Generalised geek

Joined July 2011
Just received the most disappointing news of my career. The #EU Copernicus Climate Change Service are preparing to terminate UK partners, including the polar ice sheet measurements I supply. More or less my life's work. In the middle of a climate crises. FFS
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Field visit for "Automization/digitization of MIS/MEAL Mechanism UKAID Livelihoods and DRR Project" to develop an automized and web-based Geospatial Monitoring Dashboard (GMD) to support the project team to capture and monitoring data from the field.
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Quite emotional to share that our Handbook of Refugee Health has just been made free access for all- read it online here: insights.taylorandfrancis.co…. Relieved the book will now reach those who most need it globally. Please share widely #refugee #health #refugeehandbook #humanitarian
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Dissemination Workshop on "Introducing Malaria API Tracker and an Interactive Platform for Visualizing and Updating Village Maps" – at Chittagong, Bangladesh
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Like many I’m horrified by the punitive approach taken to a doctor over the use of a single word in a request for a laptop. ( @BAPIOUK are good advocates - I owe my career in the UK to their legal challenge of a law that would prevent non EU doctors taking training posts. )
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Calling UK clinicians & public health practitioners. UKHSA has provided/updated guidance on case defs, vaccination and contact tracing/management this weekend. Links now added to monkeypox guidance page, but easy to miss, so here is the link to the section gov.uk/guidance/monkeypox?ut…
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"The Rose" -- one of the most spectacular @NASAHubble images -- the interacting galaxies Arp 273. The larger galaxy (UGC 1810) is tidally distorted, and has young blue stars in clusters. Arp 273 is about 300 million light years away.
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In this blog post, @GidMK discusses a Perspective that was recently published in #PLOSBiology that you can read for #free here plos.io/3sE2j0m
Scientific Correction Has Failed link.medium.com/STK3fRGlfob b @GidMK #Ivermectin, #VitaminD, #HCQ. A litany of "fake research has caused massive problems during the pandemic." "This endless cavalcade of retracted papers include many that were used to support treatment decisions."
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New in @TheLancetInfDis> Triple therapy with artemether–lumefantrine plus amodiaquine versus artemether–lumefantrine alone for artemisinin-resistant, uncomplicated falciparum #malaria: an open-label, randomised, multicentre trial thelancet.com/journals/lanin… #AMR
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A blog by @mosquitohunting describes the extraordinary diversity of the deadliest animal in the world and what part #genomics can play in tackling #malaria malariagen.net/blog/understa…
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#JobOppurtunity @ImperialInfect Together with @grahamscooke we are looking for a Research Fellow in #Bioinformatics & #PrecisionMedicine to join us in the analysis of multi-omics from clinical studies of hepatitis C, COVID-19 and other infections #RT pls jobs.ac.uk/job/CNC964/resear…
Forest #malaria and prospects for anti-malarial chemoprophylaxis among forest goers: findings from a qualitative study in #Thailand: bit.ly/3rQoFey
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For International Day of #WomenInScience @WWARN ‘s Professor Karen Barnes reminds us of the rewards of leading efforts to reduce #malaria and #beatNTDs @UCTCCOAT @GHWG_TMRP @GlobalPV_TGHN @TropMedOxford @womeninmalaria @TropMedOxford @info_TGHN @IDDOnews
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Its time to highlight leading #womenInMalaria on #WomeninScience day. Thanks to @Nina_Chhita we can illustrate a few of the many talented #malaria #researchers @LauraAn83180797 @anitaghansah @NoviyantiRintis Dr Luna Kamu 👇. bit.ly/NinaDrawsMalaria
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Greedy investors can't get enough $$ while people in lower-income countries still don’t have #COVID vax access @Pfizer expects record 2022 rev - $54B! Pandemic profiteering is disgusting @AlbertBourla ! Share the patents, tech & #VaccinateOurWorld! #VOWNow
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Ever wanted to create an interactive webmap from scratch but not sure where to start? I've written this blog post showing how to easily code and publish your first web map with R, no prior coding skills needed and all tools completely free: helenmakesmaps.com/post/how-… #rstats
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Hugely valuable data from first human SARS-CoV2 challenge now online. Congrats to @ChrisChiuLab and all-star team of collaborators bit.ly/3s8NEbX
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