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Leicester Life Sciences Postgrad Researchers - Success Stories

📢 Calling all University of Leicester College of Life Sciences Postgraduate Researchers! 📢 🌟Do you have a success story to share? It’s time for our semi-regular celebrating success round up! Drop me an email and tell me what you’re super proud of right now! 🤗I want to hear about anything, big or small. If it’s important to you, I want to hear it! Ideas include (but are not limited to): 📖 Recent publications 🏆 Awards or prizes 🎙️ Talks, presentations ❗️ Absolutely anything you are proud of and want to tell me about (Only share things you are happy to be shared publicly, so no top secret missions 🕵️) Doctoral College at the University of Leicester University of Leicester Richard Thomas Alex Goddard Faezeh zangiabadi Louise Wain

le.ac.uk

Experts With Unconventional Views - Science & Public Health Mistrust

🗣️ Want to be a guest on Why Should I Trust You? Or know someone who would be great? 🧡 Send us a pitch! [email redacted] Our show focuses on issues driving mistrust/discord in the space of mainstream science, medicine and public health. We often moderate group conversations across political and ideological divides and we also have individual guests on. The types of guests we look for: ✅ Someone with a really fresh expert angle or lived experience with a topic. ✅ A guest with unconventional perhaps even unpopular perspectives but might be getting at a key problem our society is facing. ✅ We invite guests from all over the political, ideological, regional, cultural, whatever spectrum -- as long as you are willing to come and engage in a good-faith conversation about how we tackle some of these challenges our society faces. 🚫 Not interested in someone looking to promote a product or a book. 🚫 Not interested in someone who has been on lots of outlets and making the rounds with the same message. 🚫 Not interested in someone with a perspective that is readily available on many other platforms. We want to hear your ideas! Shoot us a note. 🙏

whyshoulditrustyou.net

Marketers Running AI Video Ads - Cost & Performance Experiences

Looked into the actual costs of AI video ads vs traditional production. Here's what I found. I've been looking into how AI video ad production actually compares to traditional production in terms of costs and performance. Thought I'd share some of what I found. On the cost side, AI video tools run about $0.50 to $30 per finished minute depending on the platform. Traditional agency work is more like $15,000 to $50,000+ per minute. Pretty massive gap. Probably the most interesting example is Kalshi's NBA Finals ad. One creator made a 30-second TV spot in 2 days with Google Veo 3 for around $2,000. Normally something like that would cost hundreds of thousands and take weeks or months to produce. Performance-wise, companies using AI in their campaigns are seeing around 20 to 30% better ROI. Meta's AI-enabled campaigns are averaging $4.52 return per dollar spent. A big part of it is just being able to test way more variations cheaply so you find what works faster. That said, it's not all upside. NielsenIQ ran a neuroscience study and found that consumers rated AI-generated ads as more annoying, boring, and confusing compared to traditional ones. Even the higher quality AI ads showed weaker memory activation in brain scans. Basically AI creative only outperforms when people can't tell it's AI-made. So the takeaway for me is that it's not really an either/or thing. AI makes sense for testing, iteration, localization, and high-volume performance stuff. Traditional still wins when you need real emotional impact or brand storytelling. I put together a longer writeup with all the sources on my blog if anyone's interested. Would love to hear from anyone who's actually running AI video ads. What's been your experience?

Adults Inspired by Johnny Ball - Impact of His Shows & Memoir

Johnny Ball’s joining us to unpack his new memoir, ’Stories Which Must Be Told’ 📖 Did his shows spark your love of maths or science? We’d love to hear from you! Send us a video or a message and share the impact Johnny’s had 📚✏️ Send your messages to 👉 [email redacted] 📩 https://t.co/1pY6cbOeVW

bbc.co.uk

Parents of Children 0-4 During COVID in London - Development Concerns

Looking to interview parent of child who was 0-4 years old during COVID (based in London) Hi, my name is Alexander Saraff, I'm a master's journalism student at City St. George's. I'm looking to speak with a parent who thinks that their child may have been impacted developmentally by all the social regulations during COVID, and is willing to talk about it. It's for my Health & Science journalism class. I can move anywhere in London for the interview. If you prefer to reply to me via email or phone, it's: [email redacted] \+447344104335 Cheers, Alex

UK DB Trustees & Pension Experts - Employer Extraction of Surpluses

In his mission to urge pension funds into private asset investment, pensions minister Torsten Bell recently extolled a Canadian scheme. He reported that the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan made 30.2% last year in venture capital. In reality, OTPP actually had a lousy year because it lost money on private equity, a much bigger part of the private asset universe (and OTPP's exposure). My suspicion is that ministers do not really understand private capital, beyond thinking that they would not have to spend money on infrastructure and science startups if they can get pension funds to do so instead. As a result they have been making some wild claims for the sector They may also be bedazzled by IRR figures (not, repeat, NOT the same as cash returns on equities). I took a look at all of this in my last FT column, publishing just before the welcome rejection in the Lords of the government's attempt to claim powers to mandate pensions investment in private assets. I'm now planning to take a look at government plans to make it easier for employers to extract DB surpluses. If any Linkedin in connections have any thoughts or research on this, please drop me a line. I'm interested in what you think. Thanks! https://lnkd.in/ePR6DdKf

ft.com

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