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The Politics of Pandemic Preparedness: Why South and Southeast Asia Need a Stronger Voice
The Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing annex, currently under negotiation, has profound implications for dependency and health sovereignty in South and Southeast Asia.
What Drives Young Granite Staters to Get Involved in Politics?
If you ask members of Gen-Z why they ran for office, you’re likely to hear that they wanted to breathe new life into the political scene here in New Hampshire, and provide more representation of their generation.
KFF Analyzes the Role of Health Care in the Midterms
The midterm elections mean changing power dynamics and shifting legislative agendas in Congress, both next year and during the upcoming lame duck session—the period between the November election and the new session beginning in January. As policymakers consider next steps, new KFF polling analysis examines the role health care played in voters’ decisions. Key Takeaways […]
Opinion | Politics Shakes Up the Markets
A tech correction could force Washington to focus on the economy.
Meet the Authors: 'Mississippi Politics' by Andy Taggart and Jere Nash
A book co-authored by Andy Taggart and Jere Nash features political history in the state of Mississippi from 2006 to the mid-2020s.
Startup bringing AI-powered robotics to the cath lab raises $160M from GE HealthCare, other investors
Laza Medical, a California-based medtech company, is developing advanced technologies for the cath lab. GE HealthCare also participated in a previous financing round in 2023.
Sizing up the blue wave: From the Politics Desk
Plus, a new 2028 wrinkle.
Angel Studios Allows Employees to Argue Over Politics and Religion, but Only Face to Face | Tomi Lahren is Fearless
It's an interesting strategy....
Democrat Eileen Laubacher leads Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th CD
Democrat Eileen Laubacher saw her slim lead over Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert narrow as late returns posted Thursday in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, the state’s most heavily GOP seat. The race remained too close to call, with Laubacher leading the incumbent by 2,276 votes, for a margin of just under 0.7%, according to results […]
Register Now! Webinar on Microplastics: Science, Regulation, and Legal Risk | Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Join Crowell & Moring partners Pete Condron and Monty Cooper as they explore the evolving science, regulation, and litigation surrounding
Serve Robotics launches new business to become the AWS for robots
Serve Robotics announced alonsgside its third-quarter earnings that it will launch a new business line called Physical AI Services to offer customers its connectivity and data tools.
DTE, Consumers sue to block ‘money out of politics’ proposal approved by voters
Michigan’s biggest utility companies are suing to block implementation of Proposal 2, arguing voter-approved restrictions on political giving violate free speech rights.
Experts question tactics, lack of mental health response in Columbia Pike police shooting
Overly aggressive tactics combined with an apparent lack of mental health responders may, according to policing experts, have contributed to a standoff on Columbia Pike escalating into a fatal officer-involved shooting. In interviews with ARLnow, two public safety experts questioned a series of decisions leading up to officers’ final confrontation with 33-year-old Shawn Valn, who
Election takeaways with ‘Soundside,’ ‘Sound Politics,’ and a whole lot of guests
As Washington state awaited additional ballots to be counted Wednesday afternoon, KUOW’s “Soundside” and “Sound Politics” considered initial takeaways from the midterm elections.
UWL hosts small business summit
LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse hosted the Wisconsin Small Business Summit today at the Student Union, giving new and established businesses a chance to explore topics
Pablo Helguera Takes Helm at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
New York artist and educator Pablo Helguera, has taken up a new post as director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at New York's new School
Raman defeats Bass in race for LA mayor, ushering in new era of progressive politics
Raman, who is of Indian descent, becomes the first South Asian mayor of LA. A relative newcomer to local politics, she was elected to the City Council six…
Mayor-elect Nithya Raman inherits a Los Angeles full of promise and burdened by challenges
Raman positioned herself as an outsider to mainstream L.A. politics. The mayor-elect will quickly face an array of significant challenges.
Boston 25 News
He’s just 19 and started getting interested in politics in middle school. Now, a Billerica teenager is headed to the Massachusetts State House
‘We are better than lies’: Wyoming’s 2026 campaigns test the limits of attack politics
CODY — “Lisa Kinney opposed helping rural hospitals, leaving our communities out to dry.”
2027 Gold Cup Format Changes Will See USA, Mexico Part Of Two Groups Of 8 Teams
CONCACAF has announced a new format for the Gold Cup soccer tournament, shifting from four groups to two starting with the next edition.
New study warns of dangers behind AI chatbots and 'concerning' health advice from private clinics
AI chatbots are directing users to potentially misleading health information pushed by private medical providers, according to a new Simon Fraser University study published in BMJ Connections Digital ...
