Petra Meier

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Industrial heat without burning fossil fuels? Use cheap renewable electricity to heat cheap materials. Store the heat. Use when needed. It’s already happening: 50+ thermal battery projects have been built worldwide. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/thermal-ba...

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

President Trump warns Andy Burnham against making Ed Miliband chancellor, interfering in how another country and ally runs the country TAT: [Foreign policy | Undermining democracy]

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

What a loss for everyone concerned www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Important explanation that these headlines were not based on any science but are essentially the opinions of well connected people. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

Congratulations to Professors Frances Mair and Petra Meier who have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of their world-changing public health research. @acmedsci.bsky.social @francesmair.bsky.social @pmeierprof.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/schools/heal...

Rayner & tax: ‘HMRC regards the matter as closed. HMRC also spells out that Rayner will not face a penalty charge. A penalty is incurred if a tax error is "careless" or "deliberate". BBC writes: ‘Rayner settles tax bill with HMRC’ …has resolved her tax affairs with HMRC following investigation 🤔

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

Drawing attention to this legal claim by Which against Apple in case folk want to join the class action www.cloudclaim.co.uk

NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all.

Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

Wouldn’t it be nice if the UK had invested in a faster green energy transition? More independence from geopolitical shocks would be rather useful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New paper from the GALLANT project examines the potential of applying the #DoughnutEconomics framework in Glasgow – considering social and ecological wellbeing simultaneously. @pmeierprof.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social More ➡️ doi.org/10.1186/s428...

Great news that @adr-scotland.bsky.social was awarded 5 years of @ukri.org funding – enabling @moragtreanor.bsky.social @nickbailey37.bsky.social @serena-pattaro.bsky.social to conduct data-driven research aimed at improving lives across the UK. @ubdc.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

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How will the Autumn Budget 2025 affect poverty, inequality, and household incomes across the UK? Using UKMOD #microsimulation - modelling to simulate behaviour and interactions - our new report assesses winners, losers and fiscal impacts from 2026–2030. www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1246769_smxx.pdf

Welcome news for people and planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still amazed at the silence from BBC and other UK news outlets.

Scotland just made history by passing a world-first Community Wealth Building Bill. It will ensure public money works harder to benefit local jobs, local businesses and local communities. Here’s why it matters. 👇

This is the last call for the "Ah, but…" people. Applications will be closing soon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE. Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

Once a carer, always a carer. Care is vital - yet not paid or valued. Disabled people are disproportionately vulnerable in hospitals. It's scandalous that carers allowance is withdrawn after 28 days in hospital. As if we haven't got enough on our plates. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

2/2 📅 The exhibition is open till the end of January. Pop in to chat with @pmeierprof.bsky.social and Dr Fraser Rowan on 20/01 1-3 for more insights into HEF challenge area, the Catalyst and how we work together. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/heal...

And I’m sure the BBC is tripping over itself to cover this in great detail, interview all major Green politicians on prime time news and in all political debate shows.

Private donations, election interference and risk to the democratic process. I've just signed this petition from 38 degrees. Sharing in case it’s of interest and you want to sign too you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

I’d like to share a short reflection I wrote for World Futures Day yesterday - and to mark a year in post as Healthy & Equitable Futures lead at University of Glasgow @uofgshw.bsky.social shorturl.at/SoNmG

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

🌎 Today we celebrate World Futures Day (WFD), adopted by the @unesco.org General Conference in November 2021. 💭 To mark the day, @pmeierprof.bsky.social shares her thoughts on shaping healthy and equitable futures and reflections from Dubai Futures Forum. 🔗 shorturl.at/SoNmG

The BBC manages to report on this without mentioning climate crisis, netzero commitments, or highlighting that there might be issues with such commercial lobbying pressure. North Sea exploration rules to be relaxed in new Labour plan www.bbc.com/news/article...

If this is the public statement then imagine what was being said in private channels. The drafting of this is so careful, the signatures so universal, you don’t have to be a diplomat to read between the lines.

A failure we can’t afford. COP30 does what it was designed to do: nothing. Key voices missing, corporate capture … predictable but tragic outcome www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢Excited to say that registration is open for Prevention Research 2026, 4-5 March, Birmingham. Visit preventionresearch26.co.uk to book your place and explore the latest research and strategies for preventing non-communicable diseases and reducing health inequalities across the UK.

As Brazil prepares to welcome global leaders for COP30, research led by Prof Joao Porto de Albequerque @uofgussp.bsky.social is aiming to reduce climate change impacts on health and wellbeing in the country’s favela urban communities. More: gla.ac/3LJDhbW

You might have thought Question Time was biased. But you never realised how much. UKIP never even had a single MP.

If this is true and U.K. Government really is planning to cut its contribution to the Global Fund, at a time when Trump’s action will cause deaths on a massive scale, it is moral bankruptcy. @friendseurope.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China