Lucy Chester
lucychester.bsky.social
Lucy Chester
@lucychester.bsky.social
Cannabinoid psychopharmacologist. Ex-pharmacist 💊👼🏼. Enthusiastic, okay-ish climber. She/her
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Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess

@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Whoa! Look at us.
These things are always hard to measure, but the Copenhagenize Index ranks Montreal as the 15th most bike-friendly city in the world.

Top 5 in North America:
1. Montreal
2. Quebec City
3. Vancouver
4. Portland
5. Minneapolis

I worry we’ll fall in the next few years though!
Copenhagenize index
copenhagenizeindex.eu
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Patriotic Cross of St George White Dog Shit Bauble update. Thank you to everyone who ordered one! These have all been handmade in my kitchen - much to the bemusement of my children - and will now start to be posted out.
Still on sale here👇👇👇
coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/patr...
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Press release for our new RAND and @iasatusc.bsky.social paper in @addictionjournal.bsky.social on high potency THC use. "New study shows young adults who use high strength cannabis do not ‘titrate’ to less risky levels of use."
www.addictionjournal.org/posts/new-st...
July 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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does anyone know what the dull beating sound from under my floorboards might be
July 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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The New Dork Times
July 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
> Allowed to live and work in Canada until August 3rd.
> Need to re-extend my current work contract by July 1st.
> Check status of my application to Immigration Canada to extend permit
> Still no change
> Check current waiting times
> 226 days
June 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Later generations were taught that streetcar service declined because passengers preferred to drive. Transportation experts have patiently explained this cause to me.

But primary sources reveal that a small minority of motorists degraded the transit modes that the vast majority relied upon.
May 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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happy ten year anniversary to this post
April 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New publication in Addiction: our commentary on Coelho et al. 2025. doi.org/10.1111/add....

With a new method developed and trials by Coelho and colleagues, we can get accurate, real-world data on people's cannabis use.

Read the original article here: doi.org/10.1111/add....
Commentary on Coelho et al.: Ecological momentary assessments may be key to the future of cannabis studies
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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My "Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something" is a coin-operated sculpture. If you pay, it shows you a cat picture and sings you a silly song, with meowing. chriscombs.net/2024/07/19/i...
"Insert 25 Cents to Feel Something" artcade machine
YouTube video by Chris Combs, Art & Machines
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I will iron your sheets when you iron out the inequities in your labor laws.
March 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Dying at this study of sexual habits that used the Gini index to compare P-in-V inequality to income inequality
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Just as in the US, conservative media is whipping up a ‘crisis of men’ as an excuse to blame the left for the entirely foreseeable consequences of right-wing policy. You think Tories are gonna do shit about underfunded education and falling wages?
March 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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At individual level those who vape more likely to go on to smoke (but causality not proven) but at population level higher levels of youth vaping could mean lower levels of youth smoking - really important work from @jhb19.bsky.social showing how carefully we need to keep the evidence under review
New expansive CRUK-funded systematic review led by the brilliant @jhb19.bsky.social on youth transitions between vaping & smoking doi.org/10.1111/add..... It’s complex: there’s potential inverse associations between vaping & smoking at population level but positive association at individual level.
Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: A systematic review
Aims To assess the evidence for a relationship between the use of e-cigarettes and subsequent smoking in young people (≤29 years), and whether this differs by demographic characteristics. Methods ...
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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New Study: although Matt Walsh once claimed that the number was "millions," fewer than 1,000 U.S. adolescents were treated for gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, and none under 12 received hormone therapy.
January 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM