Our newest paper, in JAMA Open - randomized high stress employees at UCSF to Headspace or control and Headspace worked to reduce stress! Useful: the effect seems to happen as long as you hit 5 mins per day. Great leadership from @aricprather.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Are you supposed to pronounce the analytic approach “Bay-zee-an” or “Bay-zhun” help

Some good news: California is banning insurance companies from abandoning people who just lost everything in LA. They issued a one-year moratorium on insurance cancellations in affected areas. fortune.com/2025/01/10/c...

Fit vs fat took a hit when it came out that its champion Steve Blair took Coke $ but glad to see we can trust the finding: BMI has no relation to mortality if you’re fit. Still kinda runs counter to me and @drhunger.bsky.social’s 2016 BMI =/= poor health paper but glad to see a BMI-busting paper.

In 2025 I’ll take the reins as president of the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. I’m so proud to be the next of so many A+++ allstars that I admire to the ends of the earth. Here’s a piece we published on where we’ve come from and where we’re going as a Society tinyurl.com/SBSM2w

Interrupting regularly scheduled academia content to bring you a picture of the incredible cake from my pickleball-themed hatch day party, made by @cakecreationsbyme.bsky.social

I’ll be thinking about Wellness (my fave book in 2024) forever! Partly narcissistically bc it talks about real psychology studies (examples below), but also bc for the first time I concretely, vividly got how algorithms function to sew discord, and bc it TOTALLY gets parenthood lol nathanhill.net/

@aricprather.bsky.social’s book, The 7-Day Sleep Solution is also excellent. People come up to him in the street and hug him and stuff for changing their lives!

@mwkraus.bsky.social is always the most thoughtful person in the room when it comes to this stuff!

Just published in International Journal of Eating Disorders-super proud of Adwoah Yeboah, an undergrad in our lab! And DiSH grad student Jordan Parker who mentored her like an absolute pro. Take-home - positivity re: Blackness is protective against eating disorder risk dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat....

A piece in @science.org about have babies in academia. I was so privileged at UCLA - colleagues that were thrilled for me when they heard; research-based daycare on campus and phone call whenever the baby was hungry so I could go breastfeed them. Every place, academic or not, should have this!

TIL, from the incredible Jack Bobo (our new Director of Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies) that someone dies of starvation every 4 seconds. In 2024!!! But also that this is the lowest starvation rate in history. My takeaway: Urgency+hope is how to stay motivated.

Just got an update on the planning for the Olympic Athletes’ Village for LA 2028 (which will be here at UCLA) and the room came alive when continuation of the #chocolatemuffins was discussed

🏆Congratulations to @tenelewis.bsky.social & team for winning the Stress Network's Stress Science Paper Award in Human Empirical! I spoke with Dr. Lewis about links between stress faced by loved ones (e.g., family, friends) & cardiovascular health. Listen: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...

I was scared to say yes to writing this because there are a lot of (justified) feelings about GLP-1, both bad and good. I tried to give a full throated argument for all corners of pro and con viewpoint should . academic.oup.com/abm/advance-...

I feel like my first Bluesky post has to be a picture of Cashew