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URI students join others from around Rhode Island to exhibit dynamic research projects at RI-NEST annual meeting
KINGSTON, R.I. — Nov. 6, 2026 — Several University of Rhode Island students joined their counterparts from several partner institutions around the state last week to display their dynamic research projects during the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Network for Excellence in Science and Technology. Representatives of URI, Brown University, Rhode Island College, Rhode […]
In brief: Putting the squeeze on gene-editing techniques
Xiaojun “Lance” Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biology at Penn State, alongside biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Tahir Haideri contributed to a paper recently published in Matter. The research, led by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), introduced a physical system that squeezes cells, temporarily loosening the DNA inside and making space for gene-editing tools to reach the target genes. The team said this is an improvement upon previous approaches because it enables a better yield of cell reprogramming, when researchers can coax one cell type to turn into another cell type. Lian and Haideri supported the research by guiding the molecular engineering of reprogramming cells from one type to another, building on their prior work improving how gene-editing tools are delivered to the cell’s genetic material. Editor’s note: The full article describing this work can be found on the UCLA news site.
Controversial former ‘View’ cohost returning to show after 2016 departure
Former ‘The View’ cohost and current ‘Special Forces’ star Candace Cameron Bure returning to the show after her 2016 departure.
CMS Proposes Rule to Reduce Nursing Home and Health Care Burdens, Save $320M
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued on Thursday a long-awaited proposed rule aimed at reducing regulatory and administrative
Rutgers School of Nursing Is Well Represented Among 2026 Rutgers Health Chancellor Award Honorees
Ten faculty and staff members at the Rutgers School of Nursing are recognized for contributions to education, community service, inclusive culture, teamwork and lifetime achievement.
Introductory videos tailored to student interests boost data science test scores
A University of Tsukuba study of 8,509 students found that introductory videos matched to their colleges raised objective data science test scores by about 16 percent.
Building a stronger behavioral health system for Ohio
The Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University have partnered with the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health to support the state’s behavioral health professionals in selecting and delivering prevention and early intervention strategies that are b...
Building an LLM-Powered Content Moderation Bot in the Classroom -
Building an LLM-Powered Content Moderation Bot in the Classroom By Shelby Grossman, Arizona State University, Anthony Mensah, Stanford University, Alex Stamos, Stanford University and Jeffrey Hancock, Stanford University As online platforms seek to improve content-moderation [...]
Building an LLM-Powered Content Moderation Bot in the Classroom -
Building an LLM-Powered Content Moderation Bot in the Classroom By Shelby Grossman, Arizona State University, Anthony Mensah, Stanford University, Alex Stamos, Stanford University and Jeffrey Hancock, Stanford University As online platforms seek to improve content-moderation [...]
Corporate America braces for sweeping Democratic investigations
FOX Business correspondent Darren Botelho reports on Democrats' plans for congressional oversight of corporate America as business leaders weigh the potential impact.
The Princeton Review names SRU to its 2027 Mental Health Services Honor Roll
Slippery Rock University is one of 76 undergraduate institutions nationwide that the education services company The Princeton Review has named to its Mental Health Services Honor Roll for 2027. The Honor Roll recognition is part of an annual project—now in its third year—that The Princeton Review conducts in partnership with the Ruderman Family Foundation, an internationally recognized organization that works…
Former NFL star calls out Chiefs for ‘cheating’
The Denver Broncos’ comeback win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday came down to a controversial false start on fourth-and-goal, and plenty of Chiefs fans are still upset about it. One former Broncos star doesn’t want to hear those complaints. On his podcast this week, former Broncos safety Justin Simmons went off on Chiefs…
Stage Is Set: Now Duke Football Must Handle Business in Raleigh
It's another rivalry week for the Blue Devils, who must handle business in Raleigh against the Wolfpack.
Small business hiring efforts rise in October as worker shortages persist
NFIB’s October survey found 56 percent of small business owners were hiring or trying to hire, up 5 percentage points from September.