What a 1958 onion law reveals about modern politics
University of Chicago students recently held an onion-themed protest, of all things. Social media was flooded with more onion puns than any reasonable person should have to endure, but it soon became apparent that people were using onions to talk about much bigger issues. Beneath the signs and slogans lay a debate that had waited […]
Consumers Energy, DTE seek to block 'Money out of Politics' proposal
Consumers and DTE sued to block the implementation of a newly-approved ballot proposal that would bar monopoly utilities from political contributions.
Consumers Energy, DTE seek to block 'Money Out of Politics' proposal
Consumers and DTE sued to block the implementation of a newly-approved ballot proposal that would bar monopoly utilities from political contributions.
Gusciora: Trenton Must Choose Progress Over Politics
Mayor says eight years of progress, including more than $250 million in state aid, more than 11,000 lead lines replaced and an estimated 20 percent decline in violent crime, are at stake in the December 8 runoff TRENTON, N.J. (Nov. 5, 2026) — Mayor Reed Gusciora said today that voters in the December 8 runoff will decide whether[...]
Brazil Star Raphinha Signs New Contract With Barcelona Through 2030
Raphinha has agreed to a new contract with Barcelona that will keep the Brazil forward at the Spanish club through 2030.
Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute marks first-of-its-kind Notre Dame partnership across athletics and academics
Pat and Jana Eilers of Winnetka, Illinois, have made an additional $25 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to create the new Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute, increasing their total investment in this area to $50 million. A first-of-its-kind partnership between Notre Dame Athletics and the University’s academic units, the institute will support cutting-edge research on physiology, neuroscience, data science, and athletic performance—integrating scholarship with one of the premier athletics programs in American higher education.
PhoenixAI Introduces Contextbase for AI Agent Memory and Knowledge
Contextbase keeps semantics, knowledge, memory, traces, and evaluations in one governed system that every agent can read from and write to. MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 5, 2026 — PhoenixAI has launched Contextbase, the context infrastructure for AI agents. The company unveiled it at NEXT QUERY 2026, its Data + AI Infrastructure Summit. Contextbase stores semantics, […]
Giants HC John Harbaugh Addresses Concerning Cam Skattebo Injury Situation
John Harbaugh and the New York Giants are coming off a bye week. They last played in Week 7, defeating the Houston Texans 27-21 at Reliant Stadium. Cam Skattebo shined in the victory, but the head coach addressed the running back’s injury situation on Wednesday. Skattebo led the backfield with 17 rushes for 124 yards […] The post Giants HC John Harbaugh Addresses Concerning Cam Skattebo Injury Situation appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
The Secret to Your Quarterback’s Arm Isn’t Just Luck or Athleticism. It’s Physics, Expert Explains.
A physicist breaks down the mechanisms of a perfect pass. You’ll never watch a game the same way.
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman defeats Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s race
NBC News projects the progressive City Council member has unseated Bass, a longtime fixture of California Democratic politics who served one term as mayor.
Can you date someone who identifies with a different political party?
Forget who is paying for dinner and whose turn it is to drive. Apparently, the real deal-breaker is which box you check on Election Day. Are politics not worth jeopardizing our relationships over, …
SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Nextdoor Neighbors of ID
What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND.
Gallagher Re promotes executives to analytics, AI positions
Gallagher Re, the reinsurance brokerage business of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Thursday promoted two executives to newly created leadership positions, both effective Jan. 1, 2027.
SALT London speakers discussed AI bubble, Elon Musk, jobs outlook
At the $3,000 per night Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair a who's who of finance folk tackled topics ranging from crypto regulation to AI safety.
The Blue Wave hits Sand Hill Road
Elon Musk, venture capital, MAGA politics, and AI data centers collide as Democrats win big in the Midterm elections.
Joe Mazzulla Sends Strong Message About Paul George
Joe Mazzulla made it clear just how important Paul George has become to the Celtics.
The complex business of firing coaches: Why sticker-shock buyout numbers don't tell the whole story
Whether you're Florida State parting ways with Mike Norvell or Sam Houston firing Phil Longo, the financial dynamics of replacing a coach go well beyond the initial buyout cost
Syracuse AD Blair talks reshaping how athletics runs for business, boost commercial revenue
Syracuse AD Brian Blair said they are 'doing a lot to really reshape how we run from a business standpoint' and a lot 'of that stuff is kind of quietly happening behind the scenes.'
Abdul El-Sayed’s commencement speech in 2007 was so good it led Bill Clinton to tell him to go into politics at just 22 years old
Abdul El-Sayed’s University of Michigan speech impressed Bill Clinton so much that he encouraged the future senator-elect to go into politics.
The midterms spelled the end of pandemic politics
Direct attacks on public health officials no longer hold their potency.
What a UNH professor taught me about politics, disagreement and hate: Splaine
Jim Splaine reflects on a UNH professor’s lessons and argues political differences need not lead to hatred after a divisive election.
