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Far-right trolls block Indian H-1B visa holders from US with ‘clog the toilet’ campaign
Agence France Presse via MSN
Sept. 28, 2025
Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, was quoted in an article about the far-right trolling airline reservation systems to slowdown reservations for flights from India to the U.S. in a bid to block Indian visa holders from booking tickets.
Where Do Women Win Primaries? Asymmetric Opportunity Theory in Congressional Nominations
Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
Meredith Conroy (political science) co-authored a paper with in which the authors developed “a party-asymmetric theory of gendered opportunity to explain how congressional primaries disadvantage women in different types of districts in distinct ways depending on partisan affiliation.”
Experiment on camera perspective bias in videos of police-citizen encounters
Journal of Experimental Criminology
Nerea Marteache (criminal justice) co-authored a study that “tested camera perspective bias in evaluating a video-recorded police and citizen interaction. … Using professional actors, a simulated police-citizen traffic stop was recorded from three camera perspectives – police, citizen, and bystander. A sample of 830 participants recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk viewed one of the three randomly assigned videos before rating police behavior and legitimacy during the encounter.”
Sense of belonging of bachelor nursing students: a descriptive-comparative study
ScienceDirect
Evangeline Fangonil-Gagalang, Yeon Kim, Justin Schneider and Renee Gregg-Chastain (nursing) published a study that explored factors influencing nursing students’ sense of belonging and identified elements promoting or hindering this feeling.
Transgender curriculum inclusion: Perspectives from university students studying nursing and social work
Teaching and Learning in Nursing
Justin Schneider (nursing), Brittany Bloodhart (psychology) and Nicole Arkadie (social work) published a study that examined nursing and social work students’ perceptions of transgender curriculum inclusion, faculty support, and their confidence in providing transgender care.
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