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For weeks, my colleague Sarah Wild has been diligently chasing news that the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest telescope, has paused its expansion into another eight African countries. Here's Sarah's story: nature.com/articles/d4158…

What happens as chatbots get "bigger and better"? They become more likely to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance (and sadly people aren't good at spotting the bad answers). Read more in this @nature paper nature.com/articles/s4158…

'Foundational discoveries' mentioned in today's physics Nobel do go back a bit. One of their studies had only 4 references: nature.com/articles/32353…

Your periodic reminder that #NobelPrize2024 nominations process could do with some outside help. Global scientific networks African Academy of Sciences InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) 🌍 #science #health International Science Council and TWAS - The World Academy of Sciences have all offered. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Karolinska Institutet what are you waiting for :) nature.com/articles/d4158…

An evening of insights into research-policy communication with Subhra Priyadarshini Subhra Priyadarshini, chief editor of Nature India Nature India, and Radhika Khosla, research director at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. More to follow. Watch this space!

Why did South Africa revise its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable human genome editing? We've asked National Department of Health. No response as yet. Here is the excellent Sarah Wild for nature on what we know so far: nature.com/articles/d4158…

In nature, on S African research guidelines on human germline editing: "By contrast, Bonginkosi Shozi, a bioethicist & health-law scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Law & the Biosciences [Stanford CLB, law.stanford.edu/center-for-law…] in California, takes the view that the law

"AI tools could help scientists to produce high-quality reviews, but might also fuel the rapid generation of substandard ones". Great overview by Helen Pearson of efforts to have AI create review articles from the scientific literature | nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

The UK government has ambitious plans for a National Data Library, and a lot of the important technical choices remain to be made. Together with Wellcome, @esrc is running a Technical White Paper challenge to invite proposals for how to make it work best!

Something I see a lot in qualitative research is a lack of analysis. Basically a rundown of what's in the data, but without doing anything with it (analysis). It's the qualitative equivalent of descriptive stats. Short thread.

Evidence, if it were needed, that I work with AMAZING colleagues. Less than 16hrs after the gavel came down on COP29, they have published a 20,000-word omnibus article summarising EVERYTHING you need to know about the two-week event in Baku 👏👏👏

Let-down or breakthrough? We asked researchers who study climate finance for thoughts on #COP29 finance deal - Clare Shakya Sarah Colenbrander Dipak Dasgupta and Romain Weikmans : nature.com/articles/d4158…

Public trust in scientists and their research gets a boost when scientists are humble and admit they don’t have all the answers go.nature.com/4129oJH

Really looking forward to this

The economist Muhammad Yunus is one of this year’s @nature's 10. When Bangladesh’s students toppled the previous government during the summer, the Nobel-peace-laureate, anti-poverty campaigner was their first choice to lead the country. Can he deliver? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nature's 10 is finally out. This was a huge effort by so many people nature. What a way to end the year!

"It is impossible to overstate the feeling of freedom." My colleague Miryam Naddaf on the fall of the Assad regime and what needs to happen next for universities and science in Syria: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Something to remember today, and I may tweet more about it later. IMO, everyone in education should avoid the word ‘overqualified’. Perhaps your experience is mismatched with your job, perhaps your employer could make better use of you. But you can’t have too much education.

Day :1216 🏫 Day : 756 🎓 🇦🇫 “ I have a message for everyone in this room: To ministers and government representatives – To intellectuals, scholars, and public figures – As Muslim leaders, now is the time to raise your voices, use your power. You can show true leadership.

The man below is neuroscientist Khamis Elessi, from Gaza. Left: receiving an award at the UniEdinburgh. Right: during one of the over 10 displacements he suffered during the war. He is one of a bunch of scientists that are trying to keep research alive amid destruction in Gaza🧵