Nicholas Burns Harvard University Well, I think Oxford, Cambridge, and LSE will also attract some new applications… and staff. Who wants to study or research at the whims of a clearly pretty deranged President and an anti-intellectual set of legislators?

The replication crisis problem again - how it justifies state direction of the sciences

Trump administration halts international student visa applications news.sky.com/story/trump-ad…

Moronic own goal. Some of these policies are legitimately indistinguishable from the answer to the thought exercise: “If I was president and wanted to destroy America’s competitive advantage, this is what I would do”

‘The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“The trade-off put to Harvard & other universities is clear," says Harvard complaint to federal court. "Allow government to micromanage your institution or jeopardise ability to pursue medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries, & innovative solutions” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

💥New: #Collaboration with non-academic partners boosts citation #impact, especially for scientists with strong academic reputations, survey of Spanish scientists shows. By Carolin Nast, Oscar Llopis, Dima Yankova & Pablo D’Este👇 Policies for Smart Specialisation #Research ow.ly/XOWt50W4Cvh

In the latest feature in our #BookshopGuide series, Kevin Longrie recommends the best independent #bookshops in #HongKong 🇭🇰 Are there any other bookshops you'd add to this list? 📚🏪 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo…

Foreign students look to U.K. instead of U.S. because of Trump visa threats : NPR npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-…

Foreign students look to U.K. instead of U.S. because of Trump visa threats : NPR npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-…

Don’t take writing advice from this guy

New💰: Funding competitions may seem fair, but they’re often inefficient, biased, and reward conformity. Gerald Schweiger TU Wien, Adrian Barnett QUT & Stijn Conix uclouvain argue lotteries could fund better science 🎰 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

How #randomisation has changed the British Academy’s approach to research #funding The British Academy #ResearchFunding ow.ly/7kLw50W67qa

Short notice research funding calls are bad for researchers and research - Impact of Social Sciences blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

All 12 members of the Fulbright Scholarship Board resigned on Wednesday in protest of Trump's intervention in the selection process: "This proud legacy has depended on one thing above all: the integrity of the program’s selection process based on merit, not ideology, and its

Why science needs better knowledge maps 🧠 ow.ly/M4NO50W8qgX

Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It – review #BookReview #Modeling 📊 ow.ly/AcVg50W8VmO

👀Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work! The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.

Paper: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Two days ago, Israel assassinated nine Iranian scientists — university professors and researchers — in targeted airstrikes. Some of them were killed together with their families. Western media is acting as if this is an act of war. Yet, this is a war crime, here’s why. 🧵 1/