Matt Minich

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

A remarkable policy insight buried in here: India (part of WHO's SE Asia), mandates that health warnings should accompany ANY display of tobacco use... including characters in films and TV shows.

Admin seems to understand that outbreaks only matter politically if voters understand their origin and scale. If illness comes unexpectedly and seemingly at random, disease becomes a personal problem.

Extremely good news

WHO global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000–2024 and projections 2025–2030 This report presents WHO estimates of tobacco use prevalence among the population aged 15 years and older from 2000–2024, with trends projected to 2030. Estimates are at global, regional and country l...

The number of tobacco users has dropped from 1.38 billion in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024. Since 2010, the number of people using tobacco has dropped by 120 million – a 27% drop in relative terms. @who.int @ashorguk.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk #LungSky #RespEd www.who.int/publications... /n

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

Really appreciate this paper — an impactful, timely, and straightforward look at the potential impacts of major cuts to the world’s largest source of scientific funding.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you, Julia! I will certainly reach out when we are in country -- I'd love to connect!

🙏 Thank you!

Harvard, Princeton, MIT: 25 top researchers are moving from the US to Austria with OeAW scholarships The US researchers will arrive at Austrian universities and research institutions later this year. OeAW President Faßmann: “A great gain for Austrian science”

Excited and honored to among these lucky scholars. Excited to spend the next four years exploring the health implications of digital media in Vienna!

www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/harv...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

NIH director orders new review of grants in outline of top research priorities Many topics on Bhattacharya’s list are familiar, but order to re-evaluate grants draws concerns

We wanted post-publication peer review.

We got post-award grant review.

My technically unsophisticated #BlueSkyHack is to 'like' every post on my feed that features garden veggies, wildflowers, or birds. This has meaningfully improved my digital life.

Gardeners and birders of BlueSky, thank you for your service.

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But that adds two eggs? If adding eggs is an option I offer:

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Just finished reading this — extremely informative. Thank you so much for this work.

Telling my wife how the conference is going

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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:

We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

Comm Job Spreadsheet 2025-2026 - Grist A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid

For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring):

docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd...

#commsky #academicsky #communication

I love when people ask about this --- gives me an opportunity to boost the Pimsleur method, which is old and boring but seriously works --- and in my experience doubles as a sort of daily meditation practice (spending 30 minutes with a language tape can be very grounding).

Bar graph showing the change in percentage of calls answered after FEMA laid off contractors on July 5th (over 99% on July 5, about 36% on July 6 and 16% of calls answered on July 7)

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

A Leading Canadian University Makes A Pitch For Top U.S. PhD Students Western University, one of Canada’s leading public research universities, is launching an initiative aimed at luring away PhD students from premier U.S. institutions.

**US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award @WesternU
-$160,000 to 25 PhD students for up to 4 years.
- Must've had offer rescinded/cancelled from US school.
-Expedited admission process.
-Feel free to reach out, if interested in a PhD in inorganic chem!

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

Truly devastating.

“if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%—from 95,700 undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs during this fiscal year to 21,400 in 2026.”

www.science.org/content/arti...

Cannabis and Health Research Initiative (CHRI) A platform of data collection and dissemination focused on the health outcomes of therapeutic cannabis use at the patient level.

1/2 Cannabis researchers: We’ve developed new instruments to help standardize self-reported cannabis data.
- Cannabis Use Questionnaire (CUQ)
- Core Assessment Battery on Cannabis (CABC)
Both are free to download (Qualtrics, REDCap):
www.cannabisandhealth.org

Planning my life so I might one day have the problems of this northern Wisconsin cabin.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.