Harry Rutter

@harryrutter.bsky.social

Prof of Global Public Health, University of Bath. European.

🎬 🍿 Official Film Release! We’re thrilled to announce the public release of Unmasking Influence -now available via the LSHTM Vimeo channel! vimeo.com/1123819285 There is overwhelming evidence that many industries are undermining public health.This documentary makes the issues visible and relatable.

Unmasking Influence - The Official Trailer

This trailer is for a film called Unmasking Influence. Unmasking influence is about how commercial actors influence policy and public health. Many of the major…

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"On the one hand, we have a hypothesis underpinned by evidence, although imperfect, and on the other hand we have a hypothesis without evidence, although it might exist...maintaining neutrality on this issue amounts to performative uncertainty to create the veneer of academic detachment"

Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · last yr.

I have also had some things to say about this: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Fossil fuel industry gave $19m to Trump’s inaugural fund, analysis shows - In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to “drill, baby, drill" - Biggest donors: Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Storyby @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s inaugural fund received $19m from fossil fuel industry, analysis shows

President raised $239m for inauguration – more than previous three inaugural committees took in combined

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Unusually, all West Oxfordshire District Council’s car parks are free of charge. WODC budget documents show that council tax payers, including those without cars, pay up to £120,000 a quarter to subsidise “free parking”. A recent survey identified a further £170,000 of outstanding maintenance.

"The High Cost of Free Parking" by Donald Shoup. A present for the WODC planner in your life this Christmas

Cycling in Oxford: A Tale of Four Schools. 58% of the children at Cherwell secondary school in North Oxford cycle to school; it may have the highest cycling rate of any UK school. In contrast, just 10% of children at Cheney secondary school cycle to school. THREAD 1/N

🚨'Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier' now available open access. Includes papers on architecture as a professional and research discipline through to later papers presenting a theory of the spatial structure of the city and its social functions. uclpress.co.uk/book/space-s...

Space Syntax

Professor Bill Hillier spent most of his career at The Bartlett, University College London, where he founded and developed, with a team of colleagues, an original research programme that set the study...

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doing archival research for a paper on processed foods and single-use plastics, and it is striking how companies like Coca-Cola have been able to delay meaningful environmental action by making the same voluntary commitments over and over This is from 1999, but could literally be from last year

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1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.