News organizations are braced for challenges in 2025. From changes to content filtering on social platforms, battles around intellectual property in the face of AI, and the constant churn of the political “attention economy,” truth sometimes loses. We protect it. #Harvard

The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, @Harvard's 29th president, has been shadowed by the Holocaust. In this moving essay, Bacow reflects on attending the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and Birkenau (Jan 27) as University representative. #Harvard

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates @BillGates ’77, LL.D. ’07 famously dropped out of @Harvard in 1975. Fifty years later, on Feb 3, he returned to campus and discussed the newest innovation in technology—artificial intelligence. #Harvard

The Faculty Arts and Sciences’ committee examining the culture of @harvard classrooms has reported unsettling findings about students’ commitment to courses, extracurriculars at the expense of academics, and distractions related to social media. #Harvard

@BillGates ’77, LL.D. ’07 famously dropped out of @Harvard in 1975 to focus on building a new kind of software company, @Microsoft. He returned to campus on February 3 and discussed the newest innovation in technology—artificial intelligence. #Harvard

A bequest from Philip A. Straus ’37 and his wife Lynn G. Straus of 62 prints and two paintings by artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has made the @harvartmuseums’ collection of that artist’s work “one of the largest and most significant” in the U.S. #Harvard

On January 31, President Alan M. Garber announced the inaugural members of his University Faculty Advisory Council, a two-year experiment announced last November as a means of bringing faculty views to bear on @Harvard-wide issues. #Harvard

President Trump’s tariffs on China risk higher EV costs, stifled U.S. innovation, and trade tensions. Cooperation, not isolation, could boost clean energy growth. In this lecture (June 2024), @BillKirbyHBS discusses the impact tariffs on clean technology.

Data from initial observations made by MethaneSAT, a satellite from @harvard researchers, shows comprehensive methane emissions data from select oil and gas producing areas in the US and globally. See emissions on @MethaneSAT homepage: #Harvard

From @WSJ: Larry Summers, @Harvard president emeritus and Secretary of the Treasury 1999-2001, co-writes a letter to President Trump from economists in united opposition to non-defense-related tariffs used as a general tool for economic policy. #Harvard

Memory is a fundamental part of thought itself. And, while all animals have some form of memory system, the capacity for advanced episodic memory may be related to creativity and humans’ ability to innovate. @Harvard's Daniel Schacter explains: #Harvard

Is there a relationship between memory and creativity? Daniel Schacter, Professor of Psychology @Harvard has studied memory for decades. His research shows a link between brain regions responsible for memory retrieval, imagination, and creativity. #Harvard

Last Thursday, @harvard decided to abruptly lay off the Harvard Slavery Remembrance program (HSRP) staff and outsource its work. Part of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, HSRP had been researching the identities of enslaved people. #Harvard

With a ceasefire in Gaza, Adam Kirsch ’97 writes: “The tragedy of Israel-Palestine is that it is harder to imagine the humane futures coming true than the cruel ones.” In his book On Settler Colonialism, he examines the war and the title's topic. #Harvard

What makes an artwork “finished”? That question helps frame the exhibit 'Janiva Ellis: Fear Corroded Ape' @ccva_harvard January 31-April 6. The show highlights 12 paintings that have lain dormant, unfinished, in the New York City artist’s studio. #Harvard

Thirty-three very special photographs by Ansel Adams are on display at @HarvardHBS's Baker Library until mid-April as part of an exhibit on Meroë Morse, manager of @Polaroid's black-and-white photographic research 1955-1969. #Harvard #photography

The harp is a notoriously difficult instrument, slippery and subtle. To Elisabeth Remy Johnson ’95, discovering her first harp at six years old, it was love and fascination. Now, she's the longtime principal harpist of the @AtlantaSymphony. #Harvard

Virtual reality (VR) technology—what's the psychology behind the headsets? 🧠 Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker @sapinker explores the psychological and social dimensions of VR after experimenting with a @Meta device. #Harvard

A @harvard affordable homeownership project is in progress for Allston. The proposal suggests 43 new income-restricted homeownership units in the residential neighborhood 500 feet south of @hseas, a big contribution to local affordable housing. #Harvard

RT @sapinker: The Psychology of Virtual Reality | In which I don a Meta VR headset and comment on spatial vision, eye contact & social rela…