Dana Rubenstein, MD, MHS

Two women and one man standing outdoors. Caption: Gaining insight into chronic pain relief. About 21% of U.S. adults (51.6 million people) experience chronic pain. For about 7% of people, their pain is so severe, it substantially restricts their daily activities.

With federal research dollars, Duke Psychiatry and @DukeMedSchool researchers are using brain scans to study the increasing use of #cannabis and #tobacco among people seeking #ChronicPain relief. They're learning this combo may have the opposite effect.
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Happening right now #SRNT2025 this wonderful session understanding relationships between nicotine/tobacco use and pain with @danarubenstein.bsky.social and #MaggieSweitzer from #Duke and #DenizBagdas from #Yale
#TobSciSky #TobRegSci

Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.

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Featuring a quote from yours truly! Thank you for the opportunity to chat about accessibility in STEM during these trying times! #DisabledInSTEM

Please tobacco control community! please repost the JAMA post below! trying to demonstrate to our university leadership the value of adding a @bsky.app "share buttons" on university science press releases!

Today, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we celebrate the leadership and contributions of persons with disabilities in building an inclusive and sustainable future. Let’s continue to amplify their voices and break barriers for equity and empowerment. #IDPD2024

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I’ve got it, the next big innovation in conference technology!

…are you ready for this?

Printing the name on BOTH SIDES OF THE BADGE

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SRNT/RSMj members – there will be a nicotine/cannabis co-use mini conference following the SRNT meeting this year! Spread the word!

Applying PM&R this cycle!

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Hey nice to meet you! I’m M4 on the neurorehab side, would love to join

My friends and colleagues, Drs. Jill Williams and Jonathan Foulds wrote an important book (coming December 2024). Treating Addiction to Tobacco and Nicotine Products is an essential resource for busy clinicians across various healthcare disciplines!

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Yes please!

Thanks for thinking of me @jesskingjensen.bsky.social ! @omeresonaa.bsky.social and I recently connected in the other place

Hi! I'm a tobacco control researcher with a background in and passion for improving public health through education and advocacy. #TobRegSky #AcademicSky #HiSciSky

Check out this Q&A in MedPageToday about our recent article on multiple sclerosis and smoking- let’s target more tobacco research and treatment towards this priority population! #MedSky #PsychSciSky #TobRegSky

Hello! I'm a Prof at UNC Chapel Hill + clinical psychologist. I care about effective and accessible addiction treatments. I study behavioral and neural factors that help in recovery and test novel interventions. #addictionsci #PsychSciSky #academicSky #HiSciSky #NeuroSkyence #behsci

You are the Survivor scientist the world needs! Not only a student of the game but a teacher of the game. Love seeing your analyses.

Associations of daily alcohol, cannabis, combustible tobacco, and e-cigarette use with same-day co-u... Young adults frequently use alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco together. Given the increased prevalence of e-cigarette use and recreational cannabis use, …

Gotta post SOMETHING to lead off on this new platform so may as well be a repost of the latest work from our lab on daily co-use of alcohol, cannabis, combustible cigarettes, and e-cigarettes!

R Ladies Louisville Presents a free workshop on multiple regression and multilevel modeling. This is a guided review of regression techniques and introduction to multilevel modeling in R. Date is October 2nd, 2023. Time is 9-11 AM ET. Workshop will be recorded!

Hello small but might BlueSky community! My chapter of R Ladies is providing a FREE two hour workshop on Multilevel Modeling in R on October 2nd from 9-11 AM ET. Here’s the sign up link: forms.gle/RQsmwhnP4AV5... PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! #CogSci #DevSci #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

Appreciate @morinryan.bsky.social creating this cool app and adding an alt text generator to make results accessible to the #disability community

Cloud of words in various colors and sizes. Some of the largest words include use tobacco pain cannabis smoking among cigarettes people adults menthol nicotine greater cigarette daily associated may hicp dependence product study

Proud to share this word cloud of my pubmed abstracts that emphasizes my use of person-first language in addiction research! #addictionsci #TobRegSci #PsychSciSky

Make your own here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

Hi Cassie! I enjoy following your work and am excited to be here and help grow the #addictionsci and #tobregsky communities.

From Andrea Weinberger, Ph.D.: New Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Virtual Event: "Emerging Technology of Relevance to the Field of Nicotine and Tobacco" - Monday October 9, 2023 (11AM-2PM est). www.srnt.org/events/Event...

#addictionsci #PsychSciSky

Not personally an alt text user so not positive but maybe listing the words in order of size? Maybe people from #disability feed can provide feedback

This “Bluesky for Scientists” doc from @steveharoz.com + @markrubin.bsky.social looks really useful for those who’ve just joined the platform 👇

These shiny apps are great! Can you please add an option for alt text that can be included with the word clouds? And if possible, encourage users to post with that alt text.

I made a feed (I think?)! Use #addictionsci for all things addiction science.

#SciSky #PsychSciSky #Disability

Introduction post: I’m an MD/MHS candidate at Duke University School of Medicine. My main focus is on nicotine/tobacco research (regulatory science, epidemiology, and health equity). I also study tobacco and cannabis co-use and intersections between substance use and pain/disability. Let’s connect!