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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin is Ireland's oldest university, a research institution spanning sciences, humanities, and engineering in Dublin.

Known aliases

  • TCD
  • Trinity
  • Trinity's School of Natural Sciences

Current stories

scienceOne report1 publisher

Corrected collagen meta-analyses show no link between dose and skin hydration or elasticity

Grimes and Mahto fixed errors in two collagen meta-analyses from 2021 and 2023 and found no significant link between dose and skin hydration or elasticity. Without a dose response, the skin gains reported in short, largely industry-funded trials are harder to attribute to collagen itself.

Publishers:sciencealert.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives65
Confidence50
scienceConfirmed3 publishers

Speech clock trained on 2,928 Spanish speakers rates cognitively impaired people as older

Agustín Ibáñez and colleagues built an AI speech clock from 2,928 Spanish speakers that rates people with cognitive impairment as older than their age. Its evidence so far compares diagnosed patients with healthy volunteers, so its promise as a cheap dementia screen depends on tests that have not been run yet.

Perspective Coverage

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Builder 35%
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Operator 57%
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Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives35
Confidence60
scienceOne report1 publisher

Trinity's free Geabaire tool gives non-speaking autistic children a voice built on Irish grammar

Trinity College Dublin released Geabaire, a free Irish speech-generating aid for non-speaking autistic children, as 24 Irish-medium autism classes open. Children in those classes can now use a voice aid that speaks the language their school teaches in.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence45
scienceOne report1 publisher

Museum DNA puts the moss carder bumblebee's genetic diversity down a quarter in a century

DNA from more than 100 museum specimens gives conservationists a century-long baseline for a declining British pollinator. The yearly rate of loss it measures is far too slow for a decade of field monitoring to have caught.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption20
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence55
scienceOne report1 publisher

Principal component analysis reads a brown dwarf's weather from its JWST light curve

Astronomers at Trinity College Dublin report that two components account for most of what changes in SIMP 0136's rotating spectrum, a decomposition they hope to refine for fainter brown dwarfs.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption15
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence55
scienceOne report1 publisher

Sixteen weeks of a banned fungicide left soil bacteria resistant to three antibiotics

Two Trinity College Dublin studies ran soil microbial communities for 16 weeks under a fungicide, under warming, and under both. One paper reports antibiotic resistance in the exposed bacteria; the other reports weaker barley.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives45
Confidence50
scienceOne report1 publisher

Trinity-led survey of Irish workplaces finds AI adding verification work to existing jobs

The Right-Sizing AI at Work study reports almost half of respondents using AI regularly and describes review and judgment duties spreading into ordinary jobs. The published account carries no sample size.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence36
Adoption30
Hype gap+34
Incentives76
Confidence57
scienceOne report1 publisher

Yeast fibre in the chow, not the needle: obesity's immune damage looks reversible in mice

A Trinity College Dublin and UCD team says dietary yeast beta-glucan retrained bone marrow progenitors in obese mice, restoring anti-tumour immunity that weight loss alone did not.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+38
Incentives66
Confidence40
scienceOne report1 publisher

The map of colonial extraction and the map of biodiversity turn out to be the same map

A 168-country study in People and Nature argues that the regions colonial powers targeted hardest were the most species-rich, and that the resulting extraction economies still structure poverty.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+28
Incentives58
Confidence38