If food waste were a country, it would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter after China and the US. Improving our food systems can help protect our planet and our health. Here’s how ⤵️ | #WorldFoodDay wellcome.org/news/changing-…

Thérèse Coffey Thérèse Coffey is the Health Minister. Under her department's guidelines & the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) it's illegal to share prescription drugs. So the question must be why hasn't she resigned?

A policy proposal that would do harm to people from UK and other connected nations by increasing levels of antibiotic resistance.

Legend. This is what Parliamentary scrutiny is all about

Delighted to announce that Jeremy Farrar will join World Health Organization (WHO) as our next Chief Scientist and Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu as our next Chief Nursing Officer. This is a critical time when investment in the health workforce & science is imperative to deliver #HealthForAll. Welcome!

After nearly 10 years as our Director, Jeremy Farrar will be stepping down in February to take up the position of Chief Scientist of World Health Organization (WHO). Paul Schreier, our COO, has been appointed interim CEO until a successor begins. A global search for a CEO began earlier this year. 1/3

The cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago) seashore in Alabama vs how Alabama voted in the 2016 election

Every year, an estimated 59,000 vaccine-preventable deaths occur due to #rabies. Why does progress toward rabies elimination remain sluggish? And, crucially, what can be done about it? Thumbi and colleagues discuss: hubs.li/Q01wGkNr0

Another day, another fossil fuel giant announces record profits. Firms like BP are climate criminals, polluting our planet & escaping with billions. Rather than make them pay for climate-wrecking damage, Govt has designed massive windfall tax loophole worth billions. It must stop

Comment mieux modéliser la croissance des variants du SARS-CoV-2 permet de mieux les combattre theconversation.com/comment-mieux-… via The Conversation France

If gravity is real, then why doesn't the ocean go to the southern hemisphere?

Our new work has just been published :) Pierre Nouvellet

With Christl Donnelly and Pierre Nouvellet, we investigated how SARS-COV-2 PCR testing behaviour had changed in England during the pandemic, in relation to transmission level, disease severity/susceptibility, public health measures, and risk perception. nature.com/articles/s4146…

NEW PUBLICATION The Lancet Infectious Diseases opinion piece on lessons from COVID-19 for rescalable data collection 👇 (🧵1/5) thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

New Vacancy: Lecturer in Biology (Education and Research) Ref: 20493 Closing on: 30 June 2023 To apply visit: sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/lec…

Lecturer position in Biology open at the University of Sussex, application deadline 30th of June; Brighton, South Downs and the sea, great place to work!

The dawn of a new era? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

My research with Pierre Nouvellet and Fiona Mathews has indicated that entanglement from plastic litter and netting is killing large numbers of hedgehogs each year in the UK. Read more about this research in the link. Sussex Uni News #hedgehog #conservation #plastic

Packages of non-pharmaceutical interventions with complementary effects, such as masking, social distancing, and other measures, unequivocally reduced #COVID19 infections, our major new report has found: royalsociety.org/news/2023/08/n…

Our new publication Royal Society Publishing A modelling pipeline from serological surveys to burden estimates for #Chagas disease Using serocatalytic and compartmental models and machine learning methods to reconstruct the history of transmission & diss burden doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…