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Researchers in the Division of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Nottingham have been awarded funding to develop the next generation of plant-based protein products.
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New research, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that repeated doses of paracetamol in people aged 65 and over, can lead to an increased risk of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and renal complications.
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A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to the development of new magnetic memory devices with the potential to increase operation speeds of up to a thousand times.
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News - New AI model could make using solar power more reliable - University of Nottingham
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Researchers at the University of Nottingham have created an AI model that allows them to accurately predict the amount of solar energy that can be created in different climates, making grid integration easier in the UK.
on Nov 22
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New research has found that people with a genetic defect in their ability to digest sucrose eat less cake, sweets and chocolate, which could hold the key to helping the wider population to eat less sugar.
on Nov 16
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New research into a chemical produced by a caterpillar fungus that has shown promise as a possible cancer treatment has revealed how it interacts with genes to interrupt cell growth signals. The discovery is an important step towards developing new drugs for the treatment of the disease.
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For many years, I have been fascinated by war metaphors that people use to talk about bacteria, especially in the context of antimicrobial resistance, the microbiome and microbiology itself. I am not the only one, of course. There is a thriving literature on war metaphors relating to bacteria...
on Nov 1
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Organoid Intelligence - Making Science Public
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I have written about organoids and intelligence, especially of the artificial kind. However, I haven’t explored ‘organoid intelligence‘ until now. Despite this concept emerging around 2022, it escaped my attention. So, I have some catching up to do. In this post, I’ll first briefly define...
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Supervisor: Dr Bipin PandeySecondary Supervisor: Dr Poonam Mehra, Prof Malcolm BennettSubject Area: Plant biology and climate changeResearch TitleRevealing how plant roots adapt to compacted soil environmentsResearch DescriptionWe are inviting...
on Oct 24
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An international study involving people from 11 countries has shown most people, including those in areas most affected by climate change, don’t understand the term ‘Climate Justice’.However they do recognise the social, historical, and economic injustices that characterise the climate crisis....
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow
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Applications are invited for a Research Associate/Fellow to work on a project leading to the development of a hybrid wheat system at the Nottingham Wheat Research Centre (Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, UK).The purpose of this role...
on Oct 17
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Intelligence - Making Science Public
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Since the recent explosion of discussions around artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, even super-intelligence, people have started to wonder what intelligence actually is… A rather futile enterprise in my humble opinion, as ‘intelligence’ is a word like ‘love’ or ‘justice’...
on Sep 28
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Cancer, metaphors and Bond villains - Making Science Public
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There are metaphors that utterly change how we see the world and there are metaphors that change how we see microscopic bits of it. There are metaphors that are constitutive of theories in philosophy and science and there are more ephemeral ones that provide glimpses of new phenomena. I am just...
on Aug 16
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From large language models to DNA language models - Making Science Public
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In October 2023 I wrote a blog post about a convergence of large language models or LLMs and DNA. LLMs are subset of Generative AI that focus on generating and understanding human language and producing human-like text. DNA is often compared to a language or a code. In the post I quoted a...
on Aug 9
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Bio-hybrid robots and responsible innovation - Making Science Public
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Do you remember the film that I call in my mind ‘number five is alive’ or to give it its real name “Short Circuit”? It came out in 1986 and features an experimental robot that is struck by lightning, gains intelligence, escapes a military facility, and goes out to learn about the world. The abiding ...
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Large language models, meaning and maths - Making Science Public
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I was reading an article in The Guardian about two novels by Benjamin Labatut. One novel, published in 2020, is entitled When We Cease to Understand the World and deals with quantum mechanics and war. The second novel The Maniac, published in 2023 and just out in paperback, is about John von...
on Jul 26
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Fixed term)
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Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work on a project to develop self-assembled biomaterial-based in vitro models of plant roots to recreate and study the natural plant microbiome The successful candidate will join a...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Fixed term)
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Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work on a project to develop plant organ models to study viral tropism in the laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Gabriel Castrillo (Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, UK).The purpose of this...
on Jul 18
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News - Sorry, not sorry – new book sheds light on the art of politeness - University of Nottingham
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Are politeness standards really declining? A new book from a University of Nottingham academic answers this long-debated question and reveals the important role politeness still plays in our work, relationships and lives.
on Jul 16
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The Department of Music at the University of Nottingham is looking to appoint a Teaching Associate in Ethnomusicology.You will have a PhD in Music or relevant field (or to be awarded by time of appointment, by which we mean submitted, passed its viva...
on Jul 15
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Blueprints, postmen and a bit of metaphor archaeology - Making Science Public
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At the end of June, the NHS announced a new gene therapy for haemophilia B. Gene therapy replaces a faulty gene or adds a new gene to correct a mutation (genetic fault). People with haemophilia B lack the blood clotting protein factor IX and can bleed severely from even a slight injury. Some...
