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Trump's FDA nominee says MMR shot is 'safe and effective' at Senate hearing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/fda-heidi-overton-measles-mmr-vaccine #Health #Politics #SciencePolicy

Vaccines for ash trees and gene-edited butterflies among UK projects to get £30m funding https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/21/gene-edited-butterflies-vaccines-ash-trees-uk-science-projects-30m-funding #Conservation #SciencePolicy #GeneEditing #Science #UkNews #SyntheticBiology #Biodiversity #AshDieback #Butterflies #Amphibians #Environment #Genetics #Wildlife #Biology #DominicCummings

An interesting evolution from Mike Thelwall. A year ago, he was cautiously exploring whether LLMs could approximate expert research assessment. Today, he reports that ChatGPT-5 mini reached correlations of up to 0.905 with expert REF2021 quality assessments across some disciplines, using a dataset of more than 107,000 UK research articles. https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2026-0058 #ResearchEvaluation #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #ChatGPT #LLM #AI #SciencePolicy

Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support By Ian Sample Science editor Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/27/jodrell-bank-observatory-facing-closure-uk #Astronomy #Science #Space #Sciencepolicy #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #IanSampleScienceeditor