Pete Scarborough
@petescarbs.bsky.social
Professor of Population Health | University of Oxford | Sustainable Healthy Diets & Transformers
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Ban on ads for carbon intensive products, including meat! This is progressive
🎉Win against fossil fuels 🎉
The Dutch capital of Amsterdam has become the world's first capital city to ban fossil fuel ads, set to come into force on 1st May. 1/2
The Dutch capital of Amsterdam has become the world's first capital city to ban fossil fuel ads, set to come into force on 1st May. 1/2
January 30, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Ban on ads for carbon intensive products, including meat! This is progressive
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Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 54, 1957-61
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134913
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134913
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 54, 1957-61
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134913
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134913
When I sign off on emails I often mis-spell Pete as Pere and I'm worried my French colleague thinks I'm his dad
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 AM
When I sign off on emails I often mis-spell Pete as Pere and I'm worried my French colleague thinks I'm his dad
I have no idea how LinkedIn works. I don't know what the difference between a network and a follower is. The notifications seem to be totally random. People say "I'm at work today!" and they get 250 likes.
January 30, 2026 at 8:23 AM
I have no idea how LinkedIn works. I don't know what the difference between a network and a follower is. The notifications seem to be totally random. People say "I'm at work today!" and they get 250 likes.
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'UKRI did not respond directly when asked about funding available for MRC grants, but referred RPN to a previous statement about the agency changing the way some of its investment is directed to align with national priorities and efforts to boost economic growth.'
MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates.
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 AM
'UKRI did not respond directly when asked about funding available for MRC grants, but referred RPN to a previous statement about the agency changing the way some of its investment is directed to align with national priorities and efforts to boost economic growth.'
Quantum Of Sausage
The good, the bad, and the sausage.
Big sausage in little china.
The Shawshank Sausage.
Fear and Sausage in Las Vegas.
Big sausage in little china.
The Shawshank Sausage.
Fear and Sausage in Las Vegas.
“Sausage”
January 30, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Quantum Of Sausage
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Also why should people who are young and healthy pay for those who are old and sick, ammirite?
2026: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to"
2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees
2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Also why should people who are young and healthy pay for those who are old and sick, ammirite?
Poor Rubik's cube. So many ways to be wrong and only one way to be right
January 29, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Poor Rubik's cube. So many ways to be wrong and only one way to be right
This reporter seems to be interviewing himself in the future
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
This reporter seems to be interviewing himself in the future
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There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
Blimp Manufacturer: So that's your basic blimp model. You want any extras?
Zorin: Can you put in a button that makes the stairs turn into a slide and then the floor disappears at the bottom of the slide?
BM: Why would you want that
Z: Don't ask questions!
Zorin: Can you put in a button that makes the stairs turn into a slide and then the floor disappears at the bottom of the slide?
BM: Why would you want that
Z: Don't ask questions!
January 27, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Blimp Manufacturer: So that's your basic blimp model. You want any extras?
Zorin: Can you put in a button that makes the stairs turn into a slide and then the floor disappears at the bottom of the slide?
BM: Why would you want that
Z: Don't ask questions!
Zorin: Can you put in a button that makes the stairs turn into a slide and then the floor disappears at the bottom of the slide?
BM: Why would you want that
Z: Don't ask questions!
Loving Reform's strategy of recruiting all of the Tories that nobody likes
January 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Loving Reform's strategy of recruiting all of the Tories that nobody likes
Dead grown-up walking
Here’s the lesson of the Andy Burnham saga: Labour needs a new leader – fast | Polly Toynbee
Keir Starmer’s dismal decision to block the Greater Manchester mayor has bought him time, but it won’t change his fate, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Dead grown-up walking
Fantastic paper by Paul Lohmann and colleagues. Review of interventions to promote sustainable food consumption or reduce food waste.
306 effect sizes extracted from 139 experiments in 110 papers.
Small effect sizes found, with choice architecture interventions being the most promising.
306 effect sizes extracted from 139 experiments in 110 papers.
Small effect sizes found, with choice architecture interventions being the most promising.
A meta-analysis assessing the effectiveness of demand-side interventions for sustainable food consumption and food waste reduction - Nature Food
Demand-side food policies show small average effects, with effectiveness varying across intervention types. Targeted strategies and a better understanding of how context and population influence outco...
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Fantastic paper by Paul Lohmann and colleagues. Review of interventions to promote sustainable food consumption or reduce food waste.
306 effect sizes extracted from 139 experiments in 110 papers.
Small effect sizes found, with choice architecture interventions being the most promising.
306 effect sizes extracted from 139 experiments in 110 papers.
Small effect sizes found, with choice architecture interventions being the most promising.
Mean and selfish people are convinced that everyone is like them. To such a degree that they reveal on live TV that their parents blatantly broke tax laws, because they assume that everyone would do the same.
