Launch today @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social 3.30pm

Our new report published today on high streets and health inequalities to map the changes over time in 16 amenities across all of England's high streets - areas which already suffer from a high burden of ill health also face a decline in the quality of their high streets. #gischat #geosky #episky

Listen to our Academic Co-Director @profbambra.bsky.social speaking on this morning's BBC Radio 4 Today show about our ghost towns report released today which shows a worrying deterioration of England's high streets www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Parts of the country are becoming “ghost towns”, with banks, libraries, pharmacies and public toilets replaced by vape shops, bookies and takeaways, a hard-hitting report has revealed.

📊🌡️ A new study in Science Magazine reveals an unexpected finding: #Heat disproportionately kills the young, not the elderly, with people under 35 accounting for 87% of heat-related lost life years in Mexico. Full story: bit.ly/4d6gGjF #ExtremeHeat #UrbanHeat

Delighted to see @profbambra.bsky.social‬'s contributions recognised through Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship 👏Clare does brilliant, much needed research, helping maintain policy pressure to reduce health inequalities, & is a fantastic supporter, ally & advocate for other women in academia.

Another interesting new paper on street network analysis, HT @gboeing 💯 it's surprisingly hard to count intersections https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.70037

And here's @martinfleis et al.'s new street network generalization tool: https://uscuni.org/neatnet/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198 #giscience #gischat #mobility #mobilitydatascience

Throughout winter when the sun would set at 4pm I would regularly see Jupiter on my walk home and it was comforting to know we're part of a solar system 🪐🌌

“… the areas with the highest risk of transport related social exclusion are characterised by a vicious cycle of high car-dependency and a lack of viable public transport and active travel options for everyday journeys” Valuable research & updated data tool launched by Transport for the North.

People living in more deprived areas were 65% more likely to lose their local pharmacy than those in wealthier areas, according to our research published today with @newcastleuni.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social led by @ezied.bsky.social www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/availability...

Hot off the press! Our latest research shows that the availability of community pharmacies has declined in the past decade, with the most deprived areas in England 65% more likely to lose a pharmacy. In BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5... #gischat #episky #publichealth #medsky #pharmsky

Appropriate use of color in mapping: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegan... #gischat

Activists told @theguardian.com “the challenge now was to mobilise the ‘climate-aware majority’—the large proportion of the population that is aware of the coming crisis, are deeply afraid about what it means for their own lives and that of their children, but are yet to take action.” #The89Percent

Great to see spatial analysis, place based approaches and health inequalities mentioned as focus areas in the government's new Climate Adaptation Research and Innovation Framework. Together through R&I we can adapt to the incoming changes and come out more resilient 🌱 www.gov.uk/government/p...

The new Climate Adaptation Research and Innovation Framework (CARIF) describes the research and innovation needed to enable UK adaptation. In our blog, find out how our science informs adaptation advice to government and business to protect the UK from the worst climate change impacts.

NEW: Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Toba Bryant of @ontariotechu.bsky.social Free content: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Endorsement by @profbambra.bsky.social #Governance #WelfareStates #PoliticalEconomy #PoliticalSociology

📢New publication highlights the strong economic imperative of reducing inequities in #patientsafety. Addressing disparities can lead to cost savings for healthcare systems and enhance workforce productivity. ➡️Read more: bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/14/1... #HealthEquity #HealthEconomics

I have created a starter pack of UK universities on @bsky.app, including active and dormant accounts. bsky.app/starter-pack... Please share.

Very interesting discrete choice experiment currently underway looking at precarity and redeployment amongst early career researchers (ECRs) based in UK Higher Education or research institutions: www.arrc.group.cam.ac.uk/precarity-an... #academicsky

Stunning new visualization of global temperatures since 1940, from @hausfath.bsky.social www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin...

I'm keeping an updated sheet as to where notable UK-facing research orgs and UK universities are on social media - post X You can see the data for yourself docs.google.com/spreadsheets... You can provide your own updates via my form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share #AcademicSky

Was on deadline for something else when this landed yesterday, but it looks a lot like the last govt’s “long term plan for towns”. Slightly more money (£1.5bn/£1.1bn), slightly more areas (75/55) Quick comparison with original NW towns = the same towns with 3 added www.gov.uk/government/p...

call for papers, due this friday

We want our #WomanOfTheNorth report to inspire suggestions for women to be included in the @thenhsa.bsky.social #NorthInnovationWomen list. To take part, post: 🌟 #NorthInnovationWomen 🌟 Tag the person you want to suggest 🌟 List their name, role & institution bit.ly/3WRZLu4

This year @healthequitynorth.bsky.social launched the #WomanOfTheNorth report with a Parliamentary event hosted by Emma Lewell Buck, MP for South Shields. The report exposed the vast inequalities that women in the North face www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/vast-inequal...

