iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by David Conroy

MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yadier Molina was inducted into the @Cardinals Hall of Fame today. He accepted this honor as only Yadi could!

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m hiring a Manager of Research Operations for my NIH-funded research lab at Michigan. Real ownership — budgets, people, compliance — not admin support. $89K–$104K, Ann Arbor. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

careers.umich.edu

Manager of Research Operations | U-M Careers

112

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Applications are open for the world-class Physical Activity & Public Health course at @UofSC this fall! I’m thrilled to return as guest faculty for this intensive 7-day postgraduate program. It covers everything from PA measurement and clinical trials to implementation science and grantsmanship.

web.asph.sc.edu

Physical Activity & Public Health |

111

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us for our next Roybal Center webinar on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 11:00 am ET, featuring William Calo, PhD, JD, MPH. “From Message to Motivation: Communication Strategies That Drive Cancer Prevention Behaviors” Registration at umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @umkines.bsky.social

umich.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Michigan Roybal Center Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Dr. William Calo presents, "From Message to Motivation: Communication Strategies That Drive Cancer Prevention Behaviors"

000

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🏙️ Heading to Chicago for #SBM2026? The Motivation Lab is out in full force! Stop by to say hi and see what my team, collaborators, and neighbors in & near the @UMKines have been up to. 📽️ Check the "SBM Playbook" below for our full schedule and our crowd-sourced Survival Guide! 🧵 (1/2)

130

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🧠 Postdoc opportunity for scientists interested in working at the intersection of digital health & behavior change. The Motivation Lab & Roybal Center provide a rich environment for collaborating with and learning from scientists in the behavioral, biomedical, and information/engineering sciences.

Students study in the Diag near Ingalls Mall on a warm spring day.

110

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Join us for our next Roybal Center webinar on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 12:00 pm ET, featuring Dr. Martin Sliwinski who will discuss ambulatory methods for studying cognitive change as it occurs in everyday life. Register at umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

umich.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Michigan Roybal Webinar with Martin Sliwinski. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Measuring a Moving Target: Ambulatory Methods for Capturing Cognitive Change in Daily Life

110

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Fun day at work today as @umkines.bsky.social unveiled a new art installation, Movement to Momentum, created by Schinkel Fine Art with collaboration from our school community. Light reflects playfully off the metal to highlight the activities and sports that give us health & inspiration

030

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Looking for innovative ways to address physical activity and climate change? 🌿🚑 The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) is hosting a timely pre-conference course: “Nature as Medicine: Evidence-Based NatureRX for Physical Activity Promotion and Climate Resilience.”

121

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

One of the meetings I am most excited about this spring is the first-ever academic conference on intervention optimization, "Intervention Optimization: Science and Practice, Present and Future," in Bethesda, Maryland from May 18-20, 2026.

124

Reposted by David Conroy

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How much exercise is needed? Any is a step forward for promoting health www.nature.com/articles/d41...

012422

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Join us for our next Roybal Center (roybal.umich.edu) webinar on Thursday, February 5, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET, featuring Dr. Giampiero Tarantino, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.

hroybal.umich.edu

110

Reposted by David Conroy

Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The US is home to only 3 of the top 25 universities globally in research impact (#3, #20, and #23). In 2009, we were home to 15 out of 25, including the #1 spot. It would be the unforced error of the century to scale back on our national investment in science now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

1157

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

January Newsletter from the Roybal Center at @umkines.bsky.social is out - check it out and subscribe to be the first to get the next issue at mailchi.mp/89288fb1bd3f...

mailchi.mp

Roybal Newsletter - Jan 2026

000

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Big news from the Michigan Roybal Center at @umkines.bsky.social: our website now has a Generative AI Behavioral Science Assistant (Maizey) trained on ontologies, the science of physical activity, the M2C2 ambulatory cognitive testing approach, and much more. Try Maizey out at roybal.umich.edu

roybal.umich.edu

Roybal Center - Roybal Center

At the Roybal Center, we’re redefining what’s possible for lifelong brain and body health.

022

Reposted by David Conroy

University of Michigan News @umichnews.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Adults who drink due to external pressures are more likely to consume higher amounts of alcohol & experience more negative consequences than those who drink mainly for the pleasure of consuming alcohol, according to a new study from @conroylab.bsky.social & colleagues. myumi.ch/9p8yX

011

Reposted by David Conroy

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective). Read! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

elizabethginexi.substack.com

The Quiet Power of Program Officers

How invisible decisions shape what science gets done—and whether it matters

213565

Reposted by David Conroy

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale. It's exercise. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

7373123

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We're hiring at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology (kines.umich.edu).

kines.umich.edu

Challenge the Idle State | School of Kinesiology

110

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Join us for tomorrow's (Dec 2, 10am Eastern) Roybal Center webinar by Dr Chris Sciamanna on "How to design an exercise program for older adults that they will do" #aging #physicalactivity - please share and register to get the link at umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

umich.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Roybal Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Chris Sciamanna presents "How to design an exercise program for older adults that they will do"

020

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Join an emerging national center of excellence in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Kinesiology at a great university. @umkines.bsky.social has multiple open-rank faculty positions available. Join us in using advanced technology to challenge the idle state! Details at myumi.ch/8qnnD

myumi.ch

030

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We're hiring @umkines.bsky.social - two open searches for new faculty with expertise in the Social and Behavioral Science of Physical Activity (one open-rank tenure-line, one academic clinical asst/assoc). Details at myumi.ch/A1DDM

myumi.ch

021

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Check out the Nov issue of our Roybal Center newsletter - sign up if you want to get these directly in your inbox mailchi.mp/586525b9d319...

mailchi.mp

Roybal Newsletter - Nov 2025

100

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Applied Exercise Science at the Univ Michigan has launched two searches for tenure-line (open-rank) and clinical (asst/assoc prof) faculty colleagues with expertise in the Social and Behavioral Sciences of Physical Activity.

