#WellcomeTrust

As part of the @wellcometrust active ingredients project, yesterday we met with 6 incredible young people to talk about the role of repetitive negative thinking in depression and anxiety, and

Thoughts from my piece in BMJ today about SPUTNIK #vaccine : Need the best, safest, most durably protective vaccines. Can’t identify these unless we have a transparent, peer-reviewed comparative evaluation

I’m joining the @gatesfoundation effort to find a drug that will prevent or treat #COVID19. We need this to protect our health workers, the most vulnerable, and all of our

Pauline Data Ward

1/ Your reminder that the major journal publishers have committed to make clear to authors of papers on Covid-19 that "data or preprints shared ahead of submission will not pre-empt

In this new editorial, @pravpatalay and I summarize the challenges we see with the recent decision by @wellcometrust & @NIH to mandate standardized mental health measurement. A brief .https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc

COVID19 Vaccine Early Results @JennerInstitute @AstraZeneca @CEPIvaccines @UKRI_News One crucial step & v encouraging builds on incredible global research effort. To see promising results from several candidates in mths is

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Today, we’re publishing the first regular release of results from the pilot phase of England’s #COVID19 infection survey alongside our partners from @PHE_uk, @OfficialUoM, @UniofOxford and @wellcometrust http://ow.ly/bANI50zG7nX We estimate

African Science Literacy Network

Today we celebrate 1 year since we launched the African Science Literacy Network! We have been joined by extraordinary journalists & scientists from across Nigeria who have worked together to

1/5 African S. Typhimurium ST313 has 23 Lineage 2-specific pseudogenes, discovered by @DrRobKingsley in 2009, inc ybjZ.But what is function?In collab with Jared Honeycutt @monack_lab, we've discovered that MacB (YbjZ)

jamessheppard48

Less is more? Our new trial suggests #deprescribing #bloodpressure lowering medications is safe in the short-term in older people with frailty and multimorbidity – see thread for details https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstr

Claire Niedzwiedz

My thoughts on our @JECH_BMJ paper looking at mental health & health behaviours before & during lockdown (1/5)1) As others found, bigin psychological distress. Some of this is normal, esp

Geoff Barton 🇪🇺

The @bartongrp @uodlifesciences does three kinds of things as explained here: http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/about.html : 1. Technique Development, 2. General Analysis and 3. Specific Applications. Technique development is the glue that holds

Targeting inflammation to treat #ALS (#MND)! An exciting mechanistic insight by @AlanCHYu @WEHI_Research with @unimelb @TheFlorey @Hudson_Research. Our first foray into the neuro space! Read on for the scientific highlights

Dr Jamie Gallagher

Each Virtually Social kicks off with engagement & #SciComm news. The thread below is a round up of all the recent engagement happenings. If you have stories to feature, let

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

Science is our exit strategy. Driving case numbers low buys us important time to develop, test, and deploy vaccines, but there are many other important reasons to slow transmission.A thread

OPEN LETTER UPDATE We sent off our open letter at the beginning of the month, demanding that PGRs in the UK be given the support that they have been promised