Prof Alice Roberts💙 (@theAliceRoberts) / X

Prof Alice Roberts💙

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Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.

location: Crypt of Lieberkuhn

Joined March 2011

Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jun 9, 2024
The fragility of life is so shocking. I’ve known Michael Mosley for many years - as a tv producer specialising in science and medicine. He was the executive producer of my 2009 series Human Journey. When he started presenting as well as producing, we made several science
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Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jan 26, 2021
What’s been extraordinary during this pandemic is realising just how much more valuable a human life is in New Zealand than here in the UK.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jan 4, 2023
I can’t help thinking - all this cash being given to private healthcare companies to “help” the NHS - wouldn’t it much, much more efficient to give it directly to… the NHS. Where there are no shareholders taking profits?
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Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jan 20, 2021
1820 people died today. And those deaths are a completely predictable outcome of a disastrous strategy: a path that was deliberately chosen by politicians who have repeatedly chosen to ignore sound scientific advice. It is desperately sad. And we should all be angry.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jun 21, 2024
I’m sorry, WHAAATT?! How dare this man tell us what subjects he thinks are valuable. Thing One: the creative industries are HUGE in the UK. Thing Two: we are HUMANS; not drones; not cogs in your machine.
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@ITVNewsPolitics
Jun 21, 2024
'Folks, too many of you are going university' @Nigel_Farage tells @lewisUTBdenison that university should be free, but only if you study science, technology, engineering, medicine or maths itv.com/news/2024-06-2…
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Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Sep 15, 2023
Last summer, my son, then 9, swam in an English river and suffered 6 whole days of diarrhoea and vomiting. It was very worrying. His friend was almost hospitalised. And now we’re told the only way we can have more houses is by sacrificing any hope of cleaning up our waterways.
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Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
May 19, 2020
An Orwellian phrase if ever there was one. “We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world.”
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jun 25, 2022
I’m still reeling over the US Supreme Court ruling to regress woman’s rights. And also chilled to the bone that a UK MP publicly applauded the decision.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Nov 29, 2023
I’m wading into this debate. I don’t even know why it’s a debate. I’d love Greece to have its beautiful Parthenon marbles back. I mean, it’s been really lovely to have them on extended loan, but they’re not ours.
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Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jul 4, 2020
On the day the pubs open again, the government stops sharing daily coronavirus testing and mortality statistics on Twitter. What a strange coincidence.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jun 19, 2019
I'm taking a holiday from Twitter for a while. I've argued for reason, compassion and empathy in discussions about sex and gender. That's opened me up to more hate, bile and even misogyny than I've experienced before. I'm sad and shocked. Humans can be so much better than this.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jun 17, 2021
Academics can be so supportive.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jul 5, 2021
I've said it before. I'd really hoped I wouldn't have to say it again. Good luck, herd.
Prof Alice Roberts💙
@theAliceRoberts
Jul 4, 2024
It’s been less than a hundred years since women in Britain have had the right to vote. This Manchester banner was unfurled in 1903 - it would be 25 years before the suffragettes’ dream was finally realised. Make sure you use that hard-won right today!
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