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...
If you like leisure centres, motorway service stations, and hemorrhaging money, you'll *love* Center Parcs.
Iran drops another LEGO (TACO) video to celebrate the “Art of the Deal” 😂🤣😅
This American humiliation is so f **€king satisfying to watch.
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.
Starring Richard Keys as Alan Partridge
As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.
The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
SARG's Ellen McGrane recently spoke with @afsguk.bsky.social about her research into gambling advertising during live sports. The interview explores the whistle-to-whistle ban, self-regulation, and the challenges of data collection and natural experiments in gambling research. #AddictionResearch
Really looking forward to this - the conference and the city! Hope to see lots of colleagues there
He's gone early
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41... - new paper with Clinton Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes and colleagues
Different species see the world as fast as they need to...
The association between gambling frequency and risk of harm: Analysis using health survey data from England and Scotland
Love this!
Please get him off LinkedIn...
Columnists are engaged in a doomed, never-ceasing quest to find something that makes them angry enough to become interesting to others.
💯 Loads of excellent advice in this post #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
How should public health respond to the rise of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks? New publication in the @bmj.com from @jholmessheff.bsky.social @niamhfitzgerald.bsky.social Inge Kersbergen and Nathan Critchlow. Really insightful, great work guys 🌟
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
I would say I’m looking for skills / methods that are aligned with the project, including evidence that they can write these up to publication standard. No specific number of publications needed - quality more important than quantity. Grantwriting experience useful but not essential
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/...
Competitively priced for loo roll, but not soft or absorbent enough.
The perfect punctuation mark to my choice for who had the worst year on @quietriotpod.bsky.social.
Excellent article, reminding all of us of pioneering early work in gambling research - and reminding us how much there is still to do. www.sciencenews.org/article/bob-.... Roll on 2026….
@uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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An image of Predator (1987)
🎶he sees you when you're sleeping
he knows when you're awake
his vision's based on movement
and the heat signature you make🎶
✨ SARG Internship opportunity ✨ We're currently looking for a part-time Quantitative Research Intern to undertake a three-month research project mapping the type of advice that alcohol treatment and recovery services give to clients on the use of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks. Find out more 👇
It’s Strava Year in Sport time! Quite a big decline since last year, mainly attributable to a busy summer. But not bad for a geriatric.
strava.app.link/QL4vEzY9YYb
