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The best and worst moments from the 2026 Tony Awards

Highlights included the televised event's spectacular opening number featuring host Pink.

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Jun 7 • 9:19 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Saving Siri: After two years of stumbles, is Apple's AI moment here?

When Apple holds its developer conference at its Cupertino, California headquarters on Monday, the big draw will be a widely expected overhaul to Siri, the AI assistant the ​iPhone maker two years ago promised, but failed, to improve.

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Jun 7 • 9:09 PM EDT • Technology • reuters.com
Saving Siri: After two years of stumbles, is Apple's AI moment here?

When Apple holds its developer conference at its Cupertino, California headquarters on Monday, the big draw will be a widely expected overhaul to Siri, the AI assistant the ​iPhone maker two years ago promised, but failed, to improve.

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Jun 7 • 9:09 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Ralphie Aversa highlights best moments from the 79th Tony Awards red carpet
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Jun 7 • 9:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • usatoday.com
UFC Freedom 250 Countdown: Ilia Topuria vs. Justin Gaethje

UFC Freedom 250 marks another historic moment for the UFC when the Octagon touches down at the White House, where lightweight king Ilia Topuria faces interim champ Justin Gaethje. Plus, Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane battle for interim heavyweight gold. UFC Freedom 250 Countdown previews the upcoming ...

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Jun 7 • 8:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Top Moments: Daily Bruin Sports reviews the highlights of UCLA Athletics' 2025-26 year

The 2025-26 year saw momentous occasion after momentous occasion take place for UCLA Athletics. From championship banners to program records, Westwood saw another year of history being made.

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Jun 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • dailybruin.com
What Happened on June 7: Hollywood Moments That Made Entertainment History

IMDb, la fonte più popolare e autorevole al mondo per contenuti su film, programmi TV e celebrità.

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Jun 7 • 3:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • imdb.com
What Happened on June 7: Hollywood Moments That Made Entertainment History

IMDb es la fuente de contenido de películas, programas de TV y celebridades más popular y confiable del mundo.

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Jun 7 • 3:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • imdb.com
Fear for Eriksen: taken ill and match suspended, player conscious

Moments of great fear for Christian Eriksen during the Denmark-Ukraine friendly at Nature Energy Park in Odense. Around the 65th minute, Christian Eriksen clutched his chest and then collapsed to the ...

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Jun 7 • 2:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
USA's World Cup Preparation Is Complete: 'Now It's Down To Business'

The USA had some encouraging moments against Germany. But the ultimate lesson is at the World Cup, there will be no moral victories.

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Jun 7 • 10:23 AM EDT • Business • foxsports.com
Opinion: Lisa Kudrow’s ‘The Comeback’ predicted our political moment

Lisa Kudrow stars in “The Comeback,” an HBO show about seeking out fame no matter the cost — a reflection of American politics today in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Jun 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • ajc.com
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College football teams generating buzz ahead of 2026: LSU, Notre Dame, USC offseason hype builds

These 10 teams are riding the wave of positive momentum into the summer

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Jun 7 • 8:57 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
"Unfinished Business" | Dayton Tockey's Mom Talks Sooners' Omaha Dream

After Dayton Tockey's dramatic game-winning home run helped send Oklahoma to the Super Regionals, his mother, Kristi Gilpin, sat down with Evan Kamikow to discuss the unforgettable moment, the emotional roller coaster of the season, and the Sooners' quest for Omaha.

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Jun 7 • 8:47 AM EDT • Business • newson6.com
Simone Biles reveals health scare, calls it one of the "scariest" moments of her life

Team USA gymnastics great Simone Biles has not competed in nearly two years, last featuring at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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Jun 7 • 8:46 AM EDT • Health • olympics.com
"Unfinished Business" | Dayton Tockey's Mom Talks Sooners' Omaha Dream

After Dayton Tockey's dramatic game-winning home run helped send Oklahoma to the Super Regionals, his mother, Kristi Gilpin, sat down with Evan Kamikow to discuss the unforgettable moment, the emotional roller coaster of the season, and the Sooners' quest for Omaha.

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Jun 7 • 8:46 AM EDT • Business • news9.com
Mitch Marner breaks Maurice 'Rocket' Richard's 69-year old Stanley Cup record

What a moment this was for Mitch Marner.

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Jun 6 • 10:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mets vs. Padres, 6/6/26: McLean vs Canning

Nolan McLean and the Mets look to build off last night’s momentum for another win.

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Jun 6 • 9:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The 2026 Belmont Stakes FULL RACE 🐎 FOX Sports

Check out the top moments from the 2026 Belmont Stakes.

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Jun 6 • 7:27 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Test your pop culture: From Hollywood to the Heartland

Test your knowledge of entertainment with this quiz on celebrities, trends and headline-making moments. Featured this week: a red-hot new romance, runway-worthy bikini moments, candid Hollywood reflec...

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Jun 6 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Rock Ford showcases Lancaster revolutionaries in new exhibit

It’s well known that Lancaster was capital for a day in 1777. But that’s not the only historically significant moment in our nation’s earliest years with a Lancaster County connection.

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Jun 6 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
LeBron James: Cooper Flagg had 'some unbelievable moments this year'

LeBron James is very impressed by what he saw from Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg this season.

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Jun 5 • 10:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Washington lands another 4-star WR in Dontay Tyson

For the second time this week, and the third time in this class, Washington has landed a four-star receiver. This time it was Peoria (Ariz.) receiver Dontay Tyson, who took an official to Montlake last week. Tyson announced his commitment to the Huskies moments ago. And the coaches, who had been pushing for him for […]

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Jun 5 • 9:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Stellar Blade Follow-Up Blood Rain Announced, Trailer Has Some Eye-Opening Moments

This year’s Summer Games Fest brought a surprise in the form of a reveal of the next game from Stellar Blade developer Shift Up much sooner than. The game is Stellar Blade: Blood Rain and looks to continue on the high octane action delivered by the highly popular 2024 game. The game revealed in a...

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Jun 5 • 7:23 PM EDT • Technology • gamespot.com
Test your pop culture: From Hollywood to the Heartland

Test your knowledge of entertainment with this quiz on celebrities, trends and headline-making moments. Featured this week: a red-hot new romance, runway-worthy bikini moments, candid Hollywood reflections and a smashed piano that stole the show.

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Jun 5 • 6:16 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com
Fumito Ueda, legendary developer behind Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, announces single-player epic Gen Atlas for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC

"We hope to share an experience that inspires moments of quiet wonder and discovery.”

