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In an unprecedented move, members of a confidential group that oversees animal research at the University of Washington (UW) have sued their own school to block the release of their names to an animal rights organization. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been trying to obtain this information for more than a … Read more
“This is a case about Harvard’s decade-long failure to protect students from sexual abuse and career-ending retaliation.” That is the first sentence of a federal lawsuit filed on February 8 by three graduate students against Harvard University, accusing the university’s officials of enabling abusive behavior by John Comaroff, a professor in the anthropology department. The … Read more
Several former employees have gone public with allegations of sexual harassment experienced at SpaceX. A former SpaceX employee has published allegations of serial sexual harassment experienced during her time at Elon Musk‘s company, which she writes that she reported to human resources to no avail. In conjunction with that account, four other former employees are … Read more