Rob Ralston

Taylor Swift as critical public health texts

#Live now! Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue held on the #RoadToBusan #INC5 for a discussion on the importance of the principles of transparency, accountability & justice for a successful #PlasticsTreaty. ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN29Oct24 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=DpU6ev…

NEW: In an open letter to @antonioguterres, 130+ organizations are calling out @UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger for comments that the groups say prejudge the upcoming #PlasticsTreaty negotiations, aligning with positions taken by petrostates and industry.

On the #RoadToBusan, join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue sharing how prioritizing principles of accountability, transparency & justice is essential to a successful #PlasticsTreaty towards ending #plasticpollution. 📅 29 October, 14:00 CET ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN29Oct24

🌍 Global leaders are meeting at and around #UNGA and #ClimateWeekNYC to determine the future of the #PlasticsTreaty. Over 160 organizations are urging them to commit to reducing plastic production in the future #PlasticsTreaty

deeply saddened to hear @Majdiashour has passed away after a short illness Majdi worked as a medical officer in UNRWA before undertaking a PhD on health systems in the Gaza Strip. He was a deeply committed and gifted researcher and I feel immensely privileged to have known him

will be posting on here less often due to twitter becoming increasingly unusable - same @ on bluesky as I can’t bring myself to use linkedin

Can't say this enough; Elon Musk's menace to democracy is intolerable. He's using the largest & most influential platform in the democratic world to stoke racial conflict and civil breakdown - in his own posts & what X promotes. Democracies can no longer ignore this.

[lecturer of undergrad ‘introduction to the welfare state’ course]: You know what’s SO Brat? Esping Andersen’s worlds of welfare

in the queue at a chaotic Lidl during the first week of the edinburgh fringe and the cashier has accidentally inputted £450 instead of £45 and there’s no manger to fix it secondhand anxiety is hitting uncut gems levels

The first two are a Scottish person looking for their Vauxhall.

@Rob_Percival_ @kesievert had basically the same thought - interesting how some of more radical aspects of UPF as an idea have been stripped away as it has travelled

Our focus should be on ultra-processed *diets* rather than individual UPF products; on the ultra-processed *food systems* that persistently create those diets; and on *corporate capture* and *financialisation* as the core drivers of the UPF-induced public health crisis. Yeah?

@piercepenniless as someone who researches corporate power, I find the concept useful in understanding the core products and business models of ‘big food’ but the discourse has shifted towards moralising / individualist understanding which is feel much less comfortable with

I feel like I should be the target audience for this – I'm v much a from-scratch cook, make my own pasta, buy little processed food, believe there are plenty of unhealthy and obesogenic products – but find myself sceptical about the whole thing.

Puzzled by this Guardian listicle, another in their series explaining we should be terrified, horrified, fearful of "Ultra Processed Foods"... except these ones, because they're nice (and middle class). theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

@DrDionGeorgiou I mean, I'd read that blog for sure

@PolicyRelevant ‘’I know you want me. You know I want you’re ’: The backstage and frontstage of sexual rituals in Cuban-American rap music.’

has pitbull been reading Erving Goffman

@MIALONMelissa I think there’s also an important distinction between ‘markets’ and corporations - a point made by Susan Strange

me sketching out the lofty aims of a massive research grant: haha fuck yeah!! Yes!! me having to draft a budget table annex that includes a realistic estimation of costs: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

@R_Hughes1 < screams into the void >

Not gonna lie… it does feel unfortunate to be forgetting about social determinants of health just as we finally have a new labour government in place 🤨 theguardian.com/society/articl…

my partner has encouraged me to upgrade my office chair, so naturally I've become hyper-fixated on a bauhaus design I will never be able to afford

@PhilipProudfoot @jana_bacevic This is from 2019 - not sure you can support radical solutions without recognising the role of civil society and social moments in advocating for them

This is it, the worst headline ever written.

Microsoft outage but Teams and Outlook are both fine is the adult version of snow that doesn’t settle enough for a school closure.