Absolutely delighted to have scooped this year’s gong for cancer research reporting.

At our awards ceremony next week we will find out our winners but until then we will continue to celebrate the finalists! Shortlisted for the Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research are @liamdrew.bsky.social @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social and Clare Wilson 👏

Don’t stop believin’, not even while you…

Very happily in Paris for a few days en famille. Remembering the second time I came, 23-year-old me taking my nan on her first trip abroad… www.liamdrew.net/articles/201...

I'm absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for The Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research.

Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...

Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...

As a relative of someone with CBD, this pair can go fuck themselves.

#abswss25 #SummerSchool #hybrid 🔗 zurl.co/tUAAn 💻Panel 1 - 5 things we wish we'd known when we began our feature-writing careers 🎯Producer: Aisling Irwin 📢Speakers: Rachel Brazil @rachelbrazil.bsky.social @liamdrew.bsky.social Clare Wilson @theipaper.com#abswss25#SummerSchool#hybridaoni Bhattacharya

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

This paper is wild.

A new paper in @nature.com suggests that cancer cells that have lost their Y chromosomes can induce this same mutation in nearby immune cells! And when both cell types have this mutation there's cancers are way more aggressive. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I spoke to Vox's Unexplainable podcast -- alongside the brilliant Jennifer French -- about the problem of people having neural implants then losing support for those devices. www.vox.com/unexplainabl...

If you have a Y chromosome and are approaching middle age, chances are a good chunk of your immune cells are beginning to lose this chromosome - and that's likely bad for your health. It might help explain why men die earlier than women... My latest www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Time Machine. I can draw this for you as a cartoon www.worldofmoose.com/products/tim... And it's also available as a T shirt! www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Ti...

Whoop - I’m part of a @nature.com team nominated for a Webby Award for our short video on cancer busting vaccines! Any votes would be hugely appreciated :) vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Thrilled for my friend @helenscales.bsky.social

This is wild. People happy with an 80% survival rate among their measles infected kids….

"At this point I believe my academic career is effectively over"--a postdoc studying schizophrenia at Columbia, in the wake of the government's $400 million funding cut. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As the teens directly affected by the UK raising the minimum school leavers age from 15 to 16 pass through their 60s, it’s created a natural experiment for people interested in whether education decreases dementia risk… and it looks like it might www.newscientist.com/article/2471...

From the “free speech” party…

Might optogenetics be on the cusp of becoming a transformative therapy for blindness? My latest looks at the latest advances in using this technology for treating retinitis pigmentosa, with an ongoing clinical trial yielding remarkable results. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Might optogenetics be on the cusp of becoming a transformative therapy for blindness? My latest looks at the latest advances in using this technology for treating retinitis pigmentosa, with an ongoing clinical trial yielding remarkable results. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Would love to talk to any and all academics about this for a story. DMs are open, Signal's in my bio ✌️

The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

not sure i like where any of this is going

How many people are affected by the funding freeze by government agencies? 😩 Our lab had a major collaborative grant due to start February 1 that is now frozen and is causing major headaches 🤯. How about you? Please respond and share! 🧪🔬 #ScienceFunding #ResearchCrisis

Ssshhh... starting to talk about … MEGA! Out next Thurs (13th). Some of you know how long I’ve been working on this BIG project, which began 5 years ago. It’s a non-fic for 7-11yrs, which details the lives of Earth’s largest animals and celebrates the value they bring to ecosystems...

It's #WorldCancerDay and 2 days before the 1st anniversary of my dad's death of this wretched disease. (I'm glad he hung on a bit to spare us that irony.) Here're some stories I've written. I'm always moved by the dedicated people working on this and the progress, uneven as it is, brings hope.

"I've got this opioid, great for any type of pain, honest. And I think people are going to love it..."

If you are a federal tech worker and sense something sus happening at your workplace, please reach out. We can speak anonymously. Signal: makenakelly.32

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

On impact factors and real world impact: Specialist journals play an outsized role in changing conservation law. Enjoyed writing this one. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On impact factors and real world impact: Specialist journals play an outsized role in changing conservation law. Enjoyed writing this one. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This thread is harrowing.

@liamdrew.bsky.social Rob Auton this evening, courtesy of Liam. I could blather on enthusiastically, as is only right and proper, but see if you like it. I do. www.robauton.co.uk/body

Just watched the opening night of this tour. And it was brilliant. If you’re near enough to one of these venues you should go see it.

“The more damaging the commercial enterprise, the more money it must spend on politics to ensure it’s not regulated out of existence. As a result, politics comes to be dominated by the most harmful commercial enterprises.” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social X, Facebook etc...

Air pollution and brain damage: epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders but what are the mechanisms? 🧪 @nature.com @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Post-mortem studies of human brains provide direct evidence that numerous pollutants — including nanoparticles and toxic metals — accumulate in brain tissue.” Interesting article by @liamdrew.bsky.social as an overview of PM pollution & growing research on brain effects like tau tangles, etc.

People in poor communities, who often breathe the worst-quality air, are likely to have more risk factors for brain disorders, stress, lower educational attainment and obesity, compared with those in higher-income areas https://go.nature.com/3WiPFC9

Dirty air, dementia, and other adverse brain effects www.nature.com/articles/d41... new Feature @nature.com open-access

Links between air pollution and brain disorders keep accruing. Scientists now need to figure out which pollutants harm the brain and how. My latest: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Journalist request for an early 2025 research round up: please nominate the most important/surprising/transformative paper of 2024 on Alzheimer's Disease. (Pubmed says there are 17,647 papers to choose from!)

My latest. The more global this story went, the more complicated it got. I fear there are no quick fixes here and that kidney medicine may need to move on from a 100 year old biomarker if it wants a test that works for everyone in all settings. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My latest. The more global this story went, the more complicated it got. I fear there are no quick fixes here and that kidney medicine may need to move on from a 100 year old biomarker if it wants a test that works for everyone in all settings. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Make sure you read until the 6th post in this thread. It's almost funny how roundly debunked the proposed link between the MMR and autism is, but the money and time that has been essentially wasted on debunking it is insane. In other news, my kid's school just emailed to say they have a mumps case.

Journalist (very rough guide to general opinion) request: academics, when you think of Altmetric, do you primarily of a company that tracks a paper’s social media engagement or on that gives important information about a paper’s full range of impact? Cheers. (Please share!)

Chap on the tube seemed like someone to get behind as he lamented more effort being made to get to Mars than to eradicate malaria. Less so, when he said malaria could be wiped out by putting a match to the swamps where the mosquitoes breed.

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