What is this ad doing? Is it just mid-aughts nostalgia for middle-aged folks around the time more of us start considering Ozempic? Got lost wondering whether Ozempic is supposed to be Mac or PC.

Thinking we need a meta-AI that calculates inter-rater reliability among all the other AIs. Something that asks all the robots your question and returns kappa or ICC. Snopes.com, if you're still around and wanting to reinvent yourself, please???

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

19, but do I get extra points if I've used some of these recently? Or performed 2 or more simultaneously?

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Increasing e-cigarette nicotine strength doesn't appear to make e-cigarettes better substitutes for combustible cigs. New data suggesting that both low- and high-nicotine e-cigarettes support product switching about the same. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Here’s the clip if anyone is interested! www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/127625...

SCORIGAMI, part 1 of 4 now on youtube, free to watch for everybody the rest of the episodes will drop every tuesday through the end of the month youtu.be/FHNwUiu_8Eg?...

Good timing, 2 new collaborations with @VT_biostats in the same month: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Take-home: simulated scarcity increases cigarette craving, and delay discounting mediates this effect

When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.

Scientists, I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature: Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk. It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.

In honor of #AlcoholAwarenessMonth, learn more about the benefits of managed alcohol programs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New from our group: Can GPT be used to implement episodic future thinking (EFT) interventions in the tx of obesity and other chronic disease? EFT is promising, but an AI-based solution could increase its scalability and reach. We begin exploring that here. More to come! arxiv.org/abs/2503.16484

Why are there so few public-facing science educators in the biomedical sciences (vs. physics, astronomy, math)? Need more of them right now (and tomorrow x 3). @hankgreen.bsky.social @vsauce.bsky.social @veritasium.bsky.social @neildegrassetyson.com @smartereveryday.bsky.social #STEM

New #recovery research at @fralinbiomed.bsky.social Severity of SUD, years of substance use, substance type, and age of onset are associated with needing more quit attempts to achieve abstinence. #addictionsci

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #PCCM 🧪🛟 Would RFK Jr. buck or bow to Big Tobacco? www.startribune.com/would-rfk-jr...

My colleagues and I showed that if you instruct participants to respond systematically, reliability is fine. So: anxious participants are not responding systematically. psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-...

“Our feeling is that it’s the consumer’s right to know. Consumers should be empowered with better knowledge about alcohol consumption in terms of its health risks and how to mitigate those risks.” www.vicnews.com/local-news/n...

Taxes reduce sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption, but policies can have unanticipated consequences. In this paper, grad student Haylee Downey developed a novel and scalable experimental marketplace to forecast potential impacts of SSB taxes. More to come! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A little side reading, courtesy of a collaboration wit @drtomori.bsky.social @jlynch13.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social “Cigarette manufacturers often invoked the laboratory as the site where the "controversy" would be resolved, knowing that it was difficult to mimic human smoking harms”

Standing with NIH Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

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