Does price reduction increase healthy food purchases or consumption? Our systematic review at Lancet PH in online now! Thanks to our co-authors NETPH Fiona Pearson Dr Charlotte Wahlich Laith J. Abu-Raddad Susanne F. Awad, and early comments from Simon Capewell, funder QNRF, and editorial team.

New publication from #PeijueHuangfu #ProfJuliaCritchley & team reports that 20% price reductions resulted in increased purchases of fruit & veg, potentially sufficient to generate health benefits

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Dr Aase Villadsen UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society calls for more support to prevent 'a cycle of disadvantage' whereby pupils with poor mental health are more likely to be truant or excluded from school, which in turn worsens their existing mental health struggles.
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it's 2024 and journals are still knocking resubmissions back for being over arbitrary word / ref limits. As ever it's £free to waste other people's time (including reviewers, if we are to ignore them) + not optimise for better science! JECH_BMJ am I missing something here?

Only few days left to apply for this one! Get in touch if you have any questions!

We have a long history of supporting responsible open source & science, which can drive rapid research progress, so we’re proud to release Gemma: a set of lightweight open models, best-in-class for their size, inspired by the same tech used for Gemini blog.google/technology/dev…

As part of my new fellowship I am looking to fill 2 roles! See dets and links below👇

Restructuring of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is a further step in the wrong direction for tackling health inequalities bmj.com/content/384/bm… The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL Sir Michael Marmot Fuse Health Equity North

Fascinating talk by #PKU colleague Prof Gong Chen - powerful data on disability in China - and a pleasure to host at Centre for Longitudinal Studies UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) with Dr Alina Pelikh Alice Goisis

Members of the #PKU Institute of Population Research's project team recently visited the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL Social Research Institute.

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#PopulationResearch

If you want to find out more about the genetic and epigenetic data available in the UK national cohort studies (free to access and lots of #longitudinal data) then see this👇 #genetics #epigenetics #cohorts

Free access to genetic + epigenetic data in multiple longitudinal, representative samples (health + social data across life)?!

Yes, see free webinar 6th March for details (below!)

+ our data: shorturl.at/bcjJ9

🚨 REF 2029 revisits its 'People, Culture & Environment' 's weighting. This comes with critical implications for academic freedom. Learn more about what this means for UK's higher education landscape in our latest article. #AcademicFreedom #REF2029

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Just published Carbon Intensity Assistant, answers your questions about CO2 emissions on the UK grid chat.openai.com/g/g-XsAyhV679-… #GPTStore #AI #API

Next Wednesday, 17th January, Marii Paskov from University of Bristol will present at the QSS-CLS seminar her research on the relationship between a person's class origin and the economic stress they experience as an adult. Join us in person or online!
🔗shorturl.at/zEJKN

David Bann IJE Emilie Courtin The title on this is should have been 'Literatures matter, papers don't.' The point here is that no one should be changing policy or clinical decisions based on a single paper. So we shouldn't be writing our papers as if that were the case.

Dialling back ‘impact’ claims: researchers should not be compelled to make policy claims based on single studies
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Rishi Sunak Further cutting off of noses to spites one's face.

We lose countless millions in GDP, push foreign students to other countries and, while we're at it, decimate the university sector. A sector that Britain has been world leading in for hundreds of years.

Great start to the year.