New 5y Research Fellowships University of Liverpool - we'd love to get applications from excellent candidates to join LivUni Psychology and Appetite Research 👍

📢Our report on the #BestReMaP piloting of EU-WHO protocol to monitor unhealthy food marketing! 📢We piloted protocols to monitor marketing on TV, internet and outdoor. 📢We explored the main challenges and facilitators to EU-wide monitoring. lnkd.in/e5gi43fE

New paper! Food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing in children and adults: A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies Led by your friend and mine Prof Prof. Emma Boyland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ob…

Teamwork makes the dream work Carl Roberts🤩 @MichelleMaden Anna Coates Dr. Travis Masterson, PhD @MoniqueAlblas Amanda Bruce Key finding: Brain responses to food marketing most observed in areas relating to visual processing, attention, sensorimotor activity& emotional processing

A hyperfocus on #digitalliteracy may forget that individuals (incl. educators) cannot correct harms that are structural. Especially those due to inadequate #regulation about digital privacy. 7/

I was invited to talk at the Best-ReMaP national stakeholders' meeting in Cyprus. I talked about children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing, how it affects them, and the best practices to restrict it. I also presented our work on monitoring protocols. Exciting end of the JA.

📢We are Recruiting! MRC Epidemiology Unit Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43874/ Research Associate position in our collaborative, multi-disciplinary team, developing and evaluating interventions to prevent and treat obesity, diabetes and related metabolic disorders. Please RT

We are looking for participants from Ireland or Northern Ireland, if anyone has good contacts, please share :)

We are recruiting parents and children in ROI and NI for a study on digital food marketing to children. We've made a short information video about the study: tinyurl.com/4jt8z2d3 Email or DM me for more info (p.s. video production skills were not a module on my PhD! 🙈)

Law without enforcement is just good advice. Saw this for myself in England this summer- even though in theory the law prohibits unhealthy foods being promoted in key supermarket locations…in reality this was almost the only type of food I could see in such spots

It's not just all about personalisation: we've been talking about contextual ads for a while now. The brilliant Oana Goga and team show that granular contextual targeting is directing advertising to kids Jeffrey Chester @johnnyryan.bsky.social Prof. Emma Boyland @AmandineGarde Dr. Magdalena Muc

More digital food marketing evidence: in Austria Eva Winzer & colleagues assessed biggest food brands' content on Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, Twitch & influencers - and found > 70% content unhealthy & not suitable for marketing to kids. Minister says it's time for regulation!

🔥Hot off the press! Our new model highlighting specific issues around digital food marketing on social media and streaming websites: bit.ly/3SLE7WU Prof. Emma Boyland Becky Evans @spritsc2 @KatKellerLab #DigitalMarketing #food #foodnoise #MarketingDigital

EXCLUSIVE: four in five outdoor ads in England and Wales is in poorer areas. New research from Adfree Cities shows clear link between outdoor ads like billboards and inequalities in income, air pollution and deprivation. Read more 👇👇👇 theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…

👏 BBC News - Junk food ads banned from Sheffield City Council-owned billboards bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

📰 BREAKING NEWS 📰 Our NEW #FuelUsDontFoolUs research reveals 78% of food products with child-appealing packaging (think cute, cuddly marketing) are unhealthy. Yet companies say they do not market unhealthy food to children... theguardian.com/food/2024/may/…

📜New Paper! We found that foods higher in energy density were associated with greater energy intake at a meal and over a full day regardless of familiarity. Findings suggest that reformulation may be an effective approach to reducing energy intake🍕 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"A ban on junk food adverts being shown on TV before 21:00 will come into force on 1 October 2025 (...) alongside a total ban on paid-for online adverts, both aimed at tackling childhood obesity." 👏Total ban, because", "aimed/targeted at children" is not enough to protect them.

Pleased to share our new paper which found that exposure to HFSS marketing through traditional formats (e.g. broadcast & print) was associated with greater household purchases of energy (9779kcal), protein (416g), carbohydrate(1164g) and sugar (514g) over a four week period.

🚨ℹ️ I am moving my main activity to BlueSky, to follow my activity there, find magdalenamuc.bsky.social.