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NPR's Moscow and Beijing correspondents discuss the reaction to U.S. elections abroad
The results of the U.S. midterms were closely followed overseas. NPR correspondents in Moscow and Beijing discuss how the elections are seen in the countries they cover.
Preview: Bruins look to extend streak against Panthers
Just the facts Know your enemy Game notes The Boston Bruins will welcome the Florida Panthers to the TD Garden for some matinee action in the two club’s first meeting of the season. The Bruins will then see the Panthers Dec. 8, Dec. 15 and April 9, 2027. But any fans wanting to see Brad […]
Which NFL games are Fox, CBS broadcasting? Week 9 coverage maps
Which NFL games will be broadcast in your region in Week 9? Here are the coverage maps for Sunday's action.
“LSU Is Going To Want A Refund”: Skip Bayless Takes Shot at Lane Kiffin After Alabama Trounces Tigers To Trim CFP Chances
Lane Kiffin and LSU lost to Alabama on Saturday, and at least one prominent sports media figure had some darkly humorous words about it. After the Tigers were trounced 13-31 by the Crimson Tide inside their own stadium, Skip Bayless suggested that the athletic department take drastic action on the head coach’s seven-year, $91-million contract:“LSU is going to want a refund.
LIVE! Watch UFC Vegas 124 Post-Fight Presser
With the action officially in the books from UFC Vegas 124 last night (Sat., Nov. 7, 2026) LIVE on Paramount+ from inside Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, fight fans can check out the post-fight presser for all the best reaction and official bonus winners. On a night that featured a main event clash between […]
CVS Health (CVS) Challenges Tennessee PBM Ownership Ban In Federal Court
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) has filed a federal lawsuit contesting Tennessee's new law that blocks pharmacies from owning pharmacy benefit managers. The legal action follows CVS Health's previously announced plan to separate into two companies that would split its pharmacy and PBM operations. CVS Health has stated that pharmacy services for Tennessee patients will continue without interruption while the dispute proceeds. Because Tennessee's PBM ownership ban targets CVS Health's integrated model,...
Browns Defender Hit With Hefty Fine for Actions Against Steelers
Cleveland Browns cornerback Tyson Campbell received the team’s largest fine following its 27-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The post Browns Defender Hit With Hefty Fine for Actions Against Steelers appeared first on HEAVY.
Browns RB Quinshon Judkins Hit With NFL Punishment
Cleveland Browns running back Quinshon Judkins was hit with a punishment from the NFL for his actions against the Steelers. The post Browns RB Quinshon Judkins Hit With NFL Punishment appeared first on HEAVY.
Democratic congresswoman calls Trump’s chief of staff move ‘desperate’
Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean joined CNN’s Jessica Dean and shared her reaction to President Donald Trump picking Stephen Miller to replace White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
What the Packers’ roster could look like vs. the Patriots
RB MarShawn Loyd is the biggest question mark on Green Bay’s roster going into Sunday’s action
Three Browns Fined for Actions vs. Steelers
Three members of the Cleveland Browns were fined for their actions in Sunday’s 27-6 Pittsburgh Steelers victory on Sunday. Cornerback […]
NFL fined three Commanders defenders fined for actions in Eagles win
Odafe Oweh, K’Lavon Chaisson and Charles Omenihu were fined by the NFL for infractions from Commanders win of Eagles
Stellar Blade Ad Gives Fans Plenty To Talk About With Therapist
A live action, throwback ad campaign features Eve tucking people in, reading bed time stories, and YouTube commenters wishing it were them
Another Central City business moves to Black Hawk
Cheap rent, holiday attractions, and Red Bus talks
Seahawks’ Former All-Rookie Safety Draws Interest From Browns
Former Seattle Seahawks safety Jerrick Reed II is getting looks from another NFL team. The 26-year-old worked out for the Cleveland Browns on Friday, Nov. 6, two months after the Tennessee Titans released him. Reed was among five free agents Cleveland evaluated, according to the NFL transaction wire and KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson, which cited the league’s […] The post Seahawks’ Former All-Rookie Safety Draws Interest From Browns appeared first on HEAVY.
