To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around the world missing out on it?

Measles causes severe complications in 1 in 5 children, and also kills off immune cells leaving you more vulnerable to other infections for years afterwards. lt's absolutely not a disease you want to take chances with 🧪

From my comment on measles' comeback:

www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Talking about this on #BBCWorldService Weekend tomorrow.

BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?

The final episode of BBC Science in Action was broadcast on 30 October. It had been running since 1964. The episode was a departure from their usual excellent weekly science news format and instead hosted a panel on the anti science movement. Well worth a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Glad that @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social has written about this. It did strike me that as #Melissa battered Jamaica and elsewhere, the seismic signal would be powerful and instructive.

This breaks my heart. It’s a great show and you’re a brilliant journalist and one of the only people that I trust to do interviews with.

Seconded.

This is such a crying shame, and so short-sighted. But there it is.

BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?

"How science got here, and where next" | Honored to have been part of this panel discussion w/ an amazing panel of experts and the irreplaceable @peaseroland.bsky.social (whom we will all miss listening to on #BBC)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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 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.

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Coral extinctions and chalky unknowns Two species of coral declared functionally extinct in Florida reefs - can plankton cope?

Underlining what we heard last week, about the imminent tipping point of coral losses, this week news of the functional extinction of two species, staghorn and elkhorn from the Florida reefs during the 2023 mega ocean heatwave.
@jrcunning.bsky.social shares the details.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Interesting question. Lodge's contribution aside, I'm minded of Cronin self-assembly bruhaha etc. [also search and replace colloidal for nano-...]

Just completed a thoughtful interview with @erikkarlsson.bsky.social on the relative surge of H5N1 bird flu human cases in Cambodia, inc the role reassortment with the 2.3.3.4 clade we're seeing in the west may be playing.
Underlines the need for international surveillance.
ScienceinAction tomorrow

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Science in Action The BBC brings you all the week's science news.

The amazing images from the new #VeraRubin observatory lead Science in Action tonight. We get to hear some of the science they'll lead to, and the story of its development from astronomer Tony Tyson, who first kicked out the idea at 3AM during an observing run in 1996.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC World Service - Science In Action, The First Solar Polar Pictures ESA’s Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun’s poles.

Solar astronomer @stephyardley.bsky.social joins BBC Science in Action this week to explain why the new polar views of the Sun, from ESA's Solar Orbiter, will make such a difference in unravelling the Sun's magnetic turmoil and what drives the 11-yr cycle in activity.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

From Andrea Sella on Mastodon. cc @scurry.bsky.social

mastodon.social/@sellatheche...

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

Royal Society prize winner Andrea Sella returns award in protest over Elon Musk
www.ft.com/content/8778...

Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...

“It’s not possible to bring something back that is identical to a species that used to be alive. Our animals are grey wolves with 20 edits that are cloned” Beth Shapiro told me 🧪

"With those edits, we have brought back the dire wolf" Colossal reply to my story

www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Too vague, and likely to make Americans less safe rather than more safe, is biosafety expert @ggronvall.bsky.social 's assessment of the White House's new rules on Gain of Function research, on Science in Action this week www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Very pleased to open this week's edition of Science in Action with @flodebarre.bsky.social and @zachhensel.bsky.social on their latest analysis of early COVID genomes, still pointing to a zoonotic origin for the pandemic.
Longer podcast version will have more detail.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Higher! Higher! 🔭

(science.nasa.gov/blogs/planet...)

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth How Myanmar’s tragic earthquake left a 500km scar in 90 seconds.

With the death toll rising still rising in Myanmar - still well short of the 10k-100k+ foreseen by the USGS, I've been talking to seismologist @judithgeology.bsky.social about the surprising "supershear" geophysics the unzipped the underlying fault in 90 seconds.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

On Science in Action tonight, we talk to @ametsoc.org president-elect Alan Sealls about the down-stream impacts of layoffs/cuts at NOAA, for US and global atmospheric science. The prog often taps NOAA experts on climate issues etc, but their big-data work is the very foundation of daily forecasts.

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Who runs science? A call from European flu experts to create a more sustainable research network.

Science in Action with @marionkoopmans.bsky.social on the flu pandemic threat, and @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @shobitap.org on responsibility in science 50 years after Asilomar, starts shortly.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the early 1970s.

Lot of talk about Asilomar 1975 right now, what with the 50th anniversary and the Spirit of Asilomar meeting next week. Want to know more? Here's a BBC podcast I made about the origins of genetic engineering, with all the key participants: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC World Service - Science In Action, Hits from space Astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4 to decide if it will miss us in 2032.

Just a faint and fading dot in the night sky right now, asteroid 2024 YR4 is due to zoom alarming into sight in December 2032 with a small but real chance (as judged now) of colliding with Earth. Planetary defence expert Patrick Michel tells the tale of what we know, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

I think lego or recipes. Start with a lego castle and break it down so you can work out that the blocks are the fundamentals, and thence what else could be possible besides a castle, given that its all about blocks and how they stick together? Or something like that.

BBC World Service - Science In Action, 50 Years of Charm November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics. Here’s why.

I've lovingly crafted a tale of the November Revolution for Science in Action. But it's too long for the non-pod version; @stuffandpiffle.bsky.social is sweating blood, looking for cuts that won't kill it. It's a complex story for a short prog. Pod vn will be fuller!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...