Some first-rate science writing: For this story, @jdrakephd.bsky.social carefully read our recent paper and then we spent a very fun 90 minutes or so talking on zoom. His article that gets right to the heart of our model, explains it clearly, and then explores why it will matter in the future.
Looks like we've passed peak academia.
www.ft.com/content/8097... via @data.ft.com
I am currently facing redundancy from a lifetime teaching literature. I also like drinking (in moderation).
It has long been my dream to open a combined bookshop/bar called Alcohol By Volumes.
📢 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...
The peer review system that validates scientific research is trapped in a self-defeating cycle. A new mathematical model shows why—and what comes next.
Are different desires (e.g., food, sleep, alcohol, cannabis) experienced and regulated the same way? We tested this question in a new preprint with Yang Liu, @minzlicht.bsky.social, @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social, and @kevinmking.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
New in Addiction Research & Theory: Relapse in disordered gambling: a systematic review from a biopsychosocial perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Led by the uber-productive, Jamie Torrance
Iran drops another LEGO (TACO) video to celebrate the “Art of the Deal” 😂🤣😅
This American humiliation is so f **€king satisfying to watch.
Wimsatt: Perhaps, just perhaps, the best explanation of a phenomenon at a given level is to be found at the same level.
Kendler: Noone would seek to explain hypertension at the level of quarks.
A few of my favourite papers on this topic of absurd biological reductionism: 🧵
Carl T. Bergstrom
Dr Duncan Robertson
Plashing Vole
If you like leisure centres, motorway service stations, and hemorrhaging money, you'll *love* Center Parcs.
