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Congratulations to Dr @Juliano_Denicol @UCL_BSSC @TheBartlettUCL who has been named on the @PMInstitute Future 50 Global Award 2024 list, in recognition of his work advancing the science to manage the world’s most complex infrastructure programmes.

Large language models, a type of #AI that analyses text, can predict the results of proposed neuroscience studies more accurately than human experts, finds a new study led by Dr Ken Luo @ken_lxl and Prof Brad Love @ProfData @UCLPALS

Congratulations to Dr @KarenJNokes and Alex White from @UCLLaws on winning the @ESRC's prestigious 2024 Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding Societal Impact award for their research with @UniofExeter on the Horizon Post Office scandal

UCL researchers co-led by Professor Anna David @PrenatalTherapy @UCL_IfWH @UCLPopHealthSci will form part of a new £50m @NIHRresearch initiative to reduce maternity inequalities by improving care and support for families before and between pregnancies

🖊️From US $300 billion investment to methane commitments, @ProfMarkMaslin @UCLgeography, Professor @PritiParikh73 @UCL_BSSC and Dr @SimonChinYee @uclspp offer their five key takeaways from #COP29 in The @ConversationUK.

Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, which is important for developing social relationships and trust, finds a new study led by Dr @KateLBC_ @UCLPALS

A loss of brain volume associated with new immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease may be caused by the removal of amyloid plaques, rather than the loss of neurons or brain tissue, finds a study led by Professor Nick Fox @drcionucl. Report by @hannagsslr

The heart condition dilated cardiomyopathy can be caused by the cumulative influence of hundreds or thousands of genes and not just by a single “aberrant” genetic variant, finds a new study co-led by Dr @tomlumbers @UCL_IHI with @imperialcollege @MRC_LMS

Chemists including @ChemistClancy and @grwUCL have created the world's thinnest spaghetti, 200 times thinner than a human hair. It is not intended as food but as an eco-friendly nanofiber that could be used in smart bandages and to help bone regeneration

The clinical language used around pregnancy loss can exacerbate patients' grief and trauma, and should be personalised where possible, according to work by Dr @BethMalory @UCLEnglishUsage @ArtsHumsUCL

Fifty promising #AssistiveTechnology start-up companies will be given new funding through a second phase of the Attvaran accelerator programme in India led by @GDIHub @ucl @IITDelhi & @IITMadras

People with poorer mental health are more prone to browsing negative content online, which further exacerbates their symptoms, finds a study by Prof Tali Sharot and @chris_a_kelly @affectivebrain @UCLPALS @MPC_CompPsych

The researchers have developed a plugin tool that adds content labels to webpages—similar to nutrition labels on food—designed to help people make healthier and more informed decisions online, which they explain in @TIME

About one in five ex-smokers in England currently vape, equivalent to 2.2 million people, according to a new study led by @DrSarahEJackson and Professor @LionShahab @UCL_BSH, with around 200,000 adults taking up vaping years after giving up smoking

Private school pupils in England no longer perform better than state pupils in English, Maths & Science GCSEs after socioeconomic adjusting, but still retain the edge in creative subjects, finds research led by Prof @jakeanders @CEPEO_UCL @IOE_London

UCL has launched an exciting new phase of our strategic partnership with @IISCBangalore, expanding our innovative work together in healthcare #UCLandIndia

The way that nearly six million galaxies have clustered over 11 billion years backs up Einstein’s prediction about gravity, according to a new study of data from the @desisurvey involving Profs @Ofer_Lahav, Peter Doel and David Brooks @uclmaps

Police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery, according to a new report from Prof Ben Bradford @UCLCrimeScience @UCLEngineering in collaboration with @VP_Centre

A new type of therapy that ‘edits’ a gene in patients with a rare heart condition has been shown to be safe and effective, according to a new clinical trial led by Prof Marianna Fontana & Prof Julian Gillmore @DoM_UCL @uclmedsci & @RoyalFreeNHS

Teenage truancy rates in developed Anglophone countries have risen faster than non-English-speaking countries since the pandemic, with girls more likely to skip school than boys, finds a working paper by Prof @JohnPeterJerrim @UCLSocRes @IOE_London