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VUWSA Students & Staff - Anonymous Tips & Documents

Looking for information on VUWSA, anonymous tips welcome Kia ora r/VUW, I'm an investigative journalist researching VUWSA, and I'd like to hear from students, staff, execs, insiders or anyone else who has dealt with the association and has something they think deserves scrutiny. What's useful Documents: minutes, memos, budgets, decisions, internal emails, policies Screenshots or exports of group chats or DMs you were part of Your own account of something you saw or experienced, even without paperwork How to send it Email: Straddle9190 (at) proton.me For large or multiple files, upload them to Proton Drive (preferred) or Google Drive and email me the share link. To export Instagram chats, request a data download through the Meta Accounts Centre. There are step-by-step guides online. What I'll do with it Your identity stays confidential. I verify everything before it's used and won't publish on the strength of a single unverified source. Private details of people who aren't relevant to the story won't be published. Even a lead on where to look is helpful.

San José del Palmar Recon Teams - Field Observations Aug 10 Quake

I’m glad to share that I am serving as the EERI Lead for the August 10, 2026, San José del Palmar, Colombia earthquake, alongside Ariadne Palma, Ph.D., E.I.T.. Together, we are leading the EERI Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) effort for this event. We are coordinating reconnaissance team efforts and collecting and organizing observations, findings, and resources from the field. If you participated in reconnaissance, inspections, site visits, or other field observations, or are planning a future reconnaissance mission, we would like to hear from you. Please reach out to connect. Your observations can help advance our understanding of the earthquake and support engineers and affected communities as they recover and rebuild. EERI has also created a clearinghouse for resources related to this event, including reports, observations, data, and other materials. The hub will be updated regularly as new information becomes available. Visit the EERI LFE hub: https://lnkd.in/ei5TQiRS ________________ Me complace compartir que estoy participando como líder de EERI para el terremoto del 10 de agosto del 2026 en San José del Palmar, Colombia, junto con Ariadne Palma, Ph.D., E.I.T.. Juntas, estamos liderando el esfuerzo de EERI Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) para este evento. Estamos coordinando los esfuerzos de los equipos de reconocimiento y recopilando y organizando las observaciones, hallazgos y recursos obtenidos en campo. Si usted participó en actividades de reconocimiento, inspecciones, visitas de campo u otras observaciones, o está planificando una futura misión de reconocimiento, nos interesa conocer su experiencia. Por favor, comuníquese con nosotras para colaborar. Sus observaciones pueden contribuir a mejorar nuestra comprensión del terremoto y apoyar a los ingenieros y a las comunidades afectadas durante su recuperación y reconstrucción. EERI también ha creado un centro de recursos (clearinghouse) con materiales relacionados con este evento, incluyendo informes, observaciones, datos y otros recursos. El centro se actualizará periódicamente a medida que haya nueva información disponible. Visite el centro de recursos de EERI LFE: https://lnkd.in/ei5TQiRS ________________ The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is the leading non-profit membership organization dedicated to understanding earthquake risk and increasing earthquake resilience in communities worldwide. #EERI Maggie Ortiz Olivia VanBuskirk, Ph.D. Ayse Hortacsu Robb Moss, PhD PE F.ASCE

