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Mark Petticrew
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Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 9h
Keep at it! Always enjoy your stuff and Hannah H's exchanges 👍

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 10h
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New FADs' Andy Spearpoint
Autocrats are Haunting my Dreams, by Andy Spearpoint
from the album Autocrats are Haunting my Dreams
andyspearpoint.bandcamp.com

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Nicola’s Century 21 @gleanniucha21.bsky.social · 10h
💥Supermarionation Sunday💥

On a Monday 🤦‍♀️

Today’s news, today

The TV Century 21 thread 🧵

Issue #56

On sale 09 February 1966

All headlines faithfully transcribed in alt text

THIS WEEK:

The WSP Press Officer’s knowledge of Physics isn’t any better than Matt Matic’s…
STINGRAY TAKES UP ATTACK POSITION! WASP'S BATTLE PLAN AT first light today, Stingray slipped quietly from Marineville Harbour and headed out to sea. Four miles off shore, the WASP patrol vessel made contact with the robot towing ship Yig before diving beneath the waves. According to Marineville tower, Stingray has taken up attack position in a carefully laid plan to smash Titan's new weapon, the mechanical flying bombs. What the plan involves is a closely guarded secret, but Commander Shore is aboard the new WASP vessel Sea Leopard and waiting to put to sea at the first sign of action in the area. Full report pages 4 and 5. Fireball in Crash landing THE fantastic theft of the Electrode 909, World Space Patrol's new fighter, lurched from the daring to the deadly today when Fireball XL5 was dragged on to the unexplored planet of Mellates today. According to space station M12, Colonel Zodiac had closed in on the Electrode and fired home magnetic clamps, but the three astronovices aboard the fighter had already lost control of the ship, which was plunging toward Mellates, caught in the planet's fierce gravitational pull. Before Fireball could release the clamps, the friction heat of re-entry had welded them to the Electrode's hull and the great patrol vessel was dragged on to the planet. Space City is waiting for Colonel Zodiac's report before deciding on the next course of action. So far there has been no news from Mellates. It is feared XL5’s radio is out of action (Full report page 16/17)

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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrisstein.bsky.social · 1d
One might think that ramming phone gambling apps down the collective American throat is a poor idea but you do you capitalism

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 3d
What an interesting piece of research.

“A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and the wider economy.”

sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/n...
New research shows that spending less on tobacco, gambling and sweets is good for the UK economy - Sheffield Addictions Research Group
A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and ...
sarg-sheffield.ac.uk

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Actualités françaises 🇫🇷 @news-flows-fr.bsky.social · 3d
« Une stratégie de désinformation » : le « père » du Nutri-Score dénonce des vidéos usurpant son identité avec une IA

« Une stratégie de désinformation » : le « père » du Nutri-Score dénonce des vidéos usurpant son identité avec une IA
Une mystérieuse chaîne YouTube poste des contenus mettant en scène un avatar créé par intelligence artificielle du Pr Serge Hercberg. Ils pr
www.leparisien.fr

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 4d
The addictive design of social media is a major problem with serious impacts on public health and endangering democracy

Our new report reveals intense #lobbying by Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap to block or water down EU measures against social media addiction 🚨
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media | Corporate Europe Observatory
As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to joi...
corporateeurope.org

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 5d
On September 25, 2012 Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg walked into Jeffrey Epstein's home looking for money. The late paedophile and financier was not into it.

Here's what happened that day according to records released from the latest batch of Epstein files.

New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social
What Happened the day Bjorn Lomborg Met Jeffrey Epstein
The Danish economist and climate crisis denier sought a meeting with Epstein in the hope of securing funding.
drilled.media

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 5d
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
www.levernews.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 11d
Can recommend...I'm half way through Simon's memoir and it's a great read as well as a reminder of his long career of taking the fight to harmful industries
simonchapman.bsky.social Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 22d
8 of my books including new 50yr career memoir open access here simonchapman6.com/books/ 262,300 accessed by 17 Jan '26. #TobaccoControl #GunControl #Windfarms #Advocacy #PublicHealth #Scepticism #PublicHealthHeresies & much more.

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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 11d
📢 New report

Alcohol marketing restrictions were meant to be in England’s 10 Year Health Plan.

Then they disappeared.

Our new report uses FOIs to show how alcohol industry lobbying targeted ministers and pressured government departments to kill the policy.

www.ias.org.uk/report/now-y...
Now you see it, now you don’t - Institute of Alcohol Studies
Now you see it, now you don’t: How alcohol industry interference made marketing restrictions disappear from the 10 Year Health Plan in England In July 2025, the UK Government published its 10 Year Hea...
www.ias.org.uk

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 12d
Me in 1983 on BBC TV on the civil disobedience graffiti movement BUGA UP www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVM7.... My new 425p 50yr memoir looks at highlights across tobacco & gun control, defending windfarms, some heretical critiques of unethical policies +much more ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...
BUGA UP in Australia
YouTube video by Simon Chapman
www.youtube.com

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UCSF Industry Documents Library @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social · 14d
Could You Be the 2026 UCSF Library Artist in Residence?

