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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🆕Experience as Evidence: A Content Analysis of Reddit Discussions About Alcohol Use During Pregnancy Megan Cook, Lisa Schölin, Natasha Reid, et al doi.org/10.1111/dar.70265 Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University (LaTrobeUni), The University of Edinburgh

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) as a source of belonging and wellbeing: A social identity perspective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002… My gaming group has certainly helped keep me sane for years and years. #socialscience #ttrpg #pnpde

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Will social media bans reduce the amount of substance use-related content to which young people are exposed? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "...true harm reduction may require a shift from policing user age to regulating the safety and transparency of the digital environments..."

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Will social media bans reduce the amount of substance use‐related content to which young people are exposed?

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The Medical Journal of Australia @mja.com.au · 10/02/2026

🔔 This week in InSight+ Why we must invest now in digital health interventions for adolescents 👉 buff.ly/EI5UgRA

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New paper published in Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, led by PhD student Gedefaw Alen: "Celebrity-Owned Alcohol Brands Promoted on Social Media" doi.org/10.1542/peds...

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Such a cool paper! @kbackholer.bsky.social report results from their work on analysing social media data to detect alcohol marketing.

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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🆕 Cannabis Marketing Restrictions and Exposure to Cannabis Marketing in Legal US Cannabis Markets: Findings From the International Cannabis Policy Study Lauren Winfield-Ward, Elle Wadsworth, Pete Driezen, David Hammond doi.org/10.1111/dar.... @uwaterloo.ca @randeurope.org @uniofbath.bsky.social

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Centre for Alcohol Policy Research @capraustralia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

When alcohol fills the gap: Basic Psychological Need Compensation Predicts Hazardous Drinking @jconigr.bsky.social on chronic frustration through the lens of Self-Determination Theory

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New paper from @samathasalim.bsky.social published in @addictionjournal.bsky.social: Comparing the accuracy of artificial intelligence models to detect alcohol in video images. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

New paper on FoMO! We analysed Reddit posts to determine how people who were aiming to reduce their alcohol use dealt with the feelings of FoMO. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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APSAD DAR @apsad-dar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

New online: A Scalable Sampling Approach for Artificial Intelligence-Based #Alcohol Content Estimation in #Movies Samatha Pararath Salim, Zhen He, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Joshua Millward, Benjamin Riordan doi.org/10.1111/dar.... @latrobeuni.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social #AI

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New open access tutorial paper on how social scientists can use machine learning to analyse images. We think this is a super cool method and we have aimed it at those with no background in programming or computer science psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We need better measures if we want to properly understand the impact of social media use or exposure to alcohol-related content on alcohol use. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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We need better measures to understand the influence of social media on substance use

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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“I Don’t Know for Certain”: A Content Analysis of Reddit Posters’ Accounts of Drink Spiking New paper looking at relationships, contexts and impacts of alcohol & drug-facilitated sexual violence ('drink spiking'). Led by Jess Ison & @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

CAPR's director Emmanuel Kuntsche rocked the mic at the recent Global Congress on Behavioural Addictions in Istanbul. Here are some pics from his presentation on how machine learning is used in addiction research.

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New from @meganpcook.bsky.social. Gender differences in Aus and NZ alcohol research. There are far fewer single gender studies focused on middle-aged men, despite the fact that they consume the most alcohol and experience the most alcohol-related harms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Gender Differences in Alcohol Research: A Focus on How Men and Women Are Studied in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

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Neo Gebru @neooology.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors? Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1! tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...

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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Alcohol is the most commonly used drug in "drink spiking" but we rarely associate the two. So we analysed Reddit posts to explore alcohol's role in drink spiking & sexual violence. Written with a team of non-Bluesky users & out in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alcohol and legitimate victimhood: Analysing Reddit posts to understand perceptions of alcohol's role in drink spiking and sexual violence

Drink spiking has gained attention in the media but remains under-researched, particularly in the context of gendered power dynamics and sexual violen…

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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Very proud to be part of this systematic review, which has relevance for anyone working in the alcohol and/or gender space! Implications extend beyond alcohol, prompting us to consider how we understand and (re)construct gender in the context of interdisciplinary research.

