Deputy Director @CSERCambridge. Previously @expo2020dubai, foresight @SOIFutures, head of research @dubaifuture, science+tech policy @nesta_uk @royalsociety.
London and Cambridge
Joined December 2008
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Excited to see this launch - building a vital bridge between research and practice.
We are Global Volcano Risk Alliance a new charity organisation working to build global resilience to volcanic eruptions. Our mission is to safeguard millions of lives through regional and international preparedness, monitoring, and advocacy. globalvolcanoriskalliance.co…
Now at infrastructure session discussing how over-integrating ways of working across different projects and types (transport, utilities…) leads to paralysis in decision making @Euspri_Forum - there can be too much joined up thinking!
Society in transition requires a transition in science policy. @eefjecuppen1 wants more projects designed as dynamic interactions between science and society @Euspri_Forum. Feels like an evolution of Stoke on Pasteur’s Quadrant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteu…
“Visions of technology are performative… they shape investments, regulation and decisions” and can limit how science contributes to society when it’s undergoing upheaval or is highly polarised. @eefjecuppen1 reflecting on the role of research @Euspri_Forum
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I enjoyed sitting down with David Adam to talk about the future of future studies @CSERCambridge and around the world. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Much of the discussion that followed centered on why young people don't seem to think much about the nuclear risk compared to other threats -- nuclear war would bring about truly rapid and catastrophic climate change!
CSER's @mattspast and @AtheneDonald discuss a California nuclear power station outage scenario. This comes from @AnnieJacobsen Nuclear War scenario - well worth a read: penguin.co.uk/books/461721/n…
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A London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) March is seared into @AtheneDonald memory; its when she told her mother she was pregnant for the first time. Our existential risk map of Cambridge includes CND HQ + links to photos of 1960s protests cser.ac.uk/resources/xrisk_m…
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Had the pleasure to contribute to this chapter on 'Communicating in Crisis: Community Practices of Online Participation During Extreme Events' as part of the new book 'Climate Disaster Preparedness' from the wonderful team at the @UNSW iCinema.
link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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Congratulations to @laramani14 for being awarded the @GeolSoc Murchison Fund for her considerable contributions to 'hard' rock studies!
cser.ac.uk/news/lara-mani-aw…
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Welcome to new CSER team member Kennedy Mbeva @deusse!
Mbeva's research examines how risk and uncertainty shape international cooperation and global governance, focusing on economic, sustainability, and demographic issues
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My new guide to best practice engagement and impact will be useful for those preparing @REF2028 impact narratives fasttrackimpact.com/post/wha…. Drawing on resources from @NCCPE and @fasttrackimpact, it proposes 9 principles [thread]
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📢New paper by @FreyJephcott out now!
Ineffective responses to unlikely outbreaks: Hypothesis building in newly-emerging infectious disease outbreaks
Read more from Freya in the thread below⬇️
📢New paper out on investigating suspected outbreaks of newly emerging zoonoses! 🔎🐒🧪
I think this is an important one. It’s also a long one though, so I’m going to do my best to condense it into a 2 threads 🧵. Thread one!
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My new book on science and power comes out this week - showing how politics and governments should cope with an era when pandemics, climate change and AI dominate their agendas, yet often reveal a gulf between their capabilities and what's needed.
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Continuing our spotlight on the #CundillHistoryPrize 2023 longlist, our third entry is ‘The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets' by Matthew Connelly (@mattspast), published by @PantheonBooks.
Discover the longlist: cundillprize.com/news/2023lo…
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I’m SO SO excited by our 2023 Fellows. Feeling 💯 confident that they will go on to do very impactful work ✨✨🙌🏾🙌🏾
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This one-hour interview with CBC managed to cover a lot of the themes from my recent book
cbc.ca/radio/ideas/sir-marti…
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Pleased to have signed this clear, concise, and important statement, alongside Turing Award winners, leaders of commercial AI labs, and academic and civil society experts: mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority.
safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
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Welcome to CSER visitor @rossgritz!
Ross, Exec Director of the Transformative Futures Institute & Asst. Prof. at @WichitaState, specializes in forecasting tech advancements & X-risks, with a primary focus on transformative AI's development & impacts.
bit.ly/42KpHZI
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I'm going to be on @BBCWorld in about 10 minutes to discuss the historic Senate hearing on AI (which starts in about 30 minutes!)
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We are excited to announce that Prof Matthew Connelly @mattspast will join us as Director of CSER from July 2023. His most recent role was as professor of international and global history at Columbia University. Read more: bit.ly/3pB1ciZ (1/3)