Celtics Star Makes Honest Admission About Mitchell Robinson’s Early Struggles
The Boston Celtics gutted out a 109-102 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night at TD Garden. Jayson Tatum sat with rest. Payton Pritchard left in the third quarter with an eye abrasion. Boston built a 21-point halftime lead, watched it disappear, and had to fight through a fourth quarter where Milwaukee briefly took […] The post Celtics Star Makes Honest Admission About Mitchell Robinson’s Early Struggles appeared first on HEAVY.
How science influenced Abdul El-Sayed's politics
The Michigan senate-elect says evidence-based policymaking, public health and scientific scrutiny of corporate influence shape his positions on healthcare, environmental safety and government
How Democrats’ midterm wins reshape Farm Bill politics
Democrats’ sweeping gains in this week’s congressional midterms, driven in part by voter frustration in farm states, give the party new leverage in Farm Bill negotiations, according to farmers and farm advocates.
Research at School of Medicine and Health Sciences today creates the treatments and prescriptions of tomorrow
Research varies across a spectrum of topics, such as radon increasing the risk ovarian cancer, transport protein variants causing retinal dystrophy and using cell-free DNA to track cancer treatments.
Qualcomm shares slide as smartphone slump puts pressure on its core business
The chipmaker reported a 26% drop in handset revenue and warned that memory costs and Apple's departure will continue to weigh on the market. Qualcomm is betting on data centers, automotive and other businesses to reduce its reliance on smartphones.
Michigan voters approve ‘Money Out of Politics’ ballot initiative; lawsuit filed
(The Center Square) – Michigan voters overwhelmingly supported a proposal to ban political spending by state-regulated electric and gas utilities and companies with large government contracts. The “Mo...
What’s political grief? And did it shape the midterm election?
Do you know the term political grief? Maybe you know what it feels like. It's when you lose trust in institutions and feel heartbreak over politics. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with her guests about how grief, anger and distress shaped the midterm election.
Three Penn State researchers awarded scientific grants from Kaufman Foundation
The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected three researchers from the Penn State Eberly College of Science to receive scientific research grants: Carlos Blanco, assistant professor of physics, Ribhu Kaul, professor of physics, and Bryce Gadway, professor of physics.
AI For Science & The Fear Of Missing History
Bern, 1905. A young patent clerk named Albert Einstein published four papers that transformed physics. More than a century later, scientific breakthroughs still tend to be associated with exceptional people and years of painstaking work. Artificial intelligence (AI) may change the pace of that work. Models are beginning to help prove mathematical results, spot patterns […]
American Farmers’ Politics Are More Complicated Than Headlines Suggest | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Michael Shepherd studies the politics of rural communities. How does he think about farmers as voters?
Humble Robotics Raises $51 Million for Cabless Self-Driving Trucks
Humble Robotics raised $51 million to build electric, cabless self-driving trucks. Founder Eyal Cohen previously worked at Apple, Uber, and Waabi.
Oregon was once a Republican stronghold. This politician started shifting the balance in 1954
For much of the first half of the 20th century, Oregon was effectively a one-party Republican state. Democrats had not won a U.S. Senate seat in 40 years, had not won a U.S. House seat in 18 years, and had controlled the state legislature for only four of 74 years since 1880. Into this landscape emerged Richard Neuberger, a Portland-born journalist of Jewish heritage whose prolific writing career, progressive convictions and remarkable personal drive would reshape Oregon politics.
VOTE: When politics comes up at a family gathering, what do you do?
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Tesla Optimus Rival Agility Robotics Begins Trading After SPAC Merger
Agility Robotics begins trading on Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger. Its humanoid robots will rival Tesla's unreleased Optimus units.
Oracle canceling $7B AI deal with Tencent could be about politics, Wedbush says
Oracle canceled a $7B Tencent AI deal amid U.S.-China pressure, with implications for cloud demand and Western AI firms.
PENN Entertainment (PENN) Reports Q3 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for PENN Entertainment (PENN) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended September 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
The Far Right in the West: From Moral Decline to Political Crisis
Following the Republicans' heavy defeat in the US midterm elections, far-right politics appears to be facing visible erosion and crisis.
1K views · 26 reactions | Many female politicians say open hostility...
Many female politicians say open hostility towards them is growing. Researchers say democracy could pay the price. #dwgermanpolitics
Vance Breaks With Trump and Steps Into Political Abyss | WSJ Politics Newsletter for Nov. 5
Plus, Democrats’ disciplined messaging on the economy paid off on Election Day, and how midterm results threaten America’s AI boom.
Keith Gaskin: Faith, politics and the trap of moral disqualification
Scroll through social media during any campaign season, and you won’t just see debates over tax rates, health care or foreign policy. You will see sweeping verdicts on souls.
Column: When politics is covered like sports, everything is fair game
When sports and politics collide: The Blue Wave in the midterms Tuesday was the political equivalent of the Chicago Bears 73-0 shellacking of Washington in the 1940 NFL championship game.
