Love History and Science? Join me May 3rd, 3pm for Science, Society and the City: a walking tour from UCL to Soho. #LondonHistory #WalkingTour #Science

London Science & Society Walk: UCL → Soho (2 hours) Meet from 1:50pm for a 2:00pm prompt start.

New walking tour: #UCL to #Soho, 2 hours, exploring the #HistoryOfScience in #London including #publichealth, inequality, reform, and the people behind the ideas.

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#ScienceAndSociety #MedicalHistory #JohnSnow #WalkingTour

Thank you; I’m really glad you found something to connect with in the podcast. The unpredictability was one of the things that came through so strongly in the interview, and I’m hoping conversations like this help other people better understand the long COVID sufferers in their own lives.

Living with Long Covid, Invisible Illness and Finding Support - The science intersection In this episode, I’m joined by Emma Wills Taube, who has been living with long Covid since 2022 and went on to set up Long Covid Solidarity, a peer support project connecting people affected by the co...

New episode: Emma Wills Taube on living with Long #COVID, finding support, and navigating an invisible illness.
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#LongCovid #InvisibleIllness #HealthPodcast #PatientVoice #HealthEquity #chronicIllness #podcaster #health

Wellbeing myths vs what actually helps Why some popular “wellness hacks” backfire and what’s actually evidence-based

If “just manifest it” worked, we’d all be fine 😅
New post: vision boards/visualisation, journaling, and the evidence-leaning stuff that actually helps.

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#Wellbeing #MentalHealth #wellbeing #visualisation #evidencebase

Rewriting the Future of Cancer Care: STEM, Equity and the Fight Against Lung Cancer Disparities - The science intersection In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Eugene Manley, founder of the STEM & Cancer Health Equity Foundation, for a powerful conversation about representation, health equity, and the structural barri...

Dr. Eugene Manley joins me to discuss #healthequity, representation in STEM, #clinicaltrial bias, and how AI in healthcare can either reduce or reinforce disparities.

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#CancerCare #LungCancer #STEM #AIinHealthcare #PublicHealth #MedTech

The Quiet Crisis Behind the Push to Get People Reading Falling literacy rates, changing technology habits and why reading is being redefined as a public health and education priority.

Why is reading becoming a national priority again? Literacy, dyslexia & social justice explained. 📚 #NationalYearOfReading2026 #NationalYearOfReading.

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#Literacy #Neurodiversity #Dyslexia #Education #SocialJustice

From neurodiverse thinking to gifted learners 🚀 Personalised education can unlock every brain’s potential.

🎧 Full episode available on The Science Intersection Podcast 🎧

#Neurodiversity #PersonalisedLearning #AIinEducation #GiftedEducation #Dyslexia #EducationInnovation

The Career Advice Problem No One Talks About How changing entry into the job market could increase retention and job satisfaction

New post: Why #careeradvice often focuses on getting people into jobs rather than helping them find roles where they can actually thrive. Exploring work fit, pacing, and neurodiversity.

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#Careers #Neurodiversity #WorkplaceWellbeing #Employment

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How can #dyslexia become a cognitive advantage?
I spoke with NY State-funded researcher Russell Van Brocklen about how neurodiverse thinking can transform reading, writing, and learning outcomes.

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#Neurodiversity #Education
#Podcast

Building Strength, relinquishing control Resistance training, running, and rethinking how we judge “healthy” bodies

I’ve written a new post about PMDD, resistance training, running, and how shifting focus from weight to strength changed my relationship with food without a neat recovery story.
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#DisorderedEating #PMDD #StrengthTraining #Running #MentalHealth

What Courtwatch Reveals About Delays, Efficiency, and Justice (Part 2) - The science intersection In the second part of this interview, we continue our conversation with Courtwatch about what volunteers observe when they sit in on magistrates’ courts across England and Wales.This episode focuses o...

Court delays aren’t just frustrating they affect justice for everyone involved.

We talk court watching, inefficiency, and what volunteers are actually seeing in magistrates’ courts 👇

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#JusticeSystem #Courts #CriminalJustice #AccessToJustice
#CourtReform

What Good Podcasting Looks Like And Why It Matters

I’ve written a new #blog post looking at #podcasts that model strong evidence use, intellectual honesty, and respect for the listener.

If we’re going to talk about #medialiteracy, it helps to name what’s done well, not just what’s done badly.

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#CriticalThinking

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New podcast episode out 🎙️
We talk magistrates’ courts, CourtWatch, and what actually happens at the “bulk end” of the justice system — the part most people never see, but that affects the most lives.

