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When you talk about science, are you sure the words you are using don't mean something different to others? Here are five examples of scientific lingo to use with caution ❗️
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When you talk about science, are you sure the words you are using don't mean something different to others? Here are five examples of scientific lingo to use with caution
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📢 Big news: We’re proud to welcome
@JuliaGillard
as our new Chair!
During her time as Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia navigated the global financial crisis, education reforms and improvements in healthcare.
She joins us in April 2021:
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Wellcome and anti-racism update:
In June 2020, Wellcome publicly recognised that it had perpetuated racism and pledged to tackle racism as an organisation.
Unfortunately, we’ve fallen short of the commitments we made. 1/10
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Researcher
@jesswade
has written 460 Wikipedia articles in the past year to help to make sure every woman who has achieved something impressive in science is recognised
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
! 🎉
Today we're posing the question: you have the chance to collaborate with any three women, past or present, on your research. Who do you choose? 🤷🙋🏽 🤷🏿
#IWD2019
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It started with two benches and 14 grans who were given a month’s training and a mobile phone.
Now there are more than 100 friendship benches across Harare – acting as a safe place for people struggling with anxiety and depression to find help.
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We’re proud to rename our boardrooms in honour of three remarkable women - Dorothy Hodgkin, Henrietta Lacks and Rosalind Franklin 🎉
We're hosting a
#Wikithon
today to get more
#WomeninSTEM
profiled, join us! 👉 |
#Diversity
#Inclusion
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Researcher
@jesswade
is on a mission to make sure every woman who has achieved something impressive in science is recognised - and she's written 270 Wikipedia articles in the past year to help make that happen
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We recognise researchers are increasingly mobile and that these are very uncertain times for many of our grantholders.
We have changed our policy. Researchers can now transfer Wellcome grants outside the UK, find out more:
#TogetherScienceCan
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It is a MORAL FAILURE if people in the UK get 3 doses, while people in many parts of the world haven’t even had 1.
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As reported, yes it's true: we are considering a move to a four-day week. It’s one of a few ideas we’re looking at to improve the productivity and wellbeing of everyone at Wellcome 💡
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Do you have a great idea for making health research more open? We’re looking to support researchers from any discipline to do experiments at the cutting edge of open research. Applications are open for the new Open Research fund 👉
#OpenResearch
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Researchers are proud of what they do 👩🔬 👨🎓 👩💻 👩🚀 But today’s
#ResearchCulture
is putting this at risk.
Read our report and help
#ReimagineResearch
📖👉
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Research funding news:
We’ve removed the "artificial barrier" of post-PhD time restrictions from our fellowships.
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We want to move to a fully
#OpenAccess
world where no research is behind a pay-wall. We’re making changes to our open access policy to achieve this
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A new study published today shows the value of investing in medical research
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Today marks the first ever
#LGBTSTEMDay
The date was chosen as it can be written as ‘507’ which, in nanometres, is the wavelength of the green in the rainbow flag, representing nature. In the US, it’s ‘705’ - the wavelength of the red, representing life
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Oxford-AstraZeneca.
Pfizer-BioNTech.
Moderna.
'Whole’ virus.
Viral vector.
RNA.
There are 100s of
#Covid19
vaccines being developed. But what's the difference between the most advanced? And how do they work?
Here's all you need to know 👉
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🇷🇼 Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer - thanks to a highly effective HPV vaccine campaign 👉
@mosaicscience
|
#VaccinesWork
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How do we measure
#brain
activity when people make natural movements, like nodding, stretching, drinking tea and playing ping pong?
Developed by University of Nottingham and UCL, this new brain scanner has the potential to revolutionise the world of human brain imaging…
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If we don’t vaccinate the world, we’re in danger of even more variants emerging.
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"Many PhD students and postdoctoral researchers are overworked and overstressed." Being a PhD student shouldn’t be bad for your health:
✍️
@nature
|
#ResearchCulture
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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We’re opening a Berlin office to grow our international partnerships in global health, science, innovation and culture 🇩🇪
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Minoritised communities are underrepresented in UK research – particularly those of Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage.
We're launching £20mn in new funding to help address this ⤵️ [1/3]
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75% of the world’s
#Covid19
vaccines have been distributed in just 10 countries.
How is that fair?
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We’re delighted our Director
@jeremyfarrar
& Mike Ferguson
@dundeeuni
, Deputy Chair of our Board of Governors, have both been awarded knighthoods by the Queen in the New Year Honours. (1/2)
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The UK can be a 'science superpower', but not by cutting budgets.
