Douglas Booker
@douglasbooker.bsky.social
Lecturer in Indoor Air at the University of Leeds, researching all things air quality and environmental justice. Co-Founder & CEO of NAQTS | Regional Clean Air Champion in the UKRI Clean Air Programme. Views my own.
🚀 CS Co-labs is launching! Using or considering #CitizenScience methods for research? Join us to discover CS Co-labs, offering "clinics', talks, topic discussions & resources. 📆 Wed 19 Aug 15:00-15:55 BST (UTC+01:00) 📆 Thurs 20 Aug 10:00-10:55 BST (UTC+01:00) 📍 Online Read more 👉️ buff.ly/YVPhWVB
CS Co-labs launch (online 1)
Join us for the launch of CS Co-labs to hear what is on offer, meet the team and network with others using or interested in citizen science methods.
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"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
uefa.com
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
It hurts my heart that someone with the integrity of Arsène Wenger continues to be associated with FIFA, in spite of all their profiteering and corruption.
Uefa World Cup boycott may be raised over Fifa's private investment plan
Uefa's 55 member associations will hold an emergency meeting this week to discuss Fifa's controversial proposals to sell stakes in its major competitions.
bbc.co.uk
Interesting study. Replacing gas stoves with electric seems like one of the low hanging fruit for making homes that are healthier for the people and the planet.
Dr Gary Fuller@drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 2w agoUS study that was defunded by the Trump admin, found a 70% drop in hospital admissions & days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had their gas stove & hob replaced with electric. Research by MetroHealth and CWRU, Ohio. Piece by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US study that was defunded by the Trump admin, found a 70% drop in hospital admissions & days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had their gas stove & hob replaced with electric. Research by MetroHealth and CWRU, Ohio. Piece by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
theguardian.com
So excited to share that our book on Ethical and Equitable Citizen Science will be out early next year! It is a distillation of all the successes and mistakes we've made over the past 18 years, and we can't wait to share it. Grateful for @uoylibrary.bsky.social funds for it to be open access
This Argentina hate watch is going to sustain me for tomorrow, notwithstanding my 6:30am train
haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it
"Seventy years after the Clean Air Act, the lessons are clear. Disasters should not be required to trigger action. The Great Smog forced change. But policy should anticipate risk, not respond to tragedy." - Ian Williams on the Clean Air Act. theconversation.com/70-years-on-...
70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit
Economic interests have shaped society’s response to pollution. Now, policy needs to align with the scientific evidence to clean up our air.
theconversation.com
Well that was worth staying up for. Not sure the nap before my 6:30am train is going to happen!
Were you sitting on the sidelines about the need to #RebootFIFA? Consider it now a call to action. How can Infantino be allowed to continue ie to bring the game into disrepute? rebootfifa.com
Act now to stop abuse of power at FIFA | Reboot FIFA campaign
Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to our mass complaint now >>
rebootfifa.com
Bonita Mersiades@bonitamersiades.bsky.social · last mo.And now there is this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
New paper looking at school indoor air quality (IAQ), led by a PhD researcher I am working with, Iman Hussain, alongside Adrian Friday. We investigate how the IAQ trilemma (air, energy, & stakeholder requirements) are interacting since COVID-19: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
rebootfifa.com
What a wonderful few days at the HESTIA Sandpit (hestia-network.org/sandpit): I am really looking forward to seeing what new transdisciplinary research projects emerge focused on developing healthy homes for all!
Really pleased to hear that @airqualitymatters.bsky.social read and enjoyed my paper with @eprofgpw.bsky.social and @pjyng.bsky.social on how the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 in school classrooms changed the meaning of poor indoor air quality, and what it meant to do good air quality science.
The Blinking Light Problem: Why Handing Teachers CO2 Monitors Isn't Enough - #OT44
Spotify video
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Douglas Booker@douglasbooker.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew special issue on the relations between air, breath, and (dis)organising: ephemerajournal.org/issue/stayin... @eprofgpw.bsky.social, @pjyng.bsky.social, & I wrote about the organisation of breathing in schools during the arrival of COVID-19, & how it relates to inequalities & responsibilities.
The HESTIA team (hestia-network.org) are excited to welcome 40+ people to York for a Sandpit! Over the next few days everyone will be developing ideas for small research projects focused on enabling healthier indoor home environments for all, with a focus on health, technologies, & equity & justice
The AFC in AFC Bournemouth stands for Arsenal Football Club
After 22 years of waiting, the Premier League title is Arsenal’s again 🏆🔴
AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
A civic grammar for AI rights
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
science.org
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