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APSAD @apsad.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📅Save the date! APSAD 2025 is taking place from Sun 9 - Wed 12 Nov 2025 at the International Convention Centre, Gadigal (Sydney), Australia Registration Open: March 2025 Abstract Submission Open: March 2025 Super Earlybird Deadline: Early April 2025 www.apsadconference.com.au #APSAD25

APSAD 2025 Conference save the date tile with dates 9-12 Nov and location ICC Gadigal (Sydney)

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Justyna Klingemann @justklingemann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As President of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, I welcome the alcohol research community to Scotland for the KBS 50th Anniversary Symposium organised by the Universities of Stirling and Glasgow (9-13 June 2025): kbs2025scotland.org/home.html

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Ian Logan @ianlogan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I've also got mine, which I've continuing to update over the past few weeks - will add you now, Tim. go.bsky.app/46UeoTe

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Congrats @dadiyama-kylie.bsky.social and @jconigr.bsky.social, Nicole Hewlett and Dr Teagan Weatherall on your NHMRC ideas grant success! "‘BubSafe’ aims to co-create a digital storytelling tool to help health professionals discuss the benefits of having an alcohol-free pregnancy...."

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Ian Logan @ianlogan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

cc: @meganpcook.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thanks Insight Queensland for having me! It is always fun to talk about the work our research team is doing on alcohol, media, and emerging technology. I also got to talk about backwards satanic messages in music, which is just my fav! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lULf...

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20th Nov 2024 Benjamin Riordan: How is substance use portrayed in digital media and the impacts?

YouTube video by Insight Queensland

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Me rereading my own code from 2 months ago:

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

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Ian Logan @ianlogan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've continued to add my Australian AOD researcher list - check it out, share, and let me know if I'm missing you if you've migrated over in the past week! 😄 Hopefully Turning Point isn't too far behind from following. go.bsky.app/46UeoTe

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Ian Logan @ianlogan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A useful quick-list of Australian researchers and research organisations in AOD, substance use and addiction to follow, mainly created for personal reasons as my organisation and researchers I support start to migrate, to get them set up quickly. Feel free to share. go.bsky.app/46UeoTe

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We finally have enough CAPR members on BlueSky for a CAPR starter pack! More of us will probably be migrating over soon. go.bsky.app/6pYdqn3

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

“The current evidence base simply does not support the Australian social media ban. Unfortunately, this is an example of legislation that is doomed to fail...Evidence...shows that similar bans are easily circumvented...All in all, it is a sad day for evidence based policy.” @davidaellis.bsky.social

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril

Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is easily the most misguided piece of legislation framed as helping young people I've ever read. Like taking your shoes off at the airport, this is theatre, not safety. This is doomed to fail... Families and young people deserve so much better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Australian social media ban on under-16s approved by Senate

The ban aims to reduce

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I used to start my lecture on social media by borrowing the words written in bold on the front of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: "Don't Panic". With how rushed Australia's social media ban for under 16s was, I feel like our policy makers could've used the "don't panic" message. 🧵 /1

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Australia will ban social media for under 16s. This is going to be a wild ride... www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

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Alcohol, media, and emerging technology research (CAPR) @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It's blackout Wednesday in the US! Back when Twitter was more hip with the kids, we used the 'firehose' and identified 594 million blackout/alcohol-related Tweets to identify when they were written. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/

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When are alcohol-related blackout Tweets written in the United States?

Alcohol use varies throughout the year and often peaks on weekends or during celebrations (e.g., New Year’s). There is not a perfect correlation betwe…

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Raimondo Bruno @psychopharmres.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is a useful thread for survey development considerations (with some useful papers included)

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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 24/11/2024

🆕 AI for Tobacco Control 🆕 We developed a language model to identify tobacco promotion in social media. 📄 Read our recent paper: doi.org/10.1093/ntr/... 🎙️ Or listen as a podcast: soundcloud.com/hkucukali/ai... 🧵...

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AI Detects Tobacco Promotion on Social Media

Read full paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntae276

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload. Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help. Here's a list of my suggestions.

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Hannah Pitt @hannahpitt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Parents are concerned about the short/long term impacts of alcohol, gambling, cigarettes, and vapes for their children. They try to discuss risks but find it difficult to counter the positive messages their children are exposed to for these products. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

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Australian parents’ perceptions of the risks posed by harmful products to the health of children

Abstract. Cigarettes, alcohol, vaping and gambling products can cause significant harm to children and young people. The industries that make these product

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