Podcasts about scientific advisory group

My guest today, Zia Mian is co-director of Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. He's a physicist who has long studied nuclear weapons and nuclear security. In our conversation Zia Mian explains how scientists have impacted policy discussions about nuclear weapons since the dawn of the nuclear age, and how as the nuclear security landscape is evolving--and as science is advancing, scientists can continue to contribute to our understanding of the effects of a nuclear war.  In addition to his perch at Princeton, Zia Mian serves as Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This is the first first international scientific body created by a United Nations treaty process for the purpose of advancing nuclear disarmament and in our conversation he explains how the work of scientists can contribute to a nuclear free world.  We kick off, however, discussing the recent conflict between India and Pakistan and what this conflict says about the role of nuclear weapons in international security today.  We recorded this conversation in conjunction with the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. To view other episodes in this series please visit GlobalDispatches.org

Send us a textWelcome to the second episode of season five, in conversation with Dr Fionnuala Mone. Fionnuala is a clinical academic in maternal fetal medicine based at Queen's University Belfast. She is dual qualified in genomics and fetal medicine and is an international expert in prenatal genomics acting as the genetics editor for Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as an invited member of the RCOG Genomic Standing Committee, Academic Board and Scientific Advisory Group. She is also secretary for the Fetal Genomics Group of the BSGM and scientific representative for BMFMS. She has over 60 publications in her field and contributes to international guidance related to prenatal genomics.Podcast information:We have not included any patient identifiable information, and this podcast is intended for professional education rather than patient information (although welcome anyone interested in the field to listen). Please get in touch with feedback or suggestions for future guests or topics: conversationsinfetalmed@gmail.com, or via Twitter (X) or Instagram via @fetalmedcast.Music by Crowander ('Acoustic romance') used under creative commons licence. Podcast created, hosted and edited by Dr Jane Currie.

Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, is a senior lecturer in Chemistry at Columbia University, as well as being a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).   Nine nuclear weapon states possess nearly 13,000 nukes in the world.  If there were a nuclear exchange, over 5 billion people would die from starvation or direct contamination within 2-years. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a substantive agreement to help move toward total or partial nuclear reduction.  The US spends over $150 million or more each day to maintain the nuclear stockpile. The US is pursuing upgrading the nuclear weapon stockpile at a staggering cost of over $2 trillion.    The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) adopted in 1968, is the foundation for nuclear arms control. The NAP Foundation has consultative status at the UN and is a Peace Messenger.

Guest: Our Burning Planet is the Daily Maverick section devoted to expert environmental opinion and analysis. We partner up each Friday on the Afternoon Drive to discuss a burning issue.Dr Renee Street and Sizwe Nkambule of the SA Medical Research Council join John as members of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) to describe the series of urgent measures that they have put before government to deal with the Cholera Emergency.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Synopsis: Dr. Paul Bolno is the President and CEO of Wave Life Sciences, a clinical-stage RNA medicines company committed to delivering life-changing treatments for people battling devastating diseases including Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Paul discusses his early years at GSK and the events that led him to join Wave as CEO, and some of his early learnings during that transition from big pharma to a biotech. He also talks about the role and opportunity that RNA presents in medicine, where he sees RNA therapeutics going next, and what excites him about the emerging field of RNA editing. Biography: Dr. Bolno has served as President and CEO of Wave Life Sciences since 2013 and oversaw the company's initial public offering in 2015. During his tenure as President and CEO, Dr. Bolno has grown Wave into a fully integrated clinical-stage genetic medicines company, overseen the development of the company's proprietary stereopure oligonucleotide discovery and drug development platform, and built a broad pipeline of preclinical and clinical programs supported by scalable, in-house manufacturing capabilities. In addition to Dr. Bolno's current role at Wave, he is on the Board of Directors for SQZ Biotech and serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA) in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Wave, he was Vice President, Worldwide Business Development—Head of Asia BD and Investments, as well as Head of Global Neuroscience BD, at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). He also served as a Director of Glaxo Wellcome Manufacturing, Pte Ltd. in Singapore. Dr. Bolno joined GSK as Vice President, Business Development for the Oncology Business Unit, where he helped establish GSK's global oncology business and served as a member of the Oncology Executive Team, Oncology Commercial Board and Cancer Research Executive Team. Prior to GSK, he served as Director of Research at Two River LLC, a healthcare private equity firm. Dr. Bolno earned a medical degree from MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine and an MBA from Drexel University. He was a general surgery resident and cardiothoracic surgery postdoctoral research fellow at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Here at Plus, we were very grateful for Tom Irving's work during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was the Co-Head of the secretariat of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M). One of his responsibilities was writing the consensus statements that came out of SPI-M, summarising current understanding of the mathematical advice to the UK government. We found these incredibly useful when reporting on the pandemic. We finally met Tom when we were both speaking at the Communicating mathematics for the public event in January 2023 at the Newton Gateway to Mathematics in Cambridge. In this podcast Tom tells us about providing a bridge between policy and mathematics, the importance of transparency, and the joy of the R number being discussed at the hairdressers. This episode is part of On the mathematical frontline, a special series of the Plus podcast which explores the work of mathematicians grappling with the unprecedented challenge of studying a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes. In this series we interview our colleagues in the JUNIPER modelling consortium, whose research and insights have fed into SPI-M and SAGE - the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of whom advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can watch Tom's talk on the Challenges in Communicating the Results of SAGE's Covid Modelling, and you can find all our work covering COVID-19 here. This podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER, the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing question about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here.

Last Thursday, a new report from the World Health Organisation emerged – how the coronavirus pandemic began? A team of 27 international scientists, convened by the WHO and tasked with understanding how Covid spread worldwide, released this report stating that all hypotheses remain on the table, including that of a laboratory leak. All available data suggest the virus jumped from animals to humans. Nevertheless, some gaps in the figures make difficult to understand the real roots of the pandemic. The team called Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) was formed last year with the purpose of finding new ways of study to learn the pandemic's origins and, at the same time, the emergence of future infections. 

This podcast looks at the psychological quirks of humankind, what effects our bad decisions have on the society we live in, and how policy might best steer us towards better outcomes.Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Dr Bence Bago - Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and Professor Dame Theresa Marteau – the Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge and co-chair of The Lancet Chatham House Commission on improving health post Covid-19.They draw on their research to explore what defines a ‘bad decision', what causes us to make them, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on governments' and citizens' decision-making, the role of social media in misinformation processing, what we can do to prevent ourselves from making bad decisions, and what governments can do to improve matters.Listen to this episode on your preferred podcast platform.Episode 9 transcript For more information about the podcast and the work of the institutes, visit our websites at www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk and www.iast.fr . Tweet us with your thoughts at @BennettInst and @IASToulouse.  Audio production by Steve Hankey Podcast editing by Annabel ManleyMore about our guestsProfessor Dame Theresa Marteau is Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of interventions to change behaviour (principally food, tobacco and alcohol consumption) to improve population and planetary health and reduce health inequalities, with a particular focus on targeting non-conscious processes. She co-chairs the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19, and participated in the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), responding to Covid-19. She is also one of the members of the management board of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy.Dr Bence Bago is a research fellow at the IAST, with an academic background in cognitive psychology. His research interests in the interplay between intuitive and analytical processes in human decision-making, including applications in truth discernment when exposed to misinformation.Rory Cellan-Jones was a technology correspondent for the BBC. His 40 years in journalism have seen him take a particular interest in the impact of the internet and digital technology on society and business. He has also written multiple books, including his latest “Always On” which was published in 2021. 

"We all work with exponential growth and we're really, really used to it, but we are still amazed at how fast things take off at the end." This is epidemiologist Matt Keeling talking about how a disease outbreak can still take you by surprise even if you've been working in the field for 25 years. Matt's team at the University of Warwick has been running one of the main models that have informed UK government on the COVID-19 pandemic. In this podcast Matt tells us about his work on the roadmap out of lockdown, whether the models have been too pessimistic, and what it's been like producing scientific results that carry so much weight. This episode is part of On the mathematical frontline, a special series of the Plus podcast which explores the work of mathematicians grappling with the unprecedented challenge of studying a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes.    In this series we interview our colleagues in the JUNIPER modelling consortium, whose research and insights have fed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and the now familiar SAGE - the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies , both of whom advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To find out more about the work of Matt's team on the roadmap out of lockdown, see this article. You can see all of our content related to JUNIPER here.  

