In a rare editorial, NEJM editors push back on Trump’s growing political interference in science. Good to see this published ⬇️ #OMB

Gambling blights local communities. Our new paper, led by @blythejenny.bsky.social w/ @markpetticrew.bsky.social , reports on the formidable barriers those in local government in London face in tackling gambling harms @london.gov.uk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cracking paper by Myles Balfe, UCC, in the June issue of J Public Health: ‘The evils are uncontrolled’: Marx’s Capital as a form of witnessing for child public health academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

All points are 🎯 in your 🧵 A few years ago, I was riding as bike messenger/courier. It was zero hours work at £10.85 an hour (in London). No hours, no pay. I rode as many hours/shifts as possible, 6 days a week, trying to cover rent. When the regular day shift ended, I'd begin an evening shift.

As ever, a great rundown of corporate manoeuvring to prevent an EU ban on PFAS forever chemicals, from @corporateeurope.org Thank you for referencing our work, we really appreciate it 🙏

Oil + gas drilling is permitted in many Marine 'Protected' Areas in the UK, as illustrated in our Watershed Pollution Map, below. Bottom trawl fishing is allowed in many MPAs. All of which begs the question - what's 'protected' about a Marine Protected Area? share.google/LiNhOTjTO4hY... 1/4

STUDY: “Reframing obesity as the result of government policy (& lack thereof) shaped by industry influence will logically meet great resistance because it reorients policymakers to address unhealthy food environments lobbied for by multinational food companies…” co-written by @grantennis.bsky.social

This is because Goblins exist. We constantly forget about the Little Folk. Our whole society is set up not to notice Them. AI doesn't understand this and constantly tries to warn us of Their presence. shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11...

“[O]ne can hardly imagine a more nihilistic and disturbing message to send than turning public health policy over, in part, to someone who has dedicated much of their career to maximizing the consumption of inherently unhealthy products,” Jeff Hauser… said via email.” @profgoldberg.bsky.social

In just TWO DAYS... BHATTACHARYA GETS A "FIRESIDE CHAT" on FRIDAY at the NATIONAL ACADEMIES so we can hear him talk about RESEARCH INTEGRITY. The SAME WEEK he stops 🛑 CDC from publishing research. I cannot WAIT to discover if there will be any chance for the audience to ask him about this.

Follow us and check out tobaccotactics.org to find out more about the tactics and activities of companies such as BAT. www.bath.ac.uk/research-gro... ash.org.uk

The board of British American Tobacco, one of the most powerful and profitable #TobaccoCompanies in the world, met in London yesterday. They had a lot to say about their business and @tcrgbath.bsky.social & @ashorguk.bsky.social were there to hear it.

The gap between what we know about commercial forces and health - and what we're doing about it - is large. LHGP's Nason Maani and Sandro Galea's new book, A Healthier Profit @oxunipress.bsky.social sets out to close it. Available for pre-order now ahead of its 2027 launch.

Civil society is essential public health infrastructure that Europe cannot afford to lose url: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

We are offering a unique opportunity for #PublicHealth registrars to contribute to the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium. Full details here: www.phiuk.org/news/lhgp-na... Deadline for applications: 9 am, Tuesday 28 April.

🎉 The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health is now online. Most downloaded article is "The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health" arevie.ws/4e9Npa8 @spidermaani.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social May van Schalkwyk @markpetticrew.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social

Neil did a little busking earlier that day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5WA...

Leather is a deforestation driver. We’ve joined NGOs calling on the Commission not to exclude leather from the EU Deforestation Regulation. Removing it would allow products linked to deforestation into the EU market. Strong laws must be based on scientific evidence, not industry lobbying.

Corporations are writing EU law. We need to: ✊ defend ethical standards ✊ stop corporate capture ✊ drop all rigged consultation methods that allow corporate lobbyists to dominate ✊ a broad based campaign to defend and expand the protection of the public interest corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

Missed our Business of #Health #Misinformation #webinar? Watch it now on YouTube. With 79% of the UK on social media and 22% getting health information there (rising to 40% among Gen Z), the stakes around misinformation have never been higher. youtu.be/j3CRlSeHZio @spidermaani.bsky.social

We are asking members of the public to help build a new interactive website that charts the history of tobacco, alcohol and gambling sponsorship in British sport. Find items in your attic and get involved today! Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/2z665s64

Up to 90% of disease risks are linked to environment rather than genetics alone 🔴Taking place now: #STOA study author Prof Roel Vermeulen presents progress made & future perspectives of #exposome research at @sant.europarl.europa.eu 📺 Watch: link.europa.eu/FbjtjD Study: europa.eu/!FxtWrk

10 years ago today the UK Govt announced the Soft Drinks Industry Levy – a mandatory tax on sugar in soft drinks for manufacturers. 🥤 In a new blog, BHF Policy Officer Zoe Rostas reflects on the Levy's successes and what we can learn from it as the Govt looks to 'end the obesity epidemic.’ 🍎🎯

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/...