Reposted by Eman ZiedClare Bambra @profbambra.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Launch today @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social 3.30pm 032
Eman Zied @ezied.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Our new report published today on high streets and health inequalities to map the changes over time in 16 amenities across all of England's high streets - areas which already suffer from a high burden of ill health also face a decline in the quality of their high streets. #gischat #geosky #episky 021
Reposted by Eman ZiedHealth Equity North @healthequitynorth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Listen to our Academic Co-Director @profbambra.bsky.social speaking on this morning's BBC Radio 4 Today show about our ghost towns report released today which shows a worrying deterioration of England's high streets www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukToday - 23/05/2025 - BBC SoundsNews and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. 076
Reposted by Eman ZiedThe Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 23/05/2025Parts of the country are becoming “ghost towns”, with banks, libraries, pharmacies and public toilets replaced by vape shops, bookies and takeaways, a hard-hitting report has revealed.mirror.co.ukVape shops surge 1,200% as Britain's high streets become 'ghost towns' 152
Reposted by Eman ZiedWRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities @wrirosscities.bsky.social · 22/05/2025📊🌡️ A new study in Science Magazine reveals an unexpected finding: #Heat disproportionately kills the young, not the elderly, with people under 35 accounting for 87% of heat-related lost life years in Mexico. Full story: bit.ly/4d6gGjF #ExtremeHeat #UrbanHeat 064
Reposted by Eman ZiedKat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Delighted to see @profbambra.bsky.social's contributions recognised through Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship 👏Clare does brilliant, much needed research, helping maintain policy pressure to reduce health inequalities, & is a fantastic supporter, ally & advocate for other women in academia. 1132
Reposted by Eman ZiedAnita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025Another interesting new paper on street network analysis, HT @gboeing 💯 it's surprisingly hard to count intersections onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111… 043
Reposted by Eman ZiedAnita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @underdarkgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025And here's @martinfleis et al.'s new street network generalization tool: uscuni.org/neatnet arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198 #giscience #gischat #mobility #mobilitydatascience 154
Eman Zied @ezied.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Throughout winter when the sun would set at 4pm I would regularly see Jupiter on my walk home and it was comforting to know we're part of a solar system 🪐🌌 010
Reposted by Eman ZiedStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 13/05/2025“… the areas with the highest risk of transport related social exclusion are characterised by a vicious cycle of high car-dependency and a lack of viable public transport and active travel options for everyday journeys” Valuable research & updated data tool launched by Transport for the North.transportforthenorth.comTransport related social exclusion – a case for investment in the North - Transport for the NorthPoorly performing, inadequate, and unaffordable transport choices in some areas of the North have a fundamental impact on the everyday lives of residents. The risk of what we term transport related so... 0199
Reposted by Eman ZiedHealth Equity North @healthequitynorth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025People living in more deprived areas were 65% more likely to lose their local pharmacy than those in wealthier areas, according to our research published today with @newcastleuni.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social led by @ezied.bsky.social www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/availability... 001
Eman Zied @ezied.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Hot off the press! Our latest research shows that the availability of community pharmacies has declined in the past decade, with the most deprived areas in England 65% more likely to lose a pharmacy. In BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5... #gischat #episky #publichealth #medsky #pharmskybmjopen.bmj.com 254
Reposted by Eman ZiedRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Appropriate use of color in mapping: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegan... #gischatearthobservatory.nasa.govElegant Figures - Subtleties of Color (Part 1 of 6)The Earth Observatory shares images and stories about the environment, Earth systems, and climate that emerge from NASA research, satellite missions, and models. 031
Reposted by Eman ZiedCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 08/04/2025Activists told @theguardian.com “the challenge now was to mobilise the ‘climate-aware majority’—the large proportion of the population that is aware of the coming crisis, are deeply afraid about what it means for their own lives and that of their children, but are yet to take action.” #The89Percentbuff.lyWhat next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?After three years, thousands of arrests and a state crackdown on protests, the group is ending direct action after a polarising campaign 11510
Eman Zied @ezied.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Great to see spatial analysis, place based approaches and health inequalities mentioned as focus areas in the government's new Climate Adaptation Research and Innovation Framework. Together through R&I we can adapt to the incoming changes and come out more resilient 🌱 www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukClimate Adaptation Research and Innovation Framework 041
Reposted by Eman ZiedMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 07/04/2025The new Climate Adaptation Research and Innovation Framework (CARIF) describes the research and innovation needed to enable UK adaptation. In our blog, find out how our science informs adaptation advice to government and business to protect the UK from the worst climate change impacts.metoffice.gov.ukClimate change is happening. We can see it in our observations. But adaptation to climate change needs to keep up with the weatherWe keep seeing evidence that our climate is changing rapidly, with more extreme weather causing casualties, damage to infrastructure and businesses, and degradation of our natural environment. 34811
