Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

I'd like to share our findings & #researchpriorities from our @NIHRresearch #evidencesynthesis & #consultation for education in early-stage Chronic Kidney Disease #CKD in the final report found here (open access & citable): doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Full published results soon!

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

A chart showing child poverty in the UK increasing sharply if the two child limit remains in place, and falling if it is scrapped.

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

New Funding Awarded for Homelessness and Health Research Project  - PenARC PenARC researchers have just signed contracts for new NIHR funding to support a major research project tackling health inequalities for people experiencing homelessness.  The project, Optimising healt...

🏠 New NIHR funding for PenARC’s HOPE Project: Optimising health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

The 18-month study brings together researchers, clinicians & people with lived experience to improve access to emergency care.

🔗 bit.ly/3WSbyIz

#NIHR

Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

@skynews at Labour Party conference

"If you ask them how much trouble they are in, they just reel of a list of talking points on policy successes/plans"

Well what would you expect them or any party to do? Sit there saying "yes we are completely fucked"? A scoop you can clip up?

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.

Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...

More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries

Read more here 👇 @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @profcallum.bsky.social @ruththurstan.bsky.social

Nigel Farage wants to unban Handguns, which were banned after the Dunblane School Shooting.

How do you feel about that, do you think we need School Shootings?

Do they need bringing back?

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

PenARC Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow Harriet Aughey presents an analysis of the NOAH project.

By giving babies with probable bacterial infection oral antibiotics, families can be at home earlier with an estimated NHS cost savings of 66.5k annually.

#ChildHealthImpact2025

@nihr.bsky.social

Fantastic to welcome @SteveRaceMP to St Luke’s earlier this month! He met Prof Chris Morris & Fleur Boyle to hear about our work on childhood disability – esp. the peer-led Healthy Parent Carers programme promoting parent carer wellbeing, shaped by 10 years of research 💙
🔗 healthyparentcarers.org

New research from the Evidence Synthesis Team - read more on their #evidencegapmap on #topicalsteroidwithdrawal

Topical Steroid Withdrawal: Evidence, Anecdotes, and Everything In Between Is there a mismatch between academic literature and social media? Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome (TSWS) is considered a rare side effect of using steroid creams. It is estimated that over 100 …

Learning about topical steroid withdrawal was a real eye-opener! Our evidence gap map brings together academic research and social media posts. Check out our blog for details #tsws #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal @penarc.bsky.social evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/t...

The movement among Uk party voters

Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.

ISCA Evidence at Exeter Uni are seeking a new information specialist to join the team. Details here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Job alert.
Researcher specialising in information science wanted by ISCA Evidence at the University of Exeter

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 babies didn’t survive a year. -Dr. Neil Stone

@drneilstone.bsky.social

Areas receiving levelling-up funds show smaller Reform UK vote share, study finds Analysis suggests prioritising projects that give quick local results may hold back support for populism Areas that received money from the last government’s much-criticised levelling up fund tended to have lower votes for Reform UK in the general election, a study has found, indicating that projects delivering quick results may hold back support for populism. The study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) thinktank, billed as the first to examine a mass of data factors linked to support for Reform at the level of individual seats, identified a series of factors likely to make voters more likely to back Nigel Farage’s party. Continue reading...

Areas receiving levelling-up funds show smaller Reform UK vote share, study finds

Anecdote, meet data.

Last month I did a little experiment.

I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.

The results were...interesting...

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JBI logo and 'JBI MANUAL FOR EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS' are displayed against blue background with an abstract suggestion of ripples. The ripples evoke the JBI logo. (The JBI logo depicts a pebble ("evidence") dropping into water, symbolising the ripple effect of positive change driven by evidence.)

🔥 Hot tip! Before starting a systematic review, make sure an information scientist/research assistant is part of the review team. They have specialised skills to develop and implement a comprehensive search strategy 🔎

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#MedLibs #JBImethodology #EvidenceSynthesis

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

Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health workers: Trump’s health agency cuts are far-reaching In interview after interview with STAT, those who were fired from federal health and science agencies, along with officials who remain, argued the cuts would be deeply felt.

It's me. The biomedical librarian is me. I wasn't sure whether to stay anonymous or not but I don't think it matters anymore, maybe. Thank you @usha.bsky.social and others at @statnews.com for talking about what is happening in the U.S. right now.

www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/t...

More work needed on children’s supervised toothbrushing programmes - PenARC PenARC-supported research shows barriers remain for supervised toothbrushing programmes to help tackle childhood tooth decay.

New research shows supervised #toothbrushing 🦷 programmes are up 28% but barriers remain to successfully tackle childhood tooth decay.

> Learn more: tinyurl.com/3erdyjd4

BRUSH Project funded & supported by PenARC & @arc-yharc.bsky.social .

#childrenshealth #toothdecay @nihrarcs.bsky.social