Join us for #CNNTaipei this Wednesday night!! #TaiwanCreatives🧋

What do our best friends tell us about cannabidiol (CBD) and hemp supplements? 🐶 🌿 💊 🩺 🥼 🧵 1/4 #DogScience #Supplement #Innovation #ASUResearch Dog Aging Project (@dogagingproject.bsky.social) ASU Cannabis Analytics, Safety and Health Initiative (newcollege.asu.edu/cannabis-ini...)

Please check out our study here! Conrow et al. (2025). Demographic Features, Health Status, and Behavioral Changes Associated with Cannabidiol Use in the Dog Aging Project. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 12:1666663 ▶️ doi.org/10.3389/fvet...

It is also more common in dogs living in states with legalized cannabis. Interestingly, dogs given CBD or hemp have more intense aggressive behavior at first but become less intense over time. 🧵 3/4

In the largest study to date, our nationwide survey of nearly 50,000 dogs shows that 7.3% of our dogs have been given CBD or hemp supplements. The usage is more common in dogs with health conditions such as cancer, osteoarthritis, and epilepsy where medical cannabis is often used in humans. 🧵 2/4

Congrats to #cr8xt friend and client Maxwell Leung at Arizona State University on great media pickup of his new paper on cannabis supplements for dogs! Here's one clip in @discovermag.bsky.social: www.discovermagazine.com/dogs-given-c... 🧪

Cheers to friend and #SciComm client Maxwell Leung at Arizona State University (@leung-lab.bsky.social) and colleagues on this dazzlingly written #SciPol explainer discussing major gaps in U.S. cannabis policies monitoring and regulating for contaminants, quality assurance, and patient safety. 🧪

And bookmark the Arizona State University initiative for cannabis analytics, safety, and health, led by @leung-lab.bsky.social. (I met Max when we were both Blue Devils and nowadays he's a Sun Devil 😈): newcollege.asu.edu/research/cen... 🧪

Also see Max's new #SciPol piece in @issuesinst.bsky.social on improving cannabis analytics, health, and safety in the United States: issues.org/coordinated-... 🧪

Congrats to my friend and #SciComm client Maxwell Leung @leung-lab.bsky.social at ASU on being named as an expert source in this @npr.org #NPRShortWave segment! On major gaps in contaminant testing and patient safety assurances for medical cannabis across U.S. states: www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n... 🧪

Congrats to my friend and #SciComm client Max Leung and his mentee Symone Griffith on this incredibly well-written #SciPol position paper on cannabis health and safety. We expect our food and medicine to be safe for consumption, so why not medical cannabis? Well done Max and Symone—read it below 👇🏽🧪

Check it out in the Fall 2025 issue of Issues in Science and Technology (by Arizona State University/National Academy of Sciences)! issues.org/issue/42-1/ 🧵 3/3 #CannabisSafety #ASUResearch #Innovation ASU Cannabis Analytics, Safety and Health Initiative (newcollege.asu.edu/research/cen...)

We discuss the fragmented & inconsistent cannabis regulation in the U.S., emphasizing that gaps between federal & state policies undermine product safety, clinical guidance, & patient well-being, but national standards & academic involvement can contribute to patient safety in the U.S. & beyond 🧵2/3

It was a pleasure working with Symone Griffith (ASU Presidential Scholar & Ph.D. student in @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social) and Marisa Kreider, Ph.D. (Stantec) in an article, "A Coordinated Approach to Cannabis Policy and Product Safety" (doi.org/10.58875/NLN...) 🌿 🔬 🧑‍🔬 🎓 🧵 1/3

A handy UNDP social graphic on misinformation: "Before you share online, consider the 5 W's WHO made it? WHAT is the source of information? WHERE did it come from? WHY are you sharing this? WHEN was it published?" Via @undp.org: www.instagram.com/p/DPPbMSPk0H1/ 🧪

Congrats to @shawshankrxn.bsky.social on helping launch yet *another* science café in the Sacramento region!! Love seeing @capscicomm.org still thriving and bearing fruit. Missing this great #SciComm community and will keep cheering on from afar: www.capradio.org/news/insight... #KeepScienceSpicy 🌶️🧪

Thought: Instead of generative A.I., what we actually need is better *search tools* to find information we're looking for. And for researchers, we always need new tools to visualize, characterize, prepare, and analyze data. (e.g. like what ModelBuilder in ArcGIS did for geospatial analysis.) 🧪

For friends in #SciPol #SciPolComm #SciComm circles: The Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET) 科技民主與社會研究中心 in Taiwan is seeking Research Fellow / Non-Resident Fellow / Policy Analyst: dset.tw/en/announcem... #TechPolicy #Taiwan #Disinformation #台灣 #SciencePolicy🧋🧪

Work in fundraising? This new research shows that when someone else covers the cost of impact data, donors give 13% more effectively. Keep in mind: some donors prefer their entire gift go directly to programs, not data collection.

PS: Listen all the way to the end—there's even a @sconc.bsky.social shoutout, #SciComm friends! 🧪🦨

Although I've left the #Sacramento area, I'm so proud to see how the #SciComm community continues to flourish. Thrilled for this interview with my friends Nick Gray (who now leads @capscicomm.org ) and Jared Shaw @shawshankrxn.bsky.social (who founded #DavisSciCafe). #KeepScienceSpicy, everyone! 🧪🌶️

And here is the speaker lineup from the #2025公視國際研討會 last week hosted at National Taiwan University by the Public Television Service (PTS) of Taiwan. Worth a look for anyone in journalism, media and society, extremism tracking, and sociology in the digital age. www.pts.org.tw/2025pts_symp...