Reposted by Eman ZiedEdward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 11/03/2025NEW: Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Toba Bryant of @ontariotechu.bsky.social Free content: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Endorsement by @profbambra.bsky.social #Governance #WelfareStates #PoliticalEconomy #PoliticalSociology 064
Reposted by Eman Zied NIHR PSRC: Greater Manchester @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025📢New publication highlights the strong economic imperative of reducing inequities in #patientsafety. Addressing disparities can lead to cost savings for healthcare systems and enhance workforce productivity. ➡️Read more: bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/14/1... #HealthEquity #HealthEconomicsbmjopenquality.bmj.comEconomic case for reducing inequities in patient safetyPatient safety is a fundamental aspect of healthcare quality, yet significant inequities persist that adversely affect patient outcomes. Recent commentaries have highlighted these inequities in high-i... 1134
Reposted by Eman ZiedAndy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I have created a starter pack of UK universities on @bsky.app, including active and dormant accounts. bsky.app/starter-pack... Please share. 3166
Reposted by Eman ZiedVas @vas-papa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Very interesting discrete choice experiment currently underway looking at precarity and redeployment amongst early career researchers (ECRs) based in UK Higher Education or research institutions: www.arrc.group.cam.ac.uk/precarity-an... #academicskyarrc.group.cam.ac.ukPrecarity and Redeployment | Action Research on Research CultureWe need your support to better understand and alleviate the precarious nature of fixed-term contracts. Are you an early career researcher (ECR) based in a UK Higher Education or research institution? ... 132
Reposted by Eman ZiedMark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Stunning new visualization of global temperatures since 1940, from @hausfath.bsky.social www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin... 4209128
Reposted by Eman ZiedAndy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I'm keeping an updated sheet as to where notable UK-facing research orgs and UK universities are on social media - post X You can see the data for yourself docs.google.com/spreadsheets... You can provide your own updates via my form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share #AcademicSkydocs.google.comSo where has everyone gone? Notable research and associated organisations in the UK (including international with UK ties) on social media 1116
Reposted by Eman ZiedJennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Was on deadline for something else when this landed yesterday, but it looks a lot like the last govt’s “long term plan for towns”. Slightly more money (£1.5bn/£1.1bn), slightly more areas (75/55) Quick comparison with original NW towns = the same towns with 3 added www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukPlan for Neighbourhoods: prospectus 23312
Reposted by Eman ZiedWenjing(Wendee) Zhang,PhD @wzgeography.bsky.social · 25/02/2025call for papers, due this friday 064
Reposted by Eman ZiedHealth Equity North @healthequitynorth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025We want our #WomanOfTheNorth report to inspire suggestions for women to be included in the @thenhsa.bsky.social #NorthInnovationWomen list. To take part, post: 🌟 #NorthInnovationWomen 🌟 Tag the person you want to suggest 🌟 List their name, role & institution bit.ly/3WRZLu4 031
Reposted by Eman ZiedThe NHSA @thenhsa.bsky.social · 13/12/2024This year @healthequitynorth.bsky.social launched the #WomanOfTheNorth report with a Parliamentary event hosted by Emma Lewell Buck, MP for South Shields. The report exposed the vast inequalities that women in the North face www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/vast-inequal... 044
Reposted by Eman ZiedCaleb @kale-ebb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Great article on how those of us in the geospatial community approach time-series analysis! #gischatstrategicgeospatial.comTime for a changeTime should be a first-class citizen in geospatial. In many ways, measuring change might always have been geospatial's killer app. But are we giving time enough structured attention? 071
Reposted by Eman ZiedGijs Westra @gijsw4.bsky.social · 04/02/2025‼️Do you work with spatial population data🌍📈 and /or spatial methods🌍🧮 ? ‼️Consider submitting your abstract to my & @ruthneville20.bsky.social 's QMRG-sponsored session in collaboration with PopGeoRG at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! @rgsibg.bsky.social @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social 1117
Reposted by Eman ZiedStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Important from @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social on role of public transport in tackling gender inequality & child poverty in this report. Women are less likely to have access to a car and more likely to use local buses. Poor public transport often means mothers can only take on local, lower-paid work. 0155
Reposted by Eman ZiedJonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025🏙️🦫 How is #rewilding refracted by urban space? 🌲🌆 Our new paper in Transactions of the @rgsibg.bsky.social explores this question in relation to the urban fabric, politics, and aesthetics, with Tom Fry and @jlorimer.bsky.social. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #UrbanRewildingrgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryRewilding has become established as a new mode of nature conservation. Until recently, cities and the urban were neglected by rewilding discourse; the idea of urban rewilding seen as oxymoronic. Of l... 2198
