That's me in the corner...

So proud of Jiabi!

Kingston Council set to ban junk food adverts Rising diabetes rates lead Kingston to look at banning some adverts on council-owned sites.

In the midst of all the ongoing earth-shattering horror, some baby steps. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Opinion | OpenAI Seems to Be Making a Very Familiar, Very Cynical Choice

Ever closer to dystopia!

OpenAI Seems to Be Making a Very Familiar, Very Cynical Choice www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

Fantastic plenary talk by Prof. Sarah Berry, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social at the Fifth Future Food Symposium, U Birmingham. Cut the semantics about ultraprocessed foods, focus on their health impacts!

Academic Culture and Fraud With the latest fraudulent AI-econ paper, a number of colleagues from MIT, Brown, Princeton, Univ.

New post!
goodscience.substack.com/p/academic-c...

Somebody's been watching Black Mirror.

Interesting thread on the history of the term "Judgment and Decision Making".

Two thoughts:
1. Missed mentioning the term "Behavioral Decision Theory" -- why it arose and how it fell away.
2. Why is the distinction between judgments and decisions also falling away?

@dggoldst.bsky.social

Oh *all* the made-up DOIs led to different papers! Real papers in the same journal,but with different authors and titles. It was fantastic.

One easy tell I discovered last week was clicking on the DOIs.

"Artificial" indeed, just like it says on the tin.

How much time will I waste clicking DOIs from now on?

Brilliant thread.

5 Examples of How Behavioral Economics Can Influence Patient Behavior - Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) How can we help patients make decisions that are in their best interests? Behavioral economics is a field full of tools that can make the right choice the easy one to make for patients. Gamification, ...

See 5 examples of how behavioral economics principles have been used to improve the lives of patients. chibe.upenn.edu/blog/5-examp...

For your convenience, we have a new electronic system. Just fill out the form online, download it, sign it, and email us the soft copy with all receipts.

How to restore trust in doctors in an age of misinformation Healthcare workers and officials say falsehoods and conspiracy theories cost lives and are exacerbating inequalities

On the sociopolitical and psychological foundations of health on.ft.com/4248c8Q

Invitation for in-person AI & Health Policy event at City St Gerorge's University on the 6th of May, 10:30am at B200 University Building Northampton Square

What can we learn about #AI in #HealthPolicy making? Join us for a free in-person event at
@citystgeorges.bsky.social.

🗓️ Tuesday, 6th May 2025, 10:30–12:30
📍B200, University Building, Northampton Square
➡️ Register here: bit.ly/aihealthevent

Happy New Year

Email clients should feature a tab with links to shared documents. (If they already have this, they should make it easier to notice.)

Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions  - University Affairs A statistical analysis of Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022.

For anyone interested in gender gaps in full-time university faculty, this analysis of Canada will be of interest. The bottom line is no surprise: they are still widely present

universityaffairs.ca/features/wom...?

Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise

Socialize the costs, anyone?

on.ft.com/3ENKUuu

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”

I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

In my experience the Marketing students have self-selected into making vapid social media influencer campaigns. They're not even at the table when these POS decisions are made.

Subtweet alert.

The sense of disappointment when a new paper doesn't cite your obviously relevant work is always shockingly sharp.

#beentheredonethat

Emotions are best assessed using four-point scales (Richins, 1997).

Indeed an excellent look for the UK!

But hey, is @bayesbschool.bsky.social featured? By some metrics, we are now the leading academic centre for consumer decision making in the country.

e-motion = online trolling?

Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

Bowling alone, we're striking out and falling like ninepins. Staggering data.

on.ft.com/4hh5mSw

Thought for the day: #Omnichannel #marketing is about reverse-engineering the pig to suit each customized lipstick.

My New Year’s resolution: make reading fun again I’ve set up a screen-free reading corner, with a ‘comfort stack’ of books that offer nothing but indulgence

It's 2025! Read for fun!

on.ft.com/3BQMwTc

Obesity, laypeople’s beliefs and implications for clinicians and leaders of healthcare organisations Background/Aim Overweight and obesity (OAO) is a major and growing public health crisis in the world. There is convincing medical evidence that caloric overconsumption, rather than lack of exercise, i...

bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...

Our latest #leanwashing paper out in #BMJLeader @bmj on Christmas Day!

#obesity #foodpolitics

www.foodpolitics.com/2024/12/the-... @marionnestle.bsky.social