Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
Colin Angus
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Year after year, life expectancy rose. Until it didn’t ⏳
ERC grantee Jennifer Dowd @ox.ac.uk investigates the social, economic, and biological forces shaping mortality trends today.
🔗 Read the full story here: buff.ly/BH8l63N
#LifeExpectancy #PopulationHealth #FrontierResearch
And a whole museum full of devils, which was amazing.
A white-tailed eagle being accosted by a montagu's harrier
A skulky common rosefinch
A mystery warbler (any suggestions welcome)
The amazing nest that penduline tits build
There were sculptures everywhere in the city, which was very cool
Video
Also in Lithuania - many cool birds 🦉
Yellow wagtail (with a blue head - ours have yellow heads)
White Stork preening on a roof
Aquatic warbler singing his little heart out
Cranes with a little baby crane
Colin Angus
Colin Angus
European Research Council (ERC)
Colin Angus
Colin Angus
📢 We’re recruiting a Research Assistant to join SARG on a @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded project led by
@ambercopeland.bsky.social exploring how contextual factors influence alcohol consumption.
📍 Full-time (hybrid), Sheffield
⏳ Apply by 29 June
tinyurl.com/sarg-ra
#AcademicSky #PublicHealth
In our latest blog, researcher Lucy Burke finds that people who drink alcohol to "fit in" are more likely to try no and low alternatives - but those who drink to cope or for intoxication? Not so much.
Drinking motives may shape who no/lo policies actually reach.
www.ias.org.uk/2026/06/09/w...
It's almost World Cup time (for better or worse), so I've got an excuse to update this silly application of a lexis surface to the England men's football squads for every major tournament ever.
R code here: github.com/VictimOfMath...
I spent last week in Kaunas in Lithuania at an alcohol policy conference.
It was my first visit to Lithuania, and it was marvellous. A beautiful city, great food and an abundant supply of delicious cakes.
Drinking motives help explain why people drink alcohol - so how do these motives interact with consuming zero alcohol products?
