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Jess Renzella @jessicarenzella.bsky.social · 5h

Excited to share that our research group is advertising 2 DPhil projects for 2026 entry. We’d love to hear from prospective applicants!

shorturl.at/I6SrW *FUNDED*

shorturl.at/lh4tB *Successful apps eligible for uni funding*

@hannahforde.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social @petescarbs.bsky.social

Sustainability or Spin? The prevalence, impact, and regulation of 'Green claims' on foods in the UK

www.phc.ox.ac.uk

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 11h

Cancelled train into London. The next one is half an hour away and will be totally rammed, so I'm getting some work done resting on a fucking piano

A laptop resting on a piano in a train station. The piano is a brown wood, the laptop is grey and boring and has a picture of Totoro on the save screen. The floor is checkered, grey and white

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 1d

GoldenEye from Trevelyan's viewpoint. His rise to hero Liensk Cossack avenger, then fall to petty criminal. Final scene: hanging upside down we see Bond with the Cuban sun directly behind his head, projecting a halo. "For England James?" "No for me" booms the response as our hero falls from God

Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 2d

The Living Daylights but shot from Kara Milovy's viewpoint. Directed by Hitchcock with Doris Day as Kara, Cary Grant as Bond and James Mason as Koskov

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 2d

Get out, ya labourer!

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 2d

They laughed because they know they're untouchable not because what I said was wrong - Sinead O'Connor

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 3d

Gaze at this 30-gon with diagonals in awe. I want to fall into it

Benjamin Cornish @mathematicians-pod.bsky.social · 4d

For any polygon, the maximum number of diagonals that can intersect at a point (that is not the centre) is 7.

#mathsart
#mathsky

Possibly my fact for episode 7 of #Un-NaturalNumbers

math.mit.edu/~poonen/pape...

Figure 1. The 30-gon with its diagonals. There are 16801 in-
terior intersection points: 13800 two line intersections, 2250 three
line intersections, 420 four line intersections, 180 five line intersec-
tions, 120 six line intersections, 30 seven line intersections, and 1
fifteen line intersection.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like to put 98% of my stuff into a black hole. Can AI do that for me?

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 4d

I seem to spend my life turning them off and on again...

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 4d

Today I've been thrown out of the network drives more often than Jazzy Jeff was thrown out of the Banks residence

a large white house with columns and a tree in front of it

ALT: a large white house with columns and a tree in front of it

media.tenor.com

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 4d

I got us to the beach. I just struggled to find my way back!

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 4d

First paper published from our COPPER project! We went to Glasgow and Bridlington (my home town!) to find out what the public supports with regard to taxes and subsidies in the food system. Great work led by the excellent @hannahforde.bsky.social

Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social · 4d

We ran deliberative forums in Glasgow & Bridlington all about food subsidies & taxes to make healthy & sustainable food more affordable.

Read our findings in our latest article!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@oxprimarycare.bsky.social

Public support for food subsidy and tax scenarios to promote healthy and sustainable diets: Evidence from deliberative forums in two UK locations

Governments can utilise fiscal measures, through subsidies and taxes, to promote healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices. Despite their p…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 5d

Of course, when I say "the idea" I really mean "the justification". We all know what the real idea is.

Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 5d

This is a truly insane law. The idea is to protect consumers from mistaking the true nature of products. Of course, we have plenty of evidence of how much of problem this is because A&E is full of people who accidentally made trifle out of face cream.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 6d

(Sorry. I am annoyed by The Guardian's war on ultraprocessed foods, not because an ultraprocessed diet is in your best interests (it isn't. Eat vegetables!), but because the Guardian is making spurious arguments as to why.

The main dietary driver of environmental impact is animal products!)

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 6d

Some UPFs (like plant-based meat and dairy alternatives) clearly have a lower environmental impact than the food that they are designed to replace. Some UPFs (like shop-bought cakes) are produced at an industrial level which could be far more efficient than producing equivalent in home kitchens.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 6d

Some UPFs (like M&Ms or Coca-Cola) don't need to be replaced with anything - in that case, seems reasonable to account for all their environmental impact and say it is all just a waste. But be careful - if we do that, then what about coffee, wine, tea, etc.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 6d

"As UPFs ... now comprise 70% of food sold in grocery stores, and more than half of calories consumed experts say that understanding their environmental toll is critical."

If that's true then we also need to know the environmental toll of the food they are replacing to make a balanced assessment.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 6d

The relationship between UPFs and the environment is miles more complicated than this. UPFs are a hugely diverse category, but this article pretends they are all like M&Ms. What about plant-based meat and dairy alternatives?

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost

www.theguardian.com

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 7d

It seems I can't even spell Michaelmas.

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 7d

Today, the Standard published an excerpt of my book “Food Intelligence” with @juliabelluz.bsky.social from our chapter on protein. www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ho...

The truth about protein and why you're probably eating enough already

The authors of a new book about how food both nourishes and harms us break down how much protein we really need in our diets — and debunk the myths we’ve been sold by social media

www.standard.co.uk

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 7d

Great line up for this term's seminar series! Really interesting subjects from food experience in asylum hotels to the UK Government's new food strategy. Speakers, details and sign up sheets below. Please join us.

(As an aside, I've been in Oxford 20+ years now and still not used to 'Michalemas')

Oxford Future of Food @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social · 7d

We are excited to be launching our new seminar series for the term. These are open to all. Attend in person or join online. Details and booking: www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/events

cc: @foodfoundation.bsky.social @cleoverk.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @herts.ac.uk @petescarbs.bsky.social

A flyer with the heading Future of Food Michaelmas seminars. Underneath it says Thursdays, 16:00, Oxford Martin school seminar room 1 or online. Below left it has a picture of a white man with curly blonde hair, wearing a red shirt. Next to the picture it says Thursday 16 October, Professor Harry West, University of Exeter. The title of Harry's talk is: How place-based are terroir products?: Reflections on scale, movement and change. Below Harry is a photograph of a white woman with long dark hair, wearing glasses. To the right of the photograph it reads Thursday 30 October, Dr Claire Thompson, University of Hertfordshire. The title of Claire's talk is: Experiences of food provision in asylum hotels and the implications for health. On the right of the flyer are two further photographs. At the top is a photo of a white woman with dark brown hair talking into a microphone. To the right of the photograph it reads Thursday 13 November, Cleo Verkuijl, Stockholm Environment Institute. Cleo's talk is titled: Alternative proteins: progress, pitfalls and possibilities. Below Cleo's photograph is another photograph of a white woman with short brown hair, talking. She wears a black top. The details read Thursday 20 November, Anna Taylor, The Food Foundation. The talk title is: Opportunities offered by a new food strategy.

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · 8d

Who knew that Manchester has a park called Vimto Park with a statue of a huge bottle of Vimto?

A park. There is green grass and a tree in the foreground, and more in the background. There is also a lamp post in the foreground and in the bottom left corner There is a short wall surrounding the park. In the centre of the picture is a large statue of a bottle containing purple liquid with a red label. It is surrounded by fruit

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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