#BBCNews - Holocaust survivor and educator Manfred Goldberg dies aged 95 www.bbc.com/news/article...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it: ourworldindata.org/introducing-... Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?

BBC vandalism, in an Age of Science to destroy the one science news programme left, after trivializing Science Now. These two programmes were once consecutive & complemented each other, treating listeners as adults.

Sharing this 🎯 post from @barryhunt008.bsky.social over here: "Wow 🤩 Public Health messaging 100 years ago 👏👏👏"

Sometimes I see a pre-print and pray to the science communication gods that it isn’t reported in the news as though it is a peer reviewed study.

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t. In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

"LLMs are common-sense repositories. Yes, they can remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But they are trapped in the vocabularies we’ve encoded in our data and trained them upon. Large-language models are dead-metaphor machines." buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

Join our rescheduled online Bradford Hill Seminar with @alucassen.bsky.social, discussing: Diagnostic and predictive journeys: Finding the right balance in genomic medicine 📅 Wed 26 November, 1 PM (UK) Register buff.ly/U06QZ9N @dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social

Plastic is often seen as a cheap material but scientists in The Lancet argue it is expensive when including damage to health One estimate of the health damage from just three plastic chemicals – PBDE, BPA and DEHP – in 38 countries was $1.5tn a year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of millions in a climate and biodiversity emergency - it’s bad and bonkers ! ⁦Me for The Guardian . . . @wildjustice.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Agreed, Brit soc genetic Medicine wrote a briefing on this: bsgm.org.uk/media/12702/...

This this this Washing hands and wiping down surfaces will not do much to protect children from a deadly, highly infectious, airborne virus. Vaccinate and ventilate.

In a world of polarized headlines, Katharine Hayhoe is cutting through the noise. She’s not just a top climate scientist — she’s showing how to talk about climate in ways that build trust, not division. 📰 Read more on Scientista:

Love this. Meanwhile can someone please hunt down whoever "Kiroe" is, and make it manifestly clear to them that their graffiti tag sucks and they're never to deface Belfast/Newtownabbey/Carrick ever again...

Greatly enjoying this book by a physicist turned sociologist explaining why you need more than the laws of physics to explain societal problems.

People often intuitively interpret genetic ancestry PCA plots as simple genetic distances, but this is not always the case. Below are random pairs of individuals that are far apart in PCA space (lines) but actually have fewer total variant differences (numbers).

Email Yvette Cooper and tell her that the right to protest is part of any functioning democracy and if she wants to even pretend we’re that, she needs to stop preventing pretty much all protest the government doesn’t like. action.greenpeace.org.uk/e/854853/4lP...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Good but remember more terminally ill die at home. So hospice at home services also need support. www.gov.uk/government/n...

'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

AI is going to revolutionize everything

Review of PROOF @thelancet.com by @philipcball.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation, reports Pablo G. Bejerano for El País. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Thank you for sharing, especially important now that the health secretary will want you to practice preventative medicine from the cloudy crystal ball of whole genomes at birth!

In the new issue of @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & Nick Cheney seek out a better metaphor. They propose a generative model concept to capture the indirect, distributed, & non-linear relationship between info in the genome & form of the organism. Worth a read: 🧬👇🧪 11/11

Why is this important? The reach of genetics is increasing, with relevance to disease, health, society, & education, & misunderstandings of the science are exploited towards nefarious purposes by bad actors. We must communicate its concepts in an accessible way while avoiding broken metaphors.🧬🧪10/n

Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

England has such an inglorious tradition of Health Secretaries espousing emergent technologies ahead of real evidence or cost-benefit analysis. Attention seeking, image promotion, diversion from real problems and solutions, or facilitating potential donors?

You can take a look at the entries from all of the finalists here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-p... We plan to run the competition again next year, so please keep an eye on our website for the details!

A panel session to round off a fascinating afternoon

Podcast of the Month: The Centre for Personalised Medicine Explore how healthcare is evolving to fit the individual, not the average. Thought-provoking episodes on science, ethics & society. Start listening: open.spotify.com/show/5QIsdk4... #PersonalisedMedicine #PodcastoftheMonth

Hearing from experts involved in the discovery, this event reflected on the importance of genomic diagnosis for rare conditions and the factors necessary both to identify new conditions, and to learn about what they might mean for patients and families.

We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming event, 'Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine', taking place @stannescollege.bsky.social on Monday 30th June at 4pm. Further details and registration can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/thinki...

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Evaluation of generation study (newborn genomes ‘pilot’) not yet done, so why announce it’s being rolled out to all babies?? We tried to make sense of issues involved cpm.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/u... and cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/newbor... led by excellent @rachel-horton.bsky.social @cpmoxford.bsky.social

I wish Wes Streeting would read fewer corporate press releases & more actual medical research 👇. Sounds like his forthcoming NHS 10 year plan has been more influenced by the former than the latter, if today’s news reports are anything to go by pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29959146/ #medsky #healthpolicy

And I'm not keen on breathless promises of personalized healthcare. It's not yet clear what that might or can mean, and most folks just wish they had better access to existing healthcare.

Thank you Anneke. I think it's about managing expectations. There's some useful into that can come from gen seq, and also some problematic issues - but it'll be mainly good for rare monogenic diseases (which carriers often know about anyway)...

Com-education genius from @glaucomflecken.bsky.social! BALANCE trial neatly & memorably explained.... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... … @philipcball.bsky.social more people need to read your book ‘how life works’ or listen to your annual lecture at cpm.ox.ac.uk/lecture/how-... to understand how unrealistic this aspiration is

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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Research assistants, local collaborators & community partners, esp those from the Global South, are often seen as data collectors rather than co-creators of knowledge” A great piece on inclusive authorship & the need for flexibility @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

open.spotify.com/episode/33NA... More on motonormativity: - Shift the narrative away from "parking policy" and mobility onto autonomy of children - Talk about the whole decision problem Inc all the hidden costs and benefits

This speech is extraordinary. "We must remember: it’s not that democracy doesn’t work. It’s that democracy requires work. It survives because people choose to keep it alive." Read it in full. Be inspired to act. Let us fight for American democracy.

The Philosophy Bites podcast has a new website (with transcriptions) - over 300 interviews with leading philosophers philosophybites.com