We need better measures if we want to properly understand the impact of social media use or exposure to alcohol-related content on alcohol use. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“I Don’t Know for Certain”: A Content Analysis of Reddit Posters’ Accounts of Drink Spiking New paper looking at relationships, contexts and impacts of alcohol & drug-facilitated sexual violence ('drink spiking'). Led by Jess Ison & @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CAPR's director Emmanuel Kuntsche rocked the mic at the recent Global Congress on Behavioural Addictions in Istanbul. Here are some pics from his presentation on how machine learning is used in addiction research.

New from @meganpcook.bsky.social. Gender differences in Aus and NZ alcohol research. There are far fewer single gender studies focused on middle-aged men, despite the fact that they consume the most alcohol and experience the most alcohol-related harms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors? Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1! tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...

Alcohol is the most commonly used drug in "drink spiking" but we rarely associate the two. So we analysed Reddit posts to explore alcohol's role in drink spiking & sexual violence. Written with a team of non-Bluesky users & out in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very proud to be part of this systematic review, which has relevance for anyone working in the alcohol and/or gender space! Implications extend beyond alcohol, prompting us to consider how we understand and (re)construct gender in the context of interdisciplinary research.

Congratulations @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social! This very cool paper analysed Reddit posts to better understand the perception of the role of alcohol in drink spiking. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations @meganpcook.bsky.social and team for the massive systematic review of 1,267 studies that focused on single gender alcohol studies. They found that the majority of single gender studies focused on women's alcohol use. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📅Save the date! APSAD 2025 is taking place from Sun 9 - Wed 12 Nov 2025 at the International Convention Centre, Gadigal (Sydney), Australia Registration Open: March 2025 Abstract Submission Open: March 2025 Super Earlybird Deadline: Early April 2025 www.apsadconference.com.au #APSAD25

As President of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, I welcome the alcohol research community to Scotland for the KBS 50th Anniversary Symposium organised by the Universities of Stirling and Glasgow (9-13 June 2025): kbs2025scotland.org/home.html

I've also got mine, which I've continuing to update over the past few weeks - will add you now, Tim. go.bsky.app/46UeoTe

Congrats @dadiyama-kylie.bsky.social and @jconigr.bsky.social, Nicole Hewlett and Dr Teagan Weatherall on your NHMRC ideas grant success! "‘BubSafe’ aims to co-create a digital storytelling tool to help health professionals discuss the benefits of having an alcohol-free pregnancy...."

cc: @meganpcook.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social

Thanks Insight Queensland for having me! It is always fun to talk about the work our research team is doing on alcohol, media, and emerging technology. I also got to talk about backwards satanic messages in music, which is just my fav! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lULf...

Me rereading my own code from 2 months ago:

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

I've continued to add my Australian AOD researcher list - check it out, share, and let me know if I'm missing you if you've migrated over in the past week! 😄 Hopefully Turning Point isn't too far behind from following. go.bsky.app/46UeoTe

A useful quick-list of Australian researchers and research organisations in AOD, substance use and addiction to follow, mainly created for personal reasons as my organisation and researchers I support start to migrate, to get them set up quickly. Feel free to share. go.bsky.app/46UeoTe

We finally have enough CAPR members on BlueSky for a CAPR starter pack! More of us will probably be migrating over soon. go.bsky.app/6pYdqn3

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

It is very strange that we still have no idea how the social media ban will work and what it will look like. amp.abc.net.au/article/1046...

“The current evidence base simply does not support the Australian social media ban. Unfortunately, this is an example of legislation that is doomed to fail...Evidence...shows that similar bans are easily circumvented...All in all, it is a sad day for evidence based policy.” @davidaellis.bsky.social

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

How outrage drives the spread of online misinformation. New work from @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social with Bluesky luminaries @klonick.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829

In light of Australia’s social media ban, here a brief reminder why bans do not address the core issues they are meant to solve, w @margaritap.bsky.social. eiko-fried.com/social-media...

This is easily the most misguided piece of legislation framed as helping young people I've ever read. Like taking your shoes off at the airport, this is theatre, not safety. This is doomed to fail... Families and young people deserve so much better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I used to start my lecture on social media by borrowing the words written in bold on the front of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: "Don't Panic". With how rushed Australia's social media ban for under 16s was, I feel like our policy makers could've used the "don't panic" message. 🧵 /1

Australia will ban social media for under 16s. This is going to be a wild ride... www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

It's blackout Wednesday in the US! Back when Twitter was more hip with the kids, we used the 'firehose' and identified 594 million blackout/alcohol-related Tweets to identify when they were written. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/

It is disappointing that we were only given one day to respond to the proposed social media ban for under 16s. We dropped everything and were one of 15,000 submissions. www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/25/t...

This is a useful thread for survey development considerations (with some useful papers included)

🆕 AI for Tobacco Control 🆕 We developed a language model to identify tobacco promotion in social media. 📄 Read our recent paper: doi.org/10.1093/ntr/... 🎙️ Or listen as a podcast: soundcloud.com/hkucukali/ai... 🧵...

The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload. Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help. Here's a list of my suggestions.

Parents are concerned about the short/long term impacts of alcohol, gambling, cigarettes, and vapes for their children. They try to discuss risks but find it difficult to counter the positive messages their children are exposed to for these products. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Social media: the root cause of rising youth self‐harm or a convenient scapegoat? https://buff.ly/3UXqvs8 #medsky #healthcare #aushealth #research

A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention

The updated website for the Drink Less app has just been launched - drinklessalcohol.com 💻🥳

Using Google Notebook to generate podcasts is way too much fun. How are others using this? I think we will use it next year for our journal club to summarise the papers we discuss. But is it useful, or just a gimmick? #AddictionSci #DrugSky #PsychSciSky

Working on AI/machine learning and addiction? We have a super broad call for papers out for a special issue in Drug and Alcohol Review. Papers are due by March 1st. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Yay! I get an Oprah moment.... You get on the list! You get on the list! And so do you! go.bsky.app/Q9bBy2H

For those who have recently joined, welcome! I built a "starter pack" for addiction scientists to identify people to follow. You can also request to be added. I'm trying to add as many people as I can who follow me, and don't be shy - reach out to be added (if you aren't on one of the lists).

How common is alcohol in music? Content analyses can be burdensome, but Large Language Models (LLMs) appear to be pretty accurate at detecting whether alcohol is referenced. We have a tutorial on how to use LLMs for analysis with code here: doi.org/10.1111/add....

Our meta-analysis suggests that alcohol references in music are extremely common. The paper led by PhD student Gedefaw Alen found that 22% of song lyrics reference alcohol, while 25% of music videos feature alcohol imagery. Check the paper out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....