In NYT Opinion today: "...But the rising frequency of these scandals, and the public’s fading trust, points to an industry rotting from the inside — one that rewards corruption, punishes transparency and treats addiction as a business model." What do you think? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

A decent (but not perfectly informative re: survey composition and weighting) survey with propensity weighting to estimate self-reported use of unregulated gambling products in the USA. Could be improved by bootstrapped variance estimation, but still decent. www.americangaming.org/wp-content/u...

A report on the state of unregulated gambling in BC. Raises (and maybe answers) the multimillion dollar question: if most offshore gambling is on the same sites lobbying for liberalization with regulation, what benefit do they perceive? Freedom to advertise and expand? theijf.org/bc-residents...

A Nobel prize is fine, but what academics really want is to kick the creators of manuscriptcentral one time really hard in the shin.

UK Postdoc opportunity just posted: an 18 Month policy fellowship with the Research and Statistics Team at the UK Gambling Commission, funded by UKRI. Details here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

🎉🧵 New Paper Thread 🎉🧵 Machine Learning models that aim to detect at-risk online gamblers seem to hit a performance ceiling, and exhibit serious imprecision when making positive-class predictions. WHY? Maybe it's the outcome variable, the Problem Gambling Severity Index.

Alberta, like Ontario before it, is moving to expand and privatize online gambling. In a new OpEd, @lukeclark.bsky.social and I argue that British Columbia should not follow suit. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Are craving and satiety neurological opposites? Could someone experience craving while feeling sated? Is reducing craving tantamount to inducing satiety? How might semaglutide improve / inform our knowledge of naltrexone, acamprosate, sobriety, and addiction? Very exciting times in the field!

TT faculty interviews are a singularly intense and interesting experience. There is really nothing like it.

Hi everyone, if you are interested in #psychedelic-assisted therapy, we just published a new study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Congratulations to Dr. Nathalie Rieser, who has done a terrific job spearheading this project.

Very honoured to receive a UBC FASS Outstanding Lecturer Award 2024/25. It's a real pleasure to teach at UBCO Psych. provost.ok.ubc.ca/2025/02/24/2...

A beautiful visual representative of hierarchical modelling mfviz.com/hierarchical... #stats

2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵

Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries asks courts to block offshore gambling site on behalf of gaming coalition www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta has cut funding to the province's Problem Gambling Resources Network. This development is surprising and dismaying as online gambling continues its rapid expansion and privatization across Canada. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Nicotine pouches are now banned in South Australia. They're now subject to the same controls as illicit tobacco and e-cigarette products. Info here: www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releas...

My latest paper looks at how and why people use voluntary deposit limits. We found that most online sports bettors see deposit limits as useful and good practice, but these are for those who can't control their gambling Barriers to use include not knowing what limit to set doi.org/10.1080/1366...

My 11-month-old did something that looked a lot like theory of mind. He pointed towards something he wanted me to give to him, then looked at me, saw I was looking at a different nearby object, and so grabbed that, threw it away, and pointed again. Way early for ToM. What happened here??

What do you think about the idea that there is a lot of 'black market' gambling in monopoly nations? I'm having a hard time finding good estimates of how much this happens. www.gamblingnews.com/news/austria...

‘Callous exploitation’: NSW losing $1 million an hour on pokies www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Thanks for the shoutout, Lord Foster. Get in touch to join @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social, @lutontown.co.uk and nearly 40 other clubs who've said no to gambling advertising and sponsorship!

'Why it is important to conduct gambling research that is fair and free from conflicts of interest'. Our letter to @AddictionJrnl is available now. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Like everyone else, I'm just waiting to hear those three magic words... Revise and resubmit. #science #academia

Yeah... wow yikes. "The gambling frenzy is mostly about people being free to enjoy themselves" The word 'mostly' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Hey @leonxiaoy.bsky.social -- Thanks for putting together a list of gambling researchers on Bluesky! I was failing completely to find people!

"Comparing ‘fair’ machine learning models for detecting at-risk online gamblers" Peep the latest from my CIHR postdoc work at Concordia. Now out in International Gambling Studies! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #science #psychology #addiction #gambling #ai

I'm new here. Hoping to find a place to talk about behavioural addictions with those in my field, but where the big boss doesn't call for scientists to be jailed. Mastodon and Threads weren't it, but I'm not giving up! Go little butterfly, go! #science #addiction #psychology