Roger Highfield
@RogerHighfield
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Museum exec, prof @Dunn_School & @UCLChemistry, ex Ed @newscientist & @Telegraph. Hon Pres @absw. Author https://t.co/AQY0NksSc3 Neutron bouncer
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Joined June 2009
No evidence of a single, Amazon basin-wide tipping point. Instead, the more urgent concern is repeated “hammer blows” from human activities. More tipping points:
eurekalert.org
The research by Yale School of the Environment scientists highlights the need to reduce the “hammer” of human impact and deforestation rather than focus on an all-encompassing climatic tipping point.
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US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants
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Genetic testing of IVF embryos may help women over 35 conceive faster, via @kingscollegelon
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Genetic testing of IVF-created embryos could help more women over 35 have a baby in less time, a clinical trial by researchers from King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, and King’s Fertil...
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RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no
nature.com
Nature - In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.
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RT @sciencemuseum: Explore our new online exhibition, Vanishing Africa, which features Kenyan-born photographer Mirella Ricciardi's stunnin….
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ICYMI - Peter, many thanks!.
Climate change isn’t just about ice caps or temperatures - it’s about cultures, memories, and resilience. Stunning images of Maasai & other East African communities in Vanishing Africa @sciencemuseum show what’s at stake. 🌍 Co-authoried by @RogerHighfield & Julia Knights.👉.
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RT @RogerHighfield: 🌍 Online Exhibition!.The @ScienceMuseum today launches Vanishing Africa, a powerful online exhibition featuring Mirella….
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"It’s an extinction-level event for American science, one that will surely destroy arguably the greatest organization symbolizing science and progress in all of history."
bigthink.com
NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?
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Honour and pleasure to welcome Saul Nassé and Carmen Pryce to my treadmill!
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RT @peterfrankopan: Climate change isn’t just about ice caps or temperatures - it’s about cultures, memories, and resilience. Stunning imag….
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@imperialcollege 🙏 With thanks to: Washington Yotto Ochieng, Stephen Belcher, Samuel Kirapash, Tamara Janes, Edwige Marty, Thomas Kiyong’a, Richard Ochieng, Thomas Mölg, Kennedy Lemayian, Titus Kaprom, Dan Adino, Rene’e Haloya Russo — and of course, Mirella Ricciardi.
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Fun appointment by @TheCrick and congrats to @ProfBrianCox!.
Brian Cox appointed as first ‘Crick scholar’ .
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Washington Yotto Ochieng of @imperialcollege, Trustee and recipient of Kenya's Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear, commented that Vanishing Africa reveals that “climate change is not only a scientific challenge, but a cultural emergency”.
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