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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 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.
Astrion drew more interest than AstraGin at NuLiv Science's Bangkok booth
At Vitafoods Asia 2026 in Bangkok, NuLiv Science's collagen booster Astrion outdrew AstraGin as regional buyers focused on beauty and anti-aging.
Yankees Birthday of the Day: Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon went from helping the Red Sox end their championship drought to helping the Yankees win it all, turning a former rival into a fan favorite in the Bronx.
College football Week 10 viewer's guide: Get ready for the biggest and best weekend of the season
Lady Gaga, Shakira, Jack White and Boy George lead the 2027 Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees
Lady Gaga, Shakira, Pink, Boy George, Jack White, Sia, Vince Gill, Ne-Yo, Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein are among the impressive list of nominees for the 2027 Songwriters Hall of Fame class | KMBZ
Global Summit for Eye Health 2026: Turning pledges into eye care
Hunter Cherwek, MD, of Orbis discusses summit commitments, eye care workforce training, and AI in low-resource settings.
Packers Could Land 28-Start OL in Trade Deadline Deal
The Green Bay Packers offensive line has been the biggest thing holding the team back through the first eight weeks of the NFL season. With the Philadelphia Eagles often having their offensive line as a strength, trading for Eagles right guard Tyler Steen makes sense, according to Daniel Popper of The Athletic. Popper notes that […] The post Packers Could Land 28-Start OL in Trade Deadline Deal appeared first on HEAVY.
How Russia's War Recruitment Machine Became Big Business
An increasing number of cases point to the human cost of a recruitment system in Russia that increasingly relies on private companies and intermediaries who often work on the fringes to bolster the ranks of a military depleted by the war against Ukraine.
Penn Entertainment posts record third-quarter revenue
Penn Entertainment Thursday morning reported financial results for third quarter, including record revenue. Revenue reached $1.5 billion, Adjusted EBITDAR was $
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Skyrockets Sony Pictures Entertainment's Quarterly Profit, Revenue
Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the top-grossing theatrical release in 2026, helped Sony Pictures Entertainment hit a fiscal grandslam in the second quarter ended Sept. 30. The fourth installment starring Tom Holland in the title role along with Zendaya as his female interest, skyrocketed Sony’s theatrical revenue almost 1,020% to $1.276 billion from $114 million in … Continue reading "‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Skyrockets Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Quarterly Profit, Revenue"
ENHA: A 77% DEAG stake builds a global sports and live-entertainment platform
An all-stock deal would give the acquirer a 77% stake in DEAG, pairing sports IP and telehealth with a live-event and ticketing platform. Combined 2027E revenue is ~$670 million; closing is expected in Q1 2027, subject to conditions.Original document: Enhanced Group Inc. [ENHA] Press release — Nov…
Susan Bullman, Ph.D.
Susan Bullman, Ph.D., receives TAMEST Mary Beth Maddox Award for breakthrough tumor microbiome research
A bitter end for Ronaldo - the icon who transformed Portugal
As Cristiano Ronaldo retires from international football, Guillem Balague looks at why and what is next for the Portugal legend.
How football, smartphones and mobile money drive youth sports betting in Africa
We should not assume that young people see betting simply as entertainment.
Doctor talks about physical, mental health challenges vets face after service
We speak with a doctor about the important things that military veterans should know about their mental and physical health after they leave the service.
Springfield agrees to annex land for Lane County and PeaceHealth's behavioral health campus
Springfield City Council voted 5-0 to annex land for a new Lane County behavioral health campus. The site will house a stabilization center and PeaceHealth hospital.
Veterans Day Celebration and Health Fair happening in D'Iberville
The event is happening at the D'Iberville Community Center.
Met Gala exhibit will examine everyday items of clothing, replacing scuttled Galliano show
The new Met Gala exhibit will examine ordinary items and materials like jeans, puffer jackets and plastic and how fashion designers transform them | WWL
Bingo, Care Bears, Pokémon cards and the classic playground slide make it into the Toy Hall of Fame
The National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted bingo, Care Bears, the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the humble playground slide | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
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.
