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In Riyadh I found, effortlessly, young people thrilled by the reforms. Like the other major Saudi cities, Dammam and Jeddah, Riyadh has specialty coffee shops in abundance—little outposts of air-conditioning and caffeine, in an environment otherwise characterized by heat and boredom. Many of the Saudis I met professed a deep love for America. “I spent seven years at Cal State Northridge,” one told me, before rattling off a list of cities he had visited. -- The Atlantic

Researchers who didn’t disclose their LGBTQA identities in the workplace authored fewer peer-reviewed publications and those who did disclose their sexual orientation had publication counts more like non-LGBTQA peers, according to new survey-based study in PLOS One. “These results are most consistent with a productivity cost to nondisclosure of LGBTQA identity in professional settings, and suggest a concrete need to improve scientific workplace climates for sexual and gender minorities,” the study says. Co-author Joey Nelson, assistant professor of ecology and evolution at California State University, Northridge, told CSUN Today, “There’s long been an idea that not feeling safe to ‘come out’ at work creates stress and challenges that impose a cost on productivity and job satisfaction. This is, to my knowledge, the first study establishing that directly.” -- Inside Higher Ed

যখন প্রথম কিয়েভের উপর রাশিয়ার বোমা পড়তে শুরু করে গত বৃহস্পতিবার, ইউলিয়া ঝিটেলনা এটি সম্পর্কে তার বাবা-মা, ভলোদিমির এবং নাটালিয়ার কাছ থেকে নয়, যারা ইউক্রেনের রাজধানীতে ঘুমিয়ে ছিলেন, তবে স্যাক্রামেন্টো হোটেলের লবিতে একটি নিউজ বুলেটিন থেকে যেখানে তিনি হোমওয়ার্ক করছিলেন। -- Amrita Bazar, India (in Bengali)

When the first Russian bombs began falling on Kyiv last Thursday, Yuliia Zhytelna learned about it not from her parents, Volodymyr and Natalia, who were asleep in the Ukrainian capital, but from a news bulletin in the Sacramento hotel lobby where she was doing homework. -- Los Angeles Times