South Africa needs to be praised, offered whatever support is needed & acknowledged for the quality & speed of the public health & genomic science in SA, sharing the data immediately, supporting the region & the world. Not criticised, have sanctions or other restrictions imposed

Thoughtful and challenging, a lot to think about here.

A few open software positions Wellcome and Wellcome Collection . Fun problems to work on and a lovely team - wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellcome… - wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellcome… #SoftwareDeveloper #SoftwareEngineering #softwarejobs

Here's the latest from Wellcome on our funding plans, as we boost our spend to £16 billion over the next ten years. Through the year we'll be developing our policy and advocacy programme to complement this funding and accelerate its impact. wellcome.org/news/wellcomes…

🚨 Excited to share a new Wellcome funding call for software tools for climate sensitive infectious disease modelling which opens for applications today! Check out this page for all the details 👇 wellcome.org/grant-funding/… #ClimateChangesHealth

Excited to share our new paper! Have you ever wished we could systematically assess research by potential to change the world, not just citations? We did it! Learning patterns in paper content, we predict use in patents, policy and guidelines ahead of time cell.com/patterns/fullt…

Awesome and surprising things you can do with Jupyter Notebooks ⬇

The awesome @AoifeSpengeman (just about to head off on mat leave) has written about some of our recent user research understanding Wellcome 's funding seekers - medium.com/wellcome-digit…

Great talk by Nick Sorros on Multilabel Classification at scale, for biomedical publications. The trained model BertMESH is available on Hugging Face PyData London #pydatalondon Wellcome

Couple of blogs out of the Wellcome Data team - medium.com/wellcome-data/… from Arne Robben and @mantisnlp 's Matt Upson and medium.com/wellcome-data/… from Antonio Campello #NLP #DataScience #DataScientists

We are yet to hear about climate adaptation from Conservative leadership candidates but today's weather highlights why it is so important that the next government starts making real progress on preparing the UK for a changing climate ⬇️

EXTREMELY timely new report from the brilliant Rosa Hodgkin on how the government can be better prepared to respond to catastrophic risks. We need to apply lessons from stress testing better, do more to co-ordinate and hold depts to account and improve parliamentary oversight

📢 We're hiring! Looking for a senior product designer to join our team Wellcome linkedin.com/jobs/view/3450…

A little nudge that we are looking for a senior product designer to join our team. Deadline is Monday

Digital tools can help us predict & prepare for the disruptive effects of climate change on infectious diseases 🌦️🦟 So, Wellcome is spending £22.7M on 24 new tools 🔧 This month, my team will highlight the awards – watch this space! wellcome.org/news/new-digit…

Wait - you still haven't applied? That's fine - you've got until August 20th But don't hang about and miss two of the most fun jobs at Wellcome Technology AND science AND working on some of the most pressing issues in society today with a fantastic team. ⬇️

So delighted Wellcome has got involved in this vital initiative. Huge props to Tariq Khokhar for making it happen!!

Paddy Power Whys this come back ffs

🚨 NEW PAPER KLAXON 🚨 Centre for British Progress's first research report is out! It is all about the Government's announcement of a new defence innovation unit – UK Defence Innovation. Here’s how to build this unit for maximum impact on security and prosperity: 🧵