaptation during the climate crisis, how to care for land and water, and how we maintain biodiversity."
Sonya Atalay, anthropology and Director of the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Science (CBIKS), is quoted in a story about the NSF-funded center that will focus on connecting Indigenous knowledges with mainstream “Western” sciences to address pressing climate change issues.
“It seems to be getting louder and more tolerated.”
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, anthropology, was interviewed about race-based bullying after six Southwick Regional School students were charged for allegedly harassing Black students on social media. Battle-Baptist says she is concerned that race-based bullying will become more prevalent as the next generation enters high school.
“At the moment, we are growing rice in places that we shouldn’t grow rice in, and it’s depleting the water table."
Jayati Ghosh, economics, discusses why farmers are protesting in India. She describes how their demand for minimum price guarantees for their crops will enable farmers to adopt more sustainable practices.
“Bilateral tax treaties are rife with inequalities. They tend to be more advantageous for the home countries of multinational companies, diverting much-needed resources from developing to developed countries.”
A recent piece by Jayati Ghosh, economics, was reprinted. Ghosh described inequalities often present in international tax agreements and the unfair situations these can create for low- and middle-income countries.
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“Thinking about how repressive and harsh the university is, is both a sign that they are a little weak and don’t feel confident about their ability to win. They have to come down hard on faculty and departments to really control this.”
Clare Hammonds, UMass Labor Center, comments in a story on graduate workers at Boston University voting to go out on strike starting Monday if they cannot reach a new contract with the university. The university has warned departments not to pay striking graduate students if they walk out.
"You might think Caitlin-mania is something new, but it’s not. Girls basketball has been the national sport in Iowa since at least the mid-20th century — and probably before that. (The first girls state tournament was played in 1920.)"
Karen List, journalism, writes about the prominence of University of Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark and how girls’ and women’s basketball in Iowa has changed since List played there in the 1960s.
“Labor-market tightness is really what drives these gains.”
Economics graduate student Annie McGrew comments in an article about wage growth among the nation’s lowest-paid workers. McGrew co-authored a working paper on the issue published in 2023 by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
“AI is here to stay whether we like it or not. It’s our responsibility to cope and adapt rather than revert to punitive approaches like preemptively banning AI tools or demonising AI as completely false.”
Jonathan Corpus Ong, communication, says people working to combat false information should embrace, not resist, AI in an article about the development and use of AI tools in the newsroom.
An article about improving the economy in Ohio and other Appalachian states mentions a PERI study finding that climate change will drive the renewable economy and that also predicts co-ops could provide good jobs for more than 235,000 Ohioans every year for the next decade.
An article about re-imagining the 40-hour work week as a 32-hour week mentions a 2012 PERI study finding that a 10% reduction in working hours reduces an individual’s carbon footprint by 8.6%.
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A February UMass Amherst Poll that found 50% of Americans believe the government of Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is cited in a commentary about the role foreign policy is playing in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.