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📢 Check out the SPHR health and risk communication for public health network webinar series! I'm presenting on 24 SEPTEMBER at 12PM about how the food industry use misleading health communication to influence food behaviours. I hope you can join, register here: sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Happy to be speaking at this ZPS conference today in the beautiful city of Ljubljana

We're hiring! We have permanent Gr8 (lecturer) and Gr9 (senior lecturer) Teaching & Research posts available @livunipsyc.bsky.social. See here for more info/to apply: shorturl.at/cFFsf Please share with your networks 👍

Check out this Original Ideas podcast ep on our relationship with food featuring yours truly, @charlottehardman.bsky.social and @beckyevans.bsky.social

Brilliant from England women, who I'm sure have a better diet than is represented by those pitch border ads... we've seen this before somewhere haven't we @robinireland.bsky.social ?! share.google/wsIAMLdRPM6H...

Brilliant to see this important first report from our #NutritionNorth collaboration highlighting the stark dietary inequalities that exist. However we do offer ideas to address these issues.

New MSc Neuroscience is launching in September 2026. This programme will introduce students to the field of neuroscience through the lens of clinical disorders of the central nervous system. Register your interest: www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...

An excellent presentation from @amyfinlay.bsky.social at #ISBNPA2025👏 @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

If you're at ISBNPA please check out our session on digital food marketing tomorrow (3.15pm, Herald Theatre) 👍

Lead author Prof Tim Townshend, co-authors @emmaboyland.bsky.social Prof Heather Brown, @helenjmoore.bsky.social & me

We have a new paper on #darkkitchens following on from our @nihr.bsky.social funded research "Hidden in plain sight: a scoping review of ‘dark kitchens’ and the potential implications for the English planning system" www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

The Dept of Psychology @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social are offering SEVEN funded part-time PhD training posts from 1 September 2025. There are associated teaching duties (eg research methods & statistics). For more info and to apply see here: tinyurl.com/yw6zy74f

Delay, delay, delay... now to January 2026 so that ministers can formally write the exemption for brand advertising into legislation archive.ph/vHR5D

Nat Taylor, PhD student in the Appetite and Obesity Research Group, presenting some of her PhD research at this @cancook.bsky.social meeting @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

Beautiful setting of St. Asaph's Cathedral for today's @cancook.bsky.social meeting about the future of food and why it matters

Fabulous presentations from my @livuni-iph.bsky.social colleagues @charlottehardman.bsky.social and Edi Putra at the ECO25 Environment and Policy abstract session 👏

I always have something new to think about after seeing @harryrutter.bsky.social speak 👍 #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Excellent talk from @jeanmadams.bsky.social setting out public health challenges and opportunities - focus on the broken food system #ECO25 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Great to see our study, being presented at #ECO25, getting lots of attention today @easoobesity.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social @livunipsyc.bsky.social Children eat more after seeing just five minutes of junk food ads, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

ECO25 is a go 😃 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Delighted to be able to share a range of outputs from our project on brand advertising (thanks to Research England funding to UoL) - A THREAD @livunipress.bsky.social @livunipsyc.bsky.social @livuni-iph.bsky.social

Image based ads will now appear between pieces of content on Threads www.adweek.com/social-marke...

I'm looking forward to our ISBNPA symposium which will explore closing gaps in food marketing regulations - join us if you can! 😊

Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📢 A @liverpooluni.bsky.social led @nihr.bsky.social study reveals widespread presence of junk food advertising in England—with significantly higher levels in the country’s most disadvantaged communities. Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/09/s... #HealthInequality #FoodMarketing

📢 Our latest paper is out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DTKYTC... Brand-only marketing for food and alcohol influences preference, choice, and purchase intent 🧐

Does anyone know of an R package that computes child (5y+) weight status using UK-90 reference data?

Brilliant to hear this news and interesting given we had a brilliant @fuseonline.bsky.social event last week on this very topic... fuse.ac.uk/events/fuser... @scottylloyd.bsky.social @emmaboyland.bsky.social

Presentations from the @fuseonline.bsky.social event Shaping public spaces: Local Authority action on advertising are now available online. fuse.ac.uk/events/fuser...

BBC News - Meta considers charging for ad-free Facebook and Instagram in the UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy to be on the #NorthInnovationWomen list for #IWD2025. Congratulations to all, especially my UoL colleagues 👏

Looking forward to this 😃

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A nice few days in beautiful Malaga, putting together an excellent scientific programme for the European Congress on Obesity here in May 🇪🇦

Got new important findings that weren't available by the standard abstract deadline? Good news - the late breaking abstract submission is now open for #ECO2025 @easoobesity.bsky.social

Doing this tonight, should be fun! www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/talks/are-we... @merseyskeptics.org.uk

We're conducting a study @liverpooluni.bsky.social about putting an obesity intervention into practice. If you provide weight management & wellbeing support to people living with obesity and would be interested in participating, please contact us (details attached) @arcnwc.bsky.social

Well, this is lovely 🥰 BBC News - Students from India say Liverpool is 'so welcoming' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brilliant to welcome @universityofleeds.bsky.social colleagues to @livuni-iph.bsky.social today to see our facilities (appetite labs and Digital Innovation Facility) and plan some collaborative projects

My investigation for @bmj.com uncovering the influence of the food industry in schools. Experts say there should be much greater scrutiny. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Just for the record: I've analysed hundreds of thousands of ads in my time, from all sorts of media and settings. Number of porridge and crumpets ads could be counted on one hand...

That feeling when you are asked to review a manuscript by a journal that recently desk bounced your own submission 🤨

It's an important step forward & sets a strong precedent that unhealthy food ads should be further restricted, but brand marketing = a BIG gap. Data & insights on what this means coming soon - watch this space! BBC News - Only adverts showing junk food covered by TV ban www.bbc.com/news/article...

We've developed two new scales to measure self-stigma associated with food insecurity. Free to use and can be accessed here osf.io/fmpja?revisi...

📢 New paper This analysis of youth influencers’ YouTube accounts found that 2/3 of food cues presented were not permitted for marketing to children. @evawinzer.bksy.social @mimitgolden.bsky.social @magdalenamuc.bsky.social bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

REF Main Panel Chairs announced (2029.ref.ac.uk/news/chairs-... ). Open recruitment for Sub-panel chairs and members is due to launch later this month. Information here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/main-pa...

Not new news. But today is a vital step towards a ban of junk food ads on TV & online (repeatedly delayed by last Govt) For any sceptics, this is a v good thing for health... 👍 Loads of evidence shows advertising works 👍 Food giants spend £££s on ads - of course it works www.gov.uk/government/n...

Was a pleasure to be part of this fantastic conference last week (it was insightful and fun, despite my very serious expression in this pic!) www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258854/...