"We all work with exponential growth and we're really, really used to it, but we are still amazed at how fast things take off at the end." This is epidemiologist Matt Keeling talking about how a disease outbreak can still take you by surprise even if you've been working in the field for 25 years.Matt's team at the University of Warwick has been running one of the main models that have informed UK government on the COVID-19 pandemic. In this podcast he tells us about his work on the roadmap out of lockdown, whether the models have been too pessimistic, and what it's been like producing scientific results that carry so much weight.This episode is part of On the mathematical frontline , a special series of the Plus podcast which explores the work of mathematicians grappling with the unprecedented challenge of studying a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes.    In this series we interview our colleagues in the JUNIPER modelling consortium (https://maths.org/juniper/), whose research and insights have fed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and the now familiar SAGE - the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies , both of whom advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.To find out more about the work of Matt's team on the roadmap out of lockdown, see http://plus.maths.org/content/shining-light-covid-modellingThis podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER, the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing question about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: http://plus.maths.org/content/juniper.

Like many couples, Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon, have had to make it through the pandemic juggling lockdowns, child care and work.  But unlike many of us, they have also both been working together on the mathematical front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.   Ellen and Leon are both both from the University of Bristol. The are members of the JUNIPER consortium of modelling groups from across the UK whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of which advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the pandemic. If you or someone you loved found yourself living alone during the various lockdowns you benefitted directly from Ellen and Leon's work: as we find out in the podcast, it was their work on household bubbling which showed that these support bubbles were safe. We spoke to Ellen and Leon in July 2021 for our special podcast series On the mathematical front line.  The series features epidemiologists whose efforts have been crucial in the fight against the pandemic. They are the people who make sense of the data to estimate things like the R number, and who make the mathematical models that inform (and sometimes do not inform) government policy.  

Covid cases are surging in the UK, and more people over 70 are testing positive than at any time in the pandemic. What's going on? We speak to one of the key members of SAGE, the government's expert advisory committee.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today and get one month free at: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes. Guest: John Edmunds, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and member of the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).Host: Manveen Rana.Clips: ABC News, CBS News, WION, ZOE, BBC. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over the last two years we've done a lot of reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and the role mathematics has played in understanding the disease and informing how we've all responded.The Mathematical frontline podcast is about the mathematicians who are grappling with the unprecedented challenge of studying a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes. In this podcast series we interview our colleagues in the JUNIPER modelling consortium (https://maths.org/juniper/), whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and the now familiar SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of whom advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.In this podcast we are really pleased to talk to Francesca Scarabel (https://sites.google.com/view/scarabelfrancesca/home), a member of JUNIPER from the University of Manchester. Francesca tells us about what it's like being part of the mathematical emergency response, the importance of local knowledge, and not being afraid to share your ideas.You can read more about the work Francesca mentions in this podcast in "Understanding waning immunity" (https://plus.maths.org/content/so-whats-waning")This podcast was produced as part of our collaboration with the JUNIPER (https://maths.org/juniper/), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing question about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER

How have scientists contributed to UK government decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the structures and mechanisms that have drawn science into the policy process? In today's episode we're exploring what the past two years have been like for the scientists involved in government and SPI-M, the experts providing the advice based on COVID modelling and epidemiology. In today's episode, host Dr Rob Doubleday is joined by Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, who has been heavily involved throughout the pandemic within SPI-M, the specialist advisory group on modelling pandemics which feeds into the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) process. Plus, Sir John Aston, Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life, University of Cambridge. He was Chief Scientific Adviser in the Home Office from 2017-2020 and during the COVID pandemic was heavily involved in SAGE and advising the Secretary of State in the Home Office. As part of our series on science advice and government, we're looking ahead to the public inquiry into the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic this spring. We hope the episodes will highlight lessons on what worked well, how scientific advice has helped governments make difficult decisions, and how this process can be improved for the future. Season 5 is produced in partnership with the research project Expertise Under Pressure, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of Cambridge. CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Jessica Foster. Research for this series is supported by CSaP Policy Researcher Nick Cosstick. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. -- Resources relevant to this episode: Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M): https://bit.ly/35G8jgt Chief Scientific Advisors: https://bit.ly/3KzNPEY Scientific evidence supporting the government response to coronavirus (COVID-19): https://bit.ly/3JhBaq1 Sign up to our CSaP newsletter by clicking here.

Over the last two years we've done a lot of reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and the role mathematics has played in understanding the disease and informing how we've all responded. The Mathematical frontline podcast is about the mathematicians who are grappling with the unprecedented challenge of studying a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes. In this podcast series we interview our colleagues in the JUNIPER modelling consortium (https://maths.org/juniper/), whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and the now familiar SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of whom advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this podcast we are really pleased to talk to Ed Hill, a member of JUNIPER from the University of Warwick, where he is also part of the Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research group (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/zeeman_institute/). Ed tells us about his journey through the pandemic, his contribution to keeping work places and universities safe, and the importance of pacing yourself. To read about some of the work Ed mentions in this podcast see the articles Pandemics and psychology (http://plus.maths.org/content/pandemics-and-psychology) and COVID-19 and universities: What do we know? (http://plus.maths.org/content/going-back-uni). This podcast was produced as part of our collaborations with JUNIPER, the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium, and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI, https://www.newton.ac.uk/). JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing question about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER at http://plus.maths.org/content/juniper. The INI is an international research centre and our neighbour here on the University of Cambridge's maths campus. It attracts leading mathematical scientists from all over the world, and is open to all. Visit https://www.newton.ac.uk/ to find out more.

This episode is part II of Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham's interview with Professor Micheal Tildesley. In this episode, they discuss the impact of COVID19 and the lockdowns on schools and universities. Prof. Michael Tildesley is a professor of infectious disease modeling at the University of Warwick and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (SPI-M) of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Episode Photo from Pexels Thank you for listening! If you liked the episode, please give us a five-star rating and review. Buy a Coffee for Monday Science Subscribe, follow, comment, leave a review and get in touch ! Submit your questions or send your voice note questions (up to 30 seconds) here. https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/ e. info@mondaysciencepodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mondayscience/message

In this episode... Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham talks about COVID19 transmission with previous guest Prof. Michael Tildesley , professor of infectious disease modeling at the University of Warwick and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (SPI-M) of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Episode Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels Thank you for listening! If you liked the episode, please give us a five-star rating and review. Buy a Coffee for Monday Science Subscribe, follow, comment, leave a review and get in touch ! Submit your questions or send your voice note questions (up to 30 seconds) here. https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/ e. info@mondaysciencepodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mondayscience/message

So, where's this pandemic actually heading? It's a good question and quite hard to answer as... well... no one can tell you the future.But experts have never shied away from making some educated guesses, including SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies in the UK.They've published four scenarios ranging from as good as it can be given the circumstances to downright doom and gloom.So on today's Coronacast, what does SAGE think we can expect from the pandemic over the next few years and which scenario is most likely to be right?

So, where's this pandemic actually heading? It's a good question and quite hard to answer as... well... no one can tell you the future. But experts have never shied away from making some educated guesses, including SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies in the UK. They've published four scenarios ranging from as good as it can be given the circumstances to downright doom and gloom. So on today's Coronacast, what does SAGE think we can expect from the pandemic over the next few years and which scenario is most likely to be right?

So, where's this pandemic actually heading? It's a good question and quite hard to answer as... well... no one can tell you the future. But experts have never shied away from making some educated guesses, including SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies in the UK. They've published four scenarios ranging from as good as it can be given the circumstances to downright doom and gloom. So on today's Coronacast, what does SAGE think we can expect from the pandemic over the next few years and which scenario is most likely to be right?

Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, is the Founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH - https://ctph.org/), a 16-year old non-profit organization, based in Uganda, that promotes conservation by improving the quality of life of people and wildlife to enable them to coexist in and around protected areas in Africa, and she has become one of the leading conservationists and scientists working to save the critically endangered mountain gorillas of East Africa. Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka is also on the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) of the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/groups/scientific-advisory-group-on-the-origins-of-novel-pathogens-(sago)/about) Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka trained as a veterinarian at the University of London's Royal Veterinary College. Between 1996 and 2000, she set up the first Veterinary Unit at the Uganda Wildlife Authority. From 2000 to 2003, she completed a zoological medicine residency and masters in specialized veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University and North Carolina Zoological Park. Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka became an Ashoka Fellow in 2007 for merging Uganda's wildlife management and rural public health programs to create common resources for both people and animals. Prior to setting up CTPH, Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka also did a certificate in Non-profit management from Duke University. Most recently in 2016, she completed an MBA in Global Business and Sustainability – Social Entrepreneurship Track. Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka's most recent awards include the 2017 World Wildlife Day Award from the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (MTWA) for outstanding contribution to conservation in Uganda and 2017 Golden Jubilee Award from the President of Uganda for distinguished service to the nation as a veterinarian and conservationist on International Women's Day. Other awards include San Diego Zoo's 2008 “Conservation in Action Award,” the 2009 Whitley Gold Award for outstanding leadership in grassroots nature conservation; 2011 Wings World Quest Women of Discovery Humanitarian Award, and 2014 CEO Communications Africa's Most Influential Women in Business and Government Award in Medicine and Veterinary category. Under Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka's leadership, Conservation Through Public Health won the Global Development Network 2012 Japanese Most Innovative Development Project Award for scaling social service delivery. Dr. Kalema-Zikusoka recently became a National Geographic Explorer and winner of the Sierra Club's 2018 EarthCare Award, 2019 Finalist for the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa, the 2020 Uganda Veterinary Association World Veterinary Day Award and the 2020 Aldo Leopold award. She is also on the leadership council of Women for the Environment in Africa.

I am VERY EXCITED to share with you today and interview that I know will help give you some tips to improve your position and get straighter in the saddle!A big part of Dressage is straightness. All horses are naturally crooked and so are the riders. It is very important to first identify these asymmetries, understand how the effect your position and your horse and then work to correct them!Here are some of the key takeaways from the interview although I highly suggest you watch the video as there are a ton of really great information in the interview:— It is important that you can see and actually visualize your asymmetries so that you can fix them. Often our proprioception is off - we think that we are straight when we are not. The first step to correcting this is you must see your asymmetries.— Building Blocks for Straightness - to assess the rider's straightness, always start with the pelvis and make sure that the pelvis is sitting straight in the saddle. Then work your way up to the ribcage, shoulders, and finally the head.— Consider what you do outside of riding - the way that you sit in your car, the way that you sit at your desk and even the way that you sleep effects your riding and symmetry in the saddle as does any old injuries you have had. Exercise, working with a physical therapist, and addressing your asymmetries when NOT riding is hugely important.I am very grateful to Dr. Russel MacKechnie-Guire fo doing this interview! I learned a ton and I hope you did as well! Dr. Russel MacKechnie-Guire is the founder of Centaur Biomechanics and developed the black jackets with a yellow ex on the back that I often use in my videos. Russell MacKechnie-Guire holds a PhD in EquineBiomechanics, graduating from the Royal VeterinaryCollege in 2019. Russell's thesis was titled ‘TheRelationship between Saddle and Rider Kinematics,Equine Locomotion, and Thoracolumbar Pressures inSports Horses'. Russell is based at Centaur Biomechanics,a company which he founded in 2006. He has extensivelyresearched the effect that tack (saddle, bridle and girth)has on equine health and performance. Russell's currentarea of research is horse-saddle-rider interaction, spinal kinematics in horses when ridden over ground and the effect that rider asymmetry has on equine back movement. In addition, Russell collaborates with researchers from around the world on various research projects associated with equine health and performance. He regularly presents his work at international meetings throughout the world and is a consultant for the British Equestrian Federations World Class, Team GBR programme. Russell is a member of the Team GBR's Scientific Advisory Group, Society of Master Saddlers Scientific Advisory Group and chairs the horse+rider subgroup, part of the International Task force on Laterality in Sports Horses.Do you want more of Amelia's dressage tips and content?Sign up for my e-mail list:https://forms.aweber.com/form/52/766851352.htmlFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/amelia.newcomb.7Instagram:@amelianewcombdressagehttps://www.instagram.com/amelianewcombdressage/ Join Amelia's Dressage Club on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ameliasdressageclub/ FREE Mini Course on Confidence!Https://ameliasdressageacademy.com/confidence/ Visit my website:http://www.amelianewcombdressage.comCheck us out on Patreon:http://www.patreon.com/amelianewcombdressageCheck out our swag shop:https://www.wbembinc.com/adaRider Position Mini Course:https://www.ameliasdressageacademy.com/riderpositionminicourse/Rider assessment...

TWiV explores the properties of the spike glycoproteins of an influenza B virus discovered in the Wuhan spiny eel, and protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection one year after mRNA-1273 vaccination of nonhuman primates. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode HA and NA of Wuhan spiny eel influenza virus (Nat Comm) Protection one year after mRNA-1273 vaccination (bioRxiv) Letters read on TWiV 824 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Best of Gilda Radner Brianne – This polio survivor is one of the last still relying on an iron lung Rich – WHO Announces Proposed Members of its Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO); (members) Vincent – Discovery of mRNA (paper one and two) Listener Picks Doris – History of smallpox and smallpox vaccine Judith – How the immune system works Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

TWiV explores the properties of the spike glycoproteins of an influenza B virus discovered in the Wuhan spiny eel, and protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection one year after mRNA-1273 vaccination of nonhuman primates. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode HA and NA of Wuhan spiny eel influenza virus (Nat Comm) Protection one year after mRNA-1273 vaccination (bioRxiv) Letters read on TWiV 824 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Best of Gilda Radner Brianne – This polio survivor is one of the last still relying on an iron lung Rich – WHO Announces Proposed Members of its Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO); (members) Vincent – Discovery of mRNA (paper one and two) Listener Picks Doris – History of smallpox and smallpox vaccine Judith – How the immune system works Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Hvordan har røykevaner blitt påvirket av pandemien? Er det sammenheng mellom covid-19-vaksinering og spontanaborter? Kan oxytocin redusere sosiale vansker hos barn med autismespekterforstyrrelser? Nature har dessuten nylig hatt en rekke artikler om psykisk helse hos barn og unge. WHO har satt ned en ny gruppe som skal jobbe med et rammeverk for studier av truende patogener i fremtiden. I tillegg har WHO for første gang anbefalt utbredt bruk av en ny malariavaksine. Et opprop for å gjøre det amerikanske helsevesenet klimanøytralt er endelig publisert, en god stund etter mange andre. Og flere nye artikler viser at etnisitet påvirker din opplevelse i helsevesenet, både for helsepersonell og pasienter. Sjefredaktør Are Brean deler siste nytt fra andre medisinskvitenskapelige tidsskrifter.Tilbakemeldinger kan sendes til stetoskopet@tidsskriftet.no.     Stetoskopet produseres av Lisa Dahlbak Jacobsen, Are Brean og Julie Didriksen ved Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. Ansvarlig redaktør er Are Brean.     Lydtekniker: Håkon Braaten / Moderne media  Coverillustrasjon: Stephen Lee  Artikler nevnt:  Changes in Cigarette Sales in the United States During the COVID-19 PandemicSpontaneous Abortion Following COVID-19 Vaccination During PregnancyAssociations between cesarean delivery and child mortality: A national record linkage longitudinal study of 17.8 million births in BrazilIntranasal Oxytocin in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum DisorderYoung people's mental health is finally getting the attention it needsPreparing for “Disease X”Public notice of proposed new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) membersWHO hails “historic day” as it recommends malaria vaccineIn landmark decision, WHO greenlights rollout in Africa of the first malaria vaccineDecarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector — A Call to ActionHelseskadelige helseutslippTemporal Trends in Stroke Thrombolysis in the US by Race and Ethnicity, 2009-2018White doctors in London are six times more likely to be offered jobs than black doctorsBlack and Asian doctors still face discrimination when applying for jobs in the NHSHow to be a good science communicator