A clever molecular trick unlocks previously impossible properties in glass
Scientists have discovered how to reprogram the internal structure of glass using a special molecule that rearranges chemical bonds while lowering the melting temperature. The breakthrough could unlock entirely new glass materials with precisely controlled magnetic and optical properties, opening possibilities for advanced electronics, sensors, and other technologies.
Empowering frontline health workers to detect outbreaks earlier
To spot health threats quickly and respond before they spread, these workers need the skills to identify risks, understand local health challenges and work together effectively. To strengthen these skills, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a series of trainings and simulation exercises in August 2026.
Shedeur Sanders Has Something to Say Amid Browns QB Report
Shedeur Sanders may get another shot to start for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday. Deshaun Watson is in concussion protocol, leaving the door open for the second-year quarterback to be named the QB1 against the New Orleans Saints. He had something to say about the development and shared it with the media. Sanders entered the […] The post Shedeur Sanders Has Something to Say Amid Browns QB Report appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
Physicists sank a telescope 1.5 miles under the sea to put Einstein's relativity to the test
A half-built neutrino telescope on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea searched for cracks in one of physics' most basic invariances. It came up empty, but its limits rival those of detectors many times its size.
Patrick’s Politics: Enjoy this moment of hope
There is good news in the United States today. After two years of one-party Republican rule, the people fought back.
Annie Andrews' Senate upset shakes up South Carolina politics
Annie Andrews' victory over Darline Graham in the U.S. Senate race was a history-making, nationally significant upset. What it means for SC politics.
The U.S. spent 50 years trying to escape oil shocks. They still upend elections.
Even as the energy economy has changed radically, the politics of oil have not.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics
Kick off your morning right where Florida’s political insiders begin theirs.
The leader of a German conservative party is found dead at a Berlin hotel
BERLIN (AP) — Hubert Aiwanger, the leader of a conservative party that has become a mainstay of Bavarian politics and sought to expand its influence across Germany, has been found dead at a Berlin hotel.
Dissecting Colorado’s Democratic sweep
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121st Field Hospital Earns Walking Blood Bank Validation, Employs Digital Health Records in the Field
The Joint Trauma System validated the 121st Field Hospital “Legends,” part of the 549th Hospital Center and the 65th Medical Brigade “Pacific Medics,” o...
Sacramento sign collection drive aims to turn politics into art
(FOX40.COM) — Sacramento Municipal Utility District board member Gregg Fishman is once again organizing a collection drive to turn corrugated plastic political yard signs into art. Fishman, who was…
North Korea digs in for US stand-off as Democratic midterm wins dim summit hopes
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Imaging Science Thesis Defense: A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning | Events
Imaging Science MS Thesis Defense A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning Zoom Link here Aisha Co Imaging Science MS Candidate Rochester Institute of Technology Abstract: Digital twins have become an increasingly relevant topic as we pursue accurate representations of the real world for planning, research, and even design purposes. This study focuses on the steps for creating digital twins of forest environments using sparse points from terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR). Specifically, we developed geometric models of structural digital twins (SDTs) from leaf-off terrestrial laser scanning of real-world forests. Three algorithms were used to develop an approach to handle individual tree reconstructions for sparse point clouds, and they were tested and validated with a two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic against an existing inventory of the RIT Nature Trail to evaluate the reconstruction’s fidelity. The key evaluation metrics included diameter at breast height (DBH) and height. The limited nature of available ground truth necessitated the use of an additional validation method using a PANGAEA open dataset, based on comparing DBH, height, and crown diameter against the dataset’s calculated measurements. Reconstructions were compared against per-tree reference values at two-point spacings for sixteen trees from the open BR07 dataset (PANGAEA); these specifications matched the collected RIT Nature Trail data and the scanner’s nominal spacing. On BR07, the proposed method had the lowest median DBH error among the methods that modeled every tree (1.28cm, 4.1%), and this error was nearly unchanged at the coarser spacing, while TreeQSM’s rose from 4.2% to 6.5% and AdTree overestimated DBH by 30% to 40%. Results show the proposed method understates the tree heights by 0.2m to 1.4m but contains the least error when estimating DBH. The proposed method was able to produce all 69 trees, while SimpleTree produced 49 and none at the 4.35 cm BR07 spacing. We concluded that the developed geometric model (digital) twins have significant potential to serve as both simulation and prediction tools. We recommend that future efforts focus on collecting per-tree ground truth measurements within the scanned plot and incorporating leaf-on scans. Leaf-on scans include representative foliage, which would add realism to the model and ecological function of the trees. Intended Audience: Beginners, undergraduates, graduates. Those with interest in the topic. To request an interpreter, please visit myaccess.rit.edu
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