We must continue to be a great place to do science that improves health and fixes inequalities ✍️
@JeremyFarrar
|
@guardian
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Today we're announcing a new £250m Leap Fund to back bold ideas. This is a new approach for us, but by taking some risks & backing at scale, we think we can deliver transformational developments to improve people’s lives.
@JeremyFarrar
explains more:
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A new £20 million UK research collaboration is ready to map
#COVID19
.
|
@sangerinstitute
#coronavirus
#OutsmartEpidemics
🎥 ⤵️
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After nearly 10 years as our Director,
@JeremyFarrar
will be stepping down in February to take up the position of Chief Scientist of
@WHO
.
Paul Schreier, our COO, has been appointed interim CEO until a successor begins. A global search for a CEO began earlier this year. 1/3
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With several
#Covid19
vaccines now approved in different countries, how do they compare?
Here's all you need to know 👉
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A huge congratulations to
@MichaelaCoel
who has just been announced as our 2017 Screenwriting Fellow in partnership with
@BFI
and
@Film4
!
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Rich countries are now beginning to vaccinate younger, healthy people at the expense of healthcare workers in other countries.
Vaccine nationalism will only prolong the pandemic.
Rich countries need to share vaccines urgently 🎥⤵️ |
@DrTedros
#VaccinesWork
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“We have looked into the abyss of nationalism.”
Now, international collaboration is the only way to solve the great challenges of the 21st century, says
@JeremyFarrar
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We support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone 🗺️
@JeremyFarrar
shares our new vision and strategy, launching today ➡️
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We are very pleased to welcome
@mirandarwolpert
, a world expert on child and adolescent
#mentalhealth
, to Wellcome as head of our mental health priority area:
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Due to the rapidly changing COVID-19 pandemic we have decided to begin closing our buildings from Monday 16 March, including
@ExploreWellcome
Our decision is for the health and wellbeing of our staff, service partners, tenants, contractors and visitors.
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Is there a problem with structural racism in academia in the UK?
@seis_matters
: “Absolutely”
#ReimagineResearch
|
@SkyNews
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The pandemic isn't over.
Millions of people still need medicines, tests and vaccines.
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🎉 We are delighted to introduce
@MichaelaCoel
who was recently announced as our 2017 Screenwriting Fellow in partnership with
@BFI
and
@Film4
! Congratulations! 🎉
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BREAKING: Pfizer will manufacture ~100 million
#Covid19
vaccines a year in Cape Town.
It's great to see that doses will be made closer to where they're needed the most.
But they won't be ready until next year.
💉Until then, rich countries need to share doses ASAP.
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Immunising a lot of people in a few countries while leaving the virus unchecked in large parts of the world will allow more variants to emerge.
We must ensure equitable access of vaccines. It's in everyone's best interest |
@JeremyFarrar
@TelGlobalHealth
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👍 Science is great!
Academia less so 👎
@StuartJRitchie
and
@ZachWeiner
examine the flaws in the academic system and 4️⃣ ways to
#ReimagineResearch
⬇️
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💉 Pfizer - BioNTech
💉 Oxford - AstraZeneca
💉 Moderna
💉 Johnson & Johnson
💉 Sinovac
💉 And many more
We're hearing about a lot of vaccines at the moment. So how do the different
#Covid19
vaccines work and how do they compare? ➡️
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Rapidly sharing research data is essential during an epidemic.
All findings on the new
#coronavirus
should be:
📤 Shared immediately with
@WHO
🌐 Available online before peer review
🔓 Open access when published
Read more 👉 |
#OutsmartEpidemics
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👩🎓👩🎓👨🎓👨🎓 Half of life science students are women
but...
👩🔬👨🔬👨🔬👨🔬 just 1 in 4 professors, shows recent research.
A change in
#ResearchCulture
is needed to support everyone in science: |
#Diversity
#Inclusion
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🏳️🌈 We've changed our logo to celebrate
#Pride2017
! Look out for more info about how Wellcome are getting involved next week! 🏳️🌈
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New to running a research group? We've produced some handy guidelines on everything from negotiating a good starting package to getting your papers published. Find it here:
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Leave the science lingo in the lab, or at least beware how it could be interpreted.
Our first output based on your
#ExpertDebate
calls.
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We know that preparing funding applications is time-consuming and can be stressful 😬
So we’ve put together some tips to help you write your grant application 👉 |
#ResearchCulture
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Wellcome is committing £200 million to make mental health a priority area. It’s
#TimeToAct
- and research is vital to do so. Find out more:
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We exist to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. We announce 5 goals for the year ahead
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Earlier this year,
@TheLancet
published a report revealing the true impact of antimicrobial resistance around the world.