Life has returned to normal for millions in Britain since coronavirus restrictions were lifted over the summer. But while the rules have vanished, the virus hasn't. Many scientists are now calling on the government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates, already Europe's highest, rise still further. The UK recorded 43,738 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, slightly down from the 49,156 reported Monday, which was the largest number since mid-July. New infections have averaged more than 44,000 a day over the past week, a 16 per cent increase on the week before. Last week, the Office for National Statistics estimated that one in 60 people in England had the virus, one of the highest levels seen in Britain during the pandemic. A man wears a face mask as he walks in Piccadilly Circus, in London. Photo / Alberto Pezzali, AP In July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government lifted all the legal restrictions that had been imposed more than a year earlier to slow the spread of the virus, including face coverings indoors and social distancing rules. Nightclubs and other crowded venues were allowed to open at full capacity, and people were no longer advised to work from home if they could. Some modellers feared a big spike in cases after the opening-up. That didn't occur, but infections remained high, and recently have begun to increase — especially among children, who largely remain unvaccinated. Also rising are hospitalisations and deaths, which have averaged 130 a day over the past week, with 223 reported Tuesday alone. That is far lower than when cases were last this high, before much of the population was vaccinated, but still too high, critics of the government say. Britain has recorded more than 138,000 coronavirus deaths, the highest total in Europe after Russia. People sit at the bottom of a column in the area of Covent Garden. Photo / Alberto Pezzali, AP Against that backdrop, some feel Britons have been too quick to return to pre-pandemic behaviour. Masks and social distancing have all but vanished in most settings in England, including schools, though Scotland and other parts of the UK remain a bit more strict. Even in shops, where masks are recommended, and on the London transit network, where they are mandatory, adherence is patchy. A plan to require proof of vaccination to attend nightclubs, concerts and other mass events in England was dropped by the Conservative government amid opposition from lawmakers, though Scotland introduced a vaccine pass programme this month. Some scientists say a bigger factor is waning immunity. Britain's vaccination programme got off to a quick start, with shots given to the elderly and vulnerable beginning in December 2020, and so far almost 80 per cent of eligible people have received two doses. The early start means millions of people have been vaccinated for more than six months, and studies have suggested vaccines' protection gradually wanes over time. Millions of people in Britain are being offered booster shots, but critics say the programme is moving too slowly, at about 180,000 doses a day. More than half of the people eligible for a booster dose haven't yet received one. The UK also waited longer than the US and many European nations to vaccinate children ages 12-15, and only about 15 per cent in that age group in England have had a shot since they became eligible last month. "It's critical we accelerate the booster programme," said epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. Ferguson said one factor influencing the UK's high case numbers was that it has relied heavily on the AstraZeneca vaccine, "and, while that protects very well against very severe outcomes of Covid, it protects slightly less well than Pfizer against infection and transmission, particularly in the face of the Delta variant". A man wears a face mask as he passes a woman without...

The World Health Organization says its newly established task force could be the last chance to find the truth over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.The WHO's director-general voiced his frustration over the level of access China had granted to the international mission to China.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the mission's final report did not conduct an extensive enough assessment over the possibility the virus was introduced to humans through a laboratory incident.The WHO announced the names of 26 nominees to join the newly established Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogensa .The proposed team of scientists includes six people who visited China as part of the previous WHO-China mission.

L'OMS ha annunciato la formazione di un gruppo di esperti per indagare le origini del Covid-19 e prepararci alla prossima pandemia. Si cerca di superare l'approccio politico alla crisi sanitaria, ma la battaglia sembra persa in partenzaQuesta settimana l'OMS ha annunciato la formazione di un nuovo gruppo di esperti — il SAGO, per Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens — che avrà lo scopo di guidare gli studi sulle origini di tutti i patogeni nuovi o ri-emergenti, compreso il SARS-CoV-2. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ha spiegato la decisione ricordando che “l'emergere di nuovi virus con il potenziale di scatenare epidemie e pandemie è un fatto naturale, e mentre il SARS-CoV-2 è il più recente di questo tipo di virus, non sarà l'ultimo.”Il direttore generale ha sottolineato la varietà di ambiti da cui provengono gli esperti e dicendo che riflettono “le diversità geografiche e di genere.” In ogni caso, prima della prima riunione del gruppo bisognerà aspettare le due settimane di consultazioni pubbliche previste dalle norme dell'OMS. Il gruppo, tra le altre funzioni, assisterà l'OMS nel valutare una serie di nuovi studi sulle origini del Covid–19.L'annuncio è arrivato insieme a un editoriale, firmato da Maria Van Kerkhove, responsabile tecnica per la risposta alla pandemia, Michael Ryan, direttore esecutivo del programma dell'OMS per le emergenze sanitarie, e dallo stesso Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, pubblicato su Science. Nell'articolo, titolato “Prepararsi per la Malattia X,” i tre autori spiegano la decisione di lanciare il SAGO: “Non è la prima volta che vengono lanciati studi internazionali sulle origini di un nuovo virus. Eppure, ogni volta, i ricercatori si trovano di fronte a una serie di sfide — non solo scientifiche, ma anche logistiche e politiche. […] Nel maggio 2020, gli stati membri dell'OMS hanno approvato una risoluzione all'unanimità per dare all'OMS un mandato per riunire un gruppo di esperti per realizzare studi scientifici e collaborativi sulle origini del virus. Ma è chiaro che i processi scientifici sono stati danneggiati dalla politicizzazione, ed è per questo che la comunità scientifica globale deve rinforzare il proprio impegno per portare avanti il processo scientifico.”Evitare la politicizzazione delle indagini sarà difficilissimo: nel corso del 2021 la teoria delle origini in laboratorio del virus — che, ricordiamo, non ha nessuna prova a favore, ma è stata istituzionalizzata quando è diventata bipartisan negli Stati Uniti — è diventata sempre più forte, raccogliendo il sostegno anche di diverse testate che hanno una reputazione di affidabilità. È il caso ad esempio del New York Times, che da tempo ormai abbraccia tacitamente la teoria, e che ieri ha pubblicato un pezzo in cui spiega che il nuovo gruppo incontrerà forti resistenze dalla Cina.Prepararsi alla Malattia X vuol dire anche superare le tante difficoltà che ancora rendono inutilmente difficile la pandemia in tante parti del mondo: mentre i paesi più ricchi del mondo si preoccupano del regime dei richiami — una cosa sacrosanta per la politica nazionale, ma miope su scala globale — i paesi più sfruttati devono affrontare sfide più complesse: in Africa il numero di tamponi è troppo basso, e un nuovo studio dell'OMS valuta che siano stati individuati solo il 14,2% dei casi — uno su tre. In tantissimi altri paesi come Indonesia e Brasile, dove la campagna vaccinale è stata condotta soprattutto con vaccini cinesi, la questione delle terze dosi è particolarmente urgente, perché questi vaccini garantiscono un periodo di protezione più breve. Così, mentre continuiamo a non produrre abbastanza vaccini per proteggere tutto il mondo, alcuni paesi che avrebbero bisogno urgente di terze dosi non hanno nemmeno quelle.Show notes Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) WHO Announces Proposed Members of its Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) Preparing for

The World Health Organization says its newly established task force could be the last chance to find the truth over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.The WHO's director-general voiced his frustration over the level of access China had granted to the international mission to China.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the mission's final report did not conduct an extensive enough assessment over the possibility the virus was introduced to humans through a laboratory incident.The WHO announced the names of 26 nominees to join the newly established Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogensa .The proposed team of scientists includes six people who visited China as part of the previous WHO-China mission.

