UCL in the media
Thinking doesn't have to feel so hard
Dr Matthew Botvinick (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) explained most people don't contemplate whether or not to make coffee in the morning. They just go ahead and brew a cup because it's part of their routine.
Forget the age-old smoker's cough, now doctors are seeing patients with 'vaper's cough' (and it can sound very different!)
Professor Lion Shahab (UCL Epidemiology & Health Care) said: 'developing a cough is a normal response to stopping smoking as the cilia in the lungs recover and become functional again.’ 'So, if a smoker switches to vaping, something similar may be going on.'
The best new books on economics
Dr Brian Klaas (UCL European & International Social & Political Studies) is profiled in the best new books on economics with his new book ‘Fluke’.
Climate change increases chances of zoonotic disease ‘spillover’
Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla (UCL Infection & Immunity) warns that the number of new infectious diseases with epidemic potential has increased nearly fourfold over the past six decades.
Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout
Professor Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science and Technology Studies) warns against pinning the future of AI on scientific breakthroughs and lucrative financing efforts. He said: “The failure of the technology to live up to the hype is inevitable”
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Expert stresses the importance of people-to-people exchanges in education
Chinese children learning English and British children learning Chinese will be the "bedrock" of the relationship between the two countries, according to Katharine Carruthers (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society).
Scientists and comedians join forces to get climate crisis message across
Comedian Jo Brand and Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) team up in the video series Climate Science Translated to discuss climate science in down-to-earth language that pulls no punches.
A parent’s guide to dealing with teen mental health
Professor Vivian Hill (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) says that from her visits to schools, it was clear that pupils as young as eight years old were worried about how their parents would afford rising prices during the cost of living crisis.
What is 'quiet quitting' and is it on the rise?
Touching on 'job creep', where people end up doing tasks outside the original scope of their role, Dr Anthony Klotz (UCL School of Management) says employers have failed to “recalibrate for more normal times” after the pandemic.
Wes Streeting says Labour is better prepared than it was in 1997
“The next Government can super-charge this revolution in health care by supporting the technology transfer process with targeted support to accelerate great ideas from our universities to have real impact where they are needed most," says Dr Anne Lane (UCL Business).