Fiona Measham

This Saturday we are back in Bristol City Centre with our FREE drug checking service

📅 Saturday, 28th February
🕗12-7pm
📍Bristol Drugs Project, 11 Brunswick Square, BS2 8PE

Visit our website for more information: wearetheloop.org/drug-checking

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“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

should Young People drink more? Fear in the age of abstinence

Fascinating piece by @whatareyou0n.bsky.social on fear, fun, (lack of) alcohol & generational change in nightlife, with brief comment from my students.
open.substack.com/pub/whatarey...

Happy 2nd birthday to regular #drugchecking in the UK!
Watch the video charting the launch of @theloopuk.bsky.social Bristol drug checking service, containing interviews with senior chemist Guy, senior health professional Debs & CEO Katy at the launch.
2 years of testing, learning & #harmreduction.

Amol Rajan to leave Radio 4's Today programme to launch his own company The presenter will continue to host University challenge and his Radical podcast for the BBC.

Noooooo!
@radio4rne.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...

SoTA's Georgian home in Abercromby Square.

School of the Arts @sotauol.bsky.social showing off its fine compositional skills here, as you would expect 🎨🏛️

UK's first legal drug consumption room registers almost 600 users The Thistle in Glasgow has been used for 7,827 injections of illegal drugs in its first year.

The UK's first safer drug consumption facility has registered 575 users in its first year.
The Thistle in Glasgow has been accessed 11,348 times and used for 7,827 injections of illegal drugs. Staff on site also managed 93 medical emergencies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How indoor fireworks keep causing deadly nightclub infernos Swiss officials think sparklers were the likely cause of a New Year's Eve tragedy, making it the latest in a long line of bar blazes where fireworks have been blamed.

Fireworks, pyrotechnics, sparklers, flares…
Please can we ban them from basement nightclubs with flammable soundproofing, only 1 exit up a narrow staircase, & no functioning alarms, extinguishers or sprinklers?
Or, can we just ban fireworks from indoor venues full stop?
news.sky.com/story/how-in...

A magazine/catalogue named "Men in Belted Sweaters", sporting six photos of - you guessed it - men in belted sweaters, in different styles and colours, all of them utterly, bafflingly awful. If you are visually impaired you should, on this occasion, consider yourself blessed.

When people say they want to go back to a time "when men were men", I point them to Issue 2528 of the "Men in Belted Sweaters" catalogue.

If you, or someone you know, is experiencing domestic abuse, sexual violence or any other form of violence against women, our Live Fear Free Helpline is open 24/7, including Christmas and New Year.

We are here for whatever you need, whether that's support, advice or just a listening ear.

& Katz!

He looks like he might be too young to conscientiously object or run away.

Some regular MDMA users are unaware that MDMA itself can cause overdose & death.
~80 people die in the UK every year from MDMA overdose, not adulterants, contaminants or a ‘bad batch’.
The current trend for dissolving in drinks is an additional risk factor in many of these.

#CrushDabWait 👟👇🕑

I am trying to get hold of Alasdair Forsyth, esteemed writer of many academic articles about nightlife in the 90s + 2000s. He has dropped off the radar and I can't get him through his old university (Glasgow Caledonian) and not turned him up on social. Does anyone have a lead? @fmeasham.bsky.social

#TakeQuarterSipWater
#CrushDabWait
#GoSlowStayLow
More harm reduction advice & drug testing info at: www.wearetheloop.org

This Cultural Life - Mark Ronson - BBC Sounds Music producer and songwriter Mark Ronson reveals his creative influences and experiences.

Thoughtful, humble, passionate about music. Lovely man.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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A sad indictment of academia & wider society that self promotion on social media is an increasingly accepted & expected part of the job.
“Honoured”, “humbled”, “excited” & “grateful” should be banned!

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Thank you.
We did send a response to @thetimes.com but as they didn’t publish it we chose @drugscience.bsky.social instead.

The Loop is well represented at #CDP25 with *5* volunteers from @theloopuk.bsky.social & The Loop AU & another *3* whose work was presented.
I presented on our poppers paper published in BJC, written wth @markmccormack.bsky.social, @liamwignall.bsky.social & Henry Simmons. £0
doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

It looks really great!

Always exciting to get a new book through the post, especially one on the changing world of #drag.
With a chapter by @markmccormack.bsky.social & I, as part of our wider @artscouncilengland.bsky.social funded queer nightlife research.
@astonuniversity.bsky.social
@liverpooluni.bsky.social

Tonight!
8pm BBC Panorama featuring @theloopuk.bsky.social in action testing at a festival last month & interviews with @ukguyjones.bsky.social & I.

#AcademicSky please amplify this is a new feminist social science journal focused o. #equality & #justice THANK YOU!

We’re recruiting a book review editor to join our existing team. Details👇

www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...

✳️ Deadline 1. 8 .25
Please circulate @deirdreflynn.bsky.social @nicolabarker.bsky.social @fmeasham.bsky.social @leahfburch.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social @geogsara.bsky.social 1/2