Robert this has both cracked me up (particularly "structurally, this is a latte") and radicalised me. As a flat white drinker, I feel your pain. Vive la révolution!

On 31st October (11am) we will hold a seminar focused on fellowships.

Again @robcalder.bsky.social will introduce the scheme, a successful applicant (me!) and @ptoner.bsky.social a very experienced short lister will also present.

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The first session on 28th October (10am) will focus on PhD studentships.

It will contain talks from @robcalder.bsky.social introducing the scheme, Hollie Walker a successful applicant and Inge Kersbergen an experienced short lister.

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Well this is the coolest thing to eve happen to any of us?

Well done @yvettemp.bsky.social, what a star!!

I'm so sorry Katie! I was so pleased to see your last tweet and can't imagine how you are feeling now. This is unbelievably cruel! Sending all the strength and solidarity!

Also covers our paper looking at rising alcohol-specific deaths, important context www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thanks to the dream team who co-authored this paper: Jiexi Yang, Tosan Okpako Dimitra Kale @jamesmorris24.bsky.social @clairevgarnett.bsky.social Sara Wallhed Finn @felixnaughton.bsky.social @jamiebrown.bsky.social

This work is part of my @addiction-ssa.org funded fellowship and will contribute to the development of an intervention aiming to increase reduction attempts amongst risky drinkers.

Societal harms were discussed in the context of work drinks, seen as normalising alcohol consumption and being exclusionary. Participants described features of contexts which indicated that contexts were harmful e.g. amount, type and cost of alcohol and patterns of/reasons for consumption.

Mental harms were also linked with drinking at home alone. Social harms were associated with heavier drinking in a range of contexts including social drinking out of the home (violence) and drinking at home (relationship damage) or work drinks (reputational damage).

Drinking alone at home and big days/nights out were perceived as the most harmful contexts. Participants described a range of alcohol harms. Physical harms tended to be associated with social drinking out of the home (violence) or drinking alone at home (long-term health conditions).

Participants had rules they used to govern their drinking, related to features of contexts perceived as being harmful (e.g. not drinking on certain days or times). These rules reassured participants that they were operating within the bounds of normal, controlled and therefore less harmful drinking.

People tended to differentiate their own drinking practices as controlled/safe in relation to the out-of-control behaviours of a stereotypical harmful drinker. This was seen in the content analysis of drawings where participants tended to draw drinking contexts they didn't drink in.

I included all drawings in the supplementary materials if you want to check it out.