The competition was tough to squash, but two pumpkins carved out a win. Congratulations to UMSI Supreme Harvest winner James M. Zumel Dumlao and runner-up Ghadeer Awwad, whose painted pumpkins were declared pick of the patch by the UMSI community. 🍅 (Photos by Kevin Zheng)

Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/blitt…), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892

🚨BREAKING: Amazon Teamsters at DAX5 in Industry, California today confronted management to announce they are now a UNION and demand that Amazon bargain a Teamsters contract!

x.com/amazonteamster… ICYMI: Victorville demanding a Teamsters Union

Americans have no idea how difficult legal immigration is for "high-skilled immigrants". I have 4 degrees incl a PhD. Einstein visa. 250K salary at FAANG. Lived in this country since I was a teenager. I won't be able to obtain citizenship until middle age Guide for Intl PhDs🧵

I got to create this tapestry celebrating Grad Employees' Org UMich and its history for their upcoming Worker’s Gala fundraiser! You might get to keep it if you enter the raffle to support the union. Student unions are so incredibly inspirational and these workers deserve the world!!!

🧪🔭💻 Great news! We can’t wait to work together with postdocs on organizing researchers in the face of threats from the federal government and the university administration. Congratulations on this milestone, everyone ❤️

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In science, who gets grants and pubs depends on peer review. Does reviewer diversity matter? Yes! In new paper led by James M. Zumel Dumlao we establish a subtle structural bias we call geographical representation bias that benefits authors from wealthier countries (1/3)

❤️✊🔬 ANNOUNCEMENT: Graduate researchers at U-M are unionizing with GEO! Read our statement: geo3550.org/2025/08/19/res…

Analysing submissions to 60 Institute of Physics journals, James M. Zumel Dumlao & Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science find that #PeerReviewers tend to favour submissions from their own countries, meaning authors from countries with few reviewers face a major structural barrier. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

James Dumlao’s 1st paper as a UMSI student has been published in PNASNews! 📑✨ myumi.ch/XyzzQ Inside: how limited geographical diversity among peer reviewers creates a systemic publishing advantage for scientists in certain countries. James M. Zumel Dumlao Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science