Looking forward to taking part in Congressional briefing today on Science Diplomacy at @UDBidenSchool hosted by the awesome @saleem_ali Q: What is the role of science on the public stage in a post-pandemic world? hillhappenings.com/list/2021/5/14…
...how will geopolitical factors influence research and policy on science re. the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, the research enterprise, and supply chains and national security? Key goal – building scientific trust and collaboration in an increasingly fragmented world
Allan G. Garber of @Harvard sees the value of international collaboration "We also see the dangers of increasingly looking inward"
Dr. Tong Shijun, Chancellor of @nyuniversity-Shanghai: "Science and human endeavor is benefitted by mutual understanding among countries, including the US & China".
The awesome @DrTolullah of @IndependentSage@MRC_Epid (among other great accomplishments): "We need to trascend silos, act locally, build public trust, work w/ the best advisory platforms". We must "break the false infectious disease-NCD silo".
.@DukeEnvironment's Drew Shindell in climate change "Look at insurance companies - they are more interested in risks they don't know well". "We need global cooperation to study the climate crisis & identify benefits of mitigation"
.@margagual, founder of @scidipglobal. "Science was one of the few channels for dialog that always remained open between the US & Cuba". Example of fisheries, bird migration - wildlife don't request visas, neither do hurricanes!
.@jacob___parker SVP @USChinaBusiness. "There's growing understanding of IP enforcement in China." We now need regular IP dialogs among US & China. On tarrifs: despite agreements now, tarrifs imposed prior to these hurt US jobs & need to be re-examined.
Minister @m_loken of @CanEmbUSA. "Science is an important thread running through the Roadmap for renewed Canada-US relationship...e.g. Building critical mineral supply chains for battery development for zero emission vehicles - critical for future national/econ. security."
Reminding lab leakers that there's a wealth of information for you to generate new conspiratorial garbage from in our journal's Cover Art and Essays - at least 20 years of hard work connecting art & science for youse guys to tinker nefariously with...
Here's one that talks about China so that should put the cat amongst the pigeons...
I think I've cracked the "293 code" that Drosstic can't break:
293 minus the 12 common CoVs = 281.
281 minus the 41 Laos sequences from WIV = 240.
240, re-shuffled = 420.
420 is the secret code for cannabis, which is definitely what these folks are smokin!
The same folks delving deep into the "293 Code" conspiracy, are busy right now on an anti-vaxx crusade w/ none other than that Shaman bloke who dresses up with cow horns & invaded the Capitol!
Ironic that these Drosstic folks are cited by Congress & the Senate in their reports!
As Treebeard said "Don't be hasty".... check and double-check before you dismiss as a typo or a joke.
Exciting news from @EcoHealthNYC: @NIH has reissued our @NIAIDNews grant R01AI110964 “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” 3 yrs & 2 days after it was terminated! The statement below links to the full project details: ecohealthalliance.org/2023/05/collab…
This effectively lifts the suspension on our grant that involved collaboration in China w/ Wuhan Institute of Virology, & was terminated on April 2020 ‘for convenience’. 2/ politico.com/news/2020/04/2…
In August 2022 @NIH revised their decision, terminating only the WIV subcontract. They offered to renegotiate the specific aims & we have now come to agreement w/ NIH on modified goals – details follow. 3/ ecohealthalliance.org/wp-content/upl…
This grant will support a critical step towards preventing future CoV pandemics by working with communities on the frontline, in SARSr-CoV hotspots of Southeast Asia, who have high contact with wildlife. 2/
The title of this piece belies the fact that new rules on wildlife trade in China will allow breeding of animals for fur & lucrative global fashion industry...animals including...er.. mink...& ..er.. raccoon dogs! science.org/content/articl…
Don't forget also that the wildlife trade in mammals for food is alive & well across rest of the SE Asian emerging disease hotspot region..& we're not off-the-hook either - the USA is the biggest importer of wildlife - for the pet trade. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
That was a Policy Forum in @Science 2009, raising awareness that the wildlife trade represents a threat to global health, pandemic emergence. Was anything substantial done to reduce that risk? No. Wildlife trade was expanded to industrial scale, & remains a key pandemic driver.