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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Nov-2025 04:11 ET (18-Nov-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)

14-Nov-2025

For platforms using gig workers, bonuses can be a double-edged sword

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the growing gig economy, where a company’s success depends on contractors whose schedules they can’t control, businesses often turn to bonuses to lure and retain these workers. But according to new Cornell-led research, bonuses can be a losing strategy for the stakeholders involved in platform operations.

Journal: Production and Operations Management

13-Nov-2025

Study: Disadvantaged neighborhoods face barriers to access cultural institutions

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Less educated and lower income neighborhoods are consistently farther away from cultural institutions – such as elite universities, museums, and theaters – that can help advance one’s social mobility, according to a new study from the USC Price School of Public Policy.

Journal: Journal of Economic Geography

13-Nov-2025

SETI Institute welcomes Dr. Christina (Chrissy) Richey as Director of Partnerships & Business Development

SETI Institute
Business Announcement

The SETI Institute announced the appointment of Dr. Christina (Chrissy) Richey as Director of Partnerships and Business Development, effective October 16, 2025. Richey joins the SETI Institute from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), holding the position of Program Manager for Research and Technology Development in the Office of R&D. With extensive experience in research management, strategic collaboration, and science leadership, Richey brings a deep understanding of how to advance scientific innovation through cross-sector partnerships.

"My career has always been focused on being a resource and leader for our fantastic research community, and I could think of no better place to do just that than the SETI Institute,” said Richey. “I look forward every day to helping us ask the biggest question of ‘Are we alone?’ with some of the best teams and best minds in the world.”

13-Nov-2025

High-engagement social media posts related to prescription drug promotion for 3 major drug classes

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: The current analysis illustrates that drug promotion content is frequently posted by individual creators, lacks essential risk information, and bears the hallmarks of undisclosed marketing. These findings suggest that posts circumvented established advertising principles and potentially eroded the fair balance crucial for informed patient decision-making, consistent with prior literature on traditional direct-to-consumer advertising’s impact on prescribing.

Journal: JAMA

13-Nov-2025

A public health strategy with teeth could be a magic bullet for UK government

City St George’s, University of London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Unhealthy lifestyles in deprived communities are stoking a series of economic and policy challenges in the UK, a new paper from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) suggests.

The paper says health inequalities between the richest and poorest have reversed the post-1945 increase in life expectancy, while boosting both NHS waiting lists and welfare spending. It has also driven the politically toxic post-Brexit rise in immigration through distorting local labour markets – exacerbating other national challenges such as the housing shortage.

Without a major drive aimed at deterring unhealthy lifestyles, the paper warns, health inequalities and the economic and social pressures they breed will continue to soar.

Journal: Risks

13-Nov-2025

The world’s healthiest countries aren’t the richest, according to new study

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wealth alone doesn’t make a nation healthy, according to new collaborative research from the University of Surrey and its international partners which ranks 38 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries on their progress toward global health goals.

Journal: Annals of Operations Research

13-Nov-2025

Efficiency rankings used by governments and businesses may not be accurate, according to new research

University of Surrey
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For decades, governments, banks, hospitals and schools have relied on data tools to decide who is efficient and who is not. However, according to new research from the University Surrey, many of these rankings are flawed, because they ignore the impact of time and shocks like recessions or pandemics.

Journal: Expert Systems with Applications