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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1h

I'm rooting for you. #Scicomm is under threat everywhere, often more through indifference than malevolence, but clear, accurate reporting is needed more now than in decades.
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Chris Tregenza @tregenza.bsky.social · 2h

Alongside Science in Action, Q&Q is my favourite science podcast.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 2h

This makes me so sad! My favorite media interviews were with Science in Action - somehow the conversation just flowed, and I got unexpected compliments from distant friends and colleagues who happened to tune in. The world needs more in-depth, accessible coverage of science, not less.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2h

Science in Action on the BBC World Service celebrated its 50th birthday in 2014, but sadly won't be around to celebrate its 61st next month.
#BudgetCuts

Let's hope Quirks & Quarks reaches a healthy old age.🎉🍾🎉

Denis Gilbert 🌎 @denis-gilbert.ca · 23h

CBC Radio's science show 'Quirks & Quarks' celebrated its 50-year anniversary in a fun episode that invited experts to discuss the last 50 years of research in cosmology, genetics, climate, computers, agriculture and speculate on the next 50 years! 🧪

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

#SciComm #Science

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1h

I comment every year what a persister this old, unidentified rose is. A source of inspiration, perhaps.

Multiple red blooms on an old unidentified rose.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2h

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · Mar 5

In the latest issue of Private Eye (thanks to a friend for sharing) -
"So farewell then, Science in Action..."
Wishing I could tell EJ Thribb that reports of the programme's demise are premature, but that may depend on support from outside the BBC. ☹️

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2h

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Fifty Years of Science in Action

Sir Paul Nurse, virologist Wendy Barclay and Nasa's Ellen Stofan on 50 years of science

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2h

Science in Action on the BBC World Service celebrated its 50th birthday in 2014, but sadly won't be around to celebrate its 61st next month.
#BudgetCuts

Let's hope Quirks & Quarks reaches a healthy old age.🎉🍾🎉

Denis Gilbert 🌎 @denis-gilbert.ca · 23h

CBC Radio's science show 'Quirks & Quarks' celebrated its 50-year anniversary in a fun episode that invited experts to discuss the last 50 years of research in cosmology, genetics, climate, computers, agriculture and speculate on the next 50 years! 🧪

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

#SciComm #Science

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 16h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social · 11h

The fist MM Weekly I read was about an increase in Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men, which later turned out to be HIV related. HIV had not been discovered yet. Without MMWR it there would have been no notification of what was to come. It’s beyond important.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 4h

What!!

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 1d

A M7.4 earthquake struck the Philippine subduction zone today, causing damaging shaking across much of Mindanao. Several people have died.

This is the Philippines' second deadly earthquake in two weeks. Are the events related? And how does this quake compare to the nearby M7.6 in 2023?

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Damaging M7.4 subduction earthquake shakes Mindanao, Philippines

The Philippines' second deadly earthquake in two weeks

earthquakeinsights.substack.com

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

I do recall it being put down to an unexplained brainstorm.
But I'd also recalled it being in one of the wonderful Bill Bynum's contributions, which is why I'd not tracked it down.
(The correction was under a book review by Tony Leggett ... you can see how I got there)

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

From memory, it was in fact the author. But we know who to ask.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

To help distinguish the two, a quick recognition chart.

Bloomsbury Bell Boston Bush

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the offending text.

Perhaps it did not require great genius to foresee the importance of the desktop machine. Although the authors do not refer to it, the idea had been around since 1945, when Vanessa Bell, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt's scientific adviser, wrote a remarkably prescient article predicting the advent of the personal computer.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Serendipity calls.

I've long wanted to track down this BEST EVER correction in Nature, but happened on it by chance.

What momentary madness would trigger a reviewer to substitute Bloomsbury luminary Vanessa Bell for electronics titan Vannevar Bush????

Beyond the initials.

In B. Oakley's review of Hard Drive (Nature 359, 25; 1992), the artist Vanessa Bell, a member of the legendary Bloomsbury Group,
is mistakenly credited as President Roosevelt's science adviser, and and with the idea of the personal computer, instead, of course, of Vannevar Bush.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Getting my jab today, but thanks to Wes Streeting, I have to pay for it (£90)… Many other 65-69s and immunocompromised ppl will not be able to afford it.

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2d

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Three ... Two ... One...
The pre-ante-terminal edition of Science in Action airs any minute

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Science in Action, coming up, in which I get to revisit, thanks to this week's #NobelPrize, my enthusiasm for 3D organic framework structures, with archive of Omar Yaghi and commentary from @philipcball.bsky.social

And share with listeners that the prog dies in 3 weeks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

I also got to talk, at the inspiring whitleyaward.org for Nature event this week, with conservationist Martin Wikelski about his ICARUS cubesat array to connect smart tags globally, which might launch in months - an "internet of animals". And a conversation I started with his team 20 years ago!

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Science in Action, coming up, in which I get to revisit, thanks to this week's #NobelPrize, my enthusiasm for 3D organic framework structures, with archive of Omar Yaghi and commentary from @philipcball.bsky.social

And share with listeners that the prog dies in 3 weeks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

www.bbc.co.uk

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