Aidan Warner

What are super pollutants and how do they impact our health? | News | Wellcome Discover what super pollutants are, how they fuel climate change and air pollution, and what actions we can take to reduce their impact.

Superpollutants – like soot, methane, ozone or HFCs – have a bigger warming effect than CO2. But that means reducing them also has an outsized effect when it comes combatting global warming. wellcome.org/insights/art...

How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health

Rachel Huxley, the head of mitigation at the health charity Wellcome, said: “It’s a big deal. If we take action to tackle superpollutants, we can have this huge impact on global warming and also on all of these premature health impacts.”
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“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

BBC News headline: Wetherspoon dog policy could be breaking the law, watchdog says

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Your last week to visit the fantastic Wellcome Collection exhibition on water wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Wellcome Annual Report 2025 | Reports | Wellcome Find out about Wellcome’s impact in 2024/25, with notes from our Chair and CEO, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.

Science can transform lives, but only if it reaches the people who need it most.

That's why, last year, we invested £1.9 billion combining discovery with solutions and real-world action.

Explore the impact in our annual report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...

@gregjhurst.bsky.social caught you on Times Radio earlier Greg - sounds like a great project. Hope all's well

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

The FT Influence List 2025 Who are the people who shaped the world this year?

Horrifying/funny/horrifying again to spot how many of these were definitely written by ChatGPT

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Visionary leader appointed for Health Data Research Service Patients to benefit from faster life-saving treatments as new leader appointed for health data service

Baroness Nicola Blackwood has been appointed as Chair of the Health Data Research Service
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I want to express my like for this but I don't want to add to your burden, so I am not going to actually like it

YouTube video by Техно Микс 90 Pizzaman - Sex On The Streets 1995

Along with this, the video to which now feels like some sort of time capsule www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3L3...

YouTube video by Musz Ko Candy Girls feat. Sweet Pussy Pauline ‎– Fee Fi Fo Fum (12" Mix)

I can't hear that track without my brain adding in phantom elements of Fee Fi Fo Fum by the Candy Girls. Because that's how it was mixed on top CD compilation In The Mix 96, obviously www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpLZ...

How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier Some scientists argue that the link between increasing heat and adverse maternal outcomes is quietly becoming a public health emergency

More than 200 studies have provided compelling evidence of a link between rising temperatures and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including premature birth, stillbirth, low birth weight, congenital abnormalities and hypertensive disorders in mothers on.ft.com/4oNPZEX

Grist launches international reporting project on the impacts of climate change on human health The year-long series called Vital Signs will include stories from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.

Grist launches international reporting project on the impacts of climate change on human health.

The year-long series called Vital Signs will include stories from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.

grist.org/updates/gris...

#News #Media #Health #PublicHealth

Hot Weather is Killing More than Half a Million People a Year Authors of a new Lancet report warn that parts of the world could become unlivable, as climate change drives a surge in heat deaths.

Extreme heat now kills roughly one person every minute, and about 550,000 a year, finds @lancetcountdown.bsky.social's new report. And scientists warn parts of the world may soon hit limits where it’s too hot and humid for people to survive.

My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):

I recently received an email from EE offering me a contract renewal offer that, on investigation, it turned out they could not honour. (Despite supplying me with Gfast, they will not renew a Gfast contract.) Call centre agent said their algorithm would have just made it up and emailed it to me.

How government bureaucracy is hampering skilled researchers from coming to the UK, contributing to our economy, making scientific breakthroughs...

Local chikungunya cases soar in France Tiger mosquitoes that carry the virus are increasingly spreading across Europe.

France has recorded nearly 400 locally-acquired cases of chikungunya this summer, French health authorities announced today, as tropical tiger mosquitoes also increasingly spread across Europe due to climate change.

Commenting on the appointment of Liz Kendall as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, John-Arne Røttingen, CEO of Wellcome, said: "The role of Secretary of State for Science is essential to the success of the government's aims. British science plays a critical role in advancing human health, driving economic growth, strengthening the NHS, and achieving net zero targets. "We have a shared goal of making the United Kingdom the partner of choice for international scientific collaboration. We look forward to working closely with Liz Kendall to ensure the research sector receives the support it needs to place science and innovation at the heart of the British economy. “I would like to thank Peter Kyle for his collaborative approach. I wish him the best in his role as Business Secretary and I am sure he will take with him his understanding of the crucial role that life sciences play in the UK."

The role of secretary of state for science is essential to the success of the government's aims, says Wellcome chief exec @jarottingen.bsky.social

🎵 More than worms....

Investing in research culture is a sure bet    Balancing the elements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a challenge. Those who have tried managing the demands of ‘just’ one department of… ... Investing in research culture is a sure bet    Balancing the elements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a challenge. Those who have tried managing the demands of ‘just’ one department of o...

Research England should not backtrack on their proposals on people, culture and environment as part of the next Research Excellence Framework, says @jarottingen.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Text: Successive UK Governments have increased costs and restrictions in the UK immigration system. Talent is vital, but 96% of UK cancer researchers report barriers when recruiting international researchers.

New report 🚨

Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research.

Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog

Rich Londoners Find Money Can’t Buy ACs As Temperatures Soar As Londoners struggle to adapt to rising temperatures, some of the city’s wealthier denizens are finding that money can’t always deliver the relief they seek.

'Climate change is well and truly transforming the experience of living in Britain’s capital'

Another one for the "we're all climate journalists now" pile

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

On the one hand, far fewer people are being killed. On the other, some people get to work two minutes later. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Thirst for knowledge: Free Wellcome exhibition charts our watery past and future You might need a glass of water to read this review, and you think about it differently afterwards.

Thirst for knowledge: Free Wellcome exhibition charts our watery past and future

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What Makes Heat So Hard to Cover? For journalists, the most urgent climate disaster is also the trickiest to report on.

Extreme heat doesn’t receive the same “round-the-clock” coverage as wildfires, hurricanes, or floods. Yet, “Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.” By Meg Bernhard @columjournreview.bsky.social