🎬 🍿 Official Film Release!
We’re thrilled to announce the public release of Unmasking Influence -now available via the LSHTM Vimeo channel! vimeo.com/1123819285
There is overwhelming evidence that many industries are undermining public health.This documentary makes the issues visible and relatable.
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Sounds great, but I think you may have tagged the wrong Tim there :-)
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
Where would one start? Perhaps with this...
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More here
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"On the one hand, we have a hypothesis underpinned by evidence, although imperfect, and on the other hand we have a hypothesis without evidence, although it might exist...maintaining neutrality on this issue amounts to performative uncertainty to create the veneer of academic detachment"
Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com
I agree with you too Dave. And I bet I'm grumpier.
Thank you, this is excellent. Do you or anyone at @visionzerovancouver.ca have a version of the original you could share? It would be great to use in presentations, and I would of course give full credit.
The European Parliament’s Committee on Public Health is now on Bluesky 🦋!
Follow us for regular Committee updates and activities - meetings, votes, missions, and more - and for more information visit our website at www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
Stupendous gig. That’s what music is for, not a dry eye in the house with tears of love, nostalgia and joy. Huge thanks to you, Ben, Blake and Rex. x
Postdoc vacancy in an interdisciplinary team of food-system researchers based in London and Oxford, supervised by Dr Marco Springmann!
Deadline for applications 12th August my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Screenshot of email from FixMyStreet with title “New FixMyStreet updates on report: 'Pedestrian crossing not working at A34/A420 roundabout'” showing two new reports reiterating the same point
Hello @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social - can you please urgently ensure that the pedestrian crossing traffic lights at the A420/A34 roundabout are fixed before someone gets killed by a driver without the decency to stop - as I very nearly was yesterday on my way to Wytham Woods.
Screenshot of FT article with headline “Non-dom exodus hits London market for butlers” and subheading “Demand for high-end domestic staff has fallen since the Budget ended tax loophole for wealthy UK residents”
Hi there @financialtimes.com - I think you should know that the HTSI team seem to have staged a coup and taken over the main paper…
Fossil fuel industry gave $19m to Trump’s inaugural fund, analysis shows
- In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill"
- Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum
Storyby @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I very much support the excellent piece by Lucie Nield and Catherine Homer. It's just depressing that it still needs to be said...
Spot-on, and as they rightly point out, this isn’t new(s). I wrote back in 2012 that “obesity is the outcome of a complex web of social, cultural, environmental, biological and psychological influences.” Sadly this message still needs to be repeated… link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"The High Cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup. A present for the WODC planner in your life this Christmas
Unusually, all West Oxfordshire District Council’s car parks are free of charge. WODC budget documents show that council tax payers, including those without cars, pay up to £120,000 a quarter to subsidise “free parking”. A recent survey identified a further £170,000 of outstanding maintenance.
I'm so sorry to hear that Jim. My deepest condolences. Love to you and your loved ones.
In the last year, to May 2025, the average costs of running a car fell by 0.1% while the cost of public transport increased by 5%
I’m with you! ‘Naturally he read Greats’ is up there with the, er, greats…
That's my horse! Further ways in which the upper classes use public money to stay in their huge, expensive houses. Featuring tax breaks, eight paintings in Longleat which turn out to belong to all of us, and posh people not talking about slavery.
open.substack.com/pub/susannah...
Thank you for yet another excellent, incisive piece.
Hard to believe that the Scott obituary you linked to wasn’t satire…
Thank you!
You may be interested in this discussion of the absurdity of the beg button approach recently in response to a post from
@ianwalker.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/harr...
Sounds great! Please can it also activate straight away, without forcing pedestrians to endure a delay after pressing the beg button...
Thanks! And yes to all that :-)
...and drivers need to respond to traffic lights whether or not a pedestrian has pressed a beg button.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I am totally unable to see any benefit whatsoever to anyone, merely costs to pedestrians, from imposing a delay between pressing the button and lights changing.
A Vision Zero approach should work to eliminate, or at least mitigate, the danger imposed by those kinds of drivers. But imposing a delay on pedestrians before crossing the road, rather than on drivers after, makes no difference whatsoever to drivers...
