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When a tractor company played in the NFL | SCORIGAMI, Part 1 of 4
SCORIGAMI, part 1 of 4
now on youtube, free to watch for everybody
the rest of the episodes will drop every tuesday through the end of the month
youtu.be/FHNwUiu_8Eg?...
10.09.2025 17:01 — 👍 498 🔁 85 💬 10 📌 9
APA PsycNet
Good timing, 2 new collaborations with
@VT_biostats in the same month:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Take-home: simulated scarcity increases cigarette craving, and delay discounting mediates this effect
10.09.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
graph with scientist names on the x axis and colored indicators for NIH, NSF, and Other funding. Also indicators for active pre-1960 and Outside US
When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.
28.05.2025 22:46 — 👍 108 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 0
Scientists,
I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:
Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.
It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
25.05.2025 15:49 — 👍 725 🔁 213 💬 16 📌 15
Excerpt from the AJDAA article "“I drink less and that’s no small matter”: A qualitative descriptive study of a managed alcohol program evaluation in Barcelona" by David Filomena Velandia, Ester Aranda Rodríguez, Amaia Garrido Albaina, Catrina Clotas, Montse Bartroli Checa, M. Isabel Pasarín Rua & Mercè Gotsens: "...By covering their basic needs, the MAP also allowed participants to focus on activities other than coping with living on the street. The most important health benefit was facilitating their access to other treatment: women in particular benefited from re-engagement with mental health services, while men started treatment for hepatitis C eradication."
In honor of #AlcoholAwarenessMonth, learn more about the benefits of managed alcohol programs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
21.04.2025 15:57 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I'll pass it along thx
07.04.2025 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, generally. And especially if you're referring to the ceiling effect in violin plots. Starting to think a table is a better place for those data.
06.04.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AI-Powered Episodic Future Thinking
Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) is an intervention that involves vividly imagining personal future events and experiences in detail. It has shown promise as an intervention to reduce delay discounting ...
New from our group:
Can GPT be used to implement episodic future thinking (EFT) interventions in the tx of obesity and other chronic disease? EFT is promising, but an AI-based solution could increase its scalability and reach.
We begin exploring that here. More to come!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16484
06.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Why are there so few public-facing science educators in the biomedical sciences (vs. physics, astronomy, math)? Need more of them right now (and tomorrow x 3).
@hankgreen.bsky.social @vsauce.bsky.social @veritasium.bsky.social @neildegrassetyson.com @smartereveryday.bsky.social #STEM
09.02.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New #recovery research at @fralinbiomed.bsky.social
Severity of SUD, years of substance use, substance type, and age of onset are associated with needing more quit attempts to achieve abstinence.
#addictionsci
04.02.2025 00:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
APA PsycNet
My colleagues and I showed that if you instruct participants to respond systematically, reliability is fine. So: anxious participants are not responding systematically.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-...
06.01.2025 16:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New UVic website empowers alcohol drinkers with personal risk calculator
KnowAlcohol.ca provides personalized feedback on alcohol consumption to keep Canadians informed
“Our feeling is that it’s the consumer’s right to know. Consumers should be empowered with better knowledge about alcohol consumption in terms of its health risks and how to mitigate those risks.”
www.vicnews.com/local-news/n...
03.01.2025 21:50 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of book
AGNOTOLOGY
THE MAKING & UNMAKING OF
IGNORANCE
EDITED BY ROBERT N. PROCTOR & LONDA SCHIEBINGER
W he
Text: Marketing has always involved a certain persuasion bordering on de. ception, insofar as laundry soap is pretty much the same throughout the world. The tobacco industry early on recognized health concerns as market impediments, which is why L&M Filters were offered as "just what the doctor ordered," Camels were said to be smoked by "more doctors," and so forth. The industry was barred from making such claims in the 195os and moved to more subtle inducements, associating smoking with youth, vigor, and beauty, and later freedom, risk, and rebellion. For a time in the 1980s, when health infringements centered around secondhand smoke, we were told that smoking was a form of free speech. The industry likes to have it both ways: smoking is patriotic yet rebellious, risky yet safe, calming yet exciting, and so forth.
