Blimey. UK life expectancy worst in Western Europe - OECD report www.thetimes.com/article/52c5...

A woman born in Wokingham can expect to live 15 more years in good health than a woman born in Blackpool. This inequality is played out in communities around the country. Find out more about what drives #HealthInequalities ⬇️

Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We will miss you so much, Ale. www.progress.org.uk/remembering-...

📺Fantastic to see NELI, the Nuffield Early Language Intervention, feature in this BBC #Panorama, Lockdown Kids: Five Years On. NELI is a well-evidenced catch-up programme for four and five-year-olds who need extra support with their speech and language. Watch here: ow.ly/TZsX50VpLq2

Today’s poverty statistics show that in 2023/24 31% of children were in poverty in the UK Reducing this is now harder for govt's child poverty strategy with planned cuts to disability and health-related benefits to leave a further 50,000 children in poverty in 2029/30 www.gov.uk/government/s...

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Job alert!! Could you be Ada's new Associate Director in Emerging Tech & Industry Practice, leading a fab team and a highly impactful research programme? It's a pretty amazing gig, @agstrait.bsky.social has built something incredible (no pressure). Get in touch if you have Qs!

The John #MaddoxPrize recognises researchers who stand up + speak out for science +evidence-based policy, advancing public discussion around difficult topics, despite challenges or hostility. Know someone who fits that description? Nominate them for the prize today 👉 tinyurl.com/4ma3n86t

Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics on.ft.com/43Tejhn

This is really interesting! More for the FOI precedent perhaps than what it reveals. I'm amazed to find how many people (mainly not the sort of people who post on Bluesky) are already replacing Google with ChatGPT.

Responding to news of NHS England's abolition @hughalderwick.bsky.social says, while there is logic in bringing the workings of NHS England and the government closer, it will cause disruption and divert energy when attention should be focused on improving care. Our full response ⬇️ buff.ly/Cnu8ME0

A tribute to the wonderful Prof Margot Brazier, pioneer in healthcare law, from Emily Jackson and me, in BioNews @pet-bionews.bsky.social www.progress.org.uk/obituary-pro...

Genome editing success for the first time in nine patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a heritable disease which can cause cirrhosis and emphysema, affecting ~100,000 Americans, which is similar to the prevalence of sickle cell disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

We've set out our strategic direction and priorities for 2025-30 in a new @phgfoundation.bsky.social publication. In a related post I describe where I think efforts to 'make science work for health' have brought us and what PHG's role can be: www.phgfoundation.org/blog/policy-...

Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship: More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am thrilled to share the 'Navigating Genomics and Education' Report, the result of a joint project between the @nuffieldfoundation.org and Nuffield Council on Bioethics that I’ve been leading over the past year! www.nuffieldbioethics.org/news-blog/ne...