Hope-booster! substack.com/@joegitchell...

Make a warship mid: HMS Strategic Victory

If you're not following @clairezagorski.bsky.social, please fix that damage.

SJA tonight and the cadets were asked to come up with posters or social media content around their current topic of emergency planning (in this case weather warnings). Pretty pleased with their efforts, tbh...

Love this. To get the full effect, you may have to say things ou-tloud. #DayJob Follow @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to get less wrong and to chuckle!

#DiscomfortOfThought required to #RethinkNicotine. And there's plenty to be uncomfortable about. But I do believe we all have to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am grateful that @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social agrees on that point. #respect

#StayCurious #StaySkeptical Eyes now turn to @nejm.org's NEJM Evidence journal for what they will do with the "contested meta-analysis" mentioned in the @retractionwatch.com coverage.

CartNarcs don't seem to be on blewski, but I found this article humorous and informative. behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...

As Ferris Bueller noted, life moves pretty fast, & it makes no exceptions for the #ShapingVaping cast! Still on for tomorrow, Thurs, 15 Jan, at 11:30am ET, but now with @clivebates.bsky.social joining me and Jim McCarthy. And read Clive's 'stack in next skeet. 1/2 www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...

🤩Special Guest - #ShapingVaping🤠 Thursday, 1/15 - 11:30AM EST Jim McCarthy and @jgitchell.bsky.social welcome Cliff Douglas on: - State of the internecine war over vaping. - Role of the press. - Making sense of HHS/FDA policy. - Where can advocacy go from here? www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...

Latest Science Fictions 'cast from @stuartjritchie.bsky.social & @tomchivers.bsky.social with bigly implications for getting less wrong. Includes h/t to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci. #AdCollab discussion at the end. 💪 substack.com/@joegitchell...

Wonderful letter of apology to world’s 1.3 billion smokers on behalf of public health from Dr Mark Tyndall, extraordinary Canadian doctor @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/marktynd...

⚠️⚠️WARNING⚠️⚠️ If you prefer your priors remain unchallenged and comfortable, then do NOT read what @clivebates.bsky.social has done in his first substack post. substack.com/@joegitchell...

I think that this is bigly important. I fear that lots of other things may contribute (synergistically?) to the avoidance of "respectful confrontation" (as amazeballs dude Joe Weston teaches), but it all matters. TY, @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social, for so clearly laying this out.

Folks with interest in nicotine science and policy are welcome to tune-in to our (mostly) weekly #ShapingVaping episodes--here's today's at 11:30am ET: www.youtube.com/live/c3RaeKH... We try to follow Rapoport's Rules--at least I do (Jim is not quite as committed to gracience...).

Gonna read this with interest.

Hope-booster from colleague and chum, Arielle Selya. substack.com/@joegitchell...

I would love the opportunity to get less wrong on this important topic but my disclosures prevent me from registering.

First Nations Australian art is so different to what most of us are used to from our Egyptian-Greek-Roman-Byzantine-Renaissance etc tradition. Instead it’s sand painting-body painting-rock art tradition & about natural & religious world.

I was very grateful to take the advice of @alexwodak.bsky.social and go to the "Stars We Do Not See" exhibition at the US National Gallery of Art in DC. Wow!! Run, don't walk--just stunning. There until 1 March. www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

I'm really enjoying the #ECigSummitUK today and was reminded of this commentary in #TobaccoControl that will be 25 years old next year. #HistoryMajor [Link in ALT text and open access]

I risk being a #Sealion when engaging in this way (my interlocutor's quote-skeeting vs replying makes it harder to follow, I know.) I'm not seeking absolution, @jonathanstea.bsky.social, but I do welcome constructive suggestions for better interactions that might be helpful to others. 🙏🦭

Another SoMe platform reminded me to re-share this 4-panel comic as a memory. And, sadly, it feels timeless. But with so much hope! #UsNotThem

Reminder that I bigly love (if struggle to always implement) this guidance from @tamarhaspel.bsky.social about how to communicate better.

Register for next week's @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social seminar with @micahberman.bsky.social. Professor Berman will present on 'Global Public Health Law: Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy'. 📅 Tuesday 2 December 🕓 3.30pm (UK time) 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/c21ph-semi...

So, people who strive to improve to improve health and welfare in the context of nicotine: Are you prepared to get less wrong, together?

Please read this post marking #WorldCOPDDay from @skipscorner.bsky.social writing in @filtermag.bsky.social. #UsNotThem #SupportNotStigma filtermag.org/copd-smoking...

This event from @nam.edu looks bigly good! @haroldpollack.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social nam.edu/event/improv...

Nicotine Nerds! #ShapingVaping at 11:30am ET today! Special guest Dr Garrett McGovern! youtu.be/HlD4XtfGX7w

Clive Bates anticipates what will happen at forthcoming Conference of Parties meeting Geneva 17-21 November re international tobacco control. Anti harm reduction zealots in control @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJsY...

#MakeNewMistakes substack.com/@joegitchell...

I created my first Substack post, based on my opening remarks at the #FDLI Tobacco and Nicotine Product Conference on 28-29 Oct. Please read and help me get less wrong. open.substack.com/pub/joegitch...

I almost fell(afel) over reading this. I'm glad @adamrothman.bsky.social's day jobs keep him pretty busy because this stuff provokes audience pita/pity.

Do you love to get less wrong? @ourworldindata.org can scratch that itch.

Probably no one in world has done more to persuade millions of nonsense that vaping is as, or even more, dangerous than smoking than @profglantz.com This article responds to some other common anti vape myths @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social ourworldindata.org/vaping-vs-sm...

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Tuesday Wisdom.

Opportunity to hear @drlucymcbride.bsky.social interview @susandominus.bsky.social on Monday at 4pm ET! substack.com/@joegitchell...

There are many people for whom the charts below are very far from #ActualWinning. They might be right. But no one, nor group, has the monopoly on correctness or stupidity. So, how can we determine if this is #ActualWinning or #TiredOfWinning?

Be careful, as this may not warm your heart cockles.

If you're not following @robsandia.bsky.social, you should address that shortcoming. His judgment on pizza remains under suspicion, but I'm picking up the rest of what he's laying down. substack.com/@joegitchell...

Gotta love @stuartjritchie.bsky.social & @tomchivers.bsky.social getting an assist from @dingdingpeng.the100.ci for the latest episode of Science Fictions looking at what we know about well-being across the lifespan. That at least makes me happy! substack.com/@stuartritch...

Vaping “been commercially available for > 2 decades, & there is increasing evidence of their potential to improve population health”. Exactly! Technological changes sometimes ⬆️ & sometimes ⬇️ risk. Authorities sometimes clearly got it wrong & increased risk mis perception by public

#DiscomfortOfThought required to #RethinkNicotine. @mikepesko.bsky.social and chums offer up plenty of brain pain. E-Cigarettes in Historical Context: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Bigly recommend hitting this @meghandaum.bsky.social interview of @olgakhazan.bsky.social about Olga's book, Me, But Better. substack.com/@joegitchell...

Can't wait to read this (the whole issue looks so good!). And it reminded me that I was lucky enough to have Prof Kamensky as my TA in spring semester, 1991!