The World Health Organization says its newly established task force could be the last chance to find the truth over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.The WHO's director-general voiced his frustration over the level of access China had granted to the international mission to China.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the mission's final report did not conduct an extensive enough assessment over the possibility the virus was introduced to humans through a laboratory incident.The WHO announced the names of 26 nominees to join the newly established Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogensa .The proposed team of scientists includes six people who visited China as part of the previous WHO-China mission.

--{ "The Psychology of Coercion"© CTTM}-- Original Broadcast June 14, 2020 - Bush, Gorbachev New World Orders - Training Children through Education and Entertainment - New Definitions of Families and Men and Women - Psychological Conditioning Through Persuasion - The Covid Idea and the Revolution - SAGE, Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies - BIT, Behavioural Insights Teams - Coronavirus War of Terror on the Public - Media Given an Outline by British Government on How to Heighten Anxiety to Get the Public to Conform by Obedience to the Experts - Novel, The White Cutter; Story of a Medieval Stonemason - Modern Freemasonry - Albigensians - The Green Man, Nature, Occultic - Culture Industry, Packaged Pop Groups, Miming on Stage - The Beatles - Revolutionary Music Changed to Sex, Sex, Sex - Thirty Years in the Middle East, Afghanistan - 2007-08 Crash - The Elite Always Plan the Future - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis (the Goal They Wanted in the First Place) - Visionaries, Brotherhoods - World Economic Forum, Population Control - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, "Can we have your liver?" - Bioethics - Shaping the Future through the Culture Industry - Riots, NGOs, Protest Leaders Told What to Protest - CIA, MI6, Mossad - John le Carre - Fauci, Pandemic, Wuhan Biolab - SAGE, Terror Used to Create Anxiety within the Public, Knowing it Would Lead to Depression and Even Suicide - Pavlovian Animal Management - Atheist, Sovietized System - Watching Trash on Television - Orwell's 1984, Entertainment and Pornography Churned Out by Machine - Accepting New Normals - Couples "Should Wear Masks During Sex" to Lower Risk of Transmitting Coronavirus - Spielberg Called TV a Great Weapon - A Good Citizen is Meant to Comply - A New World Order is Coming Out of the Covid Pandemic - "Foxy" Fauci said "Things will never be the same", Bill Gates - Efficiency, Technocracy, Experts will Run Everything - Atheism, Science the New Religion - General Milley, The Military, The Brotherhood, The Establishment - Soviet and U.S. Scientists Meeting Every Year During the Cold War - The Elimination of Religion - Church of England, a Progressive Joke, Archbishop a Druid - Using Churches to Promote War - Greek Idea of a Hierarchy of Gods; Degrees of Godhood - The Spiritual Side of Humans - Albigensians - Demiurge - School, Schola - The Left, Humanists, Technocrats Hate Remnants of Religion; New Agers can Be Trained into Sustainability, Veganism. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - June 14, 2020 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)

英國大解封，新病例卻下降　防疫成功還是檢測數字會騙人？ https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5117571 英國大解封，確診數跟著下降了，是防疫成功還是檢測數字會騙人？解封政策是不是真的成功，8月21日這個日期很關鍵。 7月19日，英國正式宣布「大解封」，所有跟新冠肺炎有關的防疫限制都全面解除，酒吧跟夜店重新開放、不管戶外室內都不用再戴口罩、私人聚會跟工作場合不再有人數限制、進餐廳用餐不用再做檢測，人們似乎回到了日常生活。 解封前一天，英國日增病例達到6萬人之多，解封當天則有4萬6千個新病例，許多人都覺得英國政府瘋了。然而一週過去，奇怪的事情發生了…新病例居然開始驟降。 7月24日，英國政府公佈的日增新病例降到1萬9724例，跟解封日當天相比，一週之內下降非常多，連英國本地科學家都摸不著頭腦。到底是怎麼回事？難道英國的「群體免疫」真的奏效了？ 英警告：超級變異株恐讓現有疫苗無用武之地 https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aopl/202108030050.aspx 英國政府官方科學諮詢小組發表英國學者分析報告指稱，他們相信「幾乎可以肯定」會出現COVID-19「超級變異株」，「讓目前使用的疫苗都無用武之地」。 美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）報導，這項分析尚未經過同儕審查，這項早期研究屬理論性，且沒提供任何「有超級變異病毒株正在傳播」的證據。它是為在緊急時期中，以預印本形式向政府提供快速證據（rapid evidence）。 英國學者探討新型冠狀病毒SARS-CoV-2長期演變的狀況，並於7月26日發表研究，英國政府旗下的「緊急情況科學諮詢小組」（Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, SAGE）7月30日公布上述報告。 科學家寫道，由於COVID-19（2019冠狀病毒疾病）病毒「不太可能」完全根除，他們「高度認為」未來還是會有新的變異株出現。他們相信，當前「幾乎可以肯定」的是，將會有「逐漸或間斷地積累的抗原變異，最終導致現有疫苗失效」。 他們建議當局繼續盡其所能地減少病毒傳播，以減少讓「疫苗無效的新變異病毒株」出現的可能性。 他們也建議，應將研究重點放在研發新疫苗方面，而新疫苗除了要預防住院和感染，還能「誘發強且持久的黏膜免疫力」。 他們認為，應該朝著「減少已接種疫苗個體間的感染傳播鏈」方向努力，以減少「已接種疫苗個體染疫的可能」。幾家製造COVID-19疫苗的公司早已開始進行相關研究，來對抗新的變異病毒。 SAGE科學家在7月7日的會後表示，「高流行率和高疫苗接種率結合，創造出最有可能出現免疫逃逸變異株的條件」。科學家當時表示：「還不清楚發生這種情況的可能性，但這種變異株將為英國和全世界帶來重大風險。」 給長輩的AZ疫苗懶人包 https://linshibi.com/?p=39590 高端 聯亞 國產疫苗懶人包 第二期結束就緊急授權可行嗎？ https://linshibi.com/?p=39547 新冠快篩懶人包 普篩 抗體快篩 抗原快篩 https://linshibi.com/?p=36564 新冠肺炎疫情下的防疫須知 常見問題解答FAQ https://linshibi.com/?p=35408 新冠疫苗常見問題懶人包 https://linshibi.com/?p=38945 林氏璧醫師的電子名片 https://lit.link/linshibi 歡迎贊助我喝咖啡 https://pay.firstory.me/user/linshibi Powered by Firstory Hosting

On the mathematical front line is a special series of the Plus podcast featuring epidemiologists whose efforts have been crucial in the fight against the pandemic. They are the people who make sense of the data to estimate things like the R number, and who make the mathematical models that inform (and sometimes do not inform) government policy. In this episode we talk to Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon, both from the University of Bristol. The are members of the JUNIPER consortium (https://maths.org/juniper/) of modelling groups from across the UK whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of which advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ellen and Leon are also a couple, who have stuck it out through the lockdowns not just in terms of living arrangements and child care, but also in terms of work. And if you don't live with a partner but instead have benefited from the support bubbles that allowed you to team up with another household, then you have Ellen and Leon to thank for that: as we find out in the podcast, it was their work on household bubbling which showed that these support bubbles were safe. The podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER (https://maths.org/juniper/), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing questions about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper

Is air conditioning enough to ventilate a room? And is an open window better than an electric fan? In this episode of Leeds University Business School's Research and Innovation Podcast, Dr Matthew Davis is joined by Professor Cath Noakes and Professor Simon Rees to discuss the importance of good ventilation in buildings, particularly as people begin to return to the office after lockdown.  This project – https://business.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/research-projects/1836/adapting-offices-for-the-future-of-work (Adapting Offices for the Future of Work) – is funded by the https://esrc.ukri.org/ (Economic and Social Research Council) (ESRC), as part of https://www.ukri.org/ (UK Research and Innovation)'s rapid response to Covid-19.  This podcast episode was recorded remotely in July 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A https://business.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/237/podcast_episode_31_-_transcript (transcript of this episode) is available.   About the speakers: Dr Matthew Davis is an Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research centres on how people interact with their environments, the impact of different office designs and how businesses engage in CSR.  Cath Noakes is Professor of Environmental Engineering for Buildings at the University of Leeds and is on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) committee. Her research expertise is in building physics and environmental engineering and she leads research into ventilation, indoor air quality and infection control in the built environment.  Simon Rees is Professor of Building Energy Systems at the University of Leeds. His research interests are in the field of Building Engineering Physics and geothermal heating and cooling systems. These interests can be summarised as sustainable building design, energy simulation and dynamic thermal modelling methods, room heat transfer, thermal networks and geothermal systems.  

