🎬 🍿 Official Film Release! We’re thrilled to announce the public release of Unmasking Influence -now available via the LSHTM Vimeo channel! vimeo.com/1123819285 There is overwhelming evidence that many industries are undermining public health.This documentary makes the issues visible and relatable.

424.80 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 25-Oct-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Where would one start? Perhaps with this... www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/207... More here www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

"On the one hand, we have a hypothesis underpinned by evidence, although imperfect, and on the other hand we have a hypothesis without evidence, although it might exist...maintaining neutrality on this issue amounts to performative uncertainty to create the veneer of academic detachment"

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

The European Parliament’s Committee on Public Health is now on Bluesky 🦋! Follow us for regular Committee updates and activities - meetings, votes, missions, and more - and for more information visit our website at www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...

423.73 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 06-Sep-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Postdoc vacancy in an interdisciplinary team of food-system researchers based in London and Oxford, supervised by Dr Marco Springmann! Deadline for applications 12th August my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Hello @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social - can you please urgently ensure that the pedestrian crossing traffic lights at the A420/A34 roundabout are fixed before someone gets killed by a driver without the decency to stop - as I very nearly was yesterday on my way to Wytham Woods.

Hi there @financialtimes.com - I think you should know that the HTSI team seem to have staged a coup and taken over the main paper…

Fossil fuel industry gave $19m to Trump’s inaugural fund, analysis shows - In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill" - Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Storyby @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Unusually, all West Oxfordshire District Council’s car parks are free of charge. WODC budget documents show that council tax payers, including those without cars, pay up to £120,000 a quarter to subsidise “free parking”. A recent survey identified a further £170,000 of outstanding maintenance.

In the last year, to May 2025, the average costs of running a car fell by 0.1% while the cost of public transport increased by 5%

That's my horse! Further ways in which the upper classes use public money to stay in their huge, expensive houses. Featuring tax breaks, eight paintings in Longleat which turn out to belong to all of us, and posh people not talking about slavery. open.substack.com/pub/susannah...

Cycling in Oxford: A Tale of Four Schools. 58% of the children at Cherwell secondary school in North Oxford cycle to school; it may have the highest cycling rate of any UK school. In contrast, just 10% of children at Cheney secondary school cycle to school. THREAD 1/N

@yougov.co.uk - please tell Jonathan Olley that if he wants to send me spam email he should probably address it to 'Harry', rather than '[First Name]'...

Excellent @who.int webinar launching their impressive new toolkit for promoting walking and cycling. www.who.int/publications... Great to hear mention of the WHO HEAT tool during the discussion. www.who.int/tools/heat-f...

🚨'Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier' now available open access. Includes papers on architecture as a professional and research discipline through to later papers presenting a theory of the spatial structure of the city and its social functions. uclpress.co.uk/book/space-s...

doing archival research for a paper on processed foods and single-use plastics, and it is striking how companies like Coca-Cola have been able to delay meaningful environmental action by making the same voluntary commitments over and over This is from 1999, but could literally be from last year

1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.

👌 HT @jessandquinn.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/389/... Oh dear me What @mgtmccartney.bsky.social said, basically.......

Spot the difference 🔎 Left: A Guinness ad near an Irish primary school before a complaint. Right: After the complaint - now Guinness 0.0. A dangerous loophole lets alcohol brands dodge ad restrictions by promoting zero-alcohol products. It's time to close it. Found by @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

Actually @financialtimes.com the court was just doing its job. How about an honest headline like: “racist French politician rightly finds her political career in jeopardy as just desserts for her criminal actions”?

427.95 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 26-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

🧵 1/ Corporate corruption is a major but often overlooked threat to public health. Our new @thelancet.bsky.social commentary, led by Helen Walls with Dina Balabanova, argues that industries harming health should be called out for what they are: corrupt.

Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch. Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

A scientifically illiterate fascist who is defunding science, and FRS. The toadying lickspittles who championed this marketing creep should lose their privileges. What did they want? To brownnose a big boy under the misapprehension that standing near the powerful gifts them power.

Austerity has had a devastating effect on health. Trends in UK mortality reflect a public health failure, write @lucindahiam.bsky.social and colleagues www.bmj.com/content/388/...

New paper finds smoking rates in the north of England fell faster than the national average between 2006-2024, narrowing geographic inequalities in smoking prevalence. Regional tobacco control programmes appeared to contribute to this progress. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"transport sector’s response to climate change has focused mitigation policy on scaling up electric vehicles. This serves the interests of the automotive and allied industries while undermining the opportunity to reorientate transport systems towards non-motorised travel" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

This is research from a primary school in Barcelona, looking at how boys and girls used a space with a large football pitch in the middle. I don't really need to explain any more.

Kemi Badenoch and four members of her Shadow Cabinet received donations from funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which campaigns against Net Zero GWPF don't release details of their funding, but US tax records reveal links to the fossil fuel industry bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Imagine - clean air, no congestion, no traffic noise! Well done to the Citizens' Assembly of randomly chosen people who opted for such life-giving choices. Will @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social be able to deliver? #CleanAir #CitizensAssembly #Cycling #Walking #Buses

Call me a Luddite but things to stop burnout should be based in evidence. If the job is so bad that people can’t do it- change the job, not the amount of yoga. Opportunity cost for covering for staff having sabbaticals to prevent burnout may be…burnout

Self-help books often cite population studies as evidence that you can change your life with one simple trick. X will improve your health. Y will make you more successful. But there's a crucial catch... 1/

Society benefits a lot from people walking and cycling! New figures from the Norwegian Directorate of Health show that we save: 🚲 2,8 EUR for every km people cycle- fx to🚄 🚶‍♀️ 4,2 EUR for every km people walk- fx to 🚌 This is compared to people not being physically active, fx if they drive a car

ICYMI Barbados govnt announced in yesterday's Budget that they will introduce a 20% tax on high salt snacks (Pringles, Lays etc) starting in June 2025. To be reviewed in 2 years time. Big news! barbadostoday.bb/2025/03/11/n...

This is excellent!

Really important also to note that many alcohol reduction apps are actually produced by front groups like Drinkaware and actually *prompt* drinking. Avoid alcohol industry apps. See: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39377424/

What influences health inequalities? Our Evidence Hub has been updated and expanded, with the latest insights into the impact of inequalities by deprivation, geography, ethnicity and disability. Explore the evidence ⬇️ buff.ly/UGXrClY

Every new and reworked roundabout and junction in the UK should be designed to allow full safe pedestrian and cycling flow in either direction. Anything less is a dismal failure by the highways team. Roads are not only used by drivers.

Come and work with us! Two RA posts on the Local Health / Global Profits project, based in the Centre for 21st Century Public Health at the University of Bath. Full time, fixed term (to 31/03/2028), Grade 7, £38,249 to £45,413. Closing date 23 March 2025. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

📣📣📣 Absolutely fabulous job opportunity @healthfoundation.bsky.social for a Public Health Consultant with the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities through transforming prevention policy - in its broadest sense - across the UK! Please share ☺️ lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

This is the official Police response to whether children can play in the street. Motornormativity exists everywhere, in this case, prioritising the potential feelings of drivers over the independence of children. How utterly depressing.

Another essential update for Oxfordshire residents from the brilliant @oxfordclarion.bsky.social