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Roger Highfield
@rogerhighfield.bsky.social
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Museum exec, MRC, visiting prof at the Dunn School, Oxford, and UCL Chemistry. Ex Editor of New Scientist, and Science Editor of the Telegraph. Co-author #VirtualYou and more books. Neutron bouncer
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 9h
More for COP30, on Vanishing Amazon www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-...
Vanishing Amazon | Science Museum
Mirella Ricciardi's groundbreaking 1990 photographs serve as a poignant testament to the plight of the Brazilian Amazon.
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 9h
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We’ve had a couple of meetings with Kew and the NHM about how cutting carbon and boosting biodiversity are two sides of the same climate change coin, a key theme as we approach #COP30

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COP 26 president Alok Sharma on climate action: “We have to do more, we have to move faster!” - Science Museum Group Blog
The Natural History Museum and Science Museum jointly hosted a meeting of experts yesterday (5 September 2022) to discuss ecosystem destruction and the climate emergency. Roger Highfield, Science Dire...
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 9h
The King and Prince of Wales are tonight undertaking a rare joint public engagement, brought together by their shared passion for the environment, at the @nhm.org
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 11h
First proposed blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome: what scientists think www.nature.com/articles/d41...
First proposed blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome: what scientists think
A blood test has achieved 96% accuracy in diagnosing the condition in a small study of individuals. What does the test detect, and is it a biomarker of the condition?
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 19h
More on Sir John, from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...
Sir John Gurdon, 1933-2025 | Wellcome
A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 October. He made a discovery that opened up the field of cloning research, and created one of the best environments for res...
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 20h
So sad to hear about the death of the great developmental biologist, Sir John Gurdon www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... Here he is with his fellow Nobelist, Shinya Yamanaka, and my late coauthor, Ian Wilmut
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 22h
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 1d
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 1d
Volunteer scientists work ‘nights and weekends’ to guide vaccine advice in US www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Volunteer scientists work ‘nights and weekends’ to guide vaccine advice in US
Medical specialists, wary of the guidance provided by Trump’s team, offer up their own advice independently of the government.
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 1d
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 2d
‘l feel like l belong here’. Director Danny Boyle on fine form at the preview of ⁦‪the
‬⁩’magnificent Power Hall, which reopens next week with the help of 21st century heat pumps! www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/about-us/we-...
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Nature @nature.com · 2d
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

Stay tuned for more.
A Nobel medal
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 2d
Marine heatwaves have hidden impacts on ocean food webs and carbon cycling www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Marine heatwaves have hidden impacts on ocean food webs and carbon cycling
A new study from researchers at MBARI and the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science—with an interdisciplinary team of collaborators from the Hakai Insti...
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 2d
More on why the Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 2d
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 3d
The Nobel Assembly has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:

Mary E. Brunkow
Institute for Systems Biology,
Seattle, USA

Fred Ramsdell
Sonoma Biotherapeutics,
San Francisco, USA

Shimon Sakaguchi
Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
www.nobelprize.org
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 3d
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 4d
First human transplant of kidney modified to have ‘universal’ blood type www.nature.com/articles/d41...
First human transplant of kidney modified to have ‘universal’ blood type
Recipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible with all blood types.
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 7d
The genetic ghosts that haunt and help us

Long dismissed as genetic junk, the dark genome is stepping into the spotlight, revealing how ancient viral remnants and rogue DNA elements impact evolution and disease.

By me, for The @crick.ac.uk www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
A message from the dark genome
Long dismissed as genetic junk, the dark genome is stepping into the spotlight, revealing how ancient viralremnants and rogue DNA elements impact evolution and disease.
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 4d
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 5d
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 7d
Long dismissed as genetic junk, the dark genome is stepping into the spotlight.

@rogerhighfield.bsky.social speaks to George Kassiotis and Samra Turajlic @turajliclab.bsky.social about how ancient viral remnants and rogue DNA impact evolution and disease.

www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
A message from the dark genome
Long dismissed as genetic junk, the dark genome is stepping into the spotlight, revealing how ancient viralremnants and rogue DNA elements impact evolution and disease.
www.crick.ac.uk
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 6d
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 7d
Rather fabulous to have a cocktail under the gaze of the Big D - thank you Nicky Clayton!
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 7d
The genetic ghosts that haunt and help us

Long dismissed as genetic junk, the dark genome is stepping into the spotlight, revealing how ancient viral remnants and rogue DNA elements impact evolution and disease.

By me, for The @crick.ac.uk www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
A message from the dark genome
Long dismissed as genetic junk, the dark genome is stepping into the spotlight, revealing how ancient viralremnants and rogue DNA elements impact evolution and disease.
www.crick.ac.uk
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