Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

3/ Further info 📍 Location: University of Liverpool, UK 👥 Supervisors: @benjaminbarr.bsky.social | @breconomics.bsky.social 💰 Funding: Fully funded PhD position (Home student fees, stipend and a small budget to cover research costs) – funding is for three-years duration. 📅 Start Date: Jan 2026

When someone writes in Latin, do you think it’s fake because nobody’s a native Latin speaker? Or do you think that they’re writing in a language which has a multiple millennia old literary history and never actually was lost?

Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025) Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End? Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Personal note: went to (some) of the countermarch yesterday, and then watched TV coverage of both. @sundersays.bsky.social is right that the far-right/racists on the main march are a (small) minority whose numbers are not growing. It's the apparent paralysis of the majority that scares me. [1/n]

New funded PhD opportunity working with the Liverpool Health Determinants Research Collaboration www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @local.gov.uk health inequalities @findaphd.bsky.social

The next attack

Yet another example of how the UK always sends its best to the US. They must think all Brits are amoral sociopaths.

A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @stevensenior.bsky.social @bmj.com

I'm biased of course but this was great last time and we are hoping it will be fantastic again.

A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @felly500.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social

This can’t be allowed to happen, we can’t award a £2 billion contract to an Israeli arms company in the middle of this genocide, mass starvation and ethnic cleansing. We’re obliged to do what we can to prevent Genocide when we see it happening - not support it. buff.ly/AiA91i9

if this worked to reduce public concerns about immigration, the UK would have the lowest in the world & . . .

A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @felly500.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Austerity measures to reduce access to and generosity of working age, disability, and childhood benefits have failed to increase growth or curtail rising debt — but have contributed to widening health inequalities, @plancommonsense.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

If anybody did spot any prominent government statement about racism - during the whole month of increasingly visible and vocal racism - please do let me know & I will share it

The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5

I think many people have been sold on the idea that the foreign students are taking places from, rather than subsidising the education of, British students. They won't like the consequences but may like the policy until the consequences have worked through.

When Yorkshire cricket dismissed the p-word as banter, all hell broke loose in media+politics There is a p-word epidemic on X Yet the platform keeps that abuse online + now Elon Musk personally promotes a fascist who uses it incessantly Why is there infinite tolerance of lawless pro-racism X?

What's the difference? Why no intervention? Where is the action plan? Where is the oversight?

realistic Star Trek

Fascinating paper exploring the economic impact of populist leaders coming to power. Lots in here but two key things for me: 1. Over 15 years GDP/capita decreases by 10%; with 2. No discernible change to inequality over same period. Paper: iacmr.org/wp-content/u... HT @justinwolfers.bsky.social

Public health = A love story ❤️

I wrote something about language and epistemics in health care ... #healthpolicy #healtheconomics #valuebasedcare #cancerdrugs #philosophy open.substack.com/pub/lukeslaw...

A new paper by Harvard professor Claudia Goldin found that countries where men take on more of the household labor and child care have higher fertility rates. 19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...

Do late adolescents and emerging adults who live in a communities with higher violent crime rates exhibit altered reward-related neural activation? This question was recently investigated in a sample of 101 adolescents. Read more in BSAM, free for the week! #healthpsych #psychscicky

this is why i tell people to try ready-to-wear first. custom is risky bc you can be out here railing against "white hippies and communists," but your tailor has you looking crazy without a breast pocket.

Excellent piece by my colleagues and friends at @hrrctamu.bsky.social Great explanation of how "vulnerability" is almost always caused by systemic and structural failures, not individual characteristics. theconversation.com/one-of-hurri...

📢 The £51bn case for improving children’s mental health 1 in 5 UK children aged 8–16 likely have a probable mental health condition (NHS Digital, 2023). Yet only 36% referred to NHS services are seen within 4 weeks. Thousands wait over 2 years. 1/5 New report: pbe.co.uk/publications...

Europe could Crowdfund Ukraine. Starting with €10 each. Even if only 25% of the population donated that would immediately provide $1.8 billion. Make a start here : u24.gov.ua

For further reading on why North England is poor and why the UK government should probably stop pouring money into places that won't or can't grow like Oxford, Cambridge, and recently London. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...

Lying in a forest looking at the stars and thinking if sci-fi ( love sci-fi) (1/4)

The impacts of climate change won't hit us all equally, with this research showing low income and minority ethnic people are most at risk from dangerously hot homes. More needs to be done to reduce the risks we face as high temperatures become more common. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For this week's TOTC, @teraallas.bsky.social has stepped in as guest editor - pondering productivity, wellbeing and... our potential future robot overlords? COTW assesses how disposable incomes are related to healthy life expectancy around the UK ⤵️ buff.ly/uVgwqS3

For example, we've recently learned that virtually all state-level DiD's are probably incredibly underpowered.

This young man needs to be listened to everywhere.

Really pleased to see JP go for this. Behind the scenes he's got so much done to increase growth and accelerate devolution for North England. Consistently more right and more polite than me. A bit less gobby, but we can work on that.

Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH. This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined. I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.

Study: 30 direct fatalities from the L.A. wildfires, but 440 deaths from January 5 to February 1, 2025 attributable to the wildfires--likely reflecting "a combination of factors, including increased exposure to poor air quality and health care delays and interruptions..." 🛟 😷 health policy

But it doesn't really "lose out" because most national / regional investment disproportionately benefits London. A cursory glance at the history of the past 50 years confirms this.

New article by me! Cardiovascular disease mortality rates have declined by around three-quarters since 1950, but we rarely hear about it. I explore some of the reasons behind the decline. ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...

Sure, I think that's always been a very clear part of his health stance. It's the cornerstone of the right-wing argument - that people can control their own health, and so poor people are generally sick by choice.

In last week's Basic Income Show we discussed a new study that showed how blood plasma income (about $400/mo) reduces crime by 12%. People shouldn't have to sell their blood for survival income, and we should acknowledge how much crime is survival crime. itsanewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/itsa-found...

Does large-scale public primary school construction improve educational mobility in developing countries? No credible evidence on this. We estimate the effects of 61k primary schools in Indonesia. Short answer: improved mobility for disadvantaged sons, but not for daughters. Why? #Econsky

holy fucking shit. I came yay close to doing my PhD in Michigan. probably not a coincidence that they are world-class for social epidemiology and health disparity research. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

There is a great new Netflix documentary telling stories from London's major trauma system: www.netflix.com/watch/81783515