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Please get him off LinkedIn...

Columnists are engaged in a doomed, never-ceasing quest to find something that makes them angry enough to become interesting to others.

💯 Loads of excellent advice in this post #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

How should public health respond to the rise of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks? New publication in the @bmj.com from @jholmessheff.bsky.social @niamhfitzgerald.bsky.social Inge Kersbergen and Nathan Critchlow. Really insightful, great work guys 🌟 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Rethinking drug use and addiction 😍 A philosopher advocates for a more humane and context-informed approach Superb review by Cassandra Boness of Hanna Pickard's important book, provocatively titled: "What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Competitively priced for loo roll, but not soft or absorbent enough. The perfect punctuation mark to my choice for who had the worst year on @quietriotpod.bsky.social.

Excellent article, reminding all of us of pioneering early work in gambling research - and reminding us how much there is still to do. www.sciencenews.org/article/bob-.... Roll on 2026…. @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Your festive edition and TV guide is here 🎄 Feast your eyes on a tumultuous schedule, not unlike the year itself. Plus brilliant writing from all of your favourite columnists at The New World. Enjoy! 🗞️ Grab a copy at your local newsstand or subscribe 🔗 buff.ly/NWZsnYW

🎶he sees you when you're sleeping he knows when you're awake his vision's based on movement and the heat signature you make🎶

✨ SARG Internship opportunity ✨ We're currently looking for a part-time Quantitative Research Intern to undertake a three-month research project mapping the type of advice that alcohol treatment and recovery services give to clients on the use of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks. Find out more 👇

It’s Strava Year in Sport time! Quite a big decline since last year, mainly attributable to a busy summer. But not bad for a geriatric. strava.app.link/QL4vEzY9YYb

Kubrick’s final film isn’t just set at Christmas. It’s a subversive critique of class, desire and the fantasies we buy into during the festive season.

🧵1/ Many, but far from all health professionals working with gambling harm called for an industry funded levy to support their work. Now the legislation is in place, the money isn’t, and their services are in crisis www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

Oliver Burkeman on the value of pursuing what interests you, cultivating a sensitivity to your own personal response to topics, and using it as a filter on what to attend to https://ckarchive.com/b/92uzhnh695dods3roomrdfzod7d33hwh9nk2g "to follow the lead of interestingness is to accept that […]

We released a pretty cool dataset/preprint today looking at video game play, cognition, time-use and a ton of self-reported psych measures at osf.io/preprints/ps... with @nballou.bsky.social @matti.vuorre.com @thomashakman.bsky.social @rpsychologist.com and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social RRs coming soon

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Utility of Substance-Free Alternatives in Treating and Preventing Harmful Substance Use: A Narrative Review of the Translational Research Spectrum This is an important literature review on a crucial topic in the prevention and treatment of addictions. 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SARG Director @jholmessheff.bsky.social was part of an expert panel that supported the development of 'A Healthier Future: A long-term vision to tackle alcohol harm in the UK', a significant new report published by the Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk this week. @fohsheffield.bsky.social

🌍 Alcohol causes 2.6 million premature deaths each year, yet remains the world’s favourite drug. 🍺 A major Lancet Public Health study shows most countries are far off WHO’s 2030 target to cut drinking by 20%. 🧵 THREAD #PublicHealth #Addiction #AlcoholPolicy #GlobalHealth

Voters in the German city of Hamburg recently rejected the idea of a free payment for all residents.

Listening to Tommy Robinson What did I learn by giving the right-wing activist my ears for 90 minutes? https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/listening-to-tommy-robinson

🚨NEW - Train hero who saved passengers during attack confuses racists by being a Muslim Click for more: open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Great article on the spread and impact of gambling in the USA in @psychologytoday.com. Thanks for inviting me to contribute. www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com

THREAD A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.

📣 Introducing new funding schemes from the SSA and Office for Life Sciences tinyurl.com/mrxwrh8k | Applications for PhD studentships and fellowships open on 3 November

Our experimental alcohol administration study on the tension reduction hypothesis has been published in Addiction! 🎉 See preprint thread below for a summary :) Https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70213

The SSA are running several webinars about key stages of a research career, including applying for a PhD, fellowship and research grant. These have a great speaker line up -I highly recommend to any addiction researchers!

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Self regulation in action Its almost too egregious to be true Ill have it on loud repeat at every licensing committee meeting Im at

Lots of coverage today on these new government proposals to reform the alcohol licensing system. I can see an inherent popular appeal to allowing pubs to stay open later, but I have a lot of thoughts about why these plans are an extremely bad idea.. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My GREAT Centre colleague, Jamie Torrance, has written this piece about the worrying rise in influencer-led gambling on livestream platforms theconversation.com/why-people-a...

Gambling Survey for Great Britain 2024 report now live! Findings include associations between in-play betting & gambling harms; socio-economic disparities btw weekly gamblers. Data in UK Data archive soon! www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/statistics-a... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social

The ACTUAL truth about moderation substack.com/@jamesmorris...

It's odd that Republicans can do the mental gymnastics to link Tylenol to autism, but not link gun deaths to guns.

Sober months like Dry January have become increasingly popular in recent years, but do they actually change how we drink? In this blog, @aishamoolla.bsky.social outlines the findings from recent @sarg-scharr.bsky.social research on the short and long-term impacts. www.ias.org.uk/2025/09/23/d...

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So that’s the end of my 10 day trip - solo travelling around Andalucia (Seville, Cádiz, Granada) ending with a conference in Almeria where I caught up with old friends and made some new ones. It’s a really lovely region to visit, couldn’t pick a favourite, but I do want to come back!

This is good - to add to my daily Wordle and Worldle (yes, two different things)

laugh then think that’s the spirit of the Ig Nobel Prize! 🎉 Our study on alcohol and foreign language skills was honored yesterday. Study team: Jessica Werthmann, Inge Kersbergen & @fieldmatt.bsky.social Here is a link to the full show for everybody who missed it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cP...

Other exciting news - my brilliant colleague Lucy Burke has had her 1st PhD paper published in BMJ Public Health. It looks as associations between the reasons why we drink alcohol and whether we drink no- and low-alcohol drinks and has some important implications for the NHS 10-year plan.

Extremely proud and a bit jealous that my excellent colleagues @fieldmatt.bsky.social and Inge Kersbergen have won this year's Ig Nobel Peace prize for showing that being a bit tipsy makes you better at speaking Dutch. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Well. This was nice www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

What a monumental bellend. I was in a documentary he hosted in the distant past. Little did I know…

"I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells and... I like to kiss my own butt"

Was great to share findings from the CONGAM project on contingency management for gambling harm at the #EABCT conference in Glasgow with @fieldmatt.bsky.social @carolagetty.bsky.social @clinpsych.bsky.social and to compete with Comic Con for attendees! 🦸‍♂️

🆕Research from @uofglasgow.bsky.social shows gambling-related harms affect not only individuals but also their partners’ emotional wellbeing. Find out more: tinyurl.com/4xybkamk @shwardle.bsky.social