Lizzie Wall

One of the world’s major megacities is about to completely run out of water. Why isn’t this a bigger news story?!

The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss

~$2.5bn in profits, ~35% profit margin

interested to see if you get a response. I didn’t.

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

For years Roland has worked tirelessly to inform BBC listeners about societally-relevant science. This is exactly the WRONG time, BBC, to be letting him go! 😠

Biallelic variants in the non-coding RNA gene RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental syndrome with distinct white matter changes Genetic variants in RNU4-2, which encodes U4, a key non-coding small nuclear RNA (snRNA) component of the major spliceosome, were recently shown to cause a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) ...

The headlines?

1) Variants on both copies of #RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent speech delay
2) One of the hallmarks is distinct white matter changes on MRI
3) It is clinically and genetically distinct from #ReNU syndrome

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a huge loss for science communication and journalism. For what it is worth I will feed back to the BBC..any other suggestions?

- worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk
- overtoyou@bbc.co.uk
- www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comm...