Policy communications @lifearc. Previously @royalsociety and health correspondent for @independent and @pulsetoday. Blue tick loser. Opinions/typos my own
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Fair play to @EastMidRailway staff on the platform. Managed the queue when they actually had train capacity to work with.
Ewhays going on @EastMidRailway? Not letting anyone on trains to London from Sheffield. No information apart from "try again tomorrow" and that 700 people are booked for a 200 person train. The advice lines are closed and 100s of people stuck
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Salim @ProfAbdoolKarim taking time to do an interview for @cityjournalism students after his @royalsociety Faraday Lecture on Institutionalised disinformation in science.
Catch up with the talk here
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👋in the office tomorrow? fancy a fascinating free talk at the Wellcome Collection on the rotavirus success story in India followed by also free drinks and food?
you are in LUCK
Our annual international health lecture, in collaboration with @TheLancet:
acmedsci.ac.uk/more/events/I…
Big day @royalsociety. A visit by the South Korean President @President_KR, the Duchess of Edinburgh, an Autumn Budget and now @SamiraAhmedUK, @LevParikian, @nbrendborg and the looming head of @edyong209 for the #ScienceBooks Prize.
Our winner is @edyong209 for an Immense World.
Ed: 'This is a book about curiosity and empathy, joy and wonder at a time when I really needed it. I may be better known for reporting on the pandemic, but this book was a salve to my soul'
#sciencebookprize @royalsociety
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Look forward to attending the award ceremony event tonight for the 2023 @royalsociety Trivedi Science Book Prize.
Great shortlist including books by @DavidQuammen @nbrendborg @RomaTheEngineer @LevParikian @kzernike & Ed Yong - chaired by @SamiraAhmedUK.
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This morning I visited the wonderful @royalsociety where the Duchess of Edinburgh met Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol @President_KR and @michelledonelan for a round table discussion on how to strengthen the global role of science #StateVisit 🇰🇷
Fascinating episode, featuring forensic anthropologist (and FRS) Prof Sue Black on being an expert witness, and @royalsociety CEO Dame Julie Maxton on the primers breaking down the latest scientific evidence to help judges in the court room. Must listen!
On Law in Action, @BBCRadio4 at 4pm today and then on @BBCSounds here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s5l… — can you spot a deepfake voice? And what happens when scientists start talking to lawyers?
Two fascinating days exploring the role of scientific knowledge in the justice system (& differences between UK and US systems) with judges and researchers from @royalsociety & @theNASciences
Watch along below:
royalsociety.org/science-eve…
Speaking at @royalsociety, former universities and science minister David Willetts (@resfoundation) issues a challenge the science community to ensure it achieves maximum possible return for British science from #horizoneurope association
Big day in science land.
After many (many.) calls for #HorizonEurope association, well done the negotiators who got this over the line.
Now the research community can start rebuilding those lost and shelved collaborations, and tackling global issues rather than red tape.
Our president, Sir Adrian Smith, has welcomed the news of UK's association to the Horizon Europe research programme "Our association...is fantastic news, not just for the UK but for scientists across the EU and for all the people of Europe." Full statement bit.ly/3ErrYhZ
Amazing to see this project launch after so much work by @aud2526 , @ScottishSensory and @royalsociety colleagues. Learning how scientific concepts are broken down into #bsl gestures has been fascinating, and it's been captured brilliantly by @Vic_Gill in this piece
We are proud to have teamed up with @ScottishSensory to 'rewild' British Sign Language with 200 new signs for common environmental terms, to make #climate and #biodiversity science more accessible. Watch more on @BBCNews: bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-en…