Great article on how those of us in the geospatial community approach time-series analysis! #gischat

‼️Do you work with spatial population data🌍📈 and /or spatial methods🌍🧮 ? ‼️Consider submitting your abstract to my & @ruthneville20.bsky.social 's QMRG-sponsored session in collaboration with PopGeoRG at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! @rgsibg.bsky.social @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social

Important from @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social on role of public transport in tackling gender inequality & child poverty in this report. Women are less likely to have access to a car and more likely to use local buses. Poor public transport often means mothers can only take on local, lower-paid work.

🏙️🦫 How is #rewilding refracted by urban space? 🌲🌆 Our new paper in Transactions of the @rgsibg.bsky.social explores this question in relation to the urban fabric, politics, and aesthetics, with Tom Fry and @jlorimer.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #UrbanRewilding

Study: Minority and low-income neighborhoods have 11% fewer trees, are 1.5°C hotter, and have 14% more impervious surfaces than wealthier, whiter areas. #geography www.geographyrealm.com/urban-tree-c...

#Fastfood outlets per 100,000 population for electoral wards and local authorities in England, 2024 (and with baseline comparison to 2017) www.gov.uk/government/s... new from OHID, based on analysis of @foodgov.bsky.social's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) dataset #publichealth #opendata

#gischat how do we feel about bivariate maps? Great? Needlessly confusing? I'm considering them for an upcoming project...

QGIS recognized as Digital Public Good We are thrilled to announce that QGIS has been officially recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)! This recognition underscores our commitment to open-source geospatial solutions that contribute to the […]

What makes a map ‘good’? On the ethics of cartography—"Rendering the world in a responsible way means wrestling with what gets depicted on a map, how, and for whom" AEON Essays: psyche.co/ideas/what-m... #maps #geography

Same here. The report is worth reading as well: www.unep.org/resources/em...

Removing bulk CSV downloads at predictable URLs seems like a retrograde step. I know there's an API, and I know it's been coming for a while. But it's a shame to have such an easy-to-use middle option discarded. digital.nhs.uk/services/org...

Global public perceptions on #climate change and carbon-dioxide removal #CDR and solar #geoengineering The full #GENIE survey dataset (30 countries, 19 languages) is now available, open access, via the Knowledge Hub. Please dig in! ⛏️🔬 cdr.apps.ece.iiasa.ac.at/story/2025_0...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley www.theguardian.com/education/20...

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata The UK total, England & Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland #HMD series was updated through 2022 Data 👉 mortality.org In 2022, UK #lifeexpectancy recovered following the COVID-19 pandemic setback, but still remained lower than in 2019

Yet again, the #EHMLab @ LSHTM leads on methodological developments in #Epidemiology, with a new modelling framework for multi-location environmental studies. As usual, everything fully reproducible. Full-text: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #RStats code & data: github.com/PierreMassel...

Meteorology/disaster/EM folks: What is the best one stop shop you’ve seen for a real time situational awareness dashboard for weather? Thinking radar and/or satellite and overlays like NHC tracks or obs, etc. It doesn’t need to be a free tool if necessary.

Also added updated data on life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, smoking prevalence at age 15 and various HES and mortality indicators. It was quite a bumper Fingertips release day yesterday!

Super busy yesterday so didn't get time to shout out to my team and colleagues who have added data on drinking in the last week at age 15, vaping at age 15 and higher risk drinking to Health trends in England fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-repor...

🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...

Excited to welcome submissions for an ECR session at the 2025 @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, sponsored by @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social 🌍 We’re keen to hear from #ECRs in #QuantitativeGeography! 📒 If you’re interested/have any questions, DM or email me/@fangyuanli.bsky.social Deadline 28th Feb

Hello to the many people who joined this week! 👋 Here’s two starter packs of geographers 👇 & check out #geosky too go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm go.bsky.app/KkXvsnP

These seem like useful considerations for the many transportation and/or disaster scholars who, like me, study and write about behavior and decisions all the time. Particularly those who may not think of themselves or been trained explicitly or primarily as "behavioral and decision scientists."