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Machine Learning Requires Careful Stewardship Says Royal Society

Machine Learning Requires Careful Stewardship Says Royal Society

Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.

Genetic Technologies – What Are They and Where Might They Take Us?

Genetic Technologies – What Are They and Where Might They Take Us?

An animation explaining how genetic technologies work, as well as their possible ethical and societal implications; co-produced by the Royal Society and by the Wellcome Trust.

Brexit and the International Mobility of Scientistst

Brexit and the International Mobility of Scientistst

Following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, arrangements for the movement of people to and from the UK look likely to change.  Will scientists be affected?

Intergovernmental agreement on science boosted

Intergovernmental agreement on science boosted

Scientific cooperation between the UK and Russia was boosted in August this year when Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to extend the UK-Russia Intergovernmental Agreement on Science and Technology cooperation for another 10 years.

How has publishing changed in the last 20 years?

How has publishing changed in the last 20 years?

It is useful to consider the trajectory of both scientific and literary publishing on the grid-group plane defined by Mary Douglas which arranges attitudes along two axes: one ranging from the hierarchical to the egalitarian, and the other spanning individualistic to communitarian. I would contend that, in both cases, there has been a move from the hierarchical/communitarian quadrant towards the egalitarian/individualistic zone.