One of the meetings I am most excited about this spring is the first-ever academic conference on intervention optimization, "Intervention Optimization: Science and Practice, Present and Future," in Bethesda, Maryland from May 18-20, 2026.

How much exercise is needed? Any is a step forward for promoting health www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join us for our next Roybal Center (roybal.umich.edu) webinar on Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET, featuring Dr. Giampiero Tarantino, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.

The US is home to only 3 of the top 25 universities globally in research impact (#3, #20, and #23). In 2009, we were home to 15 out of 25, including the #1 spot. It would be the unforced error of the century to scale back on our national investment in science now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Just 5 extra minutes per day of walking at an average speed is linked to a 10% reduction in deaths, from a meta-analysis of 135,000 participants in 7 cohorts (Norway, Sweden, and the US) New @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...

January Newsletter from the Roybal Center at @umkines.bsky.social is out - check it out and subscribe to be the first to get the next issue at mailchi.mp/89288fb1bd3f...

Big news from the Michigan Roybal Center at @umkines.bsky.social: our website now has a Generative AI Behavioral Science Assistant (Maizey) trained on ontologies, the science of physical activity, the M2C2 ambulatory cognitive testing approach, and much more. Try Maizey out at roybal.umich.edu

Adults who drink due to external pressures are more likely to consume higher amounts of alcohol & experience more negative consequences than those who drink mainly for the pleasure of consuming alcohol, according to a new study from @conroylab.bsky.social & colleagues. myumi.ch/9p8yX

This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective). Read! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale. It's exercise. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're hiring at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology (kines.umich.edu).

Join us for tomorrow's (Dec 2, 10am Eastern) Roybal Center webinar by Dr Chris Sciamanna on "How to design an exercise program for older adults that they will do" #aging #physicalactivity - please share and register to get the link at umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join an emerging national center of excellence in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Kinesiology at a great university. @umkines.bsky.social has multiple open-rank faculty positions available. Join us in using advanced technology to challenge the idle state! Details at myumi.ch/8qnnD

We're hiring @umkines.bsky.social - two open searches for new faculty with expertise in the Social and Behavioral Science of Physical Activity (one open-rank tenure-line, one academic clinical asst/assoc). Details at myumi.ch/A1DDM

In honour of the late Dr Simon J Marshall: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

Check out the Nov issue of our Roybal Center newsletter - sign up if you want to get these directly in your inbox mailchi.mp/586525b9d319...

The Applied Exercise Science at the Univ Michigan has launched two searches for tenure-line (open-rank) and clinical (asst/assoc prof) faculty colleagues with expertise in the Social and Behavioral Sciences of Physical Activity.

The University of Michigan School of Kinesiology is searching for *multiple* open-rank faculty with expertise in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Kinesiology. Join us in forming a national center of excellence to propel the field foward. Details & application at apply.interfolio.com/177561

I loved being back in Pennsylvania, if only briefly, so Isabel Wakefield and I could meet with Drs Katie Schmitz & @carissalow.bsky.social to plot out new ideas to help cancer survivors. Pittsburgh is an amazing place - brimming with innovative ideas and energy for creating a better tomorrow

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

...and the landing page for the Roybal Center for Promoting Adherence to Behavior Change & Enhancing Cognitive Function is now LIVE. Check it out at roybal.umich.edu & bookmark it for more exciting content is coming in the weeks and months ahead (including our AI Behavioral Science Assistant)...

📰Our Roybal Center Newsletter just published - check it out below (mailchi.mp/6b9712d4efff...) and subscribe if you want these delivered to your inbox! Highlights include news about a funding opportunity for behavioral intervention development and an upcoming webinar on adherence to behavior change

Full house today for our inaugural Crossroads in Kinesiology seminar featuring Dr Chris Sciamanna! Thanks to the Bickner Endowment for enriching our University of Michigan School of Kinesiology community with events like this

Ohio State has not beaten Michigan in football for 2100 days. #GoBlue #Michigan #BeatOhio

When will Congress start doing its taxpayer-funded job?

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS) act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Open call for applications, Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health - Clinical Trial Applications. Submit letters of intent by October 15, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/roybal-center-behavior-change-health-clinical-trial-applications

Counting steps is easy using a phone, a wearable or fitness tracker. And Scientists have lots of data to figure out how many daily steps you need to improve health. Here's what they've found.

Coming this Wednesday ⬇️

Russell Pate arrived at USC in 1974 and was one of six faculty members to found the Department of Exercise Science in 1989. In this Pioneering Perspectives story, he shares five decades of Arnold School history. ow.ly/OGV850WthAl #ArnoldSchool50Years

Search has launched for the next Dean of the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. This position is an extraordinary opportunity to lead a strategic growth phase in an exceptional environment. Learn more about the search at wittkieffer.com/positions/20...

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

Funding opportunity for behavioral intervention development/evaluation via the National Institute on Aging (NIA) network of Roybal Centers - see details at www.roybalniaresearchcenters.org/post/call-fo...

More Nilam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pe5...

Nice discussion with Nilam Ram. The genesis of The Human Screenome Project dates back to Nilam's 2013-14 CASBS fellowship & hiss interactions at CASBS with Byron Reeves, who serendipitously occupied the study next to Nilam that year 😁

If you can’t walk longer, try walking a bit faster (14 steps/min faster to be precise). Great seeing this new finding from my colleague Dr Daniel Rubin (Univ Chicago) getting some coverage www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/h...

If you missed it, the recording is now on the website

Optimism is never foolish. Working in politics depends on it: To get up and do the work, we have to believe change is possible.

📣 Launching July 9 from @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social: A new hydration-focused webinar series, Water Talks. ✅ Explore the science of optimal #hydration. ✅ Bust hydration myths. ✅ Earn 1 CEU (ACSM and AND) Register at no cost: specialevents.asu.edu/ereg/newreg....

Need to analyze intensive longitudinal data or panel data? Multilevel or mixed effects modeling offers one of the most powerful methods to do so. Join my 3-day (June 18-20) workshop for longitudinal multilevel modeling to learn how. 1/2 smart-workshops.com/long-mlm-info

A first-of-its kind study adds powerful new evidence to research showing that exercise improves cancer survival. Here's what the trial, in people treated for colon cancer, showed.

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

Our VP of research made an interesting observation that the federal govt is negotiating a new partnership with science. Based on the 2026 budget-it is to reduce the role of the govt in science

Hey folks - follow @umkines.bsky.social to see what’s possible when you put great faculty, staff and trainees in a beautiful building and dare them to dream up ways to challenge the idle state KINES.umich.edu

Exciting new teaching opportunities (full- or part-time) at the Univ Michigan School of Kinesiology - Science Communication, Scientific Writing, and/or various classes in social-behavior aspects of physical activity. Details & application at careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

If you’re at the ACSM mtg this week and interested in TEACHING classes in *Science Communication*, *Scientific Writing*, or social-behavioral aspects of physical activity (*Environmental & Policy Approaches*; *Social Factors*; *Intervention Design*)…

On Memorial Day weekend, a reminder that at least one part of one branch of government is upholding the rule of law and the Constitution.

These are important points. Univ. of Michigan is the 3rd largest employer in Michigan. Due to stable jobs and good benefits, people with all educ. backgrounds have jobs. So do places UM buys from.

Beautiful day here in Ann Arbor as we move into summer

New paper with Belle Liu and Necole Streeper showing that non-thirst related urges to drink water predict 24h urine volume in patients w stones - nice example of affectively-charged motivation predicting an important surrogate outcome for prevention #urology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...