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Instituto Galo's weekly round-up
November 3 – A passion for Galo in every discovery! 🖤🤍Labareda’s rhythmic gymnasts took part in Instituto Galo’s Charity Tour, getting an up-close look at Atlético’s history and the ico...
Vikes Views: Who Ya Got? Buffalo Bills at Minnesota Vikings
The Minnesota Vikings will host the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football. Four years ago, these teams played one of the greatest regular-season games in NFL history. Here’s hoping tonight is half as entertaining. The Bills enter the game leading the NFL in both total offense and scoring. They surprisingly have the 2nd best run […]
GTA6 Ramping Up To Be The Biggest Release In Entertainment History
Once nearly every decade, an entertainment release transcends commercial metrics to become a complete cultural phenomenon. In movies we’ve seen Marvel do this
GOLDEN-GLOBES
Tashkent Makes History with Central Asia’s First Golden Globes Gala (Photo credit: © Organising Committee of the Golden Globes Silk Road Tashkent)
Managers with the best win percentages in La Liga history
Winning consistently in La Liga is no easy feat, particularly in a division dominated by two of world football's biggest clubs. Yet a select group of managers have maintained remarkable records in Spa...
CeeDee Lamb makes NFL history during Cowboys' dramatic win over Colts
CeeDee Lamb's enormous performance against Indianapolis included an NFL record and helped Dallas survive one of Sunday's wildest finishes.
Billionaires Tried to Buy Texas This Election. Can Dems Now Do Something About It?
Elon Musk sunk millions into keeping Texas red this cycle, but the state has a long history of money influencing politics on the right and left.
The Real Story of the Polar Bear in a UVM Science Hall Starts With Two Montpelier Agents Undercover in the Arctic
A polar bear has been hanging out in a UVM science hall for decades. Subscribe He’s a full-grown male, standing behind glass on an artificial iceberg in the lobby of the University of Vermont’s Marsh Life Science Building in Burlington. Most Vermonters have no idea he’s there. Students who asked about him heard he came from Canada. A poacher killed him, the story went, federal officers seized the hide at the Vermont border, and the government gave him to UVM on “indefinite loan.” A UVM biology professor told it that way in 2012. The university’s own news office repeated it in 2021. That story was wrong. The bear was evidence. In 1972, two federal wildlife officers from Montpelier posed as trophy hunters, bought their way into an illegal hunt run by a poaching ring, and followed it all the way to the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. One of them shot this bear. Sonia DeYoung, who works with UVM’s natural history collections, pieced the real story together from a half-remembered campus rumor, a case file buried in Anchorage and one stripped claw. She told it Nov. 6 in UVM Magazine. The Undercover Buy Early in 1972, Paul Bagalio and Bruce Parker walked into a Seattle taxidermy shop. Both lived in Montpelier. The case file lists Parker as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent and Bagalio as a deputy game warden for the service. On paper, Bagalio was an unlikely undercover man. Born in Northfield and raised in Montpelier, he served in the Marines after high school, graduated from Norwich University in 1957, taught at Vermont Technical College and worked as an engineer at Rock of Ages, according to his obituary in the Times Argus. He founded Ramchem, a company that made epoxies for the Barre granite industry. He was also a hunter. His obituary passes along his advice: “Don’t ever miss an opportunity to hunt.” And it says he worked undercover for the U.S. Department of the Interior, helping expose what his family calls one of the largest poaching rings in U.S. history. In the Seattle shop, Bagalio and Parker posed as unscrupulous trophy hunters who wanted a polar bear and didn’t care how they got one. They came away with a scribbled note: a phone number and a hefty price. The Seattle Times later reported the number. In a May 1972 story, later reprinted in the Congressional Record, the paper said the two-man hunt cost $6,500, more than $50,000 in today’s money. The Times cited a federal search-warrant affidavit alleging that the ring paid two men who held valid Alaska permits so the hides and skulls could be shipped and processed under their names. Bagalio and Parker traveled to Barrow, on Alaska’s Arctic coast, with guides working with the taxidermist. These were not men to cross. The case file describes a man taking a 12-gauge automatic shotgun from his plane and telling Parker it was “the persuader.” One photo in the file shows a mustached accomplice peering out from beneath a heavy fur hood. On March 8, 1972, on the pack ice about 100 miles north of Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the United States, Bagalio shot a male polar bear. Parker shot a second. Bagalio had no legal permit to kill it, and that was the point. The bears were hard evidence of what the ring was