We start with Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest in London and the under-reporting of it by the BBC. When press does report on such events you can count on them to be generally characterized as being  populated by Covid deniers, conspiracy theorists and far right extremists. (James Delingpole with the hat trick!) Then we move on to the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) and its stance on BLM and Susan Michie – a member of the both SAGE and the Communist Party of Great Britain. We also cover the recent acquittal of a group of Extinction Rebellion protestors and the latest scandals to engulf Boris’s premiership (including a tussle over the identity of the ‘Chatty Rat.’) In Culture Corner we cover James’ slow reading habits, the previously mentioned Mare of Easttown, Jupiter’s Legacy and a new film – Nobody – that is every LUMA (Lower Upper Middle Aged) man’s fantasy. This week’s opening sound is coverage of the London Anti-Lockdown March from Sky News Australia’s The Outsiders.

In this episode Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham talks about COVID19 transmission with Dr Michael Tildesley , a Reader of infectious disease modelling at the University of Warwick and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (SPI-M) of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Bio. available https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/episode-65. Episode image credit: https://unsplash.com/ Subscribe, follow, comment and get in touch! Submit your questions or send your voice note questions (up to 30 seconds) via www.mondaysciencepodcast.com e. info@mondaysciencepodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mondayscience/message

Professor Cath Noakes studies how air moves and the infection risk associated with different ventilation systems. Early in the pandemic, she was invited to join the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, SAGE and asked to study the transmission routes for Covid-19. In July, together with many other scientists, she urged governments around the world and the World Health Organisation to recognise that Covid-19 could be transmitted in tiny particles in the air, even if the risk of getting infected in this way was much smaller than the risk from larger particles that travel less far. Her research highlights the importance of good ventilation as a way to stop the spread of infection in indoor environments. Being in a well ventilated space can reduce the risk of inhaling tiny airborne pathogens by 70%. Cath talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her journey from studying industrial processes to infection risk, her work on the airborne transmission of diseases and the challenge of designing buildings that are both well ventilated and energy efficient. Producer: Anna Buckley Photo credit: University of Leeds

0:12: Larry Behrens joins Eddy to talk special session, MLG, and where New Mexico goes from here 1:05: Lines, lines everywhere — and MLG is denying reality 5:50: Why aren't other states experiencing this? 6:35: Why Larry thinks “this is a huge session” 9:45: How MLG grabbed the spotlight with her promise of $300 million (plenty of strings attached, of course) 13:30: Go to the government before you can do … anything? 17:00: People are leaving for Arizona, Utah, Texas, etc. (maybe for good) 22:05: State Rep. Gregg Schmedes (R-Tijeras) offered a warning of what might come 25:35: How can businesses fight back? 31:30: We need Buffalo's courage here in New Mexico 33:15: Larry's “warning from the future” to the entire U.S. 37:05: Move the Roundhouse protests to MLG's “house”! 39:00: Eddy introduces a must-listen lecture from Dr. Michael Yeadon, a UK-based biochemist and pharmacologist who thinks the COVID-19 policy response has been spectacularly wrong 51:00: Yeadon's lecture begins with a summary of his training and experience 52:10: Why were restrictions rising in the UK when the data were encouraging? 52:25: What is the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)? 53:00: SAGE thought, quite mistakenly, that SARS-CoV-2 was “a new virus,” and thus no one would have any immunity 53:50: The story of Edward Jenner and the birth of vaccination 55:15: The “principle of cross-immunization,” and why so many in the UK's nursing homes did not get sick 56:30: Another “fatal error” by SAGE was its estimate of only a 7 percent infection rate (“unbelievably wrong”) 58:10: If the percentage of people with antibodies is falling, the “only plausible explanation” is that the prevalence of the virus in the population is falling 59:00: “Community immunity” — i.e., herd immunity — is close at hand 59:25: Good news on vaccines 59:45: Why aren't we talking about T cells? 1:00:00: “I believe, fundamentally, it is over." 1:01:20: All through the spring and summer, SAGE did not have a clinical immunologist! 1:02:00: The multiple deficiencies of the PCR test and how it produces “cold positives” 1:07:10: “This test is monstrously unsuitable for detecting who has live virus in their airway. It's subject to multiple distortions that are worsening as we get into the winter.” 1:08:35: It's normal to have more people in intensive care this time of year (many deaths are being misattributed to COVID-19) 1:09:18: Testing everybody, maybe every day — not the solution! 1:09:48: “What we should do is stop mass testing.” 1:11:15: Immunity will not start to fade, it will last for years, and possibly be “lifelong” 1:15:05: The virus “is not what you were told in spring” (fatality rate much lower) 1:16:25: The lockdown was worth trying, but the “pain” ended up being for nothing 1:17:30: A possible explanation for why some countries were hit harder than others (perhaps cross immunity, perhaps “dry tinder”) 1:21:02: Excess deaths this year will be “not particularly unusual” 1:22:20: We have to pull ourselves out of this, by 1) ceasing mass testing of the “mostly well” and 2) firing the “lethally incompetent” officials at SAGE 1:25:30: Greg Zanetti joins Eddy for a discussion of the election and beyond 1:26:40: A pattern of 80-year segments in American history: 1940, 1860, 1780, 1700, 1620 1:29:50: George Gammon's insights on the stock market, the Fed, and the “stimulus” 1:36:25: In 2021, 57 percent of GDP will be “public” spending — a toxic fusion of big banks, mega-corporations, and government 1:40:50: Huge deficits, no matter who's inaugurated, and inflation expectations are going to rise 1:42:15: Why betting on the stock market is not wise 1:44:35: The weak link is the currency 1:47:30: You should be investing in “low-tech” 1:50:40: Why didn't the stock market tank in September? 1:54:40: What happens if election fraud is proven? 2:02:22: What if Biden wins? 2:09:52: “The Bread of Shame”

