{"id":97,"date":"2021-02-18T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/?p=97"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:52:05","slug":"as-a-scientist-i-dont-give-political-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/as-a-scientist-i-dont-give-political-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAs a scientist, I don\u2019t give political advice.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unknown to the public a year ago, Emma Hodcroft has become a public figure among scientists discussing COVID-19. A molecular epidemiologist at the University of Bern, she appeared in many news outlets around the world. On social networks, she has become increasingly popular with her takes on the many aspects of the pandemic, from the virus mutation to supply chain failures. She is also a co-developer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nextstrain.org\/\">Nextstrain<\/a> project, a public data platform on pathogens genomes and evolution. She tells her story and explains why science communication matters now more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exclusive interview with the Virus Huntress [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/as-a-scientist-i-dont-give-political-advice\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-covidscicom-staging.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}