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Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · 5d

Need some positive news today?
Vaccine breakthrough for deadly elephant virus www.bbc.com/news/article...

A vaccine against a deadly disease that affects young elephants is shown to be effective in a world-first trial.

Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · 7d

A serene force of nature who changed our understanding of the animal world.
RIP #JaneGoodall

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Those she inspired say she not only revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees - but challenged how we relate to the natural world.

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, The science behind autism

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · 13d

We’re talking the ACTUAL scientific evidence about autism, diving into black holes and relativity and searching for a miracle eagle on the Isle of Mull on Inside Science today.

1630 Radio 4.
(And that’s me away for a bit, so thanks for listening!)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What do we know about the causes of autism?

Scientists pinpoint the brain's internal mileage clock - BBC News

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · 20d

Scientists have found the mileage clock inside our brains:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They located this key area of function by recording the brain activity of running rats.

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · 27d

Such a pleasure to have you on, Penny. Come back soon!

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, 11/09/2025

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · 27d

So touching to speak to scientists working with organisers of the moving Tribute in Light #September11 memorial. Volunteers & researchers will search the light for migrating birds. We spoke to Andrew Farnsworth from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social on Inside Science

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A weekly programme looking at the science that's changing our world.

Antarctic Ocean secrets hidden in layers of seafloor mud

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Aug 19

Why scientists collected #Antarctic seabed mud and shipped it thousands of miles north

How long tubes of mud could reveal how Antarctica is changing www.bbc.com/news/article...

How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing.

Mission under way to save 'world's most beautiful' snails

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Gilly Forrester @gillyforrester.bsky.social · Aug 18

Awesome day @greenmanfest.bsky.social science journalist and presenter @bbcvic.bsky.social, #Traitors #faithful Jaz Singh, and mathematician @steckl.es for a live recording of #BBC Radio 4 Inside Science - all about games and the role they play in human and animal life 🎲🎰🎮

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Aug 4

A scientific race is on to save the world’s most beautiful snails from #extinction

Mission begins to save snails threatened by own beauty www.bbc.com/news/article...

Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita snail.

BBC Inside Science - The surprising culture of the animal kingdom - BBC Sounds

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jul 25

Very happy to share our @hayfestival.bsky.social special episode of Inside Science. Excellent panellists, a brilliant producer and a very rainy day that brought lots of lovely, curious-minded people to our BBC tent. Enjoy!

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The latest science of how animals communicate, with a live audience at the Hay Festival.

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, How can we keep our homes cool in a changing climate?

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jul 17

In just a mo on Radio 4: The science of keeping cool indoors, daffodils’ surprising DNA secrets, robo-taxis on the loose and telling the difference between an ancient comet and an alien spacecraft. (And other space news)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Science that makes living in our homes safer and cooler in a changing climate.

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thank you! 😊

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our little team won an @absw.bsky.social award for our doc on Churchill, Manitoba.
Chuffed & proud - of our film & fab colleagues
Thank you @PolarBears & to the amazing people in Churchill who were so warm, generous & kind. (You can watch *Where the Polar Bears Wait* on BBCiPlayer now)

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jul 3

Delving into quantum circuitry, reinventing musical instruments and exploring seismic signalling in Inside Science on BBCRadio4 in a mo.
All under the watchful gaze of Albert at a (rather warm) @royalsociety.org summer science exhibition

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jun 23

I feel the world needs this story right now

Killer whales 'massage' each other using kelp www.bbc.com/news/article...

What are the risks of bombing a nuclear site?

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our effort to make scientific sense of some of the madness

What are the risks of bombing Iran's nuclear sites? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Destroying Iran's stores of enriched uranium would bring danger for people nearby but not trigger another Chernobyl.

How a race for electric vehicles threatens a marine paradise

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jun 18

WATCH, READ, LISTEN: A BBC News article shared drone images revealing the impacts of nickel mining, used for electric vehicle batteries, in one of the most marine-biodiverse zones in Indonesia.

📝 @bbcvic.bsky.social

Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world's most diverse marine environments

www.bbc.com/news/article... @bbcvic.bsky.social

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · Jun 15

How a race for electric vehicles threatens a marine paradise

Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world's most diverse marine environments

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks so much, Robin. Great to have you on!

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · Jun 5

On air now 📻 a special #oceans edition of Inside Science on BBC Radio 4. Me and super-producer Dan Welsh are at the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice as scientists wrap up and the @UN takes over in a effort to save our marine environment

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Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · May 28

It was a joy, Andy. Thanks so much for being part of it

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · May 27

I did kinda want to take our @hayfestival.bsky.social blackboard with me ❤️

Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · May 14

Wild chimps filmed using forest “first aid” - using plants to treat their own wounds and each others’
Some extraordinary footage in this story

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The research builds on the discovery that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.

Victoria Gill @bbcvic.bsky.social · May 9

In an extraordinarily sweet but sort of ridiculous move, my vet just sent me a sympathy card because one of my chickens was put down