@emmagarnett.bsky.social
Researcher in behaviour change towards more plant-based and sustainable diets at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social Climate Action. Biodiversity Conservation. Health and wellbeing. My (more) political account: @greenpartyemma.bsky.social
I could not love this more!
Well done Amsterdam.
Abstract submissions for LEAP conference are now open!
Interested in how we get a more sustainable, mostly plants, food system?
Come and join us.
Deadline Sunday 8th March.
Conference: Wednesday 22nd April#
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/article/leap...
@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
Click on under Life & Medical Sciences, then Primary Care Health Sciences to see the project.
Eligibility criteria are here:
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
Are you - or do you know - an undergraduate at @ox.ac.uk who is a) interested in sustainable food and behaviour change and b) from an under-represented background within academia?
Apply for the Uniq+ programme!
Deadline 18th Feb.
www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
Here's the project I've put forward:
I was on the BBC World Service News Hour today (aired on a lot of @npr.org stations in the US) to talk about this sighting of an Amur tigress with ***five cubs*** in northeast China. Link to interview here, my bit starts ~30:52: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/6... 🌍
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Exactly this.
I am particularly unimpressed by @ox.ac.uk getting ChatGPT accounts for all students (&staff I believe) with the "reassurance" that our work won't be used to train the algorithms.
Plagiarism for me but not for thee.
Digital neocolonialism much?
www.ox.ac.uk/students/new...
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
@petescarbs.bsky.social : "It's definitely not bad news. But remember that Wes Streeting said in the NHS 10 year action plan that he was going to "launch a moonshot to end the obesity epidemic". Well, this might help get the rocket one inch off the ground, but it aint getting to the moon"
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The government shifting the sugary drinks threshold from 5g/100ml to only 4.5g/100 ml when Pepsi and Fanta are already at 4.5g is ridiculous.
We need to get industry influence out of our policy making.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
h/t @petescarbs.bsky.social
Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
Update: it was absolutely delicious.
Throughly recommend.
How have I only just come across this song?!
The lyrics, melody, build up, video are all perfect.
🎶 All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid
Nymph then virgin, nurse then a servant
24/7 baby machine
So he can live out his picket fence dreams 🎶
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvU4...
Calling all scientists/anyone with a science PhD!
Please sign this open letter urging MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the nature and climate crises.
www.nebriefing.org
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
In the meantime if you have an Aldi near you - I cannot recommend their smoked tofu highly enough!
www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
What excellent timing!
I came across this new vegan steak in Aldi today.
I look forward to eating it!
“Yes, let's make things more efficient if we can [..]. But it must not be used as a smoke screen for not shifting to more plant-based diets”, Dr @emmagarnett.bsky.social said.
“The most effective way to reduce methane from cows is to farm fewer cows."
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news.sky.com/story/the-gr...
My new paper on how to increase sustainable food consumption is continuing to gather positive media attention 🙌
Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
#sustainablefood #sustainability
#vegan #greennudge
Thank you to @skynewsrss.bsky.social for the interview invite.
Though I'd say you can already get a guilt free steak - it's just made out of plants instead of cow 😉
E.g:
www.tesco.com/groceries/en...
www.ocado.com/products/jui...
thecheekychickpea.com/vegan-steak/
Deforestation to feed our demand for meat is a (if not _the_) leading cause of biodiversity loss.
Restoring grazing lands to woodland or wetland would bring huge benefits for carbon sequestration and nature.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Making food production more efficient is welcome (assuming there aren't trade offs with eg animal welfare) - the methane from enteric fermentation is only one of the negative environmental impacts from cows.
There is still methane produced from manure and the huge land-use grazing animals require.
Will cows burping a bit less methane help fight climate change?
My answer: not really.
The most effective way to reduce methane from cows is to farm fewer cows.
Cows aren't able to fight climate change. We are: by going (mostly) plant-based.
@skynewsrss.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/HU8Nt...
"if you produce many tonnes of chicken manure and then sell it on to be used as fertiliser, some would argue – as others have argued against big oil – that you have a responsibility to reduce the effects that come later on.”." theconversation.com/the-pollutio...
Calling all scientists/anyone with a science PhD!
Please sign this open letter urging MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the nature and climate crises.
www.nebriefing.org
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