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Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition:The UK Government weighs up the trade-off between keeping pubs open or reopening schools in light of potential new lockdownNew drink-driving data from the Department for Transport show no ‘significant improvement’ for another year, as road accidents and casualties stay largely unchanged since 2010Research looks into the recent history of alcohol and mental health policy for older people in the UK 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵A study finds alcohol advertising in Formula One racing is a potential driver of alcohol consumptionTop health experts call for alcohol labelling overhaul as investigation finds consumers are not provided with adequate information about the beverages they drinkIn Ireland, the 2020 Alcohol Market Review and Price Survey finds drinkers are able to reach their weekly alcohol limit for pocket money pricesBetter Health campaign urges drinkers to think about the ‘empty calories’ in alcohol Global drinks producer Diageo manage to keep their UK sales operation afloat during the pandemic, through targeted e-commerce tacticsRumours that a booze ban on drinking in football stadiums will be lifted resurface in the pressWe hope you enjoy our roundup of stories below: please feel free to share. Thank you.Another (potential) lockdown – pubs versus schoolsWill pubs have to close their doors again in the event of a second wave of COVID-19? Yes, if chair of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) sub-group on pandemic modelling, professor Graham Medley, had his way (The Guardian, 01 Aug).The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine academic told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘It might come down to a question of which do you trade-off against each other and then that’s a matter of prioritising, do we think pubs are more important than schools?’And so, a national debate began, with pubs pitted against schools radio and TV studios across the UK’s broadcasting network:Early reports suggested the government would choose to keep pubs open regardless, with English pubs ‘likely to be spared any new restrictions on social contact to stem coronavirus outbreaks’ (The Guardian, 03 Aug). This came as drinkers and businesses toasted the reopening of pubs, cafés and restaurants indoors in Wales (BBC News Wales, 03 Aug).In an economic sense, the importance of public houses being open for business is obvious: overall consumption levels have fallen as a direct result of mass closures of licensed premises during the recent lockdown, a contributing factor to the country’s worst recession on record.However, in some instances, the trade-off with health became too stark to ignore. Scotland’s beer gardens opened on 06 July, but lockdown restrictions were reimposed in Aberdeen after a COVID-19 cluster outbreak was found to be linked to a pub in the region (BBC Scotland, 05 Aug).And south of the border, the clamour for closure grew alongside fears of a second lockdown. Councils called for more power to shut pubs flouting COVID-19 guidance to combat the problem (Morning Advertiser, 10 Aug).Subsequent reports suggested that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would ‘sooner close pubs, restaurants and shops than have schools shut again amid concerns for both the educational future of children and for their safety and wellbeing without the safeguarding provided in the classroom’ (The Independent, 10 Aug).However, if we have learnt anything from the lockdown earlier this year, we know that if the pubs close their doors again, the off-trade will be on hand to pick up the slack. Nielsen data found that many drinkers flocked to purchase alcohol from their local off-licensed premises: ‘in the 17 weeks of lockdown to 11 July, UK consumers spent £7·7bn on alcohol in UK supermarkets – an increase of £1·9bn year on year’ (The Grocer, 30 Jul).It appears that for many Brits, drinking at home is no substitute for drinking in a social setting. Gemma Cooper, senior client business partner at Nielsen, told the trade mag:Without being able to go out or socialise with others during the peak of the pandemic, and no access to dine-in pubs or restaurants, we have seen a natural decline in alcohol consumption even as at-home drinking increased.Furthermore, even as the government holds out hope for pubs keeping the economy afloat, research from Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, Emily Nicholls, and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of East London, Dominic Conroy, suggests that ‘although many people missed pubs, they are not necessarily ready to rush back to those that have reopened’ (The Conversation, 03 Aug). Interviewing a cross-section of self-defined social drinkers about their drinking habits during lockdown, they found that those who expressed a reluctance to drink alone ‘missed the sociability of going to pubs’, but others were also aware that ‘the reopening of pubs does not signify a return to normality’, all of which raises the question of whether pubs can return to the position of being institutions of spontaneous, intimate, and fluid social interactions between individuals any time soon.It may also explain the government’s desire to focus on implementing widespread restrictions on social contact rather than closing down specific industries like pubs.Ultimately, consumer confidence will determine pubs’ future: business-friendly measures such as granting permission to sell takeaway alcohol may not have as much impact on sales as is hoped. At some point in this trade-off between indoor venues for which is most worthy of being exempted from restrictions, the government will have to abandon the hope that the coronavirus knows the difference between a school classroom, a boozer and a living room, to paraphrase a columnist from The Independent (04 Aug). Ironically, for all the emphasis on priding the economy over public health, it may well be public health measures to eliminate the virus that are the only key to pub industry surviving this pandemic in good health.Drink-driving data shows no ‘significant’ improvement yet againThere were an estimated 240 deaths due to road accidents where at least one driver or passenger was over the drink drive limit in 2018, a small but ‘not statistically significant’ fall on the previous year, according to the Department for Transport (DfT).In fact, the new Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain, final estimates involving illegal alcohol levels release (27 Aug) saw little change in many areas, indicating little improvement in drink-driving policy for the best part of the decade.The new lower central estimate of drink drive deaths (representing 13% of all deaths from reported road accidents in 2018), similar to the levels reported in 2010; however, the decrease from 250 deaths in 2017 is not statistically significant, meaning this decrease is more likely due to chance.The DfT also estimated that 8,680 people were injured or killed when at least a driver or passenger was above the drink drive limit in 2018, a 1% increase on last year, although still 4% lower than in 2016. The annual number of drink-driving accidents of all severities rose 3% to 5,890 in 2018 – again, lower than in 2016 (-3%). And 5% of reported accidents on Great Britain’s roads involved drink drivers, a level that has remained more or less the same since mid-2000s. Developments in UK alcohol policy and public mental health for older people🎵 Podcast feature 🎵In many countries, an increase in the number of people aged over 50 is resulting in a subsequent shift of those who are most vulnerable to alcohol-related harm. Using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as a marker of morbidity, alcohol increased to the 5th (from 14th) highest risk factor for those aged 50 to 69 in England, between 1990 and 2017.Amidst this scenario, a new piece of research aims to detail developments in UK alcohol policy for older people, based on evidence for a growing public health problem with alcohol misuse in that age cohort.Published in the Journal of Public Mental Health (29 Jul), expert consultant old age psychiatrist Dr Tony Rao carried out a review of studies going back 20 years, using health and social care databases, including grey literature. Seven major themes in alcohol policy were examined: early policy development, trends in morbidity and mortality, low-risk drinking, prevention of alcohol-related harm, screening and brief intervention, public education and integrated care for dual diagnosis.The review found that although there has been progress in areas such as screening and brief intervention (through the use of the AUDIT Test), evidence of improvements from recent policy implementations reducing alcohol-related harm have yet to be seen. Together with other research on public mental health, this review could be used to implement best policy practice for health and social outcomes in the older population.Watching Formula One may drive viewers to drinkAlcohol advertising in Formula One racing is a potential driver of alcohol consumption, according to researchers from the University of Nottingham, after a study found nearly 4 billion references to alcohol in 21 televised races over a nine-month period (BMJ Open, 07 Aug).The study used 3,396 one-minute coded intervals from 21 Formula One races and their advertisement breaks, held between 15 March to 01 December 2018. Classified into the following categories (actual use, implied use, other alcohol appearances and brand appearances) exposure to alcohol in these intervals was detected in all of the races, with alcohol appearances in 56% of racing footage and 9% of advertisement breaks. Since ten of the 21 races were broadcast live on Channel 4, this represents a significant level of alcohol exposure to the UK population. It is estimated that 3·9 billion alcohol gross impressions were delivered, including 154 million to children under 16 years. In addition, 18 of the 21 races were shown before the 9PM watershed which could significantly affect young people’s impressions of alcohol. The study adds to the growing body of research suggesting exposure to alcohol branding on national television is a contributor of subsequent alcohol consumption, particularly amongst young people. Furthermore, whilst Ofcom enforces UK broadcasting regulations on alcohol (for example, by reducing the amount of alcohol content before the 9PM watershed), it has no regulatory power to control the advertising of alcohol through sporting events broadcast on TV, radio, or online, such as the Formula One Championships. Moreover, sporting events are frequently sponsored by alcohol industries themselves – in 2018, the Formula One Championships were sponsored by Heineken, thus providing a hugely influential source of unregulated alcohol exposure.Alcohol labelling is failing consumers – AHA UKLeading health experts and charities are calling for the government to take responsibility for labelling on alcohol products, as new research finds that the current system fails to provide consumers with adequate information to make healthy decisions about their purchases.In the UK, alcohol producers are still not required by law to print calorie information on their alcoholic beverages: they are only required to show the strength of alcohol (ABV) and the container’s volume. Last month, the government announced that it will consult before the end of the year on the calorie issue, as part of its Obesity Strategy.The alcohol industry claim that self-regulation is working and agreed to update labels to display the chief medical officers’ (CMO) weekly guideline – no more than 14 units of alcohol – by September 2019 – a target reiterated by the then health minister in January of that year.The Alcohol Health Alliance UK (AHA UK) and Alcohol Change UK examined labels on 424 alcohol products in shops across the UK to see whether labels provided the CMO weekly guideline and other essential information that would allow consumers to make informed choices about their purchases. Their research found that:More than 70% of labels did not include the drinking guidelines; over three years after they were updated and after the deadline the industry agreed with the governmentThe industry-funded Portman Group styles itself as the alcohol industry’s ‘social responsibility body’ and ‘leader in best practice’ but their members were least likely to include the correct low-risk drinking guidelines: just 2% did soMore than half (56%) of labels included no nutritional information. 