Fuck me. Some of the replies to my earlier tweet about Amanda Abbington’s appearance on Lorraine this morning. I’m getting such a clear idea of what a bastard of a world it must be if you’re a woman.

More people are in material deprivation compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis funded by JRF. This means more people are struggling to heat their homes, keep up with their bills or went without a range of other items and services 🔽 (1/4)

Hey Steven Bartlett I’ve been on your pod & appreciate the varied guests and opinions you host… but please, please believe me when I say that this guy is truly dangerous, and a smear on the UK medical community

The assertion in "Tobacco smoking addiction and nicotine dependence" Sharon Cox contends that, given the successful removal of harm from nicotine-only products, these products should not be regarded as addictive by definition. This perspective is supported by the idea that

Public service notice (given lots of confused coverage this morning): you’re not “cutting public spending” if you’re not changing any budgets but instead revealing that the previous government announced transport schemes without the budgets to make them happen

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This week’s Inside Health on ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ asks ‘What should we do about vaping?’ Includes interviews with me, ⁦Hazel Cheeseman⁩, and ⁦Richard Pruen⁩ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Great thread - read it all 👇🏼

Irony alert - this article on how open science could worsen research inequities and propagate privilege is paywalled. *cue smacking head on laptop nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excited for this one.. really important we are cautious and evidence led in considering the notion that "stigma" (or rather social norms) can be a force for good

Another set of awful drug-death stats for Scotland from NatRecordsScot - as some of us suggested last year, a one-year drop was nothing to celebrate and certainly no evidence we had turned a corner. A short THREAD on some key findings from the data...

New publication📢 Can ‘justified disapproval’ be separated from addiction stigma? An empirical focus is required A thread 🧵 tandfonline.com/eprint/NDGSVI2…

New paper from our MRC funded TIDDLES project. Given people drink in a variety of different contexts, we wanted to explore how helpful context-specific tactics for alcohol reduction were perceived as being amongst risky drinkers pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39167598/

I’m on Sky News from 5pm discussing the potential of a smoking ban in outdoor spaces, mainly pubs.

I recently noticed that John Lewis & Partners offer vape recycling too!

BR-UK's September webinar on causality, evidence and policy in behavioural research webinar is open for registration now.📅 🎙 Speakers include Professor Nancy Cartwright, Professor David Lagnado, Dr Julia Rohrer and David Shipworth. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

If you’re interested in what we need to know to evaluate the population impact of vapes, this article just out may be of interest Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar…

🚨Fantastic PhD opportunity as part of GW4BioMedMRCDTP to join us TARG Bristol to optimise the uptake and personalisation of digital health interventions for under-served groups with the fantastic Olivia Maynard Graham Moore Angela Attwood gw4biomed.ac.uk/optimising-upt…

🚭Non-combustible nicotine – beyond electronic cigarettes 🌍Join us for the #SRNT-E Autumn Seminar 2024 featuring four expert talks on the latest research into non-combustible #nicotine products! 🎟️eventbrite.co.uk/e/1008413330417