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The Obverse-Turing Test: Rethinking Authorship, Trust, and Time in an Accelerated Age
No full textIn this paper, we propose a new test for scientific accountability in the era of artificial intelligence: the Obverse Turing Test for Authorship. While the traditional Turing test focuses on a machine\u27s ability to mimic human intelligence, our test addresses the question: when should a scientific contribution involving artificial intelligence be attributed joint authorship? We argue that more and more authors are using AI in the idea generation and elaboration stages of their work, but rarely acknowledge this use explicitly. To examine this gap, we analyze examples of human–AI interactions across fields and propose a new approach to authorship based on time, intent, and mutual trust. Instead of a binary division between human and machine authorship, we call for a model of coauthorship that can be tested and documented, as well as a socially responsible understanding of what it means to contribute in science. This paper explores the boundary between tools and partners, and offers pragmatic steps for more inclusive scientific practice in an accelerated era of knowledge
The Scarlet - Volume CIII, No. 11 (April 25, 2025)
No full textThe April 25, 2025 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University\u27s student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.https://commons.clarku.edu/scarlet/1175/thumbnail.jp
Sacred Canopies and Special Things: Myth and Modernity in Trump’s Return
No full textIn the aftermath of Donald Trump\u27s first presidential win, in 2016, analysts rushed to point out how many evangelicals ended up supporting this irreverent showman who claimed he had never done anything requiring forgiveness. The results laid bare how naïve people (including me) had been to think that conservative Christians would reject a man like Trump on principle. Instead, power and partisanship won out over piety as evangelicals not only looked past Trump\u27s personal transgressions but eagerly embraced his hubristic bravado
Economic geography for the 21st century: an introduction
No full textAs an introduction to this book, this chapter provides an overview of what we see as the central themes of a future economic geography research agenda. At the core of this agenda, as represented in various ways in this book, is the need to reframe key economic geographic concepts to more effectively analyze 21st century capitalism. As demonstrated in the following chapters, this necessitates paradigmatic, geospatial, and methodological reframing to address key societal challenges, emerging economic geographies, and technological and geopolitical transformations. © The Editors and Contributors Severally 2025. All rights reserved
Seasonal activity and sexual selection in an urban dung beetle
No full textOnthophagus orpheus Panzer (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is the most abundant dung beetle in urban forests in central Massachusetts, but little is known about its behavioral ecology. We measured individuals throughout the breeding season to characterize male horn allometry and track seasonal variation in population abundance, adult sex ratio (ASR), and male morph ratio. Large major males have a forked thoracic horn that they use in male–male fights over ownership of breeding tunnels; small minor males have rudimentary horns; and females are hornless. Unlike many onthophagine dung beetles that exhibit sigmoidal horn allometries with distinct horned and hornless male morphs, O. orpheus exhibits a segmented horn allometry in which many males have intermediate-sized horns. Abundance peaked in July, and average densities were comparable to those observed for other horned Onthophagus species that experience intense male–male competition. The season-wide ASR was significantly female-biased, and males exhibited size-dependent seasonal activity. These ecological conditions are likely to promote a highly competitive, defense-based mating system that favors the development of sexually selected horns. Because of its prevalence in urban forests across the eastern United States and the expected increases in resource availability (i.e., dog dung) in urban environments, we highlight O. orpheus as an emerging model species for investigating the effects of urbanization on mating dynamics. © The Author(s) 2025 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved
Beneath the surface, injustice boils: Environmental justice struggles against geothermal energy in Turkey
No full textOver the past twenty years, Turkey has increased its renewable energy investments partly to follow the global driving forces of decarbonisation enforced by the international climate change regime, partly to attract finance from international financial institutions, and partly to substitute imported fossil fuel (mainly natural gas) with “domestic and national” energy. The rapid increase in renewable investments, coupled with the increasing authoritarian neoliberalism of the government, has taken a heavy toll on the local communities by destroying their livelihoods and violating their political rights, leading to an increasing number of local resistance movements against hydro, wind, and geothermal power plants (GPPs). In this article, we aim to examine the multidimensionality of the injustices arising from the increased number of GPPs in Turkey, particularly in Büyük Menderes and Gediz Grabens in Western Anatolia. A textual analysis of numerous reports, news articles, press releases, and videos was conducted to identify the stakeholders and the alternatives they suggest and to understand environmental justice issues surrounding the conflicts around these GPPs. Subsequently, in-depth interviews and participant observation were used to support this analysis during fieldwork in Aydın\u27s Mezeköy village. Our analysis shows that GPPs in the area severely harm agricultural output, expropriate local communities\u27 means of subsistence and destroy their living spaces, and only serve the business\u27s interests. This inequality is further exacerbated by the increasing authoritarianism of the government (standing beside the business), resulting in the deprivation of the cultural, political, and moral rights of the local people. Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Ltd
Dual-Encoder Adversarial Learning for Cloud-Based Cyber Intrusion Detection