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Jun 5 • 5:18 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
I worked with the USMNT. This is the biggest mental challenge of the World Cup

This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here. Travis Thomas is a mental performance coach who was the leadership and team dynamics coach for the United States Men’s National Team during the 2022 World Cup. One of the moments when it became evident to everyone that the World Cup is just a different beast was our game against Iran in 2022 in Qatar. We had one game left in our group, which happened to be against Iran. We needed to win that game to advance. Iran only needed a tie to advance, and we would have been...

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Jun 5 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
After big offensive effort, Giants look to quell Cubs' momentum

The San Francisco Giants have put together some stellar offensive efforts in the past week, while the Chicago Cubs are hoping a dramatic rally will change their recent fortunes.

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Jun 5 • 4:03 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Fitbit Air Can Turn Into a Watch and the Trick is Super Easy

When we talk about devices like the new Fitbit Air having their momentt, we can't do so without mentioning the fact that it doesn't have a screen. This is a fitness and health tracker that is...

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Jun 4 • 12:17 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com
The Knicks’ grimy Game 1 win, plus a World Cup retrospective

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Embrace the grime today. Coming up: 🗽 New York’s moxie 🌬️ Sabalenka’s collapse 👨🏻‍🦲 Wildest World Cup moments One thought raced through my head every time I watched a New York Knicks possession in the fourth quarter last night: These dudes are grimy. I mean that as a huge compliment. There’s grit, and then there’s grime. Every bucket, every rebound, every screen oozed difficulty, as if each player was...

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Jun 4 • 6:15 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
A Celebration Worth a Thousand Words 🇮🇹📸 No. 7 in Best FIFA World Cup™ Moments

At the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final, Marco Tardelli scored a crucial goal for Italy against West Germany before unleashing one of the most iconic celebrations in sports history. His emotional sprint and unforgettable scream captured the joy, pressure, and passion of winning a World Cup.

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Jun 4 • 2:26 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Scotland: 2026 World Cup Squad, Fixtures and Schedule

Scotland visit North America for the FIFA World Cup this summer, ending a 28-year absence from the tournament’s biggest stage and giving the Tartan Army the moment they have been dreaming of since F...

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Jun 4 • 1:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
South Africa: 2026 World Cup Squad, Fixtures and Schedule

South Africa head into the 2026 FIFA World Cup with momentum after securing qualification and returning to the tournament for the first time since 2010.South Africa earned their place by finishing top...

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Jun 4 • 1:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Five tense moments from Rubio’s testimony over the war in Iran
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US Ignite Launches SURGE, a National Science Foundation-Supported Initiative to Empower Regional Innovation Coalitions Nationwide

“SURGE provides regional coalitions with structure, guidance, and connections in a peer learning environment. This new program is meant for both existing regional coalitions and leaders who are building new cross-sector partnerships.” -L.Arias, US Ignite Supporting U.S. Regional Growth & Entrepreneurship (SURGE) Convert regional momentum into results! WASHINGTON, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- US Ignite officially launched the Supporting U.S. Regional Growth & Entrepreneurship (SURGE) Program

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Jun 3 • 12:51 PM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
‘Marathon’ Season 2 Launch Was Fumbled At The Worst Possible Moment

Marathon just launched season 2 but it ran into immediate server issues that made the game unplayable for most of the day.

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Jun 3 • 10:04 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
'Survivor 50' players name the best moment of the season

'Survivor 50' players name the best moment of the season, and while one clear winning answer emerges, get ready for a few twists in the replies.

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Jun 3 • 9:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
The cult of objectivity has broken consciousness science

