Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 7hPerhaps they want to avoid the fate of #Ouchtown?static.klipy.comDodgeball: Ouchtown. Population: You, Bro!Alt: Dodgeball: Ouchtown. Population: You, Bro! 010
Reposted by Joe GitchellJennifer Reich @jenniferreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don’t study AI per se, but having studied risk, trust, and community for my whole career, I have things to say that AI enthusiasts aren’t. I appreciate being part of this episode and in dialogue with others who are thinking about this moment. open.spotify.com/episode/6xLL...open.spotify.comExperts Say AI Could Kill Us. Why Should We Trust Them? A Conversation w Jennifer Reich, Stephen Witt & Rachael BedardWhy Should I Trust You? · Episode 042
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sending 💪 and ❤️, which isn't enough as you confront this shituation. I'm sorry. 010
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The @wsj.com story below would be just the most recent reason you should follow @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social if you call yourself an FDA Nerd. On the substance, allow me to indulge in self-promotion with my inaugural Substack: joegitchell.substack.com/p/setting-go...joegitchell.substack.comSetting goals for nicotine regulation and policyUsing Regulatory Stances to move forward 021
Reposted by Joe GitchellDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If people have been trying to tug you off for four days without success, consider speaking to your GP about trying a different antidepressant 1520128
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026👇 Maybe too optimistic, but @jonrauch.bsky.social has a solid track record on insights. 000
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not a pre-registered or proper analysis, but convenience sample at #Dulles indicates that my choice of @raygunshirts.bsky.social to travel internationally is top notch. Allons-y, #SRNTE ! 020
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A provocative question. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but do you believe public health would be better off in the counterfactual where ecigs did not exist as they do today? 000
Reposted by Joe GitchellUnbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026PA has reported its 4th measles death. Two babies, a 40-year-old woman, and an 18-year-old. All were unvaccinated. The babies were too young for a first dose. 1116
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you've not watched Julia Galef's TED talk, "Why You Think You're Right -- Even If You're Wrong", or it has been a bit, now o'clock is the right time to devote <12 minutes to do so. Let's get less wrong and get our scout mindsets on! youtu.be/w4RLfVxTGH4?...youtu.beWhy you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | Julia GalefYouTube video by TED 032
Reposted by Joe GitchellUnbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I knew every relevant statistic as I walked into that building. I could have recited the complication rate. Yet none of it stopped my tears. We can know all the right things and still have our emotions take over, and I think that matters for how we communicate about health.theunbiasedscipod.substack.comIn Propofol VeritasThe day my science brain checked out 1123
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Potential additional reference to consider from @alexcliber.bsky.social: www.milbank.org/quarterly/ar...milbank.orgUsing Regulatory Stances to See All the Commercial Determinants of Health | Milbank QuarterlyContext: The effects of commerce on the public health are omnipresent. The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) represent a burgeoning area of 010
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The measuredness turns on how much confidence you put in the "continuum of risk" across nicotine products? It is certainly not a shared truth across this field, and worth thinking through what info would you require to change your beliefs? @sejordt.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....nejm.orgA Nicotine-Focused Framework for Public Health | NEJMThe FDA’s new tobacco strategy aims to reduce the addictiveness of combustible cigarettes while recognizing and clarifying the role that potentially less harmful tobacco products could play in impr... 000
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Please read this short editorial, led by Lynn Kozlowski, and reflect on how well it has aged since it first appeared in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social in 9/2001 (not a typo). Applying the risk/use equilibrium: use medicinal nicotine now for harm reduction Link in ALT. 021
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You could also up your plug tobacco use and look around for spittoons during lecture? 110
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I wear my allegiances to sources of knowledge generation and curation on my sleeve...or, more accurately, my whole torso!! Looks from the post two days. h/t @raygunsite.com @motherjones.com @npr.org 030
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026EG, from @jama.com. @dingdingpeng.the100.ci - I can't help myself! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comRecommendations for Nicotine E-Cigarettes for Smoking CessationThis Special Communication summarizes evidence on the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation and provides recommendations for clinicians on how to engage in conversations with adult patients who cu... 010
Reposted by Joe GitchellJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 02/09/2026I *did* enjoy this article about trash, but I am afraid this is the type of take that gets you expelled in polite company. Nevertheless www.worksinprogress.news/p/just-bury-...worksinprogress.newsJust bury your trashWhat if everything we know about recycling is wrong? 11386
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wait until we're ever in the same room and I launch in to a discussion of the role of noncombusted nicotine products to displace smoking (after fulsomely disclosing my consulting for Juul Labs). #AffectHeuristic 110
