Andrew Mackenzie

Do Flat Earthers have a point, or have are they just misunderstood?

Is water really wet, or is that just Big Science talking?

Is oxygen essential, or have we been brainwashed by the air industry?

I could write for the BBC!

YouTube video by Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM) The Role of Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultants in Healthcare

Fantastic video from @fsem-uk.bsky.social highlighting why sport and exercise medicine consultants are so vital to healthcare. Watch below. 👇

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🪁 Isla has already mastered kite flying far better than I ever have.

Great long read here @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social on this month’s @physoc.bsky.social Global Climate and Health Summit. #GCHS2025

“The recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the nearly 150 year-old institution whose earliest members included Charles Darwin, offered a rich array of examples of what is going on in the climate and health research space.”

This is just the beginning: Reflections from the Global Climate and Health Summit This is just the beginning - Professor Mike Tipton, Chair of the Global Climate and Health Summit 2025, reflects on the Summit.

“I said ‘This is just the beginning’, and I meant it.”

Read reflections from @physoc.bsky.social President-Elect Professor Mike Tipton on last week’s Global Climate and Health Summit.

www.physoc.org/blog/this-is-just-the-beginning-reflections-from-the-global-climate-and-health-summit/

🙏🌍“As I stood on stage last Thursday afternoon to give my closing remarks to the Global Climate and Health Summit, I was inspired by what we had all achieved over the two days, hopeful because of the determination for action from participants, and excited to get to work.”

Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” As Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries - Health Policy Watch After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is "moving into

🌍 Great to see the Global Climate and Health Summit highlighted as one of the key moments of the year for climate change, and helping on the road to COP30 later this year.

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“This is just the beginning.” That’s how Summit Chair closed the Global Climate and Health Summit.

From heat to funding to resilience, one message rang clear: climate action must protect health. And physiology is central to that mission.

Thanks to all who joined us. @physoc.bsky.social #GCHS2025

What a day! Day 1 of the Global Climate & Health Summit done ✅

Government Ministers, scientists, funders, security & city leaders all saying the same thing: health must be at the heart of climate action.

We can’t wait. We can’t work in silos.

Onwards to Day 2! #GCHS2025

Met Office: Extreme weather the UK's new normal The UK has a notably different climate compared with just a few decades ago, the Met Office says.

🚨🌍This week we convene experts and change makers from around the world at the Global Climate and Health Summit.

🥵The heatwaves hitting the UK this summer show this is a global problem that affects us all.

#GCHS2025

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Lovely evening at Hitchin Lavender last night, where Isla enjoyed chasing the bees 🐝

Great to see the NHS 10 Year Plan today picking up ideas we set out in our Physiology Passport: prevention, personalisation, AI, wearables.

Our call for a Physiology Passport aligns perfectly: using physiological data to improve prevention.

Worth a read 👉 www.physoc.org/physiologypassport

5 ways to keep cool in the sun according to scientists Keep up to date with The Physiological Society’s news. Press releases, job openings, policy developments, conferences and other physiology news.

🔥🥵It’s going to be a hot few days in the south of England.

😎As the heatwave hits, you’ll want to take a look at these 5 tips from physiologists to stay cool.

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Enjoying the long summer nights with an evening bike ride in the sunshine ☀️

Translating Knowledge and Research into Impact

…as evidenced in the joint report from
@ThePhySoc and @NCUBtweets from a couple of years ago: www.physoc.org/policy/knowledge-exchange/translating-knowledge-research-into-impact/

Translating Knowledge and Research into Impact

We heard again that if we want breakthroughs in health, resilience and performance, we need universities and businesses working together – and physiology is right at the heart of that...

Translating Knowledge and Research into Impact

Good food & good chat, as well timely insights from Joe Marshall & Tera Pauliina on what the Spending Review and Industrial Strategy mean in practice.

Thanks @NCUBtweets for a great evening at @RCPhysicians at the Summer Drinks Reception 🌿. You couldn’t have picked better weather for a BBQ!☀️ 🍔

UK Trade Strategy Strategy document setting out the government’s plans to maximise trade opportunities now and in the future.

🚨 New UK Trade Strategy out today – and science is front and centre.

🔬 Backing AI, clean energy, life sciences, advanced manufacturing – and aligning trade with the UK’s R&D strengths.

Good to see research and innovation treated as core to global growth.

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Why do physiologists matter in climate and health?

Here is one of the slides I presented during my talk at the University of Southampton today.

Physiology doesn’t just describe the problem - it defines the limits, reveals the gaps, and helps shape solutions that work for people.

👍A great day on the coast at Southampton University at the Heat, Health and Climate Data workshop.

✅Exploring what partnerships we need to build, key research questions to address & how we utilise public health infrastructure to deliver impact. So much exciting work underway & in the pipeline.

🧬 This week the Governmet published the UK’s new Industrial Strategy, billed as setting out a bold 10-year vision to drive economic growth, clean energy, and innovation. | Andrew Mackenzie 🧬 This week the Governmet published the UK’s new Industrial Strategy, billed as setting out a bold 10-year vision to drive economic growth, clean energy, and innovation. If as a country we are going...

Plenty in the UK’s new Industrial Strategy (published this week) about AI, clean energy and high growth sectors.

But if we’re serious about delivery, we need to start with the basics: how the human body copes, adapts and recovers.

That’s physiology. More here 👇
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Enjoyed a thoughtful day at The Conduit Climate & Health conference. Innovation, equity & narrative were all front & centre.

Physiology shows us how climate stress plays out in the body. We talk a lot about systems change. But systems are made for, and by, people. So that’s where we should start.

🇸🇲 Popped into San Marino – oldest republic in the world, perched on a mountain inside Italy.

Stunning setting & a quirky democracy: 2 heads of state, elected every 6 months. And with 30k people, good odds you might run it!

🗳️ And it takes just 60 signatures to get a proposed law to Parliament.

The Douglas Alexander One Podcast Episode · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 20/06/2025 · 43m

🏴‍☠️🌍 Douglas Alexander on Political Thinking offers one of the clearest takes yet on the rise of identity politics in Scotland & the world.

As globalisation erodes the achievements people built their lives around, many turn to deeper forms of belonging.

🎧 Listen:
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🇮🇹Just back from #ECCA2025 in Rimini and the message was clear: climate adaptation is about people, not just infrastructure.

We can’t protect people if we don’t understand how the body responds to climate stress - and know what the physiological limits are to adaptation.

Current heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’ Surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, scientists say as analysis published

Sometimes in the UK, climate change is seen as a far away problem (both in terms of time and geography). Tell that to the 600 families in England and Wales who will lose a loved one in the heatwave this week.

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