With 22 competing theories and no consensus in sight, the science of consciousness is lost. In this exclusive IAI interview, Berkeley psychedelics researcher and bestselling author of a new book on consciousness Michael Pollan insists that even though consciousness lies beyond traditional forms of scientific investigation, we should resist becoming dualists who see it as something radically different from ordinary stuff in the world. Instead, he makes the case for reimagining science itself: it must stop reaching for objective descriptions of physical reality, and instead embrace subjectivity as the indispensable core of all inquiry. Alasdair Craig: How did your experiences with psychedelics get you interested in consciousness?Michael Pollan: One of the things that happens on psychedelics is that they foreground consciousness. What formerly seemed perfectly transparent and ever present—and yet, non-existent, as water is to fish—suddenly you see it. The metaphor I use in the book is that psychedelics sponge the windscreen. Suddenly you realize: wow, there’s a windscreen, there is this phenomenon that’s mediating my relationship to reality. This is not an unusual realization on psychedelics. I think a lot of people are called to think about consciousness after psychedelic experiences. So that was the proximate inspiration for A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness (2026).And then there was a more specific way in which psychedelics influence the book. That was a particular experience I had on psilocybin. I had the sensation that the plants in my garden were conscious and returning my gaze, with their own point of view and agency, and I got curious as to how to evaluate an insight like that. I mean, what’s the truth quotient of insights you have on psychedelics? And I was reading William James—who, of course, wrote beautifully about mystical experience—and he said, we can’t judge the metaphysics here, but we should pay attention to two criteria: (1) How useful is it to think this is true? He was a pragmatist, of course. And (2) can we subject it to other ways of knowing to validate it? Because maybe we should treat these insights as hypotheses. And that’s kind of how I approach psychedelics, as a great generator of hypotheses, but they need to be tested against other ways of knowing. And so that led me down this long path exploring the science of plant intelligence and plant sentience.AC: I love your phrase, “smudging the windowpane of conscious experience.” So do you now start to think, actually, even when I’m not on psychedelics, I’m just seeing a screen all the time, which is not reality, but rather is my conscious experience, behind which reality is hidden?MP: Well, you know, not when I’m brushing my teeth and making breakfast! But yes, in meditation, certainly. I mean, one of the things you realize is that my experience happens to be this way now, but it could be another way. And many things can affect it. My morning coffee changes the screen in various ways, sharpens certain things.___The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness.___There’s this wonderful metaphor in Aldous Huxley’s book, The Doors of Perception, where he thinks we channel consciousness, and that what the brain does is edit it, and there’s a reducing valve. And psychedelics open the reducing valve wider. I don’t know that I’m ready to buy into the idea that consciousness exists outside brains, but I do love that metaphor because there are times when you are more conscious than others. I know I’ve switched from window pane to valve, but you know, a camera aperture can open wider or narrower. And I do have a sense of that. I have a sense of when I’m being less conscious, and when I’m being more conscious, by which I mean, you know, more present, taking in more sensory information. So when you start thinking about consciousness as a matter of degree, that changes things also.I think when we scroll on social media, obviously, we’re conscious. But minimally so, because we don’t have to generate our own thoughts. We’re basically taking these little hits from other people and thinking their thoughts.The process of writing this book made me kind of relativize everyday consciousness as just one type, which is exactly what William James said. Normal consciousness is one type, separated by the flimsiest of screens from the other types.AC: If we stick with the metaphor of the smudge on the window that you get when you take psychedelics, it seems like we’re saying that consciousness has become like an object that you’re looking at, right? You’re looking at the smudge and that just is consciousness. But sometimes we’ll talk about consciousness as a state that you’re in, rather than an object you can perceive. You’re either conscious or you’re not conscious. So it’s difficult to really know what sort of thing we’re talking about when we talk about consciousness, right?MP: Yeah. When you say that consciousness is an object, what’s the subject? Consciousness also? The only tool we have to understand consciousness is consciousness. So we’re in a closed loop and when we get a perspective on consciousness, we’re not achieving any distance from it. That’s one of the problems with studying consciousness. Science is predicated on an objective, God’s eye view of things, and you never get that. There’s no such thing. SUGGESTED VIEWING The brain filters consciousness With Àlex Gómez-Marín But, yeah, there is this sense, I think, that consciousness is something you can approach. Certainly, when you’re writing and trying to recreate a conscious experience, it’s a fiction, but you’re standing back from it, and looking at it. But there’s no real subject-object distinction.AC: That’s so interesting, because when philosophers start talking about consciousness, they often talk about what they call “qualia”, which is their word for the felt experience of, say, the color red. And I think that way of speaking often makes us think of the qualia as an object, which you can see out there: the redness of red. But, as you say, we also want to collapse the subject-object distinction when we talk about consciousness. So there’s something strange going on here…MP: Oh, yeah, there are many strange things going on! *AC: Let’s talk about the varieties of consciousness. Apart from perceptions, there are, pains, emotions, thoughts, and so on. What is it that holds all this diversity together so that they all count as instances of consciousness? What is it that they all have in common?MP: Yeah, that’s a really good question. I mean, there is sensory information, right? Which we perceive coming from the world outside ourselves. And then there’s internal information, which is what’s called interoception. And this is very important too. This is where feelings come from—what are sometimes called homeostatic feelings—that are intended to get the brain to keep us in these narrow ranges of temperature and glucose and so on. That’s a very important part of consciousness. And according to some researchers, who I think are probably right, this is where consciousness begins, with these very primal feelings, like hunger and thirst and warmth and itch, and things like that. And then there’s this third thing, which is our thinking about thinking.And what holds all this together is, I think, the sense of self. Consciousness generates a self: it is probably an organizing principle. All this stuff is happening to the self. It’s a construct, I think, but it is very useful. It can connect all these different streams of consciousness to a single being or a place, metaphorically speaking.* AC: The first half of your book is about the science of consciousness. Is consciousness just another thing, like black holes or the origin of life, which we don’t yet understand, but which we should have every hope that science will one day get to the bottom of, or is there something special about consciousness that makes this unlikely?MP: It depends how you define science. As we define science now, it’s going be very difficult. Science since Galileo has had a set of rules or assumptions, which is that the proper remit of science is to deal with the objective, quantifiable, third-person world. And the physical sciences have done amazing work under that set of limitations. Galileo—for tactical reasons, not for philosophical reasons—said science should not deal with the soul, which at the time was what consciousness was considered to be. So what is subjective, what is qualitative, what is first person, we’re going to leave to the church, he said. And this was a good agreement, and it probably kept many scientists from getting burned at the stake. But it leaves science in an awkward spot, now that it wants to venture into that territory of qualities, of first-person experience. And I don’t think it has the proper tools. I think it will have to add to its toolkit in some way, and find a way to bring in phenomenology, or lived experience and introspection, which science is usually dismissive of.The challenge—we alluded to it earlier—is that the only tool you have to study consciousness with is consciousness. And what I mean by that is, the whole scientific enterprise is a manifestation of consciousness. As much as scientists like to flatter themselves with this idea that they attain a godlike perspective on what they study, when it comes to consciousness, there’s no such thing. And it’s fine for all the things you can step outside of and study from that perspective. But two areas it won’t work are consciousness and cosmology.___It could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.