What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health
The U.S. has reported three measles deaths this week in three different states. All the affected were unvaccinated, and some were too young to get vaccinated, relying on herd immunity. Many states haven’t seen a measles death in more than 30 years. Measles is highly contagious, but it mainly spreads among those without immunity. Social factors typically shape these unvaccinated pockets. Many states describe these deaths as occurring among “under-immunized, rural communities.” (In the future, it could be among other tight-knit groups.) Small signals in the news point to many outbreaks right now among the Plain Anabaptists (APA), which include communities like the Amish and Mennonite. Many know APA communities from a distance through their bakeries, furniture, and roadside buggies. But most of us don’t know enough about them, their traditions, or how those traditions actually interact with health and disease. Rumors, misconceptions, and frustration fill those voids. Tristan Sharratt, a family nurse practitioner and rural health researcher who grew up near and works with these communities in Central New York (and a YLE reader who reached out!), says misconceptions continue to create major problems. If the U.S. wants to stop a tsunami of measles coming down the pipeline, or even support health in those communities proactively beyond measles (which is ideal), we must understand how specific communities protect themselves, their values, and the role broader society plays. This starts with a conversation and some self-reflection. Here are the top five lessons I learned from my conversation with Tristan.
ULM computer science students place in top five at competition
Two ULM Computer Science students, Jeevan Parajuli and Pankaj Bhatta, recently participated in HackRice 16 (2026) at Rice University in Houston, Texas on Sept. 11-13, 2026.
Lindsay Pieper examines persistent gender inequities in the Olympics and Paralympics
Despite progress toward gender equity in international sports, women continue to face significant disparities in athletic opportunities, leadership positions and media representation, according to...
Miami University Symphony Orchestra, student-athletes present ‘Playing Together: Music + Sports at Miami” Nov. 20
The concert explores the shared demands of music and athletics: preparation, precision, timing, leadership, trust, and teamwork
“He Should Stay Off of ESPN Too”: NFL Fans React to Pat McAfee Deciding To Stay off X After Online Abuse
Pat McAfee is taking a break from X after facing a wave of criticism over his recent comments and controversies surrounding ESPN’s College GameDay. The former NFL punter addressed his absence during an episode of ‘The Pat McAfee Show,’ explaining that he had grown tired of the negativity directed at him.
“Bill Belichick Is a Convicted Cheater”: Rob Parker Delivers Brutal Verdict on Patriots Legend’s HoF Snub
Bill Belichick’s exclusion from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility remains a topic of conversation in the NFL world. Although the legendary coach has been nominated for the 2027 class after being overlooked on the first ballot, sports commentator Rob Parker believes Belichick’s involvement in multiple controversies should permanently disqualify him.
Biodiversity loss is a growing business risk for outdoor brands
Biodiversity loss is a growing business risk for outdoor brands, says Bettina Faust of the Global Nature Fund.
Obituary: Jonathan 'Jon' Hurwitz, longtime Pitt political science professor, dies at 71
Jon Hurwitz and Mark Peffley could have been competitors when they met as graduate students at the University of Minnesota. Instead, they became collaborators,...
Seattleites rally in support of trans girls after state voters approve sports ban
Advocates and allies rallied at Seattle’s Westlake Park Thursday night in support of transgender girls, many still reeling from an election night blow. A state initiative that will restrict trans girls from competing in girls sports was approved by Washington voters, reversing a longstanding policy that has allowed K-12 students to play on teams that match their gender identity.
3 global universities for a forensic science master's degree
Explore forensic science master's degree options in Asia, Europe, and the US, from police-led training at NUS to accredited programmes at King's and Penn State.
CFAES Students Put Animal Science into Practice at MALC
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gemma Dotts came to The Ohio State University to study animal sciences. Instead of traveling outside the city for hands-on livestock experience, the...
In lecture, physicist connects dots between space-time and politics
At a Thursday talk on her new book, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a University of New Hampshire physicist explored a wide range of subjects, including space-time, dark matter, storytelling and why the night sky matters.
For More Than 20 Years, Bangladesh’s One Constant Has Been Political Violence
Violent clashes between rival parties, within their own ranks, and around elections have persisted through successive governments.
CU faculty to use award to study rural student success in science
CLEMSON — A Clemson University faculty member with a background in rural education outreach and research will use an award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how rural
One local college campus ‘rocks’ with special music performance
Students at University of Memphis-Lambuth Campus hold rock concert
This weekend in sports: College hoops, state swim meet, volleyball home finales, on-ice showdowns
The college basketball seasons tip off with both Universities hitting the home hardwood Friday and Saturday. Plus, the state’s best swimmers dive into the Bartlett Pool, UAA and UAF host their home finales for volleyball, Fairbanks and Kenai square off on the ice in Soldotna, Anchorage has two games at the Sullivan Arena and both college hockey programs hit the road.
UH undergraduate student research featured at national STEM conference | University of Hawaiʻi System News
UH undergraduate scholars presented innovative research at a national STEM gathering.
