We're recruiting a key role at Wellcome -- a one year maternity cover for our brilliant Head of Research Comms. Your job: leading comms with the outstanding researchers we support, and inspiring the public with science (including @mosaicscience) krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

London folks: Do you know of any great internship/placements for psychology students in greater London (or are you considering offering one)? Settings can be clinical, charity, corporate etc. Any ideas reply or email [email protected]. RTs appreciated. Thanks!

A fascinating and scary scientific development: Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies nyti.ms/2DPqmR5 via The New York Times. Research hasn't been published yet but announcement believed to be real

.Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎, one of the authors of the Chinese designer baby story, has more detail on the scientist. And new Reuters Health story says many scientists call the work "crazy": reut.rs/2FIEVbF

Brilliant

Come intern for NPR Science Desk! You'll get to write about global health and development for NPR Goats & Soda and hang out with Marc Silver Ben de la Cruz (he/him) @MalakaGharib. Our morning meetings are fun and lively, a mix of catching up, news and celeb gossip :D recruiting.ultipro.com/NAT1011NATPR/J…

We're looking for a new psychology lecturer (assistant professor in American speak) Queen Mary University of London. Come join us! webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.actio…

Incredible opportunity for 4-6 journalists to travel on board a Russian science vessel frozen into drifting ice, studying Arctic climate for six weeks. What an adventure this will be cires.colorado.edu/news/arctic-op…

This is my first time back at Association for Psychological Science #aps19dc as an academic after having been a full-time health & science writer for >10 yrs. Interesting that several workshops and early talks have mentioned how to disseminate research, citing examples like reach on social media (1/n)

The importance of research findings reaching or influencing the public wasn’t much discussed when I was in grad school. Glad it is now #aps19dc

Putting on both my academic and journalist hats, want to encourage academics to get comfortable speaking to media, do media training, be part of the conversation so that journalists can get the science right. Better dissemination of research helps scientists & public #aps2019dc

I missed this - what an odd thing to say. Doing an experimental psychology degree was the best thing I've done. It gave me a love of learning (for pretty much the first time), it developed my analytical and critical thinking, and I learned so much about the mind and the brain.

If you have any interest in freelancing, this thread is really worth reading. Thanks @vauhinivara

Come join us QMUL Psychology! We have an opening for a Lectureship (the equivalent of Assistant Professor) in psychology. Check out the advert that just went live: webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.actio…

“Public health is all about harm reduction – keeping people as safe as possible, while respecting their circumstances. Calling out people’s perceived moral failings doesn’t fit that philosophy.”

Speaking tomorrow Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies on unique career paths in psychology, for me the journey from PhD student to science writer to academia. There's definitely not just one path. Hope you will join us!

Lots going on in the artificial intelligence and dementia space, my latest for the The Wall Street Journal. (A better-late-than-never tweet)

Watching the Dorian Abbot talk that MIT cancelled (bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons…), now being sponsored by Princeton University’s James Madison Program

MIT professor Bernhardt Trout spoke as part of the introduction to Dorian Abbot, called for scientists to support liberal democracy. “Stop making excuses” and “overcome your sloth” to defend free speech, he says