No full textCloud-based systems have become prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks due to their distributed, multi-tenant, and dynamic nature. Traditional intrusion detection systems often fail to generalize across diverse cloud environments, particularly when dealing with heterogeneous data sources such as network traffic and user behavior. In this paper, we propose a novel Dual-Encoder Adversarial Learning framework designed to detect cyber intrusions in cloud systems through a unified representation of multi-domain features. The architecture integrates private encoders for domain-specific signal extraction, a shared encoder for domain-invariant representation learning, and adversarial training implemented via a Gradient Reversal Layer to enforce cross-domain generalization. A reconstruction decoder is also employed to retain semantic fidelity in latent embeddings. Extensive experiments conducted on two benchmark datasets, UNSW-NB15 and the Cybersecurity Intrusion Detection dataset, demonstrate that the proposed model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of accuracy (0.917), precision (0.903), recall (0.910), F1-score (0.906), and AUC (0.947). The model also exhibits strong robustness under noisy conditions and achieves competitive efficiency in training time and memory usage. These results validate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture for efficient and robust intrusion detection in cloud environments
AD-STGNN: Adaptive diffusion spatiotemporal GNN for dynamic urban fire vehicle dispatch and emergency response
No full textDue to the increasingly complicated urban building structure and the rising occurrence of emergent events, the on-dutyto-road processing for an urban fire movement has come up against severe challenges for time response and road intelligence. To achieve this, the paper puts forward a new adaptive diffusion spatiotemporal graph neural network framework based on the NFIRS-PDR (National Fire Event Reporting System-Vehicle Scheduling Record) data, to achieve dynamic optimization of vehicle allocation plans of urban fire incidents. Based on the traditional ST-GCN and DCRNN, the model makes the following key contributions: (1) The dual-channel diffusion module is proposed to simultaneously model the directed traffic flow and regional risk in urban roads. (2) The timing attention gating mechanism is used to dynamically capture the law of the time dependence of sudden fire and the law of high-risk period; (3) The scheduling perception reinforcement feedback mechanism is introduced, a dynamic resource constraint learning path based on the Qlearning constraint is learnt in the training process to enhance the model of the accessibility and coverage of firefighting vehicles. The global graph structure is generated dynamically as a function of road connectivity and fire station arrangement and each node contains local history information of events as well as the regional risk obtained in advance from the NFIRS statistical model. The proposed AD-STGNN model has prominent advantages compared with the existing methods including the ASTGCN, ST-MetaNet and GraphSARL, its reduction rate on average scheduling time is up to 14%), which can greatly improve the efficiency of emergency response. © COPYRIGHT SPIE
The Impact of Anti-DEI Legislation on LGBQ + and Heterosexual Faculty in Higher Education
No full textIntroduction: Anti-DEI laws related to higher education are increasingly being proposed, and passed, across the US. Limited research has examined how faculty who teach and do research on LGBTQ+-and other diversity-related issues are impacted by such legislation. Methods: This exploratory mixed-methods study used survey data from 163 faculty (51% LGBQ+) in different state legislative contexts (legislation passed, legislation proposed, no legislation) to examine impacts on teaching, research, well-being, and desire to move or change jobs. Results: Compared to faculty in states without anti-DEI legislation, faculty in states that had passed or introduced legislation were more likely to report both impacts on and changes to teaching, negative mental and physical health, and a desire to move. Compared to heterosexual faculty, LGBQ + faculty were more likely to report teaching and research impacts, negative mental health, and job seeking. LGBQ + faculty in states that introduced legislation were more likely to report negative mental health impacts than heterosexual faculty in those states. Qualitative data highlighted how faculty in states that passed legislation were struggling to adapt to the new demands imposed by their institutions. Those in states that had proposed legislation were cautious but continued to teach DEI topics. Narrative responses underscored the role of sexual/gender identity, race, and tenure status in shaping participants’ sense of vulnerability versus protection. Conclusions: Shifts in the legislative climate have implications for the professional and personal lives of faculty in higher education, especially LGBTQ+ faculty. Policy Implications: Higher education institutions can allocate resources to support their marginalized faculty, including LGBTQ+ faculty, amid the added labor they shoulder in socio-politically tumultuous times. Action can be taken by supporting organizations dedicated to supporting and protecting faculty, and pushing other organizations with power, including policy organizations, to understand the impacts of anti-DEI legislation
Pou Sen Suzanne
No full textPhotograph of a sculptural piece called Pou Sen Suzanne made by James Maurelle. The materials used are wood, adhesive, blood, and soil. It measures 60 x 32 1/2 x 35 .
Pou Sen Suzanne is a work sprung from a dream, which manifested in screen printed portraits of sports figures and now an object. For Saint Suzanne is a declaration of sainthood via ancestorial manifestation and recognition. The sacrifice made by Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture, is deserving of canonization. The gradient of wood species is in direct correlation to bodies processed on the island of Ayiti. Labor, Love, and Liberty fill the tight joints and open spaces where spirits past, present, and near gather. I canonize Suzanne, The Patron Saint of Long SuFrage, and Loyalty .
- James Maurelle\u27s description which appears in the exhibition catalog alongside this photograph in Transformation 12: Contemporary Works in Wood for Contemporary Craft in Philadelphia, PA