22% of the children born in 1950 died before they were five years old. Since then, child mortality has fallen to 3.7%. Our animation shows this wasn't just due to progress in a few countries. People around the world have achieved improvements.

Yesterday I became a Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford when I signed a book from 1610 (also signed by Christopher Wren!). It’s truly an honor to be a part of it all. wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/we-celebr… Lesson learned: Academic handwriting has slowly deteriorated over the past 400 years! 😅

It is a dark, drizzly december sunday in London and I've just read yet another depressing thread of someone reaching for genetics to justify racism and superiority to themselves. It is deeply wrong, but such a recurrent thread worth both dismantling+ understanding the attraction

So much of good science is about working with others and the ideas developed via collaborative, supportive relationships; Susana’s @primobevolab exemplifies this. I feel lucky to have worked at the same institute as Prof. Susana Carvalho for nearly a decade. I’ll miss your energy!

Another nonsense policy. The first two things they've "stopped" are net benefits for the (floundering) UK economy. "Dependents" bring much needed skills to the job market while paying taxes and costing the government very little (most are adults with no access to public funds)!