🧠 We had our work featured in the @ukri.org & @theyoungfdn.bsky.social's new report on their Community Knowledge Fund. 🔗 www.youngfoundation.org/our-work/pub... Thanks to everyone who helps make this work happen!

🏘️ With the National Retrofit Hub we launched 'The Role of Community Health Impact Assessments (CHIA) for Retrofit', a workbook for community organisers and policy/strategy designers working on retrofit at scale. 🔗 nationalretrofithub.org.uk/resource/the... cc @impurbanhealth.bsky.social

Quite a week it's been. In case you missed it, here's what's happened in the world of Centric Lab this week. 📝 We launched the 'Introduction to Ecological Health' online course 🔗 www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

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Wow, this essay by @cityofsound.bsky.social is SPEAKING to me 🙌 "the UK now has over 2.5m landlords. Lawyer Nick Bano has observed that this is 2x the number of NHS employees, 4x times the number of teachers and double the number of coal miners at the industry’s peak" fojournal.org/essay/the-re...

notable that actual Jewish seniors get this in a way that the ersatz holocaust museum does not

@kinship.works Really enjoyed this report - www.kinship.works/publications... - some real alignments with some things we're working on at @thecentriclab.com, thanks for putting it together and sharing the knowledge! ✊

This is excellent political messaging. @zackpolanski.bsky.social hits straight to the core of the problem. This system is intolerable and it must be overcome: production should be organized around human well-being and ecology, not around maximizing profits for the rich.

This year we are committed to training, educating, organizing, and using legal interventions to help people overcome AI harm—while being thoughtful about how we do it. We’re focused on making AI harms visible, understood, and actionable for low-income communities and their ground-level advocates.

💫New Year New Us—We’re hitting the ground running. From shaping a bold strategic plan to building the team that will bring it to life, 2026 is about momentum and purpose.

"Our new analysis shows that in at least 83 countries, annual investments as small as $50,000-100,000 could shift national clean air trajectories.. Bangladesh, Guatemala and the DRC are losing a combined 1.3 billion life-years to air pollution relative to WHO guidelines"

FML #Arsenal, can I please have an evening of football where my blood pressure and cortisol aren't spiking all over the place 🥵... please 👍🏻

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Sign, donate, share...simple 👇🏻 notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

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Aerial photo of North London right now 👇🏻 🔴⚪

Byyyyyyeeeee. If we have to live in a deprived society so that you can be wealthy we'd rather not have that society designed around obscene wealth for the few and pain for the many. The UK won't get any better pandering to cries from the wealthy.

They really will do ANYTHING but tax obscene wealth and the loopholes used to extract billions out of the country. It's evident to see that this "Labour" government got into power by being bought by those who hold financial power. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Few things summarise our time more than these messages from systems designed for "efficiency" 🤬

DOUGHNUT 3.0 IS HERE! 🎉 Today, DEAL is launching the latest update of the global Doughnut, now monitoring trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot across the 21st century. #DoughnutEconomics Check out the link below to see all the resources and dive in:

The AfD continued its losing streak today in Germany's most populous states. In all three cities where the party had reached the runoff for mayor, it lost in a big way. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, and in Hagen 72-28. More please!

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Community Health Impact Assessment by @joshartus.bsky.social et al. 🔍 #CityKnowHows 🔍A case study in developing a Health Impact Assessment from the eyes of a Community www.cityknow-how.com/how-migratio... #Cities4Health #HealthyCities #Community #HealthImpactAssessment

Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.

So I went on holiday to the Vendee, about a third of the way down France’s west coast, and it made me think a lot about @duncanrobinson.bsky.social’s “Britain, accept you’re a hot country” argument…

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Fuck this unimaginative Star Wars copying asshole of a human being. I hope she lives her life perpetually unhappy given the harm she's causing innocent children trying to live in a messed up world her greedy ass is making worse.

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Oh look, another cis lesbian assaulted for using the women’s bathroom. I’d like to send a gigantic fuck you to every lesbian TERF who helped create this situation www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...

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Let Families Inherit State Pension Contributions — Our Money, Our Right chng.it/RGL7gqZNjQ

@arseblog.com @gunnerblog.bsky.social Going through highlights of Saka & Martinelli goals and they're often more central - not wide. I feel that not having overlapping full-backs forces S&M to stay wide, get double-teamed, and we lose their attaching potency. What do you think? #arsecastextra

If you're in the UK, come join me at the Sheffield Festival of Debate on Tuesday: festivalofdebate.com

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So...how have you all been hiding Terry Reid from me... It's like Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Gram Parsons all got in Jeff Goldblum's fly machine... Wow. open.spotify.com/track/6TcmSJ...

"It is understood to have rejected a £500m state rescue package." Imagine if the government spent £500m on an infrastructure to make places sustainable: from community food growth, energy projects, retrofitting homes, social infrastructure.. ...just imagine. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Interested to learn more about our thinking at @thecentriclab.com? Check out this thread on developing an abolitionist strategy into our air pollution project Air is Kin.

I'd put it the other way round. Scientific method, as a human practice, is intrinsically value laden. What you choose to investigate, what you decide to measure, how you measure, what you ignore, how you deal with uncomfortable results, even who you allow to do it, are all soaked in values.

Why fund community organising? Great piece by Martha Mackenzie of Civic Power Fund. medium.com/civic-power-...

"Voters support cutting aid budget to fund higher defence spending, poll suggests" TRANSLATION "Our Imperialist, racist, and xenophobic mindset is still strong and important to us" www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru. Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

Great research pointing out the corruption of a (late-stage capitalist) system that actively creates scarcity - wealth for a selective few - and then as a result creates a wealth transference from public to private hands. inews.co.uk/news/private...

"a sealed, water-filled loop is sunk deep inside former oil or gas wells to absorb the naturally occurring heat at their bases. The warmed water in the loop then returns to the surface. In this way, the heat can be passed to nearby buildings." So simple. Love it 💚 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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AUTOMATING BANISHMENT is a community-based report envisioned, researched, drafted, and edited by dozens of people coming together to study the relationship of “data-driven policing” to real estate development and settler colonialism. ✊ automatingbanishment.org

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"How transformative it could be if funders turned their collective power towards resourcing that hopefulness" Big thanks to @onioncollective.bsky.social for writing these four articles 🙌 medium.com/@jessprend/r...