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Nick Cavill

@nickcavill.bsky.social
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Public health guy. Hon Prof @ University of Bath and independent consultant. Into walking, cycling, active travel, complex systems. Saxophonist.

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Nick Cavill @nickcavill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Many congratulations to the amazing @ambervandenakker.bsky.social for winning this well-deserved award. Great to be involved with your research!
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Nick Cavill @nickcavill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Superb article about planning for people not cars www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood
While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?
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Ben Jane @benjane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So I've had a go at a Starter Pack thing to see if @nanettemutrie.bsky.social and I can find more #physicalactivity friends who have made the jump across. Additional tags welcomed and will add go.bsky.app/DsHNWPf
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Nick Cavill @nickcavill.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Anyone who thinks our transport problems will be solved by EVs, consider this horrific ‘concept’. It’s like the brief was ‘maximise the danger to #pedestrians and #cyclists’.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you do science, Blue Sky is the place to be. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
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Nick Cavill @nickcavill.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Fascinating webinar today by @nestauk.bsky.social explaining their policy intervention modelling to halve #obesity in the UK. Guess what? Restrictions on junk food ads; front of pack labelling; compulsory nutrition info etc etc. Not a voluntary agreement in sight. www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...
nesta.org.uk
Expert analysis identifies the government interventions needed to halve obesity in five years
It is possible and affordable to halve obesity by the end of the decade if the government implements specific prevention policies, alongside wider access to weight-loss drugs, first-of-its-kind analys...
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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Rule of thumb for future cycling infrastructure planners: If children can't cycle on it safely, it's not fit for purpose.
Small child cycling confidently on a separated cycle lane
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Nick Cavill @nickcavill.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/... Moving on to the next stage of this project now: follow-up stage in exploring the use of systems mapping in process evaluation. #systems #complexity #physicalactivity
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Using systems mapping within the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of the ACE active ageing programme in England and Wales
Background System mapping has mainly been used to develop theories and understanding of complex systems; to hypothesise how an intervention might work in a complex system or to inform intervention dev...
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