Enhanced Weight Management for Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder This randomized clinical trial examines whether a weight management program designed to address barriers to weight loss unique to veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was more effective ...

‼️Check out the results from our trial in @jamanetworkopen.com. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Our tailored intervention for #veterans with #ptsd didn‘t outperform a standard program. The good news? Both treatment arms experienced benefit. 🧵

New and important work!

‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under s... As experts worry over privacy issues, ineffectiveness and even harm, the UK is looking at whether the plethora of digital mental health tools need regulating

“Psychiatry experts agree that while the past decade has seen a vast proliferation of new mood-boosting tools, trackers and self-help apps, there has been little in the way of hard evidence to show that any of them actually help.”

AI literally can’t compute flipping the script …. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Hi #AcademicSky, anyone know of a good, publicly available, county-level measure of public transit quality?

Records from notorious Tuskegee syphilis study now available online The digitized collection includes over 3,000 documents, from the study’s inception in the 1930s to the work of the panel that investigated it in the 1970s.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study documents now digitized & online. #bioethics www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...

Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn’t New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

“For masks, are randomized trials an appropriate way of evaluating… in the first place? We don’t rely on such trials for seat belts, bike helmets or life jackets, & the oft-cited randomized trial of parachutes is an old running joke… What do the engineers know that doctors don’t?”

Nobel Prize Debate Misses the Mark on the Real Culprits Ignoring Scientific Merit The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system

"In my view, academic institutions are fairly transparent (though not enough) about the fact that the primary duty of their scientists is not to make the world better, but to develop a professional profile and raise funds."

Berkeley would never be the same 😂

Read this!

Not totally related to the quote below, but has me wondering how much the pressure on soft money researchers to pursue “novel” interventions that target big populations leads to these pre-disease definitions. Maybe not as avaricious in intent as drug makers, but maybe same end results?

In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc

Wow really well done Dani!! Congrats 🎉

Congratulations 🎉 This book is a gift, thank you.

US COVID SHOTS ARE FREE.

Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.