Sarah Wild

Jan 6, 2025 | nature.com | Sarah Wild

In 2003, Wendy Dossett chaired an international symposium at a UK university. “I don’t remember chairing it. I know that I did, but I don’t remember anything that happened,” she says. At the time, she did not think that she had an alcohol problem. “I thought I could not possibly be an alcoholic — I had a PhD, I was holding down a high-pressure academic job, I didn’t fit the image of what an alcoholic is,” she remembers.

Nov 7, 2024 | nature.com | Sarah Wild

Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable (or germline) human genome editing. Scientists say this could put the nation one step closer to accepting the controversial technique — which involves introducing genetic changes to sperm, eggs or embryos, such that the modifications will be passed down through successive generations.

Oct 30, 2024 | raconteur.net | Joy Persaud |Sarah Wild

The question that faces the strategic decision-maker is: ‘What do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?’”So said Professor Peter Drucker in 1974. Nearly half a century on, the words of this highly influential management guru remain relevant to every business leader navigating the UK’s tough trading environment.

Oct 8, 2024 | nature.com | Sarah Wild

When the job of department chair became available in 2009, Glenn Geher decided to take on the challenge. “Partly, I thought I would be good at it, and partly, I was not super-satisfied with the department the way that it was,” he remembers. “This was my third academic job, and at one of the jobs I’d had an incredibly well-functioning psychology department,” he says.

Sep 27, 2024 | nature.com | Sarah Wild

The world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which is based in Australia and South Africa, is changing its plans and will not be expanding into eight African countries on its original timetable. In August, SKA director-general Philip Diamond said in a briefing at the International Astronomical Union’s general assembly in Cape Town, that the observatory’s plans had “evolved”.