TL;DR — It's bad. But we know how to solve it. ⤵️🧵
[1/5]
#WAAW2022
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People shouldn't be forced to wait until 2023 to be vaccinated.
This is not what global leadership looks like.
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🗣️ When you talk about science, are you sure the words you are using don't mean something different to others?
Here are 5⃣ examples of scientific jargon to use with caution ⚠️ |
#ResearchCulture
#ScienceTwitter
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Researcher
@jesswade
is on a mission to make sure every woman who has achieved something impressive in science is recognised - and she's written 270 Wikipedia articles in the past year to help make that happen
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We’re delighted to announce that Dr John-Arne Røttingen (
@jarottingen
) will be joining us in January 2024 as our new Chief Executive Officer.
Read more about the appointment on our website ⤵️
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News of
#Ebola
vaccine reaches a rural village in Liberia. Local photographer Alphanso Appleton says
#thankyouscience
http://t.co/RWg5L9LrW4
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We know writing a funding application can be time-consuming and stressful 😬
Here are some tips to help 👇 |
#ResearchCulture
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Switching from being a member of a lab to running your own research group can be daunting. We've worked with funders and researchers to put together some tips and guidance to help you get started!
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By studying the viral genome, scientists will map the spread of
#COVID19
across the UK 🇬🇧
|
@sangerinstitute
#coronavirus
#OutsmartEpidemics
🎥 ⤵️
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We are giving £13 million to 5 UK science centres to help make science more accessible 👍
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Why Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in science belongs on the £50 banknote 💷
@ChemistryWorld
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2. We’re creating a dedicated funding stream for researchers who are Black and People of Colour, targeted at the career stages where this will have the greatest benefits for diversity. 6/10
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We're planning to open a small office in Berlin so that we can work closer with our international partners, tackling global health challenges such as epidemic preparedness & drug-resistant infections 📢🏢
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We are deeply saddened to hear about the death of Sir John Sulston. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends, and all who knew John throughout his life. He was an outstanding figure in UK biological and medical science and in Wellcome’s history, and will be sorely missed.
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“This is a time for solidarity not division” 💬
@JeremyFarrar
Only by collaborating globally can we end this
#COVID19
pandemic. That requires more funding for
@WHO
, not less – and we urge countries to increase their support.
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Director's update: in the next year we'll support more science, research & public engagement than ever before
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The USA has thrown away 15 million
#Covid19
vaccine doses since March.
Context? That's more than these countries have received.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇲🇼 Malawi
🇲🇿 Mozambique
🇿🇲 Zambia
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Treatments and vaccines are the only exit strategy from second and third waves of the
#COVID19
pandemic.
But it’s critical that these innovations are affordable and accessible to all.
@JeremyFarrar
@BBCPolitics
#Marr
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Researchers have developed a new colour scheme that could be used in scientific figures - it's optimised to be accurate for both colour blind people & those with normal vision. They hope it'll help to reduce confusion and make data easier to interpret 👀
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Today,
@Madonna
joined our collaborative effort to fund
#COVID19
treatment research 🙌
Science is our only exit strategy. And it’s essential everyone has access 👉 |
#coronavirus
@MastercardNews
@ChanZuckerberg
@gatesfoundation
I’m joining the
@gatesfoundation
effort to find a drug that will prevent or treat
#COVID19
. We need this to protect our health workers, the most vulnerable, and all of our friends and families.
@wellcometrust
@chanzuckerberg
@CNTR4growth
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Africa accounts for 15% of the world’s population but just 2% of the world’s research.
To change this, we’re joining forces with
@NIHRresearch
to fund more researchers working in low- and middle-income countries.
🤝
@JeremyFarrar
@DHSCgovuk
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Now more than ever, it's important that accurate information is easily accessible on
@Twitter
.
To do our bit, we're curating a list on the
#COVID19
pandemic. Subscribe for evidence-led insight on
#coronavirus
from researchers and experts 👇
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A no deal
#Brexit
leaves a void on access to funding, regulation and, critically, migration. To support the best science, the UK and EU must come to a mutually beneficial compromise.
@jeremyfarrar
in the Observer
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The next epidemic could start anywhere, reach anyone & wipe out millions. Let's
#OutsmartEpidemics
together.
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While talk of an ‘antibiotic apocalypse’ might make headlines, it doesn’t encourage action to
#StopSuperbugs
🦠
Our new research shows how words matter 👉 |
#WHS2019
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