selling. Back in Fairbanks, a Fish and Wildlife agent marked Bagalio’s bear so it could be identified later. He smeared fluorescent dye around its nose and ripped the dark outer sheath off one of its front claws. Bagalio and Parker went on to run several more undercover hunts against poachers in the West. The danger was real. Bagalio later told the Bennington Banner, according to DeYoung’s account, “My guide made it perfectly clear that he would leave me dead in the mountains if he thought I was an investigator.” Subscribe The Faded Rumor The bear came to UVM in 1975. How the government handed him over is still unknown. A rumor came with him. A student named in the UVM Magazine article simply as Carol helped catalog the university’s specimens in those years, and she heard it: an undercover federal agent had killed the bear in Alaska because he feared his cover would be blown and his life was in danger. Over the years the rumor faded. In the 1980s, the bear was put away in storage long enough for mice to chew the fur off his ankles, and several of his front claws went missing. He was later brought back out and set up on his iceberg in the Marsh Life Science lobby, where he has stood for decades since. Somewhere along the way, the Canada story took over. The Case File Decades later, DeYoung met Carol at an open house for UVM’s zoological collections. Carol told DeYoung’s research partner, Dave Moroney, what she remembered. They were delighted, and skeptical. At DeYoung’s request, David Rippeto, a UVM graduate who is now a Fish and Wildlife special agent in Anchorage, went through a mountain of old case files stashed in cardboard boxes and found the right one. It ran more than 80 pages: photographs, letters, permit records and a typewritten account of the case. Carol’s rumor had the core of it right. A federal officer had shot the bear in Alaska while undercover. But the file showed it wasn’t a desperate move to save his own skin. The shooting was part of the plan. The Stripped Claw One question remained. Was the bear in Burlington really Bagalio’s? DeYoung and Moroney shone a black light on the bear’s snout, looking for the dye. Nothing glowed. They already had the answer. The year before, a conservator repairing the mouse damage had found that one of the bear’s supposedly missing front claws was still there, minus its dark outer sheath, just as the agent in Fairbanks had left it in 1972. “Fifty years later, the marker originally meant for law enforcement told us we had our bear,” DeYoung wrote. Paul Bagalio didn’t live to see it. He spent the rest of his life in Vermont, most of it at Horn of the Moon in East Montpelier, and died Dec. 11, 2022, at 90, a few months before DeYoung first opened the case file. His family remembered the bear differently. The obituary says he took a record-class polar bear in Siberia, across the international date line. The federal case file puts the bear in this story about 100 miles north of Point Barrow. The obituary doesn’t say whether it’s the same animal. His bear is still on the iceberg. Go see him: The polar bear stands in the entrance to Benedict Auditorium, between the Marsh Life Science and Hills buildings on UVM’s Burlington campus. Compass Vermont is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
Dave Chappelle’s Biggest Controversies Amid Charlie Kirk Backlash
Dave Chappelle faces backlash over a Charlie Kirk joke, reigniting debate about his history of controversial remarks
Luxury brands try to entice younger consumers with new experience
Attending a legacy luxury brand’s workshop is “almost like being at a museum-level exhibit” because of the history on display, said a marketing professor.
The oldest found Mars meteorite opens a new window into the planet’s past
The rock may have formed early in Mars’ history
Today in History, 1925: Thousands of farmers to flock to Moorhead for day of entertainment, chicken dinner
On November 9, 1925, up to 3,000 Clay County farmers were expected in Moorhead for a celebration featuring dinner, entertainment and dancing for local merchants.
Can You Inherit Lupus?
Lupus isn’t always inherited, but some genetic mutations can make you more likely to develop it. Learn why this happens and how family medical history plays a role.
Edison's Entertainment Complex Female Athletes Of The Month: Edwardsville Girls Make Cross Country History With Fourth at State
PEORIA — MacKenna Kerpan and Morgan Popelar earned all-state honors Saturday afternoon as Edwardsville finished fourth at the IHSA Class 3A girls'
Competition, entertainment proves 'electric' start for WTGL
PALM BEACH GARDENS - New York Golf Club's Rose Zhang recently sky dived for the first time, completing a tandem jump in Lake Elsinore, California, before the 2026 Solheim Cup. Yet, the adrenaline she felt standing in an open door of a plane at 10,000 feet was not quite like standing over the first tee shot in WTGL history.
Inside Georgia’s historic midterm political earthquake and what comes next
Keisha Lance Bottoms makes history, Jon Ossoff holds his Senate seat, Democrats flip the state House. Here’s how Georgia’s balance of power shifted overnight.
