📢 High-carbon ads and public opinion UK citizens’ jury and polling show majority support for restricting advertising of high-carbon products. Labelling systems were favoured, outright bans least popular. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction 🧪

There is something utterly wonderful about completing your last meeting of the week.

Between 13 and 19m adults in the UK experience some kind of digital poverty - more than a million don't have a smartphone or a laptop. There are promises for consultation with digitally excluded groups, but from a build perspective this means backwards compatibility - needs to work on old phones

COME TO OUR CONFERENCE! Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford. www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...

There's a reason why they want to invent a cause of autism. It's the same reason they want to claim they have a cure. It's to remove any emotional or legal obligations to care for or accommodate autistic people

There's a reason why they want to invent a cause of autism. It's the same reason they want to claim they have a cure. It's to remove any emotional or legal obligations to care for or accommodate autistic people

Super pleased about this DPhil opportunity with @thrivingfoodfuture.bsky.social project at Oxford University, working on policies for sustainable diets. Great supervisory team with @hannahforde.bsky.social, @ashakaur.bsky.social and Rachel Pechey.

We're are now accepting applications for an exciting DPhil at the @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, *FUNDED* by the THRIVING Food Futures research hub! The project is about divisive policies, supervised by me, Dr Rachel Pechey @petescarbs.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social lnkd.in/eezGaZZ3 Pls share! ✨

The UK Government’s recognition of Palestine is a welcome step, and one that is long overdue. But words alone will not stop the genocide in Gaza. Sanctions, an end to arms sales, a ban on goods from settlements, and the suspension of the UK–Israel trade deal must follow.

Look, all I'm saying is the washing machine should be called the tumble wetter

Just imagine having the power to restrict freedom of speech arbitrarily and using it to fire Jimmy Kimmel instead of banning Freed From Desire from being played in any public setting ever again

Great lecture at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social on 1st October. Details and sign-up sheet below. Online attendance possible.

Imagine in 2015 a rift in the space-time continuum opened up as you were walking down the street (I've read comics - it happens), and you caught a glimpse of these headlines from ten years in the future.

All the mathsing wore me out

Shout out to famous people, highly-visible pundits, journalists and organizational leaders who are willing to say out-loud what we are all witnessing. The are grossly out-numbered by their more cowardly counterparts.

In some professions, the proportion of privately schooled leaders has actually increased since 2019 — including newspaper columnists and BBC executives.

Yellow Submarine in Oxfordshire are absolutely great. Well worth supporting.

Brilliant article. "I agree that the tent needs to be expanded, the coalition needs to grow, and minds need to change, and I agree that bragging about having been right early on is not useful to anyone. But there are also real dangers to sidestepping a reckoning" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Judgement of Solomon is held as an archetype of a wise, impartial judge using discretion to solve a difficult dispute with huge ethical consequences hanging on the outcome. But it does all hang on one woman saying "Yes. I would be satisfied with half a baby".

The only thing funny about Keir Starmer's hopeless failure to condemn far right racist activity whilst lagging behind Reform in the polls is the memory that Toynbee, Freedland, Behr et al told us what a wonderful, popular, competent PM he would be

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

Kid A is so much an album for forty-somethings. They should have called it Kids, Eh?

I do wish the American right would learn to distinguish their drug fuelled night fevers from reality.

This is now by far the most important issue facing UK politics, yet very few people are talking about it.

First Past the Post cannot handle this level of fragmentation. It will produce completely freak results. We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.

Paid a visit to the London arms fair today... Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display. Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains? These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.

The whole purpose of democracy is to enable disagreement without violence. I’m praying for the Kirk family today.

"We should be proud of the tax we pay because we know it is an investment in our country and our people. What better way to spend your money?" Fantastic piece by Rebecca Gowland

So many pigeons on my roof I feel like I'm in a John Woo film every time I open the curtains.

Oxfordshire County Council transport for SEND updated their taxi firms for the new school year. Kids went back to school / work experience last week and already we have had five occasions where the taxi either turned up very late or just didn't show up at all.

Scientists: We need to reduce meat consumption to keep food production within planetary limits. EU consumers: We like alt protein and know what's meat and what isn't since it's obvious. EU politicians: Let's legislate language to protect the meat industry. www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025...

Just now on BBC Radio 5 Live: "Coming up later we'll be finding out why more and more of us no longer believe in climate change plus we'll have all the gossip from the National Television Awards"

The Israeli attack in Qatar is without any justification. It is a further escalation and further damages the process for peace. Israel must be held to account for this action and this latest breach must bring an end to the horror in the Middle East.

Israel attacking a country with no provocation so that they could assassinate a ceasefire negotiating team crossed a line that the international community should not tolerate. Who will host these negotiations now?

If the UK were hosting ceasefire negotiations would the Government tolerate an Israeli attack on a residential area in central London? If not, then why will it tolerate an attack in Doha?

Another incredibly dangerous line crossed by this reckless Israeli government. This time bombing a residential area in Doha to try to assassinate the Hamas negotiation team from the Qatari ceasefire process.

On 1st October @oxmartinschool.bsky.social we have a special lecture from @kevinh-phd.bsky.social about his work on modelling body weight and randomised trials of ultra-processed foods. Attendance both in person and online - please come and join us. Sign up sheet below!

Parenting milestone. I was told to swap places with my son on the Twister at St Giles Fair because he is now bigger than me.

It’s almost as if Aseem Malhotra were a totally incredible figure. How on earth could The Farage Party endorse such a total fraud? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🌍 | Cameron Hepburn, Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics @smithschool.ox.ac.uk, discusses his career and the need to move away from a carbon-based economic model. ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

One solar panel of 30 kg replaces 8 tonnes of coal (or 40 barrels of oil) and 25 tonnes of CO2 Let me show you:

I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim. 1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵

It is my contention that all songs about New York are rubbish.

Ed Balls: the Greens taking votes from Labour helps the Tories @zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I want to see every Labour politician whose voted for a two child benefit cap, for disability cuts, for the ongoing genocide in Gaza to sell arms to them, I want to see them replaced" #GMB

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

Zack Polanski absolutely steamrolls to victory in the Green Party election- 20,411 votes and beating Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns who got just 3,075 votes. A watershed moment in left politics and for the Green Party. And hard to see how Corbyn/Sultana party now makes case for its own existence

Just ask yourself if you ever believed that a Labour government would generate a headline as sickening as this.

It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/388...

Look, it is no longer tolerable that no countries start with a W, so one of the countries that start with a vowel are just going to have to add a W at the start. I for one would welcome living in the Wunited Kingdom

'Badenoch said Britain “cannot afford not to be doing everything to get hydrocarbons out the ground” to boost growth.' Conservatives, eh?