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Nationals fire community relations director over allegedly admitting to religious discrimination: report

Community Services Statistics, March 2026

Community Services Statistics, March 2026 This publication reports information from the CSDS. This is a patient-level dataset providing information relating to NHS-funded community services.

Computer-Aided Tagging on Wikimedia Commons: Designing for Human-AI Collaboration in Open Knowledge Work

arXiv:2605.30800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates Wikimedia Commons contributors' lived experiences with the Computer-Aided Tagging (CAT) tool, an AI-assisted image tagging system designed to improve Commons' discoverability, searchability, accessibility, and multilingual support. Using a qualitative analysis of 595 CAT-related community comments from 11 wiki pages and 16 in-depth interviews, we identify seven key issues that contributed to CAT's mixed reception and...

Washington Nationals apologize to pitcher after firing director who admitted to religious discrimination

The Washington Nationals are in full damage control after an undercover journalist with the O’Keefe Media Group caught now former Director of Community Relations Sean Hudson claiming to be religiously discriminating against Catholic starting pitcher Trevor Williams. On Friday, news broke that the team had fired Hudson. Later that evening, during pregame coverage of the Nationals vs. Padres game, which the Padres later won 7-5, President of Business Operations Jason Sinnarajah addressed the...

Understanding the Sociocultural Dimensions of Mental Health Discourse in Arabic-Language X Communities

Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational mental health research has predominantly centered on English-speaking populations, leaving Arabic-language discourse comparatively under-examined. We present an exploratory computational study of 8,147 tweets from 607 users classified by a GPT-4.1 personal-disclosure pipeline as likely lived-experience authors in three condition-specific Arabic-language X (formerly Twitter) Communities. We focus on discourse related to borderline personality...

In Lebanon, Israeli targeted strikes deepen divisions between communities

In Lebanon, Israeli targeted strikes carried out outside Hezbollah’s traditional areas are putting increasing strain on relations between the country’s different communities. In some neighborhoods, the presence of Hezbollah members or displaced people from the south is now sparking concern, mistrust, and at times even rejection. FRANCE 24’s team on the ground reports.

SAHG: Sector-Anisotropic Hyperbolic Graph Model for Social Bot Detection

arXiv:2605.30166v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-driven social bots can generate fluent, human-like text, reducing the discriminative advantage of content-based detection alone. However, coordinated campaigns still leave relational patterns -- interactions, behavioral similarity, shared neighborhoods, community positions, and coordinated activity -- that graph-based methods can exploit. Existing graph detectors face two challenges when exploiting such evidence.

Pride celebrations struggle as corporate sponsorships dry up

Public support for the LGBTQ+ community by corporations has become politically risky, public relations expert says.(Image credit: Hannah Frances Johansson)

Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together | Binairfer Nowrojee

The two hatreds have rarely been seen as related dangers. But they overlap even as Muslim and Jewish communities are pitted against each otherThe shooting at a mosque and school in San Diego has forced Muslim Americans to ask themselves painful questions. After the killing of three people in an armed attack last week, they now wonder if other places of worship will be targeted next, whether they can still send children to school and trust that they will return home unharmed, and whether they...

Microbial community profiles of the snake cloaca in the presence and absence of Chlamydiota

Chlamydiota are obligate intracellular bacteria detected in snake cloacal microbiota, yet their biological significance remains poorly understood. Members range from recognised pathogens, such as Chlamydia serpentis, to potential environmental symbionts, raising questions about whether they represent transient contaminants, persistent colonisers, or subclinical infectious agents. Despite the cloaca serving as a primary site of chlamydial shedding in snakes, its interaction with the broader...