Are you researching food retail, customer behaviour, healthy retail, supply chains or food policy?
Share your work at the 2026 City St George’s Food Policy Symposium poster session.
🎓 MSc / PhD / ECR
🗓 11 June 2026
⏳ Apply by 8 May
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#CallForPosters
📣 We’re hiring!
@citystgeorges.bsky.social seeks a Research Fellow in Sustainable Food Systems.
Work on food policy across NI & ROI and shape future food system transformation.
💼 £51,753 | 🌍 Hybrid London | 📅 Apply by 3 May 26
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Meanwhile, while we're engaging with this through social media feeds, I keep thinking about the real people on the ground who don’t get to experience this as news but as their immediate, lived reality. Most of those people didn't ask for any of this. They are human beings, with heartbeats.
Loved this article and the way that it chimes with the disaster recovery literature www.theguardian.com/business/202...
After Habermas’ passing, I cannot recommend strongly enough that you read STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE, one of the greatest works of social and political theory ever written. The critique of mass media applies with spades to the latest iteration—tech monopolies and AI.
"The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.” - Professor Tim Lang, the doyen of UK food system studies for 40 years
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Might surprise people to know that in the latest British Election Study, Muslims are more politically fragmented than CofE Christians (measured by effective number of parties)
"The push for plastic reflects both the [oil] industry’s modus operandi—more production means more money—and a growing anxiety about a future in which demand for fossil fuels as fuel may flatten and eventually decline."
Plastic is the future of oil. Read
@bethgardiner.bsky.social PLASTIC INC.
We have three great researcher jobs advertised, each for 12m, contributing to our work on generating evidence to inform food system transition. Please share widely.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
@imsepidemiology.bsky.social @jeanmadams.bsky.social @kellyparsons.bsky.social
Check out our new paper addressing the imperative and complexity of translating scientific evidence into actionable policies and practices at the climate-food-health nexus. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Last call for our PhD position to work on the project "Analysing Net-Zero Discourses in the Context of Democratic Backsliding"! Details here, deadline is this Friday, 13 Feb 👇
www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...
“If things don’t go well, she might sign off slick”
Chart showing working age families by employment status
Working isn't working. Our analysis confirms that work is not a guaranteed route out of poverty.
In the latest data, the majority (55 per cent) of non-pensioner families in poverty had someone in work. This is up from fewer than two-in-five families in the mid-1990s.
Global plastic trade has fallen dramatically, mostly due to China’s ban on imports Line chart, 1992 to 2021, showing tonnes of plastic imports on the vertical axis from 0 to 16 million t. Two series are plotted: total plastics imported across all countries and China’s imports. Key insight: total global imports rise from near zero in the 1990s to a peak around 2015 to 2016 of about 16 million tonnes, then collapse steeply to roughly 4 million tonnes by 2021 — a fall of more than two-thirds. China’s imports climb to about 8 million tonnes in the mid 2010s, then drop sharply to near zero after policy changes and stop completely in 2021. Annotations note China reduced plastic imports in 2016 and banned imports of plastic waste in 2018 with a complete end to imports in 2021. Data source: United Nations Comtrade Database (2025).
The global trade of plastic waste has fallen dramatically in the last decade—
It might seem odd that countries would agree to import plastic *waste* from other countries, but many do so for the cheap materials or to feed specific manufacturing processes.
Cat reaches out in open mouthed panic as if fallen
Calm it cat. You're not Alan Rickman at the end of Die Hard.
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
A screenshot of text from a newsletter that reads: "When I struggle to find value in my own work during such times, I think of a line my friend Sierra Crane Murdoch once wrote: “Violence toward land begets violence toward people, and vice versa.” Similarly, care for the land begets care for its people. The well-being of all beings is connected. We can care about plants and animals and ecosystems while also caring about human lives, not only because we have complex brains capable of holding multiple truths at once but because we’re all intertwined. Government violence connects to oil connects to climate change connects to biodiversity. People connect to oxygen connect to trees connect to fungi connect to insects connect to birds."
If you write primarily about nature and environmental issues, it can be hard to see the value of your work during times like these. I wrote about this a bit in my introduction to @biographic.bsky.social's weekly newsletter.
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists - - Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future clf.jhsph.edu/education/fo...
Extract from Wikipedia showing that Delroy Lindo was born in Lewisham.
I wasn't overly bothered about who wins the best supporting actor oscar until I learned this, so now it's Delroy all the way. #SELondonSolidarity
"Applications are now open for the Disinformation Summer Institute. This 4-day event (June 15-18) is intended primarily for advanced PhD candidates, advanced law and medical students, post-docs, assistant professors & early career researchers seeking to better understand and address disinformation."
Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.
“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.”
— Hannah Arendt
A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine.
I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors.
Hope it's useful.
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Some worry that some non-working families will benefit from the lifting of the two child limit. But when you dig into the data, as we do in chart of the week, over 95% of the families who benefit are either working, have a child under 3, or have a family member with a disability.
T shirt: Woke Up, Chose Violence A yellow capybara holding a knife in its mouth on a red tee
T shirt: Cat in the Box A square box containing a cat which has assumed the shape of the box, on a yellow tee
T shirt: a homage to Richard Scarry’s Lowly Worm Apple car. A capybara driving a yuzu shaped car. Wording on the car reads “they see me rollin’. They hatin’.” On a pale pink shirt.
T shirt: Two capybaras on a leafy background. Text reads: “Reject Fascism. Embrace Capybara. On a yellow tee.
Redbubble are having a Black Friday sale with 35% off selected tees! There’s never been a better time to shop (because I am skint af)!
www.redbubble.com/people/docha...
Sixteen assorted avi doodles of things ranging from a frog riding a slug to a koala levitating on its own farts, via a happy taco and a dog eating a slice of pizza
Sixteen more silly avi doodles. Highlights include a tapir in swimming trunks, a biker dwarf, a happy planet and a whale shark.
Sixteen more silly avi doodles including, but not limited to, a cat asleep on a laptop, a bee ghost, a dog on a pogo stick and a penguin eating a stack of pancakes
Sixteen more avi doodles. Highlights include a panda making macarons, a capybara in a bowl of pasta, a snake tiding a cow and a dog dressed as a bee.
I am opening ten slots for Silly Little Guys: simple doodles for use as avatars for your socials.
You should all know the drill by now but just in case:
⭐️ £30 each (PayPal only)
⭐️ No portraits
⭐️ Just simple, silly guys
DM me if you would like one!