Reminder that the big, trumpeted, wellcome trust-funded trial intended to be the FIRST EVIDENCE of a link between teen mental health and social media has been running for, uh, 3 months and doesn't finish unitil next summer. Evidence based policy, innit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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📢 Historian Melissa Calaresu (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) & co-editor Victoria Avery (@camunivmuseums.bsky.social) win Association for the Study of Food and Society’s 2026 Book Award for The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification. This recognises best recent book published in food studies 👏

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One week today: publication day for uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...! My brilliant co-authors Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social @adamcrymble.bsky.social & I are excited for the book to be out. It will also be available open access, as our dataset is: zenodo.org/records/8070... #HistFood

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The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.

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