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Meta Shifts UK Users to US Agreements in Post-Brexit Move
Source: Bloomberg Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit.
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Artificial Intelligence Takes a Stab at Analyzing Animal Behavior
Source: GEN An open-source, user-friendly, artificial intelligence driven software called LabGym automatizes animal behavior analysis in various model systems and could be a boon to life scientists across the spectrum of basic science and drug development.
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Charles River suspends shipments of monkeys used in research amid federal probe
Source: STAT News The move comes after several people were indicted last November for their alleged involvement in a monkey-smuggling operation.
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There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
Source: The Economist And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it.
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Case studies expose deadly risk of mpox to people with untreated HIV
Source: Science Analysis of hundreds of mpox patients suggests it is “a different disease” in those with compromised immune systems.
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As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies
Source: Science Many ask authors to disclose use of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence.
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Dissemination of the Results of Pediatric Clinical Trials Funded by the US National Institutes of Health
Source: JAMA Network This study examines practices related to trial registration and results submission in ClinicalTrials.gov and publication of pediatric clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Patients losing out amid slump in NHS clinical trials, warn top clinicians
Source: The Guardian UK falls from fourth to 10th place in phase III trials amid ‘ossified’ bureaucracy and stretched health service.
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What the Accreditation Naysayers Don’t Understand
Source: Inside Higher Ed If you want a higher ed reboot, you’re going to need the accreditors, Lawrence Schall writes.
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University of California System Bans Fully Online Degrees
Source: Inside Higer Ed The 10-campus system closes a loophole that could have let undergraduates piece together a degree. Experts and some inside the system say that in justifying its decision, UC perpetuated outdated claims about online learning.
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