When people ask me what cinema can be, I merely show them this. And I say. This, THIS is cinema.

Important piece on 'evidential landscaping', conflicts of interest and limitations in the evidence base, in research on digital technologies and health

🔔 NEW   Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm   ✍️ Kate Gray, Grant Ennis, Greg Fell   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag026

@felly500.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @activetowns.bsky.social @davidzipper.bsky.social @wesmars.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @carltonreid.com @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @reenamahajan.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social

#alcohol #PublicHealth

BREAKING: Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Tory peer Lord Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and is in a business partnership with the editor of a reconstituted Nazi eugenics platform - by me via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/r...

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Following ban of 'milk' as a term I fell into a small rabbit whole of the concept of milk as we understand it in Europe. 🧵

💥Supermarionation Sunday💥 On a Monday 🤦‍♀️ Today’s news, today The TV Century 21 thread 🧵 Issue #56 On sale 09 February 1966 All headlines faithfully transcribed in alt text THIS WEEK: The WSP Press Officer’s knowledge of Physics isn’t any better than Matt Matic’s…

andyspearpoint.bandcamp.com/track/autocr... New FADs' Andy Spearpoint

#SocialMediaAddiction #AddictiveDesign #BigTech

One might think that ramming phone gambling apps down the collective American throat is a poor idea but you do you capitalism

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

« Une stratégie de désinformation » : le « père » du Nutri-Score dénonce des vidéos usurpant son identité avec une IA

What an interesting piece of research. “A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and the wider economy.” sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/n...

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

On September 25, 2012 Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg walked into Jeffrey Epstein's home looking for money. The late paedophile and financier was not into it. Here's what happened that day according to records released from the latest batch of Epstein files. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Me in 1983 on BBC TV on the civil disobedience graffiti movement BUGA UP www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVM7.... My new 425p 50yr memoir looks at highlights across tobacco & gun control, defending windfarms, some heretical critiques of unethical policies +much more ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

Can recommend...I'm half way through Simon's memoir and it's a great read as well as a reminder of his long career of taking the fight to harmful industries

📢 New report Alcohol marketing restrictions were meant to be in England’s 10 Year Health Plan. Then they disappeared. Our new report uses FOIs to show how alcohol industry lobbying targeted ministers and pressured government departments to kill the policy. www.ias.org.uk/report/now-y...

Could You Be the 2026 UCSF Library Artist in Residence? UCSF Library Archives & Special Collections and Makers Lab are accepting proposals for the 7th annual UCSF Library Artist in Residence program. The 2026 residency will begin July 1st. #libraries #archives www.library.ucsf.edu/news/could-y...

A lovely tribute from Steve Parker. When a tree in his yard died, Parker cut slices from the trunk that he then carved like vinyl. The oak records play bird song. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/stev...

Great paper; similarities w other industries "..half of research published in top journals has disclosable ties to industry...These trends do not arise from broad scientific engagement with industry, but rather from a select group of scientists who maintain long-lasting relationships with industry"

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

"...as with e-cigarettes and reformulated foods, we should not take market-led solutions to public health problems at face value," write a group of prominent alcohol harm researchers in the BMJ. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Wow, The Telegraph and Farage are really coming out to bat for... drink-driving 😶 I'd argue that, if your business model relies on people driving tipsy around country roads... it's not a good model. archive.ph/uVJdY

🚨Our new research has found that 1 in 5 alcohol products in Australia still lack mandatory pregnancy warning labels. Despite the Aug 2023 deadline, thousands remain unlabelled. Experts warn that alcohol at any stage of pregnancy can cause lifelong harm: bit.ly/4qeUGIR

We need more of this kind of work The socioeconomic patterning of Great Britain's fast-food outlets and ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Awesome article with tantalizing details about the Tom Verlaine archives. Includes a snippet of a solo acoustic "Marquee Moon" demo from 1974! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

"We are much better informed today about the risks, and the message that any alcohol consumption carries a health risk is really starting to get through," says Mickael Naassila, the organiser of France's alcohol-free January initiative. www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

25 years after Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser returns... @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

Listen to @emmaboyland.bsky.social talk about the new junk food bans on #BBC today - listen at 1hr 52 into the programme. Also on with Emma was Jonathon Bone from @nestauk.bsky.social Brilliant discussion around the limitations as well as benefits. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Rare, and welcome positive messages in Nason's piece...I look forward too to more MPH podcasts in 2026

there's nobody alive left in this version

VicHealth Is a Health Promotion Exemplar: Evidence Demands Bolstering Investment (Not Eroding It) James Smith, Rob Moodie, Carmel Williams, Glen Ramos, Katherine Trebeck, Caterina Giorgi, Melinda Edmunds, Gemma Crawford onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Many very well deserved congratulations to my friends & colleagues @felly500.bsky.social OBE & Alice Wiseman MBE in the #NewYearsHonours @adphuk.bsky.social plus work of social care colleagues recognised & @bevcraig.bsky.social OBE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

They knew: Declassified files prove Stormont understood Lough Neagh’s pollution decades ago – but then made it worse. Stormont explicitly knew that intensive agriculture was killing our waterways, but then used public money to encourage more factory farms.

Analysis of BBC Question Time concludes “The findings reflect growing concerns about the role of sources on televised panels for broadcasters globally and a media agenda led by the radical right that is shaping the nature of political debate”

Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs

Moving beyond individual choice: why public health language matters – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/moving-beyon... By Mark Robinson, Mark Chenery and James Smith

#OTD in 1890 Bram Stoker published Gibbet Hill in a Christmas supplement of the Daily Express (Dublin). This long-lost story is published by the Rotunda Foundation in aid of the Charlotte Stoker Fund, supporting research on preventable hearing loss in newborns. This fund is already making an impact

I've been concerned recently to see a few blogs associating over-diagnosis & medicalisation critiques of mental health & neurodiversity with the right-wing, and even fascism. This excellent article by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com clearly shows some of the sociological concerns www.ft.com/content/8252...

Social media fuels smoking and vaping among children, especially girls, study shows. Via @pamelawrites.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/s...

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

It's #MosaicMonday and miserable in the UK so here's an early Winter personification from Bignor Roman villa. It's from a room that had underfloor heating and was probably a dining room. www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

Is there really a “new oligarchy” in America? Quinn Slobodian on why so many Silicon Valley billionaires have gotten so involved in everyday American politics. Read on. Link in comments.

Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...