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Jeff Stein
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Health behaviors researcher | Asst Professor @fralinbiomed.bsky.social and Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech | Views are just a product of my learning history
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Here’s the clip if anyone is interested! www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/127625...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
SCORIGAMI, part 1 of 4
now on youtube, free to watch for everybody
the rest of the episodes will drop every tuesday through the end of the month

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When a tractor company played in the NFL | SCORIGAMI, Part 1 of 4
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September 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
jsstein.bsky.social
Good timing, 2 new collaborations with
@VT_biostats in the same month:
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Take-home: simulated scarcity increases cigarette craving, and delay discounting mediates this effect
APA PsycNet
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September 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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neurograce.bsky.social
When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.
graph with scientist names on the x axis and colored indicators for NIH, NSF, and Other funding. Also indicators for active pre-1960 and Outside US
May 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Scientists,

I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature:

Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk.

It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.
May 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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ajdaajournal.bsky.social
In honor of #AlcoholAwarenessMonth, learn more about the benefits of managed alcohol programs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Excerpt from the AJDAA article "“I drink less and that’s no small matter”: A qualitative descriptive study of a managed alcohol program evaluation in Barcelona" by David Filomena Velandia, Ester Aranda Rodríguez, Amaia Garrido Albaina, Catrina Clotas, Montse Bartroli Checa, M. Isabel Pasarín Rua & Mercè Gotsens: "...By covering their basic needs, the MAP also allowed participants to focus on activities other than coping with living on the street. The most important health benefit was facilitating their access to other treatment: women in particular benefited from re-engagement with mental health services, while men started treatment for hepatitis C eradication."
April 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
jsstein.bsky.social
New from our group:

Can GPT be used to implement episodic future thinking (EFT) interventions in the tx of obesity and other chronic disease? EFT is promising, but an AI-based solution could increase its scalability and reach.

We begin exploring that here. More to come!

arxiv.org/abs/2503.16484
AI-Powered Episodic Future Thinking
Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) is an intervention that involves vividly imagining personal future events and experiences in detail. It has shown promise as an intervention to reduce delay discounting ...
arxiv.org
April 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
jsstein.bsky.social
Why are there so few public-facing science educators in the biomedical sciences (vs. physics, astronomy, math)? Need more of them right now (and tomorrow x 3).

@hankgreen.bsky.social @vsauce.bsky.social @veritasium.bsky.social @neildegrassetyson.com @smartereveryday.bsky.social #STEM
February 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
jsstein.bsky.social
New #recovery research at @fralinbiomed.bsky.social

Severity of SUD, years of substance use, substance type, and age of onset are associated with needing more quit attempts to achieve abstinence.

#addictionsci
fralinbiomed.bsky.social Fralin Biomedical Research Institute @fralinbiomed.bsky.social · Jan 31
It often takes multiple attempts to successfully quit a substance. Our researchers found that getting to recovery varies based on the substance used and other factors. 📊➡️ news.vt.edu/articles/202...
February 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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sejordt.bsky.social
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #PCCM 🧪🛟

Would RFK Jr. buck or bow to Big Tobacco?
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Burcum: Would RFK Jr. buck or bow to Big Tobacco?
The Biden administration has issued a proposed rule to cap nicotine in cigarettes. If confirmed, Kennedy and his boss should back it, but will they?
www.startribune.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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drrodebaugh.bsky.social
My colleagues and I showed that if you instruct participants to respond systematically, reliability is fine. So: anxious participants are not responding systematically.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-...
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January 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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uviccisur.bsky.social
“Our feeling is that it’s the consumer’s right to know. Consumers should be empowered with better knowledge about alcohol consumption in terms of its health risks and how to mitigate those risks.”
www.vicnews.com/local-news/n...
New UVic website empowers alcohol drinkers with personal risk calculator
KnowAlcohol.ca provides personalized feedback on alcohol consumption to keep Canadians informed
www.vicnews.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
jsstein.bsky.social
Taxes reduce sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption, but policies can have unanticipated consequences. In this paper, grad student Haylee Downey developed a novel and scalable experimental marketplace to forecast potential impacts of SSB taxes. More to come!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Experimental Beverage Marketplace: Feasibility and preliminary validation of a tool to experimentally study sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and beverage purchasing
Sugar sweetened-beverage (SSB) consumption contributes to poor diet quality and diet-related chronic diseases. One effective public health strategy to…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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iwashyna.bsky.social
A little side reading, courtesy of a collaboration wit @drtomori.bsky.social @jlynch13.bsky.social and @hauschildt.bsky.social

“Cigarette manufacturers often invoked the laboratory as the site where the "controversy" would be resolved, knowing that it was difficult to mimic human smoking harms”
Cover of book AGNOTOLOGY THE MAKING & UNMAKING OF IGNORANCE EDITED BY ROBERT N. PROCTOR & LONDA SCHIEBINGER W he Text: Marketing has always involved a certain persuasion bordering on de. ception, insofar as laundry soap is pretty much the same throughout the world. The tobacco industry early on recognized health concerns as market impediments, which is why L&M Filters were offered as "just what the doctor ordered," Camels were said to be smoked by "more doctors," and so forth. The industry was barred from making such claims in the 195os and moved to more subtle inducements, associating smoking with youth, vigor, and beauty, and later freedom, risk, and rebellion. For a time in the 1980s, when health infringements centered around secondhand smoke, we were told that smoking was a form of free speech. The industry likes to have it both ways: smoking is patriotic yet rebellious, risky yet safe, calming yet exciting, and so forth. Marketing tools of a novel sort were introduced in the early 1950s, following the explosion of evidence that cigarettes were killing tens of thousands every year. Responding to this evidence, the industry launched a multimillion dollar campaign to reassure consumers that the hazard had not yet been "proven." Through press releases, advertisements, and well-funded industry research fronts, epidemiology was denounced as "mere statistics," animal experiments were said not to reflect the human condition, and lung pathologies revealed at autopsy were derided as anecdotes without "sound Text: science" as backing. Cigarette manufacturers often invoked the laboratory as the site where the "controversy" would be resolved, knowing that it was difficult to mimic human smoking harms using animal models. Small animals just don't contract cancer from breathing smoke; it takes twenty or thirty or more years for human smokers to develop cancer, and rats don't live that long. And even when cancers were successfully produced in mice (by painting tobacco tars on their shaven backs), the industry admitted only the presence of "mouse carcinogens" in smoke. Cigarette apologists worked in a conveniently tight logical circle: no evidence was good enough, no experiment close enough to the human condition. True proof was hard to have short of experimenting on humans-but do you really want us to experiment on humans? What are you, some kind of Nazi? We don't yet know what evil genius came up with the scheme to associate the continued manufacture of cigarettes with prudence, using the call for "more research" to slow the threat of regulation, but it must rank as one of the greatest triumphs of American corporate connivance. 25 The idea was that people would continue to smoke so long as they could be reassured that "no one really knows" the true cause of cancer.
November 30, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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sejordt.bsky.social
Standing with NIH

Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:18 PM
jsstein.bsky.social
Notoriously late adopter of social media, but I can't tell whether I'm too early or too late for BlueSky. You can always find me on my Google Plus and Friendster, though.
November 11, 2024 at 12:16 PM