Gareth Hollands
@gjhollands.bsky.social
Behavioural science + evidence synthesis at UCL • population health • interventions • environments • unpopular culture • architecture (& morality) • "fun-sponge boffin" (Daily Star)
🔗 https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92345-gareth-hollands
🌍 London, UK
🔗 https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92345-gareth-hollands
🌍 London, UK
Good to see a better alternative to this flag-hanging business round these parts. I ❤️ London
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Good to see a better alternative to this flag-hanging business round these parts. I ❤️ London
NEW in @bmc.springernature.com Medicine
- Overview of reviews comparing micro-environmental interventions (e.g. product size, labelling or positioning) for healthier or more sustainable food choices
- Led by a great team @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Overview of reviews comparing micro-environmental interventions (e.g. product size, labelling or positioning) for healthier or more sustainable food choices
- Led by a great team @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
October 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW in @bmc.springernature.com Medicine
- Overview of reviews comparing micro-environmental interventions (e.g. product size, labelling or positioning) for healthier or more sustainable food choices
- Led by a great team @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Overview of reviews comparing micro-environmental interventions (e.g. product size, labelling or positioning) for healthier or more sustainable food choices
- Led by a great team @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Great to be @thekingsfund.bsky.social today for a workshop on AI use in evidence synthesis, organised by www.heec.co.uk
First up is Ian Shemilt @eppicentre.bsky.social giving a brilliant overview of the current landscape. Emphasising caution, judicious use (with humans in the loop), and evaluation
First up is Ian Shemilt @eppicentre.bsky.social giving a brilliant overview of the current landscape. Emphasising caution, judicious use (with humans in the loop), and evaluation
July 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Great to be @thekingsfund.bsky.social today for a workshop on AI use in evidence synthesis, organised by www.heec.co.uk
First up is Ian Shemilt @eppicentre.bsky.social giving a brilliant overview of the current landscape. Emphasising caution, judicious use (with humans in the loop), and evaluation
First up is Ian Shemilt @eppicentre.bsky.social giving a brilliant overview of the current landscape. Emphasising caution, judicious use (with humans in the loop), and evaluation
And such a positive transformation of central Bristol since I last came. Visible improvements on sustainable infrastructure, pedestrianisation, cycle lanes, greening, traffic filtering. I wish @hackneycouncil.bsky.social shared Bristol councillors' ambition🙁 @heathermackbristol.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And such a positive transformation of central Bristol since I last came. Visible improvements on sustainable infrastructure, pedestrianisation, cycle lanes, greening, traffic filtering. I wish @hackneycouncil.bsky.social shared Bristol councillors' ambition🙁 @heathermackbristol.bsky.social
Exciting trial findings from Terpsi Panayotidis @nestauk.bsky.social. Reducing availability of less healthy foods in shops, resulted in lower % of HFSS foods purchased. Good to see some of the much-hoped promise of 'availability' interventions being realised www.bmj.com/content/377/... #UKSBM2025
March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Exciting trial findings from Terpsi Panayotidis @nestauk.bsky.social. Reducing availability of less healthy foods in shops, resulted in lower % of HFSS foods purchased. Good to see some of the much-hoped promise of 'availability' interventions being realised www.bmj.com/content/377/... #UKSBM2025
Fantastic, wide-ranging keynote from @francesmair.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social on the huge burden of multimorbidity, its implications for interventions, and the need for smarter, kinder and more accommodating healthcare systems #UKSBM2025
March 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Fantastic, wide-ranging keynote from @francesmair.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social on the huge burden of multimorbidity, its implications for interventions, and the need for smarter, kinder and more accommodating healthcare systems #UKSBM2025
Emma Garnett with intriguing findings from an online experiment that higher availability of plant-based options increases selections, but notably also more selections when plant-based aren't matched to meat-based options. Concludes this needs following up with real-world trials #UKSBM2025
March 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Emma Garnett with intriguing findings from an online experiment that higher availability of plant-based options increases selections, but notably also more selections when plant-based aren't matched to meat-based options. Concludes this needs following up with real-world trials #UKSBM2025
This new RCT found no evidence that dishware size affects intake, consistent with most of the more recent evidence base #UKSBM2025
March 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This new RCT found no evidence that dishware size affects intake, consistent with most of the more recent evidence base #UKSBM2025
Does dishware size influence energy intake? Excellent, clear presentation of a RCT by Tess Langfield. Started by highlighting that much of the evidence base polluted by the questionable work of Brian Wansink. We discussed this scandal here: www.bmj.com/content/363/... #UKSBM2025
March 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Does dishware size influence energy intake? Excellent, clear presentation of a RCT by Tess Langfield. Started by highlighting that much of the evidence base polluted by the questionable work of Brian Wansink. We discussed this scandal here: www.bmj.com/content/363/... #UKSBM2025
Great talk from Rachel Pechey @oxprimarycare.bsky.social of an overview of reviews of micro-environmental interventions for health and sustainability. Concludes should use larger and more mature (e.g. fewer hypothetical outcomes) health evidence base to build equivalent for sustainability #UKSBM2025