‘Entertainment Tonight’ to showcase Kauaʻi culture, attractions and film locations for Hawaiʻi Week
The weeklong series also features chef Roy Yamaguchi, Kilohana Plantation and the Kōloa Rum Company.
Cardi B’s Toddler Daughter Is Still a ‘Little Baby’ & Mommy Totally Agrees
Cardi B often shares playful glimpses of life with her children, and her youngest daughter, Blossom, recently gave fans another adorable moment to enjoy. The toddler’s interaction with her mother quic...
“Nobody Said Anything About Saints”: Fans Side With Shedeur Sanders as Carl Granderson Accuses Browns QB of ‘Chirping’ Before Big Game
Shedeur Sanders looks set to start for the Cleveland Browns against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday after Deshaun Watson suffered a concussion. However, the build-up has been dominated by reactions to the quarterback’s cryptic comments in a press conference.
A hidden limit of space and time could unlock electronics 100,000 times faster
Scientists have discovered a surprising quantum limit that prevents electrons from being tracked with unlimited precision in both space and time. The breakthrough could pave the way for manipulating chemical reactions and developing electronics hundreds of thousands of times faster than today's technology.
Packers Draft: College Football Discussion, Week 10
This week is loaded with high-end college football action
Astrana Health (ASTH) Falls After Earnings As The Bull Case Still Points To Value
Astrana Health (ASTH) just posted third quarter earnings that showed net income of US$12.95 million and earnings per share of US$0.26, with nine month profits reaching US$47.13 million. The market reaction has been sharp in the short term, with the share price down 11.6% over the past day and 7.1% over the past month, even though Astrana Health’s year to date share price return is up 36.8% and the 1 year total shareholder return sits at 35.1%. This suggests that recent selling contrasts with...
Appleton, Green Bay high school sports results for Friday, Nov. 6
High school football teams were in action in WIAA state quarterfinal games.
Sports Extra: Punching Tickets to District Championships
Missouri District Semi-Finals highlight Friday Night Action
JP Morgan maintains Sphere Entertainment at Overweight, lowers price target to $160 from $164
JP Morgan maintained Sphere Entertainment at Overweight and lowered its price target to $160 from $164, a 2.4% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 33.3% from the Nov 6 close of $120.02.Recent analyst actions on Sphere EntertainmentAcross the five most recent analyst notes published on Sp…
JP Morgan maintains Live Nation Entertainment at Overweight, lowers price target to $200 from $205
JP Morgan maintained Live Nation Entertainment at Overweight and lowered its price target to $200 from $205, a 2.4% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 14.1% from the Nov 6 close of $175.25.Recent analyst actions on Live Nation EntertainmentAcross the five most recent analyst notes publi…
Melco Resorts & Entertainment L (MLCO) Stock Forecasts
At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.
AI-powered fitness uses adaptive technology to support healthy aging
An AI-powered fitness concept aimed at helping people stay stronger and sharper as they age is gaining traction through local studios.
Future iPhones will have one less button, new rumor claims
Two will become one, apparently. Apple introduced the Action button with the iPhone 15 Pro, and the iPhone 18 Pro still has it. Now, a tipster on Weibo...
Political tensions rise after midterm losses
Political commentator Joe Sweeny joins 'Fox News @ Night with Trace Gallagher' to discuss hostility at a recent Turning Point Action event and Stephen A. Smith's warning to the Democrats.
6.4K views · 152 reactions | Texas’s first Latina governor, Gina...