___With cosmology, too, you have to study the universe from inside the universe. It’s not that cosmologists haven’t made progress. We know a lot about the age of the universe and expansion and things like that. But we can’t penetrate what happened before the Big Bang. We just don’t have the tools because we can’t stand outside.The fact that there are 22 full-scale theories of consciousness tells you all you need to know: we’re kind of lost. And I was surprised to find that we are more lost than I thought we were when I started this. I thought that there’d be leading theories, or that we had experiments that we could conduct that would nail some of this down. And the fact is, we don’t.So, I don’t know if science can solve it. But, of course, we can change the rules of science. A really influential book for me was a book called The Blind Spot, by two physicists, Marcello Gleiser and Adam Frank, and a philosopher, Evan Thompson. It’s a reminder that science is a social practice. It’s organized in a certain way and it can be organized in a different way. But it has this huge blind spot at the center of it, which is its failure to recognize that it is a form of consciousness itself, and it doesn’t have a good way of taking account of lived experience.AC: On the one hand, I think you want to resist traditional dualism, which would say that consciousness is something magical, something supernatural, right? But on the other hand, you’re accepting that there is this division in reality between the stuff that you can investigate objectively and measure, and so on—the stuff that science has been good at finding out about—and consciousness, which, for some reason, you can’t objectively measure. Some would take this to suggest that the dualism is actually right. Is there a way of reconciling these two strands of your thinking?MP: To call it magical is full of value judgement. I mean, you could just say immaterial. The interesting thing is, I think, that intuitively we’re all dualists. And I don’t know whether that’s because we’re children of Descartes and other cultures are less dualist than we are. Or it may be because that’s how consciousness feels. It feels different than the body. It feels separate from the body. But I don’t think we should trust that intuition.AC: So let’s think about ways that science might be changed to get at consciousness. I suppose the starting point would be the way that you begin the second half of your book. You have this nice line from William James, where he says, “We now begin our study of the mind from within.” Could you give us some sense of the ways of studying the mind from within? What does this involve?MP: I don’t know what that science looks like. But one of the points I’m making is that it depends on the humanities. I found that I learned as much, if not more, about consciousness, from reading novels and poetry. There is a sense of the fullness and complexity of consciousness that you don’t get in any scientific account. I interviewed this stream-of-consciousness writer and I approached her as an expert on consciousness, and she is. So I think that dialogue is really important.I’m reading Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription. Just read the first page of this novel: it’s a man falling asleep on a train, going to conduct an interview, and there is the experience of being in the train, facing backwards, there’s the view outside, but there’s a reflection of himself through which he’s seeing outside. There’s the memory of dropping his kids off at school. All this is going on in one moment of consciousness. Scientists aren’t going anywhere near that. But I think it’s useful for them to think about. That’s where we’re trying to go: like, how does such a layered experience happen? You know, it also makes you wonder, could a computer ever do this? And it gives you some doubt.*AC: Before we get to computers, perhaps we could talk briefly about plants. How did you come to feel that they are sentient?MP: Well, it was a psychedelic experience, and it’s not unusual on psychedelics. In fact, there’ve been studies about how people become animists during psychedelic experience. Their belief in animism arises after a single psychedelic experience.You know, most scientists would say this is all a myth. But we have only 400 years of the age of enlightenment and science. Before that, we were animists, and if you go around the world, most indigenous cultures are still animists, and children are animists, by and large, until they go to school. So it could be that we live in this anomaly of not believing nature is conscious. And maybe psychedelics are teaching us something we’ve forgotten.As I said, I wanted to test this idea, and see whether there was conventional scientific evidence for it. And there’s fascinating work going on in a field that calls itself—in a rather cheeky way—plant neurobiology. These are people who fully realize there are no neurons in plants, but they’re trolling conventional botanists! And they’re doing experiments that are demonstrating that plants can learn and remember, which is kind of amazing: how do you store a memory without neurons? They’re finding plants that can solve problems, that can hear and see. In fact, they have 20 senses to our five or six. For example, a bean plant looking for something to twine, and given a pole within eight inches or so of it, knows where that pole is and will aim its spiraling reach at that pole. What is that about? Is it bouncing signals off of it?One of the spookiest things is the fact that the same anesthetics that put us out put plants out. You might think that plants are already out, but they’re not. They’re just slow. If you take a plant with a fast behavior, like a Venus flytrap, and give it an anesthetic, it will stop reacting. So you have to ask yourself, what is lost when the plant is anaesthetized? Some state of alertness, of awareness, of its environment, of reactivity. I’m not prepared to call that consciousness, but maybe it’s sentience—which is a simpler form of consciousness, and involves the ability to sense what’s going on in your environment and assess what’s good and bad for you and act appropriately. That may be a universal quality of life.AC: Let’s turn from plants to AI. You point out that LLMs are trained on the internet rather than direct interactions with reality. You put this really nicely when you say the internet is not the world so much as a shadow cast by the world. So LLMs are living in this kind of shadow world, or in Plato’s cave, as you put it. What’s the significance of this for AI consciousness and moral consideration? And, to recall the beginning of our conversation, if we’re stuck behind a veil or screen of consciousness, are we also stuck in a kind of shadow world?MP: I don’t think they’re the same shadow worlds because our world includes nature and other people. And even if it’s mediated in some ways... There is a reality out there, and we are in relation to it, through consciousness. There’s friction with it. What’s missing from the LLMs is that friction with the real world. There’s more to the world than human representation, which is what they’re dealing with. And that means that so far, AI is a cultural technology for combining thoughts we’ve already had. SUGGESTED VIEWING Cracking the code for thought With Roger Penrose, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Max Tegmark, Güneş Taylor Genuine creativity is more than collage. A lot of what AI does now is tantamount to collage, putting this with that and you know, that’s part of art, certainly. But there are also genuinely new ideas that come into the world that don’t come in through manipulating the representations we already have. So it remains to be seen whether AIs can be truly creative in that more radical sense.But my arguments against AI becoming conscious have to do with the fact that the idea of AI consciousness is based on this faulty metaphor that the brain is a computer. There are dimensions in which the brain is like a computer—it certainly does its share of computation. But computers have this sharp distinction between hardware and software, and brains don’t. In a brain, hardware and software are identical. Every memory is a physical change to the brain. Brains are not interchangeable in the way computers are. So this idea that you could take the consciousness out and somehow run it on another substrate, a silicon substrate, seems foolhardy.Anyway, it’s a more extended argument, and I may be wrong. And when we move to computers that aren’t based on silicon—neuromorphic computers and things like that—all bets may be off.AC: Regarding your point about LLMs being stuck in the world of our representations—the internet or whatever—and not being able to interact with reality, are these representations, the world of the internet, themselves part of reality? We’ve created the internet, but it’s still a real thing that exists. And so while the LLMs may be trapped within that part of reality, they’re nevertheless within reality and interacting with it and so on. So it’s not obvious that there’s a barrier there to them becoming conscious and being creative.MP: Yeah, I mean, if our consciousness is built out of human culture, which is what we’re talking about with all those representations. But I tend to think consciousness comes a bit more out of nature and friction with the natural world, but...AC: So there’s a fundamental divide between the natural world and human artefacts?MP: And we lose track of that, and especially people in this computer world. You know, the people who are creating these AI systems, my guess is they’ve been into video games since the age of three, and they didn’t go outside a lot. And their own contact with nature is somewhat limited. I could be wrong, it’d be a very interesting thing to ask, all the wizards of AI, whether they like to go fishing and hiking and do things like that. Or were they on computers from a very early age? I interviewed Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who came to believe that LaMDA, the Google LLM out at the time, was conscious and deserved personhood. It was very clear that he didn’t see a distinction between this bubble in which he lived and the real world. And I think we’ve all been distanced from the natural world, and this is taking us even further away. But it’s still there, you know, and we still have bodies, and we’re still mortal, and we don’t live in a simulation.AC: I think that’s a great place to finish. Michael Pollan, thank you very much!