Reposted by Eman ZiedGeography Realm @geography.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Study: Minority and low-income neighborhoods have 11% fewer trees, are 1.5°C hotter, and have 14% more impervious surfaces than wealthier, whiter areas. #geography www.geographyrealm.com/urban-tree-c...geographyrealm.comUrban Tree Canopy Affects How Heat Stress Impacts ResidentsMinority and low-income neighborhoods have 11% fewer trees, are 1.5°C hotter, and have 14% more impervious surfaces than wealthier, whiter areas. 021
Reposted by Eman ZiedOwen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 11/02/2025#Fastfood outlets per 100,000 population for electoral wards and local authorities in England, 2024 (and with baseline comparison to 2017) www.gov.uk/government/s... new from OHID, based on analysis of @foodgov.bsky.social's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) dataset #publichealth #opendata 054
Eman Zied @ezied.bsky.social · 10/02/2025#gischat how do we feel about bivariate maps? Great? Needlessly confusing? I'm considering them for an upcoming project... 340
Reposted by Eman ZiedQGIS @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025QGIS recognized as Digital Public Good We are thrilled to announce that QGIS has been officially recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)! This recognition underscores our commitment to open-source geospatial solutions that contribute to the […]fosstodon.orgOriginal post on fosstodon.org 03012
Reposted by Eman ZiedVinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025What makes a map ‘good’? On the ethics of cartography—"Rendering the world in a responsible way means wrestling with what gets depicted on a map, how, and for whom" AEON Essays: psyche.co/ideas/what-m... #maps #geographypsyche.coWhat makes a map ‘good’? On the ethics of cartography | Psyche IdeasRendering the world in a responsible way means wrestling with what gets depicted on a map, how, and for whom 1113
Reposted by Eman ZiedSøren Have @sorenhave.dk · 07/02/2025Same here. The report is worth reading as well: www.unep.org/resources/em... 0233
Reposted by Eman ZiedCarl Baker @carlbaker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Removing bulk CSV downloads at predictable URLs seems like a retrograde step. I know there's an API, and I know it's been coming for a while. But it's a shame to have such an easy-to-use middle option discarded. digital.nhs.uk/services/org... 192
Reposted by Eman ZiedChad M. Baum @chadmbaum.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Global public perceptions on #climate change and carbon-dioxide removal #CDR and solar #geoengineering The full #GENIE survey dataset (30 countries, 19 languages) is now available, open access, via the Knowledge Hub. Please dig in! ⛏️🔬 cdr.apps.ece.iiasa.ac.at/story/2025_0... 041
Reposted by Eman ZiedDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen! 10534471307
Reposted by Eman ZiedCharles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comThe deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | LettersLetters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca... 111075
Reposted by Eman ZiedHuman Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 05/02/2025📢 #episky #mortality #opendata The UK total, England & Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland #HMD series was updated through 2022 Data 👉 mortality.org In 2022, UK #lifeexpectancy recovered following the COVID-19 pandemic setback, but still remained lower than in 2019 072
Reposted by Eman ZiedAntonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Yet again, the #EHMLab @ LSHTM leads on methodological developments in #Epidemiology, with a new modelling framework for multi-location environmental studies. As usual, everything fully reproducible. Full-text: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #RStats code & data: github.com/PierreMassel...journals.sagepub.com 141
Reposted by Eman ZiedMatt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Meteorology/disaster/EM folks: What is the best one stop shop you’ve seen for a real time situational awareness dashboard for weather? Thinking radar and/or satellite and overlays like NHC tracks or obs, etc. It doesn’t need to be a free tool if necessary. 9265
Reposted by Eman ZiedClare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Also added updated data on life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, smoking prevalence at age 15 and various HES and mortality indicators. It was quite a bumper Fingertips release day yesterday! 141
Reposted by Eman ZiedClare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Super busy yesterday so didn't get time to shout out to my team and colleagues who have added data on drinking in the last week at age 15, vaping at age 15 and higher risk drinking to Health trends in England fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-repor...fingertips.phe.org.ukHealth trends in England 1244
Reposted by Eman ZiedRachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025🎙️ New #GLaDpodcast episode! @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social and I are joined by the amazing @geoffboeing.com (@priceschool.usc.edu) to talk streets, disasters, urban form & open source software. It's a pretty good one, if I do say so myself. #geosky open.spotify.com/episode/4H6K...open.spotify.comEpisode 20: Street Smart — A Conversation with Geoff BoeingThe GLaD Podcast · Episode 01110
Reposted by Eman ZiedMatt Mason @mattgmasn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Excited to welcome submissions for an ECR session at the 2025 @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, sponsored by @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social 🌍 We’re keen to hear from #ECRs in #QuantitativeGeography! 📒 If you’re interested/have any questions, DM or email me/@fangyuanli.bsky.social Deadline 28th Feb 179
Reposted by Eman ZiedSam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 19/11/2024 Hello to the many people who joined this week! 👋 Here’s two starter packs of geographers 👇 & check out #geosky too go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm go.bsky.app/KkXvsnP 34421
Reposted by Eman ZiedTara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 04/02/2025These seem like useful considerations for the many transportation and/or disaster scholars who, like me, study and write about behavior and decisions all the time. Particularly those who may not think of themselves or been trained explicitly or primarily as "behavioral and decision scientists." 122