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Comms, publishing, policy and politics of global public health. London based, lucky to spend lots of time in Mexico City - the two greatest cities in the world 🇬🇧 🇲🇽 https://christinefears.substack.com/
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📣Calling all #PhD students everywhere in all #STEM fields, please take our @nature.com 2025 Survey (in 15 min or less)! 🔬🩺🧬🦠💡💻🧪 🧫🔭🪐🐭🪱🦋🦎 🐠🌲🪴🍄❄️🤿🌊 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out theonion.com/politic...

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

I have a trip to Antwerp in May... Any tips for Antwerp travel out there?

At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague

For US PIs who have had grants ended: What are your department chairs / heads, deans, etc., saying about this? What do you want them to say, but aren't hearing from them?

Donald Trump sees “beautiful” architecture and urban planning as a means to propel us back in time, quite literally, writes Bénédicte Eustache. www.prospectmagazine...

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Some say the world will end in FOIA Some say in ICE

My attempt at wrangling up fellow colleagues working in #GlobalHealth communications around the world. 🌍 Enjoy!

Interesting article and can’t help but agree with this three-pronged approach for better science communication: - disseminate via trusted channels - invest in digital and health literacy - make sure it’s understandable and relevant for the target audience www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I had a joke about Hamlet, but it wasn't to be.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

How fast and far can measles spread? Excellent data viz here that shows why #vaccines matter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

But I thought Americans wanted to screw in the tiny screws themselves, this cannot be good for the revival of the American tiny screw industry I've been hearing about

The US is utter chaos. Complete and utter chaos, for at least another four years and probably long into the future. Any British government working in the national interest will be investigating how to quickly reduce our exposure to it.

Let's not be Trump's poodle: act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4305