‘Hiding the Label’: ‘Passing’ as Drinkers and Reinforcing Drinking Norms Through no and Low Alcohol Consumption in Social Settings | Emily Nicholls @apsad.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'What a journey: Cultivating Cultural Recovery Pathways for Black and Asian Communities in Scotland' | @shaapalcohol.bsky.social www.shaap.org.uk/9030-2/

Pinot Noir: Australian Perspectives - Melbourne Workshop July15-17: www.thepinotnoirproject.org/events-2-1/p...

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: The Corporate and Commercial Determinants of Health: Perspectives from Africa www.researchgate.net/publication/...

'Chronic alcohol use profoundly alters gene expression in the brain's reward system' | News-Medical www.news-medical.net/news/2026020...

'Alcohol-Specific deaths in Northern Ireland, 2014 to 2024'" datavis.nisra.gov.uk/vitalStatist...

'Scotland's only dry hotel for sale as owner regrets banning alcohol' | The National www.thenational.scot/news/2584271...

Online seminar @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: Alcohol – the biology of addiction and its effect on the liver - February 20 www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20538...

Researchers at the University of Stirling raise concerns about the impact on young people of alcohol sponsorship in sport: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2026/fe...

Minimum Unit Price to rise to 65p in Wales from October: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is the #Tequila industry at a crossroads? My latest article for Wine-Searcher #spirits #distilling www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/02/ov...

In our latest blog, Jem Roberts and Dr Peter Rice unpack the panic about pub closures - and show why much of it is misleading 🍺 What’s actually happening? ⬇️ Pub numbers have fallen for over a century - this isn’t new ⬆️ Employment in pubs has stayed stable... www.ias.org.uk/2026/02/10/i...

Modelling the economic effects of reducing the consumption of unhealthy commodities: An inter-sectoral input–output approach buff.ly/9cdRaW1 @damonm1989.bsky.social

'Why Do Academics Often Dismiss 12-Step Recovery?' @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/psyc...

The Society for the Study of Addiction awards two prizes each year for excellence in addiction science. Find out here how to apply for the Fred Yates Prize for Early Career Researchers and the Impact Prize: www.addiction-ssa.org/news/submit-...

'Now you see it, now you don’t: How alcohol industry interference made marketing restrictions disappear from the 10 Year Health Plan in England' | @ias.org.uk report www.ias.org.uk/report/now-y...

CFP: @britsoci.bsky.social Medical Sociology Annual Conference, 8-10 September, 2026: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

'Beer vs. The Law' | Mathias Lentz, Grain to Glass graintoglass.substack.com/p/beer-vs-th...

'Why Heineken’s zero-alcohol London Underground campaign fell flat' | @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-heineken...

'Understanding late-onset alcohol problems among older adults' | The Dram basisonline.org/2026/01/27/l...

Alcohol related hospital statistics (Scotland financial year 2024 to 2025) | Public Health Scotland www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications...

'When Researchers Undermine Their Own Evidence: The Emergence of “Reverse Spin Bias”' | @drugscience.bsky.social www.drugscience.org.uk/reverse-spin...

We would like to welcome Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social to the editorial board of 'Brewery History'.

Just been interviewed on the importance of pubs for tonight’s BBC Look North

Lovely blog about our Think While You Drink public events on beer, drinking, and drinking places in pubs last year if anyone is interested in how they worked and what we did: humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/01/05/b... Starting to plan for this year so watch this space or sign up to our list

⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡ Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history! 📆 Wed 11 February 🕔 5pm

Our January newsletter is a pep talk: you – yes, you! – should write about beer and pubs. boakandbailey.substack.com/p/you-should...

Gerald Moira & F. Lynn Jenkins' Arthurian frieze, originally made for the entrance hall to Lyons' Trocadero Restaurant, 1898; restored & mounted in what is now the Picturehouse Central. Moira chose feasting scenes for the restaurant, but went on to paint a temperance-themed ceiling mural... 1/4

Latest NIQ stats for managed hospitality in December. Pubs performed well, bars and restaurants less so.

NIHR Career development award will support @ppermanhowe.bsky.social in new research into health impacts of mid-strength drinks | @sarg-scharr.bsky.social sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/s...

'No disruption to fan safety in WSL alcohol trials' | BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Via @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social

'Price a bigger factor than health when drinking less, study claims' | Drinks Retailing drinksretailingnews.co.uk/price-a-bigg...

'Has England’s drinking returned to “normal”?' | @ias.org.uk www.ias.org.uk/2026/01/20/h...

Call for Abstracts: 2026 Alcohol Occasionals @shaapalcohol.bsky.social - “Future directions for alcohol research, policy, and practice – priorities for a new Scottish Government” www.shaap.org.uk/news/call-fo...

Commercial determinants of health: The costs will be higher punchng.com/nigerians-sp...

Happy birthday yesterday to Oliver Hardy, seen here at Denker's Beer Garden in NYC in OUR RELATIONS (1936), a film based in part on 'The Money Box' (1902) by W W Jacobs, a prolific comic story writer best remembered now for 'The Monkey's Paw'. The film concerns twins, mistaken identies and money 1/5

Incidentally if this story existed it would have been a strong contender for @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social's 'Dead Drunk' collection of drink/temperance Tales of the Weird

‘There is a moment of clarity that life would be better without alcohol’: what we can learn from addiction memoirs | @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

'How should public health respond to rise of alcohol-free and low alcohol drinks?' | @jholmessheff.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/392/...

'Treating addiction with immunotherapy: BYU study links alcohol use and the immune system' | BYU via @drugwise.bsky.social news.byu.edu/treating-add...

'Alcohol treatment twice as likely to fail in adolescents who are NEET' | University of Manchester via @drugwise.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/a...

Three wine critics have independently realised that drinking wine produces emotions, a breakthrough they collectively explored at extreme length, as Alfonso Cevola observes. Instead of simply writing better about wine, they wrote thousands of words about why writing about wine is hard.

"We should not take market-led solutions to public health problems at face value,” wrote a group of prominent alcohol harm researchers about no-lo drinks in the BMJ this week. And we should discount no-los as a solution until there's evidence, argues AR. alcohol-review.com/story/expert...

A handsome volume, as you'd expect from Historic England & @livunipress.bsky.social - lots for general readers, as it clearly demonstrates just how significant & ordinary temperance was across England; essential reading for academic work on temperance & drink too.. @drinkingstudies.bsky.social (1/4)

"Research led by Flinders University reveals that while workplace factors like long hours, work-related stress and shift work do influence high-risk drinking, personal and social factors play an even bigger role": news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/01...

Carolyn Lochhead announced as new chief exec of @alcoholfocus.bsky.social www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/news/news/al...

'“I just saw the alcohol brand, I never really thought of the zeros”: Young people’s views of NoLo and alibi alcohol sponsorship' | International Journal of Drug Policy via @drugwise.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The realities of sustainability in the beer world aren't as rosy as you'd think. How do brewers who want to make a difference manage to keep the lights on when the odds are stacked against them? www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/1/...