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts first of its kind ‘ScienceFest’
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Visitors at the Natural History Museum of Utah had the opportunity to meet scientists and learn about research as a part of “ScienceFest” this weekend. The event offered ...
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Peggy Flanagan became the first Native American woman elected to the Senate, Deb Haaland the first to win a state governorship, and Crystalyne Curley the first to lead the Navajo Nation.
Island Resident's Work Celebrated by Academy of Arts and Sciences
Last month, Vineyard summer resident Deborah Gray White was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The honor recognizes Ms. White’s career as a scholar of African American and women’s history.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40 years
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science marked its 40th anniversary with free theater and planetarium shows, hands-on activities and giveaways
Ellen Burstyn passed on Cloris Leachman’s Oscar-winning role: ‘I didn’t want to be doing it 24 hours a day’
Ellen Burstyn reveals why she passed on the role that won Cloris Leachman an Oscar, plus how her new audiobook could put her on the verge of EGOT history.
WoW: Forever Sets a New Franchise Record for Peak Concurrent Players
World of Warcraft: Forever is now the biggest launch in WoW history by peak concurrent players, according to Blizzard. The official Warcraft account also says the game brought back the highest number of returning players the franchise has ever seen. Forever went live on November 4 for Windows and...
WoW: Forever is the biggest launch in World of Warcraft history, says Blizzard
Blizzard says WoW: Forever had the biggest launch in World of Warcraft history by peak concurrent players, and the most new players at a launch in 15 years.
Boyd-Ward to make history at Wheelchair World Cup history
Jodie Boyd-Ward will become the first player in Wheelchair Rugby League history to win 50 caps when she leads Wales against New Zealand.
Dodgers notes: Tarik Skubal, Josue De Paula
It has been 10 days since the 2026 season concluded with the Milwaukee Brewers winning their first World Series championship in franchise history. Unsurprisingly, there haven’t been any major moves that have drastically changed the landscape of the sport, and until that first spark is ignited, we must sit back and wait patiently as the […]
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Native American women earned historic wins in Tuesday’s elections
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Native American women earned historic wins in Tuesday's elections.
Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections
Native American women earned historic wins in Tuesday's elections.
“We Just Watched Jeremiah Smith Play His Last Snap at Ohio State”: 2x Alabama Champ Claims Buckeyes Star Is Done for the Season After Oregon Loss
Jeremiah Smith has established himself as the greatest wide receiver in Ohio State history, breaking nearly all the Buckeyes’ receiving records. However, a prominent CFB figure believes he may have played his last collegiate game.
Eulogy to the Colorado GOP
We are gathered here today at this Celebration of Life to remember, pay tribute and say goodbye to the Colorado Grand Old Party. May she rest in peace. The Colorado GOP had an adventurous and substantial life. She will live on in our memories, our history books and the many stories that made up her […]
The Palace Theatre in Columbus celebrates a century of entertainment
When plans arose to replace the Palace Theater with a parking garage in 1978, Katherine S. LeVeque oversaw renovations to save the historic landmark.
Day’Ron Sharpe Makes Nets History
Day’Ron Sharpe made history in the Brooklyn Nets’ 124-121 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. Sharpe led the team in assists with 13. Polymarket Hoops reported that his 13 assists are the most in a single game by a center in Nets franchise history. He was making the right play all night and getting his teammates […] The post Day’Ron Sharpe Makes Nets History appeared first on HEAVY.
Messi makes history with MLS Golden Boot
Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi becomes the first player in MLS history to win the Golden Boot in consecutive seasons.
Phibro Animal Health (PAHC) Stock May Be Below Fair Value Following Revenue Beat
Phibro Animal Health has delivered a very strong share price return over the past few years, even as the stock has recently pulled back. With that kind of history on the chart, the key issue for you now is whether the current price can be explained by the earnings the business is generating. Over the last 3 years, Phibro Animal Health has gained about 2.6x. That puts a lot of weight on whether its profit power really supports that move. Recent reports show higher revenue and reaffirmed...
Warriors make record history not seen since 1951
Another spectacular performance from Steph Curry and another thrilling finish for the Golden State Warriors. Golden State has plenty of reasons to believe in its chances of making a deep playoff run after defeating the Orlando Magic 126-119 in overtime on Saturday. The victory marks another positive result for the Warriors, who have turned their […] The post Warriors make record history not seen since 1951 appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Lionel Messi makes history by retaining MLS golden boot title
Lionel Messi has become the first player in MLS history to win the golden boot in consecutive seasons. The 39-year-old drew a blank in Inter Miami's 3-3 draw with Charlotte FC on Saturday but his 26 goals over the campaign saw him finish four clear of Peter Musa and with five more than Englishman Sam Surridge in third.