Agentic AI Researchers - Harness Safety & Forensics

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭/𝟭𝟬𝟬 — 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 This is Day 1 of my “100 Days of Agentic AI Forensics” series, where I’ll explore agent security, attacks, forensics, harness safety, and trustworthy agentic systems. I’d really like to hear from researchers working on AI agents, agent security, multi-agent systems, or trustworthy AI. 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? Imagine this: 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸: Prepare a financial report using the company’s authorized financial files. The agent produces the correct report. But during execution, it: ✅ Accesses financial.csv ❌ Accesses unauthorized employee_salary.csv ❌ Shares salary information with another agent ✅ Still completes the task successfully So… 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲? This is the key question behind: 📄 HarnessAudit: Auditing Agent Harness Safety https://lnkd.in/g9rDGB5X The paper argues that evaluating an agent only by its final answer or task success is not enough. 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 ≈ Task Completion + Step-Level Permission Checks + Cross-Agent Information Flow + Workflow Fidelity + Robustness One striking observation is that safety violations can accumulate as agents execute more actions. Even strong evaluated configurations achieve only around 𝟬.𝟯𝟮 overall safety score, with many violations related to unauthorized resource access and inter-agent information sharing. But, 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴? Some questions I kept thinking about while reading the paper: • Did the agent violate the policy naturally, or was it intentionally manipulated? • If an attack exists, is it direct (active attack) where the attacker agent itself breaks the rules or indirect (passive attack), where a malicious agent manipulates a benign agent into violating them? • What about private information that is never explicitly sent through a tool, but is implicitly stored or transferred through the agent’s internal state, memory, or communication? • Could an agent contain a backdoor that remains dormant until a specific trigger appears? • Could sensitive information leak indirectly through knowledge transfer or subliminal learning, even when the victim agent does not realize it is revealing anything? Subliminal Learning: https://lnkd.in/g4zUWP4y • Can an agent achieve the goal while silently bypassing a required security layer? • What about attacks that do not steal information at all, but push other agents into deadlocks, infinite loops, or resource-exhaustion states? Comments, corrections, paper suggestions, and different viewpoints are very welcome. I’m also open to discussions and collaborations around these questions. #AgenticAI #AISecurity #AIForensics #MultiAgentSystems #TrustworthyAI #LLMSecurity #AgentSecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #Research

Biosafety Officers & Lab Operations - Assessing AI-Enabled Workflows

Lab safety and operations folks: I’d value your perspective on a story I’m reporting. As AI tools enter laboratory workflows, how do you decide which uses need formal review? What should staff know before using them, and when should a lab pause an AI-enabled workflow? I’m looking to interview someone who has helped assess AI use in a lab, particularly from a safety, biosafety, research security, or operations perspective. I’d love to hear about the questions you asked and the safeguards you put in place. If this sounds like your work, please comment or message me. And if someone comes to mind, please tag them below. Thank you!

Long-Distance Couples - Does Distance Make Heart Grow Fonder

BOOK RESEARCH - Does distance actually make the heart grow fonder? You tell me Hi all! I (28F) am writing a book and wanted to talk about the idea of distance making the heart grow fonder. Real, or fake? You tell me. I am looking to feature different perspective on this topic so give me your most sincere, absurd, sweet, humorous, strange, or creative take. I am hoping to compile them all to drum up a final answer. As you may predict, this is so subjective, and there will never be a right answer. However, researching these kinds of topics is near and dear to me. Thank you so much for your help in creating something! TLDR, whats your hot take on distance?

Early-Stage MedTech Sponsors in LATAM - Clinical Trial Operations

Colombia conducts very few Phase I clinical trials. Bill 191 admits as much. While Colombia debates clinical research reform in Congress, El Salvador is already executing. Global sponsors like Roche, Novo Nordisk, Avantec Vascular, and Ocumedex are already running active protocols there. Between 2020 and 2023, clinical trial activity in El Salvador grew 160 percent. Colombia’s proposed Bill 191 calls for mandatory investigator accreditation and streamlined agency pathways. Those are good proposals. But a bill in committee is not an operational framework, and early-stage MedTech sponsors cannot pause clinical development while legislators deliberate. At bioaccess®, we track where early-phase trials actually get off the ground across Latin America. If you are a clinical leader or sponsor running early-stage studies, we want to hear your perspective. We are actively booking guests for the Global Trial Accelerators™ podcast to break down operational realities across the region. Link to apply as a podcast guest is in the first comment. Julio G. Martinez-Clark CEO, bioaccess® #ClinicalResearch #LATAM #MedTech

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