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We hear from science policy experts at this year’s Metascience conference in London say that artificial intelligence might be useful to scientists in some circumstances, with advances producing breakthrough tools like AlphaFold, but it’s unlikely to revolutionise their job and may drown scientists in low quality papers.
Meanwhile, Belgian university rectors have repeated their call to suspend Israel from the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. In its war in Gaza, Israel has failed to honour its association agreement with the EU, the rectors argue, which states that both parties must respect human rights. Ljubljana University has also joined their call.
Orla Feely, president of University College Dublin and president of the CESAER university association, explains how research-intensive universities face increasing disruption, which could undermine the benefits they bring to society and the economy in Europe and beyond.
In case you missed it, we have an in-depth analysis of the state of global funding for anti-ageing therapies. David Matthews takes us through the main reasons why research should focus on slowing ageing, rather than curing individual diseases
And, finally, we have a list of upcoming research policy debates that you should follow this autumn, all compiled by Martin Greenacre.
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