Futurum_Chris

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.

I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com on climate change, diets, and resilience. In high income nations we can go plant-rich now and harness the benefits or wait and likely climate change will force us our hand.

theconversation.com/by-changing-...

COVID is airborne and still with us, evidenced by hospitalisations and deaths data. Many feel in a better place than at the height of the pandemic, but protections still matter, such as ventilation, booster vaccines, and testing. Long COVID, maligned by some, continues to affect millions of lives.

Scholarly Programs | National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

@thewha.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

This is a problem in lots of different areas of the NHS. Midwifery units are massively understaffed — some are having to limit services because they are dangerously low on staff — but midwifery graduates can’t find jobs.

Science and Democracy Under Siege This administration's first 6 months have been characterized by destruction, division, and chaos.

In our new report, we show the surge of hundreds of attacks that the Trump administration has launched against science agencies, scientists and science-based policies:

📢 In case you missed it! @discoverecon.bsky.social & @healthfoundation.bsky.social explore how to tackle the gender gap in who studies economics in the UK.

Let’s break down barriers & inspire more girls to choose economics.
📖 Read more: bit.ly/4jXciFF

#EconSky #WomeninEcon #schools

"When a democratically elected government systematically refuses to provide basic information about policies affecting millions of people and billions of pounds of public money, democracy itself is under threat."

It's time to sign the petition.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Post from The New York Times: The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the places that supported Trump. "People on the right, they don't realize they're limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this." With image of 4 white scientists (1 man & 3 women) with the headline "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"

NYT: a "white people from Trump country" story, but this time with scientists! The NYT outdoing itself with bizarre framing of stories on Trump's damaging destruction of science (yes, for everyone!). Strange how they're only just realizing that DEI initiatives supported many white women in science.

Why some people suffer more than others during heatwaves While many of us revel in the hot summer sunshine, others are at risk of developing heat-related complications such as sunstroke and heatstroke. In this blog post we will outline how heat affects the ...

'The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment identifies risks to health, wellbeing & productivity from high temperatures as one of the greatest priorities for action for our country - vital we all protect ourselves as well as our families & neighbours.' @ukhsa.bsky.social
ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/10/w...

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti!

I’d love your help to find examples!

I like this graphic!

Done the solar and battery, saving my pennies for a heat pump next.

There is a huge amount of ambient and waste heat available.

Using it with heat pumps in buildings and industry is multiple times more efficient than burning fossil fuels.

It makes the problem we try to solve significantly smaller and allows us to use free pre-existing heat.

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: TYP-ACE Project Manager Do you thrive on managing complex projects that deliver meaningful change? Are you passionate about using research to improve public services? Do you have strong organisational and communication skill...

Job Opportunity: Project Manager for the Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence an ambitious new initiative combining @universityofleeds.bsky.social & @york.ac.uk Funded by the NPCC/UKRI to support the future of policing through evidence-based approaches.
👇🏽
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

This whole series by the LSE is really very good indeed.

🧑‍🔬💰 PhD Scholarship open for a September start at
#SussexUni

Great opportunity if you're interested in sleep, biological rhythms and signals, physical & mental performance, or elite sports.

Application deadline: 25th July

Details at: realitybending.github.io/jobs/phd/

#Psychology #PhD

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

I'll be giving a brief update on virus evolution, interesting variants, and where we're at vs where we should be in terms of vaccines...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term) We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...

JOBS! Two post-doctoral Research Fellowships with this Leverhulme-funded project on 'the impacts of New Labour on the lives and life-courses of those born around the year 2000'. I'm on the steering committee, and it's going to be great: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Great faculty opportunities within the Cellular Genomics Programme @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Please share with your networks and do contact me if you would like to find out more

sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...

A very good article, an important read.

How can policy effectively support innovation to deliver economic and social benefits? A new report by @britishacademy.bsky.social & @sciencecampaign.bsky.social‬ finds that UK innovation requires tailored support to create economic and social returns.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

The proposed zeroing out of federal science budgets in NOAA, NASA, USDA/FS, USGS, and other agencies (NSF?, NIH?) Would be an absolute disaster. And then there is removal of links to large swaths of climate data, repirts, etc
How can this be allowed to happen?

At @ucalgary.bsky.social , Dr Catherine Patocka and Dr Jessalyn Holodinsky have developed a #feedback-based learning health system to improve patient care in #emergency departments: futurumcareers.com/can-a-learni...

How AI chatbots are delivering health lies to 'millions'

How AI chatbots are delivering health lies to 'millions' www.9news.com.au/national/ai-...

"In total, 88 per cent of all responses were false."

"The disinformation included claims about vaccines causing autism, cancer-curing diets, HIV being airborne and 5G causing infertility."

At the University of California San Francisco, Dr Jue Lin and Dr Elissa Epel are investigating how #telomeres are affected by the environments we live in and the lifestyles that we lead, and how looking after our telomeres can help us live longer, healthier lives.

futurumcareers.com/how-can-prot...

Since the days of Cruikshank and Hogarth satire has been an important means of exposing those who inflict misery on the poor and dispossessed. Well done Larry and Paul, we can laugh and stay angry at the same time.

UKRI policy fellowships 2025 Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national an...

Calling all mid-career researchers! For the first time ever @gamblingcommission.bsky.social is hosting a UKRI policy fellowship. Work with gambling data and contribute to policy development. Open to psychology, sociology, public health and related disciplines. Apply via UKRI by 15 July orlo.uk/bqw1v

A screenshot of an email from Academia.edu, informing me that they've created some sort of automated podcast on one of my papers using LLMs.

Me thinking "There's no way I could hate AI(LLMs) any more than I already do"
AI: "Hold my poorly generated beer"

This is brilliant!