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#CriminalJustice #JusticeSystem #Transparency #CourtWatch

From Concrete to Canopy: Greening the Future of Our Cities - The science intersection Cities were never meant to be lifeless landscapes of concrete, steel, and heat. In this episode, we speak with the founder of Leaf Island, an award-winning urban planning initiative that’s transformin...

What if cities worked like living ecosystems instead of heat traps? 🌱
This episode explores how green roofs and urban nature can cool cities, clean air, and restore balance.

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#GreenCities #UrbanNature #ClimateSolutions #SustainableDesign #FutureCities #Urban

When Podcasts Feel Like Thinking — But Aren’t Always On curiosity, credibility, and epistemic drift

Long-form podcasts can feel like thinking but tone, confidence, and narrative can quietly replace evidence.
I wrote a short piece on why that matters, and how I try to approach my own podcast differently.

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#CriticalThinking #MediaLiteracy #Podcasting

New episode out today 🎧
A thoughtful conversation with Diana Colleen on They Could Be Saviors exploring #climate urgency, extreme wealth, and personal experience with #psychedelic #therapy, without hype or easy answers.

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#Podcast #MentalHealth #CriticalThinking

Different Ways of Knowing: Evidence, Bias, and DEI - The science intersection In this first reflective episode, I step back from the usual guest format to explain why I’m including reflection episodes in this series.I come from a science background, and something I’ve always ca...

New episode 🎙️
A reflective deep dive into how we know what we know — using #DEI as a case study to explore evidence, bias, systems, and lived experience.

Different approaches don’t cancel out. They complete the picture.

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#Podcast #Science #Research #epistemology

When the Land Is Seen as Living: Patterns, Law, and Worldview Intrinsic value, law, and the idea of living land

When land is seen as living, law and responsibility shift. A short piece on intrinsic value, worldviews, and rights of #nature. 🌍

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#climatejustice #climatechange #environmentalethics #environment #law #ethics #podcasting #blogging #anthropology #RightsOfNature

Bonus podcast episode 🎙️
What questions do you want to ask around the dinner table this holiday to really learn about your friends’ or relatives’ pasts? Curiosity, memory, and better questions:
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#Podcast #Anthropology #Holidays #FamilyStories #Conversation

When Dieting Backfires: Binge Eating and Diet Culture Why restriction so often backfires

New blog post: #Bingeeating and the #psychology of #dietculture. Why restriction often backfires, how “good vs bad” food thinking fuels binge cycles, and why Christmas + New Year diet talk can make things worse.
#MentalHealth #Dieting #FoodFreedom #IntuitiveEating

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Thinking about UBI less as a policy and more as a question of dignity; why some people must “earn” the right to exist while others never justify their comfort.
Longer reflection here:

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#UBI #EconomicJustice #HumanDignity

Podcasting, Influence, and Responsibility: Reflections on the 'Whatever' Podcast The first in a series on what it means to podcast in public

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Thinking about #podcasting not just as #content, but as a medium with influence and responsibility.
Using Whatever #Podcast as a case study to reflect on #rhetoric, short-form clips, and how debate gets staged online.

#Media #OnlineCulture #MediaLiteracy

Thought Experiment #1: Who Deserves to Live? The Island Lottery & Thomas Paine’s Case for Unconditionality

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#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #EconomicJustice #Fairness
#Inequality #TheCommons #Philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy
#ThoughtExperiment #Ethics #Ideas #ThomasPaine
#EnclosureActs #History #IndigenousKnowledge
#Anthropology

Bonus episode out soon, its coming up to the holiday season, this episode doesn't fit in with the regular programming, but it will help people to find out about their relatives around the Christmas dinner table!

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#conversations #holidays #happyholidays #family

💪 Movement isn’t just for the young: it’s for staying strong, balanced, and independent at any age.
Brisk walks count. Every step matters.

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#HealthyAgeing #ActiveLiving #Wellbeing #FitnessForAll #ScienceOfMovement

Learn about this amazing project which helps with #conservation and gets #communities involved.

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Featuring #earthwatch and #goodgym

Learn about what a #tinyforest is and why it matters!

#volunteering #community #trees #forest #treeplanting

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Love this 🌍✨ If you’re passionate about sustainability and making conscious choices, you might also enjoy my podcast The Science Intersection: conversations where science, wellbeing, and the planet meet.

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When harm happens, institutions face a choice:
👉 Acknowledge it and put survivors first
👉 Or deny & litigate for years

Too often, they choose the latter. Real healing starts with truth. #FromHarmToHealing

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#DoNoHarm #SystemChange #SurvivorsVoices