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Another great week, this time visiting the University of New Mexico Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (casaa.unm.edu). During this visit, I was able to get valuable feedback from Dr Katie Witkiewitz on my fellowship application along with advice on advancing in an academic career.

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What an amazing week visiting the University of Memphis HABIT lab (www.memphis.edu/psychology/r...). Dr Jim Murphy (@james-g-murphy.bsky.social) is one of the kindest people I have ever met, with so many ambitious and clinically meaningful research ideas and ongoing projects.

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Lovely evening in Memphis 🇺🇸 BBQ food for dinner with @james-g-murphy.bsky.social and @samuelacuff.bsky.social, and lots of interesting discussions!

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When deaths from alcohol increase by over 40% in just five years, how can anyone seriously claim our current approach to controlling this problem is anything other than inadequate?

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For those of you interested in pulling excellent papers from this journal, I have created a public collection: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi...

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Can you run Pavlovia experiments on mobile phones? YES Just use mouse/buttons as your response! An example demo from #linguistics - semantic priming Try it ✨ https://buff.ly/40AtzO0 Adapt the files 🖥️ https://buff.ly/42agP20 #language #psychology #researchtools

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Our current study investigates how self-monitoring and financial incentives can help people cut down. Participants breathalyse themselves three-times daily for 21 days, and attend three lab sessions to complete surveys and decision-making tasks. Find out more at bit.ly/sheffieldalcoholstudy

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Our Health Economics evaluation of the Drink Less app is out, led by Prof @victimofmaths.bsky.social. Rollout of the Drink Less app is estimated to be health improving, cost saving, and health inequalities reducing. www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fallacies in the supermarket

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We had a fantastic Open Research Conversation on citizen science yesterday… recording available on the link below:

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JOB OPPORTUNITY Looking for some research experience in psychology or public health? We have a short-term, part-time post on a small project about use of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks by low-income groups. More information below and at the link: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM054/r...

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it me 😬

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👇👇👇

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I'm excited to share a new preprint: In a novel experimental paradigm, we found evidence that stress induces a computational bias during alcohol-related decision-making in favor of alcohol, but this bias was only sometimes strong enough to overcome competing considerations (e.g., taste preferences).

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Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵

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A perfect Sunday ♥️

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Brilliant paper "Although most people drink because they enjoy it, much public health discourse downplays pleasure as either marginally significant or as a kind of misperception driven by external forces including marketing, custom, social norms and peer pressure."

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Poster submissions for the Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025 in Tübingen are now open. Deadline is 7th February. Symposium submissions are open until 15th January. www.cpconf.org. Please RB.

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Although I am entirely jealous of him, there is something oddly soothing about working next to a snoring cat.

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Interesting to see this study from Korea investigating enhancing behavioural activation for depression via mental imagery - given the sample size, results are very preliminary, but it's nice to see this work being done: www.stressresearch.or.kr/journal/view...

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Our new paper on how to change public perceptions of alcohol, its harm and possible policy responses is now published in @addictionjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Possibly useful little #Rstats trick: edit(names(iris)) will create a popup with the R code for the character vector containing the column names of your data frame that you can copy and paste, e.g. c("Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length", "Petal.Width", "Species")

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Lots of new addiction scientists to the blue skies lately, so wanted to re-share our Addiction Science Starter packs to conveniently help you follow our wonderful community of addiction scientists. go.bsky.app/KVDa5PD

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Our team, @sarg-scharr.bsky.social has a shiny new website. Take a look to find out all about our projects, latest activities and publications: sarg-sheffield.ac.uk Huge thanks to the amazing @annefgreaves.bsky.social for designing and building it.

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Our research group @sarg-scharr.bsky.social has a beautiful new website with lots of information about who we are and what we do. Huge props to @annefgreaves.bsky.social for working her magic to pull it all together and make it look beautiful. sarg-sheffield.ac.uk

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Alcohol sales policies that require proportional pricing may reduce alcohol purchasing. Read the open access research by Led by Inge Kersbergen @sarg-scharr.bsky.social with @ambercopeland.bsky.social Rob Pryce @pmeierprof.bsky.social @fieldmatt.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4gmPBJX

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Our new study led by @prof-andy.bsky.social has been published in @addictionjournal.bsky.social (£0) We investigated whether changes in alcohol-related attitudes were precursors to changes in drinking behaviour - hence this proxy outcome could be useful... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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After 6 months of showing no interest whatsoever, he’s finally using his couch! 👑

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We wrote a book! Everything we learned over six years of work on the decline in youth drinking in the UK, Australia, Sweden and Finland. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

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Happy Merry Christmas!

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