Texas’s first Latina governor, Gina Hinojosa, pledged to abandon the extreme partisanship that she said has defined politics in this deeply red state for decades. https://wapo.st/4AlAV7s
Missouri’s Austin Simmons set to return for 2027 in massive move
Coach Eli Drinkwitz’s Missouri Tigers are 6-2 on the season and slight underdogs against Texas in Week 10 action . The Tigers tied with three other teams for fifth place in the SEC, a half-game behind the Ole Miss Rebels and Alabama Crimson Tide for fourth place. Quarterback Austin Simmons has wowed fans with insane throws this season and now has a […] The post Missouri’s Austin Simmons set to return for 2027 in massive move appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Your AI Agent May Create a Business Decision Nobody Actually Ordered
As companies embrace and deploy AI agents, and these agents make decisions and take actions, AI sycophancy takes on a different dimension.
Rangers Prospects Help Saguaros Earn Another Win
Three Texas Rangers prospects were back in action during Arizona Fall League play as the Surprise Saguaros took down the Scottsdale Scorpions in a 9-1 final.
WATCH: ‘Elections matter.’ Houston mayor limits police cooperation with ICE
The shift in the nation’s fourth-largest city is one of the first actions to restrict U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations since Democrats’ rout in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Investors settle with KPMG over Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Investors involved in a class action lawsuit over the 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank have reached a $224.5 million settlement with external auditor KPMG, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund said on…
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Nov. 6
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL The Familie Signs Michael Phelps Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, has joined The Familie for representation as he enters the next chapter of his career focused on expanding his business portfolio, strategic …
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Nov. 6
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL The Familie Signs Michael Phelps Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, has joined The Familie for representation as he enters the next chapter of his career focused on expanding his business portfolio, strategic …
El-Sayed launches Habibi PAC
Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) has launched Habibi PAC, his own political action committee, just days after punching his ticket to the upper chamber, Federal Election Commission filings show. …
Cook County Department of Public Health Awards $475,000 to Expand Youth Mental Health Programs in Four Suburban Communities - Cook County Department of Public Health
Today, Cook County Department of Public Health launched Building Healthier Communities 2030, suburban Cook County’s Community Health Improvement Plan. The plan was announced together with Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Department of Public Health, community organizations, healthcare providers and cross-sector partners. Building Healthier Communities 2030 serves as both a collective vision and a practical roadmap that will guide public health efforts across suburban Cook County through 2030.The plan aligns with President Preckwinkle's Policy Roadmap and reflects a shared commitment to advancing health equity through coordinated, community-informed action.
Netflix announces live-action 'Stranger Things' spinoff series 'Other Worlds'
The title treatment for 'Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure.' (Netflix)
Babson Students Get Down to Business · Babson Thought & Action
From succulents to custom chess pieces, Babson students launch real businesses while learning entrepreneurship and problem solving.
3 Takeaways From Spain, England, Portugal Nations League Roster Drops
Some of Europe's biggest heavyweights made some notable roster decisions ahead of Nations League action.
After Tuesday’s Political Tidal Wave, What Comes Next for Michigan Business?
County Executives Warren Evans, Mark Hackel, and Dave Coulter discussed regional strategies for talent, housing, economic development, infrastructure, and transit.
After Tuesday’s Political Tidal Wave, What Comes Next for Michigan Business?
County Executives Warren Evans, Mark Hackel, and Dave Coulter discussed regional strategies for talent, housing, economic development, infrastructure, and transit.
Next year’s iPhone Pro redesign will drop an important button, per leak
Apple is rumored to have a big iPhone redesign coming next year, and per a new leak, it may come with the loss of the Action button.
HONOR Magic9 Pro Max First Look – ARRI Color Science at a Fraction of the Price
HONOR Magic9 Pro Max first look: Johnnie films with ARRI LogC3 and ARRI Looks on a phone with dual 200MP cameras and 4K 60p.