Apple iMac M6 review: Faster, more expensive and deeply in need of a refresh
Most buyers would be better off with a Mac mini and a bigger external display.
Meet the Aki, the Hawaiian bird with a 'Frankensteined' beak
This bird was built for drilling.
Octo Health Launches Beta to Make Proactive, Personalized Healthcare More Accessible
Octo Health brings medical records, lab results, medications and health data into one health timeline, giving consumers a more complete picture of their healthBy combining annual testing of more than 100 biomarkers with unified health data, the platform helps members identify patterns and track health trends over timeAs consumers take a more active role in managing their health, Octo Health gives them greater ownership of their data and helps them understand what it means NEW YORK, Nov. 05, 2026
Dianna Russini’s next gig expected to start next week
The NFL insider will reportedly be back at work next week.
UK backs startup Potential Sciences' AI-powered drug hunt
UK startup Potential Sciences emerged from stealth today with a sizeable seed funding round and an ambition to transform drug discovery with AI.
Health expo offers hands-on look at health care jobs for local students
Hundreds of Columbia County high school students will get a hands-on look at careers in health care during the Columbia County School District Health Careers Expo.
In brief: 'A Proud Family Wizmas' trailer and more
Zoo wee mama, indeed. There's a brand-new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ animated holiday comedy film Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: The Getaway. Readers of Jeff Kinney’s bestselling book series can see the Heffley family come to life in this festive film that premieres on Dec. 4 ...Speaking of trailers for holiday specials, fans of The Proud Family can watch a brand-new look at the upcoming stop-motion holiday special A Proud Family Wizmas. It arrives on Disney+ Nov. 14. The special is filled with songs and follows Penny Proud as she accidentally destroys Christmas and sets out to make things right. Kyla Pratt returns to voice Penny while guest stars Anderson .Paak, Lil Rel Howery, JB Smoove and Gabrielle Union come along for the ride ... TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); Camila Mendes is back in character as Ana Santos. The actress once again stars as the character in the new sequel film Upgraded 2. Prime Video has announced cameras are up and rolling on the movie in Venice, Italy ...Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.
‘ResearchED’: Building the Case for Learning Science, One Saturday a Time
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. — At your typical education conference, the keynote speaker takes the stage with a big, flashy multimedia slide show and innovative ideas guaranteed to pump up the crowd. But on a recen...
Alaska Science Forum Time Capsule: Bats in the belfry
Note: Ned Rozell wrote this column on Oct. 25, 1994, his first as the new author of the Alaska Science Forum. I’m pleased to feature this time capsule, as it explores one of my favorite questions in biology: How do mammals survive in intensely cold temperatures? Additionally, Ned ended the story with, in my opinion, a perfectly silly final sentence. Ned published an update on Alaska’s little brown bats in 2019: https://bit.ly/bat-update. — Sara Wilbur
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2026
Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Aulden Salon LLC, 201 Towne Center West Boulevard, Henrico – Hairdressing services. Bita's Borough and Bean LLC,
AI Lost Big in the Midterms. What Does That Mean for Your Business?
The message of the “AI midterms” is that technology policy has become an electoral issue, not just a regulatory one. In the U.S., the longstanding embrace of “permissionless innovation” may be fading. If that’s the case, technology companies and their customers face a rapidly changing political environment. What should business leaders do? Many will continue to follow individual bills, lawsuits, elections, and agency proceedings as separate events. This is an essential element of any business’s strategy. But standing alone, it misses the larger picture of how these activities affect each other. Leaders should put together a team to follow six battleground issues: liability for tech-related harms, privacy and data access, competition, infrastructure, public subsidies and other government resources, and preemption and overlapping authority.
Northwestern Receives Encouraging Defensive Injury News Ahead of Iowa
Northwestern received encouraging injury news ahead of Iowa, with Robert Fitzgerald upgraded to probable, Brendan Flakes coming off the availability report and Jon Jon Stevens Jr. listed as questionable.
You can still grab GTA 6's Ultimate Edition for $20 if you want the full experience
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Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (November 5-8)
Presenting your latest batch of weekend freebies!