Carmelo and La La Anthony reach divorce settlement 9 years after split
La La Anthony first filed for divorce from Carmelo Anthony back in 2021, citing irreconcilable differences. The two have a son, 19-year-old Kiyan Anthony, who is a sophomore at Syracuse University.
HuBMAP Updates Data Portal for Studying Human Tissues at Single-Cell Resolution
HuBMAP Data Portal, Announced in Paper in Nature Communications, Links Over 9,000 Data Sets for Investigations of Human Body in 3D, and Scales from Organs to Cells Nov. 5, 2026 — A team of scientists has announced the latest version of the HuBMAP Data Portal, a data repository and 3D map for studying the biological […]
Morro Bay paddleboarder could avoid felony charges through mental health diversion
Andrew Gustafson was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and force likely to produce great bodily injury following an incident in the water in 2025.
Incoming House Oversight chair Garcia lays out priorities
Come January, Garcia is all but certain to lead the committee, where he is currently the top Democrat
Incoming House Oversight chair Garcia lays out priorities
Come January, Garcia is all but certain to lead the committee, where he is currently the top Democrat
How Purdue sports became important part of search landing on President Jay Silveria
Purdue University announced Jay Silveria as next president, and he comes from the SEC while tasked with athletics responsibilities he'll have to wrap up.
Hugging Face launches ProtoStar open science and AI initiative | ETIH EdTech News
Hugging Face and university partners launch Project ProtoStar to make publicly funded research easier to reuse with AI. ETIH EdTech News explores the open science initiative and Carnegie Mellon’s November 2–13 climate challenge using weather records from 210 US cities.
How a political race can be called with just 2% of precincts reporting
Elon University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Jason Husser, explains how the Associated Press can make projections long before all the votes are counted.
UA System president leaving for Purdue University
Almost two years after being hired to lead the University of Arkansas System, Jay Silveria will step down as system president to be the next president of Purdue University in...
New AI tool speeds up food science research and development
A food scientist at Penn State University is using artificial intelligence to make food engineering research more accessible and easier to apply. Xu Zhou in the Department of Food Science tells Brownfield, “What’s really exciting to me for the future application is people do not need to read thousands or hundreds of scientific papers or […]
URI College of Nursing to establish interdisciplinary palliative care program to train students, healthcare professionals
KINGSTON, R.I. — Nov. 5, 2026 — Serious illness is part of the human experience, affecting not only those living with illness but also their families and loved ones. Many people experience it more than once in their lifetime—whether their own illness or caring for a loved one in their hardest moments. Those navigating serious […]
Buffalo Academy of Science celebrates new middle school on former Medaille campus
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School celebrated a milestone on Thursday at the former Medaille University campus. Years after the college has closed, the Buffa…
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
Melissa L. Gruys named dean of Nistler College of Business & Public Administration
Gruys, currently serving as professor of management at Cleveland State University, will assume Nistler College deanship on Jan. 2, 2027.
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 ...
Miami University to receive $100M investment in its business school
The Farmer Family Foundation plans to give up to $100 million to the Farmer School of Business (FSB) at Miami University over the next decade.
Oscar Health boasts ‘strongest year’ in its history after outperforming in Q3
Oscar Health is seeing the “strongest year” in its history in 2026, CEO Mark Bertolini told investors during the company’s third quarter earnings call Thursday morning. | The company also saw a 27% YOY increase in membership, ending Q3 with 2.7 million members.
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 […]
UW-Stevens Point Soil Judging Team takes 3rd at Regionals
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) Soil Judging Team earned a third-place overall finish at the 2026 Regional 3 Soil Judging Contest, hosted by The Ohio State University in Ohio, Oct.
Miami University’s business school gets largest-ever gift of $100M
The largest donation in Miami University’s history will also push the school over its years-long fundraising goal of $1 billion, officials announced Thursday.
Introduction to Forecasting the 2026 US Midterm Elections Special Issue at PS: Political Science & Politics -
Forecasting the 2026 US Midterm Elections Introduction to Forecasting the 2026 US Midterm Elections Special Issue at PS: Political Science & Politics By John Kenny, University of Mannheim and Debra Lynn Leiter, University of Missouri-Kansas [...]
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.
UI Health providers authorize strike amid dispute over pay raises
Two hundred of UI Health's advanced practice nurses, physician assistants and midwives voted to strike last week after they say the university denied the providers a 2% wage increase in August that was given to other hospital staff. UI Health says the strike would be illegal.