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Caleb Williams Named EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 27 Cover Athlete

Williams Is the First Chicago Bears Player To Appear On A Madden NFL Cover Fans Can Expect Full Game Reveal on Thursday, June 4, and Worldwide Launch on Aug. 13 EA SPORTS™ announced today that Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams will grace the cover of EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 27, making him the first player in Chicago Bears history to do so. Bears quarterback Caleb Williams lands on the cover of EA SPORTS Madden NFL 27. Williams’ record-setting season, playoff victory and NFL Moment of the Year — his walk-off, game-winning 46-yard touchdown pass in overtime against the Green Bay Packers — make him one of the most compelling quarterbacks to watch in 2026. Off the field, he’s known as one of the sport’s most distinctive cultural presences, styling his own gameday looks with unique nail art throughout the season. Williams appears on the Standard Edition cover showcasing his signature jump pass, while the Deluxe Edition cover features his iconic celebration that granted him the

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Mets' ugly moments fly in the face of offseason plans

New York wanted to get better in this area of the game.

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Pirates score 8 runs on homers in series-opening win against Astros

HOUSTON — Oneil Cruz paused for a moment of admiration. Across from him, on the mound, former Pirate Mike Burrows shook his head in frustration. Both...

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Moment of Science: New research finds elephant whiskers have “built-in” sensory intelligence

It turns out that pachyderms pack quite a bit of sensory power in their trunks! Here's how elephants use their whiskers to remarkable effect. 🐘

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Jun 2 • 8:13 PM EDT • Science • 13abc.com
Jenna Bush Hager reacts to Jill Biden addressing her parents' romantic relationship in new book

Jenna Bush Hager is sharing her thoughts on Jill Biden detailing a flirtatious moment between her parents Laura and George W. Bush in her new memoir: 'A little spice in this book!'

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GitLab Stock Rises as the Software Company Raises Guidance on AI Business Momentum

GitLab stock rises after the software company reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings and raised full-fiscal year guidance.

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A Look At AMC Entertainment (AMC) Valuation After Recent Share Price Surge

AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) has been drawing investor attention after a sharp move in its share price, with the stock up 22.5% over the past day and 40.4% over the past week. See our latest analysis for AMC Entertainment Holdings. Those sharp moves in the share price sit against a mixed backdrop, with strong recent momentum, including an 87.6% 3 month share price return, but a 1 year total shareholder return that is still down 38.4%. If fast moving stocks like AMC have your attention,...

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Political play or budget fix? Competition for JPL's management comes at a fraught moment

A competitive contract isn’t necessarily a bad thing, experts say. But the administration’s anti-science record raises suspicion.

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Jun 2 • 12:47 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Cyberdecks are having a moment, rejecting big tech surveillance with style and substance

Over the last few months, these DIY hardware communities have exploded in popularity as people on social media show off their solar-powered game emulators, pocket-sized ereaders, and clamshell purse computers.

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Jun 2 • 11:24 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Barcelona see Bundesliga top-scorer as Julian Alvarez’s alternative

Barcelona’s search for a new striker continues to gather momentum, and while Julian Alvarez remains the club’s preferred target, another world-class name is gaining attention.According to SPORT, B...

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Jun 2 • 3:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Divorced mom managed graduation and other end-of-year events from afar

As a divorced mom, I always prepare for my kids' biggest moments even when they happen on a week when they're with my ex.

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Caring for Two Generations: How CVS Health Supports Family Caregivers

For nearly 30 years, Nicole has cared for her father while raising a family. Discover how CVS Health helps her manage care and find moments of relief.

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Jun 2 • 12:30 AM EDT • Health • cvshealth.com
How We’re Reimagining The Future of Health for Hundreds of Millions of People

Today’s closing of our acquisition of Eucalyptus marks more than an expansion. It's the moment scale, local expertise, and technology converge to redefine healthcare for hundreds of millions of people

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Jun 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • news.hims.com
National Academy of Inventors Convenes Global Leaders in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Landmark 15th Annual Conference in Los Angeles

The Premier Convening of Inventors, Researchers, and Technology Leaders Examining the Future of Innovation, Commercialization, and Economic Competitiveness LOS ANGELES, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) will convene its landmark 15th Annual Conference from June 1 through June 4, 2026, in Los Angeles at a defining moment for American innovation, economic competitiveness, and global technological leadership. As nations around the world rapidly accelerate inv

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Jun 1 • 6:17 PM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
The Politics of Visibility - Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center

To say that Michigan is facing a housing crisis often comes with the language of urgency, as if something sudden has happened, as if instability has only recently emerged. But that framing depends on the assumption that there was ever a moment of stability equally accessible to everyone. The reality is less abrupt and more patterned as housing insecurity in Michigan is not a new condition.

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Jun 1 • 3:35 PM EDT • Politics • kennedyhumanrights.org
7 best individual performances in Stanley Cup Final history

Who will be the standout performer of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final? The NHL’s title chase is a stage where one player can tilt an entire series. In fact, a few performances have come to define the sport’s biggest moments.…

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Jun 1 • 3:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Only one option on the table’: Indiana feels momentum in Bears chase

Indiana sees an opening after the Bears stadium plan stalled in Springfield.

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Jun 1 • 2:25 PM EDT • Politics • chicagobusiness.com
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Introducing Shorts on the BBC Sport app

From stunning goals and shocking interviews to unforgettable celebrations, some sporting moments are made to be watched, not just read about - and that's why BBC Sport are launching Shorts.

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Jun 1 • 12:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AI giant Anthropic confidentially files for US IPO

AI giant Anthropic ​said on Monday it ‌has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, ​teeing up what ​could become the watershed moment ⁠for Wall Street's ​AI frenzy.

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Jun 1 • 12:04 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Three Positives From the Week of May 24th

It was not a very positive week for the Guardians, so here are three small moments to smile about.

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Jun 1 • 8:18 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Life Sciences Investment Opportunities Accelerate as AI and Genomics Drive $200+ Billion Market Expansion

“Covering more than 25 recently published reports, the review provides a consolidated view of growth opportunities across healthcare technologies, biologics, diagnostics and therapeutic markets.”Boston, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global life sciences industry is experiencing unprecedented growth momentum across multiple therapeutic and diagnostic segments, with cumulative market opportunities exceeding $200 billion by 2030, according to BCC Research's latest comprehensive analysis. Th

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Jun 1 • 6:36 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Pirates drop Regional Final to Tar Heels 9-3

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCT) — After handling VCU 10-0 earlier in the day, ECU was looking to keep that momentum going into the Regional Final against UNC, but a couple of early errors lead to the Tar Heels plating eights runs in three innings as they win over the Pirates 9-3, advancing to the Super […]

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May 31 • 11:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
L’Amy America Appoints David Low as New Director of Business Development, West

NEW YORK—L’Amy America has announced the appointment of David Low as director of business development, West, effective today, June 1, 2026. Low joins L’Amy America at a pivotal moment as it expands its portfolio with the launch of its luxury category and the addition of Billabong eyewear collections, the company said in an announcement. Low brings more than three decades of experience in eyewear sales and sales leadership, L’Amy America said, with a strong background in brand development, strategic growth and team management across the optical industry.