March 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great talk from Rachel Pechey @oxprimarycare.bsky.social of an overview of reviews of micro-environmental interventions for health and sustainability. Concludes should use larger and more mature (e.g. fewer hypothetical outcomes) health evidence base to build equivalent for sustainability #UKSBM2025
Excellent summary slide
March 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Excellent summary slide
Really engaging presentation from Sarah Shaw on the SALIENT consortium. Revealing the potential misalignment of research, policy and organisational priorities, and the need for organisations to justify partnering on research, and much more. All rings true from some past experiences! #UKSBM2025
March 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Really engaging presentation from Sarah Shaw on the SALIENT consortium. Revealing the potential misalignment of research, policy and organisational priorities, and the need for organisations to justify partnering on research, and much more. All rings true from some past experiences! #UKSBM2025
20 years of UKSBM (that's the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine)! 🥳 I was lucky enough to be at a fair few of these. Here's to the next 20 #UKSBM2025
March 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
20 years of UKSBM (that's the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine)! 🥳 I was lucky enough to be at a fair few of these. Here's to the next 20 #UKSBM2025
Nice to see @eppi-reviewer.bsky.social supporting this review in helping prioritise ~400,000 database records #UKSBM2025 @eppicentre.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Nice to see @eppi-reviewer.bsky.social supporting this review in helping prioritise ~400,000 database records #UKSBM2025 @eppicentre.bsky.social
Excellent presentation by Tess Langfield on a wide-ranging scoping review of interventions to increase public support for policies #UKSBM2025
March 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Excellent presentation by Tess Langfield on a wide-ranging scoping review of interventions to increase public support for policies #UKSBM2025
Great illustrations!
March 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Great illustrations!
Great to be at #UKSBM2025 in Bristol! Fascinating prize-winning presentation by Floor Christie-de Jong on increasing cancer screening uptake in Muslim women @katierobb.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Great to be at #UKSBM2025 in Bristol! Fascinating prize-winning presentation by Floor Christie-de Jong on increasing cancer screening uptake in Muslim women @katierobb.bsky.social
It me on German TV eating sticky toffee pudding in Wetherspoons whilst visibly laughing, and also talking about our recent review of calorie labelling (with German translation - my German ist sehr sehr schlecht).
Full link is here (but I think only works in Germany) www.brisant.de/kalorien-spe...
Full link is here (but I think only works in Germany) www.brisant.de/kalorien-spe...
March 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It me on German TV eating sticky toffee pudding in Wetherspoons whilst visibly laughing, and also talking about our recent review of calorie labelling (with German translation - my German ist sehr sehr schlecht).
Full link is here (but I think only works in Germany) www.brisant.de/kalorien-spe...
Full link is here (but I think only works in Germany) www.brisant.de/kalorien-spe...
Valentine's Day today. A day upon which Mr Al Capone
February 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Valentine's Day today. A day upon which Mr Al Capone
My copy of 'Predicting Health Behaviour' by Conner & Norman, signed by Olivia Colman. I suspect the only existing example of a health psychology textbook signed by an Oscar winner?
(From when she was only really known for Peep Show. And pleasingly she was really lovely and friendly 🙂)
(From when she was only really known for Peep Show. And pleasingly she was really lovely and friendly 🙂)
December 6, 2024 at 9:29 AM
My copy of 'Predicting Health Behaviour' by Conner & Norman, signed by Olivia Colman. I suspect the only existing example of a health psychology textbook signed by an Oscar winner?
(From when she was only really known for Peep Show. And pleasingly she was really lovely and friendly 🙂)
(From when she was only really known for Peep Show. And pleasingly she was really lovely and friendly 🙂)
December 4, 2024 at 12:40 PM
And remember, it's always proper science if you wear a lab coat (and have some wires on your head).
Shout out to people who do exclusively desk-based health research but wear a white coat in their university profile pictures...
Shout out to people who do exclusively desk-based health research but wear a white coat in their university profile pictures...
November 25, 2024 at 9:43 AM
And remember, it's always proper science if you wear a lab coat (and have some wires on your head).
Shout out to people who do exclusively desk-based health research but wear a white coat in their university profile pictures...
Shout out to people who do exclusively desk-based health research but wear a white coat in their university profile pictures...
Good to see Brian Wansink is back publishing again, although at least it's more on the 'observational saxophone research' (than the 'influencing actual food policy') end of things.
Please be mindful anyone conducting new work on the prevalence of saxophone solos in popular music...
#BehSci
Please be mindful anyone conducting new work on the prevalence of saxophone solos in popular music...
#BehSci
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Good to see Brian Wansink is back publishing again, although at least it's more on the 'observational saxophone research' (than the 'influencing actual food policy') end of things.
Please be mindful anyone conducting new work on the prevalence of saxophone solos in popular music...
#BehSci
Please be mindful anyone conducting new work on the prevalence of saxophone solos in popular music...
#BehSci
Sepsis AND pint glasses
November 25, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Sepsis AND pint glasses