‘The View’ star presses Abdul El-Sayed on controversial synagogue attack remarks
‘The View’ cohost Sara Haines pressed Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed on why it ‘took a minute’ for him to understand the ‘hurt’ of his controversial remarks about the Temple Israel synagogue attack.
A sweeter future? AI helps scientists discover new sugar substitutes
Researchers Dr. Shayma El-Atawneh and professor Amiram Goldblum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new computational framework that identified 92 promising candidates for future sugar ...
Can science fix NYC’s everyday problems? Mamdani is betting $2M on it
Mamdani's program pairs city workers with university researchers to solve everyday problems facing New Yorkers.
Four Florida State University faculty members named Rising Stars by the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Four Florida State University faculty members have been named to the newest class of Rising Stars by the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of
How do octopuses remember? Scientists uncover a surprising secret
How does an octopus remember what it has learned? A new study led by Dr. Ana Luiza Turchetti-Maia, Dr. Tal Shomrat and professor Binyamin (Benny) Hochner—researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...
Making News in Business, Nov. 6
Riverside Industries announces new leadership EASTHAMPTON — Riverside Industries Inc.’s board of directors has appointed Markus Jones to serve as its next president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. While Jones has been newly named to this leadership role, he previously served as the organization’s interim president and CEO beginning March 1. Prior to that […]
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.
Clover Health boosts outlook amid continued membership growth, financial momentum in Q3
Clover Health is continuing to see strong traction in its Medicare Advantage plan, with membership growing 49% year-over-year in the third quarter to approximately 157,000 members. | The company posted $130 million in profit, up 77% year-over-year, according to Q3 2026 financial results.
The New Serica 8315 Travel Chronometer Golden Green Brings A Different Shade Of Character
✓ Jorg goes hands-on with the Serica 8315 Travel Chronometer Golden Green ✓ Quite possibly the best version yet ✓ Read it here! ✓
Instagram launches Edits for Mac with multi-track video editing and 4K exports
Instagram users can now download a Mac version of Edits, the company’s free video editing app. Here are the details.
Rhode Island voters approve higher education bond, providing funds for new URI integrated health building
KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 5, 2026 – Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved Question 1 on Election Day, Nov. 3, authorizing a $275 million bond investment in the state’s public colleges and universities, including $165 million for a new integrated health building at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston Campus. The bond approval represents a significant […]
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces strategic collaboration with U.K.-based Ventola Projects to transform party room entertainment
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces a strategic collaboration with Ventola Projects Ltd., a United Kingdom-based specialist in LED lighting, immersive technology, audiovisual solutions, and entertainment …
Avanlee Care, platform for family caregivers, raises $3.5M, targeting Medicare Advantage plans
Avanlee Care, a platform to engage family caregivers, has clinched $3.5 million in seed funding, Fierce Healthcare has learned. | Avanlee Care helps MA plans and other organizations engage caregivers within their member populations, enabling them to take action and measure what happens as a result.
Medicare delays controversial RPM rule update
Despite widespread opposition, Medicare will finalize a controversial proposal that will prevent providers, such as hospitals, from using third parties to deliver remote patient monitoring services.
Fairview Health Services Partners with hellocare.ai to Expand Enterprise Virtual Care and Bring Connected Care to the NICU
Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpat | Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpatient environments, including a dedicated deployment designed to connect NICU patients, families, and care teams.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
Clemson University alumnus, business school namesake dies
FOX Carolina's Margaret-Ann Carter has the details.
To better predict destructive hail, these scientists are turning to AI
Current forecasts often give warnings about hailstorms 30 minutes in advance. Researchers at Colorado State University say their models may be able to lead to alerts hours or days ahead of time.
UConn Gathering Connects the Science of Reading with Classrooms Worldwide
A student exchange with Hebrew University builds on Haskins’ history of discovery and its work with educators close to home and around the world
Interview: SU political science professor Grant Reeher talks Election Day aftermath
SYRACUSE., N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — After speaking with NewsChannel 9 just before the 2026 election, Syracuse University political science professor Grant Reeher talked about the impact of the results. Watch ...
Zac Taylor Details DJ Turner, Cedric Johnson's Health After Team Arrival in Spain
Cincinnati is settled in Spain.
Dems inherit Texas colleges remade by GOP in conservative push
Universities were a political target of Texas Republicans. As Gina Hinojosa and other Democrats prepare for office, here’s a look at the turning point facing college campuses.
GOP’s defense of its gerrymandering: The rout could have been even worse
Democrats dismissed Republicans’ arguments as a contorted attempt to justify an expensive and controversial remapping offensive that did not accomplish what it set out to do.
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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