Such a great song. And film youtu.be/TCSzL5-SPHM

.Wellcome is developing plans for new targeted funding to support early-career, Black, UK-based researchers.

Today, we are launching an engagement piece to help us develop the best funding we can build! 1/8

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Research Fortnight Robin Bisson Wellcome stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) Wiebke Arlt With greatest respect to Research Fortnight we are totally & enthusiastically committed to supporting & funding clinical & health care professional scientists & their careers. We warmly welcome applications & have a commitment to £16Bn of funding over next decade.

Could you help us decide what to fund?

We plan to spend £16 billion in funding over the next 10 years. To do this, we rely on impartial experts from around the world.

Apply to be a Discovery Research Committee Member by July 29 👉 wellc.me/3oegiqF

Here's what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like - For those who think we should “learn to live with it”. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

⚠️ Get tested for #Covid19 in Lambeth ⚠️
Cases of the variant first detected in South Africa have been found in Lambeth

All in borough aged 11+ should take a PCR test, even if no symptoms. More testing sites opened ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#KeepLambethSafe
lambeth.gov.uk/enhancedtesting

Excellent resource from Wellcome. How vaccines work, how we’ve managed to make them against Covid so quickly, why they are safe.
Covid-19 vaccines: information hub | Wellcome wellcome.org/what-we-do/our…

New COVID-19 asymptomatic testing site in #BrockwellPark (sited on the hard standing nr the lido) will have 1 marquee, 2 silent running generators & will be fenced in, with service vehicle access via the Herne Hill & Lido gates. Work starts tomorrow & will be operational shortly.

New ⁦Financial Times⁩ editorial absolutely right: next critical 🌏 health challenge requiring our attention will be rise of drug-resistant infections.

As with #COVIDー19 , new technologies (particularly💊) will be vital,but just one part of much wider efforts.
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I wish I had more cheerful things to say but I don't. This week's numbers have been really bad :-( and those numbers aren't just numbers - they're people.

On this day in 1979, after an extensive worldwide vaccination campaign, World Health Organization (WHO) declared smallpox eradicated.

We can do hard things.

Leadership.

Brilliant. 🤣

Helping a teacher show how quickly a photo can go viral. Do share!

1. She has a name, its vice-president elect Kamala Harris
2. She is American
3. We need to get this man removed from public office, how to complain 👉
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We did it, Joe Biden.

“This pandemic is growing… we need measures that will bring it under control.”

Sage member and former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark Walport says “the danger is we arrive at a compromise that neither controls the pandemic nor fixes the economy”

#Newsnight

So tiresome. Well done Chrissie

At the core of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s extraordinary life was a simple conviction: “Women belong,” she said, “in all places where decisions are being made.”

We asked 20 experts where the coronavirus epidemic is headed in the U.S. The answers were distressing. nyti.ms/2PjqX1C