Building community normally begins with a set of empty chairs and a set of empty tables. Question is; how do we organise them? And who is invited?

"the more stressful life events a person had experienced, the more likely they were to be depressed, showing the importance of external events." Time for NICE to act. – Little evidence that chemical imbalance causes depression, UCL scientists find. theguardian.com/society/2022/j…

⚠️URGENT!⚠️ Do you walk or cycle through East London? SAY NO to ripping out £millions of new safer streets schemes: membership.lcc.org.uk/tower-hamlets-… Areas affected all across Tower Hamlets, #BrickLane, Columbia Road Market 🌸 market, Wapping, Old Bethnal Green Road, & surroundings 🧵 [1/13]

The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

'Coffey has “shattered” a longstanding consensus on state intervention stretching back to the work by the then-health secretary Norman Fowler on HIV and Aids in the 1990s'. theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Diversity is good for us. "Diversity in social portfolios may be associated with greater access to different types of social support, resulting in enhanced well-being." Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

London’s priorities …

IMPORTANT: As #Davos is back in the news, you should DEFINITELY watch & share this! “It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference & no one is allowed to speak about water.” “You’re counting the wrong things!” With Rutger Bregman @Winnie_byanyima. #wef23

“A network made up of high rollers and city slicks. Modern Tory government has become a corporation finding new, even more slippery ways of handing out favours and jobs, and shunning investigation” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Fanning the embers of division. What our government spends all its time doing

Why Tory government is using the language it is using

A conversation exploring the pedagogical value of peer review processes led by itinerant space journal's editors and RCA researchers. Plus an Open Call for the next issue. rcaCommResearch Teal Triggs

Itinerant space peer review workshop and open call at Hopscotch - RCA Research Biennale 2023, Saturday at 3:15

Join us! itinerant space. peer review workshop and open call. Hopscotch - Royal College of Art Research Biennale 2023, Saturday 24 June, 3:15pm (in-person, Copeland Gallery, Peckham) Details and event sign-up: bit.ly/3P6olo6

Looking forward! Royal College of Art PGR Research Biennale: Saturday 24/06/23 conversations start: 2.00pm Carmen Hannibal. Ethical and Moral Considerations in the Selection of Research Methods. 3.15pm Peer Review for researchers in academic publishing w/Co-editors of itinerant space.

Bus station: "…a chemical toilet, no drinking fountain, very few seats and no windows. The air was choked with exhaust… at one end of the tunnel… armed policemen stood against a wall facing us." writes joanna pocock theguardian.com/travel/2023/ju…

‘there is a section of society who do not think people on benefits or low wages are “ordinary human beings” – that they have the same creativity, dreams and goals as everyone else.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Lutfur Rahman has taken the most extreme, undemocratic and dangerous decision available to him this evening. He has decided to rip out all the walking and cycling infrastructure in Bethnal Green. This is not the end. We know we have public support for our cause and the

Inspiring how all the Charedi communities support these amazing community services, plus the tireless work of Interlink Foundation . I went on this tour organised by Clapton Commons a year ago. The future of communities are brighter with community-led organisations like these

Season was over 4 or 5 games ago, so no real surprise is it? #ncfc All part of the plan to make Sarg’ and Sainz look less attractive 😆