Ben Johnson

Interested in diversity in genomics research?

Nature Health's Chief Editor @benjaminjohnson.bsky.social will be speaking at the Genomics Diversity Symposium on 11th June at @qmul.ac.uk

Register today!

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Nature Health will launch in 2026!

We welcome submissions across the health sciences, including biomedical research, but also social and environmental sciences, including qualitative and mixed methods research. #health #medicine #publichealth

Check out our website: go.nature.com/3Ylz5mc

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.

But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway

https://go.nature.com/4cup7oG

Nature Health is now open for submissions!

We are a new journal of public, global and population health aiming to publish the best research that has an impact on health policy and practice.

Get in touch if you want to know more, or go ahead and submit online: www.nature.com/naturehealth/

Are screens harming teens? What scientists can do to find answers The fierce debate about smartphones and adolescent mental health rests on conflicting science. Researchers and technology companies must work to improve it.

Many parents are concerned that teenagers are spending more time on their phones and less time socializing directly

https://go.nature.com/4lc0cKb

Statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America:

The CDC study to explore vaccines & autism will:
- waste needed resources at worst possible time
- "drive misinformation"

Reality: Decades of research & "scientifically sound studies show no link or association between vaccines and autism."

The NIH by charts: It will not be easy to replace funding frozen and terminated by the agency.

It is by far the global leader in biomedical funding, and, as many have told me: an absolute gold standard in how to review and fund research.

Our full analysis here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Kiana Aran, Amanda Randles, Yating Wan, Jiawen Li after being awarded the 2025 Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. Credit: Masayuki Nakano/Son

Kiana Aran, Amanda Randles, Yating Wan, Jiawen Li after being awarded the 2025 Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. Credit: Masayuki Nakano/Son

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature!

We are thrilled to recognize these outstanding women driving innovation in technology.

Learn more about the winners here and below: go.nature.com/3X07UN9 🧵

📸 Masayuki Nakano/Sony

#WomeninStem 🧪

Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪

How the World Health Organization can thrive without the United States If the 193 remaining member nations want the WHO to succeed, they must find a way to pay for it.

How the World Health Organization can thrive without the United States.

Editorial from @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How the World Health Organization can thrive without the United States If the 193 remaining member nations want the WHO to succeed, they must find a way to pay for it.

Diseases, especially infectious diseases, do not respect borders. If countries genuinely want & value an organization that champions health for all, they must all step up to support WHO

(Our editorial this week)
#MedSky
@nature.com
@who.int
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals?

This is not how it works, Mr President.

Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Today I leave Nature Medicine 😢 and start a new adventure as Chief Editor of a new @NaturePortfolio journal on public, global and population health… Nature Health! 🌍

There are huge challenges in global health right now, but also solutions, and I’m excited to share them. #health #medicine

Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia - Nature Remote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of...

Pre-Columbian Amazonians farmed fields of maize: Lombardo, et al. Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Two birds of different species looking at each other from different sides of a river

Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂.
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...

Dear Donald Trump: A letter from Nature on how to make science thrive The US federal government can harness science to secure the health, prosperity and safety of Americans and the world.

Dear Donald Trump: A letter from Nature on how to make science thrive and why it matters for the health, prosperity and safety of people of America and the world

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It is indeed - this is my current role! Happy to talk to anyone interested in applying.

Eleven clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2025 - Nature Medicine Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2025, from gene therapies for prion disease and sickle-cell disease to digital tools for cancer and mental health.

Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2025, from gene therapies for prion disease and sickle-cell disease to digital tools for cancer and mental health. Read what they named as their top 11 trials. 🧪

Good COPs, bad COPs: science struggles in a year of environmental summits The system meant to ensure that international agreements are informed by a consensus of rigorous research is under severe stress.

The COPs are not working.

The system that scientists use to access & influence UN environmental agreements is under strain.

In this editorial we argue we must understand how & why research is being pushed to the margins & what to do to get policy back on track
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Eleven clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2025 - Nature Medicine Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2025, from gene therapies for prion disease and sickle-cell disease to digital tools for cancer and mental health.

Which clinical trials will shape medicine in 2025?

Find out in our Year in Review for Nature Medicine
#medicine #health #Clinicaltrials
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Location: New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Berlin or Shanghai Application Deadline: January 6, 2025 About Springer Natur...

Nature Neuroscience is hiring a computational/systems/cognitive editor! Come join our team! Happy to answer any questions.

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Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

Don't use red and green data lines/surfaces in the same panel please #chemsky. It can be difficult for some colorblind readers to differentiate them. I've accepted (in principle) 2 papers today, and both sets of authors were asked to remove red/green colour contrasts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#natureconference 🚨

I'm co-organizing a conference on Gene & Cell Therapies with Joao Monteiro #NatureMedicine, Pep Pàmies #NatureBiomedicalEngineering & @francesari.bsky.social #Nature.

Come join us in Wenzhou in April!

👇more details:
conferences.nature.com/event/GeneCe...

This is figure 3, which shows the sea ice area and sea ice mass on the way to first daily ice-free conditions.

The first day with no sea ice in the Arctic will be a visible sign of climate change. A study in Nature Communications shows that this could occur before 2030 and becomes more likely as the world warms. As the ice thins, the triggers are extreme weather events. https://go.nature.com/49qq5AO 🧪

Cause of outbreak in DRC still being investigated, health officials say A disease outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused 79 deaths. Health officials are still investigating the cause.

It might be a day or two — or potentially longer — before health officials in DRC can determine what is the cause of an outbreak in a remote part of the country where 382 cases, 79 of them fatal, have been reported. Samples had to be transported >500 km for testing. www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/m...

Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?

Our global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.
#sciencepolicy 🧪@natureportfolio.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"More than 3 million people have been stuck on NHS waiting lists for more than 18 weeks. That's probably the worst, most appalling legacy of the last Conservative Government, and it needs to be fixed."

Ed Davey calls on the Prime Minister to prioritise GP access to bring down NHS waiting lists.

COOL IDEA KLAXON:
I'm looking for scientists who *aren't* expert with AI but are curious to see if it can help out their lab, to try out a new AI system designed for this purpose. The idea is to report on what happens, be it astounding, absurd, or frustrating. Pls msg to indicate interest - thanks!

Patient engagement is now a requirement in the Declaration of Helsinki, a cornerstone of medical research ethics.

Read in my editorial for Nature Medicine why this is a welcome change for #health

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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