The aspiration gap has turned everyone into losers, especially graduates

The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

There is a robust statistical relation between ideology and research findings when researchers test a policy-relevant hypothesis.

Scientific Reports - Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP

Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

Cultural ideas are inextricably entwined with the people who do science, the questions they ask, the assumptions they hold and the conclusions they land on.

Why a 1% hallucination risk is terrible if you’re using LLMs to look for unusual events

Bill Scott OBE, FRPharmS, pharmacist. Born 1949. Died 2025, aged 76

Using the governance challenges at Dundee as a starting point, Jim Dickinson explores how student board members across universities are navigating similar issues, revealing the gap between oversight theory...

Disparities in impact-related support for UK academics may widen funding inequalities from Research Excellence Framework, scholars fear

The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus

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