🌟 Discover how behavioural insights drive policy improvements in health, sustainability, and safety! Join the BR-UK Research Showcase webinar to explore key findings from 5 cross-disciplinary projects. Don’t miss out! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

30 years of tracking hunger in America—gone. The Trump admin says it’s ‘politicized.’ ✨ If you don’t count it, it doesn’t exist, right? shorturl.at/s6aDU #ablueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky

📢 Join us for our October webinar, the BR-UK Research Showcase! Gain insight into findings from each of the five BR-UK projects, followed by a Q&A session and discussion. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New in @addictionjournal.bsky.social , we find adults who smoke cigarettes non-daily tend to be more motivated to quit smoking than those who smoke every day, especially among older and less advantaged people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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🧬 Long COVID and inequality A major US study finds that social determinants of health (like poverty, food insecurity, and medical discrimination) double or triple the risk of long COVID. 🔗 doi.org/10.7326/ANNA... #SciComm #LongCOVID #HealthEquity 🧪

The SRNT-E 2025 conference programme is now online! 🎉 See what we've got lined up here: srnt-e.org/conference/2... Looking forward to seeing many of you in Romania!

Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths buff.ly/tIC0Fqp @danlewer.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social

We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... New research with @sharoncox.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social

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'lockdowns had unequal impacts. But the epidemic itself did too, even in the absence of lockdown.... Among people of working age in Sweden, those in the lowest income tertile were five times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those in the highest.'

Desperately sad to learn of the death of Peter Krykant, an indomitable campaigner who brought Scotland's drugs deaths crisis into the light and kept it there, and without whom The Thistle, the UK's first legal drugs consumption room, would not exist www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Addiction Audio: Emma Beard talks to Tsen Vei Lim about her research. Podcast: buff.ly/wsvnUda Article: buff.ly/UcLuk67

New pre-print - the first empirical study of the 2024 summer riots, case studies of Bristol, Stoke, & Tamworth detailing the sequence of events, who was involved, and targets Funded by @ukri.org www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

Policies that target the packaging, appearance, and marketing of e-cigarettes appear much more popular among vapers than those targeting price or the types of devices and flavours that can be sold.

Such a lot of work went into this, bravo to the team and please do join the webinar if you can, each of them great speakers and have important insights and learning from these events 👇🏼

Our new paper examines level of support for proposed vaping policies via an online survey of UK vapers age 16+. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @jamiebrown.bsky.social @lionshahab.bsky.social @ucl-targ.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social

How much does the absence of the ‘hidden population’ from United Kingdom household surveys underestimate smoking prevalence? buff.ly/cCYCYMC Emma Beard @lionshahab.bsky.social @jamiebrown.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social

Go to this, Sarah is a seriously brilliant communicator of smoking and vaping research

Interested in smoking and vaping? I will be giving a UCL Lunch Hour Lecture covering lots of our recent research findings in this area. The lecture will take place online on 29 May, 1-2pm. It’s free and all are welcome to attend. You can register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Modeling the Impact of Vaping: What We Need to Know and Which Methods to Use Commentary by Lion Shahab academic.oup.com/ntr/article/... @lionshahab.bsky.social

Important analysis, led by Dr Emma Beard, showing that absolute smoking rates in the UK are likely underestimated by more than 1% as surveys do not capture disadvantaged, hidden populations. doi.org/10.1111/add.... @jamiebrown.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social

New blog from me for @behaviourresuk.bsky.social Can we overcome the challenges of making qualitative research more open? Yes!👇 With thanks to: @adam42smith.bsky.social @beckibooks.bsky.social @profalexstevens.bsky.social for their input to our recent webinar usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-...

"Giving consideration to the language we use is therefore important, but we also must avoid over-stepping into territory that might more legitimately be deemed ‘word-policing’. " New blog for @alcoholfocus.bsky.social www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/news/news/no...

Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities across regions in England: A population study, 2006 to 2024 @drsarahejackson.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social Vera Buss @tattanbirch.bsky.social @jamiebrown.bsky.social buff.ly/FSVwn65

“Let’s Talk about Science Reform!” In this blog post, Sheena F. Bartscherer and Sven Ulpts introduce the upcoming workshop on theoretical and methodological approaches to investigating the open science movement. #MetaSci #OpenSci #STS #AcademicSky 🧪

New paper finds smoking rates in the north of England fell faster than the national average between 2006-2024, narrowing geographic inequalities in smoking prevalence. Regional tobacco control programmes appeared to contribute to this progress. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The American Diabetes Association issued a statement regarding NIH's discontinuation of the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study: "Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention." diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...

I’m looking for a reliable and fairly up-to-date visual which shows Scotland’s drug related deaths (per million) are higher than most EU countries.. any suggestions?

Interested in EDII? Join our @behaviourresuk.bsky.social webinar too: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Good to see more voices added to the mix, diversity in research is not only important, it makes science better. Science belongs to everyone. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

📃New paper (open access) 'Key Terms and Concepts in Alcohol Use and Problems: A Critical Evaluation' Short 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Next month I'll be presenting at UNSW's Spotlight on Stigma series on whether 'stigma' - or social 'disapproval' - can be a force for good in reducing addiction problems www.eventbrite.com.au/e/spotlight-...

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

For International Women's Day, I give you Lise Meitner, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, the first to formulate and understand it. Never won the Nobel Prize despite being nominated 49 times, though she does have the element Meitnerium named after her. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Me...

We are a week away from the second webinar in our AI in behavioural research series, focusing on Analytical AI, covering its use in classifying knowledge, reasoning, and making predictions from data. 📅 11:30am, 12 March 2025. Sign up below: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Since 2013, the proportion of adults in England reporting single and multiple non-combustible nicotine product use has risen, with the prevalence of single product use almost tripling and multiple product use doubling, find Sharon Cox et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-... @sharoncox.bsky.social

You can now sign up to our second March webinar, where our speakers will explore the critical role of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality, #EDII in behavioural research Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New OA paper from us! 👇🏼 While single and multiple non-combustible nicotine product use has risen, the majority of use is still among people who currently smoke or have in the past @ucl-targ.bsky.social @drsarahejackson.bsky.social @jamiebrown.bsky.social @lionshahab.bsky.social

Reasonably balanced article about synthetic alcohol (Sentia etc), which talks about placebo effects and the general state of the evidence (i.e there isn’t much) but overall still comes across as an advertorial www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

New paper: 'Problem Recognition as A Discrete Concept for Change Processes in Problematic Alcohol Use' We review problem recognition - the extent to which people recognise risk/harm associated with their alcohol use - and its potential for advancing research & intervention doi.org/10.1007/s404...

I'll be talking at this event about the everyday challenges of trying to do open qualitative research. The other, far more qualified speakers are @beckibooks.bsky.social books.bsky.social and @adam42smith.bsky.social, chaired by the marvellous @sharoncox.bsky.social ox.bsky.social.

This is a really useful primer on AI, whether you do behavioural research or any other. Also here, the basic terminology explained.

2 more Webinars on AI in behavioural research to follow - one on analytical AI & one on responsible AI - sign up on website

This is a really useful primer on AI, whether you do behavioural research or any other. Also here, the basic terminology explained.

Centre-UB is offering 15 new studentships! Co-designed & co-supervised by University of Birmingham researchers and partner organisations, these PhD opportunities provide unique learning experiences across various sectors and environments. Find out more here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

#Ontologies enhance clarity, consistency, and coherence in representing information. They facilitate search, inference, and interoperability across data sets and disciplines. Dr. Harriet Baird explains their role in behavioral research in our most recent blog here: usher.ed.ac.uk/behavioural-...

I think this is a good language guide from @anti-stigmanetwork.bsky.social This bit on using lived experience carefully I think is particularly overlooked issue. I do think the common use of more stereotypical lived experiences needs more debate/consideration..

It’s just two weeks until BR-UK’s webinar on Open Science in Qualitative Research ! Our speakers will be discuss ethical and practical challenges, innovative frameworks, and handling sensitive narrative data. 📅 Taking place on 25th Feb 2025, 3 PM. Sign up below: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...