The Data Stack Consolidation: Confluent, EDB and Google Take Different Routes
Do enterprises really need separate systems to store transactions, process streaming data, and analyze historical information? That’s what they’ve been doing for a long time. However, things are starting to change. Recent announcements from Confluent, Google Cloud, and EDB suggest that the lines between these technologies are starting to blur. All three are looking for […]
Wells Fargo maintains Live Nation Entertainment at Overweight, lowers price target to $221 from $222
Wells Fargo maintained Live Nation Entertainment at Overweight and lowered its price target to $221 from $222, a 0.5% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 21.9% from the Nov 5 close of $181.25.Recent analyst actions on Live Nation EntertainmentAcross the four most recent analyst notes pub…
Citizens maintains Inspired Entertainment at Market Outperform, lowers price target to $7 from $9
Citizens maintained Inspired Entertainment at Market Outperform and lowered its price target to $7 from $9, a 22.2% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 100.0% from the Nov 5 close of $3.50.Recent analyst actions on Inspired EntertainmentAcross the four most recent analyst notes published…
'Stranger Things' prequel 'Other Worlds' coming to Netflix in 2028
Netflix announced "Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure," a new, live-action prequel and spinoff series to "Stranger Things" coming in 2028.
Apple Rumored to Drop the iPhone's Action Button Next Year
Apple plans to merge the iPhone's Action button with the Camera Control starting next year, according to the leaker known as "Instant Digital". In a new post on Weibo, the leaker claimed that a single press of the combined button would open the camera, while a long press would trigger the function assigned to the Action button. They explicitly clarified that the dedicated Action button would disappear, while the Camera Control button would remain.
Wells Fargo maintains PENN Entertainment at Equal-Weight, raises price target to $23 from $22
Wells Fargo maintained PENN Entertainment at Equal-Weight and raised its price target to $23 from $22, a 4.5% increase.The price target implies an upside of 32.6% from the Nov 5 close of $17.34.Recent analyst actions on PENN EntertainmentAcross the five most recent analyst notes published on PENN E…
Class action lawsuit alleges Anna’s House underpaid hundreds of workers
Twelve employees from four different locations have filed to join the case alleging Anna's House underpaid hundreds of workers.
Saints vs. Browns Prediction: Back after the Bye
The Saints are back in action after the bye.
Enhanced Group Bets on Live Entertainment With Deal for 77% Stake in DEAG
Enhanced Group (NYSE:ENHA) has agreed to acquire an approximately 77% stake in European live entertainment company DEAG in an all-stock transaction, a move CEO and Co-Founder Maximilian Martin said will broaden Enhanced’s business beyond sports and consumer health products. DEAG shareholders will r
How to watch Wisconsin’s home game on Friday evening
The Badgers are back in action on Friday evening.
Past White House adviser Raj Panjabi has written a playbook for 'living room' crises
Dr. Raj Panjabi is the author of Safer: A Playbook. His goal is to help people face a personal crisis — health, workplace, family conflicts — and "turn fear into action."
“Gunnar Henderson Got in His Own Head” – MLB Insider Proposes Simple Solution to Orioles Superstar’s Recent Struggles
Former Mets GM Jim Duquette joined the hosts of the ‘Foul Territory’ podcast to discuss several topics gaining traction this offseason, including his blunt take on the future of Orioles star shortstop Gunnar Henderson. Reflecting on Henderson’s production over the past two seasons, Duquette said he believed the 25-year-old would bounce back from his offensive slump.
LSU and Texas Southern meet for non-conference showdown
Texas Southern Tigers (0-1) at LSU Tigers (1-0)Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Friday, 8 p. ESTBOTTOM LINE: LSU and Texas Southern square off in non-conference action.
Hurricanes 5 (EN), Islanders 3: Decent comeback, indecent ending
The Islanders overcame a horrible start to make it a game, a winnable game even, against the defending Cup champion Hurricanes, but in the end mistakes killed them on the way to a loss The Islanders hadn’t been in action for five days and looked it when the Canes pounced to a 2-0 lead in […]
Lawsuits likely over Washington’s ban on trans girls in sports
At least one progressive advocacy group is exploring legal action over a ballot measure set to pass in Washington state that would ban transgender girls from girls’ school sports.
