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Hello Nature Index readers, How can the UK regain its edge as a science superpower? Universities have a major role to play, and could benefit from lessons learned by their American counterparts. They also need greater freedoms and more equity, according to institutional leadership. Also this week, a potential new strategy for curbing research misconduct and the AI funding heavyweights of the world. |
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Artificial-intelligence R&D projects have been given a major boost by governments around the world, with funding increasing from US$207 million in 2001 to nearly $3.6 billion in 2019, according to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation in the US and the EU’s framework research programme are the largest funders for AI R&D, as can be seen in the graph below. | ||||||||||||||||||
The field of artificial intelligence has undergone a rapid expansion over the past two decades, as global competition between the United States, China and Europe heats up. "Mapping and measuring this research explosion – and the funding underlying its ignition – is of prime importance to policy makers and experts, as is encouraging its further development towards the common good," the OECD report states. |
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Camera off or camera on? It’s a question that’s come up a lot since working from home became commonplace due to the pandemic. In some opinions, keeping your camera off in a video meeting is just rude. There’s also a view that people who choose not to show their faces in virtual meetings are less engaged in the discussion. It was only a matter of time before someone did a study on it, so here we have a paper in the Journal of Applied Psychology from US researchers. Guess what they found, based on 1400+ observations of 103 people? That those with their cameras on experienced more "Zoom fatigue", and this correlated with them being less vocal and less engaged than those who were not using cameras. These effects were stronger for women and for newer employees. They concluded it was important for employees to be able to decide for themselves whether or not to have their cameras on, and suggest that others shouldn’t make assumptions about their distractedness or otherwise. |
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