My goose neighbours, Honkalot and Mr Goose (RIP 😔), shortly after meeting and falling in love ♥️

WEBINAR: Looking ahead to the Scottish election, @davefinch.bsky.social​ joins our colleagues @scothealtheq.bsky.social​ on 23 April to discuss social attitudes towards health and preventative policy in Scotland, and what the party manifestos have to say on prevention. Register now⬇️

This is excellent on journal cascading.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

You may not like hearing this but actually free on-street car parking is objectively a ridiculous idea when you think about it for a second. Imagine if I plonked literally any other bulky item of personal property in front of my house and expected it to not require permission or payment!

Our LEAP conference takes place on the 22 April and spaces are filling up fast. Want to join us at Worcester College, Oxford to talk about all things meat and dairy production and consumption? Get registered! cvent.me/YaMNOA

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

Scotland's smoking ban began as a bold experiment & became one of the country’s most effective public health interventions. 20 years later, it offers timely lessons on the power of purpose, preparation & delivery, writes Kat Smith, Professor of Public Health Policy. www.strath.ac.uk/research/ast...

TRT looks to me like a deliberate attempt to widen the eligible population from those with medical needs to basically healthy men who are ageing and tired and stressed by work and kids and mortgages and elderly parents. Parallels with Valium, opioids, continuous glucose monitoring etc etc

🔔 Another ill-fated Glasgow cultural hub is in its final four days before tenants must sign a new lease or get kicked out. The landlord is the council's City Property, and tenants aren't too happy with them. 🧵 (Photo: Neil Scott)

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The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

it is unfathomable to me that an article this made it through a double-blind peer review process the opening sentence alone would surely raise huge red flags for any half-decent reviewer

this has gone under the radar, but this crisis has also caused a global spike in the cost of plastic, which seems almost certain to increase the cost of food similar to energy we need to defossilize food systems, reducing dependence on single-use plastics, shifting to more sustainable reuse models

Once again a heartfelt thanks to David "cut the Green crap" Cameron and Nick "What's the point in a nuclear power plant that isn't ready until the 2020s" Clegg for their visionary political choices, whose consequences we get to enjoy today.

Organised by the Scottish Food Coalition, Scotland’s National Food Debate will be held on Wed 8th April, 6.30 – 8.30pm in Augustine United Church in Edinburgh and also online. This is an important opportunity to make all political parties know that food is a critical issue for voters.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Europeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz

Some entertaining solutions for a stupid problem. Exhibit A

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

It was a pleasure and a privilege to speak to Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed about my work on wealth @uomphilosophy.bsky.social and @lseinequalities.bsky.social and great to share the experience with Ryan Davey talking about debt www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Glasgow after the fire. A city which has witnessed change for good & bad but which is now failed by the status quo & party politics. Many of the people of the city know this but can politics & public life reflect this? My essay on @bellacaledonia.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/11/g...

So, yeah, the framing will fix it fetish aka magic word wand is silly. And, also, we *are* by default always using words & images to convey things. So the question isn't will we "do messaging" but rather will we do it well or badly.

Interested in helping shape #research on #health inequity? 📣 We're recruiting for our Childcare Public Scrutiny Panel! 👇 We want to hear from families using childcare, and from those who can’t access it although they need it. Get in touch or register your interest: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Now *that* is interesting. (Confession: I'm a fan of citizens' assemblies).

Pride and resilience at heart of food in the North East 💗 Last but not least, a new film and report from the fourth and final ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ on food in the 📍North East - watch in full and learn more here: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/pride-a... @ffc-commission.bsky.social

““Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. At a certain point you have to ask what kind of city we are choosing to become” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies: "That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm currently hiring for a PhD studentship based at City St George's, University of London as part of @equalise.bsky.social 'Family and environmental influences on children's home learning, and inequalities in education and mental health outcomes' Apply here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

The smokefree generation is VERY nearly law. A resounding vote in the House of Lords in favour. The UK will shortly become the first country in Europe to phase out the sale of tobacco to the next generation. Quite a moment.

This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.

Stop! In the name of law

Victim-blaming never helps. We’re rightly appalled when it happens in crime such as sexual assault — and we should be equally horrified when it happens in road danger. Stop blaming those harmed. Focus on dangerous drivers & build a culture that respects cycling & the wider benefits of active travel.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

How American politics were bought by the billionaire class.

Tired: The UK is a two party system (Lab & Con) Wired: This is the age of political fragmentation Inspired: The UK is a two party system (Green & Ref)

I deleted my Amazon account (including about 40 books I had "bought" for Kindle) about a year ago. It's easy! Loads of alternatives. Highly recommend ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is basically supply side economics. Billionaires obviously cant spend their money on food and services so they will instead buy elections and install corrupt abusive racists because billionaires love that stuff

@uofgussp.bsky.social has a fab community of participatory researchers. Now advertising for RA w participatory methods experience to join us and work across two of our large grants: @healthmod.bsky.social and @changingrealities.bsky.social

New SHERU webinar: 🔷Refreshing the National Performance Framework🔷 🕐️ Monday March 2nd, 1-2pm 🔗 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/refreshing...

Excellent piece this. Points to the narrowing of our thinking when we focus on "public health" - the medicalising effects of 'health' makes PH seem so inadequate in the face of vast political challenges like these.

An alt measure that looks at lack of access to 14 amenities (a warm house, three meals a day) found 2m children living in “deep material poverty”. Yet nearly half of them would not have been covered by the official poverty measure! More in my column www.thetimes.com/article/fb88...

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.