Elaine Toomey

Montage of Dutch bike infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

“Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day.”
UNRWA Sam Rose tells BBC Radio 4.

Children in #Gaza have been killed while sleeping, sheltering in schools, or queuing for water.

Graphic by TRT World

The route for our National March for Palestine on Saturday. Join us and show our unbreakable solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers. We demand our government sanction apartheid Israel for its genocide now. All out for Palestine! #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Moving towards openness: Introduction to the Registered Reports and Data Notes Article Collection at HPBM

New Editorial from @elainetoomey1.bsky.social & I
@ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

❓How Open are health psychology and behavioural medicine journals?
❓How do we support journals to adopt Transparency & Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines?

📑Find out in our new @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social paper led by @elainetoomey1.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

THREAD on the *desperate* medical situation in Gaza from a presentation by UNRWA director at the World Health Assembly.

This thread was written by Prof Anthony Costello over on X - I think it's important to share as widely as possible, so I have transferred to here.

Please read and share!
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'enshittification'...my new favourite word. So many uses these days!!

Thanks for having us! A pleasure to speak to you all and see such fabulous engagement!

The recording from yesterday's Open Research Conversation on early career researchers and open research is now available and can be found here:

Thanks to Zuzanna Zagrodzka, @elainetoomey1.bsky.social and @erahyde.bsky.social for a fantastic session.

Registered Reports and Data Notes within Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Explore the article collection: Registered Reports and Data Notes within Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. Published in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine.

Check out our HPBM Article Collection on Registered Reports & Data Notes
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhp...

including papers by @lauramkoenig.bsky.social @kellylloyd.bsky.social @peterbranney.bsky.social & more!

Submissions still open! @ehps.bsky.social
@elainetoomey1.bsky.social

18-Months Of Genocide Footage Not Under Investigation By UK Counter-Terror Police TENS of thousands of hours of video evidence from over 18-months of genocide was ignored by the UK's counter-terrorism police this week as they turned their resources to investigating footage from a K...

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The Israeli military denied 82% of humanitarian aid to Gaza from March 18 to 24, according to UN OCHA.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zidasw

Our in-person tickets for #BCConf2025 are sold out! But you can still join us online & catch the sessions from anywhere.
👉 Secure your online spot now: www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch...
Stay tuned, the full programme will be announced later this month!
@susanmichie.bsky.social @martamarques.bsky.social

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye.
#Gaza
#Genocide

Yes for sure! Being able to discuss is so important. I also like how you refuse to name 'the other place' 😂

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving.

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Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance

And I say that as someone who genuinely wants to do things properly!

For me as a HCP/researcher I totally identify with the barriers re being “hard to keep up” with language. When we trained it was all about shifting to person-1st language. Agree shouldn't be 1-size fits all + HCPs should be open to correction, but hard to know where to start, what to tell students.

Power gone here Seánie and wind howling through Galway! 🙈

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Post from John Perricone 3d • Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students: "Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

Israel arrests 64 Palestinians in West Bank following release of 90 prisoners as part of swap deal Child, 7, among those detained, according to activist - Anadolu Ajansı

Or the 7-year old child arrested by Israelis in the West Bank along with 63 others as revenge? www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

Anything about the 1000s of Palestinian hostages being held illegally in Israeli prisons no? Not even about the children being held? Oh of course, I forgot Palestinian children aren't real children, they're terrorists. Media bias has never been so stark.

Starting the last work week of the year with a paper accepted in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine - my first data note 🤩 it will be published in the Article Collection on RRs and Data Notes, led by @elainetoomey1.bsky.social & @emmanorris.bsky.social @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social

Horrendous. An abhorrent stain on whatever is left of humanity.

Thank you for the fantastic submissions to the Behaviour Change Conference 2025, taking place 2-3 April with pre-conference sessions on 1 April #BCConf2025

We were delighted to receive over 300 submissions to #BCConf2025, thanks to everyone who submitted! We're excited to put together what will be an inspiring & varied programme, showcasing the latest thinking & innovations in #BehaviouralScience.
@susanmichie.bsky.social @martamarques.bsky.social

Delighted to share our work for the last five years with a fantastic group of #behaviouralscience and #openscience advocates! Proud of what we have achieved together ☺️

Yes please!

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’

#Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says - www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f... "UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’" how many innocents must die before world acts? #gaza

Delighted to have Minister Hildegarde Naughton launch our new fully online MSc in Evidence-Based Future Healthcare on #WorldEBHCDay! Now recruiting for Sept 2024 - check out tinyurl.com/EBFHCare for more info and to sign up for updates!