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.
Single-payer health care system proponents were thrown a big bone this election
Sen. Bernie Sanders is likely to lead the Senate’s health committee next year, which could grant him a chance to fundamentally alter how the FDA interacts with the companies it regulates. Read more:
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.
Heichal HaTorah Talmidim Experiment in the Science Lab
This past week, Heichal HaTorah’s ninth-grade biology students learned how to use indicators to test the pH levels of common household solutions. Students observed a wide range of colors as natural plant-based pigments (anthocyanins) in red cabbage juice reacted with acids and bases in everyday substances. Students made predictions and determined whether a substance was […]
Mass Effect petition has enough signatures for the Canadian Government to potentially save BioWare
There may be some good news for Mass Effect and Dragon Age fans hoping for some sort of future for BioWare that isn't death.
Children in Wausau will get a chance to show off skills at a children's business fair
'Leadership Launchpad' hosts sixth children's business fair in Wausau
First time buying health insurance during open enrollment? Here’s what to know
Not many 22-year-olds share DJ Mikunda’s enthusiasm for health insurance coverage. “You know what sounds like a good Friday night? It’s looking at he
The Texas-size Political Tremor Rattling Big Business
The Lone Star State’s business-friendly playbook could be rewritten by the Democrats’ election sweep there.
Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) posts better-than-expected sales in Q3 CY2026
Healthcare distributor and services company Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) announced better-than-expected revenue in calendar Q3 2026 (fiscal Q1 2027), with revenue up 5.5% year on year to $67.51 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $3.26 per share was 10.9% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
IGN Entertainment promotes Alex Simmons to lead editorial across its portfolio, with Wesley Yin-Poole overseeing IGN
Company veteran will oversee the firm’s range of editorial brands, including GamesIndustry.biz, while Yin-Poole runs day-to-day editorial on IGN.com
PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) reports Q3 2026 in line with expectations
Casino, sports betting and entertainment operator PENN Entertainment NASDAQ:PENNmet Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, with revenue up 7.1% year on year to $1.84 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.32 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.For more on PENN Entert…
PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) reports Q3 2026 in line with expectations
Casino, sports betting and entertainment operator PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, with revenue up 7.1% year on year to $1.84 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.32 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Bank of England Raises Rates for First Time in Three Years
The central bank increased interest rates for the first time in more than three years and warned that inflation would climb to about 5 percent next year, far above its target.
Former Wisconsin starter drops double digits in South Carolina debut
Former Wisconsin Badgers starter Aleksas Bieliauskas wasted no time making an impact in his South Carolina debut.
Almost 5.2 million Texans lack health insurance. Advocates say problem is bigger than new data shows
New Census data shows more than 16% of Texans didn’t have health insurance in 2025. Advocates warn the number could already be worse.
Musk bet big on keeping Texas red. What happens to his business empire now?
Elon Musk poured nearly half a billion dollars into the midterms to support Republican candidates, most to help Ken Paxton defeat Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race.
How do octopuses remember? Scientists uncover a surprising secret
How do octopuses remember what they learn? A new study reveals a surprising “molecular switch” in the octopus brain that helps preserve memories by keeping connections between nerve cells strengthened over time, without the need to produce new proteins. The discovery sheds new light on one of nature’s greatest mysteries: how creatures with vastly different brains evolved remarkably sophisticated learning and memory abilities.
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.
In an AI World, Sport’s Competitive Advantage May Be Its Oldest One
Today’s guest column is from professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. We know with relative certainty, professional and big collegiate sport organizations are spending heavily on artificial intelligence. Player performance, ticket pricing, fan engagement—GMs and ADs alike believe that there is a new “secret sauce” available, and the evidence is pretty compelling. AI offers the …
Drake Maye Gets Encouraging Update As Packers Star Battles Injury
Drake Maye remains on New England's injury report, but his practice participation offered encouraging news while Green Bay's biggest defensive star was limited.