And here's great thread summarizing the #2025公視國際研討會 as reported by @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/word...

Media friends back in the U.S.: If you're looking for some great conference speakers on fighting disinformation and building information resiliency, check out the lineup from the Taiwan PTS International Symposium #2025公視國際研討會 I attended this past week. My live thread: bsky.app/profile/youn...

Are you interested in cannabis analysis? Please join us for the upcoming ASU Cannabis sativa testing workshop on May 12 – 16. It is free of charge and the application deadline is March 31. See you there this summer! 🧪🔬🌿👨‍🔬▶️ leunglab.wordpress.com/may-12-16-20... #WestValleyForward #CannabisEnvHealth

For my science friends in U.S. federal service: democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings #SciPol #SciPolComm #SciComm 🧪

Very proud to see our friend Max Leung grow his lab at ASU over the years to provide workforce development trainings! #cr8xt 🧪

It was actually made a number of years ago! The product of very in-depth research by Potential Energy on effective messaging. They have a 100% science based approach to framing and messaging which I admire greatly. But it wasn’t until this year that they got the resources to air it like this.

(Most of the examples from my past #AdSciComm workshops and evangelizing are archived back on the bird site. Scroll through those posts and media for the fun #SciComm ad taglines and posters that folks have come up with over the years: twitter.com/hashtag/adscicomm) 🧪

I've dreamed of this for years—someone creating a #AdSciComm ad *and* have the funds to make a #SuperBowl ad buy. Short, succinct, emotional message with #SciComm content. Congratulations to the Science Moms! 🧪

Thank you, Ben! It was a pleasure working with you at the science policy training (cr8xt.com/portfolio/sc...). Both my student and I learned a lot from it! #SciPol 🤩

Great to see the #CCSTshowcase still flourishing years after its launch! Here's the #SciPolComm #SciPol #SciComm origins of this State Capitol experience program: cr8xt.com/portfolio/cc... 🧪

Bookmarking to read: Kozyreva, A., Wineburg, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2023). Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(1), 81-88. doi.org/10.1177/0963... 🧪

So great to see my friend, colleague, and #SciComm client @leung-lab.bsky.social get quoted in @npr.org! Fet to know Max's research on cannabis safety and One Health: www.npr.org/2025/02/03/g... 🧪

Happy 2025! I am joining many of my colleagues and friends here on BlueSky and the Twitter/X account (x.com/Leung_Lab) will no longer be updated. Let's continue our discussion on cannabis, hemp, and anything related to human, animal, and environmental health! 🌿🐶💊🌎🎉 #OneHealth

Now I can finally tag @ccst.us!!! #SciPol #SciPolComm 🧡

For fellow creatives seeking advice on how to finally quit Twitter:

Today, we're all looking for a little help navigating societal change and policy action. The #SciPolComm #SciPolMindsets PDF sets out all the characters from executive to legislative to influencer voices. Chart a path forward: cr8xt.com/portfolio/sc... cr8xt.com/portfolio/sc... 🧡

CCST is not on Bsky yet, but I definitely want to up this #SciPol #SciComm experience open to grad students and postdocs at California campuses and institutions. One of my fondest design achievements—and still making impact. 🧪 Apply: ccst.us/calling-cali... The Backstory: cr8xt.com/portfolio/cc...

New to the #SciWri24 annual meeting this year: support grants for Indigenous journalists and communicators. Two awards of up to $3,000 are available—you do not need to be an established science writer, nor do you have to typically specialize in science beats. Help us spread the word! 🧪

This 30-min video is worth watching in entirety—an incredible #SciComm #SciPol #SciPolComm performance for anyone honing their own communication craft. A fantastic illustration of the power of science-informed policy—and presented with policy outcome examples.

Our #SciComm #SciPol circles are full of science PhDs turned journalists or policy professionals. So here's a fun example of a science PhD turned sports executive! We all should have paid more attention in statistics class 😆 www.instagram.com/p/C8XJJzoOgw...

With so many social media options and drastic drop in the user experience of Twitter, LinkedIn has remained a consistent tool for professional networking. Great to see friend of #cr8xt Professor Maxwell Leung of ASU get connected. 🧡 www.linkedin.com/in/maxwell-l...

Won't be able to make it today, but really proud of the lasting impact the CCST California Science Translators Showcase has made on SciPol SciPolComm career options for grad students at California campuses. The original design story here: cr8xt.com/portfolio/cc... www.linkedin.com/posts/ccstor...

(Perhaps the one time California can borrow lessons from Florida...)

California and the rest of western North America should start naming Atmospheric River storms—for building public awareness and momentum for policy change. Disaster prep, building codes, public funding all need to catch up to our ever-stormy future. #SciPolComm #AdSciComm

So excited to see the CCST Science Translators Showcase return to the California State Capitol! First launched in 2018, this project is truly an embodiment of our "designing lasting impact for science, environment, and society" mantra. RSVP for this coming event: ccst.us/rsvp-ccsts-c...

Grateful for today's visit with the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Research Center, talking conversational scicomm basics with TL1 and MCRTP scholars. We took a tour around the "Connecting with Your Audience" CWYAscicomm worksheet—and tailoring messages to an audience: cr8xt.com/portfolio/cw...

Worth tinkering about! The state-level approach is intriguing, and I'd bet we can gain traction in California and Washington (and Oregon) with some of these abovementioned approaches. (Hmm we might have to run these thought exercises through my "DnD policy worksheet" haha: cr8xt.com/portfolio/sc...)

This "Unhappy Holidays" campaign by Long COVID patients and advocates ought to get some pickup from marketing trades like @adweek.bsky.social. As reported by @thesicktimes.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2023/12/26/l... #AdSciComm