‘SNL’ recap: Druski makes history as first digital content creator to host
Druski makes his ‘Saturday Night Live’ hosting debut with the Strokes serving as the musical guest. Read EW’s recap.
Ohio State’s Ryan Day Sparks Firing Discussion With Negative History
Ryan Day probably won’t be fired. That won’t stop the entirety of Ohio State’s fanbase from taking to social media to discuss the Buckeyes firing their head football coach after Saturday’s loss to Oregon. This defeat was different for a few different reasons, but one is this: It gives Ohio State three losses, nearly eliminating them from […] The post Ohio State’s Ryan Day Sparks Firing Discussion With Negative History appeared first on HEAVY.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40th anniversary with community
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrated a big milestone with the community Saturday. The museum’s 40th anniversary happened back in January while und...
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40th anniversary with community
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrated a big milestone with the community Saturday. The museum’s 40th anniversary happened back in January …
HISTORY! Nashville SC set MLS single-season points record
By MLSsoccer staffNashville SC have set the MLS single-season points record, capping their historic 2026 campaign with 77 points after a 2-0 win at FC Cincinnati on Decision Day.Below are the top five...
Art, philosophy, and science blend in beautiful wildlife photography
A relation between two living beings shaped by a shared evolutionary history.
Scott Colom and Black Mississippians stand on the cusp of Senate history as vote count stretches on
The state is still tallying ballots that could make Colom the first Black senator from this Deep South state since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
What classic should Nintendo remake next?
Ocarina of Time is one of the most storied installments not just in the Zelda franchise, but in Nintendo history, so it only makes sense that the company would eventually remaster it. Which got us wondering: are there other titles in the Nintendo back catalog that could use a remake — not a sequel — to usher them into the modern console age? [Link: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old | https://www.theverge.com/games/1025415/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-review-nintendo-switch-2 | The Verge]
Farmer receives $100 million donation, Crawford announces in State of the University address
Miami University President Gregory Crawford delivered his 11th State of the University address on Thursday, Nov. 5. Crawford touted the university’s accomplishments and announced the Farmer School of Business received the largest donation in Miami’s history.
Ravens Make History Nobody Wants After Jaguars Beatdown
The Baltimore Ravens have an unenviable situation at quarterback, and a historic anecdote only makes it worse. After their 33-10 loss at the hands of Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore in Week 9’s edition of Thursday Night Football, the Ravens became just the first team ever in nearly […] The post Ravens Make History Nobody Wants After Jaguars Beatdown appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
Texas has a long history of political upsets. Where does 2026 fit?
From "Pappy" O'Daniel to Ann Richards, Texas has seen surprising elections. Here's how the 2026 results fit that history.
Scientists Determine Mysterious Pink Rock Found in Sahara Desert Is 4.1 Billion-Year-Old Piece of Mars
The rare discovery could help scientists unlock new clues about the Red Planet’s ancient history
Lakers’ Luka Doncic accomplishes feat not seen since Kobe Bryant
Luka Doncic continues to rewrite the Los Angeles Lakers’ record books, accomplishing another remarkable scoring milestone previously achieved by Kobe Bryant. The superstar guard, who recently made NBA history during a win over the Sacramento Kings, has now recorded four consecutive 40-point performances, joining an exclusive group of franchise […] The post Lakers’ Luka Doncic accomplishes feat not seen since Kobe Bryant appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Blizzard confirms: World of Warcraft Forever is the biggest launch in WoW history, beating Wrath of the Lich King
Blizzard confirmed that World of Warcraft Forever is absolutely huge, and potentially represents a headache for World of Warcraft's retail arm.
Phoenix florist loses over $126,000 in online business account hack
A Phoenix flower shop owner is speaking out after a cyber breach drained more than $126,000 from his Stripe payment account, following the busiest month in his company's nine-year history.
Illinois Scientists Revisit 165-Year-Old Soil Sample to Uncover History of Land Use
Soil scientists are analyzing 165 years of change on a historic sampling site in Illinois.
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 …
All the ways Michigan made history in the 2026 midterm election
There were historic firsts and a blue wave all over the country. Here's what happened in Michigan and what it means for the next two years.
