Mags Steele

Here's our report on food manufacturers', supermarkets', and fast food chains commitments to increase the health and sustainability in Ireland. Spoiler: They're quite limited. #commercialdeterminantsofhealth #foodsystems #foodenvironment zenodo.org/records/1451...

Academics: it's time to call a stop to this ever escalating rinsing of profit from your unpaid labour. Choose community owned journals where possible!

Listening to this episode right now, very fun!

Ireland is facilitating ICE to undertake horrifically violent and in some cases likely illegal third-country deportations.

UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm

Raging that Helen of Troy is being played by a mammal and not someone who was born from an egg.

More slash and burn across UK Universities. 153 jobs to be lost at Exeter; 117 targeted at Humanities and Social Sciences. Exeter is not in financial crisis; this is a choice to align with narrowly conceived government strategies and priorities. Please sign. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

A chairde, an bhfuil sibh ar Cogar (tuairisc.ie/cogar-ardan-...), agus muna bhfuil, canathaobh nach bhfuil?! Lean orm: @magscorcaigh.

Up the Spanish biy. #FreePalestine

Less than 20 minutes from setdown to departure gate. @corkairport.bsky.social is undefeated. #Cork #Corcaigh

Lots of #FOODPATH activity at #ISBNPA2026. Looking forward to meeting lots of colleagues old and new!

Who will be at #ISBNPA2026? Would love to meet colleagues interested in #criticalpublichealth, #commercialdeterminantsofhealth #politicaldeterminantsofhealth everything wrong (and right) with #obesity research, #feminist approaches, #foodsystems, #foodenvironments, #fooddemocracy, etc etc

Me to the students whose mark I bumped up from a 69 to a 70:

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@swip-i.bsky.social needs a student rep! Come join a sound and welcoming committee of philosophers (and philosophy-adjacent ppl like me). We're currently thinking about our next conference theme so it's a fun time to get involved! #philosophy #earlycareer #swip #ireland

Link to my recent #PublicHealth in Action talk, about why it is so hard to get people to think about 'obesity' systemically, and why we should focus on on equitable food access instead. @publichealthucc.bsky.social #commercialdeterminantsofhealth #foodpolicy #foodjustice www.ucc.ie/en/publichea...

Public health researchers (like myself) want to take an upstream view of obesity, focusing on environmental factors rather than individual behaviour. In this talk, I argue this is not possible with obesity. Whether we like it or not, obesity just IS an individual and moralised concept.

This was so much fun. @egeertsphd.bsky.social I love your syllabus, and you and your students were so welcoming. Thank you! <3

📣 Call for Articles    We invite submissions to the Special Collection on the 40th Anniversaries of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion @ottawacharter40.bsky.social and Health Promotion International. More info below👇   academic.oup.com/heapro/pages...

Would love to mobilise a load of women to comment "who??? How is this news??" under posts about footballers or whatever aul lads care about as revenge, but the reality is that women typically have better things to be doing

Nice summary of @thelancet.com series on #ultraprocessedfoods #upf. My take: the problem is not individual foods, but: (1) changes in dietary patterns driven by (2) undemocratic corporate influence which (3) narrows options especially for those on lower income. theconversation.com/the-ultra-pr...

New special issue of Journal of Critical Public Health on Reproductive Vulnerabilities looks really interesting! doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

A weekly reminder that our Annual Conference is still open for submission. Send us your abstract before the 15th of September. All the info at: www.swip-ireland.com/events

Got an idea for a paper in the oul top drawer? Sure you might as well write up an abstract for our SWIP Ireland annual conference. Deadline on Monday. (And just to reassure everyone, it's not just for women, people of all genders are very welcome!)

This is advertising, not reporting. www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...

There is nowhere safe to go in Gaza. Israeli forces have ordered thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City to evacuate as the military prepares another major assault. States should act to prevent genocide in Gaza and press Israel to reverse course.

Lol, you know you're Irish when ... you're all confused watching a TV show or film until you realise you're supposed to be assuming the British spies/soldiers/cops the good guys. Also the immersion, Mass, etc, hahaha lol.

Ok, ok, ok. Summer is busy, we know it. So, what about an extension? ➡️ SWIP Ireland Annual Conference new deadline for submitting abstracts is the 15th September 2025! Find more information at: www.swip-ireland.com/events

Your man calling it a "conclave"? We're not beating the papistry allegations there on The Traitors Ireland.

Help scientists at @ucc.ie uncover Ireland’s hidden fossil treasures! The Great Irish Fossil Hunt is asking members of the public who find any fossils to take a picture and send it to the research team. Submissions close on 31st August 2025. Get involved: www.ucc.ie/en/fossil-he...

lol what the fuck is this? They’ve murdered THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of people in retaliation Delete your account NYT

This is so bad. This will be used to make profit. This will be used by private insurance companies. This will be used for advertising. And shitty studies. No chance that this will help patients

Interesting comparison of how different 'crises' are framed. Kathrin Lauberet al. "(Re)acting (to) the crisis: A comparative analysis of crisis framing in obesity, climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and the UK cost-of-living crisis" journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

sure, Adobe updated every 15 minutes, but the pdf reader worked fine for years ... until, of course, they added AI (dis)functionality. Opening a basic text document in 2025 should not feel as messy and bloaty as pirating music in 2003, but here we are.

"Patient Partnership Week has been sponsored by Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca & Novartis" www.patients-association.org.uk/news/patient... Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement ➡️ academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... @jameslarkin13.bsky.social @healthpromint.bsky.social

Yet again chomh bródúil as #Kneecap at #Glastonbury. Mo cheol sibh. Nár laga Dia sibh. ❤️🇵🇸🇮🇪

Zoomed in on the best poster today 😂😂

Whenever it comes up in conversation, Brendan says that he went to school in the North Inner City. He means Belvedere, but he doesn’t say that.

It's my birthday AND Cork are the Munster champions. Great day for the parish.

This is so bad that, even as an Irish person, it actually makes me want to create an AI Oliver Cromwell to oppress him.

My @ucc.ie colleague @jodymooreponce.bsky.social is doing brilliant work on the historical sociology of what we now call lived experience. Get a flavour of her forthcoming papers and monograph in this Irish Examiner article: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

❤️ Really looking forward to #HPRC2025 @galwayhprc.bsky.social 🙏 Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to share our work from the #PLRG_SPRINGproject 🔗 Still time to register - join us! www.hprcconference.ie @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @lauralinehan.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social

We are 3 seconds from a dim, influential person arguing that it's ok for "AI" to hallucinate scientific references because it means those papers *should* exist.

Once again, the RSA's idea to task citizens with responsibility for road safety seems unhelpful when we have no role in road design and very little influence on the regulation or enforcement of road traffic offences.

Sous les pavés, la plage I guess.