In other news, the weather is bueno and the jacarandas in bloom...

At #ECO2025 @jeanmadams.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social answering some difficult questions with vaguely unpopular but insightful answers. #systemsthinking @easoobesity.bsky.social

We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):

nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

This week, they were reduced to this. Each tree yielding 3 lengths of lumber, numbered in lots. Willow isn't used for much except cricket bats, so there is no huge monetary value in the timber. But the loss to the landscape and nature is immense.

A generation or more ago, the farmer who tends the land surrounding our home planted this majestic line of willows following the natural arc of the Cheney Water. They're a landmark, a guide and an extraordinary habitat alongside the reed strewn chalk steam - one that I've captured many times on film

Today in three...

Atop Whernside, weirdly like a sepia print, a weak sub straining through layers of cloud. Yes, it was cold...

Happy 2025 everyone. Here's some serious frost to brighten your day. Great Shunner Fell, Yorkshire Dales.

Great to see our #DEPTH framework (doi.org/10.1186/s442...) used in a systematic review by Jorientje Machenback and colleagues on population low agency interventions for prevention and reduction of type 2 diabetes: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cite 9 other papers from @mrcepid.bsky.social ppl 👍

And mine too obviously, which is also a Trek Checkpoint ALR5 (2019) 54cm frame in charcoal with red details, with Look SPD pedals, panier rack and grey bottle cage. If you see it around here, let me know. Thanks.

Sometimes even the dull, flat Cambridgeshire landscape has it's charms... The Cheney Water between Guilden Morden and Abington Pigotts