NEW: for this week’s column I dug into the curious case of British attitudes to immigration Before the EU ref, concern about immigration tracked levels of arrivals. Since then, immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated What’s going on? ft.com/content/f2d72f…

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How can the UK's inactivity crisis be tackled? bbc.in/3ZqC2Bb

We're working with Public Health Wales to understand what activities matter to YOU for supporting your #wellbeing 🏄‍♀️🎺📖🚴🎟️🤝🎨🎭🎣⚽️🏏🍽️🌴🐶🐱🎒🧶 If you live in #Wales please take a moment to fill out our short survey! 🙏 bit.ly/3LryRDK (Eng) bit.ly/3rhgWc4 (Cym)

Great to see this one out in press: Cerebral blood flow and cerebrovascular reactivity are modified by maturational stage and exercise training status during youth Another instalment from Jack Talbot, PhD’s thesis. Big collaborative effort with CUBRIC physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The 2nd paper from my PhD thesis looking at 🏃🏽‍♀️+🧠 has been published #OpenAccess in Experimental Physiology 1️⃣🔺VO2max associated with faster cerebrovascular kinetics during hypercapnia in children. 2️⃣🔺VO2max associated with 🔺 Cerebral blood flow in adolescents.

Our latest issue features the "Causes and consequences of sympathoexcitation across the lifespan: Physiological or Pathological?" symposium set, which begins with an editorial from Zoe Adams, Rachel Lord (Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences) and Jill Barnes (Kinesiology UW-Madison) 📜buff.ly/46IQfw0

#ArticlesInPress: The Mueller Maneuver Attenuates Left Atrial Phasic Volumes and #Myocardial Strain in Healthy Younger Adults (Wright et al.) ow.ly/Iqvp50PW3zU Mike Stembridge PhD Stephen Wright, PhD Rob Shave Tony Dawkins, PhD University of British Columbia #LeftAtrium #ChamberFunction #MyocardialMechanics

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A 2-million-year-old jawbone from Ethiopia, identified as Homo erectus, is the earliest evidence of hominins living in a high-altitude area. newscientist.com/article/239729…

In conclusion: Stop saying we send too many people to university, and start saying we’re not creating enough graduate-quality jobs. End of rant. Here’s my column in full (free to read for the first 300 clicks) on.ft.com/3MljMEl

This is genius

Whenever someone presents the argument that it’s a simple individual choice whether to be heathy or not, remember those that don’t want you to be healthy have lots of well funded lawyers!!

objectively quite funny that after all that tub-thumping about imperial measurements barely 1% of the public want them back

Great thread on our perception of and appetite for risk in our personal and professional lives. I’ve recognised mine changing as I age/have a family. But interesting to see that shift happening on a national scale. The bigger the challenge, the more ambitious the solution.

So basically an SNP day designed to expose Labour divisions and undermine Starmer ended up with a Labour amendment securing the first Commons call for a ceasefire on Gaza. No wonder SNP and Tories furious. Starmer really is a lucky general.

The association between persistent physical activity and improved sleep in over 4,000 participants from 9 countries over 10 years bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/3/e…

Cardiac patients across south Wales now have access to exercise rehabilitation at Cardiff Met's Exercise for Health Hub. Following a new collaboration with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board & Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, the Hub provides follow up care using our facilities: bit.ly/3Q2C4Mg

Amazing progress made in this space for our students to gain practical experience and as a service for our community in south wales. Spearheaded by Brian Begg and Rachel Lord.

The media are generally doing a poor job of reporting on this issue. But the biggest failing is leadership from the IOC and the lack of a credible boxing gov body. Creates room for misinformation, and the athlete takes the worst of it. Steve’s thread below is a great summary.