New paper in @ajpmonline.bsky.social: 1 in 8 young adults in the US used delta-8-THC in the past year, with differences by other cannabis use & policy context, in Monitoring the Future data @mtfstudy.bsky.social with @adam-leventhal.bsky.social @alyssaharlow.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.am...

Longitudinal patterns of e-cigarette use initiation and progression to frequent vaping from mid-to-late adolescence to young adulthood buff.ly/1vGcwgA Junhan Cho and colleagues @uscpphs.bsky.social @alyssaharlow.bsky.social @adam-leventhal.bsky.social

New @jama.com study by @adam-leventhal.bsky.social group #USCTCORS show >HS Student use of high nicotine strength e-cigs was assoc. with more days of vaping & poly-substance use >4/10 students were unsure of the nicotine conc. in their vapes @alyssaharlow.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

@standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience

In other news, looking forward to making some noise at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally tomorrow! Girls just wanna have fun(ding) for scientific research.

New study on vaping and depression out in @amjepi.bsky.social 🧠 We followed young adults w/o depression over 18mo - those who avoided or stopped vaping were protected from developing new depressive symptoms. academic.oup.com/aje/article-... @iasatusc.bsky.social @astokespop.bsky.social

A new study by @alyssaharlow.bsky.social & #JuhanLee in @ntrjournal.bsky.social show an "increased risk of e-cigarette use initiation and continued use among US adults who changed their self-reported sexual identity from heterosexual identity to LGB+ identity." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39976563/

A hazy legal landscape means people can get high on hemp products, even where pot is prohibited @bakerinstitute.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social @alyssaharlow.bsky.social #DrugPolicy theconversation.com/a-hazy-legal...

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity. It can't not.

As someone who writes and thinks about air quality all the time, I wanted to answer some questions I'm getting and talk about what steps I'm taking, not necessarily as a reporter, but as an LA mom trying to do the right thing

Those in LA: I attended a webinar hosted by the Coalition for Clean Air. We heard from environmental scientists about air quality concerns from the LA wildfires. I found it both informative and bleak. But knowledge is power, so sharing the link to the recording. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gdHM...

A new rule by the FDA would strip cigarettes of most of their nicotine. Without the chemical, “a cigarette is just smoldering leaves wrapped in some fancy paper,” writes Nicholas Florko:

HUGE news in tobacco control. I’m seeing a lot of comments saying this will lead to people smoking more cigs to attain the same nic hit, but that’s just not what the science tells us. Models show this rule could result in 12.9 million people quitting in just 1 year. www.fda.gov/news-events/...