Our chapter on ‘Fabricating mice and dementia: opening up relations in multi-species research’ is now OA. @richgorman.bsky.social, Richard Milne and I explore the ways patient data, animal models and plaque concepts are woven together in making dementia www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK615...

Calling all researchers and public engagement professionals: we want to find out the factors affecting public engagement in 2025, including opportunities, risks and barriers. Help shape the future of public engagement with STEM by taking our survey: www.research.net/r/RS_public_...

The piece is more thoughtful about listening to (rather than just convincing) the public than the title suggests, and the Brexit effect on scientists' views of public engagement that it describes is definitely something I've seen in other areas www.science.org/content/arti...

💡 Spark new thinking to shape the future of #SciencePolicy! Applications are open for our #SciPol25 workshop. 📅18-20 August We invite researchers and policymakers to share perspectives on best practices for improving the uptake of #research into UK science policy 📩Apply by 3 June ➡️ bit.ly/41GxNmG

Introducing ‘trust cues’ – new #scicomm research paper by Justin Schröder, Janise Brück & Lars Guenther to identify trust cues in media content – see doi.org/10.22323/2.2...

23andMe’s bankruptcy is the worst thing that could happen to just about everyone involved

Digital Sequence Information (DSI) has transformed biological research, allowing scientists to find genetic tools online without physically collecting specimens. But this creates a legal gray area around benefit-sharing and ownership.

#OnThisDay in 1953, the structure of DNA was discovered – the double helix 🧬 Our understanding has grown exponentially since then, here are a few interesting things we’ve learnt along the way ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2022/05/17/s...

A question posed in every media since cave painting

Trust and public engagement in engineering biology www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/news/enginee...

Nice piece from @mikeinouye.bsky.social and @katholt.bsky.social on how decisions about data sharing "answer fundamental questions, such as: what do we want science to look like" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's all gone pear-shaped at 23andMe. Which is not a bad thing, given the misleading view of genetics that it encouraged. As Diana's article mentions, just telling people they carry a risk variant can be very problematic. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I guess we can't even look up genes at NCBI any more

🔎 #𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁? @rjmilne.bsky.social and @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social explore the challenges in demonstrating trustworthiness in this @uk.theconversation.com article. 🔗 cstu.io/a01e19 @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @connectingscience.bsky.social 🧬🧪🔬

In an article for @uk.theconversation.com, @rjmilne.bsky.social and I argue that while the UK's plan to foster innovation through AI is ambitious, it will rely on public trust for success. Yet anyone can claim to be trustworthy: how do we tell who actually is? theconversation.com/government-n...

"The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science" from @charlespiller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

This book on multi species dementia is out at the end of this month, featuring me, @rjmilne.bsky.social and @richgorman.bsky.social reflecting on what is modelled in mouse models of #dementia and how this is made sense of by patients in #PPI policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/multi-specie...

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

I have a post-doc position to study the effect of AI on education. How can we ensure that AI tools enhance natural intelligence? The position is a part of the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. Please repost - not easy to get people to work in Estonia 🥶 #edusky #neuroAI

In the REWS group of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health we have coordinated a series of briefs on public attitudes to genomic data sharing. The latest looks at public perceptions of international genetic information sharing for biomedical research in China www.ga4gh.org/news_item/pu...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... new frontiers in discussions about hhge - editing for polygenic risk

Great to see this out!

🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself! Please share widely. Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

In my latest column for @theneweuropean.bsky.social I write about the perils of polygenic embryo screening and what it might have meant for Beethoven (seriously). www.theneweuropean.co.uk/critical-mas...

In a new paper following a presentation at this year's Data for Policy conference, @rjmilne.bsky.social and I draw on interdisciplinary studies of social trust and behavioural ecology to propose a solution to what we call the trustworthiness recognition problem: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪

Wonderful to see this important & ambitious work from @who.int come to fruition - guidance for human #genomics #data use founded on strong #ethics principles shared across cultures & countries 🧬 No easy feat! www.who.int/publications...