David Matthews

This account is mothballed. You can read my most recent stories for @scibus here: sciencebusiness.net/author/david-m…

AI and bioscience coming together in potentially scary ways - and yet, very little active interest or action on this issue at the EU level (I would love to be corrected). sciencebusiness.net/news/ai/scient…

At the last minute, the US extended its science and technology agreement with China, giving it six months to renegotiate. We ask: how should it now be changed? sciencebusiness.net/news/internati…

China’s involvement in Horizon Europe is becoming increasingly restricted to environment-focused and basic research, but is still holding up despite geopolitical headwinds and the disruption to face-to-face contact caused by the pandemic. sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon-e…

“The noticeable thing here is Germany really waking up" German private fusion firms multiply as government pledges fresh research money sciencebusiness.net/news/nuclear-f…

Leading MEP urges Commission not to compromise with UK over Horizon Europe association. Christian Ehler worries about reopening the Brexit deal and jeopardising association negotiations with Japan and Canada tinyurl.com/aw6r4vm4

If a deal gets done on the Northern Ireland Protocol, the UK will finally join Horizon Europe, right? I'm afraid it's not that simple - there will be another round of haggling over what the UK pays, which could delay or even derail association. sciencebusiness.net/news/Horizon-E…

US chip embargos threaten Chinese civilian science | Science|Business sciencebusiness.net/news/us-chip-e…

Featuring @JonasSandbrink @Jackstilgoe @katecrawford and several others who quite sensibly are not on Twitter

(a final disclaimer - the EA community is big and diverse, so it's hard, but not impossible, to talk about it having a single view. Not all are longtermists, nor do you have to be an EA, or a longtermist, to worry about runaway AI or engineered pandemics)

I've been following the effective altruism movement for nearly two years, and while scientists might only have heard of it because of the Sam Bankman-Fried scandal, they should pay attention - EA has big plans to reshape science and technology: sciencebusiness.net/news/inside-ef…

“It is a big deal...more principal investigators will get their grants awarded.” The US's Chips and Science bill actually has more money for basic science - $60bn over 5 years - than it does for chips. Plus there's $20bn to commercialise research. sciencebusiness.net/news/us-draws-…

It can happen to entire conference proceedings too. Here's an extract of a report by publishers released last month. publicationethics.org/files/paper-mi…

So-called academic paper mills are stealing academics' identities, duping journals into giving them guest editor positions, and then publishing hundreds of fake research articles for profit, Springer Nature's research integrity boss tells me. sciencebusiness.net/news/us-lawmak…

Sci orgs already getting nervous letters in to the two candidates urging them not to drop the Johnson government focus on R&D: sciencecampaign.org.uk/news-media/pre…

"Nothing is guaranteed". The UK has released details of its alternative to Horizon Europe - but the more immediate question is whether a Truss or Sunak government will actually fund it. It's going to be a nerve-wracking leadership campaign for UK unis... sciencebusiness.net/news/uk-publis…