Big discoveries, little scientists: ScienceFest returns to Salt Lake City
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts two-day event featuring science demonstrations, workshops and activities for all ages
‘Fire Country’ star Kevin Alejandro teases tension between Manny and Mickey in high-stakes ‘Sheriff Country’ crossover
Fire Country’s Kevin Alejandro teases high-stakes Sheriff Country crossover event — including the awkward romantic history between Manny and Mickey.
Meteorite found in the Sahara shows what Mars was like 4.1 billion years ago
Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in 2022 in West Africa, could reveal clues about the earliest history of Mars.
Ray Romano inducted into Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame
The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame inducted Ray Romano as its first nonmusical honoree in the museum's 22-year history Thursday.
Patriots-Packers History Features Forgotten Super Bowl Connection, Overtime Thriller
The Patriots and Packers haven't met at Gillette Stadium since 2018, and their history includes a Super Bowl, an overtime thriller and one of the NFL's strangest kickoff returns.
Ray Romano, who played a Newsday sportswriter on 'Everybody Loves Raymond," inducted in Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame
The "Everybody Loves Raymond" star is the museum's first nonmusical honoree in its 22-year history.
Women make history in New York politics. Now advocates want to see results
Women now hold some of the most powerful positions in state government.
Meet the Authors: 'Mississippi Politics' by Andy Taggart and Jere Nash
A book co-authored by Andy Taggart and Jere Nash features political history in the state of Mississippi from 2006 to the mid-2020s.
Connor Hellebuyck’s Departure From Jets Nearly Got Much Uglier
Connor Hellebuyck’s divorce from the Winnipeg Jets was messy.But according to one NHL Insider, it nearly got much uglier.Hellebuyck is arguably the best player in the history of the Winnipeg Jets, leading the franchise with 125 point shares.After the star netminder made it clear he no longer wanted to play for Winnipeg, Hellebuyck sat on […] The post Connor Hellebuyck’s Departure From Jets Nearly Got Much Uglier appeared first on HEAVY.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Celebrates 40 years of discovery
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – From prehistoric fossils to the mysteries of outer space, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has spent four decades bringing the state’s scientific history to life. Now, as the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary, staff members are reflecting on its evolution while preparing several special events…
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Celebrates 40 years of discovery
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – From prehistoric fossils to the mysteries of outer space, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has spent four decades bringing the state’s scientific history to life. Now, as the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary, staff members are reflecting on its evolution while preparing several special events […]
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science marks 40 years
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science will mark its 40th year Saturday with free shows and giveaways for the first 1,000 kids.
Oscar Health boasts ‘strongest year’ in its history after outperforming in Q3
Oscar Health is seeing the “strongest year” in its history in 2026, CEO Mark Bertolini told investors during the company’s third quarter earnings call Thursday morning. | The company also saw a 27% YOY increase in membership, ending Q3 with 2.7 million members.
Miami University’s business school gets largest-ever gift of $100M
The largest donation in Miami University’s history will also push the school over its years-long fundraising goal of $1 billion, officials announced Thursday.
Israel must not become the scapegoat for America’s political failures
Blaming Israel for America's political failures echoes a troubling history that Christian leaders have a moral obligation to reject.
Lake Erie Maple Expo Rooted in Science and Family History
The Lake Erie Maple Expo brings producers together to explore maple syrup production, value-added products, industry innovations and changing environmental challenges.
AI For Science & The Fear Of Missing History
Bern, 1905. A young patent clerk named Albert Einstein published four papers that transformed physics. More than a century later, scientific breakthroughs still tend to be associated with exceptional people and years of painstaking work. Artificial intelligence (AI) may change the pace of that work. Models are beginning to help prove mathematical results, spot patterns […]
De Roon: “I never had any doubts about joining Roma.”
Marten De Roon gave an interview to Idealista.it in which he discussed his arrival in Rome.“When the coach called me, I already knew it would be a difficult move, partly because of the history of Ro...
World of Warcraft: Forever has gone live, and PC gamers are calling it the smoothest launch in Blizzard's MMORPG history
Players have begun logging into World of Warcraft: Forever and are amazed by how smoothly it's running and how fast they can log in thanks to the game's new "Megaserver".
GOP senator says party should learn from history, not ‘double down on dumb’
UConn Gathering Connects the Science of Reading with Classrooms Worldwide
A student exchange with Hebrew University builds on Haskins’ history of discovery and its work with educators close to home and around the world
Annie Andrews' Senate upset shakes up South Carolina politics
Annie Andrews' victory over Darline Graham in the U.S. Senate race was a history-making, nationally significant upset. What it means for SC politics.
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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