US signs pact with Kenya under 'America First' global health plan The U.S. will provide more than $1.6 billion to Kenya's health system under a new five-year agreement signed on Thursday, the first such agreement reached under the Trump administration's overhaul of ...

www.reuters.com/business/hea... About time African leaders took more responsibility for improving the health of their people.

Another day, another inexperienced but hopeful writer, announcing that they have “been offered a book deal” for £20,000. Turns out that the author is being expected to PAY THIS to the publisher, not the other way round. Folks, no publisher does this.

Come and join @kehindeross.bsky.social and team to discuss #hair #science at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #Liverpool www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-lab-b...

@rnasociety.bsky.social hosting a great session on RNA for All talking about the commitment of the society to being inclusive and supporting the next generation of scientists - Congrats to the DEI committee for their efforts! #RNA25 @kehindeross.bsky.social @jesssfisher.bsky.social

Health researchers innovate with Croda International Biosciences, science, industry, innovation, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health, wellbeing, research, partnerships, Croda, HEIF, grants, sustainable business

@kehindeross.bsky.social, Reader in Molecular & Cellular Biology, and other @ljmuofficial.bsky.social members went to Croda HQ to initiate collaborations for hair, skin and beauty products.

www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Seems like lots of you have Views on what’s happening in the world. Fancy some cash to get it down in an essay?

New year, new venture! Chemistry-themed cushions at goldengenes.org

Dei BioPharma Ltd. – For all Your Quality Therapeutic Medicine

Ugandan company making mRNA vaccines locally. So inspiring. www.deibiopharma.com

What elements of DEI will survive in higher education? There is still so much good work to be done to support students from under-represented backgrounds to thrive in the scientific enterprise.

It has become increasingly clear to me that in the age of generative A.I., universities everywhere have a responsibility to ensure the rigour and integrity of every assessment completed without invigilation.

Super!

New year, new venture! Chemistry-themed cushions at goldengenes.org

goldengenes.org

Meta and Amazon axe DEI programmes joining corporate rollback - BBC News The companies are among the latest major corporations to alter their diversity programmes since Trump's re-election.

It is going to be interesting to see what parts of #DEI will survive in business and academia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us in San Diego. A great meeting and also featuring the RNA Journal

For a moment, I thought you had moved to Shetland, which seemed pretty drastic.😀

Delighted to have secured a small grant for more #microRNA work from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst www.mib.manchester.ac.uk/ib-innovatio....

Might have been worth shouting about if this were 200 million...

We, Israelis, are calling for global pressure on Israel to force an immediate ceasefire | Open letter More than 2,000 Israelis have signed this letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

People bound to be impacted by any sanction or censure against this demented regime are speaking louder about the need to punish their own country than the Western leaders whose only loss in speaking out would be lobby cash www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Perhaps greater powers are pulling her strings...

Some light reading for a Sunday afternoon 😄

More from Schiphol airport.

Inspired design feature at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam.

Love the repurposing of a jet engine into a design feature at Schiphol airport.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #6,237,693, Kehinde Ross ‪@kehindeross.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 26, 2024"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,237,693!

Thought I would give this platform a go! What's exciting and useful?