Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Reviewers: $0

We should all have access to: ✅ diverse ☑️ nutritious ✅ affordable ☑️ safe foods ... to grow, be healthy & live an active life. Here are 5⃣ actions we can all take to help create a food-secure & sustainable future for all. #WorldFoodDay #RightToFood

I am excited to join the SAC2024 SDGs Annual Conference in Jakarta, organised by Kementerian PPN/Bappenas. University of Sydney looks forward to a productive partnership with Kementerian PPN/Bappenas #USYD #SSEAC #Bappenas #Indonesia

Academic ironies

The opposite of ikigai 😆

Consumer Federation of America proposed strategies to improve public health by targeting UPFs: 1- Educating consumers through dietary guidelines and front-of-pack labeling; (cont.) consumerfed.org/reports/ultra-…

As negotiations for a global treaty to end plastics pollution continue while plastic-coated UPFs flood global markets, we propose key steps to break the toxic relationship. Great leadership by Joe Yates on this Carlos A. Monteiro Megan Deeney Angela Carriedo Olwenn Martin (She/her) Jane Muncke

Based on ‘… a large and growing body of evidence (premature mortality, cancer, CVD, obesity, diabetes, impaired mental, resp. and gastr. health)’, avoiding or moderating UPF consumption is now embodied in the FAO/WHO core principles of healthy diets👏👏 openknowledge.fao.org/items/44d5714a…

Gaza is hell on earth for children. When will this deliberate killing of Palestinian children end? We need a complete ceasefire now, and access to children and families, everywhere.

This was a fascinating meeting on UPF policies and I was happy to present some preliminary results of our ongoing RCT on mechanisms by which diets high in UPFs cause excess energy intake. Here’s a brief summary 🧵

🚨After a panel from the United States-Mexico-Canada 🌎 Agreement (#USMCA) concluded against Mexico's intention to ban the use and import of GMOs for human consumption and agriculture, stating that "the panel acknowledged Mexico's good-faith efforts to address concerns but

“I reiterate my call for independent investigations into the systematic disregard for the protection of humanitarian workers, premises and operations. This cannot become the new standard and impunity cannot become the new norm.” - Philippe Lazzarini

🚨📰 Today is a great day for public health and for children 🌍👶: The Executive Board of the World Health Organization World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed to recommend this resolution to the World Health Assembly to regulate the digital marketing of breast milk substitutes. This resolution was

Goodness gracious, I needed this post. New on the PLOS Global Public Health blog by Ben Phillips : We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/13/we-…

My latest in Forbes - Trump Administration lays off critical CDC workers, threatening public health. forbes.com/sites/omerawan…. Ian Weissman, DO Nolan Kagetsu (花 月), MD (he/him) Timothy Caulfield (((Dorit Reiss))) Dr. Jonathan N. Stea Linda Girgis MD Ali Husnain, MD @paimadhu

I welcome efforts by the parties to abide by the Gaza ceasefire agreement & urge action for a permanent ceasefire & release of all hostages. Peace is possible in the Middle East – and that starts with tangible, irreversible & permanent progress toward the two-State solution.

"Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?" blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

NovoNordisk wants to design a new food classification system called Nova 2.0 - if the name rings a bell it may be because it sounds a bit like the "Nova classification" developed in Brazil over a decade ago. Nova group 4 is also known as 'Ultra-Processed Food' or UPF.

How intense industry lobbying - most notably by the transnational corporations Danone - convinced NZ ministers to back down on a new baby formula standard. Some excellent investigative journalism from RNZ that is a must read 👇 Julie P Smith rnz.co.nz/news/political…

🚨Conflict is driving the risk of famine & severe malnutrition across #Gaza, new #IPC report warns 🔴1 in 5 people face starvation (IPC Phase 5) 🔴 Gaza's 2.1 mln population faces acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3+) Urgent ceasefire & unhindered aid access is vital to save