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Metaphor identification: From manual to automatic - Making Science Public
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I have written about metaphors for AIs and LLMs (large language models) like ChatGPT, but I don’t know much about what one might call the mechanics of metaphor recognition, identification and interpretation inside LLMs. So, I wanted to find out and went down a rabbit hole – I never quite reached...
on Jun 28
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How to do things with prompts: Magic words, speech acts and AI - Making Science Public
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Looking at what’s going on in AI sometimes makes me feel like the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, When he first visited the Trobriand Islands of then British New Guinea about a century ago, he became fascinated by the magic words that the islanders used and the actions they were believed to...
on Jun 26
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term)
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Applications are invited for a Research Associate/Fellow on a project to validate and develop nitrogen fixing technologies to benefit small holder farmers. The project will be in the laboratory of Professor Erik Murchie (Sutton Bonington Campus...
on Jun 26
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Biochar in the news - Making Science Public
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In this blog post Carol Morris, Catherine Price and I want to present two articles on a rather niche topic relating to climate change mitigation – niche but nevertheless interesting and important: biochar. What is biochar? Biochar is amongst a growing suite of approaches developed to address the...
on Jun 11
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Mud, metaphors and politics: Meaning-making during the 2021 German floods - Making Science Public
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This post is a brief summary of an article Rusi Jaspal and I wrote in the aftermath of the 2021 floods in Germany. Many more floods have happened since then in many more parts of the world. The article was published online in 2023 and has only just come out in print, in June 2024, ...
on May 31
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AI safety: It's everywhere but what is it? - Making Science Public
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AI Safety is the new black. It is everywhere. As Alex Hern wrote from the Seoul AI safety summit on Tuesday “The hot AI summer is upon us” and with it the hot AI safety summer…. When you look at this timeline for “AI safety” on the news database Nexis, you can see that the ...
on May 24
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Milk, reservoirs and spillovers: Bird flu in cows - Making Science Public
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On 26 April my sister emailed me from the United States and said “I might have to go over to oat milk”. She was alarmed by reports that bits of bird flu virus had been found in pasteurised milk. She has not gone over to oat milk yet. It seems that there is almost no ...
on May 10
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Seeding clouds - seeding doubts - Making Science Public
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In 2009, two things happened in climate change discussions that at first glance seem to be quite unconnected. Firstly, the Royal Society released a seminal report on ‘geoengineering’—the deliberate alteration or creation of weather and climate conditions (which is generally considered unwise)....
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From contamination to collapse: On the trail of a new AI metaphor - Making Science Public
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I wrote my first ever post about AI and ChatGPT on 6 January 2023. Amongst other things, I talked about the danger of ‘knowledge pollution’. I wanted to highlight the dangers of a gradual corruption of our knowledge base. Knowledge pollution ChatGPT and many other bots or AIs like it are based...
on Apr 19
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Hunting for AI metaphors - Making Science Public
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Thousands of articles and blog posts have been written about generative AI, especially ChatGPT. Some or these, especially blog posts, are about metaphors. As a metaphor hunter (see image!) I feel a bit ashamed that I haven’t done much on metaphor and AI. A little bit yes; for example, on what...
on Apr 12
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Xenotransplantation - Making Science Public
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About 25 years ago, I first encountered something called Science and Technology Studies (STS) – a field that examines interactions between science and society (culture, policy etc.). One of the first articles I read, published in 1999, was by Nik Brown on...
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Vaccine hesitancy in Europe: A conceptual exploration - Making Science Public
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Many things changed rather fast when the Covid-19 pandemic spread around the world at the beginning of 2020. There were new social phenomena, like ‘social distancing’, a so-called non-pharmaceutical intervention intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus. There were new scientific and bodily...
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Some time ago I wrote a blog post with Aleksandra Stelmach and Alan Miguel Valdez about visuals used to make epigenetics public through the popular lens of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. I then promised some image analysis. Here is a summary of what we found (I thank ChatGPT for...
on Mar 1
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John Herschel: A snapshot of his adventures in photography - Making Science Public
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Sitting at home on a miserable day last week, I was reading a tweet, then a blog post by Stephen Case who wrote a book with my sort of title: Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel. That post cheered me up, as I learned something new. I went to the kitchen to ...
on Feb 16
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Responsible AI to the max: Meet Goody-2 - Making Science Public
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This is not a real blog post. I just needed to mark the advent of a thought-provoking and funny, yes funny, AI, namely Goody-2 (and my brain always adds ‘shoes’….). Finding Goody-2 A couple of days ago, I saw this tweet by Melanie Mitchell, a complexity scientist and expert on AI, which made me...
on Feb 10
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Truth, post-truth, and post-fake - Making Science Public
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I was sitting at my desk trying to think about something I could blog about. For some reason the word ‘truth’ popped into my head. After that I engaged in a bit of ‘reading the tea leaves’. That is, I messed about on the news database Nexis, rummaged in the Oxford English Dictionary and looked ...
on Feb 2
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News - Scientists trap krypton atoms to form one-dimensional gas - University of Nottingham
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For the first time, scientists have successfully trapped atoms of krypton (Kr), a noble gas, inside a carbon nanotube to form a one-dimensional gas.
on Jan 25
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A material that could replace current fungicides, increase food security, and help protect wildlife has been discovered.
on Jan 22
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Sickle cell disease and gene editing - Making Science Public
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Before the end of 2023, I had rarely heard of sickle cell disease (or anaemia). I knew it existed, but that was all. Then, around November and December, it was suddenly in the media spotlight, because UK and US health authorities approved a new therapy and because the new therapy used the still...
on Jan 21
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Humanising artificial intelligence and dehumanising actual intelligence - Making Science Public
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Millions of people will now have interacted with a new form of accessible artificial intelligence, in the form of ChatGPT, DALL-E or Midjourney. Many will have had (at first) quite strange feelings of empathy with the bot, saying please and thank you and trying not to overburden it. We might...
on Jan 20
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Sickle cell disease and identity - Making Science Public
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In my background post, I tried to provide some information about what sickle cell disease is, how it has so far been treated and what a new therapy using gene editing might involve. When such as treatment possibility was announced as approved by health agencies in the UK and the US, newspapers...
on Jan 13, 2024
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Climate change, metaphors and me - Making Science Public
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We were sitting round the kitchen table chatting after Christmas, reminiscing about last Christmas. I nostalgically said that last year such conversations had sparked my interest in AI in the form of ChatGPT and given me ideas for blogging. I wondered what I should blog about now. We all agreed...
on Dec 29, 2023
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Making science public 2023: End-of-year round up of blog posts - Making Science Public
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The year 2023 began with a bang. Suddenly there was a new form of ‘artificial intelligence’, and by ‘new’ I mean a form of AI that even I could use and vaguely understand. There was, it seems, some monstrous machine (called LLM) gobbling up everything we have ever produced in science, literature...
on Dec 15, 2023
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An academic from the University of Nottingham has been awarded a Consolidator grant from the European Research Council (ERC), worth €2 million, to further explore an area in the intersection of computer science and mathematics.
on Dec 6, 2023
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The human side of AI: Delivery robots in Milton Keynes - Making Science Public
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This post has been written in collaboration with Alan Miguel Valdez, Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University, Milton Keynes *** At the beginning of November 2023, an international AI Safety Summit took place at Bletchley Park, the iconic location of World War II...
on Nov 17, 2023
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News - Left-coiling snail needed as mate for rare and unnamed snail - University of Nottingham
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A rare left-coiling snail is on the lookout for love after being discovered by a snail-searching academic in Nottingham.
on Nov 10, 2023
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Science and trust – the sequel - Making Science Public
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In 2018 a new ‘International Science Council’ (ICS) was established and I wrote a blog post in which I critically dissected the announcement of this launch. I tried to show that this announcement seemed to perpetuate a series of misconceptions relating to science and trust. At the end of October...
on Nov 10, 2023
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Super-intelligence and Supercomputers: When frontiers collide - Making Science Public
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This post has been written in collaboration with Alan Miguel Valdez, Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University, Milton Keynes (the home of Bletchley Park and of little roaming robots) *** This week the UK AI Safety Summit took place at Bletchley Park, an iconic...
on Nov 3, 2023