NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent. https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR

President Daniels in WSJ op-ed: Get the federal science money flowing

JHU president, University of Kansas chancellor urge federal agencies to release congressionally appropriated funds to fuel America's research engine

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Call me crazy, but having to tell Google that the thing it googled is wrong doesn't feel like progress to me?

New preprint! Episodic future thinking (EFT) as a type 2 diabetes intervention? 💭 RCT results suggest that EFT helps improve HbA1c and supports future-oriented decision-making in patients with high delay discounting. #BehSci #PsySci #healthpsych #type2diabetes doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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?

audge⁷ -- an armpit sommelier@btsaudge.borasky.com · 8mo ago

Show your age 17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)

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....

Does e‐cigarette nicotine strength influence substitution for combustible cigarettes?

Using the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace, we examined the effects of e-liquid freebase nicotine strength (3–24 mg/mL) and e-liquid price (US$0.25–$1.00/mL) on behavioral economic substitution for c...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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

A closer look at ultra-processed foods

ABC News' Dr. Darien Sutton takes a look at how ultra-processed foods affect our bodies, as a CDC study finds they make up over half of Americans' daily calorie intake.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio@difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The lab was on Good Morning America! Absolutely surreal. Everyone did so great on the filming day. I work with the best people ever.

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?...

When a tractor company played in the NFL | SCORIGAMI, Part 1 of 4

YouTube video by Secret Base

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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

AI-Powered Episodic Future Thinking

Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) is an intervention that involves vividly imagining personal future events and experiences in detail. It has shown promise as an intervention to reduce delay discounting ...

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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

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute@fralinbiomed.bsky.social · 2y ago

It often takes multiple attempts to successfully quit a substance. Our researchers found that getting to recovery varies based on the substance used and other factors. 📊➡️ news.vt.edu/articles/202...

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

Burcum: Would RFK Jr. buck or bow to Big Tobacco?

The Biden administration has issued a proposed rule to cap nicotine in cigarettes. If confirmed, Kennedy and his boss should back it, but will they?

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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...

New UVic website empowers alcohol drinkers with personal risk calculator

KnowAlcohol.ca provides personalized feedback on alcohol consumption to keep Canadians informed

vicnews.com

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...

The Experimental Beverage Marketplace: Feasibility and preliminary validation of a tool to experimentally study sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and beverage purchasing

Sugar sweetened-beverage (SSB) consumption contributes to poor diet quality and diet-related chronic diseases. One effective public health strategy to…

sciencedirect.com

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...

Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target

The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.

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Notoriously late adopter of social media, but I can't tell whether I'm too early or too late for BlueSky. You can always find me on my Google Plus and Friendster, though.