If you needed a reason to be proud to be British today, here you go.

Science department’s ODA spending hit new low in 2023.

Dsit development spending totalled just £167 million, compared with £607m for R&I in 2020.
researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

The legends at ALCS have done it again! Just saw my latest royalties statement and it’s another sizeable pot of money! Journalists/writers/academics: if you write for magazines/journals run out of the UK that have ISSNs, defo sign up for ALCS and log your articles!

#AGM
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Every member is invited, in-person or online.
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Only Full or Life members can nominate or be nominated.
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The shame of us.

You ok, hun? You’ve hardly touched your beef-fat-protein-rice…

What a bonkers world we live in where physicians assistant gets paid more than the physician….

Studies claiming Islamic practices protect against disease and sexual harassment retracted.
retractionwatch.com/2024/01/09/stu…

As Hertie Professor for Biophysics and Neuroscience at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Peter Hegemann cracked the biochemistry of how light can be used to regulate the activity of neurons. Benjamin Plackett spoke with Hegemann about his research: cen.acs.org/people/profile…

Milestone: 2023 is the first year with more than 10,000 research paper retractions -- smashing previous records.
More than 8,000 of these came from Hindawi (mostly from 'special issues').
Total retractions now >50,000.
My analysis for nature 🧵
nature.com/articles/d4158…

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Réunion’s quest for energy self-sufficiency rests on social and political will ... plus ça change ... but it is tantalizing within grasp. The adroit Rachel Nuwer for nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

‘Extremely worrying’: Argentinian researchers reel after election of anti-science president go.nature.com/3SQjGse

Smog towers don’t work!

It's a major public health travesty that in 2023, women around the world are still dying in childbirth

In my latest for Observer New Review, I delved into one of the main causes - preeclampsia, a mysterious condition which we still know far too little about

theguardian.com/science/2023/n…

A #ClimateChange researcher questions whether his zealous commitment to slow, low carbon travel stretched the patience of his employer to breaking point. A fascinating read: nature.com/articles/d4158…
Nature Careers

#AI Jesus exists, read all about it! I, for one, welcome our digital lord and saviour.
By Neil Savage CC: Pope Francis nature.com/articles/d4158…

I’m a doctor. I earn £15 an hour. Or so the papers will tell you. Every day with a dot on it is a day I’m working over the Christmas period.

Except I don’t earn that. The majority of these shifts I will be working for free, because the NHS deliberately exploits a loophole to

“The only reason to know is prosecution.” Please read this nature Layal Liverpool on #Poland 's use of #AbortionTests nature.com/articles/d4158…

2nd in the Science in Conflict Zones series of interviews, Dr.Anjila Sultan tells Shihab Jamal why she it's worth it to do fieldwork to capture mental health data despite the safety risks in #Yemen .

Tracking women’s mental health amid trauma in Yemen nature.com/articles/d4158…