Wayne Channon

Entrepreneur, dressage rider, humanist; chairman at iosBio, Cells4Life and CyteTech.

[Hugh Osmond @hughosmond]

Whichever party wins election - and obviously it's likely to be Labour - the penny is going to drop that Government finances cannot afford Net Zero.

It's happening across Europe so it will happen here.

A full reverse ferret into ditching the whole NZ deal and going full pace into North Sea and Shale gas, plus SMRs (and one day fusion) is maybe the one strategy that could on its own revitalise our stagnant economy and declining prosperity.

They won't do it of course, as it would mean admitting they've been scammed on the whole climate sensitivity to CO2 deal for 30 years, but that doesn't alter the fact that current NZ energy strategy is unworkable and unaffordable - and that Bacon Sandwich Milliband's is far worse.

[PS it's not that climate has zero sensitivity to CO2, it's just that the sensitivity has been grossly exaggerated. But it's a great scam because no-one will know for about 50 years, by which time all today's politicians will be long gone]

[Simon Knott @TheSimonKnott]

'The Skylark', by John Clare, on his 230th birthday:

'The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside
The battered road; and spreading far and wide
Above the russet clods, the corn is seen
Sprouting its spiry points of tender green,
Where squats the hare, to terrors wide awake,
Like some brown clod the harrows failed to break.
Opening their golden caskets to the sun,
The buttercups make schoolboys eager run,
To see who shall be first to pluck the prize—
Up from their hurry, see, the skylark flies,
And o'er her half-formed nest, with happy wings
Winnows the air, till in the cloud she sings,
Then hangs a dust-spot in the sunny skies,
And drops, and drops, till in her nest she lies,
Which they unheeded passed—not dreaming then
That birds which flew so high would drop agen
To nests upon the ground, which anything
May come at to destroy. Had they the wing
Like such a bird, themselves would be too proud,
And build on nothing but a passing cloud!
As free from danger as the heavens are free
From pain and toil, there would they build and be,
And sail about the world to scenes unheard
Of and unseen—Oh, were they but a bird!
So think they, while they listen to its song,
And smile and fancy and so pass along;
While its low nest, moist with the dews of morn,
Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn.'

My daughter lives in Brighton. One day last month we climbed up into the Downs, and all the way we saw and heard the skylarks rising from the fields around us. I'd told her it was my favourite John Clare poem, so when we reached the top of Black Cap we stopped, and read this poem aloud to them.

[Morissa Schwartz 📚 (Dr. Rissy) @MorissaSchwartz]

Wow! That’s how silk is made

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

@tomaspueyo I can’t see how this follows - gravity works down not sideways. If the tectonic plates were separating this would be consistent.

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

Very interesting…

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why?

Because of the biggest accident in history

Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

Nuclear power is the only way forward…

[B.F. Randall ⚛ ⛏ ⚡ @Mining_Atoms]

1. Can't mine and build our way out of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
2. We are destroying Mother Earth trying 👆
3. Closest we can to get to cheating Entropy is Nuclear♾Power

[Lawrence M. Krauss @LKrauss1]

Someone sent me this.. Amusing but Trigger Warning... active consent required before reading...

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

Nipah is part of the measles family, which is highly contagious. However, Nipah is far more deadly with an case fatality rate estimated to reach 75%. We are proud to win an @innovateuk award to develop a thermally stable, orally administer Nipah vaccine. #covid #nipah #vaccine

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

This haunting sound is an anthem for the terrible suffering this virus has wrought.

Hence the vital importance of discovering how it got from bats to people.

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

Big tech stocks were down nearly 8%, #Bitcoin has fallen by 12.5%, and #Ethereum is down 38.5% since its peak in early Nov, will these trends continue in the long-run? Hoover fellow @nfergus examines "Crypto's Cold Winter" via @Bloomberg. Learn more: https://t.co/71fNwtMYGm

[Quest Means Business @questCNN]

Botswana is getting big investment in a COVID vaccine center.

ImmunityBio Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Soon-Shiong talks about his investment in the center and what increased access to vaccines would mean globally.

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

@AlisonShoreVO Brilliant, very impressive!

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

@1Password I am using Edge on a Mac. I can see my online vault but I can't see my local Dropbox vault... how do I enable this?

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

@AlisonShoreVO Great, we won't be having them at a post-lockdown BBQ!

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

“Probably one of the most vital innovations the world needs right now”, @anandmahindra, Chairman of the @MahindraRise, commenting on our OraPro™ technology, which is currently being used to develop oral COVID-19 vaccines.

#oralvaccines #COVID19 #vaccination

[Mint @livemint]

Mahindra Group chairman @anandmahindra shared a snippet which claimed that a small biotech firm in West Sussex, England is working on putting a Covid-19 vaccine into a simple pill
https://t.co/xjn0TWLZf2

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

I spoke to @Telegraph's @JuliaBradshaw_ on our deal with @immuntybio and the benefits of #oralvaccines to fight #COVID19.
Read the full article: https://t.co/tV6c39Ri2w
#COVIDvaccine

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

@iosBioPharma announces exclusive license with @ImmunityBio to use our oral platform OraPro for its orally administered, thermally stable, 2nd gen COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Phase I trials as a prime and boost expected to begin soon, pending FDA approval.
https://t.co/m0wVevHYo2

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

@DHL identifies global supply problem for #Covid19 #vaccines due to thermal fragility (https://t.co/IKEsgJ28ia).

Really, we solved this problem years ago - even for COVID19: Stabilitech's orally administered vaccine is thermally stable (https://t.co/W9R7o33pmc).

[Wayne Channon @waynechannon]

The Conduit on Stabilitech's COVID-19 oral vaccine:

https://t.co/vkTrffMKwH

[iosBio @iosBioPharma]

Did you see us featured in @France24_en over the weekend? https://t.co/Gt9jkd8Fsm