Marketing tools of a novel sort were introduced in the early 1950s, following the explosion of evidence that cigarettes were killing tens of thousands every year. Responding to this evidence, the industry launched a multimillion dollar campaign to reassure consumers that the hazard had not yet been "proven." Through press releases, advertisements, and well-funded industry research fronts, epidemiology was denounced as "mere statistics," animal experiments were said not to reflect the human condition, and lung pathologies revealed at autopsy were derided as anecdotes without "sound
Text:
science" as backing. Cigarette manufacturers often invoked the laboratory as the site where the "controversy" would be resolved, knowing that it was difficult to mimic human smoking harms using animal models. Small animals just don't contract cancer from breathing smoke; it takes twenty or thirty or more years for human smokers to develop cancer, and rats don't live that long. And even when cancers were successfully produced in mice (by painting tobacco tars on their shaven backs), the industry admitted only the presence of "mouse carcinogens" in smoke. Cigarette apologists worked in a conveniently tight logical circle: no evidence was good enough, no experiment close enough to the human condition. True proof was hard to have short of experimenting on humans-but do you really want us to experiment on humans? What are you, some kind of Nazi?
We don't yet know what evil genius came up with the scheme to associate the continued manufacture of cigarettes with prudence, using the call for "more research" to slow the threat of regulation, but it must rank as one of the greatest triumphs of American corporate connivance. 25 The idea was that people would continue to smoke so long as they could be reassured that "no one really knows" the true cause of cancer.
A little side reading, courtesy of a collaboration wit @drtomori.bsky.social @jlynch13.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social
“Cigarette manufacturers often invoked the laboratory as the site where the "controversy" would be resolved, knowing that it was difficult to mimic human smoking harms”
30.11.2024 21:30 — 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Plenty of variability within cultures, too. So unless someone on the committee knows the letter writer and can help interpret the presence or absence of hyperbole, it's like reading tea leaves. Quantitative ratings would be more informative in most cases.
25.11.2024 22:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
... after finding it by mistake when searching for an unrelated email thread
20.11.2024 23:56 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Notoriously late adopter of social media, but I can't tell whether I'm too early or too late for BlueSky. You can always find me on my Google Plus and Friendster, though.
11.11.2024 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
CUNY Prof Emerita, higher ed data proponent, author: Pathways to Reform http://amzn.to/2vZop1r & The Psychology of Eating and Drinking http://amzn.to/1v7eaQN
Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj) disseminates addiction-related original research, policy positions, & commentary. Peer reviewed. Dynamic. Owned by @AMERSA, Inc. https://amersa.org/about-the-journal/ Tweets&ReTweets are our own. EiC= @adamjgordon
Professor. Co-Director: Health Promotion Research Center; Director: Stephenson Cancer Center's mHealth resource. I use EMA and JITAI to support health behavior change. #mHealth; Lab website: https://www.businellelab.com/
he/him Prof @dukemedschool.bsky.social Anesthesiology. Immigrant. Fights against chemicals that hurt you. Research on chemosensation, pain, TRP channels, toxicology & tobacco control. Views my own. #TobRegSky feed. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🟧
"That AML MRD guy". Director, Virginia Tech FBRI Cancer Research Center in Washington, DC. Physician-Scientist. Views my own.
Advancing Health Through Science 🧠🔬🧬🫀
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Real Nerd Dad interested in all things tobacco control. I also cook and obsess a bit too much about Atlanta United.
Thinking about work, life, and balance. Looking for answers in the cerebellum.
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Tech
www.vanderheijdenlab.com
Professor of Applied Health & Social Care Research | Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK | Research interests: Substance use; Mental Health; MLTC; Complex Needs | Mother of 2 giant adults (1 w/AuHD + anxiety) & 3 smaller cats.
Award-winning team researching tobacco’s influence on policy. Views ours, not the University of Bath. Share info in confidence http://tobaccotactics.org.
Stephen F. Loebs Professor in Health Management Services and Policy & Professor of Law, Ohio State University
Public Health Law & Policy; Health Policy; Global Public Health; Tobacco Regulation
The CHBR at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC conducts transformative research to help prevent, mitigate, and treat lifestyle-related diseases.
https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/research/research-centers/health-behaviors.html
Professor of public health | translational neuroscience researcher | https://www.canadianbiobank.ca/
Assist. Prof. at Virginia Tech. My lab studies brain/metabolism interactions in food reward. Scifi reader. Plant killer. She/her
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