"I remember my parents buying a house in Morocco… they used to give me cash that I would put inside my underpants in order to get currency out"
Lord Bethell reveals a lot about 5th Baron Bethell with a childhood anecdote, what's "a little bit unfair" & attitudes of "normal people"
#politicslive
Lord Bethell reveals a lot about 5th Baron Bethell with a childhood anecdote, what's "a little bit unfair" & attitudes of "normal people"
#politicslive
January 23, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Mean and selfish people are convinced that everyone is like them. To such a degree that they reveal on live TV that their parents blatantly broke tax laws, because they assume that everyone would do the same.
My favourite Jane Austen is With Great Power Comes Great Response And With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 AM
My favourite Jane Austen is With Great Power Comes Great Response And With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Abstract submission open for the LEAP conference, taking place in Oxford in April. Please circulate and submit!
We are excited to announce that submissions are now open for the 2026 LEAP conference. Send us your abstracts on meat and dairy production and consumption.
Details of what we are looking for: www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/article/leap...
cc: @oxmartinschool.bsky.social @petescarbs.bsky.social
Details of what we are looking for: www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/article/leap...
cc: @oxmartinschool.bsky.social @petescarbs.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Abstract submission open for the LEAP conference, taking place in Oxford in April. Please circulate and submit!
“In the near term, ministers face a stark set of choices: slow the growth of Send spending, accept an ongoing squeeze on mainstream school funding, or inject additional resources into education".
Notice the framing here. Not "accept an ongoing squeeze on SEND spending" but "slow the growth".
Notice the framing here. Not "accept an ongoing squeeze on SEND spending" but "slow the growth".
‘Crunch time’ on rising costs of Send provision in England, says thinktank
IFS says system failing to deliver for those who need it and ministers face stark choices with white paper imminent
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
“In the near term, ministers face a stark set of choices: slow the growth of Send spending, accept an ongoing squeeze on mainstream school funding, or inject additional resources into education".
Notice the framing here. Not "accept an ongoing squeeze on SEND spending" but "slow the growth".
Notice the framing here. Not "accept an ongoing squeeze on SEND spending" but "slow the growth".
Why am I getting emails from Rare Diseases?
January 20, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Why am I getting emails from Rare Diseases?
New paper out from Anniek Kortleve, @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social and others. Looking at the risk of stranded agriculture assets if Europe transitions towards lower meat diets.
Stranded assets in European agriculture during food system transformations - Nature Food
Stranded assets could pose a challenge to food system transformation. Estimates of the stranded agricultural assets that may arise from a shift to plant-based diets in the European Union and UK unders...
www.nature.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
New paper out from Anniek Kortleve, @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social and others. Looking at the risk of stranded agriculture assets if Europe transitions towards lower meat diets.
4pm, 22 Jan, Throwing away our future: Food waste in the fight against climate change with Dr Richard Swannell
Join us at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online. Register below!
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
Join us at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online. Register below!
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
Throwing away our future: Food waste in the fight against climate change
Future of Food seminars: Dr Richard Swannell
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM
4pm, 22 Jan, Throwing away our future: Food waste in the fight against climate change with Dr Richard Swannell
Join us at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online. Register below!
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
Join us at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online. Register below!
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
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"Is grass-fed beef better for the climate?" asked The New York Times earlier this week.
TABLE's director Tara Garnett weighed in: "The bulk of food-related emissions comes from a relatively small number of people eating quite a lot of meat . . ."
Read the full piece here: buff.ly/1UBGx2Y
TABLE's director Tara Garnett weighed in: "The bulk of food-related emissions comes from a relatively small number of people eating quite a lot of meat . . ."
Read the full piece here: buff.ly/1UBGx2Y
January 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
"Is grass-fed beef better for the climate?" asked The New York Times earlier this week.
TABLE's director Tara Garnett weighed in: "The bulk of food-related emissions comes from a relatively small number of people eating quite a lot of meat . . ."
Read the full piece here: buff.ly/1UBGx2Y
TABLE's director Tara Garnett weighed in: "The bulk of food-related emissions comes from a relatively small number of people eating quite a lot of meat . . ."
Read the full piece here: buff.ly/1UBGx2Y
It is a sad moment in everyone's life when you listen to The Touch by Stan Bush and you realise that you no longer have the touch
The Touch - Stan Bush (HD Restoration)
YouTube video by Dino
youtu.be
January 17, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It is a sad moment in everyone's life when you listen to The Touch by Stan Bush and you realise that you no longer have the touch
My autocorrect turns Lainey Wilson into Limey Wilson, which is unfortunate for her.
January 16, 2026 at 9:18 AM
My autocorrect turns Lainey Wilson into Limey Wilson, which is unfortunate for her.
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Very excited to be hosting @maxliboiron.bsky.social next week! Come join us for what promises to be a very cool workshop. No registration required and a light lunch will be served.
January 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Very excited to be hosting @maxliboiron.bsky.social next week! Come join us for what promises to be a very cool workshop. No registration required and a light lunch will be served.