UCSF Library Archives & Special Collections and Makers Lab are accepting proposals for the 7th annual UCSF Library Artist in Residence program. The 2026 residency will begin July 1st. #libraries #archives
www.library.ucsf.edu/news/could-y...
Could You Be the 2026 UCSF Library Artist in Residence? - UCSF Library
The UCSF Library is accepting applications for the 2026 UCSF Library Artist in Residence through March 25, 2026.
www.library.ucsf.edu

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 20d
A lovely tribute from Steve Parker.

When a tree in his yard died, Parker cut slices from the trunk that he then carved like vinyl. The oak records play bird song.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/stev...
an installation view of Steve Parker's tree record sculptures a tree ring sculpture by Steve Parker that features grooves cut into the surface like a vinyl record

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 21d
Great paper; similarities w other industries
"..half of research published in top journals has disclosable ties to industry...These trends do not arise from broad scientific engagement with industry, but rather from a select group of scientists who maintain long-lasting relationships with industry"

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 22d
Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry?

New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com.

Thread tomorrow.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507
Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research
To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...
arxiv.org

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 22d
8 of my books including new 50yr career memoir open access here simonchapman6.com/books/ 262,300 accessed by 17 Jan '26. #TobaccoControl #GunControl #Windfarms #Advocacy #PublicHealth #Scepticism #PublicHealthHeresies & much more.

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Alcohol Review @alcoholreview.bsky.social · 25d
"...as with e-cigarettes and reformulated foods, we should not take market-led solutions to public health problems at face value," write a group of prominent alcohol harm researchers in the BMJ.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
How should public health respond to rise of alcohol-free and low alcohol drinks?
John Holmes and colleagues argue for a precautionary approach that is guided by public health interests and considers both risks and benefits Sales of alcohol-free and low alcohol (nolo) drinks have ...
www.bmj.com

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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 27d
Wow, The Telegraph and Farage are really coming out to bat for... drink-driving 😶

I'd argue that, if your business model relies on people driving tipsy around country roads... it's not a good model.

archive.ph/uVJdY
2. Abandoning drink-drive law reforms. Labour's plan to reduce the drink-drive limit to 50mg of blood alcohol content risks being a "death knell" for rural pubs, according to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and others. Lowering the limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood risks making a single pint after work legally perilous, cutting off rural pubs that do not have reliable public transport or taxi services. The move would bring England and Wales in line with Scotland, where the limit was reduced to 50mg in 2014 in an attempt to reduce road deaths. However, after an initial fall, road deaths in Scotland have risen in the past four years, and were up 24% in 2024, according to HP Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland. A consultation is now under way, and while all signs point to the Government lowering the limit, resisting the urge to reduce it to as low as Scotland could offer a lifeline to rural pubs.

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The George Institute for Global Health @georgeinstitute.bsky.social · 27d
🚨Our new research has found that 1 in 5 alcohol products in Australia still lack mandatory pregnancy warning labels.

Despite the Aug 2023 deadline, thousands remain unlabelled.

Experts warn that alcohol at any stage of pregnancy can cause lifelong harm: bit.ly/4qeUGIR
Mums who drank during pregnancy call for universal alcohol warnings
New research shows thousands of alcohol products remain on Australian shelves without mandated pregnancy warning labels.
bit.ly

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 28d
We need more of this kind of work
The socioeconomic patterning of Great Britain's fast-food outlets and ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The socioeconomic patterning of Great Britain's fast-food outlets and supermarkets: A repeated cross-sectional study of area-level deprivation and food outlet density from 2011 to 2024
Although previous research has demonstrated socioeconomic differences in the distribution of food outlets, no study to date has examined these pattern…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 29d
Duran
Talk
Wet Wet
The

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · Jan 9
Awesome article with tantalizing details about the Tom Verlaine archives. Includes a snippet of a solo acoustic "Marquee Moon" demo from 1974! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...
Tom Verlaine Was a Mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
www.nytimes.com

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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · Jan 6
25 years after Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser returns...

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

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Alcohol Review @alcoholreview.bsky.social · Jan 6
"We are much better informed today about the risks, and the message that any alcohol consumption carries a health risk is really starting to get through," says Mickael Naassila, the organiser of France's alcohol-free January initiative.
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...
Dry January: cultural shift around alcohol, but political resistance remains
"Dry January", an initiative to encourage people to stop drinking during the month after the holidays, has had trouble picking up steam in France, where winemakers hold political and economic clout.…
www.rfi.fr

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Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · Jan 5
Listen to @emmaboyland.bsky.social talk about the new junk food bans on #BBC today - listen at 1hr 52 into the programme.
Also on with Emma was Jonathon Bone from @nestauk.bsky.social
Brilliant discussion around the limitations as well as benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today - 05/01/2026 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · Jan 2
Rare, and welcome positive messages in Nason's piece...I look forward too to more MPH podcasts in 2026
spidermaani.bsky.social Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · Jan 2
I published a slightly different piece on Money Power Health to close out 2025. I called it “2025 in review: A Gangster’s Paradise”, an attempt to name a world where raw power is increasingly visible and rewarded, harm is externalised, and moral ambition worn down. open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...
2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise
Some personal reflections and a note of hope
open.substack.com

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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · Jan 2
I published a slightly different piece on Money Power Health to close out 2025. I called it “2025 in review: A Gangster’s Paradise”, an attempt to name a world where raw power is increasingly visible and rewarded, harm is externalised, and moral ambition worn down. open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...
2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise
Some personal reflections and a note of hope
open.substack.com