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May 31 • 8:18 PM EDT • Business • visionmonday.com
Adient plc (ADNT) Releases China Business Update

Adient plc (NYSE:ADNT) is one of the Best Undervalued Stocks to Buy According to the Financial Media. On May 20, the company released its China business update, wherein it highlighted that, since last year’s J.P. Morgan Summit, it has seen robust new bookings that continue to support the sales growth momentum. Adient plc (NYSE:ADNT) won ~$1.1 billion […]

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May 31 • 7:04 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Smaller, cooler, smarter: Rethinking memory for a low‑power future

Have you ever felt your smartphone heat up after heavy use or watched the battery drop at the worst possible moment?

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May 31 • 4:56 PM EDT • Science • digitaljournal.com
AMC's Downfall Can Be Traced Back To One Tragic Moment

The American Motors Corporation was once a genuine competitor to the Big Three, but under French ownership, things went wrong very quickly and tragically.

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May 31 • 12:15 PM EDT • Technology • slashgear.com
Fantasy Baseball Winners and Losers from Week 9 2026

Jacob Misiorowski set a record that probably should not be possible. The week that was in fantasy baseball featured a 451-foot exclamation point from a man who had been making contact with the baseball at an elite level while somehow watching all of it stay inside the park, a 26-year-old pitcher who threw 57 pitches at 100 miles per hour or faster in a single game — a number that had never been achieved in the pitch-tracking era — and a Saturday afternoon at Citi Field that produced two of the purest moments of the season in the same box score.

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May 31 • 11:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'If you're in pain, then go through the pain'

"We haven't done it for 22 years [reached the Champions League final], so imagine the second time in our history that we have done it, and we need to recognise the season we had, but at the moment nobody is going to take the pain away from you."

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May 30 • 4:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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I went to Mistral's summit and heard a clear message about AI

I attended Mistral's first AI summit in Paris. Here's what executives and attendees said about Europe's AI moment.

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May 30 • 6:31 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
THE YOUNG AZZURRI

It was a momentous occasion for the Rossoneri and their fans, who were already delighted for Davide Bartesaghi, as the even younger Francesco Camarda received his first senior Italy call-up. The young...

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Interviews | Top 5 candidates vying to be CA's next Lt. Governor

A key part of the lieutenant governor's job requires them to be ready to step in as governor at a moment's notice.

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May 29 • 5:05 PM EDT • Politics • kcra.com
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State Democrats’ bill would help small-business owners pay for employees’ healthcare

'At this moment, we’re in the thick of a massive affordability crisis,' said Rep. Jen Mazzocco.

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May 29 • 4:30 PM EDT • Business • pennsylvaniaindependent.com
Who's tired? Bukayo Saka warns PSG: 'It's moments, not minutes, that will decide Champions League final'

Despite playing far more minutes than their French opponents this season, Mikel Arteta's side say they're rested and ready for a shot at European glory

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May 29 • 2:09 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Xbox Delays Fable To February 2027, And It's Basically Because Of GTA 6

"So it can have the dedicated moment it deserves"

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May 29 • 12:41 PM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com
Sennheiser Momentum 5 Wireless review: Worth the wait

Sennheiser’s latest flagship headphones close the gap to Bose and Sony thanks to improved sound and more effective ANC.

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May 29 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Everton quickfire end of season review

Everton's season feels like a mixed bag in all honesty and I was tempted to go with the 3-0 home win over Chelsea, as it was an emphatic performance and a real moment that Hill Dickinson Stadium felt like it was encapsulating the Goodison atmosphere. Trailing 1-0 at the break, James Garner was then booked quickly followed by a yellow for David Moyes. It started a feisty reaction much like those at Goodison Park when fans felt a sense of injustice.

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May 29 • 7:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Xbox Game Pass price cut is working, Asha Sharma reportedly tells staff, but "we will not solve this in one moment or one launch"

"We are building a stronger Xbox," the company's new leader says.

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May 29 • 6:25 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
After a dominant Game 6, Victor Wembanyama's winner-take-all moment has arrived
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Trump’s Iran Approach Sows Confusion

President Trump’s pendulum swings on Iran have often seemed driven by mood and moment rather than any discernible strategy.

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May 28 • 7:53 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
A Democrat’s Dodge on AIPAC Points to the Party’s Tensions Over Israel

A key moment at a Senate primary debate in Michigan showed how pro-Israel Democrats are approaching the issue with caution.

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May 28 • 5:50 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Lawmakers Push IRS To Issue 'Prompt' Tax Guidance For Marijuana Businesses Now That Rescheduling Is Happening

A group of congressional lawmakers are pressing federal officials to issue “prompt guidance” on tax issues for marijuana businesses in light of the Trump administration’s move to federally reschedule cannabis. A new letter, led by Reps. Steven Horsford (D-NV and Steve Cohen (D-TN), notes that “state-legal cannabis businesses have been denied ordinary business tax deductions […]

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Meeting the Moment in Maternal Health

BMC's Curbside Care program unveiled its new vehicle, designed to enhance care delivery to families directly in their neighborhood.

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Renault Group’s climate ambition based on science

Press ReleaseMay 28, 2026 Renault Group’s climate ambition based on science In 2019, Renault Group was the first carmaker to rely on science-based climate targets.Renault Group is announcing the renewal of its science-based targets, with a new approval of its near- and long-term targets by the Science Based Targets initiative. These targets are supported by the product momentum of futuREady strategic plan. Boulogne-Billancourt, May 28, 2026 In 2019, Renault Group was the first carmaker to rely o

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Missouri Regulators Prepare For Final Marijuana Equity Business License Lottery

“Generally, the changes needed to happen so that we could bring the focus back to the intention of the program.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Lesley Turek is planning for a busy June traveling the state to educate people about the final lottery for 77 microbusiness marijuana licenses. Turek, the chief equity officer for the […]

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Polish scientists and students rally in campaign for 3% funding target

