Our work to protect honeybees from the varroa destructor mite is featured by Bloomberg today: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

German Cyber Agency and JEDI announce their strategic cooperation 🇩🇪🇪🇺 📢 Launch of a major Challenge on automated security for #CriticalInfrastructure, funded with 30 million Euro. 📢 More joint challenges to be launched soon. ➡️ jedi.foundation/mediareleases

Congratulations to the newlyweds! Thank you Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal for the generous support of VOW for Girls in celebration of your marriage. This gift will help expand VOW’s crucial work to #EndChildMarriage and ensure more girls can choose #love on their own terms.

Yesterday Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu played a sold-out Concert for Peace Helsingin juhlaviikot | Helsinki Festival. The program begins with Penderecki’s Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima at 5:00 and ends with Mozart’s Requiem starting 1:21:45. Listen free via @yleareena. Donation link 🧵1/5 areena.yle.fi/audio/1-628783…

Was reminded today of this excellent list of scientific jargon to avoid, from R Somerville and Susan Joy Hassol, Climate Communication long ago but still completely relevant, especially as climate change work has become even more interdisciplinary.

If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain. apa.org/pubs/journals/…

Wonderful to be in Kigali at #CPHIA2022 discussing how to scale the mRNA in Africa.

Exciting day for GreenLight!

Excellent approach to communicating about science-based companies.

Good to see Rain Newton-Smith on Laura Kuenssberg today. We absolutely need CBI to make the changes they need and to get back to doing what they do best, being the voice of all sizes of business and across all industries.

Congratulations to Rob and the Liberal Democrats. Great choice and look forward to lively debate on the future of London.

Scientists and technologists risk undermining their own solutions through measurably bad positioning and communication, my POV published by World Economic Forum weforum.org/agenda/2023/07…

Can Davos inspire investment to scale climate innovators? A new generation of climate innovators is ready to scale, now we need investors and policymakers on board. My article on the barriers faced by climate tech companies: linkedin.com/pulse/can-davo…

Ma tribune ‘Il est minuit moins une’ dans Les Echos souligne le décrochage généralisé de l’Europe sur les plans économiques, technologiques, géopolitiques. Ne laissons pas le discours de la rupture aux extrêmes, utilisons ces élections européennes pour un changement en profondeur

What is the collective noun for Nobel Laureates? Problem posed by the 4-Nobel winner panel "Ask a Laureate" at AI for Science event hosted yesterday by Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and The Royal Society moderated by Hannah Fry.

Following ESG backlash and Trump’s reelection, is the next impact trend Greenhushing? linkedin.com/posts/thomascr…

Congratulations to our client NatureMetrics on being listed as one of Europe's top 250 startups! NatureMetrics measure biodiversity - simplifies nature’s complexity into insights that can be used to make sure we are improving ecosystem health. sifted.eu/leaderboards/s…

Those who had the greatest impact on my life, had no intent or even idea of that impact. They just did it naturally and often by example. Flipping that, we must recognise we have greater impact on people’s lives than we can #imagine.