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Professor Michael Saward shows how Tate Liverpool’s Democracies exhibition helps us rethink political ideas using art to explore how democracy is lived, felt and experienced in everyday life.
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Professor Michael Saward from the University of Warwick examines how Tate Liverpool's Democracies exhibition used curatorial methods to explore democracy in ways that fundamentally differ from...
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magine detecting malaria with just light and sound, no needles, no blood draw. This new technique could change global health forever.
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For centuries, malaria has been one of the deadliest diseases on the planet. Nearly half of the world remains at risk of malaria with more than half a million deaths each year, most of them in...
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Imagine detecting malaria with just light and sound, no needles, no blood draw. This new technique could change global health forever. https://t.co/41TrYkNJ8l
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@gatesfoundation
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For centuries, malaria has been one of the deadliest diseases on the planet. Nearly half of the world remains at risk of malaria with more than half a million deaths each year, most of them in...
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What’s really happening between pesticides and pollinators? New research from Professor Keith Solomon and Dr Gladys Stephenson brings balanced, evidence-based clarity to a heated topic. https://t.co/VcpIL2fYKh
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Modern environmental science faces a curious paradox. We have more data than ever, but less certainty. For scientists, policymakers, and the public alike, the sheer volume of studies, each with its...
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What’s really happening between pesticides and pollinators? New research from Professor Keith Solomon and Dr Gladys Stephenson brings balanced, evidence-based clarity to a heated topic. https://t.co/VcpIL2fYKh
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A quantitative weight of evidence (QWoE) methodology was developed and used to assess many higher-tier studies on the effects of three neonicotinoid insecticides: clothianidin (CTD), imidacloprid (...
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Explore how turbulence in the lower atmosphere above West Africa impacts weather patterns and climate dynamics. Listen: https://t.co/L2WQvUGPOY
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West Africa’s climate is constantly being shaped by interactions between the ground and the lower atmosphere, where instabilities can give rise to unpredictable turbulence. Guided by extensive...
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Explore how turbulence in the lower atmosphere above West Africa impacts weather patterns and climate dynamics. https://t.co/SRWiN7riuu Listen: https://t.co/L2WQvUGPOY
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West Africa’s climate is constantly being shaped by interactions between the ground and the lower atmosphere, where instabilities can give rise to unpredictable turbulence. Guided by extensive...
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Explore how multiracial families reveal the persistent realities of race despite the myth of a “post-racial” America. https://t.co/qN3edQPMIw Listen: https://t.co/pbxXH5qU81
@mxdsociologist @UMassLowell @CMRSmixedrace
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In the United States, families that cross racial lines often attract admiration and curiosity. Such families are increasingly common, and they are seen by many as living proof that love conquers...
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Explore how multiracial families reveal the persistent realities of race despite the myth of a “post-racial” America. Listen:
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In the United States, families that cross racial lines often attract admiration and curiosity. Such families are increasingly common, and they are seen by many as living proof that love conquers...
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Professor Alex McBratney explores “Soil Security Starts Here”, a bold framework for safeguarding the very ground beneath us, ensuring a stable future for food, climate and life. https://t.co/hy6h6eFlzm
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Soil sits at the heart of nearly every major challenge humanity faces, from food, water and energy security to climate change, biodiversity loss, human health, and the delivery of vital ecosystem...
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Professor Alex McBratney explores “Soil Security Starts Here”, a bold framework for safeguarding the very ground beneath us, ensuring a stable future for food, climate and life. https://t.co/hy6h6eFlzm
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Soil sits at the heart of nearly every major challenge humanity faces, from food, water and energy security to climate change, biodiversity loss, human health, and the delivery of vital ecosystem...
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Penelope J. Corfield guides us through her book Time‑Space: We Are All in It Together, exploring how our lives, societies and the entire cosmos are woven into a dynamic time-space continuum. A timely reflection on our shared journey.
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Penelope J. Corfield’s groundbreaking book, entitled Time-Space: We Are All in It Together, presents a multidimensional framework for understanding how humans exist within the cosmic continuum of...
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Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer reveals how social work keeps alive the memory of society’s deepest conflicts, gender, class, race, and acts as an open archive of our shared past. https://t.co/nKsKxaX9hO
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Research from Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer, former chair of social pedagogy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, reveals how social work institutions and practices serve as repositories of...
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Penelope J. Corfield guides us through her book Time‑Space: We Are All in It Together, exploring how our lives, societies and the entire cosmos are woven into a dynamic time-space continuum. A timely reflection on our shared journey. Listen: https://t.co/8pZdFS2rHt
@PennyCorfield
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Penelope J. Corfield’s groundbreaking book, entitled Time-Space: We Are All in It Together, presents a multidimensional framework for understanding how humans exist within the cosmic continuum of...
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Dr Jeffrey Curran Henson uncovers how the mood-stabiliser lithium can slow the heart’s natural pacemaker and how a decades old asthma drug offered a life-saving workaround. A powerful reminder even trusted medicines carry hidden risks.
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For more than half a century, lithium has been one of the most reliable treatments for bipolar disorder. It has given countless people the ability to stabilize their moods and reclaim lives otherwise...
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Dr Jeffrey Curran Henson uncovers how the mood-stabiliser lithium can slow the heart’s natural pacemaker and how a decades old asthma drug offered a life-saving workaround. https://t.co/J5P4nRhFnU A powerful reminder even trusted medicines carry hidden risks.
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Lithium is a well-known agent to cause systemic toxicity with its narrow therapeutic window. Toxic cardiac effects are known but seldomly reported and can ma...
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Science isn’t one-size-fits-all. In the Asia Pacific, many researchers speak the language of discovery, not always the language of publication. Let’s open the doors to all voices. Listen:
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When we think about science, we often imagine a universal language of knowledge in the form of a shared code of numbers, graphs, and precise words that transcend borders. But what happens when the...
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Science isn’t one-size-fits-all. In the Asia Pacific, many researchers speak the language of discovery, not always the language of publication. Let’s open the doors to all voices. https://t.co/Mhcw4UJy7C Listen:
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When we think about science, we often imagine a universal language of knowledge in the form of a shared code of numbers, graphs, and precise words that transcend borders. But what happens when the...
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