Polish scientists and students have been flooding social media with calls on the government to raise research and development spending as part of 3% for Science, 100% for Poland, a campaign born earlier this month out of frustration with chronic underfunding in the academic sector. On May 27, thousands took the slogan on to the streets.The EU has been trying to convince member states to raise their R&D expenditures to 3% of GDP for more than two decades, but the idea has never gained traction in capitals. Finance ministers were too busy plugging budget holes created in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, then the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and now the war in Iran.Critics say that countries missed or ignored the target because it is voluntary, but also because research communities have rarely raised their voice to put pressure on national governments. The European Commission hopes to make the target legally binding in the upcoming European Research Area Act, an EU-wide regulation that should be announced by the end of the year. Academia in Poland has been faced with a funding crisis for years, often leaving its members with no other choice but to work abroad in order to access better resources, or leave the sector altogether in the hope of earning a decent living. The risk, in the long-term, is that brain drain stifles local innovation capacity and technological competitiveness.In just a few weeks, the movement rallied nationwide support, including from major academic bodies and trade unions such as the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland and the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its public petition collected more than 23,000 signatures. On May 27, it formed the first large protest for science in Poland, gathering thousands of people in front of the parliament building in Warsaw.Ilona Uryga-Bugajska, representative of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Poland Chapter, was there. “The protest was peaceful, with no incidents reported, and the entire event took place in a respectful and calm atmosphere,” she said. Banners she saw in the crowd carried slogans such as “A little longer and I’ll be teaching in a supermarket,” “National culture, starvation salary,” “Stop the destruction of science,” “Passion will not pay the rent,” “Without action, don’t expect a better future,” and “Pull science out of the hole.” She also observed a strong presence of young researchers, who are on the frontline of Poland’s academic crisis.“Academics are usually people who prefer discussion, analysis, dialogue and compromise. We are not a group that protests easily,” said Katarzyna Marzec, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University Medical College and AGH University of Krakow, who also took part. “But many of us feel that we have been pushed against the wall.”Aleksandra Rutkowska, translational neuroscientist and research group leader at the Medical University of Gdańsk, agreed. “Frustration in the scientific community is very high,” she said. “Science is often used politically as a symbol of innovation and modernity, but the everyday reality inside many institutions is much more difficult. There is a large gap between the public narrative and the actual condition of the sector.”Maria Wiktoria Górna, head of the structural biology group at the University of Warsaw and one of the organisers of the movement, told Science|Business that the campaign would continue without proven results. This might involve another strike in the autumn, she said. “Empty promises are not enough by now.”Campaign demandsAccording to Uryga-Bugajska, the organisers officially presented their demands and concerns to representatives of the government present at the event. These included Marek Gzik, deputy minister of science and higher education, and Karolina Zioło-Pużuk, secretary of state of that same ministry.The headline demand, for the government to increase national spending on R&D to 3% of GDP by 2030, should be within Poland’s economic capacity, Rutkowska said. “The real question is whether there is genuine long-term political commitment to treating science as a strategic priority rather than a slogan.”In 2024, R&D expenditure in Poland stood at 1.41% of GDP, which is slightly above the average for central and eastern Europe, with countries such as Czechia recording 1.82%, Hungary 1.31% and Romania 0.46%. However, it falls noticeably short of the EU average of 2.24%, which just a handful of countries exceed, including Germany, Belgium and Sweden.Campaigners are also asking for fair wages for scientific staff, including PhD stipends and junior academic salaries, which are widely considered uncompetitive. Starting doctoral scholarships amount to some €843 gross per month, when the statutory minimum wage stands at €1,135. By pushing early-career researchers out of Poland, growing precarity has caused a generational gap in the academic workforce, with just 25% of lecturers aged under 40. In this context, the movement fears that scientific careers could soon be accessible to a privileged minority only.Grzegorz Spólnik is a case in point. After 15 years working in mass spectrometry at the Polish Academy of Sciences, he decided to leave partly “to earn enough money to live a normal life,” he said. “At that time, my earnings were similar to those of people working in grocery shops, and the work-life balance is something that does not exist in science, or is very hard to achieve.”Now a senior field service engineer for Polish laboratory equipment supplier Bioanalytic, he would consider going back to research, “but never in the public sector, maybe some start-up or a big private company with ambitious R&D.”The campaigners want to see more support for basic research and have called for €236 million to be added to the budget of the National Science Centre (NCN) in 2027 so that the average grant application success rate does not fall below 25%.“At the protest, there was a banner I particularly liked: ‘NCN is not a lottery.’ Unfortunately, for many researchers, it increasingly feels exactly like one,” Marzec said. “Personally, I am one of the lucky ones. I work at two of the strongest institutions in the country, where the research standards are very high. I know that in many other institutions, the situation is much worse and obtaining funding for research at an early-career stage is becoming nearly impossible.”Rutkowska also considers herself fortunate. After studying abroad and holding a postdoctoral position, she returned to Poland, where her pay was supported through an NCN-funded project linked to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. “This also made me very aware that good research conditions in Poland often depend on external competitive funding rather than on stable support from the system itself,” she said.Long-term strategyBeyond the lack of funds for both salaries and grants, scientists believe that the issue is structural. “The biggest problem at the moment is the complete lack of a clear long-term strategy for the development of science and research from the current government,” Marzec said. “Everything ends with declarations and promises that are never truly followed by concrete actions or structural reforms.”Rutkowska agreed, citing a lack of infrastructure, continuity and long-term institutional support.“Running a research group in Poland often means functioning as an entire institution at once,” she said. “I am a principal investigator, a mentor, a recruiter, a project administrator and, when needed, still someone who returns to the lab bench to help with experiments,” she went on. “This creates a large hidden workload that takes time and energy away from actual science. At times, it feels as though scientists are no longer expecting extra help; we simply hope the system will stop creating additional obstacles that make research unnecessarily difficult.”Related articlesStrategic thinking: Germany funds joint research with Poland and FrancePoland to transfer €30M of regional funds to boost Horizon Europe participationPoland is funding fewer basic research grants as high inflation hitsIn short, “academics are expected to teach, publish papers, apply for grants and conduct high-quality research, while funding and salaries remain very limited,” said Uryga-Bugajska, who returned to her home country after 13 years in the UK.According to Marzec, another issue is the way that research institutions are evaluated. Previously, this took place every four years, with a clear differentiation between stronger and weaker institutions. “The current government, perhaps to avoid political backlash, effectively concluded that everyone is doing well, so in practice no meaningful evaluation took place,” she said.But in her view, “some form of serious assessment is necessary” to ensure the excellence and international competitiveness of Polish institutions, and to determine how to best use public resources and where institutional structures need reform. “Some institutions may need to rethink hiring practices in order to attract ambitious young researchers who are capable of obtaining competitive grants and building internationally visible research groups.” Rutkowska has already had to adapt. “When hiring PhD students, I often have to combine different funding sources creatively to make positions attractive enough for talented people to stay in science,” she said. “Many young researchers do not see a stable future in academia in Poland, and that is deeply worrying.”

