Pete Scarborough

@petescarbs

Professor of Population Health | University of Oxford | Sustainable Healthy Diets & Transformers

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Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· 20d

Imagine the outrage when they discover that Oxford is already twinned with Ramallah

Image taken from Museum of Oxford website: https://museumofoxford.org/twin-cities-oxford-and-beyond/. It is a picture of a signpost on the road into Oxford. It says "Welcome to the city of Oxford. A cycling city. Twinned with: Leiden Netherlands, Bonn Germany, Leon Nicaragua, Grenoble France, Wroclaw Poland, Ramallah Palestine, Padua Italy"

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· 22d

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Nightbeat, an Autobot who is a master logician and just really into solving problems. This is a picture of the top half of a robot. He has blue arms, grey hands, a yellow chest. The bottom half of his face is yellow and his eyes are just a visor. The top half of his head is blue. He has a red autobot insignia on his chest. He is holding a whole bunch of photonic crystals and he looks content because he has just figured out something VERY IMPORTANT. There is a night sky behind him.

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· 25d

#FraEng third place game

Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. Text says "Right idea England. But wrong game"

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· 27d

After days of headlines about Shabana Mahmood as chancellor, the Mail lead with this. They're going to do it anyway, so why not just go full on left wing?

From the Daily Mail website, 17th July 2026. Headline: Comrade Burnham takes over: He lurches Left with Labour 'coronation' speech vowing return to the 70s. By James Tapsfield. Picture shows Andy Burnham at a pedestal with a red background and the words COMRADE BURNHAM TAKES OVER

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· 27d

Feels like when they replaced Dick York with Dick Sargent on Bewitched

Black and white photo of Dick Sargent, wearing a jacket and tie, smiling at the camera and looking a lot like Dick York

Black and white photo of Dick York, wearing a jacket and tie, smiling at the camera and looking a lot like Dick Sargent

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Jul 7

No, No and No

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Jul 3

Emam Ashour's "scary animal" is the best WC player intro that I've seen so far. Grrrr.

A screenshot from Australia v Egypt player intros, showing Emam Ashour of Egypt. He is wearing a red T-shirt with a number 8 on it. He has both hands raised pretending to be claws. It looks like he is saying "Grrrrr". On the left is the full team line up and formation, and the team name (EGYPT) on the top.

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Jun 17

Am I meant to click the 'cancel' button?

A screen that appears when you cancel a reservation on the Eden software system. It reads "Cancel Your Reservation. Cancel your reservation at <redacted> 148 for Wednesday, June 17, 2026." Underneath there is a green check mark next to the words "Cancelled your reservation for 148." Underneath that is a blue button with the word "Cancel" on it.

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Jun 6

If I don't get back to you over the next couple of weeks it's because I've joined these fellas in admiring this magnificent tome. Thank you @jroberts332.bsky.social

A purple book with title and author in capital letters. The books is called Generation Mechs. The author is James Roberts. Round the book are four Transformers. Krok, Rodimus and Cyclonus can be seen easily. Obscured by Krok is a small orange robot whose name I can't remember right now

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· May 17

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone.

World snooker champion Wu Yize. Head and shoulders of a man in a white shirt, black waistcoat and black bow tie. His hair is totally ace

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· May 11

Be less like Goldfinger and more like Knowledgefinger

A still from the movie Goldfinger (1964 dir: Guy Hamilton). A man dressed entirely in black is lying on his back on a table. There is a laser shooting between his legs. Another man in a brown tuxedo is stood looking at him. There are three white-coated scientists in the background. At the bottom of the screen is an amended quote from the film that reads "THIS IS KNOWLEDGE MR BOND. ALL MY LIFE I'VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH ITS COLOUR, ITS BRILLIANCE, ITS DIVINE HEAVINESS. I WELCOME ANY ENTERPRISE WHICH WILL INCREASE MY STOCK."

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· May 1

How the hell did this happen??? #Snooker

A snooker match. Wu Yize v Mark Allen. It's 7-6 in frames to Mark Allen and 47-13 in points. We're looking overhead at the table. In the bottom right corner is a cluster of 8 red balls tightly packed around the black ball at the bottom right corner

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Mar 28

I have come to the conclusion that I need to read all of @jroberts332.bsky.social IDW Transformers comics. Again.

Our old friend Swerve the metallurgist / bar tender from More Than Meets The Eye. He is a red and white robot and he is looking at the camera and pointing at us. He has two speech bubbles coming out of his mouth. The first says "But that's a whole other story." and the second says "Sorry - always wanted to say that. That, and "Impossible! Our laser fire is just making him stronger!" <ahem> Go on..."

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Mar 20

Graphic designer: What's the album called? Willie Nelson: Shotgun Willie Graphic designer: Done

Front cover of Shotgun Willie by Willie Nelson. On a black background we see a shotgun pointed right at us. In both of the barrels there is an identical picture of Willie Nelson, with a black cowboy hat and a grin the size of Texas. Above the shotgun it says "Willie Nelson". Below the shotgun it says "Shotgun Willie"

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Mar 13

Presumably referring to the Forest Green manager

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Feb 11

Yeah political discourse is bad. But in 1912 it was acceptable to call your opponent a "honeyfugler"

Extract from Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris.
"The unfortunate metaphor stuck as his train raced from corner to corner of Ohio, and Roosevelt's followed suit. Both candidates smelled blood. Their vocabulary of personal invective got terser and uglier. Taft called the Colonel a 'dangerous egotist' and 'bolter'. Roosevelt replied with 'puzzlewit', 'reactionary' and 'fathead', and convulsed a crowd in Cleveland by comparing the President's brain unfavourably with that of a guinea pig. La Folette, vying for attention, weighed in with imprecations of his own, until it was difficult for Republican voters to figure out which 'demagogue', 'hypocrite' and 'Jacobin' was calling the other a 'brawler', 'apostate' and 'honeyfugler'. Democrats rejoiced in a report that one night Roosevelt and Taft had, after a fashion, slept together, with their Pullmans parked side by side in the Steubenville depot.

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Feb 2

I love bullet point 1 from their recommendations of how to avoid quotation errors

Extract from Baethge, C., Jergas, H. Systematic review and meta-analysis of quotation inaccuracy in medicine. Res Integr Peer Rev 10, 13 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-025-00173-z

It shows Table 2: Recommendations for avoiding quotation errors from: systematic review and meta-analysis of quotation inaccuracy in medicine.

Recommendations for authors:
- Read the quoted paper (highlighted in blue)
- Do not quote original work from reviews (secondary quotation)
- Do not quote from abstracts or original articles
- Place references directly to the claim, not at the end of a sentence or a paragraph
- Do not create chain references unless absolutely necessary

Pete Scarborough@petescarbs· Jan 23

Effect size for food consumption studies compared by interventions (abbreviations in ALT text). Providing incentives (either money off or prosocial interventions e.g. tree planting) only as effective as ecolabelling (not very). Changing what is available and what is the default most effective.