Hensley is back at Carter Fold this Saturday night
HILTONS, Va. — The Carter Family Fold is back in action after a week off for Halloween, and will welcome Trey Hensley & His Bluegrass Band back to the historic
Islanders vs. Hurricanes game thread: Back in action
The Islanders host the Carolina Hurricanes with Semyon Varlamov in net and Ben Hutton freshly signed after his very brief PTO. The Canes, of course, are the defending champs. The Islanders, of course, are fishermen for the night. This is our game thread. Don’t do anything you’ll immediately regret but then bring back ironically a […]
Real Deals: 4 car washes sell for $22.68 million
Four tunnel car washes totaling 16,995 square feet in Benton and Washington counties recently changed hands in separate transactions totaling $22.68 million. The purchase price equals $1,336 per square foot....
The Blue Tsunami Swept Doctors and Scientists Into Office
More than 80 percent of congressional candidates backed by the pro-science PAC 314 Action won, including Michigan senator-elect and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed.
First iOS 27.3 and macOS Golden Gate 27.3 Public Betas Now Available
Apple today seeded the first betas of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS Golden Gate 27.3, tvOS 27.3, and watchOS 27.3. The new software comes two days after Apple released the betas for developers. iOS 27.3 is a major update that adds a Vertical Tabs layout option and Adaptive Dark Mode for Safari. Siri AI can do more in and across Apple's apps, and developers are now able to create actions for Siri to carry out.
The social side of digital entertainment: What student media and social casino games reveal about online engagement
Digital entertainment has become an important setting for social interaction, cultural exchange and community participation, as people increasingly use online platforms to follow shared interests and connect with others. A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that 74% of U.S. teens felt social media made them more connected to their friends, highlighting the social...
Superior Events Group Highlights Large-Scale Event Entertainment Across Ontario
Toronto-based event rental company provides carnival rides, interactive attractions, and entertainment for corporate events, school fairs, and festivals.
Arizona Science Center unveils new fall exhibits focused on caves and creativity
Arizona Science Center is expanding its lineup of interactive experiences this fall with two new attractions designed to engage guests through hands-on exploration, creativity and scientific discovery.
Medicus Pharma proposes $135M SkinJect spinout through SPAC business combination
Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a proposed transaction involving the company's wholly owned subsidiary, SkinJect, which has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with an undisclosed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for a potential business combination. The proposed transaction contemplates a US$135 million pre-money enterprise valuation for SkinJect, alongside a concurrent equity financing intended to support the company's SKNJCT-005 clinical study in patients with Gorlin syndrome and preparations for a potential New Drug Application (NDA). Bokhari told Proactive that the proposed deal is designed to establish SkinJect as a separately listed company focused on advancing its dermatology and rare-disease development program. Under the proposed structure, the SPAC would acquire 100% of SkinJect in exchange for newly issued common shares in the combined company. Medicus Pharma intends to retain majority economic and voting ownership, allowing existing Medicus shareholders to maintain significant participation in SkinJect's potential future value. The separation would also provide SkinJect with a dedicated financing platform to fund its clinical development activities, particularly the SKNJCT-005 study targeting Gorlin syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with the development of multiple basal cell carcinomas. The concurrent financing is expected to support the clinical program and the work required to prepare and potentially submit a New Drug Application, subject to successful development and regulatory progress. Final ownership percentages have not yet been determined. These will depend on negotiations surrounding the definitive transaction agreement and the combined company's capitalization, including retained SPAC cash, public and sponsor shares, warrants and other potentially dilutive securities. Medicus said the proposed transaction remains subject to the completion of definitive documentation and other customary conditions. The planned spinout represents a strategic step in Medicus Pharma's efforts to give SkinJect a dedicated corporate and financial structure, while allowing the parent company to retain majority participation as the dermatology program advances towards its next clinical and regulatory milestones. #proactiveinvestors #nasdaq #mdcx #tsxv #mdcx #pharma #SkinJect #Biotechnology #Healthcare #RareDisease #GorlinSyndrome #Dermatology #SPAC #ClinicalTrials #DrugDevelopment #NDA #Biopharmaceuticals
Clover Health boosts outlook amid continued membership growth, financial momentum in Q3
Clover Health is continuing to see strong traction in its Medicare Advantage plan, with membership growing 49% year-over-year in the third quarter to approximately 157,000 members. | The company posted $130 million in profit, up 77% year-over-year, according to Q3 2026 financial results.
