Scientists fearful after Trump halts NIH grant critiques

Orders to freeze journey, conferences, communications and hiring on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being—and all different companies throughout the Division of Well being and Human Companies—has some federally funded researchers on edge simply days into President Donald Trump’s second time period. Students say they’ve acquired emails canceling key conferences that decide which analysis tasks…

An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some lecturers anxious

The College of California, Los Angeles, is providing a medieval literature course subsequent yr that may use an AI-generated textbook. The textbook, developed in partnership with the training device firm Kudu, was produced from course supplies offered by Zrinka Stahuljak, the comparative literature professor at UCLA instructing the category. College students can work together with…