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The European Parliament’s Committee on Public Health is now on Bluesky 🦋!

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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · Sep 7

423.73 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 06-Sep-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

The Keeling Curve

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Aug 31

Stupendous gig. That’s what music is for, not a dry eye in the house with tears of love, nostalgia and joy. Huge thanks to you, Ben, Blake and Rex. x

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Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social · Jul 18

Postdoc vacancy in an interdisciplinary team of food-system researchers based in London and Oxford, supervised by Dr Marco Springmann!

Deadline for applications 12th August my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hello @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social - can you please urgently ensure that the pedestrian crossing traffic lights at the A420/A34 roundabout are fixed before someone gets killed by a driver without the decency to stop - as I very nearly was yesterday on my way to Wytham Woods.

Screenshot of email from FixMyStreet with title “New FixMyStreet updates on report: 'Pedestrian crossing not working at A34/A420 roundabout'” showing two new reports reiterating the same point

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 12

Hi there @financialtimes.com - I think you should know that the HTSI team seem to have staged a coup and taken over the main paper…

Screenshot of FT article with headline “Non-dom exodus hits London market for butlers”
and subheading
“Demand for high-end domestic staff has fallen since the Budget ended tax loophole for wealthy UK residents”

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

www.theguardian.com

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 10

I very much support the excellent piece by Lucie Nield and Catherine Homer. It's just depressing that it still needs to be said...

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 10

Spot-on, and as they rightly point out, this isn’t new(s). I wrote back in 2012 that “obesity is the outcome of a complex web of social, cultural, environmental, biological and psychological influences.” Sadly this message still needs to be repeated… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The single most important intervention to tackle obesity… - International Journal of Public Health

International Journal of Public Health -

link.springer.com

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm so sorry to hear that Jim. My deepest condolences. Love to you and your loved ones.

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · Jul 4

In the last year, to May 2025, the average costs of running a car fell by 0.1% while the cost of public transport increased by 5%

How is inflation affecting your household costs? - Office for National Statistics

Use our inflation calculator to see how increases in the cost of living have affected you in the past year

www.ons.gov.uk

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m with you! ‘Naturally he read Greats’ is up there with the, er, greats…

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · Jul 2

That's my horse! Further ways in which the upper classes use public money to stay in their huge, expensive houses. Featuring tax breaks, eight paintings in Longleat which turn out to belong to all of us, and posh people not talking about slavery.
open.substack.com/pub/susannah...

That's my horse

and yours too

open.substack.com

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you for yet another excellent, incisive piece.

Hard to believe that the Scott obituary you linked to wasn’t satire…

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you!
You may be interested in this discussion of the absurdity of the beg button approach recently in response to a post from
@ianwalker.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/harr...

Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 25

Default programming of pedestrian crossings that forces pedestrians to wait before the lights change in their favour actually makes no difference to drivers compared to delay being after people cross, so it's not even motornormative, but it comes from car brain.
Can't find a policy though - sorry!

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sounds great! Please can it also activate straight away, without forcing pedestrians to endure a delay after pressing the beg button...

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks! And yes to all that :-)

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 27

...and drivers need to respond to traffic lights whether or not a pedestrian has pressed a beg button.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I am totally unable to see any benefit whatsoever to anyone, merely costs to pedestrians, from imposing a delay between pressing the button and lights changing.

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 27

A Vision Zero approach should work to eliminate, or at least mitigate, the danger imposed by those kinds of drivers. But imposing a delay on pedestrians before crossing the road, rather than on drivers after, makes no difference whatsoever to drivers...

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yet another spurious 'rationale' that doesn't stand up to the faintest scrutiny!

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 26

Exactly! The beg button delay doesn't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny, but somehow it is everywhere.
Someone once told me that it is a default setting in the equipment, which is even more infuriating if true...

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 26

Completely agree.
The stupidity of the enforced wait - for drivers as well as pedestrians - was reinforced this morning. I pressed the button in anticipation of a long wait, but the road cleared so I crossed. Drivers were then kept waiting at an empty crossing 30 seconds later.
No one wins!

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Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social · Jun 25

Default programming of pedestrian crossings that forces pedestrians to wait before the lights change in their favour actually makes no difference to drivers compared to delay being after people cross, so it's not even motornormative, but it comes from car brain.
Can't find a policy though - sorry!

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · May 30

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

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