134

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The University of Michigan School of Kinesiology is searching for *multiple* open-rank faculty with expertise in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Kinesiology. Join us in forming a national center of excellence to propel the field foward. Details & application at apply.interfolio.com/177561

apply.interfolio.com

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

010

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I loved being back in Pennsylvania, if only briefly, so Isabel Wakefield and I could meet with Drs Katie Schmitz & @carissalow.bsky.social to plot out new ideas to help cancer survivors. Pittsburgh is an amazing place - brimming with innovative ideas and energy for creating a better tomorrow

010

Reposted by David Conroy

Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 02/11/2025

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

10771462266

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

...and the landing page for the Roybal Center for Promoting Adherence to Behavior Change & Enhancing Cognitive Function is now LIVE. Check it out at roybal.umich.edu & bookmark it for more exciting content is coming in the weeks and months ahead (including our AI Behavioral Science Assistant)...

roybal.umich.edu

Roybal Center

At the Roybal Center for Promoting Adherence to Behavior Change & Enhancing Cognitive Function, we’re redefining what’s possible for lifelong brain and body health.

041

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📰Our Roybal Center Newsletter just published - check it out below (mailchi.mp/6b9712d4efff...) and subscribe if you want these delivered to your inbox! Highlights include news about a funding opportunity for behavioral intervention development and an upcoming webinar on adherence to behavior change

000

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Full house today for our inaugural Crossroads in Kinesiology seminar featuring Dr Chris Sciamanna! Thanks to the Bickner Endowment for enriching our University of Michigan School of Kinesiology community with events like this

Dr Chris Sciamanna presenting to an audience of University of Michigan students, staff and faculty as part of the Crossroads in Kinesiology seminar

020

Reposted by David Conroy

Michigan Clock 〽️ @michiganclock.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Ohio State has not beaten Michigan in football for 2100 days. #GoBlue #Michigan #BeatOhio

15712

Reposted by David Conroy

Steve Inskeep @steveinskeep.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

When will Congress start doing its taxpayer-funded job?

65664151

Reposted by David Conroy

Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS) act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

32489287

Reposted by David Conroy

NBER @nber.org · 20/08/2025

Open call for applications, Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health - Clinical Trial Applications. Submit letters of intent by October 15, 2025. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-propo…

022

Reposted by David Conroy

NPR @npr.org · 14/08/2025

Counting steps is easy using a phone, a wearable or fitness tracker. And Scientists have lots of data to figure out how many daily steps you need to improve health. Here's what they've found.

n.pr

Counting steps for health? Here's how many you really need

Counting steps is easy using a phone, a wearable or fitness tracker. And Scientists have lots of data to figure out how many daily steps you need to improve health. Here's what they've found.

1018431

Reposted by David Conroy

University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Russell Pate arrived at USC in 1974 and was one of six faculty members to found the Department of Exercise Science in 1989. In this Pioneering Perspectives story, he shares five decades of Arnold School history. ow.ly/OGV850WthAl #ArnoldSchool50Years

Pioneering Perspectives: Russell Pate, Exercise Science Professor

“Being a part of a school of public health put us in a very advantageous position with respect to national efforts to establish physical activity as a credible focus on public health." Russell Pate

022

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Search has launched for the next Dean of the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. This position is an extraordinary opportunity to lead a strategic growth phase in an exceptional environment. Learn more about the search at wittkieffer.com/positions/20...

wittkieffer.com

Dean, School of Kinesiology

With a strong financial stance and energetic growth, the University of Michigan’s (U-M) School of Kinesiology (SoK) seeks a Dean whose growth mindset, and future-forward understanding of the opportuni...

220

Reposted by David Conroy

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

541542981

Reposted by David Conroy

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Nice discussion with Nilam Ram. The genesis of The Human Screenome Project dates back to Nilam's 2013-14 CASBS fellowship & hiss interactions at CASBS with Byron Reeves, who serendipitously occupied the study next to Nilam that year 😁

121

David Conroy @conroylab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you can’t walk longer, try walking a bit faster (14 steps/min faster to be precise). Great seeing this new finding from my colleague Dr Daniel Rubin (Univ Chicago) getting some coverage www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/h...

cnn.com

Increasing your walking cadence can improve mobility | CNN

Increasing your walking cadence by 14 steps can improve mobility and endurance in older adults, according to a new study.

141

Reposted by David Conroy

Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

If you missed it, the recording is now on the website

042

Reposted by David Conroy

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Optimism is never foolish. Working in politics depends on it: To get up and do the work, we have to believe change is possible.

12775125

Reposted by David Conroy

College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📣 Launching July 9 from @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social: A new hydration-focused webinar series, Water Talks. ✅ Explore the science of optimal #hydration. ✅ Bust hydration myths. ✅ Earn 1 CEU (ACSM and AND) Register at no cost: specialevents.asu.edu/ereg/newreg....

specialevents.asu.edu

Water Talks - Unlocking the Secrets of Hydration for Health and Performance

<p>Hydration is often overlooked and an under-studied research topic, yet underhydration is linked to chronic diseases like diabetes, kidney dysfuncti

111

Reposted by David Conroy

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Need to analyze intensive longitudinal data or panel data? Multilevel or mixed effects modeling offers one of the most powerful methods to do so. Join my 3-day (June 18-20) workshop for longitudinal multilevel modeling to learn how. 1/2 smart-workshops.com/long-mlm-info

smart-workshops.com

Longitudinal MLM Information — SMaRT Workshops

12014