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Mark Walport

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Name: Mark Walport

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Keele University

Keele Honorary Degrees Summer 2013

Olympic gold medallist Anna Rose Watkins, from Leek, is among nine people who will be awarded Honorary Degrees by Keele University during this summer's graduation ceremonies. They are key figures who have made a major impact, with significant work over ... [Published Noodls - May 24 2013]

Entities: Tony Elliott, Mark Walport, Keele University, Damon Albarn

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

NHS

UK building DNA database in the NHS 'by stealth'

The plan, which is backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, involves sequencing the DNA of everyone in England and adding this information as an attachment to each person's medical file – warns campaignerIn April, the Caldicott Committee, including ... [Published Public Service Europe - May 23 2013]

Entities: NHS, DNA, Stealth, Database

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Lords question the new Government Chief Scientific Advisor

21 May 2013On Tuesday 21 May, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee takes evidence from Sir Mark Walport, the Government’s new Chief Scientific Adviser.They will also hear from a representative of the Royal Society and Dr Hermann Hauser ... [Published United Kingdom Parliament - May 21 2013]

Entities: Hermann Hauser, Mark Walport, John Pethica

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Challenge, don't worship, the chiefs and high priestesses of science | Alice Bell

If we don't recognise the politics of science, we will just get played by those who do At the BSA Science Communication conference this week, I was invited to speak about science policy, under the title "All hail to the chief". Except, I think science ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]

Entities: Mark Walport, Pierre Bourdieu, George Monbiot

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Will ministers get the drift?

This isn?t how it’s supposed to be. Spring should herald warmer sunshine and lambs prancing about in green fields. Instead, they are struggling to survive in snowdrifts of 10 feet or more.But talk to many climate scientists and they will say this is how ... [Published Foodservice Footprint - May 16 2013]

Entities: John Beddington, Mark Walport, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Union of Concerned Scientists

GM's seeds of disquiet

It's more than a decade since a Royal Commission reported genetic-modification issues in New Zealand. The commission deemed it unwise to turn our backs on the potential benefits of GM but recommended caution while developing the technology. The Clark ... [Published Waikato Times - May 05 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, Mark Walport, Union of Concerned Scientists

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust announces new head

Jeremy Farrar, professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at Oxford University, has been named as the next director of the Wellcome Trust. He replaces Mark Walport, who stood down earlier this year to take up the position as chief scientific advisor ... [Published RSC - May 01 2013]

Entities: Wellcome Trust, University of Oxford, Mark Walport, Tropical Medicine, Global Health Ltd

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

George Monbiot: Scientists Turned Lobbyists

What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line?I ask because, in too many cases, they soon begin to ... [Published ZNet - May 01 2013]

Entities: neonicotinoid, George Monbiot, Pesticide, Mark Walport

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Government scientists turned industry lobbyists

NOTE: Yesterday saw a landmark ban in the European Union on several of the bee-harming pesticides produced by the biotech firms Bayer and Syngenta.http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/29/bee-harming-pesticides-banned-europeAn article in last ... [Published GMWatch.org - May 01 2013]

Entities: Mark Walport, Pesticide, neonicotinoid

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Beware the rise of the government scientists turned lobbyists | George Monbiot

From badgers to bees, government science advisers are routinely misleading us to support the politicians' agendas What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: neonicotinoid, Pesticide, Mark Walport

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 2 reports

Government Office for Science: roles, responsibilities and programmes

Previous StoryNext StoryYou are here: Home >> SPi World News >> World Market Sector NewsIt was all change at the top of evidence based policy in Government this month, with Sir Mark Walport replacing Sir John Beddington as Government Chief ... [Published SPi World News - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Mark Walport, John Beddington, Chris Fleming, News Search

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 2 reports

No easy solution to our bee problem

A proposed ban on a major class of pesticide will not reverse the decline of Europe’s pollinators, but could cause big problems, writes Mark Walport ... [Published Financial Times - Europe homepage - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Mark Walport, Pollinators, Pesticide