37% of labels listed only the calorie content of the container, and just 7% displayed a full nutritional information tableNearly a quarter (24%) of labels surveyed contained misleading, out-of-date health information, such as the old UK guidelines or guidelines from other countriesHealth information was often illegible, with the average height of the text displaying information about alcohol units measuring 2mm – well under the 3·5mm required to be easily readableA Canadian study released in May found that alcohol warning labels, like warnings on packets of cigarettes, are effective tools in helping drinkers make informed decisions. The study found consumers exposed to the labels were 10% more likely to know about the link between alcohol and cancer and three times more likely to be aware of the low-risk drinking guidelines.AHA UK chair professor Sir Ian Gilmore, said: Alcohol labelling in this country is woefully inadequate and not fit for purpose if we wish to build a healthier society. It is disappointing but telling that members of the Portman Group - the body purporting to promote “best practice” on labelling of alcohol products - are the least likely to display basic health information. It is time that health labelling is required for all products.The public must be granted the power to make informed decisions about their health by having access to prominent health warnings, information on ingredients, nutrition and alcohol content at the point of purchase. The industry’s reluctance to include this information on their products suggests profits are being put ahead of people’s health.You can read the full report, Drinking in the dark: How alcohol labelling fails consumers, on the AHA UK website.Ireland: Weekly alcohol limit bought for pocket money pricesThe new Alcohol Market Review and Price Survey from Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) has found that Irish women can spend as little as €4·95 at off-licences to reach their weekly limit for low-risk alcohol consumption, with the figure rising to €7·65 for men (Aug 19).The study was carried out in off licences over two weeks in July, in locations in Dublin, Sligo and Navan in a range of convenience stores, neighbourhood shops and supermarkets including Aldi, Centra, Dunnes, Lidl, Londis, Spar, Supervalu and Tesco.The charity found that cider is the cheapest product by standard drink (at 44¢), followed by beer (52¢), wine (59¢), gin (69¢), vodka and whiskey (both 62¢). The recommended low-risk limits for alcohol consumption in men is 17 standard drinks spread out over the course of a week, while the limit for women is 11 standard drinks.The AAI said its annual off-licence price survey confirmed the ‘exceptional affordability of alcohol to everyday shoppers and the urgent necessity to commence minimum pricing of alcohol products that will ensure the strongest, cheapest alcohol at very low cost is eliminated from the market’.AAI chair, professor Frank Murray, said the findings demonstrated the need for the new government to introduce minimum pricing of alcohol products:Vital decisions, currently being put off or stalled by vested interests, will have to be made by this government.Minimum unit pricing of alcohol products, which offers significant gains for public health, must be implemented urgently; spurious economic rationale proposed by the alcohol lobby cannot be allowed to trump the health of a nation.Empty calories in alcohol still add up, say BalanceBalance, the North East alcohol office, urge drinkers to think about the ‘empty calories’ in alcohol as part of a nationwide drive encouraging people to get healthy and lose weight. Week 5 of the NHS Weight Loss plan (w/c 24 August) from Public Health England’s Better Health campaign turned the spotlight on alcohol. Many of us don’t think of alcohol as being high in calories – but while we might avoid a dessert, we might not think twice about a couple of drinks. Alcohol contains around seven calories per gram, almost as many as a gram of fat. But research suggests around eight in ten people are unaware of calorie content in many of their drinks, and so underestimate the true content.This is at least partly down to the fact that many alcohol producers still don’t list on their packaging the number of calories contained in drinks, denying their own customers of the right to know how many calories they consume.Alcohol is estimated to account for nearly 10% of the calorie intake of those who drink, with around 3·4 million adults consuming an additional days’ worth of calories each week – totalling an additional two months of food each year.Colin Shevills, director of Balance, said (you can hear his full response in the podcast):It is clear that people need more information on alcohol labels and alcohol firms have been dragging their heels for the best part of two decades about providing this. The government has promised it will consult on calorie information on alcohol this year and we are calling ministers to make this happen.But we need to go further and ensure people see all the relevant health advice on product labels – something which producers are failing to do. We all need to keep ourselves fit and healthy in these times and that includes not drinking too much. People need the right information to make informed decisions to be able to look after their health.Making the most of a lockdown: How online commerce is keeping Diageo’s sales afloat in the UKDespite the closure of bars, pubs and restaurants since March 2020 due to the UK lockdown, global alcohol producers Diageo have managed to accelerate its sales through e-commerce. Reports state that although sales in Europe decreased by 12%, UK sales only decreased by 4% (London Evening Standard, 04 Aug). Diageo claim the success is largely attributable to their team of digital marketing specialists, who were able to monitor a shift from on-trade to online commerce during the lockdown. Spotting trends in internet searches for goods such as ‘luxurious desserts’ and ‘cocktail shakers’, they sought to take advantage by providing retailers with links for relevant Diageo products to retailers such as Sainsbury’s and Tesco’s (where 60% of Diageo’s drinks are sold), ‘so that customers were able to purchase these with ease’.As UK managing director Dayalan Nayager – who regularly tells his staff ‘data is at the front of everything’ – explains: Why would we go ahead with these big launches at that time? Because of the trends we were seeing online.On one level, responding to consumer demand is simply the raison d’etre of business. However, it is interesting to note the lengths to which alcohol producers like Diageo are prepared to go to do so, relative to public health calls to raise awareness of harmful drinking among those most vulnerable during the pandemic lockdown.Stadium booze ban to be lifted?Lifting the decades-old ban on booze consumed in the common areas of football grounds is one of several post-lockdown proposals under consideration, according to sources aligned with the Premier League (Mail Online, 03 Aug). Football’s elite tier body has set up a working group examining various initiatives, along with medical experts, the Sports Grounds Safety Authority and the government, who want to see fans back inside grounds by October, should it be safe. Any change may well come in the shape of a trial period, which could be initiated by 5A(3) of the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985 which allows the secretary of state to make the order designating amending the restriction – or that there shall be no restriction – on alcohol consumed in all seats.The proposal comes amid growing pressure to scrap the legislation, with figures like the then English Football League boss Shaun Harvey branding it ‘disproportionate’ in 2018, and the European confederation UEFA trialling the sale of alcohol in stadiums for Champions League and Europa League fixtures during the 2018/19 season.This contrasts with one of the country’s other great stadium sports, rugby union, whose governing body in Wales has tested alcohol-free zones for fans wishing to attend matches free of the potential disorder that could result from alcohol.Alcohol harm and COVID survey: Please input and share!A message from Alcohol Health Alliance UKWhat should our relationship to alcohol look like after this crisis? 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If you've never heard of the government scientific advisory panel known as JASON, there's a good reason for that: Most of the work it does is classified. The independent group has been conducting studies for the Defense Department and other agencies for more than 60 years. But now, the department seems determined to do away with it. Defense officials said the reason is there are more cost effective ways to get outside scientific advice, but there are reasons to be skeptical of that explanation. Charles Levinson has been covering the possible downfall of JASON, and efforts to rescue it, for Reuters, where he's a national affairs correspondent. He talked with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about where things stand.

On the mathematical front line is a special series of the Plus podcast featuring epidemiologists whose efforts have been crucial in the fight against the pandemic. They are the people who make sense of the data to estimate things like the R number, and who make the mathematical models that inform (and sometimes do not inform) government policy.In this episode we talk to Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon, both from the University of Bristol. The are members of the JUNIPER consortium (https://maths.org/juniper/) of modelling groups from across the UK whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of which advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.Ellen and Leon are also a couple, who have stuck it out through the lockdowns not just in terms of living arrangements and child care, but also in terms of work. And if you don't live with a partner but instead have benefited from the support bubbles that allowed you to team up with another household, then you have Ellen and Leon to thank for that: as we find out in the podcast, it was their work on household bubbling which showed that these support bubbles were safe.The podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER (https://maths.org/juniper/), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing questions about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper