A recent graduate of Columbia University, who participated in pro-Palestinian protests last year, is currently being held in Louisiana by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It is not clear if this search had any relationship with the arrest of a pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia. A spokesman for Columbia said the school is looking at the letter.
The number of retracted articles from universities in India and Saudi Arabia has more than doubled over the past five years, according to a study carried out by Nature. The retractions came from journals publishing paper-mill activities from Hindawi journals. The study used data from three firms, Retraction Watch, OpenAlex and Dimensions Analysing institutions.