Columbia County students explore health care careers
EVANS, Ga (WJBF)- More than 400 high school students are getting a closer look at what a future in health care could look like. The Columbia County school district is connecting students with local…
Unfinished business for Cantero as Pearson chases a Chilean double
Last Sunday in San Pedro de la Paz, five men came off the bike together and only 44 seconds separated them at the line. Seven days later, almost all of them…
ID@Xbox Deep Discounts Sale now live with over 800 indie game deals
The ID@Xbox Deep Discounts Sale is now up and running on the Microsoft Store, offering a bevy of big discounts across a bunch of indie games.
Houston business owner gets water restored after seven weeks without service and nearly $2,000 bill
Entertainment venue InteractX now open in Cedar Park
The business features 11 challenge rooms and over 45 games that combine physical activity, technology, teamwork and friendly competition, a company representative said in a news release.
Kamala Harris urges Dems to 'be ruthless' with power after midterms, demands Trump accountability
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton offered their thoughts on the heels of the midterm elections.
Here’s what to expect on healthcare from a Democratic Congress
The Democratic takeover of Congress will revive fights over Medicaid cuts, insurance subsidies and healthcare affordability.
Palm Beach County 'Best of Season' arts and culture preview
From Broadway hits to classical concerts, here are the top arts and entertainment events coming to Palm Beach.
Woods Hole research ship heads to Lake Superior to hunt neutrinos
The R/V Neil Armstrong is making its first Great Lakes voyage, carrying Cape Cod science into fresh water for an experiment probing the universe.
The Bulletin welcomes 2026 editorial fellows
The Bulletin proudly welcomes its largest editorial fellow class yet. Fellows work closely with Bulletin editors to produce cutting-edge journalism focused on nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, or biosecurity. As part of a Bulletin initiative focused on uplifting the next generation of experts, our Editorial Fellows Program is possible because of readers and supporters alike.
How Big Pharma Shapes Medical Science, Influences Doctors, and Undermines Patient Care
This week, Mad in America explores three new articles around pharmaceutical industry corruption. The first examines industry’s hidden influence over Three new studies expose the pharmaceutical industry's hidden influence over medical research, the use of ghostwritten academic papers to advance commercial interests, and the normalization of industry influence among future physicians.
How to nominate for Business Insider's Rising Stars of Venture Capital
We're searching for venture capitalists finding the next big thing and those winning the right to invest in proven winners.
Oscar Health Profits Hit $167 Million En Route To ‘Strongest Year’
Oscar Health swung to a $167 million third quarter profit while eclipsing $1.2 billion in net income for the first nine months as Obamacare health plan membership grows.
Patriots set for measuring-stick opportunity against Packers
The New England Patriots have a big opportunity ahead of themselves against one of the NFC’s top teams this Sunday when they welcome the Green Bay Packers to Gillette Stadium. At 5-3, both teams enter Sunday looking to keep pace in competitive divisions while strengthening their respective position in the playoff picture. For the Patriots, […]
Sporticast: Atlanta Braves Give MLB and Union CBA Talking Points
On the 601st Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Kurt Badenhausen discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including Mark Walter looking to sell at least part of the Formula 1 racing team he controls at a $3 billion valuation. F1 team values have soared with cost caps introduced and Liberty …
One of Birmingham’s largest proposed construction projects takes a big step forward
It’s a long-coveted site that’s bewildered developers.
Democrats' big challenge on health care costs
Voters won't wait until the next election cycle for things to get cheaper.
Tiny Chihuahuas Hold a Big Surprise: A Sliver of Coyote DNA
The breed is descended from indigenous canines, which may have been intentionally mixed with wild coyotes long before Europeans arrived in the Americas.
Sports owners bet big on Republicans. What does their defeat mean for US sports?
Sports billionaires backed Republicans, but Democratic victories leave familiar questions over gambling, stadium subsidies and who really holds power.
OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs In The Linux Kernel
OpenAI published a blog post outlining their work on autonomous vulnerability discovery
Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.
Rare bipartisan idea gains ground: U.S.-Israel tie needs a break
Democrats and Republicans may be deeply split after the midterms, but a growing number agree on one big idea: The era of unquestioned U.S. support for Israel needs to end.
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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