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Editor for Editorials; Africa and Middle East @nature. Author 'GDP' (the book). Agent @PeterTallack @CuriousLitAg #scicomm #scipol (views = own)

Beaconsfield, England
Joined October 2010
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11 months
Three years ago, a Taliban spokesman is reported to have said: “We are going to allow women to work and study … Women will be very active in society, but within the framework of Islam.” (1/4).
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RT @mcatanzaro: The man below is neuroscientist Khamis Elessi, from Gaza. Left: receiving an award at the UniEdinburgh. Right: during one o….
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Ehsan Masood
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RT @ZiauddinY: Day :1216 🏫 .Day : 756 🎓.🇦🇫 .“ I have a message for everyone in this room:.To ministers and government representatives –….
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Ehsan Masood
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RT @nickhillman: Something to remember today, and I may tweet more about it later. IMO, everyone in education should avoid the word ‘overqu….
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Ehsan Masood
7 months
"It is impossible to overstate the feeling of freedom." My colleague @MiryamNaddaf on the fall of the Assad regime and what needs to happen next for universities and science in Syria:
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7 months
RT @bmaher: Nature's 10 is finally out. This was a huge effort by so many people @Nature. What a way to end the year!.
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7 months
The economist Muhammad Yunus is one of this year’s @nature's 10. When Bangladesh’s students toppled the previous government during the summer, the Nobel-peace-laureate, anti-poverty campaigner was their first choice to lead the country. Can he deliver?.
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7 months
Really looking forward to this.
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8 months
RT @Nature: Public trust in scientists and their research gets a boost when scientists are humble and admit they don’t have all the answers….
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8 months
RT @LeoHickman: Evidence, if it were needed, that I work with AMAZING colleagues. Less than 16hrs after the gavel came down on COP29, they….
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Ehsan Masood
8 months
Let-down or breakthrough? We asked researchers who study climate finance for thoughts on #COP29 finance deal - @clareshakya @s_colenbrander @ddasguptandelhi and @RomainWeikmans :
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Ehsan Masood
8 months
RT @ashleytrubin: Something I see a lot in qualitative research is a lack of analysis. Basically a rundown of what's in the data, but witho….
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RT @stianwestlake: The UK government has ambitious plans for a National Data Library, and a lot of the important technical choices remain t….
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8 months
RT @Richvn: "AI tools could help scientists to produce high-quality reviews, but might also fuel the rapid generation of substandard ones".….
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RT @HankGreelyLSJU: In @Nature, on S African research guidelines on human germline editing: "By contrast, Bonginkosi Shozi, a bioethicist &….
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Ehsan Masood
8 months
Why did South Africa revise its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable human genome editing? We've asked @HealthZA. No response as yet. Here is the excellent @sarahemilywild for @Nature on what we know so far:
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Ehsan Masood
9 months
An evening of insights into research-policy communication with Subhra Priyadarshini @Subhrapr, chief editor of Nature India @NatureInd, and Radhika Khosla, research director at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development @OxIndiaCentre. More to follow. Watch this space!.
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9 months
"From Research to Policy: Nuts and Bolts of Effective Communication": @EhsanMasood Radhika Khosla and I teamed up to talk about our fave subjects: storytelling & evidence presentatn, tailoring comms to audiences, opinion editorials & bridging research with decision making.
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Ehsan Masood
9 months
Your periodic reminder that #NobelPrize2024 nominations process could do with some outside help. Global scientific networks @AASciences @IAPartnership @ISC and @TWASnews have all offered. @ScienceAcad_swe and @karolinskainst what are you waiting for :)
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Ehsan Masood
9 months
'Foundational discoveries' mentioned in today's physics Nobel do go back a bit. One of their studies had only 4 references:
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9 months
BREAKING: This year's #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded to John J Hopfield and Geoffrey E Hinton for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". Stay tuned for more from @nature
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Ehsan Masood
10 months
RT @meharpist: What happens as chatbots get "bigger and better"? They become more likely to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance….
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Ehsan Masood
10 months
For weeks, my colleague @sarahemilywild has been diligently chasing news that the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest telescope, has paused its expansion into another eight African countries. Here's Sarah's story:
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