Babson Named to Princeton Review's 2027 Mental Health Services Honor Roll · Babson Thought & Action
Babson College was one of only 76 colleges to earn a place on The Princeton Review’s 2027 Mental Health Services Honor Roll.
Patriots Share Mixed Reactions to Tom Brady’s Return
The New England Patriots will have an all-time great return to Gillette Stadium, and head coach Mike Vrabel and quarterback Drake Maye have made their feelings known about the occasion.Patriots legend Tom Brady will return to Foxborough on Sunday, Nov. 8, to call New England’s matchup against the Green Bay Packers as FOX’s lead color […] The post Patriots Share Mixed Reactions to Tom Brady’s Return appeared first on HEAVY.
Avanlee Care, platform for family caregivers, raises $3.5M, targeting Medicare Advantage plans
Avanlee Care, a platform to engage family caregivers, has clinched $3.5 million in seed funding, Fierce Healthcare has learned. | Avanlee Care helps MA plans and other organizations engage caregivers within their member populations, enabling them to take action and measure what happens as a result.
What CVS Health (CVS) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) plans to separate its retail pharmacy operations from its insurance and pharmacy services businesses, creating two publicly traded companies in a transaction expected to close in the first half of 2028. The announcement came as the company reported third-quarter 2026 revenue o
1K views · 26 reactions | Many female politicians say open hostility...
Many female politicians say open hostility towards them is growing. Researchers say democracy could pay the price. #dwgermanpolitics
The Daily Mauling: 11/5/26
Kansas Jayhawks News The Topeka Capitol-Journal has Leroy Blyden and Tre White’s reactions to the Fordham win Andy Kotelnick talked to the press and gave his preview of this weekend’s UCF game ICYMI, the women’s hoops team won their season opener over Omaha this week Links! Jacoby Brissett is going to try and save Baltimore’s […]
Here’s how to watch Ohio State women’s basketball vs Central Michigan for free
The Ohio State women are back in action tonight at The Schott. Here’s everything you need to know to stream the game vs. Central Michigan.
Sylvester Stallone reveals why his 20-year feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger finally ended: ‘Enough of this’
The ‘80s action movie icons eventually joined forces for “The Expendables.”
Phillies News: Dave Dombrowski, Cristopher Sánchez, Albert Pujols
Will we see some action soon?
Taking action: One Health planning in Malawi and Ghana - WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health
One Health planning in Malawi and Ghana is turning shared priorities into costed plans for human, animal and environmental health.
Fate/EXTRA Record characters trailer
Publisher Aniplex and developers Meteorise and TYPE-MOON have released a new trailer for Fate/EXTRA Record, introducing Lil’ Ronnie Faction characters Lil’ Ronnie and her Servant.
Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center Settle Data Breach Lawsuits
Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center. Vida Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center.
Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Could Be 35% Undervalued Following Brazil Impairment ಸುದ್ದಿ
Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) put fresh numbers on the table with its third quarter 2026 update, pairing higher reported sales with a wider net loss and a sizeable impairment tied to its Brazil operations. The share price reaction has been sharp. Flutter Entertainment closed at US$81.79, with the 1 day share price return declining 2.33% after the earnings and impairment news, even though the 7 day and 30 day share price returns rose 4.15% and 8.00% respectively. That short burst of buying...
Triumphal Arch Set to Win Final Approval Despite Court Challenges
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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