Yorkshire lad. Bee doctor. 🐝🇬🇧🏳️🌈 (any pronouns)
Big into #bees #bugs #baking #beauty #biology.
Science: #parasites #ecology #evolution & #beekeeping.
Feb 24, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
As the WHO announces that we should prepare for a pandemic, a rare bit of political commentary from me, a disease biologist who moved from the UK to the USA.
Universal healthcare is the single greatest thing the US could do to improve its pandemic preparedness. #MedicareForAll
Both of my parents worked their entire lives in the NHS. I grew up in one of the world's leading, if strained, nationalised universal health systems. I know better than most how far from ideal and imperfect it is. But I would take it every time over the system here in the US.
May 4, 2019 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
I am so sick of these takes. There are so, so many reasons we want to approve things and journalists apparently don't get any of it fucking hell.
Who pays the price of mistakes? The scientist, and the people reading. When a journalist misrepresents a finding it is frankly likely a benefit to them (sensationalist or simplifying) and a huge cost to us in so many ways - reputation, time, support for funding.
