Achieving World Health Organisation guidelines for air quality could help many get a better night’s sleep. “Across dozens of studies, long-term exposure to outdoor pollutants such as particle pollution, nitrogen dioxide and even carbon dioxide was linked to shorter or lower-quality sleep.”

It’s not very warm today is it? 🥶

"If you want to understand what England will look like with a Reform government, just come to our town. Racists and thugs are acting with impunity, intimidating local residents and people of colour, who are living in fear." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Policymakers, academics, clinicians and educators are discussing solutions to this & other problems facing millions of UK children growing up in poverty at the National Opportunity Summit at @universityofleeds.bsky.social today. #natoppsummit for more. #childrenfirst @cfyounglives.bsky.social

As children across England settle in to their new school life, research by @childofthenorth.bsky.social shows almost half of those on free school meals weren't 'school ready' - with big impacts for their life and education. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... #natoppsummit #childrenfirst

This must be the #OvertonWindow, then?

Great opportunity for UK based early career researchers in fluid dynamics. Apply for funding for a short research visit to a collaborator. Deadline 4th Oct with a quick turnaround. Details at fluids.leeds.ac.uk/funding/

The four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

Would you like to give a talk or run an activity with our keen Y12 Science students? We run an enrichment course on Wednesday afternoons at Monmouth and it would be great to have you visit us. Please DM if interested. Thank you 🙂 #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

We are so proud of our amazing Demo Team for being recognised as "global leaders in spectacular science demonstrations" with the 2025 @royalsociety.org Hauksbee Award. 👏 We can't wait to show you what they have in store for the 200th anniversary of the Christmas Lectures!

Measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, tetanus. Diseases that used to terrorise families, killing children & babies in their thousands. Now we have vaccines - safe & miraculous life savers. Please, parents, use them. Protect your precious children 🩷 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I didn't realize that calls for the removal of lead in gasoline started in the 1920s with Alice Hamilton, first woman to join the faculty at Harvard. It took 70 years until lead was finally banned from gasoline. She was a trailblazer for occupational health! www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/hist...

Good to see this BOHS guidance explaining the difference between FRSM and FFP3 in healthcare. FRSM are useful but are not protective equipment for workers and it’s important this is recognised properly when determining protection against airborne infection www.bohs.org/media-resour...

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Ducks have regional accents.

Our fab colleagues in the Research & Innovation service have launched a new home for Leeds research stories 📚 researchatleeds.leeds.ac.uk Follow for more: 🔹 LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/showcase/res... 🔹 Bluesky – @researchleeds.bsky.social #ResearchCulture #ResearchAtLeeds #LeedsUni #OpenResearch

We are hiring a Virology Laboratory Technician to work on research projects about airborne transmission of flu, covid, and other respiratory viruses and improved ways to stop airborne transmission. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

My current Postdoctoral Research position is due to end on 30th September 2025. I am keen to continue working in infectious disease research, data-driven epidemiology, and teaching in academia, public health, and/or industry. If you know of any opportunities, please do let me know - thank you!

Want to move to Switzerland? We are looking for a postdoc to study airborne viruses: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne... @linseymarr.bsky.social @lakdawalalab.bsky.social @corsiaq.bsky.social @influenzal.bsky.social @chuckhaas.bsky.social

We are currently recruiting for a 1 year PDRA to support our new EPSRC Micronetwork plus - Air Hub. The network is considering: What are the constituents of PM2.5 indoors, what are the health impacts, and what should we do about it? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF471/r...

I do live in a lovely part of the world #Ducks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

New paper! "Modelling the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 during the first 14 days of infection" - we use Approximate Bayesian Computation and the theory of stochastic boundary hitting to provide a possible explanation for infectious doses in challenge data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to see more #SAMHE findings reported. Discover more recommendations for policy and practice in our 2-page brief 'Improving air quality in UK schools'. Read online or download as a pdf: samhe.org.uk/recommendati... #HealthyAir #AirQuality 🍎

Hello, I’m a ventilation engineer in a film and there’s nothing at all for me to do. That’s because movie ventilation is just massive ducts that magically connect the right rooms together for people to escape the bad guys, and they’re never connected to fans, filters, dampers or coils!

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

We are conducting a global citizen science study of disposable nappy use and how to reduce it while supporting parents and kids. If you have small people in nappies please do take part. Www.bigtoiletproject.org

Today is World Drowning Prevention Day. Every year, drowning claims hundreds of thousands of lives, most of these deaths being preventable. If you’ve taken action to prevent drowning, share it using #DrowningPrevention and tag @who.int. 👉 bit.ly/DrowningPrevention2025

Great to see the outputs from the @samhe.bsky.social study reported. Outdoor air is the biggest driver of particles in the classroom. Closing windows doesnt always help but air filters can www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every wondered about dehumidifiers and how they affect your home and health? Check out the latest episode of BBC R4 Sliced Bread, where I get to talk all things humidity! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

No publisher does this….unless of course you are an academic then it’s the norm!

Remember folks, your AI is only as good as the training data and so it looks backwards rather than forwards….

What a terrible loss for all Americans! Our air and water are cleaner than in many other parts of the world thanks to EPA's research.

While infection control and cleaning is always a good thing, it’s not going to cut it for measles. Measles is airborne and highly contagious. The best approach is vaccination, and local infection control should focus on ventilation and air cleaning www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

How can data help improve #safety in #parks? With @westyorkshireca.bsky.social, @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social & @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social, Fran Pontin & team are using evidence to tackle #WomenAndGirls’ safety concerns in Bradford parks. Funded by Research England PSF youtu.be/jy-0h3yZ8P4?...

NEW on Wonkhe: Every university does civic things but this is not the same as being a civic university. James Coe makes the case for a civic agenda about tweaking, rearranging, and embedding the civic everywhere. buff.ly/7LGNhFp

By the time Year 1 children aged 5-6 now are in Year 10 aged 15-16 there'll be twice as many extreme heat days as there are today. In other words, by 2035 there'll be 100% more extreme heat classroom days where 30+ overheating children struggle to learn. We need #ClimateInEducation. Tick tock 🔥 🌍 ⏰

MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.

Interesting analysis from @ersatzben.bsky.social on what makes good interdisciplinary research. UKRI doesn’t come out well. ‘Despite integration within single UKRI umbrella, UK government funding seems to remain unusually focussed on silos of activity….’ johnsonb.substack.com/p/what-actua...

Full text now published, open access to all. 🐱

Job Opportunity: Project Manager for the Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence an ambitious new initiative combining @universityofleeds.bsky.social & @york.ac.uk Funded by the NPCC/UKRI to support the future of policing through evidence-based approaches. 👇🏽 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy? The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications. Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

Our paper on the efficacy of plastic screens in reducing airborne transmission of disease is now out. We looked at poorly ventilated environments alongside well ventilated, and considered airborne counts and deposition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Found my health card yesterday from when I was a baby. Check out the advice - full marks for number 3!!

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!