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We are thrilled to announce that 3 teams of 20 teams awarded #LongitudePrizeOnALS Discovery Awards are led by or collaborate with King’s researchers. 🔗kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-res… @AhmadAlKhleifat @JemeenSreed @AlfredoIacoange @PrimaMente @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @mndassoc @Challenge_Works

We talk a lot about surviving #cancer. We talk far less about what that survival feels like. Dr Lauren Heathcote (@LCHeathcote) writes for the Wellcome Trust's blog series on her work on the mechanisms of anxiety after cancer. linkedin.com/pulse/mental-h…

Professor Karen Steel has been awarded the Grand Scientific Prize by @PourlAudition, a French hearing foundation. The Grand Scientific Prize honours scientists who have achieved a major breakthrough in the field of hearing research. 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/news/professor…

Researchers have been awarded £1.9m from @The_MRC to evaluate the impact of the UK’s mandatory folic acid fortification policy on maternal and child health: kcl.ac.uk/news/researche… @KingsCollegeLon

NEW Cambridge-headquartered tech giant Arm Holdings announces it will manufacture its own AI chips - a significant change after 3 decades of success getting its chip designs in 350 billion devices worldwide - IPhones, cars, data centres etc… partnerships announced with most of the worlds tech giants including OpenAI and Meta. The chips will be specialised for AI use, especially the deployment of “agents”. CEO Rene Haas tells BBC: "This marks the next phase of Arm’s journey - building on our roots in Cambridge, and the strength of our teams across the UK and around the world…” which puts Arm and the UK at the centre of global AI transformation.

Who decides what counts as “good” taste? At @kingsartshums, Sir Grayson Perry challenged how classical civilisation shapes ideas of beauty and power. kcl.ac.uk/news/why-i-hat…

Love to hear your views on our article please share them @LboroVC @timeshighered @KingsCollegeLon @aiatkings

A £1.7m award from @BBSRC will fund King’s-led research to investigate how food structure, processing and the gut microbiome shape the release, absorption & metabolism of key compounds found in plant-based foods, and how this impacts cardiovascular health kcl.ac.uk/news/researche…

We hear how a woman from rural southern Italy became the first female professor of chemical engineering in Scotland – and what she’s working on now: timeshighereducation.com/campus/campus-…

I recorded this after the Indian AI Summit in Delhi. My voice is a bit muffled but the message is clear. Thank you @EconomicTimes and especially @kpswathi for putting this out on International Women’s Day. Women’s voices need to be heard strong and clear in AI @unisouthampton

Happy #IWD2026! I am grateful for the formidable women I’ve worked with. While I can’t list everyone, I want to highlight @DameWendyDBE @evelynwelch2013 Hayaatun Selim Rachel Mills who represent the talent I’ve been lucky to call colleagues. Proud of my 3 daughters and my wife.

The war of unintended consequences via @FT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

Doing a PhD still value for money, read here……., the data tells a good story about PhD outcomes,” he said

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London this morning simply beautiful! Have a good day

The combination of my own writing with ideas from LLMs tend to produce good outcomes and allows me not to outsource my writing to LLMs.

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Congratulations to Professor Gideon Lack, consultant at Evelina London and professor of paediatric allergy @KingsCollegeLon, who has been spotlighted by @TIME as a top 100 most influential health pioneer: time.com/collections/ti….