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Keele Honorary Degrees Summer 2013 [Published Noodls - May 24 2013]
UK building DNA database in the NHS 'by stealth' [Published Public Service Europe - May 23 2013]
Lords question the new Government Chief Scienti... [Published United Kingdom Parliament - May 21 2013]
Challenge, don't worship, the chiefs and high p... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]
Will ministers get the drift? [Published Foodservice Footprint - May 16 2013]
Detailed guidance: Data Strategy Board [Published BIS.gov.uk - May 15 2013]
Hive mind: Talking with the man who may save Eu... [Published Grist - the Latest from Grist - May 09 2013]
New GM crop wave may ease Frankenfood fright [Published Western Farm Press - May 08 2013]
Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 5, 201... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 06 2013]
GM's seeds of disquiet [Published Waikato Times - May 05 2013]
Banning neonicotinoids: a cautionary tale [Published Cambridge Network - May 03 2013]
Judah: Europe's Bee Rescue [Published Bloomberg - May 03 2013]
[World Report] Wellcome Trust appoints new dire... [Published Lancet - May 03 2013]
UK - Politics and GM crops [Published Meat Trade News Daily - May 02 2013]
Wellcome Trust announces new head [Published RSC - May 01 2013]
George Monbiot: Scientists Turned Lobbyists [Published ZNet - May 01 2013]
Stewards of the natural world do not understand... [Published Environment: George Monbiot's blog \| guardian.c ... - May 01 2013]
Government scientists turned industry lobbyists [Published GMWatch.org - May 01 2013]
Why Monbiot's attack on Walport misses the mark [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 30 2013]
Pesticide ban Europe will restrict the use of p... [Published BBC - Apr 30 2013]
Beware the rise of the government scientists tu... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 29 2013]
Defra has been lobbying Brussels in support of ... [Published Energy and Environmental Management - Apr 29 2013]
MRC, e-science, ABPI and partnerships [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 29 2013]
Insecticide firms in secret bid to stop ban tha... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 28 2013]
Government Office for Science: roles, responsib... [Published SPi World News - Apr 27 2013]
Government Office for Science: roles, responsib... [Published EnviroLib - Apr 26 2013]
No easy solution to our bee problem [Published Financial Times - Europe homepage - Apr 26 2013]
No easy solution to our bee problem [Published FT.com - Retail & Consumer - Apr 26 2013]
UK Chief Scientist says GM Crops' Case Becoming... [Published CropBiotech Update - Apr 24 2013]
Infrastructures, open access and CSaP [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 22 2013]

Blogs

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Hive mind: Talking with the man who may save Eu... [Published Grist - the Latest from Grist - May 09 2013] Dave Goulson. Bumblebee biologist Dave Goulson might be the pesticide industry’s worst enemy — and therefore a bee’s best friend. A professor at Scotland’s University of Stirling, he was part of the team whose 2012 Science paper called out the effects ...
Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 5, 201... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 06 2013] Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionMay ...
Stewards of the natural world do not understand... [Published Environment: George Monbiot's blog \| guardian.c ... - May 01 2013] The UK government does not possess a definition of the principle at the heart of environmental protection and law Here's something remarkable I stumbled across while researching my column on Monday, but did not have room to include. I hope you'll ...
Beware the rise of the government scientists tu... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 29 2013] From badgers to bees, government science advisers are routinely misleading us to support the politicians' agendas What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs ...
MRC, e-science, ABPI and partnerships [Published Professor Douglas Kell's blog - Apr 29 2013] The first external meeting of the week was to fulfil, with Director of Science Prof Melanie Welham, an invitation to discuss areas of mutual scientific interest with the Strategy Board of the Medical Research Council . These included bioinformatics ...

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AUDIO: Sir Mark Walport leaves Wellcome [Published BBC News Video - Health - Mar 13 2013]