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Polish scientists and students rally in campaign for better conditions

Polish scientists and students have been flooding social media with calls on the government to raise research and development spending as part of 3% for Science, 100% for Poland, a campaign born earlier this month out of frustration with chronic underfunding in the academic sector. On May 27, thousands took the slogan on to the streets.The EU has been trying to convince member states to raise their R&D expenditures to 3% of GDP for more than two decades, but the idea has never gained traction in capitals. Finance ministers were too busy plugging budget holes created in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, then the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and now the war in Iran.Critics say that countries missed or ignored the target because it is voluntary, but also because research communities have rarely raised their voice to put pressure on national governments. The European Commission hopes to make the target legally binding in the upcoming European Research Area Act, an EU-wide regulation that should be announced by the end of the year. Academia in Poland has been faced with a funding crisis for years, often leaving its members with no other choice but to work abroad in order to access better resources, or leave the sector altogether in the hope of earning a decent living. The risk, in the long-term, is that brain drain stifles local innovation capacity and technological competitiveness.In just a few weeks, the movement rallied nationwide support, including from major academic bodies and trade unions such as the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland and the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its public petition collected more than 23,000 signatures. On May 27, it formed the first large protest for science in Poland, gathering thousands of people in front of the parliament building in Warsaw.Ilona Uryga-Bugajska, representative of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Poland Chapter, was there. “The protest was peaceful, with no incidents reported, and the entire event took place in a respectful and calm atmosphere,” she said. Banners she saw in the crowd carried slogans such as “A little longer and I’ll be teaching in a supermarket,” “National culture, starvation salary,” “Stop the destruction of science,” “Passion will not pay the rent,” “Without action, don’t expect a better future,” and “Pull science out of the hole.” She also observed a strong presence of young researchers, who are on the frontline of Poland’s academic crisis.“Academics are usually people who prefer discussion, analysis, dialogue and compromise. We are not a group that protests easily,” said Katarzyna Marzec, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University Medical College and AGH University of Krakow, who also took part. “But many of us feel that we have been pushed against the wall.”Aleksandra Rutkowska, translational neuroscientist and research group leader at the Medical University of Gdańsk, agreed. “Frustration in the scientific community is very high,” she said. “Science is often used politically as a symbol of innovation and modernity, but the everyday reality inside many institutions is much more difficult. There is a large gap between the public narrative and the actual condition of the sector.”Maria Wiktoria Górna, head of the structural biology group at the University of Warsaw and one of the organisers of the movement, told Science|Business that the campaign would continue without proven results. This might involve another strike in the autumn, she said. “Empty promises are not enough by now.”Campaign demandsAccording to Uryga-Bugajska, the organisers officially presented their demands and concerns to representatives of the government present at the event. These included Marek Gzik, deputy minister of science and higher education, and Karolina Zioło-Pużuk, secretary of state of that same ministry.The headline demand, for the government to increase national spending on R&D to 3% of GDP by 2030, should be within Poland’s economic capacity, Rutkowska said. “The real question is whether there is genuine long-term political commitment to treating science as a strategic priority rather than a slogan.”In 2024, R&D expenditure in Poland stood at 1.41% of GDP, which is slightly above the average for central and eastern Europe, with countries such as Czechia recording 1.82%, Hungary 1.31% and Romania 0.46%. However, it falls noticeably short of the EU average of 2.24%, which just a handful of countries exceed, including Germany, Belgium and Sweden.Campaigners are also asking for fair wages for scientific staff, including PhD stipends and junior academic salaries, which are widely considered uncompetitive. Starting doctoral scholarships amount to some €843 gross per month, when the statutory minimum wage stands at €1,135. By pushing early-career researchers out of Poland, growing precarity has caused a generational gap in the academic workforce, with just 25% of lecturers aged under 40. In this context, the movement fears that scientific careers could soon be accessible to a privileged minority only.Grzegorz Spólnik is a case in point. After 15 years working in mass spectrometry at the Polish Academy of Sciences, he decided to leave partly “to earn enough money to live a normal life,” he said. “At that time, my earnings were similar to those of people working in grocery shops, and the work-life balance is something that does not exist in science, or is very hard to achieve.”Now a senior field service engineer for Polish laboratory equipment supplier Bioanalytic, he would consider going back to research, “but never in the public sector, maybe some start-up or a big private company with ambitious R&D.”The campaigners want to see more support for basic research and have called for €236 million to be added to the budget of the National Science Centre (NCN) in 2027 so that the average grant application success rate does not fall below 25%.“At the protest, there was a banner I particularly liked: ‘NCN is not a lottery.’ Unfortunately, for many researchers, it increasingly feels exactly like one,” Marzec said. “Personally, I am one of the lucky ones. I work at two of the strongest institutions in the country, where the research standards are very high. I know that in many other institutions, the situation is much worse and obtaining funding for research at an early-career stage is becoming nearly impossible.”Rutkowska also considers herself fortunate. After studying abroad and holding a postdoctoral position, she returned to Poland, where her pay was supported through an NCN-funded project linked to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. “This also made me very aware that good research conditions in Poland often depend on external competitive funding rather than on stable support from the system itself,” she said.Long-term strategyBeyond the lack of funds for both salaries and grants, scientists believe that the issue is structural. “The biggest problem at the moment is the complete lack of a clear long-term strategy for the development of science and research from the current government,” Marzec said. “Everything ends with declarations and promises that are never truly followed by concrete actions or structural reforms.”Rutkowska agreed, citing a lack of infrastructure, continuity and long-term institutional support.“Running a research group in Poland often means functioning as an entire institution at once,” she said. “I am a principal investigator, a mentor, a recruiter, a project administrator and, when needed, still someone who returns to the lab bench to help with experiments,” she went on. “This creates a large hidden workload that takes time and energy away from actual science. At times, it feels as though scientists are no longer expecting extra help; we simply hope the system will stop creating additional obstacles that make research unnecessarily difficult.”Related articlesStrategic thinking: Germany funds joint research with Poland and FrancePoland to transfer €30M of regional funds to boost Horizon Europe participationPoland is funding fewer basic research grants as high inflation hitsIn short, “academics are expected to teach, publish papers, apply for grants and conduct high-quality research, while funding and salaries remain very limited,” said Uryga-Bugajska, who returned to her home country after 13 years in the UK.According to Marzec, another issue is the way that research institutions are evaluated. 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