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Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government
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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.
This taster session includes our MSc Social Policy (Evidence Synthesis), a masters course that spans the interpersonal and tech/ AI aspects of research for changing the world www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
❗If you’re interested in navigating the huge evidence base on the performance of generative AI-based tools in health and social care, our living map of this research has been newly updated.
This Version 9 contains 923 fully-coded articles, of which 34 are new
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Ingenious historical approaches to access clean water now being revived to tackle chronic water shortages
New book out in Open Access with UCL Press, co-edited with Elmira Muratova, with chapters on case studies ranging from Ukraine, Turkey-Afghanistan, diasporic West Africa, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan-Kuwait, and Indigenous Canada. Free download from the link in the thread.
It covers how to judge the relevance and quality of you find, and how policy makers, researchers and communities can work together to make those judgements. You can study in London or online
Would you like to know more about how to tackle policy problems with research already available? If so, this masters course could be the one for you.
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Since I can’t sleep, here’s another hot take: The world would be a better place if everyone‘s science literacy was much better. There should be more emphasis on teaching basic science at all levels in school. Science isn’t just something nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
Powerful video from @nikki-s.bsky.social on 6 years of #LongCovid.
Tens of thousands of others are approaching same anniversary in UK alone - millions worldwide.
A very long tail from the pandemic.
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#CareForLongCovid
#ResearchLongCovid
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Co-creating a play with a Kenyan community theatre group framed vaccine research findings in ways that are relatable to community members. journals.uclpress.co.uk/r4a/article/...
When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.
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Abstract of the report of the Lancet Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19
🗣️ Privileged to have played a small part in this Lancet Commission on improving population health, published today: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
It focused on three interconnected threats:
⚠️ Non-communicable diseases;
⚠️ Outbreaks of infectious diseases; and
⚠️ Environmental degradation
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This deep-dive course in evidence synthesis looks great
Looking forward to October 2026, we've started offering places to applicants to our MSc Social Policy (Evidence Synthesis) www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
‘Many things are true which only the commonest minds observe’
‘Then I think the commonest minds must be rather useful’ “
That’s how I opened a book chapter.
My favourite: “ ‘Celia,’ said Dorothea, with emphatic gravity, ‘pray don’t make any observations of that kind’.
‘Why not? They are quite true,’ returned Cecilia, who had her own reasons for persevering, though she was beginning to be a little afraid.
Why science for policy?
It helps define the policy problem and find underlying causes.
It helps reach trade-offs and compromises by understanding impacts.
It helps find out what works through evaluation.
Most of all, it helps earn trust in democracy by grounding it in facts and reality.
This really is a shame.
In times like these we really should be commissioning more engaging, informative evidence-based shows, not fewer.
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Thank you to everyone who joined #Stage4 of #ThePeoplesReview. Now, our team working backstage are taking a closer look at the 699 possibly relevant studies to find the ones that answer the People's favourite question.
Stay tuned for #Stage5 coming soon...
I’ll be there - looking forward to it.
Oh dear - we desperately need better public understanding of science.
