Interested in a fully funded @ukri.org PhD in gambling harms research? Watch our pre-application webinar and Q&A recording to hear more from programme co-leads @shwardle.bsky.social, @jholmessheff.bsky.social & @simondymond.bsky.social 🎥 sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... #GamblingHarms #PhD

📢 We’re recruiting a Research Assistant to join SARG on a @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded project led by @ambercopeland.bsky.social exploring how contextual factors influence alcohol consumption. 📍 Full-time (hybrid), Sheffield ⏳ Apply by 29 June tinyurl.com/sarg-ra #AcademicSky #PublicHealth

If you're excited by interdisciplinary research and real-world policy impact, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply or share with anyone who may be interested!

SARG - SCHARR@sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 We’re recruiting a Research Assistant to join SARG on a @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded project led by @ambercopeland.bsky.social exploring how contextual factors influence alcohol consumption. 📍 Full-time (hybrid), Sheffield ⏳ Apply by 29 June tinyurl.com/sarg-ra #AcademicSky #PublicHealth

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are recruiting a Research Assistant to join our Wellcome-funded project, 'A novel interdisciplinary approach to understanding how contextual factors influence alcohol consumption'. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

We're delighted to be taking a lead role in the new Gambling Harms Research UK (GHR-UK) Evidence Centre, the UK's largest independent gambling harms research initiative, supported by @ukri.org. Find out more on the SARG website: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/s... #GamblingResearch

SARG researchers lead UK's biggest effort to tackle gambling harms - Sheffield Addictions Research Group

A major new national effort to tackle gambling harms and shape future policy, prevention and treatment across the UK is being led by researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group.

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Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

We're looking for people who work in alcohol treatment or recovery services to complete a survey about what advice is given to service users about alcohol-free drinks: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/survey Please share to help us reach as many people as possible! #AlcoholRecovery #MentalHealth

This is encouraging news. But deaths from alcohol remain unnacceptably and stubbornly high. Our economy and productivity, our NHS and public services, our communities and loved ones are still reeling from the impacts of alcohol harm. Government cannot see this as job done.

One in four adults in England do not drink alcohol, survey finds

Questionnaire completed by 10,000 people finds sobriety on rise, with women slightly more abstemious than men

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Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!

Impacted wisdom tooth removal: ouch 🥴

We've got another cool new modelling paper out today in @plosmedicine.org estimating the public health impacts of increasing the Minimum Unit Price for alcohol in Scotland to 65p and the alternative impacts of different decisions. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Public health impacts of increasing the minimum unit price for alcohol in Scotland: A model-based appraisal

In this modeling paper, John Holmes and colleagues analyzed the effects on public health of changing the minimum unit price of alcohol in Scotland.

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Rethinking drug use and addiction 😍 A philosopher advocates for a more humane and context-informed approach Superb review by Cassandra Boness of Hanna Pickard's important book, provocatively titled: "What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rethinking drug use and addiction

A philosopher advocates for a more humane and context-informed approach

science.org

Brilliant to present an overview of my Fellowship in the @sarg-scharr.bsky.social monthly meeting earlier today — feeling very grateful for how everything has worked out!

SARG - SCHARR@sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Great to hear from @ambercopeland.bsky.social today about her new @wellcometrust.bsky.social fellowship! Her work focuses on modelling how contextual factors influence alcohol consumption. Find out more on the SARG website: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/projects/a-n... #AddictionResearch #PublicHealth

Fluff ball begging for his dinner 2 hours early

Our experimental alcohol administration study on the tension reduction hypothesis has been published in Addiction! 🎉 See preprint thread below for a summary :) Https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70213

How people decide to consume (more) alcohol when feeling stressed

Background and aims The tension reduction hypothesis suggests that people consume alcohol to alleviate stress. While previous studies showed stress increases alcohol's absolute value, alcohol's valu.....

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Jonas Dora@jonasdora.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).

Really recommend applying to this @addiction-ssa.org scheme! I was able to visit @james-g-murphy.bsky.social and @katiew.bsky.social earlier this year and it was brilliant both professionally and personally 🇺🇸

Society for the Study of Addiction@addiction-ssa.org · 11mo ago

The travelling scholarship scheme is designed to help students and researchers travel internationally, share knowledge, and network. Apply by 25 September: tinyurl.com/yc5vemr3

Heading into Sheffield for #ESCOP25 I'm taking part in a symposium on using drift diffusion models for between group comparisons,organised by @ambercopeland.bsky.social W/ @cmanning.bsky.social Craig Hedge and Alekhya Mandali also speaking. Lot to discuss,should be a great session!

We are delighted to announce our 2025 prize winners, Leon Xiao and Gemma Taylor. Find out more about the SSA's prizes and funding schemes: tinyurl.com/7m5d8yyn

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Presenting my talk at #ESCOP2025 today at 4pm in the symposium "Cognitive Mastery in Play: From Board to Digital Games as Models of Expertise" in LT2 🎮🎲 Hope you see you there!

My love language is a Yorkshire teabag. #ESCOP2025 delivering the goods!

With less than week until #ESCOP2025, we're super excited to kick-off our conference with something truly special - an Algorave! 🤩 (1/12 👀)

Perfect day for a long walk in the Peaks

'SARG researcher @ambercopeland.bsky.social secures major Wellcome funding to model how context influences alcohol consumption' | | @sarg-scharr.bsky.social sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/s...

SARG researcher secures major Wellcome funding to model how context influences alcohol consumption - Sheffield Addictions Research Group

Dr Amber Copeland from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust fellowship worth £591,755 over five years. The funding will support a new project to...

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Delighted to share that this October, I will be starting a 5-year Early Career Fellowship funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 🥳 You can read more about my project 👇

SARG - SCHARR@sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🎉 Huge congratulations to SARG researcher @ambercopeland.bsky.social who has secured almost £600k funding from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social to develop a cutting-edge computational model that explores how a person's environment influences their attempts to cut down on alcohol. #PublicHealth

It’s a good day - Friday and a paper acceptance 🥳

This new paper led by @sophiebright.bsky.social introduces the Intersectional Alcohol Inequities Framework (IAIF), a conceptual tool designed to visually illustrate how diverse factors across multiple levels and domains intersect to shape inequities in alcohol consumption and related harms.

Applying an intersectional lens to alcohol inequities: A conceptual framework

Background Prior research has demonstrated substantial inequities in alcohol consumption, alcohol-related harms, and mortality. These inequities arise from a complex interplay of factors, unlikely a.....

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An absolutely brilliant morning! More photos:

Matt Field@fieldmatt.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent kayaking trip in the Louisiana swamp with @ambercopeland.bsky.social today in a short break from conferencing. Didn’t see any alligators, but it was very relaxing and my personal highlight was seeing this sneaky owl

Brilliant first day at RSA, including delivering a symposium on innovative methods for behavioural economic research 🤩

First day in New Orleans with @ambercopeland.bsky.social ahead of Research Society on Alcohol Conference which starts tomorrow. First US experience: big food