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You are hewing pretty accurately to the recent #UnlockingBehaviourChange podcast from @robertjwest.bsky.social & #JamieWest about Bayes, and "man v chimp" is one where I think your going all the way to 100% is valid. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i8ksi-...podbean.comWhy every behavioural scientist should understand 'Bayesian' probabilityRobert makes the bold claim that 'probability' underlies all knowledge and that behavioural scientist should always be thinking about knowledge and claims we make in terms of 'priors' (their judgement... 020
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Your spirit of innovation appears boundless! Love it! 010
Reposted by Joe GitchellUnbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This school year will be messy and it will bring its challenges, and we’ll get through it. Every phase they enter is one I am entering right alongside them, and we are all just doing our very best.theunbiasedscipod.substack.comBack to School (and the List in My Head)A non-exhaustive list of ways we keep our kids safe(r), from a public health mom 062
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oof! If you want to go 400-level understanding of these things, this IMF report is solid. And sadly rare in accepting the risk continuum across nicotine products. 🤪 www.imf.org/en/publicati...imf.org 010
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Only #FridayFollow @clairezagorski.bsky.social if you have a substantial tolerance for #BrutalTruths. 141
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Thank you for this thread, Alex--this is the link to the report, right? www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/parliamentar...parliament.nsw.gov.auInquiry details 030
Reposted by Joe GitchellDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Apropos of absolutely nothing, Martha Wash is bloody brilliant, yes?youtu.beTodd Terry - Something Goin' On - TOTP - 11 07 1997YouTube video by adam wheeldon 3435
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If you'd benefit from a reminder of how fortunate we are in a material sense, hit this interactive essay. ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 133
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Thank you for setting such an example for the rest of us to aspire to. #unbreakablestatic.klipy.comYou're My Hero MemeAlt: You're My Hero Meme - Cameron telling Ferris "You're my hero." 001
Reposted by Joe Gitchellaaronecarroll.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A teenager with a heart defect saw specialist after specialist. None of them was in charge of his flu shot. He caught influenza & died. The trial testing how to fix that failure was canceled by the federal government in July. My essay in @nytopinion www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Medical Breakthroughs Are a Thrill. Then Comes the Hard Part. (Gift Article)The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that ensures that research makes its way into medical practice. 066
Reposted by Joe GitchellUnbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Thanks to Medpage for covering our new 'What's The Risk?' Tool. Please send us any feedback at vaccines@unbiasedscience.com! www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi... @cidrap.bsky.socialmedpagetoday.comTool Brings Vax vs Disease Risk Into Stark Contrast'What's the Risk?' aims to bolster understanding of vaccine safety 03114
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Yahoo, Claire!! Mazel!!! And your advice conforms exactly with my bride's (who finished her PhD way back in 2001)--just get it done. Well done, Dr Zagorski!static.klipy.comWill Ferrell YesALT: Will Ferrell Yes 000
Reposted by Joe GitchellUnbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Are we burnt out on Fauci talk yet, or can I weigh in?open.substack.comThe Fauci Hearing: Based on What Measure?Empowering everyone to understand health science through patient, evidence-based explanations that respect both skepticism and nuance. 0102
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"This is what 'getting less wrong' looks like!" #respect 041
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026If only I could tell what those are! Wow! #respect 030
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Very good episode and includes a shout-out to @aaronecarroll.bsky.social's recent WaPo op-ed on SSRIs. 032
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The nerd post you may not have even known you needed. 020
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026#DiscomfortOfThought, full prescription strength. 010
Reposted by Joe GitchellJamie Tam @jamietam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026We developed the simulation model jointly with an interactive website --the coolest part of the project IMO 🤓 Explore the TCP Tool to see what impact a #nicotine standard could have on #tobacco use, major depression & economic costs ➡️https://www.tobaccopolicyeffects.org/#nicotinetobaccopolicyeffects.orgTCP Tool 021
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Minds can change? 🤔 Say more, @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy. substack.com/@joegitchell...substack.com#PickOnGitch (@joegitchell)Love this so much. Highly recommend to @Alan Gor & @Skip Murray. And love the shout out to @David McRaney and his How Minds Change! 011
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I don't know if @haroldpollack.bsky.social has done a formal write-up (none found with a quick search), but he would be a potential co-author for you! 😁 x.com/i/status/109...x.comHarold Pollack (@haroldpollack) on XSeriously. Reporting out odds ratios as final study findings should generally be discouraged. These are occasionally useful, but the occasions are pretty few and far between at this point. Just a horr... 020
Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The problem with RFK Jr.’s crusade against antidepressants - from @aaronecarroll.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | The problem with RFK Jr.’s crusade against antidepressantsMillions of Americans rely on these medications. This is the wrong way to change policy on them. 020
